Okay so this chapter was way longer than I intended it to be but you know its fine. So enjoy a little more on this chapter! Also, I'm sorry I haven't updated in a while. I was really busy with graduating high school and all thatJ But yeah, please enjoy!

I hadn't killed a demon in a long time. It feels like it's been months when really it was a couple days before my mom died. When I get back to my brother we need to have a funeral, unless they have already done that without me. My mother would have wanted a funeral. She always thought she was going to die from a demon. Thinking about my mom's death makes my fury grow. My father needs to be punished. He needs to feel the pain I felt my whole life.

I need to focus. My father will still be there for me to deal with later, right now I've got to get rid of this demon. I didn't have very many weapons on me tonight because of this outfit, but I did think to put on a clutch and hang a few from that. As we walked I put on my glamour rune, hiding the mundanes from seeing me. After that I hid my steele and pulled out my favorite seraph blade. As ironic as it is, my father gave me this blade and I love it.

I noticed that Jace had glamoured himself as well and was fully equipped. He had two blades, one in each hand, and looked ready to kill. I had never seen Jace in action before, and damn he is hot when he's like this. I hope we fight well together. I don't really want this to be messy, because I still am here to party.

We reached the area where the demon was standing, but he wasn't there anymore. We quickly started looking around, until I saw a door pull slowly shut. The door was hidden behind a small group of people, so I was lucky I saw it. This had to be the demon.

"Jace." I gestured to the door and he gave me a small smile. I love that smile. We pushed through the crowd until we got to the door and went in. It was dark, so Jace and I pulled out our witchlight stones and suddenly a pair of eyes were looking at Jace and I. For some reason I didn't notice earlier, but this demon has bright blue hair. I hate that demons can shapeshift, it's confusing and evil.

"Why hello there." The demon spoke up to us. The voice sounded crooked and dark.

"Why did you come here shapeshifter." Jace spoke up.

"For you and the girl."

"What do you mean?"

"My boss has sent me to gather you both. If you don't mind me asking, are you two busy tonight?" What the heck does this demon think is going to happen?

"We've got a long list of things to do demon, and can you guess what the first thing on that list is?"

"Coming with me perhaps?"

"Killing you." With that Jace jumped at the demon, striking the side of it's body. I came up to help and together we ripped him to pieces. He really didn't put up much of a fight which was kind of odd.

Jace and I stood back watching, waiting for the body to disappear. The smell of demon and ichor always made me feel dirty. Although, watching them disappear made the foul smells worth it. Once the body was completely gone I started to look up at Jace, but before my eyes got to his, I saw something. There was a note sitting right where the demons body used to be.

"I wonder what that is." I bent over and picked it up, opening it to see what was written.

My dearest daughter,

You won't know when, but I'll be there. You might see me, you might not, but I'll see you. This is no game, so be careful with your moves. One wrong choice and you might choke darling. I'm always watching. I will see you soon.

Sincerely,

Valentine

He always leaves notes like this, and apparently he is ready for a beating. I feel like it was just yesterday when I almost exploded on him, but apparently he is ready for more. It's kind of creepy that he's watching me. I wonder if he already has eyes on me.

"Clary, what does it say?" Oh yeah I need to show Jace. I handed him the note, waiting for him to finish until he looked at me. "We need to get out of here?" He looked uneasy about the note.

"I think we should, but how will we get away if he is watching?"

"We might have to make a diversion so you can get away, and then we can catch up?"

"Jace, if this connection thing through our scars is legit, then I need you. I need you to come with me." He looked at me for a second before that familiar smile formed on his face.

"You're right, you do need me." He started to chuckle a little. "You need me to have fun. Without me there is no fun. I am the definition of fun, well actually the definition of sexy, but you know I'm pretty fun too."

"Shut up." We both started laughing really hard. It's nice to laugh in the middle of all of this chaos. "So do you have any other plans in that golden head of yours?" He started speaking about a different kind of diversion, but I stopped listening when I saw something on the ceiling. "Think I can fit into that air duct?" I pointed up to a metal square opening in the ceiling.

"I think yes. Here get on my back and I'll help you in." Jace squatted down and I jumped on his shoulders. As I was undoing the latches on the air duct, I started to think about the minimal physical touch Jace and I have had. This is the most I've touched him other than sleeping next to him.

I got the air duct open and reached my arms in, pulling myself up with the help of Jace pushing my feet. The air duct looked like the ones you'd see in the movies. It was silver everywhere and kind of like being in a never ending box. I looked down through the hole at Jace.

"How are you going to get up here?"

"Are you doubting my super human abilities?" I let a few giggles escape.

