Chapter 8: Discussions in the dark (sorta)

Clary sat up inside her sleeping bag and rubbed her eyes. She couldn't sleep even though it was 4 in the morning. She pushed the top of the sleeping bag off of her and took out her cell phone for a little light. She looked at the three sleeping next to her. Isabelle had her legs thrown across Alec's stomach and Basil was sleeping as far away from the other two as possible. A figure crossed the room and Clary put her hand to the blade that was underneath her bag of clothes. She stood up holding the blade and her cellphone. She shined the cellphone light onto the figure and Carzel fell backwards whispering, "My friggen eyes!"

Clary stifled a laugh and reached her hand out. He shrugged the hand off and stood up by himself. Clary asked, "So Jace tripping you doesn't make you fall? But, my cellphone light does?"

"You had the light setting on full out light..." Carzel said with a small grin.

Clary chuckled, "Yeah. What are you doing up anyway?"

"I couldn't sleep, Magnus's glitter was everyone and kept getting into my nose and waking me up. I felt like I was inhaling sparkles." Clary grinned and Carzel rubbed his neck awkwardly. "Could I talk to you in the closet?"

"Isn't that a bit inappropriate?" Clary asked biting her lip.

"But its private... I just don't want people to hear." Clary shrugged and walked to the closet with Carzel following behind her. He closed the door behind him and turned on the hanging lightbulb and noticed Clary's blade. He looked at the blade nervously and she noticed it too.

"Oh, umm... I'll just put this away." She put it behind her and smiled at him. "What do you want to talk about?"

"Well, you seem like someone I can trust, Cherry," he said with a small smile. "Heres, the thing, I really like someone."

Clary sighed, feeling guilty. He really liked her and she was just using him for her jealous needs. "Look, Carzel, I know already, I know about you and who you like." Carzel scratched his head. "You already figured it out? So I don't really have to explain this, do I?"

Clary shook her head, "You made it pretty obvious about your feelings."

Carzel frowned. "Wow, you must be really smart, cause my sister wasn't able to figure it out, and you know I've known her all my life."

Clary smiled at him, "I know it when I see it," she said it with a wink.

"You must, I think your the first person to figure out that I'm gay."

"Your gay!" Clary screamed.

Carzel stared at her in horror. "Keep your voice down. I thought you had figured it out, already. Thats what you were talking about, wasn't it?"

"No, I was talking about you liking me."

Carzel shook his head, 'Cherry, your cute, smart and really funny, but I like a guy. I was using you, so my sister wouldn't figure it out."

Clary's eyes were wide open with relief, "Wow, I can't believe this."

"I know, its a lot to take in, cause you were so into me," Carzel said sighing.

Clary laughed, "No, I was using you, too!"

"You were?"

"Yeah, I was trying to make Jace jealous, so he'd give up his flirting thing with Basil and come back to me!" Clary said with exasperation.

"Oh. I mean I dated girls before, cause I don't think I'm completely gay, but I met this guy the other day, and I really liked him, but if my sister knew about my sexuality she'd flip."

"So your bisexual?" Clary asked.

Carzel answered, "Yes." Clary grinned, an idea hatching in her mind. "Why are you grinning?"

"Because, I have a way for this to work for both of us."

He raised an eyebrow, "How?"

"We keep doing what were doing with the flirting, and that will get Jace back to me and Basil will doubt about your being gay and all."

He nodded, "Your right! And this could be fun."

"But you do realize you'll have to come out and tell your sister at some point."

He sighed, "I know, its just not time yet. How about we go back to bed so were completely ready for flirting in the morning."

Clary nodded and stood up. Carzel turned off the light and opened the door to leave the closet. Magnus woke up to the creak of the closet door and looked ahead of him.

Clary said to Carzel, "Night Caramel. It was nice talking."

Carzel gave her a smile, "It was nice talking to you too, Cherry." They both went back to their sleeping bags and Magnus laid back down pretending to sleep. Once Carzel had fallen asleep, Magnus pulled out his phone and texted Alec, "McJagger! Code red! Rihanna and Pete just walked out of the closet together, NOT metaphorically! CODE FRIGGEN RED!" Magnus turned off his phone and then went to bed, figuring out Alec wouldn't be up anytime soon.

Six hours later everybody was up and moving around. "Magnus, I'm frikken hungry, do you have anything to eat around here," Jace said rubbing his stomach.

Simon picked up his phone which had been vibrating on a chair. He answered it after checking the caller ID. "Hey mom," he sighed, "Why are you yelling at me!" He groaned, "Well, the laundry basket was full, where do you put dirty unmentionables when its full!" He narrowed his eyes, "I'm sorry geez." He sighed, "But mom I'm with my friends!" He paused listening to his mom. "I'm grounded, just because I left my dirty underwear on the floor in the living room!" He sighed again, "I'm on my way home, does this mean no XBOX?" He pouted, "But mom! Fine I'm coming." He hung up the phone and sighed. Everyone was staring at him. "I gotta go," he said swinging his bag over his shoulder. "Adios." He kissed Isabelle's cheek and then walked upstairs and out of the condo.

