This was one of my favorite chapters to do for some reason.

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"The lovers," Magnus declared as he flipped a card. "This man has a strong hold on you. You feel a magnetic attraction that you cannot escape. Tonight will define your relationship. You hope he is your soul mate. But secrets revealed with threaten to tear you apart."

At that, Clary's smile disappeared from her face.

And then a cat landed in front of her.

"You don't have a cat," Was the first thing she said.

"I have two," Magnus said. "Chairman Meow…" He picked up the cat that had jumped onto the table. "And Church."

He referenced to the cat sitting on a couch nearby, who growled back at Magnus.

"You and Church don't like each other, get over it," Shu said, walking in. "Hello Clary."

"I'm not actually here for a reading," She said. "I know you're a Warlock, Magnus. And so is Shu. I'm a Shadowhunter."

Magnus gave a serious face before breaking out into a laugh. "There are no more Shadowhunters. Haven't been for hundreds of years."

"I can prove it," She said, standing and turning to see her exposed shoulder.

"All I see, Shadowhunter, is you need a serious tan."

"Mags," Shu complained.

"Right, bad strategy. No runes in this dimension," Clary muttered.

She walked over and grabbed a pencil and paper before beginning to sketch and returning to the table. "I'm from an alternate reality."

"If that were true, without an anchor you'd be assimilating into this world."

"Which seems kinda pointless, if you ask me," Shu muttered. "Go to another dimension and you disappear from your reality, but the dimension you go to isn't affected. That's like apoptosis. Maybe it has a reason, but in the end, it's suicide."

Clary scoffed. "Believe me, I am trying to fight it. Which is part of why I need your help."

She dropped her sketch in front of them, and Magnus picked it up to see she'd drawn a couple of demons.

"In my dimension, Shadowhunters still battle demons. And now there is something so much worse. I need your magic to help me stop it."

Magnus hesitated, belief taking over his face, and then horror. He shook his head. "I can't help you. My magic's gone dormant."

He stood and walked over to the window.

"Then wake it up," Clary suggested.

Magnus sighed. "This better work."

He took a drink of something he'd brewed up and cringed at the taste.

"What does that do?" Clary asked.

"Hopefully? Kick-start my magic."

"And?"

"Give it a minute?"

He set down the potion and held his stomach. He looked over and saw Clary searching through a book and walked over to her.

"That book is very precious. Warlock spells preserved in all their grandeur."

"It's stunning."

Magnus held his stomach before he threw his hand up. "This isn't working. This is the longest I've ever abstained." He sighed. "From a lot of things."

"Why don't you just try something simple?" Clary suggested. "Move that."

Magnus gave her a skeptical look before putting his hand out. A small flame of magic appeared at his palm, but it was weak and thin. He tried moving his hand, but nothing happened. He grunted in anger.

"Usually you have a little more…" Clary waved her hands around. "…flourish, to it."

"I do not look like that," Magnus protested.

Clary gave a face. "Well…"

Magnus rolled his eyes at her in exasperation, but gave it another try. His magic was no stronger, and he grunted in pain, smacking his wrist as though that might fix things.

"How's it going?" Shu asked.

When Clary took a look at her, her eyes widened. "What are you wearing?"

Shu was dressed in a punk outfit, a good deal of leather, from pants, to boots, to shirt and jacket. Her shirt was revealing a good deal of her chest, she had numerous earrings up along the shells of her ears, along with one dangling earing where a normal earring would go with a bullet on a chain handing from it. Her nails were painted black, matching her lipstick, eyeshadow, and basically all of her outfit. Her hair was pulled up into a pony-tail with a couple pink streaks going down the length of the locks, and she had finger-less gloves finishing off the biker look. Not to mention there was glitter. A lot of glitter.

"My normal outfit. Mags doesn't let me wear it during business hours since it would make him look bad."

"Somehow she's the older one and this is what's happened to her," Magnus muttered.

"Says the one who can't use his magic."

She held up her hand an a flame of Warlock magic burst to life above it, much bigger and much more powerful than Magnus's.

"At least I haven't fallen to your level of rusty."

"And you risk revealing us as Warlocks to the world."

"I keep it on the DL. Besides, if anyone sees me, I can fix problems easily with the snap of my fingers. Hasn't failed me so far."

"Can you track the portal I'm looking for?" Clary asked.

"I'd need an energy signature of some kind to track it. Got anything like that on you?"

Clary sighed. "Maybe we try something different."

She removed her necklace. "I don't know how this came into this dimension with me."

Magnus stared. "Because it's of this dimension. It belongs here."

