musicrules1923 - Aww thank you so much! So glad you like it so far :) Well, Cliffhangers make things interesting but yes, I admit - I'm addicted to them xD
ilyreid - I know, right? It broke my heart, too.
Guest - Thanks! I'm always trying to :)
RonaldGarcia91 - Well, Clary may have her own problems very soon. Who knows, maybe even in this chapter? ;)
Whip and Fangs - Simon will definitely not just sit there and do nothing :)
axes tridents and snares - Thanks, dude ^^ Well, there was some Jaia in the earlier chapters. A tiny tiny bit xD But I don't think I have time to add more of them. I have so much planned out already and there's no place for them, at least not with a big storyline. They will get mentioned though ;)

It's a good thing most of you seem you enjoy long chapters, because this one is very long as well, but not quite as the last one.
Also this time, I'm throwing a lot of information out there. I hope it is as good to understand outside my head, as it is inside of it xD

CITY OF CRYING ANGELS
chapter ten: Tears of an Angel

"MAGNUS? ALEC?" Simon yelled as he ran back to the place where he had left them before but there was no sign of them – neither dead nor alive. He couldn't possibly leave without them but if Isabelle, or… whoever that had been, had dragged them some place, how was he suppose to find them? He was a Vampire, not a damn bloodhound.

That was a good point, though – he didn't smell any blood. Chances were good that they were still alive. He decided to check the one place Isabelle had mentioned; the house. Simon went inside and found Magnus bending over an unconscious Alec. He held his hands over Alec's chest and blue sparks were coming out of his fingertips.

"Why didn't you answer me? I thought you might be dead!" Simon said with anger but also relief.

"I'm a little busy at the moment." Magnus was very distant, he seemed to focus on Alec. There wasn't any blood, his sense of smell had been right about that, but he sure as hell didn't take a nap either.

"What happened here?"

"Oh, you know, nothing much. Nearly got killed by some demon who possessed Isabelle. We retrieved into the house. I managed to keep her out but she used her power to squeeze Alec's heart for a while. Right now I'm keeping him alive but if I can't manage to convince his heart to start beating on it's own again…" he swallowed. "I can't do this forever."

Simon needed to hear more about the possession, as Magnus put it, but he was silent. The only thing he could do to help right now was to leave Magnus alone. He had a feeling magic was more effective than chest compression.

After a while Magnus looked over to him for just a moment. "The sword?" he asked but Simon just shook his head. He could see Magnus pressing his teeth together, taking a deep breath but then he turned to Alec again. It felt like hours past, although it couldn't have been more than a minute or two. But then-

Alec soaked in a lot of air and jerked into a sitting position. Magnus exhaled in relief, closing his eyes.

"What happened?" Alec asked in confusion.

"You nearly died. Again. I saved you. Again. I have to tell you, if you're trying to keep our relationship interesting, there's really no need. Things are interesting enough as they are."

Alec blinked and breathed heavily. After a while he mumbled "Isabelle…" Simon could basically see his memories coming back and lowered his head. He felt like he was going insane by just sitting here and waiting 'till it would finally be okay to ask at least some of the million questions he had in mind but he knew he had to give Alec a moment. Simon was in love with Izzy, but he'd only known her for a couple of months. Alec had known Isabelle her entire life, had grown up with her… it was hard to tell which one of them felt worse.

"That wasn't Isabelle." Magnus finally said, gave Alec a gentle smile and then walked over to let himself fall on the sofa. He was beat but nevertheless, Simon took that as a sign that the no-question-time was now over. It had to be over.

"Yeah, about that – you mentioned something about a possession earlier?"

"Yes. I believe a demon has taken over Isabelle's body."

"Like Sebastian did with Jace?"

"No. That is not a possession, we've been over this. Seriously, Shawn, you need to pay attention at the meetings. There will be tests. And if you fail them you'll pay with your life."

"Hold on", Alec said and stood up. "Demons can't possess a Shadowhunter just like that. It needs a lot of preparing and rituals..."

"What makes you so sure she's possessed anyway? Couldn't it be the same deal like it is with Jace?" Simon added.

