Hunting Time

"She is…gone?" Jace raised an eyebrow at Alec a bit confused. "Wait, who?"

"Clary, Jace! That redhead mundane that we were keeping in the institute, I checked her room and she was not there," Alec repeated for the hundredth time. The other shadowhunter shrugged his shoulders, "She could simply be in the bathroom."

"Jace," the other boy said clearly frustrated. "She. Is. Gone. Nowhere in the institute and you have to go get her back."

With a wrinkled up nose, Jace asked, "Me? Why me?"

"She left on your watch that is why."

"I don't think that is a good reason as to why I have to go look for her. Plus, I have more important things on my agenda than go babysitting a mundane-

"Like what? Bothering Nadia to no end," Alec growled. "She will not tell you anytime soon Jace, just give it up. Or are you just going to mope around because she won't tell you anything?"

Jace didn't say anything but instead just got up and walked right on past Alec thinking it would be just easier to find the damn redhead than be yelled at by his friend. As he walked on down the hallway, he wondered how she escaped in the first place. Perhaps, she was smarter than he had first given her credit for; after all, he thought mundanes weren't all that intelligent because well they were mundane. Moreover, they hardly knew about the darker side of the world and without education on that, they were not considered very smart.

With a sigh, Jace got in the elevator, went down and out of the building thinking about the first place that girl would run off to; of course, where else other than her home? It was the first place most mundanes would run off to when they had any great bad emotion in them.

"Stupid mundanes," he growled to himself as he headed on down to the subway thinking it would faster and easier that way.

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Jace kicked the wall once he found out that mundie was nowhere to be found in the house. He went to her home but realized that only an idiot would come here without any protection, she probably went to that friends house but he had no way of finding out where that was without help. Nadia probably could figure it out with her wizard powers but at the time being she was not exactly talking to him. She hardly even said bye to him or told him where she was off to, he had to find that out by Alec who was told by Izzy, his sister.

However, he could not dwell on that right now. He had to find Clary and to do that he had to find out where her lover boy lives. To do that he would need some help. Unfortunately, that help is probably not going to help him in the first place. Without much thought, he kicked the wall once again.

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Clary was now sitting on her best friend and only friend's bed wondering how she was to explain where she has been the past couple days without sounding completely insane. It was a lot to think about as her friend went to get her some water. Her stomach felt empty suddenly when she thought about the people back at the institute. Most of them were nice to her while she was there, Nadia and Hodge but she was sure that even Nadia was feeling some hostility towards her near the end for reasons that were unsure to the mundane.

"Here is some water," that very recognizable voice snapped her out of her reverie. She looked up and took the glass of water.

"So…"he sat down next to her. "Mind explaining…"

"Right," she took a gulp of water. "Well…" And off she was explaining everything hoping that her story did not sound completely insane.

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Nadia let out a sigh as she went into yet another store with Isabelle. She loved the girl to death but her fashion sense was a bit frightening, how does Alec even keep such a calm head with her running around in those clothes. Then again, she had not been there to watch him have a small heart attack every time she went out.

"Nadia!" that now daemonic voice called out to her. "Come on, you have to try on this dress!"

"Izzy," Nadia groaned. "This is supposed to be relaxing…I don't enjoy being a Barbie doll. You know I used to chop off their heads and flush them down the toilet."

"Yes and I would cry and throw something at you before we came to a mutual agreement of you just giving all the dolls to me that Hodge gave to you for whatever reason we still don't know…"

Nadia smiled for a second knowing who had sent the dolls. It had been her uncle Magnus, of course, back then she did not know, but later on he told her saying that he was trying to make her as girly as possible. He succeeded a little bit but not completely; not enough for her actually to enjoy shopping, make-up or play with dolls but enough not to be a tomboy.

Izzy ran up to her friend and pouted, "Awe come on, pretty please? It'll be fun!"

"For who?" she scoffed.

"Me," Izzy smiled, "And the guy who will get to see you in this sexy outfit."

The Romanian gypsy descendent rolled her eyes at her friend before letting her friend drag her off to the dressing rooms. As she went off, she began to wonder how Jace was doing back in the institute.

Sorry for the late update T-T Internet died on me for a little while...