A/n: Thank you to anyone who read the last chapter, I really hope that you liked it. Now this one has a little bit of everything so I hope you'll enjoy it too.

"Oh yeah." She smirked, flipping the blade in her hand, taking a fighting stance. Jace simply smirked before his runes glowed with a golden colour and before she knew it, he was in the air and doing a flip over her. She rotated her body as her eyes followed his movements, Jace landing at the opposite end of the room. "You're cheating."

"I've learned a few new things since I saw you last."

"I don't have your super powers or whatever you call them so come fight me like a man."

"So hand to hand it is." He picked up the two axes he had previously thrown on the ground and walked towards her.

"Whenever you're ready." Jace let a whole second go before he first attacked, Nora dodging it. "You're going to have to do better than that."

"Look who's cocky now?" Jace had seen her fight before and she had been impressive but he also knew that she was still fairly new to this world so he took that to his advantage. At first, she met his attacks shot for shot but just one second of distraction found her on her back, Jace's foot at her throat.

"We need to work on your concentration skills." Jace removed his foot and helped her to her feet.

"Yeah, I need to work on a lot of things it seems." Both Jace and Alec could see the deep frown on her features, her ego taking a hit with that loss. She walked past Alec without another word.

"You think she'll be ok?" Both watched her leave.

"Yeah. Her ego will get over it."

"Let's hope so." Alec didn't know her enough to make that kind of statement but the way she held herself on her way out worried him a bit. "Listen, I need to get going. I told Magnus I'd meet him at his place for dinner."

"Don't do anything I wouldn't do." Jace called out to Alec with a chuckle. Alec was spending more time at Magnus's and while Jace was weary at first, all he wanted was his parabatai to be happy and in an honesty, he hadn't seen Alec more than happy than he was now. He cleared the weapons and made his way towards the more habitable section of the Institute. It was mostly quiet for the time of the day so he simply made his way towards Nora's room, knowcked and waited. When the door didn't open, he knocked again and waited a little bit more. When his patience grew thin, he gently opened the door, poking his head in.

"Nora?" He pushed the door open only to find the room with stuff scattered all over the bed. "Damn it." He left the institute in a sprint, Nora's old apartment the first spot he was going to look.

Nora had returned to her room, frustration rolling over her like waves. "Damn IT! She yelled, throwing the first thing that caught her eye. She pulled her weapons bag from under the bed and forced it open. She scattered what she didn't need on the bed, grabbed her stake that she slid in her belt and grabbed a dagger and her coat before leaving. She managed to walk past everyone undetected and pushed the doors to the institute open, running out on the streets of New York.

She walked along the buildings like a ghost, occasionally looking behind her to make sure that no one was following her. She ducked around the corner of the next building and came up face to face with her own.

"Home sweet home." She said under her breath before she opened the door and climbed up the stairs to make it to her own door.. She pushed it slowly, making sure the coast was clear. She walked around, grabbing some of things and stuffing them into her duffle bag as she went. She walked into the living room for the rest of her things but was welcomed by darkness.

Jace walked up the stairs to Nora's apartment to find the door ajar so he pulled his seraph blade out and pushed the door open. Sweeping through the rooms, nothing seemed out of place but when he made it to the living room, he found her bag on the ground with random things scattered around it. "Shit." He took the bag and quickly put everything back in it before he left her place with only one destination in mind.

Alec started washing the dishes in the sink. "You know, just a wave of my hand and I can take care of that." Magnus came to take the spot next to Alec.

"Maybe I like doing the dishes." He gave him a coy smile, shifting his body so he was almost facing him.

"Dishes are boring." Alec was hovering so close it made his heart race.

"Maybe they are." Alec whispered, his lips inches from Magnus's, his own heart pumping hard in his chest. They stared into each other's eyes and Alec pressed his lips to Magnus's, his soapy hand cupping his cheek. He pushed his body into his as Magnus deepened the kiss.

Alec pressed his forehead to Magnus's as a loud, panicked banging came from the front door to Magnus's loft. "I swear if that's Jace." He growled.

"Alec, are you there?" With just one flic of his fingers, purple fire errupted from Magnus's fingertips and the front door opened, a frantic Jace walking in. "Nora took off and I can't find her."

"What do you mean she took off?" Alec met with Jace in the middle of the living room.

"I mean she took off and I tried all the places I thought she'd be and I found this scattered around on the ground with no sign of her." He raised the bag and placed it on the table. "I thought we could track her together."

"Let's find her before something bad happens." Magnus walked between both shadowhunters and grabbed a shirt from the bag, doing a locator spell. "It's weak."

"Do you think maybe the vamps took her? It would make sense." Alec suggested.

"Then we better move fast. Anything Magnus?"

"No."

"Fine, we'll try then." Jace pulled a knife out of the bag and with Alec, they did a Parabatai tracking. "I got her, let's go." Jace was out of the door quickly both Magnus and Alec following closely behind. Jace only hoped that they'd get to her in time before something bad hppened to her.

Their quest to find her took them to the docks. "Jace, where is she?" Alec asked as his eyes evaluated all possible outcomes, his bow and arrow in hand

"There." Magnus still had Nora's shirt in his hand. Jace pulled out his sword from the back on his pants, blue angelic runing lighting along the blade.

"Let's go." Parabatai and Warlock quietly moved in, hoping for the best.

Nora started shifting as she came back to consciousness. She tried to move but resistance came in the form of shackles.

"What the?"

"Slayer."

"You're going to regret this." She growled.

"You're in no position to do anything." The vampire walked up to her. Nora now realised that her feet were in chains too, leaving her no where to go and with the only option to brace herself for what's to come. "Did you really think that you would get away with torching the place and get away with this?"

"The less bloodsuckers in my city, the better." She spat, receiving an instant punch in the gut.

"Is that all you have? Because I can take it." The punch was against her cheek this time, metal taste in her mouth.

"You see Slayer, all I want is justice and you're the only one who stands in the way of me and it. I've heard of the power of slayer blood but never had the pleasure of having a taste until now." He trailed his finger along her neck where her vein was clearly visible.

"What are you waiting for then?" She did the only thing that she was able to at this point and her head connected with the vamps, making it stumble slightly but not enough to buy her any kind of time.

"Did you really think that would buy you anything else but more pain?" He punched her ribs in, her body folding on it's own as far as the chains let her. "You''ll just be one less thing in my way." She braced for it as she felt the pressure in her neck, his fangs piercing the soft skin there.

The power that surged through the vamps veins was like nothing he had ever felt before. He had never tasting anothing quite as good. He pulled away and licked his lips before he sunk his teeth on the other side of her neck, this time drinking every drop he could.

"Where are they Jace?" Alec growled under his breath.

"I don't know." Jace was swiftly walking along the crates, his eyes peeled for anything from the night children. Then they both turned towards the sound that they had both heard, chains. "Shit."

The three of them ran in the direction of the noise until they stumbled into a clearing in the warehouse. "By the angel." Tumbled from Alec's lips as he took sight of Nora, several bite marks on her neck and shoulders.

"Shadowhunters." He pulled away from Nora, blood dripping from the corner of his mouth. "You're too late." He took a step towards them but Alec was faster and he settled an arrow in his bow and let it fly. His aim was true and the vamp caught fire and then he was gone.

"Nora." Jace quickly ran to her as Magnus waved his hands, both sets of shackles unlocking, Nora falling in his arms.

"Let's take her back to the Institute." Magnus said as both he and Jace walking towards the door, a slightly stunned Alec far behind.

A/N: So here's chapter three. I hope you liked it and please take a few seconds to review before you leave, I love to read your thoughts. - Sarra