Hello readers and readettes. I'm back with a new chapter, a new contest, and a new update time. Well here's the new chapter, please read and enjoy. The new contest will be announced at the end along with the results of the last one. And my new update date... er, well, I'm posting a new chapter every weekend. Unless you guys make me especially happy with reviews.

I do not own Pride and Prejudice or The Mortal Instruments. You really should know this by now.

You must be my Aunt's other dinner guests!" The man with the blue hair said. He crossed the room to shake hands with them. He started with Maia.

"I'm Magnus Bane," He stated. Sebastian's eyes widened.

"Oh! You're Magnus. You're aunt mentioned you before," He said. Clary almost laughed.

She shook Magnus' hand and he winked at her. Taken aback, she smiled.

"Yes I'm sure she has. And I'm sure you've met her son Alec before," He said. The dark haired man looked up and nodded.

"And let's not forget aunties favorite nephew. This is Jace Wayland," He finished.

"We've met him before. Nice to see you again Jace," Maia said avoided his eyes but she was sure he was doing the same thing. Suddenly she wished for the boredom that had been regular in the past few months. Suddenly things had become way too interesting.

***

Later they were all seated at the table waiting for Imogen to show up. She was arguing the irrelevance of reality television with Magnus. He gave arguments that were baffling to Clary. She tried her best to respond with something coherent. She had almost completely given up when Imogen made her way into the room and sat down three seats down from
Clary, right next to Alec.

"Is everyone ready to eat?" Imogen asked. There was a unanimous vote of yes and her cook brought in the food.

"We aren't all introduced," Imogen said, eyes on Clary.

"Hello, I'm Clary Fray and I'm-"

"Maia's friend. Yes I know," The older woman interrupted and surveyed the table. Her
eyes rested on Jace for a half a second and Clary saw him almost lose his composure, but she couldn't figure out why.

"Our dear Maia, such a free spirit. Always out and about. She's quite the sports player," Imogen said, "Do you play any sports Clary?"

Maia looked uncomfortable. Clary was confused.

"No, I've found that I'm not exactly the right size," She said.

"You did play soccer in first grade," Maia offered.

"Actually you played soccer and I sat on the sidelines throwing grass like confetti," Clary replied. She didn't want to try to impress this woman. From the second she started speaking to her she didn't like her.

Imogen pursed her lips while Magnus and Maia contained laughter. Sebastian looked positively appalled.

"There's something to be said for trying," Jace said. Clary felt her heart leap and she sucked in a bit of air. She then realized that was the wrong reaction.

"There's something to be said for succeeding also," Imogen said. Magnus frowned and turned to Alec.

"Hello cousin, how have you been doing," He said desperately. Clary appreciated his attempt, but the bestselling author wasn't done with her tirade.

"Do you play any instruments?" She asked. Clary gritted her teeth.

"No, but I do enjoy drawing," She said.

"Do you take any art classes or programs?" Imogen replied with open challenge.

"No, I've always been very focused on schoolwork though," Clary said calmly. She couldn't find anything wrong with that.

"Do you go to a private school?"

Or she could.

"There are no private schools in the area. I'll take what I can get," She said.

"I'm sure you will," She smiled with victory. Clary felt her eyes go across the table to Jace
who was giving his aunt an unpleasant look. She swallowed the words in her throat and continued to eat with everyone else. Well almost everyone else.
Magnus was too busy watching her and Jace to eat.

***

Everyone, being satisfied from their large dinner, was sitting around the living room when Imogen started her games again.

"Clary, do you think you could draw us a picture?" She asked. Clary felt her skin crawl with discomfort as every eye in the room turned on her.

"What of?" She asked.

"Something... Nice," Imogen said carelessly. She resisted the urge to roll her eyes.

"She wants something she can put on her refrigerator," Jace said slyly, looking back at his hand of cards. She dragged a hand through her hair.

"Might as well," She mumbled. Sebastian's head did a sharp turn.

"Would you like a pencil and paper?" He asked.

"They would be necessary," Clary replied warily.

He got up and shoved the supplies in her face. She thanked him with a look that told him they were on the same page. She decided to draw a plain rose. While she was doing that the boys played cards and Maia and Sebastian talked about their house. Clary was really worried that Maia. So much that her flower turned a bit darker than she expected. She contemplated fixing it and realized it wasn't worth the effort.

"Are you done?" Alec asked. She jumped slightly. So that's what he sounded like. Clary nodded. She lifted the paper so, when everyone looked up at her, they could see what she had drawn. There was a murmur of appreciation from the room. Imogen looked at everybody else warily.

"It's definitely... Dark," She said. Clary felt her heart sink.

"She's a tortured artist. It fits her image," Jace said in response. She wasn't sure, but she thought Jace was standing up for her. Looking across the room at him, she tried to figure out if this was true. He met her eyes and they both turned scarlet. Him maybe a little less than her but she was a little paler than him.

"It's conveying my pain at this very moment," She said.

"Don't we all believe it," Magnus smiled. Clary shook her head in exasperation.

***

After the excitement of the night Clary was glad to sink into bed in the guest bedroom. She didn't realize that her week would only get weirder.

Over dramatic ending, but you get the gist. Or you don't know the story of Pride and Prejudice and you're left in the dark, in which case, all the more fun for you. So contest results...

Really, only one person tried. Thanks Lolli, you deserve a shout out. But the references were...

*The obvious one, Maia's past. (i.e. the boyfriend)

*Sebastian being a mommas boy. This was less a reference, and more of a joke. Since Sebastian's technically Jonathan, Jocelyn was technically his mom. And that was so out there, I don't think anyone could have guessed that.

*Alec had familiar looks. Of course Clary found them familiar, Isabelle's her sister.

*And not to mention Magnus' glitter.

That was a dumb idea. So let's do another one!

If you guess my favorite character I'll send you the next chapter early. I'm not posting it till this weekend, but it's a doozy. In the Pride and Prejudice sequence, Elizabeth gets more reasons to hate Mr. Darcy and then he does something... wow. So it should be good.

! Hint- My favorite is not entirely obvious and it's not Jace, even though i love him.