Sorry this is short one, but I wanted to put something out so you didn't think I was dead or something... :)
Anyway, Surgery went well, typing is slow, but coming along, and I will be working on getting the next installment out as soon as possible. Thank you for sticking with me, and I hope you like what little I have out!
"Magnus! How much longer are we going to just sit here and wait."Jace asked. He had gotten off of the couch a few minutes ago and started pacing the room as Tessa and Magnus watched. He could feel their eyes burning a hole in his back each time he reached the end of his imaginary teather. "Can I at least have Alec and Izzy come and help if you aren't going to-" Jace stopped mid-sentence and mid-stride when the door opened and a man with greyish black hair, an almost oriental look, but not quite, and blue eyes stepped through the door, a cane in his hand.
His eyes shifted over to Magnus and Tessa, still standing in the Kitchen with their mugs with tea, and then back to Jace. He moved his cane to the umbrella stand near the door, after shutting the door behind him, and sighed.
"If Magnus is here then there must be something wrong." The man said without shifting his gaze. "You on the other hand I don't know."
"I'm the one waiting for us to do something about Jonathan!" Jace said looking towards Magnus, then looking back at the man standing at the door. "But my name is Jace-"
"Herondale, that didn't take too long to figure out." The man replied. "My name is Jem, formerly brother Zacharia."
"Formerly, so you didn't make it through the brotherhood?" Magnus asked coming out of the kitchen after Tessa.
"No, the marks didn't stay." Jem replied coolly "But that doesn't matter right now. What I would like to know is why you are in our house? Who is Jonathan?"
After having Magnus and Tessa explain to Jem the situation with Clary in Jonathan's custody, while Jace watched from his perch on the kitchen counter, Jem sighed a frustrated breath of air.
"Well this is a peculiar turn of events." Jem retorted. "Just when I thought I would never hear or even think of those things again."
"Yeah…" Tessa started, but didn't bother to finish. Really what could anyone of them say.
"I assume you have already agreed to help?" Jem inquired to Tessa, who simply nodded her head. "Then we better get started on finding Jonathan, before he can get the rune from Clary."
Clary looked around her room, she was sure she was dreaming again, yet, how cold she be sure. Everything around her looked so real, not to mention how cold the ground was instead of the nice bed that was in front of her. Slowly her hand reach out and felt the smooth silk sheets that stood before her, then sat up, glancing at the rune that her brother had drawn on her. It was gone.