They were able to leave for Alps by noon. If only because of Alec's relentless pushing. After Jace had eaten the entire feast as breakfast, they all piled down and waited for the car to come. Clary didn't know why she thought that the Lightwoods would rent a car that will easily blend in the crowd. The car they finally did rent was a Mercedes SUV. Clary was just relieved that she didn't have to drive it.

Her relief was shortlived. As the person who did end up driving was Jace. He drove like a complete maniac and throughout the entire trip Clary was seriously scared for her life. Alec and Izzy were completely relaxed like this was a normal occurence and what did Clary know, maybe it was?

Once during the trip Alec did the mistake of switching on the radio. He put on a classic radio channel. Clary who was taking this time to sketch the scenery around her had no problem with that. The music was relaxing. She wished the same could be said for Jace.

"Dude, what the fuck is this?", Jace said.

"It is classy music. Not that you would know anything about it.", Alec answered.

"Hello? You forgot the first rule of driving. Driver chooses the music.", Jace said as he flashed Clary with a triumphant grin. How he managed to look at her and still not crash the car, she will never know.

Having said that, Jace changed the channel without waiting for Alec's reply. Alec for his part just snorted and started typing on his phone. By now even Clary knew he was most probably complaining to Magnus.

Jace for his part put on a channel which was featuring the latest pop hits. As the first beats of Shape of You came on, Izzy excitedly bend forward and increased the volume. Again Clary was not sure how anyone could be that flexible but Izzy managed perfectly.

She started singing at her loudest pitch. Clary didn't know how to tell her she kinda sorta sucked at singing. Afterall she didn't want to hurt her feelings.

Apparently Jace had no qualms about the same,"Damn it, Izzy stop singing. You singing is worse than your cooking."

Clary's eyes met Jace in the rearview mirror and he must have understood her quiet message. "Izzy's cooking is only slightly less injurious than her singing. That is of course if you can actually manage to chew the food and keep it down."

Alec snorted again.

Clary was officially worried."Izzy? You wouldn't be cooking for us anytime soon right?"

It was Alec who answered,"No she wouldn't, it will either be me or Jace who cooks. I would like to return home alive."

Jace just said,"Did Magnus change his name to home?"

Alec just glared at Jace and impressively Jace did not even flinch. Any lesser man would have run away much earlier.

Clary finally offered, "I can cook too, if you want, no problem."

Alec looked at her and gave her what was possibly the first smile she had ever seen on his face. She just about controlled herself from pumping her fists in the air and jumping.

Izzy decided that in revenge for them insulting her food she will treat them all to an impromptu concert. As she sang Taylor Swift in a voice which was way too loud, Jace finally got fed up.

"Izzy, please stop! What can I do to make you stop. I could beg", Alec had had enough too.

"Make Jace sing.", Izzy said with an evil grin and flashed a mischievous smile to Clary.

"Fine, but not this. Next song.", Jace conceded as Alec gave an approving nod.

The next song that came on was by Enrique and one of Clary's personal favorites. As Jace started singing, Clary was seriously surprised. His voice could only be described as angelic. It was so damn good. And Clary was actually really sad when the song ended.

"Thats all from Jace Herondale today. Please tune in again.", Alec said as Jace ended his song.

As Izzy burst out laughing, Jace finally switched off the radio with so much force that Clary was actually expecting it to come out of its socket. The next half an hour was spend in silence which was broken only by Alec and Jace discussing their favourite football teams, but it was not long before Izzy started whining that she was getting bored again.

"Give that girl something to do.", Alec finally snapped. Clary who had been unable to draw anything since she started, finally let it go."Look Clary is done, talk to her," with that Alec dismissed her and went back to his conversation with Jace.

Izzy apparently liked her brother's idea and turned to Clary,"So, Fray, hot girl like you, must have boyfriend, spill."

Clary was sure she was red as a tomato. From a world of topics, Izzy had to asl her this. Her eyes again met Jace's in the rear view mirror. All she got was a raised eyebrow.

"At the moment? No boyfriend. I did go on some dates but nothing worked out. You know?", Clary answered.

"Ah! Tragic. I just broke up too. My boyfriend, Meliorn, awesome guy, beautiful, but a total asshole. He wanted an open relationship. I said no. So he broke up with me. I was heartbroken.", Izzy said.

Jace literally stopped the car as he turned to stare at Izzy. Alec too was looking at her with disbelief.

"It took you two shots of vodka and new Jimmy Choos to get over the guy. What type of heartbreak is that?", Alec asked, looking like he was seriously judging Izzy.

"Well, normally it takes me just one shot, you know? This was serious.", Izzy defended herself.

Jace just smirked, high fived Izzy and started the car back up. "Not all of us find perfect relationships Alec which would tear us apart if they ever ended. Stop rubbing it in our face. Right Clary?"

Clary just nodded her yes. But in that moment she couldn't help but think that if she ever did get Jace, it will take much more than Jimmy Choo to cheer her up after that break up.

The rest of the trip was relatively tame, with just one memorable fight where Izzy stole Jace's phone and started reading some of his texts with a girl who was apparently Jace's friends with benefits presently. and no, Clary was not jealous, thank you very much. Although the way Izzy glanced at her, she didn't think she was fooling anybody.

They finally reached the cabin. It was alot of things. Small was not one of them. Inside someone had already lit a fire and it was warm and inviting. Alec told her it was probably the housekeeper who did this. Thank god for the housekeeper, thats all Clary had to say.

Entering and looking around, Clary was instantly sure of one thing, she will enjoy living in her. And looking at the siblings arguing over which room will be whose, she also knew that the rest of the trip will be equally interesting.