Magnus rubbed his neck. "That was awkward. Anyone up for coffee and bagels?"

"To the coffee shop around the corner!" Jace yelled.

Alec looked at his phone than Magnus, "What does code red mean in your world?"

"Your so late, Mcjagger," Magnus said shaking his head.

Twenty minutes they all were in a booth at the coffee shop. Carzel looked at Clary and she gave him a nod. He moved closer to her. "You look cold, Cherry, need me to keep you warm?" He winked at her and she giggled. He put his arm around her and Jace's eyes about popped out of his head.

Clary smirked at him and he narrowed his eyes. "Basil, are you cold?" Jace asked.

Basil smiled, "Don't touch me. You may be cute, but personal space is important to me."

Jace frowned. "I've been downgraded, I used to be sexy, then I was hot, now I'm cute, what's next?"

A college girl walked by and smiled at Jace, "Adorable!" She said to the guy next to her. "Babe, remember when we were in high school."

The guy frowned at the now pouting Jace and walked away holding the girl's hand. Isabelle chuckled, "Aww did you hear that Jace, your adorable."

Jace growled at her and everyone laughed. The waitress arrived carrying a tray of coffees and handed them out. She set a basket of muffins in the middle and then left after taking everybody's food order.

After the waitress had left Basil bit her lip. "Guys, we need your help, me and Carzel do."

Alec chewed his muffin and asked, spewing muffin crumbs everywhere, "With what?"

Carzel took his arm off Clary's shoulder, "Demons," he said his mouth forming a straight line.

Jace laughed and everyone looked at him with questioning looks. "What? He said it so serious." He formed a straight line imitating Carzel, "Demons." He burst out laughing. Clary gave him a disgusted look and turned to Carzel moving some hair out of his eyes smiling at him. He grinned at her and Jace groaned. "Now what about the demons?" He asked with his jaw set hard.

"Well, they aren't really demons, I mean they are teamed up with demons," Basil said.

"Please, explain," Magnus said frowning.

Basil glared at him, "This is shadowhunter business, not warlock business, stay out of it, your probably teamed up with the demons anyway, since you are half demon, aren't you warlock," she hissed when she said warlock.

Magnus looked like he wanted to say something but instead he stood up and left the booth going outside. Alec stared at Basil and then exited the booth going to find Magnus.

Clary rolled her eyes at Basil and Jace rubbed his temples, "Can you keep explaining?"

"Two words," Basil said gritting her teeth, "Rogue shadowhunters."

"My two favorite words," Jace said grinning. "So easy to defeat."

Basil continued, "With many, many pain inflicting demons."

"Pain inflicting demons?" Clary asked.

"Its pretty simple, Clary, they are demons that inflict pain upon us." Basil said it slowly.

Clary growled at her, "Don't talk down to me..."

Basil shrugged. "We've been looking for these rogue shadowhunters for a little over 6 months, they killed our parents, and destroyed our home."

Clary's tone softened, "Who are these shadowhunters?" Carzel remained quiet while Basil talked.

Basil said, "We don't know, they were masked." Alec walked in with Magnus in tow. He sat down in the booth and Magnus slid in next to him.

Alec stared at Basil, "Basil, I know you probably don't agree with equal rights betweens downworlders and shadowhunters, but I'm out if you don't count Magnus. Magnus goes with us." Isabelle and Clary nodded. Jace bit his lip and gave a little nod.

Isabelle asked, "What happened the day your parents you know..." she gave the heads off gesture.

Carzel sighed, "We were home back in California, Basil was out, it was just me and my parents. Then two people broke in, both rogue shadowhunters. We went into fighting them and we were winning, but they had one of the pain inflicted demons with them. The demon came after me and I blacked out, because of the pain," he looked at them all, "Have you ever been struck by lightning, while getting run over by a car, while being attacked by a demon, while falling off a 900 story building and landing on spikes?"

Jace shook his head, "I've fallen off buildings, but I've always landed it."

Carzel gave a small chuckle, "Well thats how the pain felt, I should've died, but they kept me alive for some reason. When I woke up Basil was there sitting over my parents. They were dead. Basil had walked into the scene of my parents being slaughtered, I was still unconscious. My mothers last words were Marcella, protect your brother."

Clary was looking at him with tears in her eyes. "What happened after that."

"We fled, trying to find the shadowhunters for months to get our revenge. And then we got lost and drunk and then we were here. Its still a blur."

Jace asked, "I have one question, who the heck is Marcella?"

