Hello Fanfictioners! Here it is Chapter 13! ENJOY! :D Also A big thanx to Nicole my beta. You're the best! :D
~Dream~
"JONATHAN!" I screamed.
I looked around for my brother. I couldn't see him. All I could see was black and silver.
"Please! I need your help." I sobbed and dropped to my knees.
All of a sudden there was a flash of light and then he knelt down next to me.
"Come, little sister." he said and offered his hand.
He helped me up and enveloped me in a bear hug.
"I've missed you! But I don't have much time and I have something for you" he said and I nodded.
He reached behind him and then grabbed my hand and placed the object in my palm. I looked down at the green stele that rested in my palm.
I frowned "What am I supposed to do with this? I have tried everything to get out of that room and nothing works!" I said and looked up at my brother and shook my head as tears welled in my eyes. He was fading.
"Please don't leave me!" I cried and a few golden tears ran down his face.
"FIRE MESSAGE!" he yelled and then everything went black...
~End of Dream~
I bolted upright and took some deep breaths to try calm myself down. I felt something cold in my palm and looked down at the green stele from my dream.
I jumped out of bed and ran over to my drawers, pulling each one out and dumping the contents on the floor, trying to find one piece of paper.
I pulled the last drawer out and an envelope and a piece of paper fluttered out. I grabbed it and picked up the one pencil I had found and thought. I could here the pounding footsteps coming down the outside hallway.
I ran to my bedside table and wrote -
I swear I may loose it at last
For the windows black
In the silver night
The golden path be set at once
Now say the vows
My lovely wife.
Help me.
C.
And with that, I drew the rune on it and the paper was gone.
The door burst open and Sam stood in the threshold looking enraged.
"Where did you send it, Clary?!" He asked and I smiled at him and shrugged.
"I have no idea what you're talking about." I said innocently and he growled.
He stomped up to me and leaned down and looked me in the eye.
"WHERE IS IT?!" he yelled and I barred my teeth at him but didn't say a word.
"Fine you want to play dirty, let's play DIRTY!" he spat and grabbed my arm and hauled me out the door and down the hall.
He kicked open a door and threw me in. I landed on the floor with a 'THUD'.
I gave him a menacing look and he came over to me and tried to grab me. I moved across the floor and then jumped up and ran towards the window on the other side of the room. My feet pounded on the marble floor. I was almost there when strong arms wrapped around my waist and picked me up.
I screamed and clawed at Sam as he carried me over to a wall. I noticed it had chains on it. I struggled desperately to get out of Sam's arms but he had them around my waist and there was no way out.
He shoved me up against the wall and clamped the chains around my wrists.
He walked away and I pulled at the chains but they were nailed into the wall. I heard metal clink and looked over my shoulder at Sam and there was something in his hand... it was a whip. With three metal spikes at the end.
Two guards came over and pulled the chains tight so that I was on my knees and couldn't move.
"This is what you get when you don't obey me!" Sam yelled and then he flicked the whip and slashed my back. I cried out and tears welled in my eyes. He did it again and again. On the tenth lash I screamed and tears streamed down my cheeks but I didn't utter a word.
Eventually after lash after lash he stopped and walked out and the guards loosened the chains and my body sagged and everything went black.
Jace POV -
Where is she?! I thought.
It had been two days since Clary had disappeared and I was so worried. Sam was gone too.
I got up and started pacing. I had searched everywhere but nothing. I had even gone to Magnus Bane for him to track her. He'd done it but she was nowhere.
Something cracked and I turned around just as a fire letter landed on my bed.
I ran over and ripped open the envelope and read the lovely cursive inside -
I swear I may loose it at last
For the windows black
In the silver night
The golden path be set at once
Now say the vows
My lovely wife.
Help me.
C.
I jumped and ran out the door.
"MARYSE!" I bellowed.
Clary POV -
"Come on Miss Clarissa!" a girl said and I opened my eyes. I shifted and regretted it. Pain shot up my back and I remembered what Sam had done.
I cried out as the girl helped me up and I finally got a good look at her. She had dark brown hair and honey eyes.
"Thank you." I whispered and she smiled.
She took me into my room and sat me on the toilet seat in the bathroom while she ran a bath.
She helped me to take off my torn clothes. I slipped in the hot water and winced as it touched my shredded back.
"I'm Aline." She said and I nodded.
"Clary." I rasped.
She nodded and then produced a stele from the pocket of her apron and took my arm out of the water, drawing an iratze on my skin. I felt my wounds heal and sighed, Aline smiled and offered her hand and helped me out.
After Aline helped me out and helped me pull on a silk nightgown. She got me into bed. I nodded in thanks and she smiled.
