Chapter 14:
Clary bent down and picked up the ferret before Sebastian could notice. She held the ferret down by her side, hoping Sebastian wouldn't notice. The ferret struggled, scratching up her hand. At least it stayed quiet. She hoped she wouldn't get some kind of disease.
Sebastian turned around and strode over to Clary, not noticing the struggling ferret in her hand.
"Now where were we?" he asked.
Sebastian brought his hand up to cup the base of her head. He pulled her face closer to his, and she let him. She needed him to be too distracted to notice what she was doing. She brought her unoccupied hand up as if she were going to rest it on his hip. Instead, she curled her fingers around the waist band of his loose fitting sweat pants, drawing the elastic away from his stomach. She felt his lips curl into a smile against her cheek almost on her lips. As fast as she could, she brought the struggling ferret up and dropped it into his pants.
Suffice it to say, neither the ferret nor Sebastian was happy about this. Sebastian leaped away from Clary. He began to do something that looked like a cross between the pee pee dance and something you would see in a Micheal Jackson video. He was making all sorts of sounds. Lots of them sounded like a cross between a scream and yelp.
Clary didn't wait around for him to recover. She ran to the door. She yanked it open and raced out of the room, sending a silent apology to the ferret for subjecting it to Sebastian's wrath. She raced down hallway after hallway, trying to find her way out.
"Clary?! Clary where are you?!" Clary heard someone who sounded a lot like Jace shout.
Clary changed direction heading for Jace. "Jace?!" she called out, hoping it was actually Jace and not a trick of Sebastian's.
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Jace began searching the house, the others following him. He had just turned down a hallway searching for Clary when he heard several yowling screams. Immediate concern for Clary flooded him. Her voice sounded harsh and raw. What was Sebastian doing to her? He sped up his pace, running in the direction of the screams.
"Clary?! Clary where are you?!" he called, hoping she would be able to get to him.
"Jace?" he heard Clary call back.
He rounded a corner and ran into something. It was actually a person. A small red headed person who ended up falling from the impact.
"Clary," Jace breathed, relieved. "Are you hurt? Where's Sebastian?"
"I'm fine, Jace. Sebastian was the one screaming, not me," she reassured him.
"What did you do to make him make all those unnatural noises?" Magnus asked.
"I dropped a ferret down his pants," Clary said, calmly.
"You what?" Jace asked, shocked.
"Oh, that poor, poor ferret," Jude lamented at the same time.
"Is Sebastian still where you left him?" Isabelle inquired.
"It sounds like he is," Clary replied.
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Mango, Mango fruit divine,
Mangoes in this box of mine,
Where did you come from?
Why are you here?
Why do you make me feel so queer?