Lexie and Clary were pacing around in circles, explaining what happened at Pandemonium to their mother, who suspiciously didn't seemed shocked by any of this information. "We had to have been drugged." Lexie told them, searching for a reasonable explanation for what happened in the club. "Those stupid lattes." She mumbled under her breath, suspected that the drinks they had earlier were the cause of it.
"What did the markings look like on the blonde boy you were talking about?" Jocelyn asked her daughters, ignoring their talk about being drugged because she knew what was really happening.
"Who cares, Mom, okay? Are you even listening to us?" Clary asked their mother, clearly frustrated at her moms question. "I think I killed a guy."
Jocelyn pulled out a stele, similar to the one she gave the twins earlier for their birthday. She hovered it over her arm, revealing a tattoo that looked like the ones they saw earlier on the blonde guy. "Girls, did they look like this?" She asked them, but she already knew by the look on their faces that they were.
"Mom..." Lexie breathed out, taking a step away from her.
"Everything you girls saw tonight has a meaning and an explanation, and I've been dreading this conversation with the two of you since they day you were born." Jocelyn started explaining to them, making her way over to them.
Lexie shook her head, not wanting to accept what her mother was trying to tell them. "What's going on?" She asked her, still extremely confused by everything that's happened.
"Are we going insane?" Clary stuttered.
"No, you're not." Their mother told them, holding onto both Clary and Lexie's hands. "But the protections are wearing off. You two are 18 now, and you need to learn the truth."
"Protections? What does that even mean?" Clary questioned her, still not understanding what was their mom was telling them.
Lexie ran her fingers through her hair, feeling overwhelmed. "Mom, I think I can speak for both of us when I say that you're freaking us both out."
"I know, and that's why I've put this off until the last possible minute." Jocelyn said, squeezing both of the girls hands for support.
Jocelyn was cut off by Dot, who came running in. "Jocelyn, look out the window." Dot instructed, and Jocelyn jogged over to the window to see what she was talking about. "Magnus called to warn us. They found you." She continued, referring to the two circle members outside of their home.
"Dot, it's time." Jocelyn told her, before running throughout the house to retrieve something. "Okay girls, listen to me. You two cannot be near me."
"Why?" Lexie asked, now grabbing a hold of her sisters hand.
Jocelyn made her way over to their bookshelf. "I got a very powerful person angry."
"What'd you do?" Clary asked her, puzzled.
"I hid something from him and his followers." Jocelyn informed the girls, as she made her way over to them with two necklaces in her hand.
Lexie raised an eyebrow, trying to understand what her mom was trying to explain to the two of them. "Who's followers? Maybe we should just call the police?" She suggested, not fully understanding the type of situation they were in. The police couldn't help them.
"The police officer you need to call is Luke." Their mother told them, turning both girls around so she could put their necklaces on them. She started putting Clary's on her first, which had a purple crystal attached to it. "Keep these with you, and think of me when you girls wear them." She instructed them, as she moved on over to Lexie, placing a similar necklace except hers had a blue crystal attached to it.
"Mom, I really don't think this is the time for some more birthday gifts." Lexie told her, just as her mother finished clasping the necklace around her neck.
"What the hell is happening!" Clary shouted, clearly getting annoyed by her mother, who still hadn't told the girls what was going on.
Dot then came over, handing Jocelyn a container filled with a green substance. "Only if you need it."
"Girl's, trust your instincts." Jocelyn told Clary and Lexie, while holding onto both of their arms. "You're both so much more powerful then you know."
Tears started to well up in Lexie's eyes, who sensed that their mother was trying to say goodbye. "Mom, please, help us understand what's going on." Lexie pleaded, not wanting to leave her mom without an explanation.
"Dot open it." Their mother ordered Dot, who formed opened up a portal in their house for them. "Everything I've done, every mistake I've made was because I love you girls more than words." She continued, pulling both Clary and Lexie over to the portal Dot created for them.
"What are you doing?" Lexie asked, feeling her sister shaking with fear.