Shu grabbed Magnus's hand. "Just touch it, Maggie. Trust me."

He put his fingers around the gem, and suddenly a pulse was sent through the three of them.

Magnus took a deep breath. "Now that's what I'm talking about."

"We have lift off," Shu reported.

The two of them concentrated. "The energy's very faint," Magnus said. "It's been dormant for a long time. Like me."

"Let's see if we can wake it up," Shu said. "Take a deep breath, Mags, and work with me."

He did so, and the to of them stared ahead intently, searching out the portal.

"Can you see it?" Clary asked.

"Yes!" Magnus exclaimed. "It's in a subbasement of…Fort Knox."

Clary panicked. "Like, literally Fort-"

"No, but it might as well be. The Institute."

"Why is that a problem?"

"High tech, high security. Impossible to get into."

"And hosting an anniversary party tonight that I have a hook up to."

Clary smiled, before reaching to her chiming phone. "Ugh, damn. Meet me tonight at 7:00 PM at the Institute." She grabbed the Portal shard from her necklace. "Dress to impress."

Magnus turned and watched her go, but once she was gone, he seemed to snap out of the daze of shock he was in.

"I couldn't possibly get in," He protested.

"Clary or I could get you on the list."

"I don't know what I'm supposed to wear!"

"I'll handle that," Shu said. "Time for a makeover, little brother."

"I better have a say in some of this."

"You will. Ish."

"She's not texting me back," Magnus said.

"Probably dancing with her boyfriend."

"How would you know that?"

"I can see them inside right now."

Magnus looked over and realized she was right.

"A girl with a dress that doesn't have pockets for a phone. Really. What has the world come to? I'll meet you inside."

"What? Where are you going? You've gotta help me get in to! Just snap my name onto the list!"

"I would, but it looks like you've got an admirer who might be willing to let you in anyway. And besides, I barely managed to convince you to wear the suit, no glitter, make up, or jewelry. You want in, I ain't helping this time."

"Wait! Shu!"

She walked up to the guy and nodded. "Asushunamir. I think you know who I am."

"How could I not? Go on ahead."

She smiled to him and walked past briskly.

"Shu! Hey!"

He tried to run in after her, but was stopped by the man with the tablet letting people in.

"Sorry, you're not on the list."

Magnus grunted in anger. Some sister she was.

A man walked up and gave Magnus a once over. "What seems to be the problem?"

"This one wants to crash the party."

Magnus looked at the new man worriedly. The guy raised an eyebrow in interest.

"I'll be responsible for this one," He said. "Come on in."

Taking the opportunity, Magnus hurried after his savior. He began to look around for Clary, when a drink was suddenly dropped into his hand.

"To us," The guy said, clinking their glasses together before taking a sip.

Magnus reluctantly did the same while searching around for Clary.

"And you are?"

"Magnus Bane."

"Alec Lightwood."

"Thanks, but…I gotta go."

He hurried away, and Alec smiled. "Playing hard to get. I love a challenge."

"He was cute, huh?" Shu asked.

"You can ask him out if you want."

"Nah. He's homosexual."

"And you're pointing this out, why?"

"No reason. There she is, now let's get her."

They hurried over to Clary, who was watching her friends Simon and Izzy hook up with a smile.

"Come on, let's go," Shu said, pulling Clary off.

She planted her feet and resisted her, looking at the Warlock in confusion. "Who are you?"

"Clary, it's me. Shu? And Magnus?"

"Do I…know you?" She asked.

"Focus," Magnus pushed.

"Okay, seriously, let go of me."

She shoved Shu's hand away and Magnus snapped to reveal a magic holographic image of Chairman Meow.

Clary looked at it in shock. "What is wrong with you?"

He snapped again…and this time got Church.

Clary still looked baffled and quite terrified, in all honesty. "Dude, I-"

Shu rolled her eyes and snapped another image up in her palm. Clary turned to look at it and suddenly recoiled, as though she'd just turned to look at the sun. She blinked furiously and gasped before taking a deep sigh of relief.

"That was close."

"You're telling me," Magnus muttered.

"This way. Let's go."

She took Magnus's hand and hurried off with him in tow.

Shu pushed in a fake wall and walked through. Clary urged Magnus through next, and then spent an extra moment looking back to her parents - her parents of this dimension - before following through as well and closing the door behind her.

"What are we even looking for?" Clary asked.

"We'll know it when we see it," Shu said, hurrying ahead and around a corner.

Clary took Magnus's arm in worry. "What if this doesn't work?"