"Hand me the air duct thingy so we can kind of put it back on after you get up here. But to fully answer your question from earlier…yes, I'm doubting your abilities." He threw the door thingy up to me and I pulled it through the opening.

"Watch and learn Clarissa." I did as he said, and watched him do a couple of jumping jacks. I really wonder where he is going with this. All of a sudden Jace ran in a small circle, squatted all the way down to his ankles and jumped up into the air. He jumped high enough to grab onto the opening, and pulled himself in. After a couple of grunts and shimmies we were both in the air duct.

"Well, those were some abilities you just used right there." I started to put the air duct thingy back in the hole.

"Oh come on, not even a little bit impressed?"

"Maybe a little." In reality, I was very impressed. He just jumped higher than me, and I may be short, but jumping me is crazy high. "Which way should we go?" There were two directions we could go, behind me or behind him.

"Uhhh lets go behind you." I nodded and turned around to see where I was going to be crawling. "Definitely one of the best decisions I have made in a while."

"Wait, what?" I was really confused by that.

"Oh nothing, just a really great view from my angle." I felt my face turn crimson red as I realized my whole behind was being revealed. I forgot I was in this dress. Wow Clary, great. This is just great. I looked over at Jace and he was smiling, clearly giddy that he got to me.

"Okay so I will be following you from now on. Switch places with me." The amount of embarrassed I am right now is off the charts. I wonder how much he saw. Oh gosh. My mind was racing as Jace and I awkwardly switched places. It was a bit of a squeeze, which I did kind of enjoy, but we managed. Jace started crawling forward and then he broke the pin dropping silence.

"Clary…"

"Yes?"

"I didn't see anything…just so you know." Relief filled over me, but how do I know he is telling me the truth? I opened my mouth to say something a couple of times, but nothing came out. "Clary." Still nothing. All of a sudden Jace had stopped moving forward, and swiftly turned around to meet my eyes. "I was messing with you. You know that right? I'm not a perv I promise. Pervs are disgraceful to the entire male species. I-"

"It's okay Jace. I believe you." I didn't really know what else to say, but I did truly believe him. He sounded so concerned that I was mad or something. We started back down the tiny pathway of the air duct until we came to a spot that just ended. Well we thought it ended, but it actually went down.

"I'm going to go down this. I'll yell back up to you when I hit the ground." I nodded as I watched Jace position himself to slide smoothly down. He had one hand and foot on a side of the air duct, and the other foot and hand were on the other side. Right before he let himself fall, he winked at me, and then he was gone. A couple of seconds later he called up to me telling me I was all good to go. I positioned myself the same way Jace did, but for some reason my stomach started turning. I had never free fallen before without seeing an end. I didn't know how far away the ground was and I didn't know how much it would hurt when I landed. My nerves picked up, and then I heard his voice. "Clary? Are you all good?" I can't let him see me weak. I need to be able to do this. I'm a Morgenstern and we are unstoppable.

As I lifted my hands and feet of the walls my breath was lost. Gravity was pulling me down to whatever was waiting. I closed my eyes and free fell until I hit bottom. It wasn't long until I stopped falling, which was nice, but what was even nicer was the way I landed. Jace had caught me before I hit the ground. I opened my eyes when I felt his chuckles vibrate through his body. He was smiling down at me.

"Why did you close your eyes?"

"I-I don't really know why I closed my eyes."

"Well we should probably get going now that we are outside." I hadn't noticed anything other than Jace yet. We were outside in the middle of an alley. It was dark and nobody else was around, just me and Jace.

"Yeah you're probably right." I assumed Jace was going to set me down now, but he started walking with me in his arms. "Put me down."

"No."

"What? You are gonna set me down now or else I'll-"

"Ooooo is that a threat I hear?" I looked up into Jace's eyes with a burning glare. I wanted down…and I knew just exactly how I could get there.

"You asked for it." I raised my arms and aimed for all of the ticklish spots on his body. Once he realized what was happening his eyes widen and he started laughing immediately.

"STOP! NO PLEASE. THIS IS MY WEAKNESS." I started tickling him faster.

"PUT ME DOWN THEN."

"NEVER." I can't give up now. Like he said, this is his weakness, so I'm going to make him weak everywhere by force. His grip on my started to loosen and for a second I thought I was about to be dropped, but then he spoke. "OKAY, OKAY, ENOUGH."

"Do we have a deal now?"

"Yes, I'll put you down. Just please...don't tickle me anymore." I laughed as he finally set me down, meaning a victory for me. We stood there just laughing for a second.

"Jace…we left everyone behind back there in the club. Should we go back in to tell them all what happened?"

