Clarissa bought some cereal, coffee, eggs, bread, peanut butter and other stuff. She decided that since she still has a lot to do, that she'd rather pick some food up than cooking it. She ate silently and then got back to work. She took a look at both of the bedrooms and bathrooms and decided which one she would move into. There was one huge bedroom with a wall completely made of one way glass. There was a door to the balcony with a magnificent view of a city. It also had a bigger bathroom. The sun was slowly setting, and she stared at the beauty of it. She threw her suitcase on the bed and unpacked all the boxes. She put clothes in the drawers and a closet. She thought that the closet is perfect for all of her dresses. Shampoo's and beauty products are in the bathroom. The jewelry was set on top of the drawers and there were a few empty frames, for her paintings. She hung them on the walls, so that they wouldn't lie around. The walls of her bedroom were turqoise, which was her favorite colour, next to violet.
Then she moved to the living room and unpacked everything that was left. She put all of the paints, canvases and other artistic stuff into the undecorated room, which she decided that will be an art room. And when she was done with everything, she was so tired that she threw herself on the bed and immediately fell asleep
The light coming from her wall made of glass woke her up. The sun was just rising and so was Clary. The only difference was that she was rising from her bed. She stretched and went to the bathroom to shower. The water was hot and it felt good on her skin. The scars of the runes that have dissapeared would heal quickly as soon as she does an iratze. After taking a shower, she feels how warm it is, so she takes out a white and blue summer dress and puts it on. Then she brushes her teeth, while her wild, fiery red hair is still wrapped in a towel. She smiles to herself and then sprays hair products on her hair. She brushes out all the knots, which was always difficult for her, because she would need to be patient. And patience is something Clarissa just doesn't have.
She puts on small amount of makeup, just covering the slightest imperfections of her skin, also trying to cover her freckles, which she somehow manages to do. She looks really natural and beautiful. Jonathan told her a few times that she actually does look beautiful and she doesn't even realize it. He also said that if she lived in a mundane world, nobody would be able to keep their eyes off of her. He admitted that he would be the kind of brother that would have to keep the boys away.
If he was a mundane. Which he wasn't. He was part demon, but Clarissa always thought he wasn't evil. He was just different. Like her.
She walked into her kitchen with her bare feet and made some coffee. She made scrambled eggs and then took notes on what she can do today. Her father didn't exactly told her what to and not to do. She decided to later look around the city and get a feel for the people. But first, she needed to decorate her art room. The art room was big. Just like her bedroom, it had a wall made completely out of glass, but it didn't have a balcony. On her left and right, there were two big empty walls. Clary thought about the options. She remembered the sunset last night and the sunrise this morning. She thought it looked beautiful. She turned on her left and after a few minutes of preparing, she started painting. Clarissa always loved how colours mixed beautifully and completed themselves. Whatever color you use, it always looks beautiful. A lovely and dashing picture started gaining its form. A sunrise. A mix between a sunrise here in New York and the one in Idris.
She painted so quickly, she was done in 2 hours. It was almost 8 am now. She woke up at around 5.30, that's when the sun usually rises in New York. She learned that by just staring at the sunrise this morning. She knows the time by the position of the sun. And now, she turned to the right side of the room and started painting the sunset. It was just beautiful.
Clarissa was done by noon and she needed to wash her hands. Her dress was thankfully without any paint stains, because she wore a robe. She got ready by taking a few weapons and then put on a thin jacket and some sky blue heels, took her purse, walked out of her apartment and locked it. She walked around, looked at some shops, but decided to keep her distance. Suddenly, she heard a noise far off. She recognized it. That's the noise only demons make. She ran quickly, just to notice the vampire she met yesterday, Simon lying on the floor next to a dark haired girl. She was injured. A boy that looked just like her was lying on the floor unconscious, while another boy with golden hair was backing up into a wall, weaponless, while the demon calculated how he wanted his desert to be served.
Clarissa, without thinking, took out a weapon and whistled to the demon. He quickly turned back, just to see a blade flying towards his heart. Without having time to move, the blade hit him and he vanished into thin air. Clarissa's eyes travelled along everybody's faces, noticing that they were Shadowhunters, and stayed on Simon.
"Everybody okay?" She asks, quite concerned. They nod, and Simon quickly starts:
"Clarissa, what are you doing-" but she cuts him off.
"I was just walking around, when I heard a scream." Then, the girl slowly got up, just as Clary saw that she was stabbed.