"Because, right before you left to summon the Angel, she talked to you. The real Isabelle."

Simon went back for a moment. "Simon, don't" she'd said. There had been so much fear in her eyes but he hadn't realized what she'd been afraid of. It hadn't been the Angel. It had been the fear that the Demon who'd taken over her, would take the sword, like it had. And that he would kill them – which, he almost had.

"She was back for just a second." It was almost like Magnus' voice had woken Simon up. "But we didn't understand it."

Simon let himself fall on an armchair. "We've gotten pretty good at not seeing when something's wrong with her…"

Magnus looked at him. "Let us know when you're depression is over, will you? We have more pressuring issues to discuss than how idiotic we all are. We can all moan over that when this is over."

"That's right. Like for example what demon has taken over her, or why I am the only one who seems to think it's weird that she got possessed in the first place." Alec said.

Magnus sighted. "That's because you don't know everything. Isabelle didn't want us to tell you but-"

"Well, Isabelle isn't here anymore. And we both know what happens when one is possessed, so I suggest you tell me everything now."

Simon felt another rush of fear. "What happens when one is possessed?" He wasn't sure if he wanted to know the answer.

"Their souls get... squashed. Until they die. A Mundane soul would die at once, a Shadowhunter can take it for a couple of days but in the end death is inevitable."

And then Simon had to listen to the reason why John Tucker must die got the wrong name in the movie title for the third time. It should really be Sebastian must die. Magnus told everything as short and sensitive as possible but Alec, of course, had trouble to stay calm. As Simon heard it again he understood why Magnus seemed to think that Isabelle could easily be possessed. The physical drama and the mark on her body could be the preparation Alec had talked about before.

When Magnus was finished there was a moment of silence. It was Alec who soon broke it: "Do you know what the mark meant by now?"

"No. The longer I think about it the more sure I am that I've seen it before. I know it. But it's like something inside my head is blocking my memories of it. That's why I didn't even regocnize it the first time I saw it."

As Magnus said that Simon got a weird feeling, almost like a déjà vu. He felt the same way about the mark but hadn't even realized it before.

"Sounds familiar?" Magnus asked but Simon didn't answer. Why would the both of them know it but neither could remember where from or what it meant?

"What did it look like?" Alec demanded.

Magnus didn't argue and turned to Simon. "Go and fetch me paper and a pencil."

He didn't like the commanding voice but he was the only one who knew his way around the house, so he did as he was told. Magnus drew the mark and the feeling came over Simon again. It felt dark but also familiar and so very much frightening. When he'd seen it on Izzy's body he'd felt the same fear but he thought it was because it was on the body of the girl he loved. He'd been wrong. It was the mark itself.

Alec looked just as pale as Simon felt like. "You should have told me." He said after staring at it for a while.

"Do you know what it is?" Simon asked.

It was almost as if Alec hadn't heard him at all. This time, however, Simon didn't think it was personal. He seemed to be in shock. "By the Angel, you should have told me…"

Magnus took Alec's hand into his, which seemed to wake him up. He looked at his boyfriend, his eyes still wide with shock. "You don't recognize it because no Downworlder is supposed to. You somehow know and respect it but could never tell who it belongs to. This is one of Lilith's marks." He looked at the drawing again.

"Lilith has possessed Isabelle."

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When Clary heard a noise at the door she sat up in her bed. She hadn't been sleeping anyway. The door was being unlocked. Ever since she'd wandered around and overheard Sebastian talking to the Seelie Queen she'd been forbidden to leave her room alone (of course Jace believed it was for her own protection). She'd become not just a prisoner of the apartment but of the room, that's been assigned to her.

Up until now the door had only been unlocked so she could eat something or use the bathroom. Since she'd already eaten and hadn't asked to go to the bathroom she got scared.

When the door swung open she saw the most unsettling image – Jace, with a bright, happy grin on his face. Her heart twisted. It was still always so great to see him smiling but since he was under Sebastian's influence his excitement couldn't be good. "Clary! Come on! Izzy's here. She wants to see you."

