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I want to thank everyone who read my story, and especially to those who took the time to review, it means a lot to me. This is the second last chapter, but I will be doing a sequel about Clary and Jace when Clary was pregnant with Nathaniel and maybe even Kat. Thanks to TMIShips4Life, who gave me that awesome idea:)

Looking down at her beautiful face all my anger disappeared. I sat next to her and planted a soft kiss on her lips...

Kat's P.O.V.

I was walking through a beautiful meadow, my mind completely at peace, when I saw someone walking towards me. I was scared for a moment, thinking it was Nathaniel, but as he got closer I realised it was Brandon. He smiled at me and I ran towards him and greeted him with a hug. We started to walk together, talking as usual when suddenly he stopped and kissed me. His lips were soft and the kiss was slow, finally he pulled away and I smiled at him, I was glad that he was going to be my first kiss.

" I love you, Katerina, " he said and I giggled like a little girl. But my laughter soon turned to confusion, Brandon never called me Katerina, he called me Kat or Kitty or babe. The only person who ever called me Katerina was...

" Nathaniel! " I exclaimed sitting up in my bed, but there was no one there. I relaxed a bit at that.

" It was just a dream, " I said softly to myself, willing it to be true. Nathaniel couldn't have gotten into my room anyway, the door was locked. I looked up and saw that my door was ajar and I had to physically stop myself from running into his room and screaming at him. As much as I wanted to yell at him, I didn't feel like getting slapped again. I would have to be a lot more subtle than that. Suddenly I had an idea, I quickly got out my phone and texted Brandon;

Hey baby I can't come to school today can you come over to my house after school to tutor me, I want to make sure I don't fall behind.

After a few minutes I got a reply;

Of course I can come over, text me your address. Is there something wrong? Why can't you come to school? If Nathaniel did something to you I swear to god I will kill him.

I smiled at that, I liked it when Brandon got all overprotective of me. It made me feel loved, I knew he would never do anything to hurt me. I texted him my address and told him I was just feeling a little poorly and asking him to meet me at 3:30, him killing Nathaniel wasn't exactly part of the plan.

I stayed in my room all day, not wanting to face Nathaniel, he had decided to stay home while I was on house arrest too, to make sure I didn't run away, or call anyone and tell them. He didn't know I had a phone, so thankfully it had not been taken away from me, but he had ripped all of the wall phones out of their sockets, and had deadlocked all the doors and windows. He had even gone to the extent of faking a doctors certificate to make sure that his teachers didn't log his hours and count them towards his five hours of unexplained absence.

It was only 6:30 so I spent the next 9 and a half hours watching YouTube and planning out in detail what I was going to do when Brandon got here. When 3:30 finally swung around I opened my door to go downstairs and was instantaneously greeted by Nathaniel. I pushed past him to go downstairs when I realised a fatal flaw to my plan, the door was deadlocked. I heard the doorbell ring, resonating throughout the house. Nathaniel got up looking alarmed.

" That's my lab partner, he said we could do the group assignment here, since I couldn't go to school, " I lied.

" How did you, never mind, you didn't tell him did you? "

" Of course not! " I said trying to look as shocked as possible.

He nodded and went to get the deadlock key.

" But I'll be watching you two, you have to keep your door open. " I nodded, perfect. I had him right where I wanted him.

Nathaniel opened the door and Brandon used all his will power not to punch my brother square in the face. I waved at him from the top of the stairs and beckoned for him to come upstairs. He followed me to my room and we sat down on the floor, I had positioned myself so that I could see if anyone was coming from the hallway. We got to work, chatting as we took a practice test. I heard footsteps and quickly whispered to Brandon,

" I need you to kiss me now, " and with that I planted my lips onto his firmly. He was surprised at first, but then he started to kiss me back. I was actually starting to relax and enjoy it when Nathaniel came in with some sandwiches. He dropped the plate on the floor and Brandon and I broke apart. I mentally high-fived myself, my plan had worked, I had definitely got underneath my brother's skin. He pointed at Brandon, his eyes sparkling with rage,

