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Chapter 2

APOV

I was on top of Clary, she kept pushing me, I took hold of her wrists. "Clary!" I said. But she kept on pushing me, she punched me in the jaw. "Ow.. Clary its me Alec. It's me Alexander Gideon Lightwood." She stopped hitting me. I let go of her, and sat next to her.

"Alec" she touched my face. "It is you" she wrapped her arms around me, I fell backwards, Clary on top of me. She was crying and sobbing. "Oh, Alec I missed you so much" my heart's breaking from seeing her cry. Her hands tighten around me, her sobs grew louder. I patted her back to comfort her, I didn't know what else to do, I hugged her back.

"It's ok Clary, your safe." After a few minutes she stopped crying. She got off me, we both sat up. I took out my witchlight, she gasped. She touched the side of my mouth, it hurt.

"I'm sorry, I.. I didn't know it was you" she was too close to me, she was breathing in my face.

"It's ok, you didn't know it was me, I shouldn't have scared you like that" I stood up and helped her up. "You have gotten strong though" I said touching the side of my mouth. A smile formed in the side of her lips. I took a look or her. She's wearing a shadowhunter gear, she had an belt around her waist, it had three daggers, two seraph blades, she had blood. "Clary, are you ok, you have blood on you." She looked down at her gear.

"Is not my blood. It's Valentine's. I killed him, one of the guards, and a Drevak demon." She said.

"You—you killed Valentine? How?"

"I stabbed him, in the heart"

"Oh-ok, let's go this way" I say pointing North. "There's a safe cave, and I need you to tell me everything.

I was shocked, Clary had finish telling me the whole story, since the first day till now. Clary, with almost three months of training killed Valentine. She escaped and killed a guard and a Drevak demon, even though they're not good fighters they're poisonous. But they are parts on her story where she seems to hide things, she isn't telling me stuff. I still want to know something.

"Clary, did—did he touch you?" Clary's head went up with a snap.

"No, why—why would you think that?"

"Clary, I'm not stupid, I saw the he was looking at you when he said 'anything', I know what he meant by that." Clary looked down at her feet. I was sitting in front of her in the cave. I got up and sat next to her. I lift her chin with my hand, so I was looking at her in the eyes. "Clary if he—"

"He didn't, because of the mission." I couldn't fight the urge to hug her, so I did, she didn't hesitate, she hugged me back. We let go and there was silence for a moment. "So, how's everybody?"

"Sad, is not the same without you. They will be happy to see you." Of course they will. "We should sleep, we need to walk a lot, tomorrow." She nodded. She got her backpack, she opened and took out a blanket, and clothes. She handed me some of her clothes. I looked at her confused.

"Use it as a pillow" I nodded. We lay down, there was about a meter of distance between us. "Dana only packed a blanket—"

"I'm fine" she was about to say something but I talked first. "Just sleep, Clary"

CPOV

Me and Alec were walking, he was at my side. It was getting darker, my legs were hurting. I heard a noise, Alec seemed not to hear it, so I didn't say anything. Maybe its just my imagination, Alec took my hand and began to run.

"Alec what's going—" Jonathan was standing there, in front of us, we were surrounded by demons. Then Jonathan was on top of Alec, he drive a dagger down his chest. "No!" I shouted. I kneeled besides Alec, I took his pulse, he's dead. No! No! No! "No!"

I woke up sweating, I sat up. I looked around, Alec was sitting up, rubbing his eyes. I locked my arms around him, he fell back, I was on top of him, my arms wrapped around him.

"Alec, are you ok? Did he hurt you?" I pulled his shirt up, revealing his muscular chest, he has a sixpact, hot. He wasn't hurt. He gasped as my cold hand touched his muscular, warm chest, where Jonathan stabbed him in my nightmare. We both blushed. He fixed his shirt. "I'm sorry. He stabbed you in the chest, I—"

"Clary is ok, it was just a nightmare" he wrapped my arms around me, he kissed my forehead. I fell asleep in Alec's arms.

APOV

I woke up as the light that entered the cave hit my face. I was about so sit up when I remember Clary. She had her arms wrapped around me, mines were around her too, her face was buried in my chest. I chuckled as I remember the way she blushed after pulling my shirt up, looking at my body, and touching my chest.

I moved my head to the side to see her face. She looks peaceful. She's so close, I could just lean over a little and kiss her. What the heck, why am I thinking of her like that? What's wrong with me? I should wake her up, we should get ready to walk. I moved a red lock that was on her face. Angle, she's beautiful.I ran my thumb through her cheek. Her eyes snapped open. She sat up.

"Sorry, I—I wanted to wake up, we should get ready to walk" I blushed. She nodded.

