Chapter 10
Clary POV
As I find myself in the living room I see Jace, Izzy, Simon and Alec talking. That sight goes away almost immediately and changes to the most horrifying scene I've ever seen in my life.
A woman lies in the middle of the room, she's bleeding from her chest profusely. She has green eyes, like mine, staring blankly at nothing. She has red hair, like mine, partially matted down from blood. Luke is over the lady looking distraught. If this is his ex girlfriend that Jace told me about, where do I fit in.
You're so stupid Clarissa, this is your mother. Sebastian's mom also, but Sebastian killed her, got rid of her. Don't you remember her?
I think hard, memories of my mother coming back to me in painful waves.
She kept you safe her entire life, she kept you from being corrupted from your evil father.
"Clary!" I feel Jace shaking me, guiding me toward the dead lady he can't see.
"NO!" I screech, I pull myself away from him and back up as far away from my dead mother as I can until I hit a wall. I'm sucked back into my memories.
Sure she was overprotective at times, but you were her only child. Sebastian had already been taken away from her. Well, I guess not for much longer, you were going to be an older sister Clary.
I feel another scream bubble up inside me but I choke it down with more sobs.
You called Jace first, you fought of multiple demons to keep your dead mother safe. What was the point of that Clarissa? She was already DEAD. You know what that makes you? An orphan. You have no family in this world any longer.
"Oh my god!" I yell to know on in particular.
I open my eyes again, my mother is gone. I'm left with an overwhelming grief, I feel so incredibly empty. I feel myself sobbing but no sound is coming out. Tears are streaming down my face but I hardly feel it. I pull my knees to my body and try my best to calm my breathing down.
Suddenly there's a hand on my back, I flinch and look up to see Jace.
"You never told me that was my mother." I say, my voice shaking violently when I say the next part, "Or my little sister."
This seems to take everyone in the room by shock. I hear Izzy gasp, Simon wraps her into a hug. I close the space between Jace and I and sob into his jacket. I barely register him plant a kiss on the top of my head.
"Well I warned you didn't I?" Another voice enters the room, I don't have to look up to know who it is. "Clarissa did I fucking stutter when I told you to stay where I left you?"
I'm so incredibly numb to everything happening around me that I don't even answer him.
"Clarissa!" He yells at me, causing me to flinch, Jace is still holding me.
"Hey!" Jace yells back at him, "You don't talk to her like that. You got that dipshit?"
There's a pause, which means to me Sebastian is petty taken aback.
" That's my sister Herondale."
"No your not, because a real sibling wouldn't cause their sister this much pain. Now tell me one reason as to why I shouldn't kill you right now."
"Because I'm a projected picture and Clarissa would be incredibly distraught over that. Am I right sister?"
When I don't answer him I can feel the tension build, "Jesus Clarissa you're bleeding on the carpet. Now use your words or mother won't be too pleased to hear you've become mute."
"My mother's dead because of you." I say lowly, the look on his face is priceless.
" Do you need another dose of your medication? I think you're hallucinating Clari-"
"I KNOW WHAT I SAW!" I snap at him, fresh tears leaking from my eyes, "Cut the bullshit Seb, all you do is lie and look where it's gotten you. You killed your own mother."
"That mouth of yours is going to get you in trouble. Besides that bitch deserved it, now come with me we're leaving."
"She's not going anywhere with you." Jace says, standing up to block me.
"Oh how noble of you." Sebastian says, leaning on the wall across from us, "Clarissa, don't make me come over there."
"Fuck off." I mutter through my muddled mind.
I suddenly feel myself being yanked up by my injured arm, with Sebastian's lightning speed I'm on the other side of the room with him, if it weren't for Sebastian (painfully) holding me up, I'd be on the ground right now.
"What the fuck did you say?" he whispers through gritted teeth, I can tell how hard he trying to control his anger.
Now that he's this close to me my words suddenly get choked up in my throat.
"Sebastian let her go right now or I swear-" Jace sounds livid
"You swear what? You can't do anything to me, I can only touch you all."
"Are you too much of a coward to come and actually face us?" Jace scoffs, clearly poking his nerves.
"You shut the hell up." Sebastian blows him off, "As for you, I think it's time you had a taste of your own medicine." I watch as he pulls out a vial he would give me every blue moon and sticks it in my mouth. I gag and choke on it, not wanting it to go down. He drops me and I fall onto a heap on the ground, dry heaving.
I watch through blurry eyes as Jace runs up to tackle my brother, He hits a wall, not being able to touch him, and Sebastian disappears without another word.
I jump up with my last bit of energy and run to the bathroom upstairs and begin to throw up all of the contents in my stomach, I barely register someone pulling my hair back as I do so.
When I finish I groggily get up to use mouthwash to rid my mouth of the foul taste. I lean heavily on the wall behind me as I watch my friends in front of me talk in hushed voices. Jace's infuriated face stands out.
I'm exhausted, all I want to do is sleep. Closing my eyes now wouldn't hurt, right? I feel myself slipping down the wall until a hand grabs my injured arms, my eyes shoot open as I inhale sharply.
"Simon!" I hear them all yell at the same time.
"I'm sorry!" He says back defensively, while helping me sit down.
I close my eyes, my body drained from so much grief and pain; I just want to die.
I wince again when I feel the heat of a stele on my bare arm.