"Luke will explain everything." Their mother said, implying that she wasn't going to get a chance to tell them herself. "He'll hide you guys."
"Hide us?" Clary repeated, frightened.
"From the circle." Jocelyn informed them, although her daughters had no idea what she meant by that. "He's the only one you can trust." She continued, talking in reference to Luke. "Trust no one else."
"Mom-" Clary started, but was cut off by their mom.
"Where's Luke now?" Jocelyn asked, understanding that the time they had was short and valuable, which meant that she had to ensure that the girls knew what to do once they separate.
"At the police station!" Lexie answered quickly, with her eyes wide and dewy.
Jocelyn squeezed both girls one last time. "Remember I love you girls." She reminded them, before stepping back from them because she knew they were about to go through the portal.
Both girls screamed for their mom, but it was no use since they were already being sucked into the portal. The girls held each others hands as they entered the portal and moment later were being transported to the police station. Clary and Lexie let out a short yelp as they landed on the ground in a sitting position against the wall. Since it was their first time going through a portal it took both of them a few seconds before they recovered from their travel.
Lexie noticed that Clary was holding onto her hand, and sensed that she must've hit it when they fell. "Sis, you okay?" Lexie asked, concerned for her sister since it seemed to be bothering her.
Before Clary could respond the girls were cut off by the sound of footsteps, from the stairs that were beside them. "Clary? Lexie?" A female voice interrupts them, causing the girls to turn their attention to the women making her way towards them, with a puzzled expression on her face.
"Captain Vargas." Lexie breathed out, as her and Clary stood up to greet her.
"It's 2:00 in the morning, what are you doing here so late?" Captain Vargas questioned, not understanding what reason the girls would have to be at the police station so late.
Clary and Lexie turned to look at one another, both trying to think of a reasonable explanation for why they were here so late. "Um, Luke said he's, uh, drive us home if he was still here." Clary lied, stuttering her words as she spoke, feeling put on the spot.
"Still doesn't trust those cabbies, huh?" The captain comments, making her lips twitch up in a smile. "Well, he's in the middle of an interview. It could take awhile." She informs them, going back to her previous expression, which was more concerning and serious.
"Okay well, we'll just wait in the cafeteria for him." Lexie tells her, hesitating a little, but smiling in an attempt to divert suspicion off of them.
Both girls start to turn the corner, but stops once Captain Vargas calls their names. "Is there some sort of problem? Guy trouble?" She asks the twins, clearly concerned for their well being. This comment makes both girls smile, since it's clear that Captain Vargas cares about them and wants to ensure that they're okay.
"Yeah, it's uh, something like that." Lexie falsely confirmed, in hopes that the Captain would now let the girls out of her sight so they could find Luke. Once they notice the women nodded slightly, they take this as an okay to leave. The twins continue past the corner and wait until they're sure that Captain Vargas is gone, and then start making their way down the stairs.
Lexie and Clary peered over the stairwell, listening in on Luke's conversation with a man in a suit, and a woman in an orange dress who was partially sitting on top of his desk. The twins watched the exchange cautiously, not wanting to risk being caught. "The minute we found out Jocelyn Fairchild was alive, you were easy to track." The man informed Luke.
"Fairchild." Clary huffs out, loud enough for her sister to her, but not the three who they were watching. The sister both stare at each other, confused by this revelation, since they both were told that their last name way Fray.
"Turns out you and Jocelyn were never that far apart." The man continues. "The circle has her now. It's only a matter of time until we catch her twin daughters." Lexie and Clary are instantly filled with fear after that comment, not only do they have their mother, but they're after them as well. Yet, Lexie would never let anything happen to Clary, the circle would have to go through first before they could even touch her twin sister.
"You can have them all if you give up the Mortal Cup." The chocolate skinned woman proposes, it takes Luke a moment to respond, but when he does it's not the answer anyone was expecting to hear.
