Just wanted to thank everyone on behalf of Sophie for all the well wishes and wanted to let you know that she is, in fact, okay. Sophie's not that easy to kill thank the Angel. Our vacation did us both alot of good and I actually saw a wild seal in the sea that was exactly a foot from our house -not even that at high tide -so without further ado here is the first chapter of the week, I'll post the second moments after.

Jace and I were sat in taki's about to order lunch when he grabbed my hand over the table, I looked up in shock, surprised that he'd be so obvious in front of people. NOt that I was bothered about hiding it or anything but I hadn't expected him to be so open about it, I smiled back at him.
"what's good here, then?" He smiled and pointed at something on the menu, I looked down at it.
"Coconut pancakes? aren't pancakes for breakfast?" He shrugged before answering and I struggled to concentrate on his words over the feeling of his thumb stroking the skin on the back of my hand. My cheeks reddened as the waitress sashayed over to take our orders, I answered before Jace could, not liking the way she was eyeing him up when he was obviously here with me.
"Two coconut pancakes, a medium mocha and... what are you having to drink, honey?" Jace raised his eyebrows at me using the word 'honey' and I just shrugged. I usually hated the pet name bullshit but this girl was getting on my nerves, she'd written down my order without even looking at me, she just continued to stare shamelessly at JAce.
"I'll have an Americano. What time are you meeting with the others?" My smile brightened considerably when I realised Jace didn't take a second look at the waitress, that he was happy to be here with me. He's probably already slept with her and looking for someone new. Shut up!
"Not for a couple of hours." The waitress glared at me when she realised JAce wasn't interested and I just rolled my eyes.
"Then I've got you all to myself for now." My blush intensified again. "Look, the truth is I didn't just ask you to lunch because I wanted to take you out. I do, obviously. But I've done some research, I've been trying to find someone who might be able to help unblock your memories since Magnus had flat our refused. My first choice is a witch named Madame Dorothea, she's a seeress, not a particularly friendly woman but she's good at what she does." I struggle not to show my disappointment at the fact we were on business again instead of me getting the chance to just have a couple of hours to pretend to be normal.
"And your next option..." My voice was dry and I caught the wince Jace tried to hide, making me feel a little guilty. He was just trying to help and here I was being rude, but I was disappointed. All I'd wanted was a normal date, to go out for a coffee and some lunch with a guy and not have all conversation revolve around work.
"A retired Silent Brother, his names Jeremiah, he's actually an okay guy in comparison to the others and he owes me a favor so..."
"So he might be able to help us but if he does there's a chance he may tell the Clave or the other silent brothers will hear it in his head." Jace nodded solemnly and I sighed; "Lets hope Dorothea is as good as you think then, when are we going?"
"After lunch, okay? She lives down in Brooklyn so it's only a ten minute walk from here, if you want to wait its okay." I couldn't help but realise how silly my disappointment was, I mean here was Jace who although cocky to the point of arrogance was a great guy who was actually trying to help me out and I was mentally whining about our date being ruined. I mean, could I even really call this a date? It didn't matter, this Dorothea might actually help me realise why my mom and the Inquisitor had tried so hard to keep me in the dark and even if she couldn't return my memories to me at least I might understand why a little more. I beamed at Jace, disappointment squashed and a new hope started to rise.
"It's a plan."

We had exchanged a little bit of small talk along the way but most of it was spent in a comfortable silence as my hope and excitement grew at the prospect of getting some answers, of course I was nervous too but I knew that if Dorothea could tell me anything it would be worth it. We finally arrived at a psychic shop which was on the bottom floor of a two storey brownstone apartment, the small sign read 'Madame Dorothea, Seeress and Prophetess' it was a little on the weird looking side but I had decided not to let first appearances get the best of me. Jace opened the door to the apartment building and walked to the single door on the left, I waited a couple of steps behind him. THe door opened only a crack when an aged voice croaked through the door;
"You have no business here, Nephilim. Leave." sHe made to shut the door but Jace's foot was wedged into the doorway. aNd eye glared at him from the crack and I realised that this wasn't going to go down well if I let Jace do the talking so I stepped forward, into the light. A gasp sounded from the doorway and it opened fully, showing the image of an african-american woman dressed in lilac dress robes with beads and crystals hanging from her neck, fingers and wrists. She was about fifty with thick, round glasses and sharp dark eyes making me think that the glasses were just a ruse.
"You know me." It wasn't a question, I could tell as much by her reaction to the sight of me.
"Clarissa Fairchild. I wondered when I might be seeing you, it has been at least a year since I dreamt of your visit and I was beginning to wonder if I was losing my touch. Please, do come in, child." I entered the apartment first, Jace following right behind. "Please, do take a seat at the table. I will bring out some tea." Jace and I sat at the rickety wooden table in the centre of the room and looked around at all the strange posters and objects until Madame Dorothea re-emerged. "How is it I can help you child?" she seemed nice enough, kind of like a grandmother figure, that would bake you cookies and knit you jumpers but I doubted that was really the case.
"I would have thought you already knew that." She smiled a grim smile and nodded before laying out some cards.
"Run your hand over these and show me the one that feels either hot or cold to you." I ran my hand over them three times but nothing happened so getting bored with it I just lifted up a random card and turned it over. It was the Mortal Cup. I looked at Jace and he looked back at me, both of us in shock at the drawing in front of us.
"Ahh, the Ace of cups..." MAdame Dorothea started rambling on about the cards meaning but all the words were going through one ear and out of the other.
"Madame Dorothea, where did you get these cards?"she cut herself off and scoffed at being interrupted
"They were a gift from another shadowhunter, an artist, Jocelyn Fray" My eyes widened even more, FRay... that was the name my mother gave whenever she was in the mortal world but why... I cut my thoughts off, deciding to analyse that bit of information later. Madame Dorothea came over and placed her hands on either side of my face, her eyes getting more glazed by the second before with a gasp she stumbled away from me.
"There's something blocking your mind. My guess is your mom hired someone very skilled to protect you." So she knew a little but unfortunately not enough, still I had to ask.
"From what?"
"Your own memories."

