Alexander Pov- We walked down the empty street and stopped at the gate making sure there was no one around to catch us. I looked around nervously before looking at Magnus "Magnus we're going to get in trouble we aren't supposed to be by the church." They put up the gate recently and we are only allowed inside of Sundays. He smiled and looked back at me "we're not supposed to be in love with each other either yet we are."

I blushed and glared at him "Don't use that against me I can't help that I'm attracted to you… but I can stop you from going into this church. Magnus I have a bad feeling about this place and I hate it lets' go home." I have been having that same dream over and over again and it has been getting worse every night. Magnus looked through the gate again "How can you be afraid doesn't your dad work here with Father Valentine?"

I nodded "yes but that doesn't mean anything." He smiled and started climbing the gate "it means if we get caught we can say we are here to see your father." He got over the fence and looked back at me "Come on over little raven." I blushed at the nick name "It's too high…"

"Coward" he said simply making me mad. "I am not a coward." he smiled "Yes you are, Alexander Lightwood is a coward." I sighed and shook my head before starting to climb the fence "When I get over there you are in for a world of hurt Bane."

He laughed and watched me climb to the top of the fence. Once I was there I stopped, looking down at him. "What's the matter love" he asked looking up at me. I closed my eyes shaking "It's too high I can't do it."

Smiling he held up his arms and I opened my eyes watching him "Jump Alexander…I swear I'll catch you." I blushed and nodded before closing my eyes tight and jumping off the fence landing into his arms. The force made him fall on his back and made my lips press against his. I pulled my face away fast "Are you okay?"

He answered me by grabbing my face and pulling it closer to his kissing me briefly. I smiled and kissed him back happily before breaking it and standing up. "If I get grounded you are in so much trouble." he laughed and stood up going through the grave yard with me.

I stopped at a tombstone frowning and he looked at it frowning to. It was the stone of my best friend Jace Herondale. "Hey Magnus... do you think Clary really killed Jace" I asked softly not able to look away from his stone. Magnus looked at me frowning "I highly doubt it… they were madly in love."

I forced myself to look away from the stone and I looked at him "Yes and she was pleading and begging to us not to kill her. She said that she loved Jace and would never hurt him and I believed her. She said that the truth lies in the church just like Tessa Gray." He frowned and looked at the church looking lost in thought.

"Hey you shouldn't be in here" an annoying familiar voice said from behind us. I looked and frowned seeing Jonathan Morgenstern standing there watching us like criminals. Magnus pulled me behind him glaring at the blonde. "We… came to see my father… and pay respects to Jace."

Jonathan looked at me and smiled before reaching passed Magnus and running his hand though my hair. Magnus glared but kept quiet, not wanting to make him mad. "Has anyone ever told you, you look like an angel Alexander?" I blinked confused and shook my head no.

He smiled slightly "You are special Alexander I know it… someday that specialness inside you will be of use to us." He dropped his hand "Your father is really busy with mine so you will have to wait till he comes home to talk to him sorry for the inconvenience." I nodded and looked back at Magnus "We should go." He nodded and grabbed me by the arm pulling me toward the gate far from Jonathan.

What was he talking about 'looking like an angel, and me being special'? Was being special a good thing or will it just put me in the line of fire like Jace and Will? If that happens then Magnus will... I can't even bring myself to say it. Magnus stopped in front of the gate; which was now open from Jonathan opening it; and he looked at me "Are you alright?"

I looked at him meeting his golden eyes and I shook my head no. So many things were confusing. Jace's death, Clary's involvement, and why my father tried to hide it from me. Jace was gone, Clary was also gone. Who would be next to get caught up in this web?

"Magnus... My father hasn't said a word about what happened to Jace. Even when I confronted him at home he just brushed me off and changed the subject by yelling at me for not getting the stuff he wanted me to get. Jonathan has been saying weird things about my being special and Father Valentine and him both warned me about the company I keep." Magnus stayed silent for a long minute before he turned away looking at the sunset "I don't know Alexander... I didn't sign up for this when I came to Salem. All I wanted was to find my mother."

