The mission to retrieve the Mortal Cup from Luke's drawer at the Police Station had been a success for at least the whole three minutes, Luke was inside the police building before Jace had noticed Luke being carted away in handcuffs in by the feds which left Clary, Alec, Izzy and Jace to get inside the police station, find those tarot cards which according to Clary had the Mortal Cup hidden inside the Ace of Cups which were currently being kept in Luke's desk drawer.

"We'll head in glamoured, grab the cards and leave. It'll be easy," Jace said, which would work if they knew whether Valentine had any men working inside the precinct and having Jace and Izzy with them would just draw people's attention to them. And Alec didn't really want to be in Izzy's presence any longer because they hadn't really discussed the whole sibling thing yet.

"Or we could play into Valentine's hands, listen the people working for the precinct, they know Clary and me. We've come here plenty of times, so they won't blink if we come in trying to grab stuff from Luke's desk," Alec suggested.

"But…" Jace started, but Clary interrupted.

"No, Alec's right, we need to be careful. We'll get the cards and meet you back here in fifteen minutes," Clary said, grabbing her brother's arm as she pulled him away from Izzy and Jace.

"What's the plan?" Clary asked as they entered the police precinct.

"I'll distract Vargas if she comes over and you'll search Luke's desk for the cards," Alec replied, "Just play it cool, all we're doing is getting something from Luke's desk, nothing suspicious about it,".

"Alec, Clary, what are you doing here?" Vargas asked when the siblings walked into Luke's part of the office.

"We need to grab something from Luke's desk. He borrowed some cards from Mom, who needs them back for the shop. We promised to drop by to pick them up. Luke mentioned that he had them in his bottom drawer," Alec explained. It was easier to keep their reason close to the truth so, if they were questioned about it later on, then they could accidentally slip up.

"Um… Where's all of Luke's stuff?" Clary asked as she opened the bottom drawer to find just like the rest of the desk was empty except for one photograph with Alec, Clary, their mother, and Luke in it, taken literally before this whole shadowworld business kicked off.

"Internal Affairs took everything," Vargas said, and Alec shot Clary a worried look.

"Is there any way we can get them? Mom was desperate," Clary asked, but Vargas shook her head.

"Uh, not till he's cleared. They took all his stuff to the evidence vault upstairs," she said.

"Cleared? Of… of what?" Alec asked, concerned. If Vargas couldn't grab the cards for them, Alec and Clary would have to figure out how to break into the vault themselves. They couldn't leave the Mortal Cup here any longer, not with the risk Valentine might still pose.

"It doesn't matter, we'll sort it. Listen, when this is all over, I'll grab those cards and call you so you can come to collect them," Vargas suggested.

"Thank you, we better go tell Mom," Alec said waving goodbye to Vargas as he left with Clary.

"We need to get into that Vault," Clary said.

"Yeah, no kidding, right so I have an idea," Alec said grabbing Clary and pulling her into a deserted corridor.

"Wanna tell me?" Clary asked as Alec place his hands on the walls.

"I'm going to cause a brief power outage. No light, no cameras. We run up the stairs and get the vault, find the cards, then I'll portal us out of the building," Alec said, and Clary frowned.

"Why can't you portal us into the evidence vault?" Clary asked.

"I can only portal us places I've already been," Alec said, his hands glowed blue, "You ready Frazzle,".

"Bring it," she said as Alec used his magic to turn off the power in the precinct. Plunging them into darkness, but that didn't bother Alec nor Clary as their eyes adapted to the darkness. Alec grabbed Clary's hand and pulled her to the stairs, carefully running up to the floor above, trying not to trip over with every step they took. The floor was deserted as Alec and Clary made their way towards the evidence vault at the end of the room, pushing the door open before quietly closing it behind them.

"You check that side, I'll do this one" Alec said as the sibling split up using the torches on their phones to look at the labels on the boxes.

"I've got them," Clary said, pulling the cards from the box and showed her brother.

"Brilliant, let's get out of here shall we," Alec said, opening a portal beside him to outside the precinct. Clary nodded before stepping through.


