"Clare... let everyone else deal with the circle for now. We need to go find Jon. If we are right about their plan to take the children to replace the parents we need to find him, he could need our help. He's a target for death, not kidnap like we are." Jace spoke softly as I nod knowing he's right.
"yeah.. Let's go." I take his hand and he leads me through the hotel we rented out for the ball. We search for about 30 minutes by the time we finally hear shouting and a fight going down. We bump into the girl who said she was Jon's date when we get to the outside of the door. "good at least it will be 3 or 4 vs whoever is in there with him. I never did get your name."
"Jessamine. Jessamine Lovelace. Now let's go save my boyfriend." Wait. Boyfriend... um I guess this is a conversation for later..
"Let's do this." Jessamine and I back up as Jace kicks the door open and we all rush in seeing that we just missed the fight and Hodge Starkweather was on the ground dead, or at least close to it. And Jon was leaning against a wall, injured. Jace goes to Starkweather to make sure he can't surprise us as Jessamine and I make our way over to Jon. He has a few cuts and bruises on his arms and he as a knife stuck in his thigh. "Jonny can you move?" He attempts to stand up straight but his leg collapses under him and he falls to the ground, yelping in pain. Jessamine pulls his head into her lap and looks over at me.
"As long as Hodge is dead I can handle this. I'll do what I can to patch him up until a medic can get here. Go complete your Mission. One man down or not. This needs to be over." I nod in response as I lean over and kiss Jon's forehead.
"I love you, big brother. Please take care of him Jessamine, and we will be talking about this boyfriend thing later." I smirk before getting up and going over to Jace. "Is he dead?" Jace nodded and I pulled my knife out jabbing it into his skull. "Can never be to safe, we thought my dad was dead too.." I sigh before heading to the door. "Let's go kill my father.." I feel the tears coming into my eyes but I quickly shake it off as Jace and I start running down to the main room. We quickly find Simon, Izzy, Alec and Magnus and now it's time to find Valentine Morgenstern and put an end to this.
The team split up in groups of two, Alec and Magnus, Simon and Izzy, and Jace and I. we all had communication watches that Magnus designed for us so if anyone found Valentine we could call for backup as soon as possible. "I have no idea where to even start. This hotel is huge." I speak into my watch as Jace and I start heading to the roof. We are starting on the roof, while Simon and Izzy are starting in the middle and Alec and Magnus are starting in the bottom.
"Clare just chill out, and focus. We need to get this done in order to take Valentine out." I heard Simon speak back to me. "Get this done so we can get back to Jon. Let us know if you find anything. Love you."
"Love you too Si." I look over and see Jace, we have finally reached the roof. He pulls the door open and we both pull out our guns as we walk out onto the roof. "I didn't realize how big this roof would be. It's going to take fo-" I get cut off by the sound of two people arguing. We rush over and stay hidden as we try to see what's going on. After what we see we both know we need to act fast. I mumble to Jace to go call for backup. I think quickly before I show myself to Valentine. "Daddy..." Both Valentine and the woman that was with him looked at me. I can see he's still smirking as I look closer, I had already seen the gun pointed at the woman's head but I never saw who it was until now. Maryse. "Leave her alone Daddy. You don't need to hurt her."
"Oh, but I do my dear Clarissa. She is no longer loyal to the cause. And I need to make her suffer as well as make her daughter suffer, then Isabelle will be more likely to join me, due to the Clave kicking her out after he mental stability finally breaks. Losing Robert was one thing, But now she will also lose Maryse. Then she will go home to find out little Maxwell is also dead." At this point I was glad that Jace has slipped away to call for backup, he didn't need to know that Max was dead.
"Daddy stop.. Please. I'll do anything!" I begged him, knowing that if I don't finish this now, everyone else could end up hurt or dead.
"Oh, Clarissa, that's exactly what I wanted to hear." He smirked and I knew I had one chance to kill him. I slowly start to walk over to him. "good girl. I always knew you would be a more obedient version of Jocelyn." His comment made me freeze up, and it ruined my plan. It was too late. I lost my chance to kill him. I felt the darkness take over, and I know I'm a goner.
-Jace's POV-
I had only slipped around the corner to call for help, but after Informing Simon and Alec that we needed the up here I was ambushed my two circle members. It took about 10 minutes of holding them off before the rest of the team showed up and helped kill them. We rushed over to where I had left Clary, just in time to see Valentine flying away on a helicopter, smirking as he waved at us. Izzy and Alec were the first to notice the woman on the ground. But Simon and I noticed that Clary was missing. Alec pulls my attention off of where Clary could be.
"JACE!" I run over and see who they are surrounding, Maryse.
"Maryse? What happened?" I kneeled down next to her.
"Oh, my babies!" She's now balling her eyes out. "Clary traded herself for my life... Oh babies.. The things he said.. I- oh no..."
"Mom what happened? What did he say?" Izzy spoke softly not trying to startle her mother more.
"Baby.. He- He said.. Max..." She was still continuing to cry.
"What about Max!" Alec not caring about keeping his voice down basically screamed.
"Alec." I warned him to calm down a bit.
"He said.. He said he's dead." She broke down completely and balled her eyes out gripping onto Izzy desperately. Izzy followed not long after. And Simon rushed over to hold her as she cried. Alec stood up and stumbled over to Magnus before collapsing in his arms. I stand there for a moment before turning and walking to the door the leads back into the building.
I rushed through the building, getting back to Jon is what I needed to do. I quickly enter the room and Jon looks up, he must have noticed Clary was missing. "Jon..." And he did nothing to hide his pain now.
"What happened.." Jon choked back a sob before looking up at me again.
"She gave herself up in order to save Maryse. She told me to go call for backup while she distracted him. I got ambushed by some guys and by the time back up got there, and we got to where I had left Clary, all I saw was Valentine in a helicopter with a smirk on his face.. Maryse told us what happened.. Jon.. He killed Max." With that Jessamine started crying, she hadn't know Max but I guess the thought of someone dying just broke her. "So lets get your ass up and to the hospital so we can go save my girl. I don't think I can do this without you." I reach down and offer him one hand and Jessamine the other in order to help them up.
"I guess we have some ass to kick Herondale. Let's go get my baby sister back from my sick, twisted, bastard of a father." Jon said as he stood up, leaning against me and Jessamine as we walked out to the outside of the hotel, and load him up into one of the ambulance's the Clave had on stand by.