"You guys really need some medical attention. Come with me." Clarissa said, but the boy with golden hair contradicted.
"I think an iratze would do just fine."
"Yeah, but we all know that head injuries can be tricky to heal." Clarissa eyed at him and he smirked. She already knew that he was arrogant and in love with himself type of a person. She hated that kind, although she never met anyone like that. But she read a lot of books.
"What I don't get, is how you heard screams. People or Shadowhunters stay away from here."
"What I don't get is," Clarissa looks at him and feels her anger rise, "if Shadowhunters stay away from here, of course, what exactly were you doing here." She makes a gesture that points to all of them. The boy just smiles and and says:
"Fair enough." Then, he extends his hand and says "I'm Jace, that's Simon, Isabelle and that unconscious guy over there is Alec." I slightly smile and ignore his hand. I turn to Simon when he says
"We have already met. She's Clarissa." Jace looks at me puzzled.
"Wait, she's Clarissa? The one who didn't know who you were? The one who you met yesterday?" Simon nods and Clarissa, noticingly losing her temper says
"Not all of us lived in contact with Shadohunter world, you realize that, right?" Her voice was raised by the end of that sentence. Jace smiled and nodded, which made Clarissa just more angry, so she started biting her lip. Finally, they got on their way, Jace carrying the boy named Alec, while Simon helped Isabelle walk.
When they entered her apartment, Jace put Alec on the couch and Clarissa brought a chair to the living room. Simon helped Isabelle sit and Clarissa left them waiting, while she got some medical supplies, pills for headaches, which the boy will definitely have and a glass of water.
She handed a glass of water to Isabelle, who thanked her.
"You live here?" She asked Clary, who nodded, while she drew a healing rune on her skin, without a stele, only with the tip of her finger. She watched, stunned. All three of them did. A Shadowhunter wasn't supposed to do that.
"H-How did you do that?" Isabelle asked her when she was done. Clarissa shrugged her shoulders and moved on to Alec. While she drew, she explained:
"It's just an ability, I have. I have some other abilities, too." She smiled and after a few seconds, she was done. Then she turned over to Jace, who was leaning against the wall. She looked into his stunningly gorgeous eyes. She extended her hand and asked, "Would you mind giving me your hand?"
"Not at all," the boy said and smirked. Clarissa rolled her eyes as he put his hand into hers. She rolled his sleve up and as her skin touched his, she felt a little electricity flow through them. He felt it too, she noticed, because he shuddered and he looked shocked. She just ignored it and continued. Her finger drew some patterns on his arm and when she was done, she smiled and rolled his sleeve down again. He smiled back, and she saw his eyes lit up. She let him go and turned away. She heard the other boy groan and she walked to him checking up on him.
"You should all contact your parents. Tell them where you are so that they won't worry."
"Do you have a phone?" Isabelle asked and she clearly looked better than before. "Yes." was the only word Clarissa used to answer the question. She opened her purse and threw it to Isabelle, who caught it perfectly. She called their parents, while Simon was holding her hand.
"He's slowly waking up." Clarissa softly said, her hand travelled the boys forehead with a bag of ice. He had a huge bump on it.
"How do you know?" Jace had asked her, and she explained how Alec's breathing had changed. Alec groaned again, slowly drifting into consciousness. A few minutes passed when he actually woke up.
"Agh... Wha-what happened?" he asked, gently opening his eyes, to see Clarissa bending over him and pushing him back down.
"Relax. Don't try to sit up, otherwise you will get dizzy and you might get sick."
"Who are you? Jace, Isabelle, Simon?" The boy cried out to his friends and family.
"My name is Clarissa, but you can call me Clary. Isabelle, Simon and Jace are here. You're going to be okay. Just relax." She tried to convince Alec, but he wanted to sit up badly, so she and Jace helped him.
"How are you feeling?" Jace asks, while Simon and Isabelle stay quiet.
"Like shit. My head hurts. I can feel I'll have a massive headache."
Clarissa silently and swiftly leaves the living room. She comes back with a glass of water and a blue pill.
"Here, swallow this. It will help with the headache." Alec takes it and thanks her.
Then, they all hear a knock on the door and as soon as Clarissa opens it, she sees 5 people standing in front of her. One of them she recognizes as her mother.
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Okay, I MIGHT update this chapter again today, because I didn't want to leave a cliff hanger like that and also because I'll be in Hungary next week and I won't be able to update any of my fanfics, so I apologize for that. I am in love with this fanfic and it's definitely one of my favorites.
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