Chapter 4 - Around the fireplace

Minutes later, Isabelle walked down the stairs with a huge dusty box in her hands. For her body, she was pretty strong. On the outside she looked like the beautiful, cold but also magnificent Lady with long black hair and the same blue eyes as her brother had, but on the inside she was a fighter, with a strong heart and she was amazingly strong and talented.

The only thing she wasn't good at, was keeping a boyfriend for more than two weeks. But she always swore that that wasn't her fault.
As she reached the downstairs hall, she suddenly heard loud laughters and playful screams, followed by some curses.

"Alec! Don't...!", another scream and a kind of evil laugh filled the air.

What the hell?, Isabelle thought as she recognized one of the voice's as Clary's and the other one as her brother's, Are they fighting yet again?

She put down the box and scratched her head, before she went to the door and peeked into the living room. And her eyes immediately grew wider as she saw what was going on inside:

Clary and Alec were lying on the carpet in front of the fireplace, Clary on top of him, and were laughing loudly. Suddenly her brother grabbed a hold of Clary's shoulders and rolled them both over, so he was on top of her now and had won back the control over her. Isabelle could see his knee slide between her legs and straddle them.

Her jar dropped as she put a hand on her mouth, feeling like her lunch was about to say 'hi' again. What were they doing?

"Alec, no!", Clary half laughed, half begged "I said don't!"

"Sorry, I can't hear you.", he grinned down at her helpless body "What did you say?"

"Don't do it!"

"I'm sorry, you have to speak up, sweetie."

"I said don't! Please!"

His head went down to hers, and for a moment Isabelle thought he would kiss her, but he stopped right before their lips would have touched."I'm afraid that wasn't good enough to convince me to let you go."

"ALEC, I BEG YOU! Let go! I will do anything! But please don't do it! I beg you, please don't!"

That was enough! What did he think he was doing!?

"Alec!", Izzy yelled and sped into the room "Get the hell off her! Have you gone completely insane?!"

Both, Alec and Clary turned to look at her with the same shocked expression on their faces. She watched her brother as he hurried to get off of Clary and sat next to her while she sat up and stared at Isabelle.

Alec knew exactly what his sister was thinking right now. It was obvious by the way she glared at him in pure disgust. Even Clary seemed to realise it and began to speak

"Isabelle, it's not.."

But she was cut off by her "Alec!", she yelled and took a step towards her brother "What the hell has gotten into you?!"

There it was again, Clary thought, his cold face that didn't show any emotions.
"Isabelle, calm down. It's not what you think okay?"

"What is it then?!", she folded her arms and looked at him."Listen, we just...", he didn't know how to explain that they were just fooling around without completely embarrassing himself "It just happened."

He realised what that must have sounded like, as Clary looked at him, wide eyed and completely stiff in shock. But Alec just shrugged and jumped up. He rushed out of the room, hearing his sister call out his name, but he didn't care .