*RE-POST* While dealing with a loss, Clary befriends her new neighbor's troubled foster-son. Can their friendship help them let go of the pain or will their pasts intervene and rip them apart? (Due to Fanfiction disabling the C&P ability, I am re-posting this story here. Thank you to all who have been so supportive!)

Someone is collecting 'the best of the best' from each branch of the supernatural community. What will the Shadowhunters do when one of their own is the next target? Rated M for sexy scenes. Post COG & PRE COFA. COFA did not exist, nor did talks of it when this story was started. All info learned in COFA, including what the Mark of Cain does, is irrelevant to this story.

Jace is the popular boy in school and can get any girl he desires but one girl is leaving him in questions. Clary Fray. She beautiful, smart and perfect but she is hiding something from him. A disease.Will Jace stick with her when it resurfaces? Or go on?

Clary and her family must flee the city when her sadistic father returns to their lives. At Luke's farmhouse Clary meets the Lightwoods and their adopted son, Jace. The misunderstood teens must overcome their difficult pasts together.OOC/Human/no bro/sis