"I don't know Clary. We shouldn't go back in there if your father has eyes in there…but then again he did say he had eyes everywhere. Yeah let's go back inside. At least there will be witnesses if we are back in the club." I think we are in an alley at the back of the club, so we will have to walk around the block to get back inside.

"Okay sounds good to me."

We walked around the block and went back inside the club. Luckily the bouncer remembered our faces and let us back in. The familiar pound of music filled my ears once again as I scanned the room for the rest of our people. Jace seemed to be doing the same, and I assume he found them first because he grabbed my arm and started pulling me along with him. We went to the very middle of the dance floor and to my surprise, none of our group was there.

"Hey I don't see Izzy, Magnus or Alec anywhere. What are we doing here?" Jace just looked at me and smiled. I felt him gently place his hands on my hips and we started to sway. I couldn't help but smile back up at him and started to get more into the music.

Our bodies moved together in perfect beat with the music. Everything slowed down and it was like we were the only two on the dance floor. I found myself running both of my hands through Jace's golden locks as our bodies became smushed together. I turned around while keeping his arms still wrapped around me and started to grind for the rest of the song. I felt like I was in one of those dance movies, like Step Up or even Dirty Dancing. He seemed surprised by the sudden change of my dancing, and I am glad that I caught him off guard. We seemed to flow in perfect harmony. The way our hips moved as one was odd, yet satisfying. I looked around at him and turned back so that I was facing him again.

"Clarissa Fairchild…wow. You really shouldn't have done that. I haven't been this turned on since my hormones were all jacked up during the awkward years." I started to blush yet again, but this time I was fully okay with it. I don't know what just came over me…I've never even attempted to dance like that before.

"I'm glad you liked it. I've never done that before." Suddenly, I started to feel shy.

"Oh Clary you don't even know. Honestly if you wouldn't have said anything I would have thought you were very experienced in the art of the grind."

A slower paced song came on, so we started to slow dance. I leaned my head on his shoulder and we just swayed back in forth in silence. This was more my kind of dancing. This is just more intimate and personal in a way. We danced for another half hour or so before we stopped to go find the others. After a bit of searching we found them all together sitting at the bar. I saw Simon and Izzy chatting it up together. I wonder how he got here, because he didn't walk here with us. Huh, maybe he has been here the whole time and I am just now noticing. We started talking and taking drinks, and that's how it went for the next two hours.

"Man you guys, I'm pooped. We should head on back to the beds at Magnus'." Alec was talking to the entire group, but only looking at Magnus. I guess they really did hit it off tonight. Jace reached his arms up to the sky stretching and yawned a really big yawn.

"I could definitely take a good 12 hour nap right now." We all kind of agreed that it was time, and walked back to the house. Within a half hour we reached the front steps. Magnus walked up to them with the key and let us all in.

"So Magnus, I'm assuming you have beds somewhere that Izzy and I can use tonight?" Magnus smiled a little and looked over at Jace and I.

"I have a total of eight different bedrooms in this house. You guys can choose any one of them that you would like to use." Wait. He made me and Jace share because of construction…that sneaky Magnus. He was trying to set us up! I was about to say something about it, but then I saw three sets of eyes looking at all of us in the doorway. Oh shit. Jace looked at me with wide eyes and a pale face. He had his hands clenched so hard at his sides that his knuckles were white. Without thinking I wrapped my hand around his clenched fist and at first he tensed, but then he relaxed and intertwined his fingers with mine. I hope this comforted him as much as it did me.

"Maryse! Robert! Sebastian! Hey guys…fancy meeting you here…." Jace tried to be charming, but he was clearly not expecting to see these three. Maryse spoke up before Robert could.

"I want details now. Sit."

We all slowly walked into the living room in silence and sat in the couches. I could feel my big brother's eyes on me while I walked, but I didn't look up. I couldn't look up. Jace squeezed my hand, giving me a little jolt of support. It was silent for what felt like ages, but really was only a few ticks on the clock. I think we were all waiting for someone else to start the explaining, but no one said anything. I wanted so badly for someone else to fix this, but we were all here because of me. This all happened because I wanted to come here. I just happened to drag Jace along with me, well I was actually lucky that he offered so eagerly to come along. Without him I would be in over my head, and likely captured. This mess is my mess, and I need to fix it.

"Maryse, Robert…this is all my fault." As I spoke all eyes were on me. My brother looked so hurt and angry at the same time. Guilt washed over me, and I just wanted to run away, but I have to keep speaking. "We left you in the dark…and I'm sorry for that. Jace and I…we never meant to hurt anyone or scare anybody. I had to come back to New York. One of my best friends was being threatened by my father, so I came back to save him. Jace was nice enough to accompany me along the way, and if it weren't for him…I would probably be six feet under right now." Seb's glare was strong, and hadn't moved from me yet. He was pissed.

