The next day, Clary and Jace went to Idris. After Alec had explained things to the counsil, they agreed about hearing Clary.

Luke would come with them. He wanted to be with her, when the clave decided about her faith. Magnus already waited in Izzys office for them. Since Clary wasn't reinstatet as shadowhunter, they didn't want to offend the counsil with her portaling herself, so Magnus offered giving them a 'ride' to Idris. There would Alec wait for them and talked them through the procedure.


"Hi! It's great you're here. Come we'll go in my office." Alec seemed to be in a bad mood.

"We might have a little problem. Some members of the counsil don't want Clary to be a shadowhunter again. They think she should be punished for what she did in the past."

"But that's insane! She didn't do anything to harm anyone!" Jace immediately stepped in to protect Clary.

"Yes, I know that, but there are only few who know that too. The rest... we'll have to convince."

"What will happen to me if we can't convince them?"

"That's the bigger problem."

"So nothing good?"

"No, but I promise you, I'll do the best I can. If it has to be, I'll kick ass to get you out of there."

"You won't have to fight alone. Jace and I will help getting Clary out." Luke contered

"You three know, I can fight my own fights?!"

"You really think you can take down the counsil by yourself?"

"Ähm... Nö probably not... But do you really think, we'll have to?"

"At last we should be prepared. I'd really like to take my bow with me, but there are no weapons allowed"

Jace suggested "I trained activating the sunlight rune without using the stele. If I blend them with light, they can't see us and we have an advantage. The only matter would be that I could probably blend you too."

"You trained using Ithuriels runes? Are you insane what if Raziel would have kicked you out too?!"

"Maybe we could have been together if we both were mundane."

"If you'd let your hand shine without the stele, you could later always say that it was an accident. I just hope we won't need it." Alec really didn't like working against the counsil, but like he had said to Jace the day before, Clary was like a little sister to him. He had to protect her.


"We shall what?! How you dare think we would leave her without punishment for what she did?"

Alec knew it wouldn't be easy

"But what exactly is it you're acusing her?"

"For once she used the only wish of Raziel"

"For which she already has been on trial and sentenced. She was pardoned by our consul herself. She can't be accused again for that."

"She revived her father Valantine Morgenstern!"

"Cause the consul Jia Penhallow herself ordered her to do it. She also was the one who killed him in the first place."

"The angel Raziel banished her for a reason!"

"And this banishment was lifted, cause the angels agreed that she had suffered enogh. So there's nothing left you can acuse her"

Luke and Jace stood each on one side of Clary. All three listened while Alec funktioned as her attorney.

The council members looked at each other. After a while Jia Penhallow stood up and pronounced "Clarissa Adele Fairchild-Morgenstern is verdict of not guilty any prohibited actions. You can reseive your angelic rune again, but there won't be an official rune ceremony since you already had one. As soon as you have received your rune, you're completely reinstatet as shadowhunter. You'll be assigned to the New York institute until further notice. Your all dismissed."

Clary couldn't believe her ears. It all went well! Jace and Luke hugged her for congratulations. After that she turned to Alec and hugged him too. "Thank you. You really did great work! The only part I don't understand is with the rune. Is it enough if one of you draw it on me or how do I get it?"

"That's Jias way of telling you that she still doesn't want to be a shadowhunter. I'll talk to her that you can your rightful rune ceremony here in idris. Not just simply the rune drawn by a silent brother." Alec was relieved that the trial (you can't put it in other words) went that well, but that slapp wit Clary's rune hadn't had to be in his opinion.

"No Alec. It's OK. Maybe we could ask Brother Zachariah that he does it as a little ceremony in the institute. Afterward we could go to the hunters moon and celebrate. I don't want to have a big fuss about it. I already had that."

Jace asked her "Are you sure about that?"

She looked at him and than to Luke, her 'father' "This time, you can be there. I think that one will be better than the last one." "OK than let us go back and organize a small rune ceremony. We can use reenforcement in New York."


Izzy already waited for them in her office.

"Hi! I'm glad it went that well! And I have a surprise for you!"

"How do you know what happened?" Jace wanted to know

"Alec wrote me a firemessege while you were on the way to the portal place. I've already organized all. Brother Zachariahs should be here any minute. I already called Simon and mom. Is there someone else you want to have here?"

"For what?" "Your rune ceremony. I thought we'd do it right now, before the clave changes their mind about it or anything else can happen. But first you need to change. I can't believe I'd let you go to Idris in that outfit!"

Clary looked down on her body. She wore a simple olive blouse and black jeans. It seemed a good choice when she put it on in the morning

"But my clothes are still at my place! "

Izzy grinned "I already got and fetched something suitable from your wardrobe. I hope thats OK with you. I put it in your room. So now go change. We can't start without you!" Izzy beamed from excitement.

While Clary left the room she admitted "Oh! I'm so excited! I haven't been to a second rune ceremony ever!" "That's cause it hasn't ever happened before as far as I know." Magnus added to the statement of his husband "I haven't heard of it in my lifetime either but I think maybe they just covered it."

Jace got a firemessege from Clary. He excused himself and went after her.

"Hey whats... Woah!!! What happened here?" The room was full with clothes. Some of them seemed not originally belong to his girlfriend, cause they had a little touch of Isabelle Lightwood on them.

"I think Izzy simply got my whole clothes in here and some from her. How should I choose from that, what to wear?"

"you sure I'm the right person to decide what you should wear?" he had to believe he didn't know much about girl clothes. "do you really want me to ask Izzy?"

"ähm... What about that dress. Isn't that the one you wore to your first ceremony? It looks nice!"

"you're sure?" in Jace head the alarm signals rang so he admitted "no, but I can't decide with that amount of choices and it seems an easy way out"

Clary looked at him and started to laugh. "yeah your probably right. That's the fastest choice, thank you"

The ceremony was like they planned. Short and simple, but very nice without so many high-ranking shadowhunter who pretended to be important.


During the evening, when they sat together at the Hunters Moon Jace took the opportunity when Luke stood a little aside, to talk to him.

"hey, I'm still so relieved that all went that well today." "yes me too...Luke there's something I wanted to ask you... I know we just got Clary back and all... It's just... I've already thought about before she left... I mean I don't want to haste and..." "hey! What's up? Just spit it out and come to the point!" "IwanttoaskyouforyourblessingsothatIcanproposetoClary!" he looked at Luke and added "I don't mean to propose to her right away, I just wanted to know if you were principle OK with that and since you raised her with her mother you're the closest thing to a father she has, so it just seems right to ask you first... "

Luke raiced his hand "slow down! I mean you're a good guy guy and Clary really seems to love you and you seem to love and adore her but are you sure it isn't a little soon for that? I mean she only got her memories back the day before yesterday and I haven't been told how yet. Every time I ask someone he looks sheepish away " Jace looked down at his shoe's." see! That's what I mean! But OK, whatever it was, Clary seems to be fine. And to come back to your question, you two will be a great married couple one day but I also think, that Clary needs time to catch her breath. I mean things progressed very fast the last two days and from what I heard Izzy is already planning their parapatei ceremony... So a wedding on top of that'd be just to much at once. That doesn't mean that I say no to you." "yeah I understand that, thank you" Luke padded Jace on his shoulder and went back to Maryce.