"I don't care about any of them. They mean nothing to me. You can kill them if you like." Luke spits out in hostility, with no trace of emotion on his face. Clary gasps after hearing Luke say that, and Lexie grips onto her arm for support. Luke was like their father, but now they didn't even know who he was anymore. Clary's eyes started to well up, feeling betrayed by the police officer she looked up to as a child. While Lexie just kept shaking her head, refusing to believe that Luke actually meant what he had just said. However, even she had a hard time believing him, feeling broken as a single tear slid down her cheek.
The girls keep their attention focused on Luke's conversation with the man and woman, as much as they wanted to run away right now, they couldn't and wouldn't until they were sure that they couldn't get anymore information on what was happening. "My people want the Cup. Why do you think I've been hanging around here all these years?" Luke continued, practically twisting the knife he had stabbed in Clary and Lexie's back. He starts to stand up, with the other two following suit as he did. "Now, when I find the Cup, I'm gonna keep it. And you can tell Valentine and the circle that." Luke finished, eyeing down the two who were standing on the opposite side of his desk.
"No one mentioned Valentine."
"You didn't have to." Luke tells the woman. He knew Valentine better than anyone.
"Listen to me." The man in the suit demands, pointing his finger at Luke.
Luke immediately swiped the mans hand away, replacing it with his own as he now points at the man in a threatening manner. "No, you listen to me." Luke instructed, now starting to lose his cool. "Get out of my office." He orders them, now changing his fingers direction so it was now pointing towards the exit.
Lexie and Clary had had enough, and quickly hid behind the stairwell. Neither knew how to react, everything was happening and changing at such a rapid place, one they couldn't keep up with. "C'mon." Clary told her sister, choking back more tears. "Let's go." She continued, knowing that both of them wanted to get back to their home as fast as they could.
Clary held onto Lexie tightly, as the two darted out of the police station and into the pouring rain. They twins start to race down the outside stairs, but when Lexie suddenly stop in her tracks, Clary turns back for her. "Lexie, we can't stay." Clary told her sister and grabbed a hold of her hand, trying to force her to keep going. "Those people are after us, a-and Luke can't help us."
"I know he can't help us! Nobody can, we're alone now!" Lexie shouted, tearing her hand away from Clary's in a moment of anger. "Clary I'm sorry, I just need a minute." She apologized in a calmer manner, feeling guilty for lashing out at her sister.
Clary reached for her sisters hand again, gripping it tighter this time. "We're not alone Lex. We still have each other."
Lexie pulled her sister into a quick embrace, that was filled filled with a lot of love and support. Clary was right, they weren't alone and they needed each other more than ever now. The two soon separated and continued their fast paced journey back to their home, both holding onto the hope that their mom might still be there, even though they both knew that she wasn't and that the circle had her.
"Mom! Mom!" The girls cried out once they got to the shop, both panting from racing here as fast as they could. When they got no response from their mother, they both started sobbing. Clary fell onto her knees in tears, and Lexie immediately went down on hers to so they could comfort each other. The twins held onto each other, crying into each others arms.
The twins took deep breaths and tried to calm down, still holding onto each other as tight as they could. When they finally stopped crying, they stood up and started searching for weapons they could use, in case anybody was still in their shop or home. Lexie found her weapon first, which was a long and skinny sword that was leaning against the wall. She turned towards her sister, who had an axe in her hands and the two made their way upstairs.
When they got into the loft, they both jumped when they thought they heard something from down the hall, but when they looked nobody was there. Lexie gripped onto her weapon tighter, preparing for anything that was about to jump out of them. Neither expected to see Dot standing in the middle of their living, when they turned around. Clary and Lexie felt relieved when they saw their friend standing there, and both dropped their weapons thinking they were safe. "Dot..." Clary said, as the two girls stopped in front of her.
"They took Jocelyn." Dot informed the girls, with a blank expression on her face.
Neither girls thought must of it, since they were both too caught up in seeing Dot alive and believing that they were no longer alone. "Who? The circle?" Lexie asked, thinking back to the conversation they overheard at the police station.
"Yes, rogue Shadowhunters searching for the Mortal Cup." Dot confirmed, as she made her way closer to the girls.
"What the hell are you talking about?" Clary questioned while fighting back more tears.