Basil glared at Carzel, "You had to tell them her last words." Carzel shrugged, "I'm Marcella." Everyone stifled a laugh except Magnus and Clary who burst out laughing. The waitress showed up with the food, and Basil continued once she left. "My parents named me it. They said it was my great grandmothers name. I hated it. Once they were dead, I officially changed my name to Basil."

"Okay, so Carzel you changed your name FROM?" Jace asked.

"No Carzel is my real name."

"This is awkward," Jace said rubbing his neck. His phone started ringing and he answered it and listened for a second, "We'll be right there." Everyone stared at him when he hung up. "Back to the institute."

Everyone walked into the institute and saw Maryse. "Whats going on?" Carzel asked.

"Raphael the head of the vampire clan is coming here holographically, something happened, last night with one of his vampires," Maryse practically screamed once they walked in.

"Let me guess, one of them sucked a shadowhunters blood?" Basil asked with a frown. "Its disgusting when they do that, all vampires should be destroyed." Jace coughed awkwardly and pointed to what was standing holographically next to Maryse.

Raphael smiled at Basil and spoke, "I'm afraid I haven't been able to make your acquaintance."

Basil rolled her eyes, not at all embarrassed, Maryse was staring at Basil with her eyes wide open. Alec nodded at his mom, "She's racist."

Magnus groaned, "Being a downworlder isn't a race, McJagger!"

Alec frowned. "Well it should be Gaga!"

"I can't help it baby I was born this way!" Magnus said batting his eyelashes which were glitterfyed.

Clary groaned, "End these nicknames now!"

Magnus snapped her fingers at her, "I'll do whatever I want Rihanna."

Raphael coughed because everyone had forgotten about him, "I'm still here," he said annoyed.

Maryse turned back to him and then stared at Basil, confused and irritated, "Who are you?"

"Basil," she said rolling her eyes. "Basil Abendstem, my parents just died, thanks."

Maryse's gaze softened, "I knew your parents, they were good shadowhunters." Jace asked, "Wait, doesn't that mean evening star, isn't it the opposite of Morgenstem?"

Basil raised an eyebrow, "Yeah, I'm hungry, I'll be in the kitchen, come on Jace."

Jace bit his lip and Maryse narrowed her eyes, "I actually would like to heard what Raphael has to say."

"Carzel, come on," Basil commanded moving to the door.

Carzel hesitated not sure, until he saw Basil's glare, then he walked towards her. Once they were both gone, Maryse sighed. "Sorry about the disturbance, Raphael. What's going on?"

"We've had a death in the vampire clan."

Jace smirked, "But your dead already."

"No a real death, as in that vampire is gone forever," Raphael said rolling his eyes at Jace's idiocy.

"Who was it?" Clary asked.

Raphael sighed, "She was my mate. We found her dead last night outside of the hotel. We smelled shadowhunter on her and found this underneath her." Raphael grabbed something from the floor and held it up. He had cloth covering the bottom of it. Alec gasped, "A seraph blade."

DUN DUN DUN! D: JINKYS! VELMA MOMENT, okay well, I know, Carzel is bi and he told Clary, although it was really awkward, cause they both were talking bout different things, but it was funny right, they've developed a plan to get Basil's off Carzel's back, And Jace back TO CLARY! Okay cool what else happened, they went to a coffee shop and I know you all thought Basil was cool, but she so dissed Magnus, and she's racist (in Alec's mind) against downworlders! And umm, she dissed the head of the vampire clan, and Jace is kinda getting over her but he's just so intrigued by her and her personality, but boy is Clary playing it up, and Carzels doing a good job too ;) ;), AND Abendstem is the opposite of Morgenstem, so its evening star, which means it good, cause morning star is bad, right? That's why people are cranky in the morning and hyper at night! At least in my world... Anyway RAPHAELS lover was killed! BY A SERAPH BLADE, DO THE ROGUIES HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH IT OR WAS THERE A FIGHT BETWEEN A SHADOWHUNTER AND THE VAMP, BUT ISNT IT BAD WHEN A VAMP IS KILLED BY A SHADOWHUNTER... I GOT A baddd FEELING BOUT THIS. WELL UMM, I PLAN ON POSTING TUESDAY, AND FRIDAYS BUT IF IM LATE DONT SPAM ME WITH "YOUR LATE," CAUSE THEN ILL NEVER POST, LOL JK, NO ONE CAN KEEP ME FROM POSTING, I HAVE NO LIFE -_-, BUT I CANT SAY THE SAME FOR THE DESCENDENT, ALSO, ONCE SCHOOL STARTS LATER POSTS ARE GOING TO BE SPACED OUT.. WELL... UMM... REVIEW? :P ALSO check out laffy_taffy0401, cuz she awesome... :P okay well umm... REVIEW? omz, i just had a deja vu feelings, i said a p to the y to the r a m i d, did i just spell pyramid, whatever, I must be ready for math...