I frowned and looked at him. Would he even be involved if it wasn't for me? What if we weren't together? "I... I'm sorry..." He looked at me and quickly grabbed me by the shoulders "It's not your fault so don't start thinking things like 'I should leave him alone' or 'it's all my fault' I'm sure this would have happened no matter what."

I nodded not completely convinced and shrugged off his hands "I want these burnings to stop... I can't lose anyone else." There was another long pause before finally Magnus spoke. "You know... I still think you should come with me to live in my town." I shook my head fast "I can't Magnus."

"Why not? You could bring your siblings and we can start a new life." I smiled sadly up at him and I put my hand on his cheek making him lean into the touch. "It's not that simple darling."

"How is it not simple" He snapped making me flinch and drop my hand. "Magnus I just can't; please just drop it." He huffed irritably before turning and walking away from me not saying another word.

"It's weird not having Jace around" Isabelle sighed while rolling up dough to make some bread. She was horrible at cooking but the woman's place is in the kitchen so we have no choice but to eat what she makes. I watched her roll the dough, that was supposed to be white but for some reason it looked gray; from the dinner table. "Yeah it is... has Max stopped crying yet?"

She shook his head no. Jace was Max's idol, the one person he looked up to and thought as a hero. Once I told him Jace was dead he cried and cried for hours and was now locked up in his room. "Do you think he is reading more of those spell books" Isabelle asked pounding on the dough.

I shrugged still watching her "do you want help with that?" She stuck her nose in the air. "Boys don't cook they go hunt. Go hunt and leave me alone."

I shrugged and walked over to an old crate, opened it up, and pulled some new weapons I created that I call a bow and arrow. Isabelle looked at them and made a scowl face "How are you going to hunt with those? how do you even use them?" I placed the arrow in place on the bow and pulled it back on the string "I pull it back like this and let it go, it will fly off the string and stab whatever I'm hunting."

She rolled her eyes and folded the dough roughly even though she was supposed to do it genteelly. "You are always making such weird things. keep it up and people will think you're a warlock." I know she was joking but those words did not appeal to me well.

Sighing I put the bow and arrow back into the create and closed it "Hey Isabelle... how did you feel about the other town." She smiled "Oh I loved it; everyone was so care free and there were no worries of being burned. Why do you ask brother?" I shrugged "I think Magnus wants to move back there and he wants to take me with him so I'll be safe. He said I can bring you and Max also but I don't feel like we should leave this town."

She looked at me before going back to her dough "I know Magnus means well but we have a whole life here. We don't ever do anything wrong so we have nothing to worry about. Magnus is just being paranoid." I frowned and started to play with the family ring on my finger "You're probably right."

was she right? Were we all just worrying to much over nothing? I want to stay in Salem, I want to continue my normal life here. I just hope I don't come to regret it.

Magnus Pov- What was it about this place that made Alexander Lightwood not want to give it up? This was a horrible place and there was a chance every day that I could get caught and burned; or worse Alexander would get burned. We need to go somewhere safe but he is being a stubborn ass about it. I stopped in front of Camille's house and sighed deeply before knocking on the door.

She answered it a moment later and a look of shock and surprise came across her face. "Magnus... I'm so surprised to see you." She moved aside to let me in and I walked in looking around her house. It was pretty high class which wasn't surprising considering she was one of the people who points out witches.

"What brings you here" Camille said sitting down and poring us each a cup of tea. I sat down across from her on a stool and met her gaze "Let's put all of our cards on the table Camille. Tell me why you call out innocent people to get burned and why are all these people ending up dead. I know for a fact that Clary wasn't a witch and she wouldn't kill Jace Herondale so who did and why?"

The look in her eye turned from pleased to defensive. Shutting off any openings they may give me to see through. "Clary killed Jace" She said simply. "But there is no way you can prove that right" I asked not backing down.

