"Right, that's it I give up!" said Jace throwing his plate onto the table and sitting down. "With?" said Cecily from across the table. "Valentine. He has to go!" said Jace the annoyance obvious in his voice. "What did he do to you?" asked Will. "He wants to drop me as a basketball leader and make me a group leader and give my post to..." said Jace annoyed. "Sebastian?" suggested Clary. Jace nodded. "Valentine says he feels I would 'provide a better service as a group leader as my basketball skills are passable but not exceptional'. What rubbish! I've been taking basketball since I became a leader, and I've been the best every year!" said Jace slamming the table.

"Ok Mr Modesty, calm down!" said Gideon rolling his eyes. "That's not the only thing he wants to change" said Tessa. The group turned to face her. "Valentine said he wanted to drop cookery at camp and let the kids focus on the other activities" said Sophie. "And he wants to make Maia and I start taking more than one activity!" said Jordan as he and Maia sat down at the table. "He said he's planning to build a zip wire across the lake and he wants us to be in charge of that and the climbing tower. That means no free time anymore!" said Maia frustrated.

"Listen, we can't exactly do anything! Valentine is in charge, we can't really change his mind." said Jem shaking his head. "You want to bet?" said Jace. "Don't Jace. Valentine would kill you." said Gabriel. Jace sighed, got up and stormed away from the table. "I'll go see what's up" said Alec and Cecily immediately. "Cecily, sit down. Alec, you go" said Will wearily. Alec left the table and Cecily sat back down reluctantly.

"But he's our cousin!" she protested. "But he's Alec's best friend" said Magnus. "Blood is thicker than water" argued Cecily. "And milkshake is thicker than blood" said Magnus "Doesn't mean you're always the right person to sort it." Cecily rolled her eyes and gave in.

Jace slammed the door of the leader's lounge. Alicante Holiday Camp had always been his home and he wasn't just going to let Valentine ruin it! Sure, change was good but this was practically demolition. "Jace?" said Alec's quiet voice from the doorway. "What?" spat Jace furiously. "I just wanted to say. I know how you feel. I don't like what Valentine is doing either. He's changing somewhere precious to you, I get that. But you can't rise to it. You have to be the better person." said Alec softly.

"Stuff the better person!" exclaimed Jace annoyed. "Fine if you can't do it for yourself, do it for someone special." said Alec wearily. Images of Cecily and Will flashed in Jace's head before eventually settling on Clary.

Would she want him to act this way? No. Then why was he doing it? He cared too much? No. He was just being selfish. He had caused a scene and now he was going about in a huff because of one stupid person. He had met loads of idiots in his life, even been friends with a few. So why not just ignore this one like he had done with the rest?

"Fine" he said quietly and he could hear Alec let out a relieved sigh. "Come on let's get back. I'm hungry." said Jace leaving the room and pulling Alec with him.

Cecily dipped her feet into the cold water cautiously. It was still a little warm from the heat of the day. She had 20 minutes before evening activities and was spending it away from the group. The lake was always quiet in the evening. It was too dark for watersports and too far out for other activities to take place there.

"You Herondales are all the same" said a laughing voice from behind her. "Oh hi Tessa" she said as the girl sat next to her. "I was down here with Will yesterday. He wanted to be alone too. But do you know what he really needed to do?" said Tessa smiling. Cecily shook her head. "Talk to someone he trusted. Go talk to Gabriel, I can tell you want to." said Tessa. "I don't want to bother him" said Cecily quietly.

"You're supposed to bother me, that's what girlfriends do!" said Gabriel smiling and walking out of the woods. "Really?" said Cecily rolling her eyes. Tessa shrugged and got up. "I'll leave you two to talk" she said walking away.

"What's wrong?" asked Gabriel sitting down next to Cecily. "It's nothing, it's just Valentine. He doesn't seem to like Jace and Will." admitted Cecily. Gabriel smiled. "I hate to break it to you, but lots of people don't like Jace and Will." he said. Cecily nodded. "I know. They're both idiots, but Will is my brother and Jace may as well be. I'm just worried Valentine will hurt them." she said.

Gabriel took her hand. "That won't happen. I promise." he said reassuringly. She smiled a little. "Thank you" she said quietly. "What for?" he said. "For listening. Will and Jace are great but they aren't particularly good at the emotional stuff." she admitted. Gabriel laughed. "I'm always here. I guess it's in the job description." he said. "I know. Thank you." said Cecily kissing his lips softly. He pulled her closer and kissed her back.

"Ok I'm officially creeped out by those guys!" said Isabelle dramatically sitting down. Valentine's evening activity had been a junk craft night and it had just finished. "What guys?" asked Alec raising an eyebrow. "Mike and Jeremy and Zach. I had to work with them. But none of them spoke for the whole night. They were silent. Not even a word! No one can stay quiet for that long." she said. "Actually Isabelle, I think the thing is lots of people don't talk as much as you." said Jace grinning.

Valentine approached the group. "Excuse me. Could I talk to Jace for a moment?" he said. Jace kissed Clary's cheek and joined Valentine. "What's going on?" asked Clary. "Who knows?" said Simon. She could see Valentine and Jace talking. Their conversation ended and Jace came back over looking a little pale. "What's wrong?" asked Will.

"Valentine." stuttered Jace "He's throwing me out of camp."

Helloooooooo!

DUN DUN DUN! Valentine is throwing Jace out of camp! Why? And what will happen next?

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Still no-one has got the reference! It is a bit vague though. I did try to make it a little bit more obvious this chapter! Keep guessing!

Also, I'm not good at phrases I call it a 'zip wire' but you might call it a flying fox, zip line, death slide, aerial ropeslide, aerial runway or foefie slide! (According to Wikipedia anyway!)

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