"Kaelie, what are you doing here?" asked Valentine again regaining his composure. "I am here because I heard you were looking for more leaders." she said simply. "You can't be here Kaelie. You were excluded from camp." said Valentine. "As was my boyfriend, Sebastian, but I believe he has returned to his post" said Kaelie raising her eyebrows.
"Boyfriend? Sebastian is your..." said Valentine frowning. "Boyfriend. Yes uncle, we're a couple, going out, in love, whatever you want to call it." said Kaelie impatiently. "But, you and him are together." asked Valentine. "Yes. We have been for quite a while now actually, but I don't see what that has to do with it." said Kaelie. Valentine shook himself. "No, I guess it doesn't. Please come in Kaelie, I think we need to talk." he said shooing her inside.
"Well, camp just gets better. First Sebastian, now Kaelie." said Cecily. "Maybe I would be better out of camp." said Will before he received a shove from Cecily. "I am surprised the clave hasn't visited yet and put a stop to this" said Gideon. "Clave?" asked Clary. " The Campsite Leisure Authority for Validation and Evaluation, but it's called the clave for short." explained Tessa.
"So, if we contacted the clave they could kick Valentine out of camp." said Clary hopefully. "The clave are very strict. They're run by a woman named Imogen and she's pretty uptight. She wouldn't care about talking to volunteers, it's the camp leaders who she talks to." said Gabriel.
Clary sighed. Camp was supposed to be fun this year. No trouble, no ex girlfriends or slimy weirdos to be bothered with, just a nice summer with Jace and the others. So much for that. All the villainous faces of the past were returning, just like a recurring nightmare, except she couldn't wake up from all of this.
"Let's think realistically, Kaelie might not get a post" said Simon breaking the silence. Cecily shot him a look as though he had suggested they jumped in front of a car, and in that moment Clary could see quite clearly the family resemblance to Jace. "Kaelie will get a post. She's Valentine's niece. He can't turn her down." said Isabelle bitterly. Clary took a step back from the group and walked into the shade of the trees as the voices in the group squabbled.
She put a hand on her temple and pressed her back against the cool wood. "Erm, excuse me" she heard a quiet voice say. She opened her eyes to see a woman with black hair and a kind looking face standing by her. "You couldn't point me in the direction of Valentine Morgenstern, could you?" the woman stuttered. "He's in his office. In the building, ground floor, right corridor, third door." replied Clary automatically. "Thank you" said the woman before turning sharply on her heel and walking towards the front door.
"Who was that?" asked Maia coming to Clary's side. Clary shrugged. "Don't know. She wanted to see Valentine." said Clary. "She looked sort of familiar. Maybe she's a parent or something." said Maia considering. "Maybe" said Clary quietly. She was just about ready to give up. Jace wasn't here, Will, Jem and Tessa were leaving and Sebastian and Kaelie were back. She didn't see the point in trying any more.
She heard raised voices and joined her friends, who were peering into the entrance hall of the main building. "I don't know what you are talking about!" said Valentine frustrated. "I think you do Mr Morgenstern. We have received reports from within your camp of unfair bias on your part and various reports of you taking instructions from a volunteer. You didn't think that the clave wouldn't hear about this, did you?" said the woman who Clary had just been talking to.
"The clave?" whispered Jordan. "Yes. That's Jia Penhallow, Imogen's second in command." said Cecily and Clary swore she was smiling a little. "But why is the clave here?" asked Simon. "They must have heard about Valentine, I wonder how that happened." said Will who then proceeded to become very interested in a strip of loose paint.
"Campers and leaders, I am sorry to drag you away from your exciting activities, but I have a very important announcement to make." said Jia Penhallow to the hall. "Due to the behaviour of Mr Valentine Morgenstern, the authority in charge of this camp has chosen to remove him from his post as leader." The hall exploded into cheers and whoops of appreciation. Jia smiled. "All changes he put in place are to be reversed and the previous leaders Robert and Maryse will be resuming their posts as of now." she continued "And they have asked me to let you know that all leaders who have been removed or were about to be removed are to continue in their posts."
Clary breathed a sigh of relief. Jace was coming home and Tessa, Will and Jem weren't leaving after all. "They have also asked me to let you know that Mr Sebastian Morgenstern and Miss Kaelie Fey are hence forth excluded from camp. Again." said Jia. The hall exploded into cheers once more, mainly from the leaders although Clary saw Max Lightwood and his friends cheering. "However, Miss Aline Fey, Miss Helen Blackthorn and Mr Zach, Mr Mike and Mr Jeremy Diam are all permitted to stay as long as they maintain a high level of work." finished Jia.
"Ok, now I'm really confused. What about your plan?" asked Clary as the group left the hall. Jem, Will and Tessa looked away and Cecily sighed. "We're sorry we lied to you all, but we knew Sebastian would know we were planning something. We just had to make him believe we were going to be the ones carrying it out." she said.
"So all that stuff about disguising Jace as one of Sebastian's friends until he signed his new contract was all made up!" said Simon. Will nodded. "I knew it was too farfetched, even for you!" said Simon. Part of Clary wanted to punch them in the face for lying to the group, but part of her wanted to hug them for putting everything.
"But how did you get Jia here?" asked Sophie. "All we had to do was tell Kaelie that her boyfriend was hitting on Clary again and she ran straight to Jia and got Valentine in trouble. Jia and Kaelie were friends ages ago, but they're still close. Aline helped us out quite a bit with that. Kaelie wasn't going to doubt her own flesh and blood!" explained Jem. "We knew once the clave got here, they would sort it out. They only needed a push in the right direction." said Tessa. "You say push, I say massive shove into a room filled with neon flashing signs saying 'Valentine Morgenstern is an idiot!'" said Will considering her point.
"Well it's lovely to see everyone again!" said Maryse smiling at the assembled campers. "We're very glad to be back with you all for the rest of camp!" said Robert. "And we hope you're all ready to have loads of fun!" said Maryse to loud cheers from the campers. "So let's get the fun started, with a water fight!" yelled Robert as he and Maryse began to fire water guns at the campers and they ran and shrieked looking for some way to soak the others.
Robert and Maryse had arrived back that morning, much to Clary's relief, and had settled straight back into their roles. Will, Jem and Tessa had had their leaving forms ripped up into tiny shreds and, according to Will, set on fire on a barbeque and Aline, Helen and the three brothers had been officially welcomed to camp. Clary had warmed to Aline a lot since her help with getting rid of Valentine but Aline had seemed pretty busy with Helen. The minute Valentine had left, the two had announced their relationship, much to Magnus's delight.
Clary headed along the side path back to the main entrance of the building, she didn't intend on being soaked by small children today. There were more important things she had to do. "What's a girl like you doing out here on your own then" said a voice from behind her. Jace was sitting casually on the stone banister of a set of stairs, grinning. "Jace!" she shrieked and ran to him. His arms wrapped around her and he laughed and pressed his lips to her forehead. "God, I've missed you" he said smiling. "You're not allowed to leave ever again, do you understand!" said Clary somewhere between crying with joy and laughing. "I won't I promise" murmured Jace kissing her softly.
No matter what happened from now on, Clary knew everything would be just fine. In fact, she knew everything would be magical.
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