Tale of Two Flirts

Disclaimer: Cassandra Clare owns all rights to Jace and Clary of MI fame.

Chapter 31

Summer is Here!

A/N Thank you to everyone who reviewed and privately posted to me. This means so much to me I'm just jotting something quick an dirty here, but I'll try to post something hot as soon as school is over next week.

Jace was sulking. He was sitting at Taki's and not eating or drinking anything in front of him. There were blueberry pancakes, an omlette, toast, fruit cup, oatmeal, and three different glasses of juice; orange, cranberry, and apple. Jace was sulking because he missed Clary. She was away with her mother and he wasn't going to see her for days. He should have packed himself in a box and shipped himself off to be with her. That would have been great, he reflected. HE could have played pranks on her like he just finished. This one was precious.

Clary had been teasing him and he was loving it, but that didn't mean he was going to let her get away with it, scott free. He set up, with the aid of Magnus, a dark alley with two pseudo-demons. Pseudo-demons are virtual images of the real things that they would use for practice. They are harmless holographic images. Magnus kicked them up a notch or two to make them more believable. He had them painted as if they had escaped from an Idris dungeon and they had a number one painted on the short one and a number three, painted on the tall one. Jace laid in the corner and acted as if they were beating him to death. Clary came around the corner saw her precious Jace lying still on the ground and she went into action. She went to automatic and started to fling those demons right out of the alley and then she fell beside Jace. He didn't look bloody or bruised, but he was a dirty mess. When she was sure he was breathing she got up and walked over to the still demon bodies. She looked at the one tagged as number one and then the one tagged as number three. Maybe they were in transport, but wait, if there was a one and a three, where was the two? She drew a rune on the wall to call for Magnus to help Jace and she ran out of the alley. As she turned right and sped away Jace sat up and started to laugh. A moment later, Magnus showed up at Clary's call

"Oh" said Magnus, "I see it worked fine. She bought it?"

"She took the whole thing in, oh, it was great I wish I could have watched it. I heard her, she was even talking under her breath. Now she is off searching for her missing number two that doesn't exist. Then Jace laughed until he had a coughing fit. Magnus spoke up.

"So, now what?" said Magnus.

"You can go. I can wait for her at the Institute." said Jace.

"Young Love. You can keep it." said Magnus. He shook his head and left to join Alec back home.

Jace ran all the way back and waited for Clary. After a while Clary contacted Magnus again to find out about Jace. Magnus told her he was fine and back at the institute. Clary felt better and started on her way back . She wasn't happy at having to tell Jace that the second demon escaped and was still at large.

Who will be pulling the last prank here? Sorry it is so short. I'll be back soon. :)