"Hey it's okay." Jace say gently, drawing an iratze on my arm.
I try to reply but I end up shivering, I watch Izzy put a hand on my skin, "Jace her body temperature is way down."
Jace touches my cheek and immediately takes his own gear jacket off and drapes it over me, I snuggle into it, feeling comfort in it.
Alec enters the room from wherever he came from.
"We need to go." Alec says, slightly urgent, "Sebastian doesn't just leave like that, he's going to be back."
"That's impossible," I mumble, "If he's projecting himself from the Brooklyn institute-" I cough, "It's too far for him to broadcast himself from that far without me drawing the rune. He'll send his idiot sidekicks, maybe some demons."
They look at each other, looking slightly surprised I know all this but what can I say, I've lived with him. I go into another coughing fit, shivering even harder.
"Can you walk Clary?" Simon asks me. I feel so weak, but I'm not about to give up.
Slowly, I use the wall to help myself up, I stand leaning heavily on the wall. Walking… well we'll see.
"I'll go ahead, make sure nothing is still lurking in the kitchen."
"Be careful." Jace tells his parabatai and turns his attention to me. I don't look at him in the eyes in fear of bursting into tears. I limp out of the bathroom, my head and heart heavy, and go downstairs. A couple of times I almost fall but Jace is there to keep me upright, I know I need him now more than ever.
As we make it downstairs, I can tell it's a terrible idea. Alec comes sprinting toward us.
"Go back upstai-" is all I hear him yell before I'm thrown into the wall on the far side of the living room.
In front of me are two disgusting demons, large and feral looking.
I'm really not in the mood for this, I can barely stand on my own let alone fight off at least 12 demons in my living room.
But alas, you gotta do what you gotta do. I muster up all the energy left in me and kick the demon square in the stomach, sending him and the one behind him on the ground I take the chance to jump on top of the two of them and spear a dagger through the two of them.
I feel disoriented standing on my feet, dizzy. Jace is taking on three demons at the moment, he's so preoccupied that he doesn't notice the one about to deliver a fatal blow right behind him.
"JACE!" I scream without thinking, I flip over the coffee table and use the momentum to block Jace and slice through the demon, but not before it's claw slices down my side all the way down to the bottom of my calf.
The demon disappears with a screech. Jace swiftly decapitates the other three demons in one graceful movement. Before falling onto the ground next to me.
The fight around me is coming to an end. Izzy and Simon each take on a demon while Alec looks ready to deliver a final blow to another.
"Oh Clary." Jace says, looking at the blood pooling and then dripping down my wound.
"Is this the part where you start ripping off parts of your shirt to bind my wounds?" I whisper shakily, the world is swimming around me.
He looks at me, if I'm not mistaken there are tears…tears in Jace's eyes.
"It hurts Jace." I say, feeling my own tears pool in my eyes, it all hurts so bad.
"I know baby." He says, moving some stray hairs from my face.
"Am I going to die?" I ask him through a confused mind.
"Don't say that." He says, sounding like he's trying to convince himself. He takes out his stele and begins to draw iratzes all up and down my arms. I feel my wounds healing but then it all of a sudden stops.
"Why did it stop?!" Jace almost yells, drawing more iratzes as blood continues to leave my body.
I want to reassure him, tell him it's okay, but when I open my mouth a fit of coughs rack my body. I cover my mouth and when I stop I look at my hand to see my own blood staining it. I whimper pathetically and let my head fall back.
"ALEC! Get Magnus now!" He yells across the room.
Without asking, Alec pulls out his phone. I can't make out what he's saying, what anyone is saying. Jace is looking directly at me but It's as if I'm underwater; drowning. Tears leak out of my eyes and down my face.
"I.. I can't…" I say in a small voice.
"Shhh." Jace says reassuringly, "It's okay."
"Can you hold me?" I ask him, feeling scared. He gently lifts me up and I rest my head on his chest where I feel his heart pounding, it lulls me to sleep.
"Clary." Jace says, shaking me, "You can't fall asleep yet, baby."
I try, I really do. But the day's events mixed with the blood loss is too much and I can hardly keep my eyes open.
"Jace, she's falling asleep." I hear Izzy say after a while, keeping my eyes closed.
"Clary, please. Stay awake for me." He begs with me, I only moan and snuggle further into him.
"Where's Magnus?" Jace asks impatiently.
"Right here." Another Flamboyant voice enters the conversation, "Now what seems to be the problem?"
"Do you not see the girl dying in front of us?" I feel Jace flinch, so I really am dying?
"what did you do to this poor child?!" Magnus says, I feel myself being handed over. I have no more energy to fight it.
"She saved my life." Jace says, sounding mad, guilty.
"Still a reckless as ever. Selfless. Don't ever let go of this one." Magnus says.
"I don't plan on it." Jace says. "Now help her."
"She's been poisoned." Magnus says, "We need to get to the institute immediately. I have no idea what happened but this isn't a demon venom, it's… oh god."
"What?" Alec says, sounding urgent.
"No talking now, we need to get her to the institute in soon or this will kill her."
Lastly, there's a portal I feel myself falling through and then nothing.
The following hours are hell on earth.
AN: Hey guys! I really hope you all liked this chapter. I have no idea why it took so long to write, School is in a couple days so I guess I've been preparing for that!
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Erin