Chapter 8:
Clary enjoyed spending time with Vincent and Valiant. They had been staying at the institute for a few weeks now, visiting with Jocelyn and Clary almost everyday. A lot of the time Jace joined them as well. Alec, Isabelle, and Simon had all been extremely wary of the two clones at first, but seemed to have warmed up to them a bit.
Today Clary, Jace, and the rest of their friends were taking Vincent and Valiant to Coney Island. Jocelyn and Luke had been invited by Maia and Bat to visit Luke's old pack, so they couldn't come.
They had just finished on the Ferris wheel and were standing in line for one of the roller coasters when Clary got an uneasy feeling. She looked around, but didn't see anything out of the ordinary.
Jace, noticing her uneasiness, leaned down to whisper in her ear. "You all right?" he asked.
"Yeah," Clary murmured back, somewhat distractedly.
Clary dismissed the feeling as just being paranoid. They finally got to the front of the line. The rest of the day went by and Clary didn't think any more about her earlier uneasiness.
It was as she and the group were headed into the institute that she got the feeling again. She stopped and looked around. Jace noticed and waited next to her as the others continued into the institute.
"Is everything OK?" Jace asked.
"I keep getting this feeling as if somebody is watching me," Clary told him.
"Have you seen anybody watching you?"
"No."
"It's probably just some passerby noticing my stunningly good looks," Jace dismissed.
Clary, becoming distracted by Jace's conceited comment, didn't notice the small boy with white blonde hair as he quickly ran around a corner and out of sight.
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"Did you see them?" Jax asked as soon as Jude walked in the door to the abandon building they were staying in. After they had completed the tasks Carl had asked them to, Carl created the portal. Jax and Jude had stepped through. They had explored New York for a few hours, until they had stumbled upon the building they were staying in now.
"Yeah, I kept an eye on them all day just like you said to do. Although, it wasn't as easy as I thought it would be. Clary kept looking around as if she sensed me," Jude answered.
"It's Clarissa," Jax corrected. "Did she see you?"
"I don't think so. Clarissa just sounds too stuck up for her," Jude commented.
"Clarissa is what Sebastian told us to call her," Jax said.
"But Sebastian isn't here anymore. We don't have to do whatever he says anymore," Jude pointed out.
"He might be dead, but he was the one to take care of us and keep us safe. We should still carry out his plan," Jax insisted.
"I thought we only went along with what he wanted us to do because he took care of us when we did, and hurt us if we didn't," Jude muttered under his breath too low for Jax to hear as he followed him.
"I think it's time we made contact with them," Jax told Jude.
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With V & S dead and gone
Shadowhunter lives are peaceful and long.
But that's just boring,
So to add some spice,
Let's bring villains back,
Cause they're rather nice!