"Supposedly Jace's body was found on the road dead from a stab wound. It wasn't a civilian who found him though; it was Jonathan Morgenstern a puppet for his father. Jonathan could as easily have killed Jace himself and he had plenty of motive. Then You and Jonathan say that Clary done yet there is no proof."

"There is no proof that Jonathan did it either" Camille said simply; not even phased by anything I just said. "Magnus I know you don't think Jonathan and I are doing good but the truth is that we are. We get rid of all the troublesome people in Salem." "Jace and Clary were not troublesome people, neither were William and Tessa. If anyone is being troublesome it's you and Jonathan."

She frowned and looked into the cup of tea "Magnus... I am helping you learn things about your mother. Isn't that good enough?" I frowned and looked at her "helping me? Name one thing you have done that has gotten me closer to finding my mother or finding anything about her?"

She shook her head keeping quiet and I nodded "That's what I thought." I stood up and put my cup of tea on the table "You said that we were friends... I don't see that happening." I turned and left ignoring her as she yelled out to me.

"Jocelyn refuses to go home. She can't even look at Valentine right now" Luke said preparing dinner for us all. "Who can blame her? Valentine burned their daughter and Jocelyn can't stand Jonathan."

I glanced at Luke thinking "Why does she hate her son?" Luke frowned and continued cooking "he is just a dark child." Jonathan was a dark child and there wasn't a clear reason to why he was that way. Maybe I can get the reason out of Jocelyn.

I grabbed a basket of bread and took it out to the dining room where Jocelyn was sitting playing with the table cloth laying on the table. I put the basket on the table before sitting next to her "Want some bread Jocelyn?" She shook her head no and looked at me tiredly. She looked dead tired with dark circles under her eyes that made her appear older then she was.

"Your friends with Alexander Lightwood aren't you?" I nodded sitting up straight "Yes I am... do you know him very well?" She shook her head no "I try to stay out of Lightwoods business. I only know him because Clary was friends with him."

I frowned and put my hand on hers "Alexander and I don't believe that Clary killed Jace. We don't think she was a witch either." She frowned "I'm not a fool... I know that Jonathan killed him. He never liked Jace and he left home around the time Jace was killed."

She pulled something small and shaped like a circle out from under the table and she started to play with it frowning. I glanced down at it seeing it shine in the light "What is that?" She held it up showing a ring with birds engraved into it "The Herondale's family ring... I found it in Jonathan's room. This was Jace's family ring but I have no idea why Jonathan would have it."

I thought back to what Alexander said to Jonathan about Jace proposing to Clary. "I think... I think Jace was on his way to ask Clary to marry him." She gasped softly and looked at me "You think so?" He nodded "Alexander said so and Jonathan sounded like he knew about it; only Jace only told Alexander and that was right before he went to propose."

She frowned and held the ring tight into her hand "People ask Clary for her hand in marriage all the time but she would always refuse them... she was waiting for Jace to ask." I frowned and leaned back "Does... does Alexander get asked for marriage a lot?" Alexander is part of the rich Lightwood family and he has to marry someone from another rich family. My family is far from rich... I'm dead poor. I would never be able to marry Alexander; not to mention the fact that I'm a guy.

Jocelyn looked at me "Do you want to marry Alexander?" I coughed and sat up straight shaking my head "No not at all; we are both men that isn't allowed." She smiled watching me squirm in my seat "Magnus Love is never wrong." I looked at her shocked and calmed down "You're a nice lady."

She smiled sadly and looked at the ring again "I'm not nice; I just had my eyes open to how cruel the world can be. We shouldn't label love for only the rich or make it gender bound. love should just be love." I glanced over to the kitchen hearing Luke curse to himself from burning his hand.

"If you had another chance to choose... do you think you would have chosen Luke over Valentine?" She looked at the kitchen thinking for a moment before nodding "I know I would have."

Love knows no gender or wealth! Poor Jocelyn had to watch her daughter die :(