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-A week later-

Clary's point of view

It has been a week since me and Jace had talked alone in the kitchen. Luckily for me he hasn't tried to question me again since probably because he's too interested in Aline.

I see what Valentine had meant when he said to love is to destroy and to be loved is to be destroyed. I had started to fall for him but he'd gone moony eyed over Aline.

In the past week we have done different activities such as lasers and knife throwing and more gun practise and other stuff like that.

It was our day off today but I still had come down to train, no matter how much training tires me out or how many people say that I'm the best agent you can always improve and make yourself feel better by doing what you love.

I was practising with a chakram. A chakram was basically a flying metal disc. It was hard to use but I was starting to get the hang of it now.

I sent one flying straight into one of the dummies side.

"Well Miss Fray, It seems that you have got better at aiming."

I didn't even have to look to know how it was "Well Hodge, I've been training with it for just over two years so I guess my aim must be getting slightly better."

The Director and Hodge had been my trainers when I had come here to start with.

Hodge had shot grey hair and mixture between blue and grey eyes. He is fairly tall and he often has his black raven Hugo on his shoulder.

"So it should be Miss Fray or Rogue as most people call you know." He replied.

This time I did turn to face him as I said "Don't you start, people think that I can't get better now but as you have always said you can always improve your skills." I mimicked his voice as I said what he had told me so many times before.

I then noticed that Hodge was dressed in training gear.

"Are you coming to train there Hodge?" I asked.

"Indeed I was. Would you like to have a spar with the blades now?" He smiled knowing that I would accept no matter if he'd always been better than me since I started here.

I grinned back and said "Okay and don't worry old man I'll go easy on you."

He smirked at me and said "Bring it on Fray."

The best thing about Hodge is that no matter how old he looks or actually is he always makes you smile and jokes with you too.

We went over to the matts with our blades and I asked "Just blades or both hand and blade?"

Hodge smiled and said "Both blade and hand is my favourite and also more useful in my opinion."

I smirked and said "Both it is then."

I had trained with Hodge for most of my time here so we both knew each other's strengths and weaknesses in most places of fighting.

Hodge normally attacked first but today I wanted to change that.

Both of us slid on the padding pieces on top of our main organs like the heart and stomach.

When we were both ready we both counted down to zero together and started to fight.

I lunged straight at him but he blocked my blade with his so I knocked his blade away from mine and did a kick at him into his stomach.

The problem with me and Hodge was that we could cut and bruise ourselves and we wouldn't notice until later after our adrenaline had gone away. Another amazing fact about both me and Hodge is that both of us suffer from ADHD which helps us stay awake in any fights, so I notice a lot of things if it works properly, like at the moment I could see where Hodge was tensing and shifting to try and get a better blow at me.

The fight had probably gone on for about twenty minutes now but both of us were having too much fun to stop.

Finally about another twenty minutes later I slammed my blade into his and it flew out of his hand and clattered to the floor about thirty metres away from us.

I then made his legs buckle so he was on the floor and I pointed my blade to his throat.

I said to him "Well considering that you would be an enemy I would now get whatever I wanted and find a way to keep you there or I would silt your throat and kill you."

He grinned at me and said "Very well done Clary, I suppose a master must bow down to his student at some point in his life eh."

I lifted the blade from his throat and said "Yep and when you do, you know you're getting old especially if it's a girl student."

I had said that because when the Director had first started to get me and Hodge to train together Hodge had gone to all of his power to refuse as I was a girl and I wouldn't be strong enough but then I had proved him wrong many times before now and will do many more in the future.

He groaned as he sat up and said "Well that was before I knew that you could kick anyone's ass even mine and the Director's."

I laughed at the memory of me beating the Director for the first time.

I held my hand out to him and helped him up.

He looked at me and said "You want me to help with the chakram?"

"If you want to help me then I don't mind." I replied.

I heard a voice come floating over whatever Hodge had been going to say saying "I never thought that you would have someone to help you there Red."

"You've only known me for a week Goldilocks, not everything about me can be found out in a week." I replied as I knew that only Jace called me Red and would say something like that.

Hodge smiled at me. He had always loved my attitude and personality; he said it had always amused him.

Jace replied with "Well I wouldn't be so sure Red."

I turned to face him and I said "Oh really? My closest friend ever in my life is Simon and I still took at least three months before I told him everything. And you Goldilocks are not what I class as a close friend. Oh I nearly forgot how's the find out everything about me search going?"