"So you left in the middle of the night to come fight alone? How stupid are you two? You have a whole family of back up that could have helped." Maryse spoke for everyone and she was harsh.

"My father…he said I had to come alone or it was death for my friend. I was reluctant to even let Jace come, but he convinced me."

"You should have told the clave. You should have told us. Clary I know we barely know you, but if you are anything like your brother, then we will love you as one of our own. We are here for you, and we want to help you. Some fights may seem so intimate, but in the end if you don't have your family, you're weak." Almost all of my family is dead. My mother is dead. Something in me snapped.

"My mother is dead. My father is a psychopath. The only family that I have left is my brother, so I guess I'm weak by default." Everyone was still looking at me, but now they had pity in their eyes. I don't want their pity. I've had enough of that from the few people that have known my story growing up and I'm tired of pity.

As I sat on the couch waiting for a reply from a stumped Maryse, my anger began to spread through me. I could feel my body heating up and my back begin to ache where my father had recently beat me. My head started pounding and all of a sudden pain coursed throughout my body. I fell off the couch and onto the floor. I was clutching my head in my hands waiting for the pain to stop. Jace bent down and as soon as he placed his hand on my back, everything went away. I slowly looked back up at him, and I felt different. Once my eyes reached his eyes he gasped and backed away quickly.

"Magnus. Shit, it's happening again. What do we do?" Magnus quickly came over to face the front of me. He looked at me, analyzing the situation, and he looked terrified.

"Okay everyone, I'm going to have you all exit the living room and come with me. You need to get out of here." I looked at everyone, one at a time. They were all looking at me with horror and confusion…but my brother…he looked at me slightly different. The confusion was there alright, but there was no fear in his eyes. As everyone else got up to follow Magnus only two stayed behind. Jace and Sebastian. Soon everyone was gone and it was just us in the living room.

I slowly stood and faced the two of them. There was so much anger coursing through my body…I felt violent. Like I wanted to hurt them, but I really didn't want to do any harm…I just had no control. I start to raise into the air until I'm hovering enough to look down on them. Their eyes haven't left mine yet, they held their ground.

"Clary. I don't know what is happening, but it's me. Your brother, Sebastian." I looked straight at him and my left eye fizzed into my right. I was in full demon mode, the anger had taken over. "Clary I'm not going to hurt you, and I'm not going to leave either, so you are stuck with me whether you like it or not." I raised my right arm and as I lifted it above my head, it extended into a sword. The heavenly sword was now my weapon and I was raising it against my brother…this isn't right.

"Clarissa…" I didn't have to see who was speaking to know that it was Jace. His voice was unforgettably burned in to my mind. His sweet, beautiful voice.

I turned to face Jace, still armed and ready to explode. He looked at me, but not with pity. He looked at me with something different. I don't know if it was trust or hope or…love. I raised the sword above my head and before I could strike Jace, he struck me. He struck me, but not with a weapon. He struck me with himself. His eyes staring straight through mine into my soul. Those were his weapon against me. And from what I could tell, his weapon was working.

Right when I raised my sword he grabbed a hold of my arm. He ran his hand down my arm until it latched itself with mine, pulling me back down to the ground. He used is left arm to reach my other arm that had the sword. He grabbed that arm and pulled it down from its fighting position. His eyes never left mine as he successfully took my weapon from me.

"Clarissa…look at me…give me your anger. I'll take it from you." What does he mean? I can't just give him my feelings. I can't just stop this uncontrollable anger…or can I? Maybe that's why we have matching scars. Maybe that's how our symbols work. "Trust me Clary. Please." I let my anger flow through my body to my hands and out into Jace's hands. Once the anger left my body and went into his, his eyes turned black and mine both fizzed to the blinding white. I was in full angel form now staring into Jace's full on demon eyes. He must be in full demon mode now. He calmed me down, now I have to calm him down.

I pull him closer to me and wrap my arms around him. I feel tears start to fall out of my eyes as I hug him as hard as I can. We both begin to weaken and the powers begin to fade as we fall to the ground in each other's arms. Jace's eyes are back to their beautiful gold, but are crying blue tears again. I see my brother standing above us, confused out of his mind. I hear the front door click and look to see two unfamiliar faces staring at us. It is a woman and a silent brother, must be Tessa. I wonder how much of that they just witnessed.

"Magnus left out some details." The last thing I hear before I black out is the woman, Tessa speaking.

So Clary really has no control over this new power at all. With something so small making her mad, she lost control and threatened to hurt the ones she loved. Will she ever gain control of this interesting power? I guess you will find out soon. Also, Tessa is finally here. I wonder what she will bring to this story.

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