That bastard had planned this to destroy his members, leaving him with only twenty people left that just happened to be in the field when that abomination broke free and killed everyone else. Valentine could only be grateful that he was a shadowhunter because the burns he received from the fire his daughter had left him to burn him would have killed him had he been an mundane. Luckily a quick iratze had fixed that up, but the damage had already done. They destroyed his base, Jocelyn had been taken away from him again and he had yet to receive the Mortal Cup.

"Our plans will be brought forward, now get out there and get me what we need now!" Valentine ordered the remaining circle members. Before his plan reached completion, he was going to find Alexander Fray and make him pay for everything he's done.


After recovering the Mortal Cup, neither Alec nor Clary knew really what to do with it. Magnus was currently keeping it safe whilst Izzy and Jace demanded that it should be returned to the Clave but what good would that do, if Valentine's still alive, he'll be seeking the cup after Alec decimated the circle's numbers (although the jury was still out on whether Alec had purposefully killed those circle members or whether it had been an accident, Alec himself wasn't sure where he stood on that debate) so Valentine could replenish his ranks. Valentine had stolen the cup from the Clave before and nothing was stopping him from doing so again, no one could tell who was on Valentine's side and if any of the higher up Clave officials sided with Valentine, then they could easily slip him the cup and everything they've done would have been for nothing.

But that wasn't their only problem, they still hadn't found a way to wake their mother up. Clary had been scouring the institute library for anything they could find on sleep potions, but this was more warlock territory and even the warlocks they knew weren't coming up with anything. They had never seen a potion like this before and according to Magnus the only person who could reverse it would be the person who created it and finding them would be a needle in a haystack. Magnus promised to reach out to all his warlock friends for a lead but that could take months before they get anything back and well, neither Clary nor Alec was that patient, they wanted their mother back and they wanted it now.

"Found anything yet?" Alec asked, looking over at his sister who was hidden behind a stack of books.

"Nope, I've been looking at these books for so long that the words have started moving," Clary said, raising the book she was reading and turned it to face Alec, "Look it's a rabbit. What are you reading about? That book looks like it's about to fall apart,".

"I know, I'm having a flashback to my calculus textbook," Alec said looking at the old book he had found buried in the shelves, just like Clary had said, the binding was slowly falling apart whilst the pages were being held together by nothing, but sheer will and glue, "It's about the mortal instruments. Listen to this – 'The great Angel Raziel gifted us with three angelic objects the Mortal Cup, The Mortal Mirror, and the Soul Sword. These objects have led us to push back the demonic threat and protect the mundanes from its wrath. We, the chosen few who gave up our previous mundane life to become shadowhunters, will prove to Angel Raziel that he made the right choice choosing us to take up this mission by obeying to his laws by saving the mundanes and protecting the Mortal instruments'. I wish I were making this up Clary, could these people be any more suck-ups to this angel,'.

Clary laughed, "You can definitely see why some Shadowhunters believe that they're better than the downworlders because of the propaganda from the past shoved down their throats. Why are you even looking into the Mortal Instruments, they won't help wake our mother up?".

"I'm just covering all our options" Alec replied shrugging his shoulders.

"And by that you mean Valentine," Clary said, "Do you still believe he's not dead?".

"The Clave believed he was dead the last time, and he wasn't unless we see his dead body, I think it's best we continue moving forward with the belief that he's still alive plus… my instincts are telling me he's still alive," Alec said, Dot had always told him when he was younger to trust his instincts and now, they were telling him that Valentine wasn't dead.

"Your instincts are right," Jace said as he stepped into the library, "Valentine's been sighted in Manhattan by the local werewolves from your friend Luke's pack. He's still alive,".

Alec sighed as he looked down at the book he had been reading. If this information were right, then Valentine could use the mortal instrument for much worse. Not only to control demons and create shadowhunters but something else entirely. 'Angel Raziel' departing words symbolised the last gift he granted to us shadowhunters. If we were ever in a dire situation against the demonic world, then bringing all the mortal instruments together, Angel Raziel will return to our world and grant us a single wish'. They might have the mortal cup, but if Valentine is in Manhattan, he could be after the Soul Sword. According to this book, the sword has been entrusted to the Silent Brothers in the City of Bones, and that's where Alec had to go. He closed the book and stood up.

"Where are you going?" Clary asked Alec.

"To stop Valentine,".