At first: thanks. About "your": I didn't realize. In Portuguese,her, his,literally means "your". It is the same word and it made me do the wrong translation. I apologize.

Chapter three – Circle

POV Jace

I woke up with the sunshine on my face through the tent's entrance. I knew nothing about the Clave's moving city. I knew nothing if I would be alive next day. Sure, some were freaking out because I killed Alaric, but, others – most of them - were at my side. I guess.

See Isabelle and Alec in there was unexpected, but they had great positions on the Clave. They tell me they were Shadowhunters and with both near should means that the others wouldn't try to kill me through the night. But, I woke up sometimes in the middle of the night.

The leader's tent had the same size – or almost – of my room back the Herondale manor. Bathtub, king size bed, place for all the kinds of things, and, of course, weapons. I admit: some of them I knew, but others… I never saw in my life. Isabelle and Alec told me they would teach me at the moment I got out of my bed.

I got out of the bed and saw that someone let hot water on bathtub. I could live with that. Took the clothes off and submerged on the water. Then, someone came inside. Naked. Only with a towel around her body. Was the one who they called Maia last night. She stepped into the tub with me. Yeah, sponge bath. Awesome.

After my first 'bath' at the place I took the new clothes and a gun putting on a holster over the jacket. Then, I met Isabelle waiting me outside.

— There's someone who knows everything about computers? - I asked.

— Sure, follow me, boss. – She joke.

We arrived in a tent no much larger, but overflowing machines and computers. Certainly, was the Clave's hacker.

— Simon, this is our new leader, Jace.

— Herondale. – I completed. I wanted be known as Herondale even my father disinheriting me.

— I can see the Circle discovering about that. – He said to himself.

Simon was a brown haired guy, the hair cut short and glasses. I couldn't see him on a motorcycle, the people would laugh during all day with that scene. I was holding to don't do that in front of him.

— So… What your majesty needs? – He apparently didn't like his new leader.

— I need you to transfer all my money to a secure bank account. Away from my family and… could you steal a third of each Herondale alive on this world?

— Of course- I can do that.

— Great, I need to give an incentive to the Clave.

The days were passing by. Weeks. Firsts months. And finally these people started to believe in me as a leader. I've got program a race which I race by myself and was the winner. Alaric wasn't racing by himself and his chosen were messing the Clave's reputation. But I was ready to fix it.

At the end of the first month, I put Jordan to race and he came back with second position (thing that Alaric and his chosen weren't getting). But that had a consequence, the Alaric's death and that his sucessor was a teenager spread like disease.

Certainly, my father had already joined the pieces. Soon the Circle would be getting after me.

I convoked an assemble on second week of the second month to let they know what was happening. That wasn't Alaric's way, what surprised them. They have been always in the dark about decisions.

At the fourth month a great opportunity showed up, but my experience warned me. So I called them to talk about.

— I've receive a proposal: a competition of two days. - Voices started to get loud. - With a reward of fifty thousand to the first, twenty five to the second position. Being allowed three racers.

Now the voices got louder and I had to wait a minute to continue.

— But I think it's a trap. From the Circle.

For a moment they stayed completely in silence, then they acted like cave men. Screaming. From my improvised stage, with my personal security: Alec, Magnus, Jordan and Chris, I watched they deciding by themselves what they thought. Some wanted a spy to check and others rather take the risk and send only the racers.

— Ok, let's take a vote.

By the end of the night we had decided. Me, Jordan, Macon, Alec, Magnus and Chris would go there. After hours arguing I accepted. They weren't happy to take the risk to loose their new leader. So, I needed my personal guard to go with me.

We left early, but like I said, was a trap. Police cars came from everywhere around us just in the moment we crossed the desert boudary. They never crosses the boundary to our city on wheels, but when we were out, they tried; frequently, police officers were killed. Lucky, Magnus escaped.

But me, as a great leader I guided the persecution far away from the camp. Maybe, they decided invade the camp on that day. I wouldn't show the way. They took my motorcycle and I was handcuffed and threw inside a car with the others and condemned to a year in prison until someone could, finaly pay the bail.

When I thought anything could be worse, they covered our heads and I realized everything just to getting worse.

We were took to a place whose no Clave's members would go by themselves. My head was uncovered and I heard:

— You are not so good now, are you, little Herondale?

We were beeing locked at the penitentiary where Valentine was infiltrated. The Institute. Managed by Hodge Starkweather, ex-member of Circle, condemned to manager the penitentiary, in another way his destiny would be death. And so, Valentine was making use of it to reach the Clave. When one of us disappeared we've known what happened. But, the unknown place didn't allow rescue. The location of the penitentiary was completely under seven keys.

There we were threw on a cell next to Circle's. Valentine could be responsible to order prisons, but order to set free his men would be suspicious.

At the firsts months his men did everything to try our temper and make the guards punish us. I confess, was scared when they threw me into the arena to fight against the worts prisoner. But I had lucky, he was injured I just use it in my favor.

With no much time I was being respected and hated. Other men were threw on our cell at the fifth who owed money to Valentine. Big and scariest, Alec could say. We fought sometimes during the first week, but one of them was practicaly destroyed by my personal guard and he was removed from the cell.

The corridor smelled everything. Cells in both sides with men desperate for sex. Every time the sounds were heard, they were always fucking each other. I realized Alec was gay in there, when he turned on with the sounds. Because of that I've never allowed that happened on my cell and it wasn't helping me.

I was arrested just after turns eighteen, I laught about that with my personal guard in begginning, but, by the ninth month wasn't too funny. To keep my body I was using the iron bars. Was a long time to get that result. Just a sunbath wouldn't be enough; an one hour we were back into the gray hell. In shadows again.

Like a gift, for them, in the middle of the month the cops put Circle's members on my cell. In the beginning they tried to kill us, but my guard and the others stopped. The cell was already overcrowding!

By the end of the month happened something that tumulted all prisoners. Hundred men talking about rumors in my session. I was sat against the wall on my cell, thinking, - if I didn't do that I would be crazy in few days - so I heard the cell's door being open. My heart stopped when I saw - who they were throwing inside - and realized the reason of the protests outside and the men inside thanking God.

Hey! POV Clary next :)

Tchau.