Dot continued inching towards the girls, still not showing much emotion. "Think, girls. Did your mother ever talk to you about a cup? A very important cup. It's gold, almost like a chalice." She continued, but neither Clary or Lexie had any idea what she was talking about. Lexie did however notice that Dot was acting strange.
"No, we don't know anything about a Cup!" Clary told her, feeling overwhelmed and confused.
"Did you check downstairs, it's probably one of those." Lexie chimed in.
Dot shook her head. "No, no, it's not one of those." She continued to make her way closer to them, which started to make Lexie feel uncomfortable. "Think, girls. This could save Jocelyn."
"I can't think! Somebody just kidnapped our mother!" Clary shout at her, not understanding why she was being so persistent about a cup.
"You know more than you think you do, Clary and Lexie Fray." Dot said venomously, as her face suddenly morphed into a terrifying creature that was similar to the one they saw at the club.
Lexie instinctively stabbed the creature with her stele, which momentarily had an effect on the monster. She then grabbed her sisters hand and the two back away from it, but Lexie made sure she was in front of her sister so that she could protect her. They both watched as they creature started changing into it's full form.
"Watch out!" Lexie screams while pushing her sister further back, noticing that the creature was about to lunge at them. It jumped on top of the table in front of Lexie and she quickly rolled out of the way. The creature started making its way towards Lexie, but Clary than swung at the creature with her axe, before it could do any damage to her sister. Unfortunately, it didn't seem to have much of an effect on it as it also nipped at Clary and then started to corner her against a wall.
Lexie watched in horror, thinking that it was about to kill her sister and then move onto her. She tried getting up in time, but stopped when she noticed a glowing blade go through the creature. Her eyes wandered over to the person who had just killed it and was shocked to see that it was the blonde guy from Pandemonium. Jace kept his eyes on Clary for a brief moment, before turning to Lexie and helping her onto her feet.
"What no thank you?" He asked them, mostly directing it towards Clary. Both girls stared at him, feeling numb from everything that just happened. "Careful." He warned Clary, examining her necks. "Demon got a piece of you."
"Demons?" They both said simultaneously, as he continued to check out Clary's wound.
"Yeah. What'd you think that miserable, disgusting thing was?" He responded as if the answer was obvious.
"Dot." Lexie replied for the two of them. "At least we thought it was at first."
Jace shook his head slightly in response, and corrected them, "No, Ravener demon, Shapeshifter."
"Uh, why is the room spinning?" Clary asked, starting to feel lightheaded.
Lexie stepped closer towards her sister, concerned for her health. "What's wrong with her?" She asked Jace, who was still examining her sisters wound.
"Demon venom."
"It's that bad?" Clary said softly, before collapsing into Jace, who managed to catch her before she fell.
"Clary!" Lexie shouted, her voice shaking in fear. "Help her." She begged Jace, who was holding her sister in his arms.
Jace kept his eyes focused on Clary, who was dangling in his arms. "I got you." He mumbled, before turning his attention towards Lexie. "I will, just follow me." He instructed Lexie, who obliged without hesitation.
"Wait." Lexie called out to him, causing him to stop walking and turn back to wait for her. Suddenly everything turned black, as she collapsed onto the floor.
During their sleep, Lexie and Clary's necklaces started to glow as they shared the same dream. It was of their mother, who was surrounded by a clear, purple substance. There was also a man, who started to draw a circle on their mothers neck with a stele. They both suddenly jolted awake, and sprung forward in their bed. Lexie managed to stop herself midair noticing that a girl was sitting on her bed and she didn't want to hit her, but Clary didn't notice on time and bumped into the girl instead.
"Ow.." She mumbled, letting out a soft sigh.
Both Clary and Lexie seemed frightened, since they had no idea where they were. "Wait, I don't who you-" Clary said and started backing away from the girl.
"I'm Isabelle." The girl said, introducing herself to the twins with a smile. "I've never seen Jace so curious about a mundane... or distracted." She continued, directing her comment at Clary. "Like you saw earlier, distractions are dangerous in our line of work."
