Hi again! Sorry for the wait! I had a lot going on...
Here is chapter ten!
All rights still belong to Cassandra Clare
Alec POV
After I recovered from the shock that Sebastian has Izzy, Leanne and I got right to work. We came up with a plan. Sebastian knows that Leanne left his hideout angry, and he knows she spoke with me. He doesn't, however, know what she said. Leanne is going to go back and tell him she lied to me because I had seen where she was going. She is going to try to get him to believe she is on his side. While she is doing this, Jace, Magnus, and I will get Izzy. Then we will capture Sebastian and demand Clary back. Then we will call the Clave. I take my earpiece out of my pocket and tell Magnus about Izzy and our plan. Then I hand the earpiece over to Leanne. She will tell us where Isabelle is, and when we should come. I wave to Leanne and march home, anxious but excited for action.
Isabelle POV
"They'll be here any minute now, to 'rescue' you. Too bad they'll fail," Sebastian says with a smile as he paces in front of me. I'm still stuck in the demon, although it doesn't seem to be trying to squeeze me to death anymore. He reached out through the demon I'm still trapped in to caress my cheek. I glare at him, but the red jello demon makes it difficult to see him clearly. "She told them. I know she did... But did she do it to help me? Or has she left the dark side? I know she was mad when she left. Mad I wasn't spending enough time with her. Maybe if I had pretended to love her, she'd would still be on my side. She's weak though. I'll have no trouble beating her and the rest."
He pulls his hand back and laughs, saying with mock pity, "The poor girl. She is beautiful. Maybe if I had taken pity on her and left her alone, she might have found someone who actually loved her. Maybe she would have had a nice life. But sadly for her, I don't have pity on anyone." He smirked at me as he ran a finger over one of the many blades in the room. My stomach twisted. Did he plan on torturing me? Did he plan on using that on my family? I struggled against the cold, moist jello, but it didn't give way. Sebastian laughed again, "Don't bother. That demon is almost invincible."
He studies me carefully, eyes slowly raking over me from head to toe. "You know, you're beautiful too..." I am getting very uncomfortable under his intense stare. He smirks and walks confidently out of the room. The jello squeezes me again until the darkness comes.
Alec POV
I burst through the elevator doors, already drawing runes on myself as I race towards the weapons room.
"Jace!" I call, "Sebastian took Isabelle!" We arm ourselves heavily and apply more runes as we wait for Magnus.
As soon as he arrives we leave the institute, trying (and failing) to act casual as we speed walk to the abandoned building.
"Oh no," Magnus says, holding the earpiece Leanne just communicated through, "Clary says to hurry... It must not be going well," oops... I forgot to tell them she's not actually Clary... Oh well, no for that now!
We speed up considerably until we are racing down the streets. People glare as we shove them harshly out of the way. Jace, being in the front, might have knocked over a couple people. I wonder if he'd be in such a hurry if he knew it was actually Leanne, and not Clary.
Isabelle POV
Sebastian is drawing runes on himself. It looks like he's preparing for war. There are a lot of demons in the room with me. They smell awful. Maybe that means Alec, Jace, and Clary are coming to save me?
Sebastian's head jerks up when he hears a girls voice call his name. It kind of sounds like Clary... "I'll be right back," he says. He leaves the room. Is it them? Are they here? I try to wiggle out of the demon, but Sebastian is right, almost nothing can hurt this demon. Almost. I intend to learn the exception. What could defeat a demon that looks and feels like jello? I'm tempted to try and eat it, to see if maybe it tastes like jello, but it's a demon. If I ate it, wouldn't that be the same as if I got demon blood in a cut?
I can hear Sebastian and that girl outside the door. I can't make out what they are saying, but Sebastian sounds mad, and the girl sounds scared. That's not Clary. Clary wouldn't be scared. She'd just be mad too. I'm relieved and disappointed at the same time. I hear a door slam and lock. Sebastian comes back into the room.
"Only three. They'll be no problem," He says with a laugh. I want to slap him. Unfortunately I can't move. I'll have to settle with spitting. I hear a crack as the spit ricochets off the jello demon and hits me in the face. Gross. Sebastian laughs as he leaves the room, "You can keep spitting on yourself all you want. I have important, grown-up matters to attend to." I spit at him again, completely forgetting about the demon. I hear a sizzling sound as it runs down through a crack in the jello. Wait- crack in the jello? I can move my head ever so slightly now and tilt it down to see a few jagged tunnels through the demon. The cracks widen as spit runs down them. The cracks are from my tears. Was I crying? I spit again and hear a crackling sound as it hits the demon and the jello dissolves, the demon returning to its home dimension piece by piece. Am I melting the demon? In that case, back to crying and spitting!
Alright, so that wasn't as long as I was hoping...
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-Carrie