Clary hated that she got excited over that as well but she also felt sick. Sebastian now had Isabelle as well... but maybe this could turn out to be a good thing for her. Maybe they could find a way out of here together. Clary couldn't do any good as long she was here, she saw that now, she couldn't even get through to her Jace. But because the two of them could easily work together Clary was suspicious that she was allowed to see Isabelle.

As she climbed off her bed she asked: "Are you sure it's okay if I go and see her? Wouldn't Sebastian mind?"

"Oh no, don't worry. He was the one to suggest I come and get you. He also said he had a gift for you. Come on, now!" Jace took her hand and gently pulled Clary after him, who had started to panic at the word gift.

"D-do you have any idea what it is? The gift?"

"No, he didn't tell me. He only said it would be good for the two of us."

Clary swallowed hard. If Sebastian said good it would only mean really really bad…

"Oh, by the way: Simon says hi."

She blinked and stopped walking. Unfortunately Jace didn't notice and kept dragging her after him, which nearly caused her to fall down. "You saw Simon?"

"Yes, when I picked up Isabelle."

Instead of Is he still alive? She managed asking: "How is he?"

"Fine, I think. We didn't get to talk much."

Clary bit her lip. When it was a relief to know that Simon seemed to be alright she had the feeling that Jace wasn't telling her everything. But what did she expect, really? He only did like Sebastian told him to.

They walked the rest of the way in silence and Clary was getting more nervous by the second. Jace finally stopped in front of the living room and knocked (Clary couldn't help thinking Like Jace would ever knock...). Sebastian called them in and Jace opened the door.

There she was. Isabelle was sitting on the couch with a glass in her hand, half empty, but Clary couldn't tell what she was drinking.

"Clary – please, come in. Jace, you can leave." said Sebastian. When Jace looked disappointed he added: "You will get them back soon, brother, I promise." probably referring to Clary and Isabelle.

Speaking about Isabelle... Clary could hardly imagine the girl sitting on the couch was her. It looked like her but she way she sat there and looked at her... Clary couldn't quite put her finger on it, but something was different about her.

Still, she asked: "Isabelle?"

The girl smiled and said: "Hello Clary."

Clary felt a rush of disappointed. She had really thought Isabelle would be... herself. But she seemed to be under Sebastian's influence, just like Jace. When she felt a hand on her spine she jerked and saw that Sebastian was standing beside her – she hadn't even noticed him.

"Please, have a seat." he gestured to the spot next to the Izzy. "I'm sure you would like to talk to Isabelle."

"Yes, I would." Clary responded. "Too bad I can't see her anywhere."

Sebastian smiled but continued to gesture her to sit. Eventually she did but made sure to keep as much distance to Isabelle as possible.

"Why am I here?" she asked.

"Can't a brother call his sister to him just to spend some time with her?"

"A brother – yes. But I don't have one. All I have is a murderer who killed by brother before he was even born."

He sighted. "You aren't even trying. Why can't you at least try to love me, Clary?"

If she didn't know better she would almost belief his act. "There is one thing you could to, that could make me try to love you." she said cold and thought she saw a flicker of hope in his eyes.

"What?" he asked.

Clary swallowed but managed to keep a steady face, even being scared as she was. "Die."

For a moment he looked at her with a frozen expression. Then, suddenly, he slapped the glass out of her hand and grabbed her wrists so hard she thought they might burst, when-

"Jonathan!"

It was Isabelle. She didn't yell but there was a superior tone in her voice that almost made Clary want to apologize to her, even though she was mad with Sebastian. But why did she call him Jonathan? How many people did that?

Sebastian let go of Clary immediately and stepped away from her, running his hands through his hair.

Isabelle stood up and suddenly the glass in her hand had vanished – now she was holding the Mortal Cup. "Contain yourself!" she kept reproaching Sebastian and then turned to Clary. "You know what that is, don't you?"

Clary hesitated but finally said: "The Mortal Cup."

"That's right. We would like you to drink from it."

Clary frowned. "Why? I already am a Shadowhunter."

"Of course you are. We just want to check something." She handed Clary the Cup. "Come on, now. What's the worst that could happen?"

: : : : : :

"How is that possible? Lilith is gone…"

"You can't kill Lilith. Not really. She was going to come back eventually, but it should have taken her much much longer to regenerate…" Alec said.