He gave me a cocky smile whilst wiggling his eyebrows and said "The search is going fine and no we are very close friends aren't we Red."

Hodge was now trying not to laugh so I glared at Hodge then I turned to Jace and said "In your dreams Goldilocks."

"I know they are in mine but what about yours?" he said cockily.

"Any dream with you in it would be my worst nightmare." I snapped.

At this Hodge did burst out laughing and said "That's enough Clary and who's this boy? Is he your boyfriend? Oh wait that's Simon."

I went bright red and said "Simon is NOT my boyfriend! And neither is Goldilocks for that matter! And Hodge meet Jace Herondale who is an arrogant dick and Goldilocks meet Hodge who has been my trainer for most of my time here."

"Whatever Clary and it's nice to meet you Mr Herondale. As Clary said I am Hodge Starkweather." Said Hodge.

Jace smiled at Hodge and said "You too Mr Starkweather."

I rolled my eyes at both of them and then went and got my chakram from the dummy and then I started to aim it again.

I heard Hodge telling Jace about the time when I had first used the chakram and I had misaimed it and almost cut into Hodge's side.

I heard Jace laugh so I decided to call back "Well it's harder than it looks you know and that was my first time as well you know."

I could now hear Hodge telling Jace about all the times I had been careless or something and nearly harmed or injured someone and trust me that did happen a lot.

After a few times releasing the chakram at the dummies I could hear both laughing at the stories.

I smiled to myself as I thought of something that they would be surprised at.

I slowly aimed it and then let the disc fly.

Whack!

It had landed in the wall right above their heads. They both looked at the disc and the looked at me with their shocked expressions.

I fake smiled and then bowed and said "Thank you for your consideration."

Then I stood up straight and ran off out of the room whilst laughing and then went up to the roof top garden for a while.

I knew that Simon was in class and hardly anyone comes up here.

I walked up to the railing and looked out over New York City.

I have no idea how long I stood there looking at the city except that when I came downstairs the bell had just rung for the start of lunch.

Jace's point of view.

I had meant to go train see Clary and try to find out more about her. I had presumed that she would be training and I guessed correctly as I peered into the window and see her practising with what looked like a metal disc.

I saw an older man enter the room and he must have said something as Clary soon turned to watch him.

They talked for a little while and then I saw the older man smirk at her.

Both of them then headed towards the matts with their blades.

I guessed that they were going to spa against each other which was absolutely correct.

They both started fighting with the blades and punches and kicks.

I decided to sneak in whilst they were fighting maybe then she'll say something that I could collect about her past.

Eventually after forty minutes of fighting Clary disarmed the older man and knocked his legs out from underneath him and pointed her blade at his throat.

She leant down towards him and said "Well considering that you would be an enemy I would now get whatever I wanted and find a way to keep you there or I would silt your throat and kill you."

He grinned at her and said "Very well done Clary, I suppose a master must bow down to his student at some point in his life eh."

She lifted the blade from his throat and said "Yep and when you do, you know you're getting old especially if it's a girl student."

I had no idea what she had meant but apparently he had as he groaned as he sat up and said "Well that was before I knew that you could kick anyone's ass even mine and the Director's."

She laughed at the words which gave me time to think. She had beaten the Director in a fight? That seems unlikely but then she had said that he'd spent a lot of time with her too. Maybe he trained her or something.

By the time I had come back out of my thoughts, Clary had helped the man up and he was saying "You want me to help with the chakram?"

She just said "If you really want to, I don't mind."

Before I could stop myself I moved out of the shadows and said "I never thought that you would have someone to help you there Red."

"You've only known me for a week Goldilocks, not everything about me can be found out in a week." She replied. I wondered how she had known that it was me.

I replied with "Well I wouldn't be so sure Red."

She faced me and said "Oh really? My closest friend ever in my life is Simon and I still took at least three months before I told him everything. And you Goldilocks are not what I class as a close friend. Oh I nearly forgot how's the find out everything about me search going?"

I decided to give her a cocky smile whilst wiggling my eyebrows and saying "The search is going fine and no we are very close friends aren't we Red."

She glared at the older man but then said to me "In your dreams Goldilocks."

"I know they are in mine but what about yours?" I said cockily.

"Any dream with you in it would be my worst nightmare." She snapped. She seemed rather impatient now.

At this the older man burst out laughing and said "That's enough Clary and who's this boy? Is he your boyfriend? Oh wait that's Simon."

