authors note; hola again. so, how're y'all likin' it so far? no new comments to answer, -tear- so, this time, how about we get at least three comments in. =] I really enjoy answerin' those. it gives me somethin' to fill up this little space up here. haha. well, unless i want to pull another all nighter, i think this'll be it for the day. but, i should have a few more up tomorrow.
i was kinda'. . . disappointed would be the wrong word. . . but, i muttered at the end of this chapter. it seemed really twilighty, i realised when i went back and reread it. but, i figured i'd add in a little twist, one to answer one of my own questions about the books. but, then again, it was my longest chapter yet. well, hope y'all like it. =]
Today was the day, after school, either Jace was going to pick her up, or Luke or Jocelyn. She didn't really know who yet. Walking into her class, science, she sat down at one of the lab tables, putting her book bag under her stool and just rested her head on her arm, gazing out the window next to the table. The bell rang, echoing around the room, but, she didn't even look up. She'd already finished the lab that they were working on, so, she got a free day, something that any other day she would have loved, but today, she needed something to keep her busy.
Her eyes were pretty much closed, she'd decided to take a nap, when she heard the door open. Nothing unusual about that. She didn't even look up, just let her eyes close even more, when she heard the stool beside her move. If she opened her eyes, odds were that the teacher would force her to help whoever it was on their lab. But then she heard the teacher cough to get everyone's attention.
"Class, we have a new student, Jace Lightwood, lets all welcome him on his first day." Clary looked up so fast that she flipped off the stool.
"Crap." She muttered as the rest of the class stared at her, and Jace was on his knee beside her, hidden from the rest of the class by the lab table. "What are you doing here?!" Her voice was no more than a surprised whisper, as he rocked back on his foot, he'd decided she was alright clearly.
"Clary? Are you alright?" Both she and Jace looked up as their teacher jogged over towards their lab table. Clary nodded, pushing the stool away from her so that she could at least consider getting up. "Did you not expect to wake up?" She asked, a slight smile on her face, she too had decided she was fine. Clary nodded again, glancing at Jace once more. "Well, thank you Mr. Lightwood, for helping her. This is your new lab partner Cla-"
"Clary Fray." Jace smiled his normal smile up at the teacher, who stared at them for a moment.
"Oh, I didn't realise you two knew each other."
Jace shrugged, reaching his hand out to Clary who took it quickly, he pulled her to her feet, and then reached down and picked up her stool. "Yes ma'am, we met over the summer, actually." He explained calmly, he was so relaxed, yet, avoiding the fact that Clary was the one had literally died for, the one who he loved.
"Well, that's great, Clary, will you help him with the lab, since you're already finished?" Clary nodded and the teacher walked off, snapping at a few of the students to continue working as she walked back to her desk. It was only when she'd begun to check her e-mail that Clary looked over at Jace, who was looking at the worksheet in front of him.
"What are you doing here? I thought all of you went to school at the Institute." Her voice was a whisper still, she didn't want the other students to overhear their conversation.
"We did, back when Hodge was stuck with us." He explained easily, marking down a few answers on the worksheet. "But, now that he's gone, and Maryse can't exactly teach us all, we're all enrolled here. . . A year later than we should be simply because we had to put the title, 'home schooled' on the application, might I add."
Clary watched him as he answered a few of the questions for a moment before standing up and walking to the cabinets at the back of the room to get a microscope and the slides he would need and then walked back to their lab table.
"So that's it? You're all just enrolled in public school?" She set the microscope down in front of him and he just stared at it, trying to probably figure out which end you plug in, and where you poke it. "This is a microscope, you use it to see things that are well. . . microscopic. This is the lens and the eyepiece. You look in through that, and you focus it using these knobs." She pointed to everything as she explained it. He nodded, but, she could still tell he was a little confused. Sliding in one of the slides, she moved a little closer to him so that she could look through the lens and focus it.
"Yeah, Alec was pissed when Maryse told him, but, he's beginning to calm down. . . we had to come back here though early this morning to be able to make it to class. . ." She turned the finer focusing knob once more and watched as the image below immediately shot into focus, with a satisfied smile, she turned and looked back at Jace, nodding at his earlier explanation. "So do I just look in there and attempt to answer these questions?" He asked, eyeing the microscope once more, this time a look of disbelief, almost as though he couldn't figure out how something like that could make something practically invisible able to be seen.
"Yeah, just look in through there." She pointed to the eye piece, and then leaned against the lab table, her back to the rest of the class and looked at Jace. He stood up slightly so that he could look into the microscope, and then pulled back, looking at Clary with a raised eyebrow.
"This is kinda' cool." He laughed quietly before looking back into the microscope so that he could figure out the answers. Clary knew that it would hurt his pride if she just told him the answers, so, instead, she just watched. "So Alec is a senior, and Izzy is a Junior, I think that by the time I last saw them, when I was walking here, she'd been asked out about ten times. She says mundane boys are pigs." He laughed at something, causing Clary to raise an eyebrow in question. "Alec offered to ask Magnus to turn a few of them into pigs."
With a nod, Clary made a motion that said, 'I get it.' And then turned and glanced at his paper. He'd gotten the first two questions right, she'd give him that. "I can see Magnus doing that, sadly enough." Jace smiled and then jotted something else down on the worksheet.
The class pretty much went by in a blur, and seeing as it was the last class of the day, she just followed Jace out of the building. Alec, Isabelle, and Simon were all standing in the Foyer just talking, Simon was clearly as surprised to see the Lightwoods as Clary had been to see Jace.
"Hey Clary." Alec and Isabelle said in unison. Clary waved at them both, an easy smile on her face. It was so strange, this was the last place she'd ever pictured the Shadowhunters.
"Clary, did you know they were coming here?" Simon asked, looking over at her, she just shook her head, looking at Alec with a slightly pondering look. He was wearing jeans and a black t-shirt like Jace, but, he had an earring in his ear, and the tips of his midnight hair were dyed lime green and pink. Alec seemed to figure out what she was looking at because he just laughed.
"Mom made me a deal, I would agree to come here without a fight, if I could do this." He explained, his laugh still evident on his face. Clary couldn't help but laugh along with him for that one. It was a pretty good deal, if she could say so herself.
Simon looked out the glass doors and muttered, "Mom's here. . . so, I'll catch you guys tomorrow. Call me later Clary." And then he was heading out the door, not even flinching when the sunlight hit him. She still couldn't even think that he was a vampire. . . I mean, he could just walk out into the sunlight, be around all of their classmates. . . and yet, he would go home and have a glass of, nope, not milk. . . that's right. Blood.
Jace looked down at Clary, and then back over at Alec and Isabelle, "Is your mom going to come get you, or do you want to ride with me?" Clary glanced at him, her head tilted to the side.
"But I thought your bike only worked at night. . . ?" He had an evil-like grin on his face.
"You'll see." She cast a look at the Lightwoods, but they were already gone, blending with the crowd. Following Jace out to the parking lot, she couldn't help but think about what he'd done to get something that ran during the day, but, she just saw the bike he'd stolen from the vampires parked in one of the spots. "I got it to run during the day, your friend inspired me. If he drank my blood and can walk in the day, why can't it work the same with my bike?" Clary flinched at the mention of Simon drinking his blood, but then watched as Jace climbed onto the bike and started it, it purred like a kitten, something unusual for motorcycles. Putting her book bag in between them, she climbed onto the back, wrapping her hands around his waist as he kicked the kickstand up and took off out of the parking lot. This time, though, he stayed on the ground instead of willing it to fly.