Authors Note- Sorry for the long AN

Hola! Its FantasyIsMyLife14. I apologize dearly for not posting for over a month. I have no excuse other than that of writer's block! The first two chapters were simple, the girl gets caught and then she gets captured. The hard part was that I had no idea what Mortmain wanted to use Tessa's powers for. I know he wants her for her powers because it says so in the books, but it never mentions what he will do with her powers if and when he gets them. I will no longer be making promises on when I will update this story. I will only tell you that I will update it whenever I have time and an idea. If any of my readers have an idea feel free to share it in a review. I will take it into consideration in my next chapter.

I understand that some of my characters ideas, attitudes, and thoughts, might be a little OOC. I apologize for that. I will try and make the characters as true to the books as possible, but I do put some of what I feel a person would do and/or say in the situation into consideration.

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Disclaimer: If I was Cassandra Clare the writing would be better, and this story would not be on fan fiction, it would be in bookstores! Seeing as I am not, I am writing on fan fiction and my writing is average!

Mixed Up, Messed Up Triangle

Chapter 3: The Plot Thickens

Will's POV

The look on Jem's face was one of shock and expression. I had a feeling my expression was the same. Tessa. My Tessa. Gone. I have now lost everything.

How could this week have turned from heaven into hell so quickly?

After a few seconds on silence, Jem recovered from his shock to ask one question, "Please Will," desperation dripping from each word, "Tell me what happened?"

What happened? I am still not sure myself. "After our," I paused, unsure of what to call our previous meeting, "Disagreement, I went into my bed chamber without dinner." After our previous meeting, I walked straight to my bed chamber. I had decided not to go down to dinner, no matter how hard my stomach protested. I just couldn't stand to see Tessa's gloomy expression and Jem's calm façade, masking the anger everywhere but in his clear silver eyes.

"I knew that sleep wouldn't come for hours, so I decided to go for a walk, maybe see if I could find a tavern to forget my troubles in," I said. I did not actually get drunk; I did not even go to a tavern. Instead I strolled around the park, contemplating what had occurred in the library. I had lost Tessa, my Tessa, and Jem in the same day. Only I did not know that I would lose Tessa, in a much worse way, the very next day.

"While walking back towards the institute, I saw some figures walking towards the street carrying a sack," I whispered, remembering what happened. The figures were too far away to be recognizable, but I now believe that those were the people who kidnapped Tessa. That sack was Tess, my Tess. I had my chance to save her, to protect her, and I did not. Now we had to pay for the consequences.

"What I can now believe, is that those figures were the ones that captured Tessa, and the 'sack', that was Tessa," I said, my voice barely hiding the resentment I felt towards myself for not protecting her when I had the chance.

I walked to my bed chamber in the institute and fell right asleep, no worries to haunt my dreams other than that of losing my parabatai and Tessa. But now, after this, I knew I was going to have nightmares tonight.

"I did not think anything of those figures, and I regret it immensely now," I whisper, half to myself. "The next morning I woke up and walked to Tessa's room ready to escort her to breakfast," I said, this time louder, to Jem. I remember knocking on the door many times with no reply, until I finally opened the door and let myself in.

The first thing I noticed was that she wasn't there. That was not unusual, I believed that maybe she had already headed down to breakfast; but the covers on the bed were tossed casually on the floor in a heap. I knew Tessa, and I knew how tidy she was. Once again, I did not think much of this, but as I turned around I felt a slight chill coming from the window. The broken window. That is when I noticed the footprints, many footprints, bigger than that of Tessa.

"I ran out of the room, searching all the places that I thought Tessa could be," I said, remembering what had occurred not long ago. "I had a feeling I woke up half the Institute, but she was nowhere to be found. That was when I knew that something bad had happened. That was when I knew she was gone." I said.

"Well, it had to be Mortmain!" Jem yelled, saying his first words since I had begun telling him about what I had seen. I agreed with him. Mortmain has wanted Tessa for longer than I have known her. He has wanted her for longer than she has been in London. The question is: For what?

That is when I remember the room in the Dark Sisters' house I entered before coming across the bed chamber Tessa was in; it was a wedding chamber. Oh no! A wedding! First to Jem and now to Mortmain.

"Marriage. That is what he wants Tessa for!" I exclaimed, upset by the fact that I had not come up with this answer sooner. "It is said that marriage can allow the partners to use the power of their spouse." With that power, Mortmain would have no problem enslaving all of the Clave."

Tessa's POV

I usually enjoyed carriage rides. The scenery, the speed, the atmosphere; it is truly exhilarating. Not anymore. My hands and feet are bound and I am sitting across from the biggest enemy of the Clave, Mortmain. I was beginning to feel the thoughtlessness of sleep, reaching for me to draw me into its clutches, but I was afraid of falling into sleep's clutches with Mortmain so near.

"Enjoying the ride?" Mortmain sneers, staring at me as if I am some sort of prize he has just one. I shook my head no, afraid that if I spoke my voice would show the fear that I wish not to be shown. He came closer to me and I tried to move back only to hit the door of the carriage.

"Why ever not?" He asked, in a tone that sounded almost sincere.

I did not respond to his question but instead asked one of my own "What do you want with me?" I asked. My voice strong, not showing the slightest upset except for the quiver at the end of the sentence. I knew he wanted to marry me for my power, but I did not know why my power was important to him at all.

"When you become my bride, your power will enable me to learn the secrets from every Clave member as well as be able to enter undetected into Idris and any Institute in the world." He replied. As I listened to his reply I could not help but think that there was something missing. That there was something he was not telling me.

"What will you do then?" I asked, my curiosity getting the better of me.

"That my dear, you will discover soon enough", was the last sentence I heard before sleep overcame my curiosity.

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