Jace watched anxiously as Clary strode over to the demons, her hips swaying enticingly the whole way. He looked back at her brothers who were drinking from shot glasses and facing away towards the bar.

He stepped closer to Jonathan. "Your sister just made herself bait for three Nokai! Dude, aren't you going to do anything?"

Jon sighed. "We have to stick to the plan. There's nothing we can do about it yet. Once she gets them into the alley we can go at 'em, but until that happens we have to stay inconspicuous. It would be the same if Isabelle were bait. If we interfere now we'll blow our and Clary's cover."

He noticed Alec looking at him from the corner of his eye. " What's wrong?"

Alec shook his head. "It's nothing."

Jace turned towards the bar, keeping an eye on Clary from his peripheral vision. She stood at the edge of the dance floor, chatting casually with the demons, who had her surrounded. After a while they started heading towards the exit that led out towards the alley. Clary glanced back at them too quickly for the demons to notice, and made a forward motion with her index finger behind her back. Once the door had shut behind them they made their way out silently, and hid behind the large dumpster by the door, waiting and watching for Clary's signal.

They had her cornered, her back against the wall. She leaned against it, her hands folded behind her back, as the Nokai closed in. The one with the spiky blue hair stroked her cheek with the tips of his fingers. "Stupid Little Shadowhunter. Going up against three Nokai all alone wasn't the best idea. But you don't seem to be too panicked, which probably means that you're not alone after all. Am I right?"

She smirked at him. "So some demons ARE smart. You guessed right, my nasty friend. You aren't as dumb as you look. I"m impressed. How did you know I was a shadowhunter?"

He smirked back at her, his fingertips growing into long pitch-black talons. He raked one down her cheek, leaving a cut that dripped blood. Jace's fists clenched in outrage, and he saw Sebastian put a hand on Jon's arm to restrain him. Clary barely flinched and looked up at it in a mixture of amusement, disgust, and something else that he couldn't quite decipher.

It leaned closer to her, sweeping a lock of hair over her shoulder with it's now bloody talon. "One could never forget the face of Valentine's daughter."

Sebastian and Jonathan both tensed, and Jace could see the muscles in Clary's arms flex for moment. Her eyes flashed dangerously. "I'd watch how and what you say to me, Nokai. You're treading through dangerous territory right now."

They laughed, throwing their heads back. Clary still hadn't moved, not even bothering to pull out a dagger to defend herself with. Jace's nerves were on edge, telling him to attack before she got hurt, but he stayed put. If her own brothers hadn't moved yet, then neither would he.

The short black-haired one stepped up behind the leader. "You, Clarissa Morgenstern, obviously don't know what you're dealing with."

Now it was her turn to laugh. "No, YOU don't know what YOU'RE dealing with. taunting me like that isn't a good idea. I'm warning you now."

The blue-haired one stroked the skin of her thigh, leaving three parallel scratches. "You have no idea how valuable you are, Clarissa Morgenstern. How much people are willing to pay for the blood under that porcelain skin. How dangerous even a strand of that fire-red hair is."

Her eyes flashed again, and she laughed, shakily. "I'm warning you for the last time. You really don't want to go there with me. You WON'T like the consequences. If I were you, I'd turn around. And I'd run."

He ignored her, raking his talons through her hair. "You look so much like your mother."

Sebastian and Jonathan completely froze now, their breathing stopped. Jace, Isabelle, Alec and Simon waited and watched anxiously. Clary let out a breath. "NOW you've done it. Now you've really crossed the line."

The last one finally spoke up, raking his eyes up and down her body, hungrily. "Do we have to sell her right away? Can't we have a little fun with her first? I always was attracted to Jocelyn, but we could never get close enough with that watch dog of hers always around. I was SO happy when I'd heard he was dead."

Clary closed her eyes slowly and tipped her head back, laughing quietly. "You guys really want me to kill you slowly, don't you? I guess i don't really have much of a choice anymore, since you guys are begging for it."

Sebastian shook his head. "Don't do it. Don't do it, Clare." They both stood up, still concealed by shadows, and watched their sister, worriedly.

She straightened, and when her eyes re-opened, his breath caught. They were glowing. Literally. Her irises were glowing brightly, the emerald green color making them look like glow sticks. She laughed again, as the demons stepped back. "You really don't know when to stop do you? Maybe you are as dumb as you look." For every step they took back, she took two forward, pushing them back. "And a little piece of advice: don't stick your nose where it doesn't belong. That's how you end up dead."

The leader attacked, lunging at her. She simply side-stepped, twirling and slicing at it's back with a glowing seraph blade. It turned back towards her, it's face morphing. It's teeth sharpened, and it's eyes turned completely red, swallowing the iris and the pupil. Big scaly ears shaped like that of a dog's sprouted from the top of it's head. It's tong thinned into a thin strip with a forked tip that hissed when Clary pulled out another seraph blade.

She attacked first this time, and Jace, Jonathan and Sebastian all lunged out out the remaining two demos that had moving towards Clary back. She whirled on them, quicker than he would have thought possible for her, and kicked them across the face, sending them flying to the side. She turned her attention back to her demon, as Jace went for the short black-haired one. He ducked as it slashed at his face, swiping a dagger across it's thigh, and whirling to elbow it in the face. It swiped a leg under his, knocking him off his feet, and pounced on him.

He raised his dagger, just in time to stop it's fangs from sinking into his neck. They struggled for a few moments, before he heard a snap and it flew off him. He looked up to see Isabel lashing her whip to fend it off, and Alec's arrows sinking into it's chest. He got to his feet, ready to throw himself back into the fight, but Simon flitted towards the demon, snapping it's neck. It collapsed, before folding into itself and disintegrating.

He glared at Simon, upset that he hadn't gotten to make a kill. The curly-headed vampire rolled his eyes at him, turning his attention towards Sebastian and Jonathan, who had already finished off their demon, and were watching Clary.

Jace turned in her direction, watching her dodge the enraged Nokai that attacked her recklessly, leaving plenty of openings that she could have killed him with. She was playing with him, he realized. Had she really meant it when she said she would kill it slowly?

He looked more closely at her, noting the faint gold aura that clung to every inch of her body. Her eyes were glowing even more brightly than before, and her hair swung around her with every move she made. She turned, running and flipping off the alley wall behind her and slashing it in the stomach with one of her seraph blades. She bent backwards as it turned, it's talons slashing recklessly at her face. She kicked out as she bent, throwing herself into a backbend, and flipping back onto her feet. It flew back into the brick wall, and before anyone could blink, she had moved forward, stabbing a seraph blade into his shoulder, pinning him to the wall. It roared in agony, thrashing around. She stepped back, grinning slightly. "I warned you. Several times. You should have listened to me."

She raised the dagger to finish it off, but it raised its hands up to cover its face. "Wait!", it cried. "

She paused. "What?!"

"Don't kill me! I- I can help you! I've got information that you need."

She raised the dagger again. "Not interested."

"Valentine's alive!", it shouted.

She froze, the dagger only inches from it's heart. Her eyes glowed dangerously bright. "That's impossible."

"How do you know?! You need me!"

She shook her head. "That's impossible, because I killed him." She brought the dagger down, ending it's life.