"It will, biscuit," Magnus assured her. "I can feel it."

"Do you guys hear those steps coming from the way we came or is that just me?" Shu asked.

Clary and Magnus looked over to find Jace standing at the bottom of the stairwell they'd come from, and Clary quickly pulled her hand away.

"You know, if you were having seconds thoughts about us, you could have told me, instead of coming down here and hooking up with some random guy."

"They're not hooking up," Shu protested, walking into view. "This is Magnus. He's…uh…my boyfriend, not Clary's. We were just down here because…Clary wanted to give you a surprise. Way to ruin it, Wayland."

Jace hesitated, clearly unconvinced, but then a demon jumped down behind him. He turned to the sound of roaring, only for Clary to push him out of the way and kick it into the wall.

"What the hell is that thing?!" Jace demanded.

"Let's go!"

She grabbed his hand and they began running.

Jace was having a panic attack from seeing one damn monster.

"Honestly, what have humans become these days?" Shu muttered as she and Magnus searched for the portal.

"Says the PTSD crazy lady who hasn't been able to let go of the past and actually relax," Magnus retorted. "You have to dress like a rebel, act like a lunatic, and haven't even been able to let go of your magic."

"And now who's unprepared to fight a demon? Who can barely managed a whiff of magic on their own?"

"It still doesn't change the fact that you need to calm down, Shu. The war happened ages ago, ended ages ago. Mundanes and Downworlders live in peace, and Shadowhunters are basically extinct. Clary and that demon are from another dimension, so they don't count."

"You know what? Fine. I don't need to hear this from you, Maggie. But like it or not, I can't ever relax. It's not in my genes, my nature. Do you know why I can still use magic so well even though you've barely seen me use any at all these past few centuries? Because it refuses to settle down, Magnus. I've tried to ignore and neglect it, but the flame refuses to burn out even if I'm not feeding it fuel."

"You're afraid to snuff it out."

"Yes, I am. I admit that. But it's not just me and my fears, it's just…something inside me. I was born a being that needs magic. If I were to go without it, it would be like…like living without air. I could hold on for a few seconds, but in the end, I would be consumed."

"Do you think this is because of…?"

"Yeah. Most likely. I was born to fight, use my magic, and it's the only way I'm programed to live. This isn't PTSD, Magnus. It's just…me."

Magnus swallowed, but didn't meet her eyes.

"Do you hear the sound of fighting?"

Magnus's eyes widened and Shu rushed off in the direction of the sound. It was coming from the direction they had left Jace and Clary.

"Uh, the coast is clear, Mags."

Magnus looked around the corner. Considering he was in no position to fight, he wasn't going to try and get involved and leave it up to Shu.

Magnus walked in and saw the knocked out demon, a couple of broken brooms, and a ton of boxes scattered about the room. Shu walked over to the demon and touched it, sending her power through and then turning it to dust.

"No more getting up for you," She muttered.

Jace was holding his hand over his neck where are large wound was bleeding out.

"Where's my stele?" Jace asked.

"It didn't come through with you," Clary explained.

"You're gonna need more than a stele for that," Shu reported.

"Will portaling back to his own body cure him?"

"No," Magnus said. "Blood travels with you. It's why your angelic powers still work here. The demon venom is in his blood."

"Then we have to get him back to the Institute in our dimension."

Jace shook his head. "No. We've got to find Valentine."

"Jace you're in no condition to fight."

"We might not get another chance, Clary. This is too important."

"Found it!" Shu called.

She and Magnus examined a wall that was glowing slightly with purple cracks of energy.

Clary helped Jace up, pulling one of his arms over her shoulders and supporting his weight as they walked over.

"Magnus."

He held out his hand and Clary gave him the portal shard. He slipped it into place and Shu snapped, feeding her magic into the shard before she and Magnus pulled the large purple portal open.

"You'll have to destroy the portal after we go through," Jace requested.

"Why?" Magnus asked.

"To secure your dimension from all sides. Otherwise, if it stays open, you'll be vulnerable to demon attacks again."

"We'll take care of it," Shu promised.

Clary moved forward, but Magnus grabbed her elbow.

"Thank you."

"Well I should be thanking you."

"No. You gave me back a life. I won't forget it. Now go."

"Think of your father," Jace advised.

Clary gave the portal a glare as she did just that, and they stomped through the portal, disappearing.

Magnus held his hands out, glowing with magic, as he swirled his hands around and closed it.

Shu sighed and stretched.

"I wonder if the me in their dimension is happier without a life of peace."

She gave Magnus a once over.

"And if the you in their dimension has more glitter."