Summary: His hand slid under her shirt softly, "Do you want this? Do you truly want me?" Clary stared at him stunned. He pressed his body down against her's, making her blush even harder. "Well? Is this what you want?" How can he be so cruel? AU! CLARY/DEMONJACE

Fandom: The Mortal Instruments

Main Pairings: Clary/Jace

Rated: T (M in later chapters)

Genres: Drama/Romance/Angst/Fantasy!

Warnings: AU! Language, Romance, Fantasy! etc.

A/N: k a note to the side, many characters will have some mood swings. I changed a bit meaning of Parabatai in this story, and the reason why Jace is highly against it in this chapter. The Lightwood's will make an appearance along with other Shadowhunter's families etc. Simon will also have an appearance and with the Werewolf pack since in the last chapter it was hinted that Clary's mom left Valentine to be with Luke along with her brother. Thank you to all the kind reviewers! Thank you for the favorites and the story alerts! I do not and will not own TMI. I just own the plot, idea, and my own original characters.

I mostly likely going to make a chart later on on what kind of demon the TMI cast are in the future.

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Winter's Tale

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Name

"Do you have a name, little one?" Michael Wayland kneeled in front of a little boy with short blonde hair and tearful golden eyes. The little boy sniffed and shook it's head. Michael smiled softly at the child.

"It's no worry, little one. What about I call you Jace?" Michael offered, something else was in his gaze.

"I don't know who I am..." The little boy continued unsure.

The little boy hands were stained with dry blood. His ears twitched at the slight movement that Michael made. The little boy had no idea what was going on. He had no memory beyond of meeting this man.

"Everything's going to be okay. I'm a shadowhunter,"

When Clary entered the manor with Julian, she was instantly amazed. It was like she was standing in one of those old movies in a huge house. There was a grand staircase that connected to the second floor elegantly. The curtains by the windows made out of rich crimson silk that was tied with a huge brown ribbon. There was a girl around the age of 12 wearing a maid outfit that seemed to be too mature for someone her age. She had long blond-haired with large chocolate-brown eyes. She looked almost human except the fact that she had a long lion's tail with yellow cat-like ears.

The girl bowed her head to Clary,

"Welcome home, master. I'm Emma Carstairs and I will be your handmaiden." Emma introduced herself with a practice smile on her face.

She's young...

Julian looked at his best friend strange.

"My name is Julian, one of the manor's caretakers. This is my friend Emma," Julian paused and even through she had already introduced herself, Julian send her a dismissive look.

Julian waved his hand to his right and soon the staff of the manor came lining up excited.

"Is this Michael?" whispers uttered the air around them and Clary started to grow mildly upset that everyone still figured she was a man in some form. Jace was nowhere to be seen.

"This is your staff." Julian said, and Clary looked at them slowly. They all sported some kind of animal ears or features. Then it all crashed into her. Why was she so accepting of this? There was no such things as...these creatures. Who are they? What kind of freak show did she walked into? Her mind half panicked with each step she took with Julian by her side. He was the only one she actually familiar with even if it was a few minutes longer. A few of them looked surprised at her appearance.

"This is our new master, Clary Morgenstern."

Clary wondered how this cat...like creature know of her name.

Many people started to clap before she started to feel very uncomfortable just by being here.

"Right just follow, Miss. Emma and she will show you to your rooms." Julian said, before she could open her mouth to reply back to him, he suddenly disappeared. Emma looked somewhat nervous. She bowed her head to Clary, "Follow me, Miss." She uttered.

Clary followed the young-woman upstairs silently, she didn't miss the glances that everyone send her along the way.

They walked up the grand stairs and passed plenty of rooms. They passed up a door that was worn from its hinges. The door was out of place in a place like this and Clary found herself curious on what's behind it.

"Everyone's excited that we got a new master. Master Michael been gone a very long time, and it's only Jace that really took care of this place." Emma spoke softly to her. Paintings lined the hallway, featuring plenty of people she had no idea who.

Emma chuckled.

"That reminds me, you have to make Jace or-" Her face darkened a bit-Julian your Parabatai." They stopped in front of a door.

Clary looked at Emma confused.

Parabatai?

"What?"

Emma ignored the baffled teen and opened the door.

"Dinner will be done in an hour." She then bowed again then leaving, leaving behind Clary confused.

"Right, ignore me." Clary said to herself walking into her new room. Her eyes widened of what met her. Her room was conjoined! She closed the door behind her and walked further in. She walked through one room, which was just a sitting area that was decorated with chairs, tables, paintings, and a piano. She walked into the next room which featured her bedroom that was also conjoined to her own bathroom. The bedroom was simple and was decorated more to a man to a woman, meaning this should be Michael's room before he ran off. There was a huge king size bed along with some chairs, more tables, dressers and a fireplace.

I can get used to this.

She set down her bag by the foot of the bed and walked into the bathroom and once more she was stunned. The bathroom had three different types of bathtubs and she wondered who the hell was Michael Wayland, and why he gave her this place so freely.

Clary turned the knob on a tub in the far corner.

She was going to take a nice bath before dinner.

"No one told her what she should do yet?" Jace asked sharply and very cold toward both Julian and Emma. Julian flinched and Emma looked away from the fox demon before determinedly stared him down with hard brown eyes. No one threatened a lion demon.

"I mentioned something about it." She trailed, and then Jace paled.

"That means I still have time." He said before flying back into his room packing up.

Julian followed behind him.

"Time for what Jace?"

Jace didn't look at him.

"What do you think? I'm leaving. I refuse to be bounded by a human and a girl at that."

The color from Julian's face slowly disappeared.

"Jace, you can't just leave! We need you!"

This didn't stop him.

"Well too bad. Not my problem." and with the last article of clothing he took his belongings and disappeared in a puff of leaves leaving behind a startled and sorrowful Julian and a stunned Emma.

EDIT: Since everyone's almost confused, I'm going to explain some things from this chapter and the next.

Here's is a chart of everyone so far demon forms etc.

Julian: Cat Demon

Emma: Lion Demon

Jace: Fox Demon (reason why I didn't make him a lion demon, I almost did, is because the lion is very obvious and I want Jace to be somewhat complicated than he is to show why he's like what he is.

Each demon has a way to travel to place to place. (if they been there before by foot)

Apparently, Jace is strong enough to travel. He travel by disappearing in leaves.

Parabatai in this story is a bit different. Jace wants nothing to do with that with Clary, because it bounds them together till the 'master-shadowhunter' leaves or dies.

Jace have a painful past. A past that made him what he is and because he's a demon, so he will be cold, and well a di*k most of the time. This is highly AU and fantasy like. We still have shadowhunters. The beginning of this chapter is part of Jace's past and how he bounded with Michael. Each demon has something that represents what they are. Reason why Julian and Emma is not like Jace is simply because they were raised mostly with Michael and he's very accepting about humans etc. Jace is not.