"What are you talking about?" Clary continued asking the girl while Lexie just looked around, observing the room that they were in.
"You two really don't know much, do you?" Isabelle asked them, noticing how clueless they both looked.
Lexie focused her attention back onto Isabelle and shook her head. "All we know is that some gang took our mother, and now you guys have taken us too." She accused, even though deep down she had a feeling that they weren't going to hurt them.
Isabelle had to hold in a chuckle, still trying to make the girls feel at ease. "And by taken I assume you mean saved your life."
"A mundane shouldn't even be here. Let alone, two of them." The handsome, raven haired boy form the club commented while entering the room with Jace.
"Where is here exactly?" Lexie asked him, speaking softly since her sister was already doing enough freaking out for the both of them. Lexie just wanted some answers.
"They're not mundanes, Alec." Jace notified him.
Alec turned his body so that he was facing Jace. "How do you know that?" He shot at him.
"Because the seraph blade lit up when she touched it. " Jace responded while gesturing towards Clary. "And she's her twin, so she can't be a mundane either." Look Isabelle, can you?" He asked, before taking her position on the bed where the twins were. "I'm Jace Wayland."
"The guy from the loft." Lexie mumbled, feeling secure with now here. "We're-"
"Lexie and Clary Fray, we know who you are." Jace said, cutting her off.
"Am I the only one who finds this unusual?" Alec asked, refusing to let this go.
Jace seemed annoyed by this, "Alec you-"
However, this time it was Lexie's turn to cut him off. "No, trust me, you're not." She said, making eye contact with him and actually managing to get a slight smile out of him. Lexie then remembered that he was the one who saved her back at Pandemonium and made a mental note to thank him late for that.
The smile on his face didn't last long though. "I have to report this to the Clave." Alec informed them all, still speaking in a serious tone.
"You know what? Dial it down a notch." Jace advised him, not wanting to worry the twins.
"My brother doesn't have a dial." Izzy stated from her chair. "I love you Alec, but you have a switch that's always on." She reminded him with a smile on her face.
"I love you too." Alec said to her, still not liking this whole situation. "But this just-"
"Hey, you know what? Give me a minute." Jace ordered him, getting tired of Alec's comments. "Here's a word you never here me say. Please?" He said, motioning towards the door.
Alec however, wasn't going to to leave without a fight. "What is with you? Really, no, what is with him?" Alec asked Izzy annoyed, as he noticed her getting up to approach him.
"Walk with me, big brother." She instructed him while linking their arms and leading him out of the room.
Lexie looked back at him as him and his sister disappeared out of sight, she didn't understand why them being her was annoying him so much. "Your wounds. They're healed." Jace told the girls, who both seemed shocked by this.
"How is that even possible?" Clary asked, looking over at her shoulder.
"I didn't even know I had one." Lexie said, not remembering being bit or scratched by the demon they encountered in their house.
"He got you on the arm." Jace informed Lexie. "Everything was happening so fast, you must not have noticed."
Lexie nodded since his answer seemed reasonable. "So, we're miraculously healed, and all you stunning people have some magical powers?" Clary questioned him, pretending like she has it all figured out.
Jace chuckles at her comment. "No, don't confuse me with a warlock."
"A what?" Lexie raised a questioning eyebrow, not understanding what that was.
"A warlock." Jace repeated, but then realized that they still had no idea what he was talking about. "It's one of the Downworlders."
"Okay, slow down. What's a Downworlder?" Lexie asked, since both her and Clary's were feeling overwhelmed.
Jace seemed confused by the twins lack of knowledge. "Warlocks, vampires, seelies..." He listed.
"Literally my brain is about to explode." Clary interrupted as her eyes started to water.
"Jeez, alright. Well I'll keep it simple for you guys. All the legends are true. We're Shadowhunters. We protect the human world from the demon world. So those people you girls saw murdered at Pandemonium, they weren't people at all, they were shapeshifting demons." Jace explained to Clary and Lexie.
"Like the one at our loft." Lexie said, feeling like everything was starting to click into place.