My mind was still spinning from the cryptic answers given from the prophetess and the only thing I knew now tht I hadn't before was that my mom was somehow involved with Dorothea, whether it was a one time thing or not I wasn't sure but still. I had told Sophie and Seb everything as soon as I got back and between the three of us we decided there was no point dwelling on it if we wanted to have a nice, normal day out. So once again I pushed all the issues aside -I was getting good at that -and went out with my friends. The show had been a bust, turned out that Isabelle had forgotten that her break up with the Warlock Director had been ugly and so instead we had gone sight seeing, which included laughing at obvious tourists and going into random shops laughing at some of the stupid things Mundanes would buy, seriously, they would buy stuff like crystal balls and voodoo dolls and couldn't understand why they wouldn't work; how about because you're not a witch? Eye roll. I kept catching Sebastian eyeing Sophie and whilst she was looking at cakes n the local bakery I pulled him to the side.
"Just ask her out already, Seb." He gaped at me and looked between my face and Sophie, his mouth moving but no words escaped it. I was struggling to hold in my laughter when he finally managed to stutter out a semi-decent sentence.
"I... I Don't know what you're... erm... insinuating but I guarantee you that you're wrong." Now I did laugh, Sophie briefly looked back at us and smiled before rolling her eyes. Obviously assuming we were acting like children as tended to happen when we hung out together.
"Seb, I know you so much better than that. You have a thing for Sophie, and now I think about it, you have ever since she arrived. I know I may have smacked you when you asked me out but you've grown from the line 'how do you like your eggs in the morning?' YOu have stopped using that line, haven't you?" He snorted and gave me a light shove which I returned with a weak punch to the ribs before sticking my tongue out.
"Of course I have. Give me a break, okay? I was just a kid!"
"Yes, but at least you had more confidence then. Go for it already. a girl like Sophie wont stay on the market forever." He just sighed and shook his head.
"You don't miss anything, do you?"
"Not where you pair are concerned, no." He gulped before nodding. "Well do you think she likes me too?" I smiled, not too sure how to answer without knocking his confidence.
"Honestly? I don't think she's really considered it but that just means you'll have to ask her out before she does."
"Well that's encouraging." I just patted him on the shoulder as Sophie walked out with her chocolate and vanilla cake. She liked sweet stuff.

Soph, Seb and I had just got back to the Institute when my phone beeped the sound of a new text message. It was Jace.
"Hate to be the barer of bad news but London needs Seb and Soph back asap so you should probably start heading back." With a sigh I relayed the news to the friends I was already missing even though they'd yet to leave and told them I'd meet them in the library whilst they packed and sent Jace a reply on the way.
"Am back, just got in. They're packing up now. Where u?" His reply was immediate.
"Library."
"Meet you there."

Jace and Hodge were waiting for me and there faces were grim.
"What's going on?" Hodge gestured for me to sit down and Jace stood beside me, a hand resting on my shoulder in comfort.
"There's been an attack at the London Institute, demons infiltrated the building somehow and although none are seriously hurt or dead they are out of action for now. We spoke with your mother only ten minutes ago and she asked you to call her as soon as possible." I shot up from my seat ready to portal myself there and help out straight away and it was only JAce's steady presence that helped me think straight through the fear.
"Why would Demons attack London? And more to the point; where did they come from? I was sent from London because one of the reasons was that they didn't need so many of us as there were few demons there. What changed?" I'd gone soldier mode, my mind ticking constantly looking for reasons.
"We don't know yet, Clary but we will find out. I promise." I smiled my thanks at Jace and turned to Hodge.
"I'm going with them." Jace's grip tightened on my arm as Hodge shook his head.
"You're needed here, Clarissa. I understand that you're worried but with the amount of both demonic and vampiric activity going on... we need all the hands we can get." He was right of course but it was hard not to worry about the people from my past so I answered in the only way I knew how when it came to being emotional; I was a bitch.
"Yeah because of course you're a great help, Hodge. Sat behind your pile of books whilst the rest of us go out and put our lives on the line every day." I realised how cruel I was being as soon as the words escaped my mouth but before I could apologize, Sophie and Seb appeared with their backpacks ready.