"Goodmorning" she said

"Goodmorning, Clary" She smiled. She put her hair up in a pony tail, she packed her stuff in her backpack. She took out two apples, she stood up and gave me one. "Thank you".

"So, did you missed us?" I asked. She looked up at me.

"Of course I missed you—all." There was a fallen tree on our way, I jumped it, I was going to help her but she jumped, just like me, without difficulty. "I missed all of you. Jonathan isn't a great company."

"So, who's worst, Jonathan or Valentine?" She thought for a moment.

"Well, Valentine is wrong, he thinks what he's doing is right, but he's a monster for feeding Jonathan demon blood, he kills if 'necessary'" She doesn't call him Sebastian. "Jonathan, is a monster he kills people out of nothing, he enjoys killing, hurting people, he doesn't he never got a chance to choose, he was born like that."

"You call him Jonathan, I remember you use to call him Sebastian." She bit her lip.

"I called him Sebastian, but he hates it. Every time I called him Sebastian he would hit me." She looked away. He's such bastard.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have asked. You probably don't want to talk about him."

"Is ok, you didn't knew, but your right, I want to forget everything. I don't want to talk about him." She said. "So tell me, how have things been since I left?"

"Well, when you didn't go back with Isabelle after an hour, she went to ask Simon, Magnus and anyone who you could he with. Then, we started looking for you and Magnus found your stele." I said remembering how Isabelle had blamed herself for leaving Clary alone. "We have been looking for you since then, we have we have night and day searches. Max got really sad, he said you will come back, he said you would keep your promise of taking him to that comic place, forbidden planet?" She smiled and nodded. "Jace offered to take him, Max said that you had to." I regret saying that as soon as the words came out my mouth. "Sorry."

"For what?" She looked confused.

"For talking about Jace, you probably —"

"Ah, is ok I'm over him." She said, she looked like she means it.

"Oh, ok. Oh and Magnus misses you, a lot."

"I miss him too."

"Ah, and looks like Downworlders like you. Your not Valentine's daughter for them, you're Clarissa Fray. The girl who sees shadowhunters and downwolders equally, the girl who was against her father for what she believed on." I said, it's true. "They all helped look for you. First the werewolves, then the warlocks, the fairies and at last the vampires." She looked surprise.

"And how did Jonathan caught you?" She asked.

"I usually went in the night search and I got lost in thoughts, and left behind." I said.

Night time

CPOV

My legs hurt, we take breaks now and then, but still we had been walking all day. The longest break was of about an hour. We were both tire so we sat, and talk. I now, know Alec more than before. I know his favorite colors, well that wasn't hard to guess. I know his favorite food, he likes to read, he doesn't dance. He's favorite weapon is the bow and arrow, but I already knew that. He told me everything about him and I told him everything about me. I even know him more than I ever knew Jace. Jace, I can talk about him and it doesn't hurt anymore. I'm so over him.

"Clary!"

"Uh?" I turned around, Alec had stopped walking. He walked towards me, he stopped in front of me. He shook his head and smirked. He took my hand and pulled me back. "Wha—what?" He stopped in front of small cottage.

"It's a safe house, downworlders used them to hide. They have been using it, to rest during searches." He was still holding my hand, without letting go we walked towards the door. He took out his stele and drew a open rune in the door. "What were you thinking? I called you three times and you kept walking." He said as we entered the safe house.

"Mmm no—nothing." He raised his eyebrows. "Ok, ok. I was thinking about what we talked about all day." He smirked.

"You could have been attacked and didn't notice, you have to be careful."

"I'm safe with you, remember?"he kissed my forehead.

"You are, I would never let anybody hurt you." He said, our eyes locked together. "I will protect you, Clary." He hugged me, I felt butterflies attacking my stomach. I'm insane, maybe is just hunger, I only ate two apples and a granola bar after all. Or am I feeling... oh shut up Clary. "Clary, to earth."

"Ah, what?" He smirked.

"You're taking trips to Claryland again." I laughed. "I was saying that we are close, so we should have some sleep." He said. " We should be able to get to Alicante by tomorrow, maybe at noon. If we keep walking we could get there by dawn, but we're both tired." I nodded in response. We looked around the safe house, it has a old, really old couch, a bathroom, it has a shower, only cold water. It has a bedroom with a double bed, and we found some peanut butter and bread. It looks like they have been here, not long ago.

"Goodnight, Clary" said Alec he opened the door, he was about to leave.

"Wait" he turned around. "Where are you going?"

"I'm sleeping on the couch."

"What? That old thing?! You can sleep with me. I—I mean in the bed, ah, its a big enough." I said blishing.