Clary didn't seem to care as much about what he was saying though. "We're not interested in being apart of your supernatural fight club. I just want to find my mom." Clary told her while her voice started breaking. "The rest of it, whatever it is, all I care about is finding my mother. Please. Help us find her." She begged.
"I'm the best chance you've got." Jace told them.
Clary shook her head slightly, in disbelief that he was willing to help two girls that he had just met. "We don't even know you." Her focus was then adverted to her cell phone, that was ringing in her pocket. She picked it up, and saw that it was their bets friend calling her. "It's Simon." Clary told her twin before quickly answering his call.
The sound of Simon's name instantly caught Lexie's attention. "What's he saying?" Lexie asked after a moment of her sister being on the phone with him.
"Have we been out for two days?" Clary asked Jace while also answering semi answering Lexie's question. She got a nod from Jace in response which made Lexie gasp in shock. They watched as Clary went over to the window and looked out. Lexie quickly got up and looked outside too, where she saw her best friend standing outside. "I see you." Clary told Simon. "Give us five minutes, we have to get dressed." She continued to tell him and let out a sigh after a couple more seconds. "Just give us five minutes, okay?"
After Clary hung up, both girls turned to face Jace. "What happened to our clothes?" Lexie asked, just realizing that her and Clary were only dressed in t-shirts that were barely long enough to cover them.
"Demon venom. Remember?" Jace replied. "Isabelle left you these." He said, referring to the leather clothes that were draping over the chair beside them.
The twins made their way over the chair, each picking up an article of clothing that would be skin tight on them. They turned towards Jace with their eyebrows raised,. "You're kidding right?" Clary asked, hoping that he wasn't serious about them leaving in those clothes.
"Isabelle's very comfortable with her body." Jace simply told them, giving them the answer that they weren't hoping for.
"Okay then." Lexie sighed, before her and Clary walked away so that they could get changed.
When Lexie and Clary had finished changing into the clothes Isabelle had provided for them. Lexie admired her outfit in the mirror, which was a black skin tight dress that had slits in the sides and a pair of short black booties to go with it. Although she didn't feel comfortable in the outfit, she did have to admit that the way it hugged her body was flattering.
"How did that get there?" Clary questioned, after pushing her hair away from her neck to reveal a tattoo. Lexie then looked at her neck and noticed that she had one as well.
"I drew that." Jace told her, seeming amused by her annoyance. "And surprisingly, Alec actually drew yours." He told Lexie, who seemed kind of surprised by this revelation, since Alec made it seem like he didn't care what happened to her.
"Okay, listen." Clary ordered him, as she walked forward and leaned up against a table in front of him. "I don't get everything that's going on her, but you do not tattoo our necks. That's creepy."
"Duly noted. I guess next time I'll just let you die." He said with a shrug. The last part caught both of their attentions since neither of them had any idea what he meant. "And they're not tattoos. They're runes. They have enormous power. Good for Shadowhunters, lethal for humans." Jace was now standing close to Clary only inches apart from her, as he bent down to get her notebook off a table. "But you, you already know all about runes, don't you?" He then flashed the other notebook up at Lexie since it was hers. "You too." He said, but was taken back by the confusion still plastered on the twins faces. "Maybe you don't. Which is what makes the two of you so special, Clary and Lexie Fray."
The three of them started to make their way out of the Institute, towards the front door to meet Simon. "I saw something behind your friend." Jace told them while holding his seraph blade out for their protection.
Clary gave him a look, "You're not going to kill Simon, are you?"
"Protect the humans, kill the demons. You'll get it soon." He informed her, just before they started to make their way outside.
"Wait so how are you able to make Simon not able to see you?" Lexie asked him, still confused about that whole aspect of their world.
Jace pulled his shirt up slightly, so he could show them a rune that was placed on his lower stomach. "This is a glamour, a rune that makes me invisible to mundanes." He told the twins. "It's a shame, really, cause well, denying them all this." Lexie couldn't help a smirk from forming on her lips when she saw the way Clary admired his stomach, but her expression soon changed back to serious as the twins started to approach their best friend, Simon.