" You, out, now! " Brandon quickly got up, gathering his books before quickly pecking me on the cheek and leaving hurriedly. As soon as Brandon had gone Nathaniel turned to me and I took a step back, trying to get away from him. I knew he would be mad, but not this mad, especially after he said he loved me. He walked over to me, and started to punch me, as I screamed for help, I knew it was useless, Brandon had already left, but it didn't stop me. He pushed me to the ground and started to kick me as I screamed in agony. He was muttering something under his breath about discipline and how I had been a very naughty girl. I could hardly breathe by the time he was done, and I knew that a few of my ribs were broken and my leg had been fractured. I imagined what my face would look like tomorrow and I visibly shuddered. I used my arm to drag myself away from him, terrified of what he would do next. He sunk down resting on the wall looking utterly miserable.

" Why can't you just behave? You make me lose my temper, I didn't want to hurt you, " I was shocked at this and tried to reply, but all I could get out was a gurgle as blood ran out of my mouth. He started to sob and grabbed his phone. I saw him dial the ambulance and cried to myself as he talked to the lady in the other end.

" Hello, I need an ambulance right now, my sister fell down the stairs and she is badly injured. Mhm...yes...no...of course. Hurry, please I'm worried about her. Thank you, " he hung up his phone and I relaxed, an ambulance was coming, it would all be okay. I tried to stay awake, but the indescribable pain all over my body was too much, and I succumbed to sleep.

I woke up in a hospital room, and the bright lights blinded me. It took a moment for me to remember what happened and when I did, I started to cry. As my eyes adjusted to the light, I saw a police officer walk towards me. He stopped beside my bed and I looked around for Nathaniel, scared he would make me go back home.

" My name is officer Sanchez, I was wondering if I could talk to you for a minute about what happened to you. " I nodded and looked at him, I knew I could trust him.

" Do you know where my brother is? " I asked, worried for my safety.

" He isn't here right now, it's just us, " he said, and I relaxed for the first time since I had woken up.

" Your brother told me you fell down the stairs, but you don't look like you fell down the stairs, can you tell me what really happened? " he asked and I shook my head no.

" My brother would be mad, " I said wiping my eyes. He wrote something down in a notebook.

" Don't worry, you won't have to see your brother again if you tell us, "

" Do you pinky promise? " I said, holding out my pinky. I knew it was childish, but I had to know for sure. He held out his pinky and crossed it over mine.

" Okay, I'll tell you. I went to stay with him, after our parents died, mama and daddy didn't let me meet him before that, because they said he was a bad influence on me. And for the first little while it was okay, he slapped me a few times, but only if I deserved it. " As soon as I said that Sanchez started hastily writing things down, but I continued anyway, eager to get everything off my chest.

" He was an artist, like mama, and one day I found a sketchbook full of drawings of me. I didn't really think anything of it, ya know, I just figured he liked drawing people. But then a few weeks later, I found a big room, full of paintings and pictures of me, and one of them was him kissing me, so I got really mad at him and told him he was a freak and stuff and he called me a bitch and he slapped me again, really hard. He said I wasn't allowed to leave the house because he didn't want me to get him in trouble, and he deadlocked all the doors and broke all the phones. And then, he kissed me when he thought I was sleeping, so I asked my boyfriend on my phone, which he didn't know about, to come over after school, so that I could get underneath Nathaniel's skin. He said that Brandon could stay, as long as we kept my door open, because I told him we were studying, but he walked in on us kissing and he got really mad. He made Brandon leave and then he started hitting me. But afterwards he got really upset and he said that he didn't want to hurt me but I had been naughty and I had made him and that it was all my fault. " At this I started to sob again, which made my ribs hurt so I started taking deep breaths and I tried to regain some composure.

" You did really well Katerina, " he said looking at me with pity as he jotted some more things down in his notebook.

" Please don't call me that, that is what he used to call me. Call me Kat, " I said shuddering at the name. He nodded his head and then spoke again.

" Thank you for all your help, Kat. Now we can put Nathaniel behind bars, where he belongs, for a very long time. You were so brave today. " I smiled at him, finally feeling safe. He started to say something to me but my eyes started to close and then I was asleep, dreaming of a new life, with my parents.