Simon walked into the kitchen and sniffed. There wasn't a smell of burning which meant that thank the Angel, Isabelle wasn't cooking.
"Do I smell eggs and bacon?" Simon asked as he rounded the corner.
"Yes, but I'm not sharing them with you mundie." Jace teased.
"So you're feeding an army and I'm the private that gets bread and water." Simon said as he sat on one of the stools around the counter.
"Precisely," Jace chuckled waving his spatula at Simon.
"I was worried it was Isabelle's turn." Simon said.
Jace shrugged. "It was, however I am up and she is not so…."
"I was up all night." Simon said yawning.
Jace looked at him. "More patrols?"
"Yeah, of the most important kind, Isabelle sent me for coffee and when I got back she was gone. I drank them both on the subway on the way back here."
"Isabelle came in with Alec last night, I heard them." Jace said.
"Yeah well they ditched me in Central Park then." Simon grumbled.
Gideon gurgled in his seat. Jace smiled at him. "Sorry buddy, you're too little yet."
"Who's too little?" A freshly showered and smiling Clary asked coming into the kitchen.
Jace grinned. "Your son, to eat Isabelle's cooking."
Clary made a face. "That stuff's dangerous at any age."
Alec strode into the kitchen, "Jace, Clary, Simon we need you in my office right away."
Jace nodded and took the pan from the burner dumping the eggs into a large bowl already half filled with eggs and grabbed a piece of bacon before he picked Gideon up and grabbed a second piece of bacon that he handed to Clary.
"What about me?" Simon asked.
Jace shrugged. "Get your own bacon, and put the food in to warm in the oven you know that Church will be up here in a heartbeat."
Simon grumbled "get your own bacon…" as he got up off his chair.
"That wasn't nice." Clary scolded.
"I'm not married to Simon." He said simply.
Clary chuckled. "Yes you are, he's my parabatai my better half."
Jace winked at her. "You got the better end of the deal, you are much prettier."
The door to Alec's office was open so they went inside. Tessa and Jem sat in the chairs in front of the desk while Magnus stood beside Alec who sat in the large desk chair.
"Good morning," Clary said smiling at Jem and Tessa. She noticed that Tessa's eyes were red and she looked as if she'd been crying. "Is everything all right?"
"No," Alec answered. "Isabelle and I were in Central Park last night and we found that our "cook" was actually a shape changed Warlock named Ariella Longbow."
"She was my friend, I never thought she would betray us." Tessa whispered.
Jem looked at her sympathetically and put his hand in hers. "It was not your fault, you shouldn't blame yourself."
"So no more wonderful dinners?" Simon asked.
Clary elbowed him in the ribs and gave him a withering look. "So that's how the Yin Fen got into the Institute, and how the Seelies managed to get in here as well?"
Alec nodded. "Yes, Ariella must have opened a portal."
"Is she here yet?" Magnus asked.
"No," said. "Jace I was upstairs cooking and I didn't see her."
"She must be on the grocery run then." Alec said. "She will have a surprise waiting for her when she gets here."
"What of the Seelies?" Jem asked. "What are we going to do about them?"
"I've already sent word of the deception to the Clave." Alec said, he looked at Tessa, "I told them you had no knowledge that our new cook was a shape changer, you will not be held responsible."
"Thank you," Jem said. "That means a lot to us."
"I had no question of your innocence." Alec answered smiling at him. "Tessa has done so much for the Clave, and so much for this Institute. Her character was never in question."
Gideon began to cry. Jace bounced him in his arms.
"Here let me take him." Tessa offered. "I'll go get him a bottle."
"I'll go with her." Jem said. "Just in case Ariella arrives. We will send her to you."
Alec nodded. Jace handed Gabriel to Tessa, and immediately he stopped crying. Jace stared at them wide eyed. "He never does that for me!"
"He knows I know all about babies." Tessa said. "I've had many of my own."
Clary put an arm around Tessa, "He sees what a beautiful person you are."
After they left Clary and Jace took the chairs in front of the desk.
"So what's our plan?" Jace asked.
"Turn Ariella over to the Clave, the Silent Brothers are already on their way." Alec answered.
Magnus huffed, "She should go to the Spiral Labyrinth. The Clave does not suffer traitorous downworlders very well."
"Sid dura lex." Alec said quietly.
Magnus stared at him. "You're really going to say that? You Lightwood's are all the same with Law and honor." He turned away from Alec and stomped out of the room.
Alec's face was ashen as he stared out the door.
"Alec," Isabelle said putting a hand on his shoulder. "Go after him."