"Sebastian helped her to possess Isabelle… technically she's not back yet. She's just using a very lifelike phone." Magnus replied.

"Instead of making jokes, shouldn't we be talking about how to get her out of Isabelle's body again?" Never had Simon reproached Magnus (or anyone, when it came to jokes), but Isabelle was as good as dead, if there was ever a time not to joke it was now. He knew Magnus didn't mean any harm by it, it was just who he was, but it still hurt.

When Alec and Magnus shared a concerned look Simon froze. "What? What is it?"

"It's…" Alec was obviously fighting tears to come up. "You can exercise a demon from a human body. But a great demon, like Lilith… it's not possible."

"Now that", Magnus said. "might not be entirely true."

Alec turned around. "What are you talking about? No one has ever been able to do anything like this. So many people have died."

"Just because no one has doesn't mean it's not possible." Before Simon could get too exited, Magnus turned to him. "Easy there, Sherman, it doesn't exactly mean it is possible, either." Magnus took a deep breath. "There's a legend. Well, not so much a legend, more like a story. It is told that before this world, there was another. But something has gone terribly, terribly wrong... God had cried over his creation, which caused the Big Bang to destroy everything – and recreate the universe into it's true form. A new beginning. When God then created the Angels he gave every one of them a part of himself, which included the power to recreate. The story teaches us that tears of an Angel can transform anything back into it's true nature."

There was a moment of silence. It took Alec a while to ask: "And you think it may turn Isabelle back as well? And Jace?"

"Could be." Magnus said, but sounded not even partly convinced.

"What about Sebastian? He was a normal… fetus before Valentine gave his mother the demon blood, right?"

Simon blinked and got a bit angry. "Wait... now you want to save him?"

Alec hesitated and took a deep breath. "I'm a Shadowhunter, Simon. If there's a chance to save a human being, or another Shadowhunter, I have to take it. It's my oath. After all he has only done any of those things because of what Valentine did to him."

Before Simon could yell at Alec Magnus said: "I'm not sure what would happen if we used it on Sebastian. Like you said, he has been compromised by demon blood when he was just a fetus. Maybe what he is now is considered to be his true form. The chance that the tears would work on Isabelle and Jace is higher, but still, no one has ever tried this before. The outcome would be unforeseeable."

"But there's a chance it could work?" Alec demanded.

"Obviously." This time Magnus seemed more sure. Well, at least the chance was real.

Still... Simon didn't get where he was going with this. "I'm sorry, but are you suggesting, that we summon the Angel again and get him to watch Titanic?" He wasn't even sure if he was kidding. "I mean, how are we going to get his tears?"

"We don't. Having seen what his tears had done before God made it so the Angels could never truly care. They don't have emotions like we do - they can't cry."

"And the point in telling us something we can't do is…?"

"Angel's can't cry. But once they've fallen, banned from heaven and bound to live on earth, there's a chance they'll develop emotions and with them, the ability to cry."

Simon felt like Magnus had hit him over the head with something very hard. He couldn't possibly be serious. "Fallen Angels? You mean… demons? Pure evil? Those Fallen Angels?"

Magnus shrugged his shoulders. "That's what the story tells us."

"Well… I'm sure they'll be glad to cry for us. You know, because they're always so helpful."

There was a moment of silence. Magnus then added: "Like I said, it's just a story. Which means it's about as reliable as Snow White or Little Red Riding Hood. Of course they are partly true… the question is, which parts – if any – of this little story are."

Alec lightly shook his head. "I'm not sure if anything is. I've never read anything about this. How do you even know that?"

"Someone once told it to me. And I'm afraid in order to find out what's true, we are going to have to talk to him."

Alec froze. "When you say someone… Do you mean-?"

"Yes." Magnus seemed very reluctant about what he was going to say. "Time to visit Daddy."

As you can see - my baby (this fanfic lol) is getting bigger and bigger.
For those of you who are worried that this whole development will make the Sizzy-Sweetness disappear... let me quote Psych: Wait for iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit ;) (And review in the meantime, please? lol)