"Uh, ah, ok" he walked towards the bed, lay down in the other side of the bed. There's only one blanket, and its cold. He closed his eyes. I pulled the blanket over us, he turned to the side, looking at me. "Thanks." I smile and closed my eyes.

Agh, I can't sleep, I keep rolling over to the sides, up and down. I slept but I had a nightmare so I woke up and can't sleep. I rolled to the side. I can see Alec's face, he looks peaceful, his eyelashes are long. He's handsome, but I have known that since I met him.

"Can't sleep, Clary?" He asked without opening his blue eyes.

"Uh, no. Did I wake you?" Instead of answering he pulled me close to him, my face was now in his chest, his muscular arms wrapped around me. My heart was beating faster and the butterflies attacked my stomach once again. I could hear his heart beating faster too. I wrapped my arm around him, and listened to his heart beat. Soon, I fell asleep, while listening to his heart.

Three hours later.

I woke up at the sound of Alec's voice. I couldn't make up his words. I opened my eyes slowly. He was looking at me, too close, I blushed. I let go of him and rolled to my side, he sat up. He was putting his boots on. I sat up, is too dark still. Did something happened?

"Alec? Is something wrong?"

"I don't know, I heard noises outside." He said, while he put his belt. "I will go check. You stay here."

"No." I said he looked at me, before he could speak I stood up and put my belt around my waist. "I'm going with you." We stared at each other eyes for a moment.

"Clary—"

"Alec, I'm going" he didn't break eye contact.

"Ok, but stay behind me." I rolled my eyes. We went out the room. Alec was about to open the door when it burst open. There were about five shadow figures.

"What do we have here?" Raphael stepped in to view. "Ah don't tell me. You are in love and decided to run away, making everybody think that you were kidnapped."

"What? No we—" began Alec.

"I know, I know, I just wanted to see your reaction" said Raphael. He looked at me, his eyes went up and down my body. "You have changed, Hermosa" beautiful. "You look sexy" he laughed. "I see you can hold a dagger without cutting yourself first." I had forgotten I had a dagger in hand, I put the dagger in my belt. "Well, I'm happy you've been rescued, Hermosa." He turned to Alec, which expression was—. You're insane Clary. "We could go with you till sunrise." Alec turned to me, I nodded

"Okay" said Alec.

The last time I asked, Alec said we would be in Alicante, probably a little after dawn. Raphael was walking at front, Alec next to me, the other four vampires changed positions now and then. Raphael stopped suddenly, so did the other vampires. Alec opened his mouth, before he could speak four Drevak demons came to view. Alec took his stele, he took my arm and drew a strength rune, I did the same to him. I took my seraph blades. The first demon launched at a vampire who's name I didn't know, Alec shot an arrow at it, it hit his back, the the demon hissed, and it ran towards Alec. Alec got out of the way and the demon hit a tree, I was looking at Alec fighting, and didn't notice a demon running towards me, untill it knocked me to the floor, the seraph blade, fell off my hand. I took a dagger from my belt, I stabbed the demon in its head, it hissed and I pushed it off me. I took the two seraph blades, one in each hand. I ran towards a tree and used it to jump and flip, I drived one of blades into its back, the demon exploded in ashes.

I stood up and looked for Alec, he was fighting another demon, with a vampire. I caught sight of Raphael, he was having trouble with a demon, it was bigger than the one I killed. I ran towards it, the other seraph blade in hand. I stabbed it, but not deep enough, the demon hissed and it fell backwards. Raphael and other vampire tore it in half.

"Are you okay? Are you hurt?" Alec asked me, he was standing next to me.

"No" I said, "are you?" He shook his head. I touched a small cut in his forehead.

"Well, we can't go any further, the sun will be up in no time." With that Raphael and the others vampires left.

"Clary!" My mom rushed towards me, she hugged me, we were, in the house the Lightwoods were staying, they weren't at the Penhallow's. "My baby, I missed you so much." She's crying, so am I. I couldn't breath right, she was hugging me too tight, but I didn't want to tell her. "Did they hurt you? Are you okay?"

"I'm oaky, mom. And I missed you too." She was kissing my forehead. After minutes she let go, as soon as she did, Luke hugged me. Then Magnus, he was crying, Simon, and Maryse. Isabelle came running from up stairs, she hugged me tight, then Max.

"I knew you will come." Max said, Robert gave me a smile, Maryse,and Isabelle were hugging Alec, Max joined them. The front door opened, Jace and Aline walked in.

"I'm glad your here" Jace said.

"Me too." Said Aline.

"We will find Valentine and Jonathan—" Robert began.

"I killed Valentine." I said. Everyone was shocked, some mouths hanging open.

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