Just as I was about to say something the door opened and Sam walked in with a huge basket in hand.
He looked at me with pleading eyes that asked for forgiveness. I looked at Aline and she looked down. I heard his heavy footsteps and then the bed dipped with his weight. I kept looking at Aline but I hear his sigh of sadness.
"I'm sorry, Clary." he said quietly and a few tears ran down my cheeks as I remembered the pain he had inflicted on me. I swiped the tears away with the back of my hand.
"No you're not. If you were sorry you wouldn't have done it in the first place!" I said and felt the bed move as he flinched.
"You sent that fire message and disobeyed me!" he growled.
I turned around and bared my teeth.
"YOU'RE KEEPING ME PRISONER HERE! WHAT DO YOU EXPECT ME TO DO?! ROLL OVER AND DROOL?! WELL I CAN TELL YOU THIS! THAT'S NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN!" I screamed and turned around again.
He sighed and then he put the basket next to me. I turned my head and eyed it.
"It's for you... as a sorry gift." he said cautiously.
I sat up and pulled the blanket that was hiding what was in the basket off and looked inside. The corners of my mouth lifted... slightly.
Laying in the basket was sketchbooks, hundreds of coloured pencils and lead pencils, water paints, oil pastels, paintbrushes and a deep red diary with a locking rune on it. I picked up the diary and found a fountain pen on the side. Sam extended his hand and I jumped. A sad look passed over his face before he could mask it. He uncurled his fingers and I looked at the object in his palm and gasped. It was a stele. I snatched it out of his hand and slashed it across the locking rune. The diary opened and I looked down at the beautiful blank pages.
I yawned and put the diary back in the basket and put the basket on the floor next to me. I rolled over on my side and turned the light off. I pulled the quilt up to my chin and closed my eyes.
I felt the bed bounce as Sam got off and he and Aline walked out. I listened intently and just as my hopes were at there highest the lock clicked and footsteps walked off.
I cried silently, tears staining my sheets and eventually cried myself to sleep.
Next morning... 6am
I opened my eyes and shot up, looking at the window. Sunlight was flowing through it.
I propelled myself out of bed and into the warm sunlight. It felt wonderful.
I looked at the clock and smiled. It read 6am in green digital letters.
Looking around the room I knew something was missing. Then it hit me. My ballet shoes, they were gone!
I looked everywhere but they were nowhere in sight.
I ran up to the door and through myself at it. Banging my fists against the hard wood.
I was shaking with rage when the lock clicked and then door opened. Sam looked at me with groggy eyes.
"What's wrong?" he asked and I just kept myself in check or I would have ripped his face off.
"YOU KNOW WHAT'S DAMN WRONG!" I yelled and he looked shocked and shook his head.
"I don't!"
I clenched my fists.
"WHERE THE F**K ARE MY BALLET SHOES?!" I screamed and he looked at me.
"In the garbage! That boy gave them to you!" he said and I wanted to kill him.
I took a few deep breaths to calm myself and then looked back up at him.
"Look Sam we need to get a few things straight. First I need my ballet shoes because I NEED to practice. It calms me. Second I need a place to dance because I'm not dancing in here! And third I need to eat." I said and he nodded.
"I'm starving. I need food!" I said and looked him in the eye and he swallowed.
"I'll get you new ballet shoes and you can train in the ballroom. As for food just ask Aline and she'll cook something up." He said.
"I need out of this room!" I yelled and he looked down.
"Not without guards or you're not." he said and I had to cross my arms to stop myself from slapping him.
If I don't take guards he'll never let me out.
"Ok! I'll take guards." I said and he smiled.
"You can come out and get your breakfast this morning." he said and I nodded.
"Sam I need other things for ballet!" I said and he nodded as if saying go on.
"I need leotards, ballet skirts" he gave me a weird look. I sighed in frustration. "Tutu skirts, tights, leg warmers and most important Pointe shoes!" I told him and he nodded.
"I'll give you anything. But what do I get in return?" he asked seductively.
I thought for a moment and he leaned forward and I smiled evilly.
"My happiness!" I said and slammed the door in his face.
I heard him groan and burst out laughing.
"Your guards will be here in 15 minutes." he said.
My mouth dropped. I had to go in a shower.
I rushed into the bathroom and hopped in the shower and washed my hair. When I was done I dried off and tied my hair in a long braid that went all the way down my back.
Towel wrapped around me, I ran over to the chest of drawers and searched for a bra and undies. I found them and pulled them on.
I rushed over to the wardrobe and opened the double doors and my mouth fell open. There were dresses and skirts everywhere. I don't think Sam believed in pants...even if he wore them.