She blushed (which made her look hot. How is that even possible? I'm not sure but somehow she did) and then said "Simon is NOT my boyfriend! And neither is Goldilocks for that matter! And Hodge meet Jace Herondale who is an arrogant dick and Goldilocks meet Hodge who has been my trainer for most of my time here."

"Whatever Clary and it's nice to meet you Mr Herondale. As Clary said I am Hodge Starkweather." Said the older man

I gave Hodge my innocent smile and said "You too Mr Starkweather."

Clary rolled her eyes at both Me and Hodge, and then went and got her disc from the dummy and then she started to aim at the dummy again.

Hodge started talking to me about how many times she'd failed at the chakram. I laughed and then I heard her call "Well it's harder than it looks you know and that was my first time as well you know."

Hodge was now telling me about her mistakes and stuff but I was only partly listening to him the other part of my attention was on how Clary had gotten so many movements and actions from Hodge. They had the same eye roll and shrug.

All of a sudden whilst me and Hodge were laughing at one point we heard a Whack!

We both looked up slightly and saw Clary's chakram stuck in the wall just above our heads. We then looked at her with probably very surprised faces.

She faked a smile at us and then bowed and said "Thank you for your consideration."

She then stood up and ran out of them room laughing to herself and went off somewhere.

Hodge had watched her go too and he sighed and said to me "I hate it when she does this. I sit here talking about her failures and then she gets a perfectly good shot at me and I can't even complain about it."

I laughed again, that sounded like the side Clary that you only saw occasionally.

Hodge looked at me and said "You like her don't you? More than a friend way I mean."

I froze and thought to myself is it really that obvious?

I decided to shrug and say "I don't know, the one I see in training is emotionless and rock solid hard but I can't help but feel that she has another person who has emotions and feelings inside her but she hides it away as though someone will hurt it. And I also feel that if I knew that person I would like her even more than I do now.

Hodge smiled sadly and said "You think that she does it so no one can see the real her because she's scared of what people think of her don't you?"

I said "Well that's what most people do isn't it?"

"Yes a lot of people do but she has plenty of other reasons why she does that."

I could feel that I was getting close to some more answers so I pushed him slightly "And those reasons are?"

He frowned at me and said "She has only told me parts of her life and I don't think that I could manage much more than them parts. I haven't even asked her to tell me any of her past she just says a little about it occasionally. Even then those little parts link to the larger parts but I have always stopped her from going there. Too much emotion can hurt you at certain times."

Now it was my part to frown as I said "Can you tell me them parts then?"

He sighed and said "I will tell you the sum up of it."

I smiled slightly and said "Please continue."

He frowned as though he was trying to remember what she had told him and he wasn't sure what to tell me but then he said "Well from what I can gather is that she lived a happy life with her birth mother and stepdad. When she was seven her mother died in a major car crash, she then moved in with her birth father and brother in Texas. And – well let's just say that her father wasn't a particularly nice man and he abused her and her brother a lot, then when she was twelve her brother started to join in with her dad and hit her too. Then she left her dad when she was fourteen with her friend and they camped and walked all of the way from Texas to here and found us."

After he finished talking we just sat there in silence.

I let the information sink in. Before I said anything then I asked "Why did she not go and find her stepdad again?"

Hodge looked at me and said "I've never had the guts to ask her even when she told me what I have just told you, she had nearly been in tears at the part of her mother's death so I never asked about her stepdad or even her real dad."

I nodded as the bell went for lunch so I said "Thank you Hodge." And I left him standing there lost in all of his thoughts.

I went off to lunch and sat down at the normal table that I sit on.

Magnus had invited Alec to go out in New York with him and Magnus and Izzy came past me walking with Simon.

I then saw a flash of red which I was going to go after but then I was kissed by Aline.

I saw Clary turn and see us and roll her eyes at us a Aline gave her a look as though she had won the grand prize at a fair ground.

The strange thing was is that I thought that I would rather go after Clary and talk to her then be here kissing Aline.

I quickly excused myself from Aline and told her I'd meet her at the dining hall because I needed to go to my apartment and then I ran off after Clary hoping to see her.

I caught a flash of red so I ran after it and followed it to a part of the building where I have never been.

I followed her around the building until we got to the apartments I saw that Clary was outside her door and untying her shoe lace to get her keys.

I came up the corridor and she glanced up almost hopefully but when she saw it was me her face darkened again and she went back to her shoe laces.