"What do you guys have on?" Simon asked while taking off his jacket and handing it over to Clary, as Lexie did her best to keep her jealousy from surfacing. "Let me take you home."
Clary took a deep breath before responding to Simon, as she tried to think of the best possible way to explain this to him. "I don't think we have on anymore."
"Why? What do you mean?" He continued questioning, his puzzled expression extremely visible on his face.
"Well-" Lexie started, about to explain everything but was interjected by a mans voice.
"Lexie and Clary Fairchild." The guy said, and they both instantly recognized him from the police station. Jace quickly came up behind the man, putting him into a headlock. The man continued to fight back against Jace, and the twins gasped in horror as the watched the whole fight go down.
However, Simon couldn't see any of this so they just seemed crazy to him. "Guys, what're you looking at?" He asked them, placing his hands on both of their shoulders for support.
The twins ignored him, not able to take their eyes off of the fight taking place before their eyes. They can hear the man trying to negotiate with Jace, but thankfully he doesn't buy into it. Their fight soon ends after Jace drives his seraph blade into the mans stomach. "We'll never stop hunting them." The man tells Jace, before collapsing to the ground, now dead.
Clary and Lexie rip themselves out of Simon's grasp and race towards Jace. "Jace!" Clary yells, obviously concerned for him after his intense battle.
"Is he dead?" Lexie asks, stopping in front of the mans dead body that lied on the ground.
"Is who dead?" Simon asked, following behind them. He was soon taken by surprise when the body suddenly became visible for him to see. "What the-" He stuttered, not understanding how a dead body randomly appeared out of thin air.
"Jace, do you mind glamorizing yourself, or whatever, so our best friend doesn't think that we're losing our mind." Clary asked, noticing the look on Simon's face. Jace then glamorized so that Simon could now see him as well.
"Um, what's happening?" Simon asked his best friends while frozen in place from shock. There was no explanation as to what was happening in his mind, but definitely wasn't expecting any of this when he came over here to find them.
"Yeah, we don't have the luxury right now, kid. Everyone back inside." Jace ordered while already getting a head start up the stairs.
Simon took a step forward towards the twins and his best friends. "Guys, who is this? Your meth dealer?" He interrogated, seeming concerned for them, but Lexie could tell it was more out of jealousy because of Jace.
"Wait!" Lexie called out to Jace, making him come to a stop. "We've seen this guy before."
"At the police station." Clary then added in.
Jace made his way back down the stairs and down towards the twins, stopping in front of the two of them, but mostly facing Clary. "He's a member of the circle. Clary and Lexie, he's here for you guys."
"He's with the people that kidnapped our mother." Lexie said, thinking that there was some way that this could help them find her.
"Right, your little best friend here led him right to you guys." Jace said while gesturing over Clary's shoulder, towards Simon. The annoyance in his voice starting to get more adamant. "He's here to capture or kill you."
"There's a dead body there, we have to call Luke." Simon insisted, pointing at the dead body that was on the ground in front of them.
Clary shook her head slightly, the hurt form the betrayal still noticeable on hers and Lexie's faces. "We can't trust Luke, Simon. We can't."
"Clary, Lexie, I need to keep you safe." Jace said while turning Clary so she was facing him. "I promise you both, I promise I am gonna help you guys find your mother. But you both are apart of us. You guys are Shadowhunters." He reminded them with his hand out for her to take.
"What are you talking about?" Simon asked, still confused by everything that he was now learning. "Guys." He spoke softly, turning Lexie around so she was facing him. "You don't know this guy alright? Come with me. I can get us help." He then reached his hand out in front of them, much like Jace had.
"Girls, please."
"Guys, come on."
The twins had no idea what to do, they were now stuck in between two men who insisted they went with them. Although, Lexie knew that this was mostly a unsaid battle for Clary. However, they were persistent on both of them going, which meant this was her decision as well. Clary and Lexie both turned their heads towards each others, trying to search for an answer in each others eyes.