I rummaged through and finally found a floor length sky blue skirt and a tank that was cream coloured with pink and blue flowers printed on it.
I tried to find a pair of shoes that didn't have heels but no luck and then there was a nock at the door. I grabbed my diary and fountain pen just in time for my bedroom door to open.
There were six guards waiting outside. I stepped over the threshold and they all made a circle of protection around me. I sighed and then one of the guards asked.
"Where to Ma'am?" I shrugged and put on a posh bitchy accent.
"To the kitchen!" I said and burst out laughing but all the guards stayed silent.
"Wow, party killers. Don't you guys laugh?" I asked the guard who had spoken to me.
"Only if we are told to Ma'am." he said and I frowned.
"Um...I give you permission to laugh..." I said and he nodded and then we started to walk.
"Oh, and you can call me Clary." I said with a smile and he nodded and smiled back.
It didn't take long to get to a pair of huge double doors which I assumed was the kitchen.
The nice guard opened the doors and offered his arm. I smiled and took it.
My eyes bugged out at all the food set out over the bench. The maids were cooking away and I saw Aline.
"Aline!" I said and waved. She looked up and bowed slightly.
"Ma'am." she said and went back to work.
I looked at the guard and he gestured to the food.
"It's all for you, Miss Clary" he said and stepped back.
I looked at all the guards and saw how hungry they looked.
"I could never eat all of this. Please, we can share." I said and smiled but the guards all shook there heads.
"We cannot, miss. It is for you." Said the guard who had offered his arm earlier. I walked up to him and looked him in the eye.
"What is your name?" I asked.
"Sebastian, Ma'am."
"Well, Sebastian, I am ordering you to share the food." I said and he looked shocked.
He looked over his shoulder at the other guards.
"It's an order." he said and they all ran towards the food.
I picked up a cracker with cream cheese and bit into it.
"Yum!" I murmured.
The door to the kitchen opened and Sam stood, looking enraged.
"WHAT IS THIS!" his voice boomed and the guards dropped to there knees.
"Sergeant Sebastian!" He growled and Sebastian stood.
"What did I say to you when I asked you to keep an eye on Clary?!" He said
Sebastian started to tremble in fear.
"T-to p-protect her and k-keep in line"
"And you didn't do that! You know what the penalty is...death!" Sam said and started to stride towards Sebastian.
Just as he had his hand raised to strike I rushed in front of Sebastian.
"Get out of the way, Clary!" he growled.
"It was me. I ordered them to eat!" I said and he looked shocked and put his hand down, but the look of death was still in his eyes.
"I ORDERED them to eat! So if you hurt anyone it should be me." I said and everyone gasped.
"Ordered them. Fine, he may live, but I'm disappointed in you, Clary." he said and walked away.
I dropped down next to the trembling Sebastian and pulled him to me and started to rock him.
"It's gonna be okay, it's going to be okay!" I said.
He kept on trembling and so I started to sing.
Let it go, Let it go. Can't hold it back anymore. Let it go, let it go. Turn my back and slam the door. The snow glows white on the mountain tonight. Not a footprint to be seen. A kingdom of isolation and it looks like I'm the queen. The wind is howling like this swirling storm inside. Couldn't keep it in. Heaven knows I tried.
All the guards came and sat down, listening to me sing.
Don't let them win, don't let them see. Be the good girl you always had to be Conceal, don't feel, don't let them know. Well now they know. Let it go, let it go. Can't hold it back anymore. Let it go, let it go. Turn my back and slam that door. And here I stand. And here I'll stay. Let it go, let it go. The cold never bothered me anyway.
Sebastian's trembles were gone and all his attention was on me.
It's funny how some distance makes everything seem small. And the fears that once controlled me can't get to me at all. Up here in the cold thin air I finally can breathe. I know I left a life behind but I'm too relieved to grieve. Let it go, let it go. Can't hold it back anymore. Let it go, let it go, Turn my back and slam the door. And here I stand. And here,I'll stay. Let it go, let it go. The cold never bothered me anyway.
Standing - frozen in the life I've chosen You won't find me, the past is so behind me. Buried in the snow
Let it go, let it go
Can't hold it back anymore
Let it go, let it go,
Turn my back and slam the door
And here I stand
And here I'll stay
Let it go, let it go
The cold never bothered me anyway...
(let the music go on)
and here i'll stay
let it go, let it go
oooooh let it go
We sat there for hours. I sang and told the guards stories of the outside world and the Institute. I was going back and they were coming with me...
Hope you liked it!
Many Thanx to Nicole!
Love Ciara
:Dxxx