"Who did you want me to be then Red?" I asked.

She didn't even glance at me as she said "Simon actually because I need to talk to him but I want to get out of these clothes before I do but these go damn shoelaces will not come undone." She tugged on her laces again and muttered "Fine you awkward shoelace I'll cut you!"

And before I could do anything she pulled out a small but sharp dagger and cut right through the knot.

Her keys skidded along the floor and landed next to my feet.

I picked them up for her and I felt her green eyes watch me as I unlocked and opened her door for her.

She was still crouched down with the dagger in her hand and she cleared her throat, stood up and said "Thank you." Then she tried to walk through the door.

I put my arm out to stop her and said "So you're not going to invite me in? How very rude of you."

She glared at me and said "Fine you can come in whilst I'm in here."

I smiled and lifted my arm up so she could get through and followed her inside her apartment.

I laid down on her sofa as she went into her room. She came out five minutes later with a pair of black skinny jeans, a black top with a skull with a bullet hole in its forehead saying 'I thought that I was titanium', black leather jacket, a pair of black ankle boots with chains hooked around the tops and black fingerless gloves. I had to admit she looked beautiful in it.

She must have noticed that I was staring at her because she then said "Why are you staring at me?"

I just said "Nice top." Well it was true it was nice but that hadn't been the reason why he'd been staring at her.

She frowned at me but just said "Thanks" and let the subject go.

I said "Come on then off to lunch we go!"

She looked at me and said "Are you ill?"

I smiled at her and said "Nope! Why do you ask?"

She just shrugged and said "Two things. One you're acting really nice and two you haven't called me Red yet."

I laughed and said "Oh sorry did you want me too?"

She the smiled slightly at me and said "It would seem very normal to me if you did."

I smiled back and said "How about we go out for lunch?"

She frowned and said "What about Aline?"

I shrugged and said "Then I can tell her that your my friend and if I can't be with a friend then we're over."

At this she smiled truly and said "Okay then lead the way Goldilocks!"

I smiled back and said "Will do Red!"

-Page break-

Clary's point of view

We ended up going to Taki's for lunch.

It was nice to just sit there with him even if it just was as friends.

I then got pulled out of my thoughts by Jace tugging on my jacket sleeve.

"What?" I asked

He pointed to a booth near to us smiled at me.

I looked at the booth and saw that it was Magnus and Alec sitting in there kissing.

I smiled at how happy they both looked and then smacked Jace on the arm.

Now it was his turn to ask "What?"

I whisper shouted "Don't stare at them they're getting enough weird looks as it is and it won't be any nicer from us as they know us."

He looked back at me and said "When do you think that they'll announce to us about this?"

I shrugged and said "Whenever they're ready I guess."

Our food then came so whatever Jace had been going to say disappeared as he started shovelling all of his food into his mouth.

After we'd finished eating we paid our bills and then headed back to the CIA.

"So where did you live around here then?" he asked.

I glanced at him and said "I don't remember the address; I only remember that it was a small apartment.

He nodded and we walked on in silence until I said "What about you then? Where did you live?"

He tensed slightly but still said "I lived in Texas until I was ten and then I moved to Virginia with Alec and Izzy's family and then we moved here."

I thought about his answer and said "Why were you adopted?"

He didn't seem to like me questioning him but he still answered bluntly "My parents died in a house fire when I was ten."

I let that sink in. I thought about how my mother had died and how both of his had too. Maybe we weren't as different as I first thought.

"Well that's sad." I said as I realised that I had been silent for a while.

Jace started laughing and I frowned and asked "What are you laughing at?"

He stopped laughing to say "Well you just have a different reaction to everyone else does. Most people say something like oh I'm so sorry or something like that and you just say that's sad." He started laughing again.

I said "Well I didn't start the fire so why should I say sorry?"

He had gone down to chuckling now as he said "Well that's nice to know that you didn't murder my parents."

I rolled my eyes at him and then we walked the rest of the way in complete silence.

When we got to the headquarters I saw Simon and Izzy in the lobby waiting for us.

I walked over and said "Hey guys!"

Izzy smiled and said "Hey" back where as Simon just said "You're going to love me Clary Fray!"

I smiled and said "And why would you be so sure of that?"

His smile got wider as he said "Because I have got you a mission."

I will leave you here for now and let you wonder about what the mission is going to be about! And did you like my little dash of Malec I gave you? Any way don't forget to review and I will be posting the next chapter at some point tomorrow hopefully. :)