Hi everyone, Lerial here, and I have some things to say,

First, sorry for the extended hiatus, between dA, School, YouTube, and my other projects, things were all over the place.

Also, I re-read CoLS, and foudn out that there are some things I forgot to adress.

Those will be added, don't worry, as will more CLACE,

Yes, the note at the top, 'might change to M' actually means somthing. *cough*clace*cough*

Well, enough of my rambling, here you go!

Chapter 17

Clary looked over at Drakiel, and then down to the gathering of ROUSes, their leader hissed and turned, and as if they were one being, all the over-sized rodents flooded back into the woods like a retreating wave.

"What the hell was that?" Chloe asked, glaring up at Drakiel, who just shrugged.

"Never mind what it was, this day has been a waste, nothing was accomplished other that finding out that Lerial and Drakiel were sleeping together." Roxy muttered

"Well, I could spy for you guys, I'm Sebastian's second-in-command, but I don't think it'll go well…" Drakiel started, but then trailed off.

"Why?" Maia asked, her one-word question summing up what everyone was thinking.

"He has a way of knowing things; I wouldn't be surprised if he knew about me being here." Drakiel muttered only just loud enough for everyone to hear. Clary knew what he meant, Sebastian had a way of knowing things, just like he had with her faerie ring.

For a moment Clary saw something odd flash in Jace's eyes, but it was gone so quickly she doubted she had seen it in the first place.

Meanwhile, everyone had gone quiet, and Clary looked up when a sigh escaped Chloe.

"Alright, meeting adjourned, Drakiel, you've got more explaining to do." Chloe growled, Drakiel raised an eyebrow but said nothing. Everyone else slowly filtered out of the room, and Clary was about to leave when Jace grabbed her arm.

"Stay," Jace whispered, and Clary smiled, but Jace wasn't smiling, his expression was troubled.

"Jace? What's wrong?" Clary asked, cold, icy panic starting to build up in her veins.

"I just remembered, the fire, you remember? The fire from the archangel's sword?" Jace asked,

"How could I forget?" Clary responded, but she was worried all the same though.

"It's…well…You remember in the woods? When Lerial found us? The fire, I just remembered that it didn't act up, and it hasn't been acting up lately either." Jace said quietly.

"Isn't that a good thing? Maybe it was only temporary." Clary said, placing her hand on his arm and looking up into his golden eyes.

"I can feel it inside of me, but it's not coming out, that's the problem." Jace muttered.

"Well at least you told me about the problem and didn't sit on it until something terrible happened." Clary said, trying to lighten the mood.

"This is serious, there might be something wrong." Jace said, his voice hard, but his eyes showed he was affected by the joke. Clary was about to respond, but Jacob came walking in, humming to himself; he paused when he saw the two of them, and slowly started to back out of the room.

Once Jacob was fully out, he resumed humming and started walking down the stairs, back where he had come from. Clary was confused, and Jace rolled his eyes.

"Look-" Jace was about to say something when Roxy came into the room.

"Hey, I don't mean to interrupt your lovefest, but Jacob said there was stuff going on in here, and if you're going to have sex against the wall, please do it in one of your rooms, and not in the communal meeting room." Roxy finished. Clary was about to protest, but then she noticed that somewhere during her conversation with Jace, he had backed her up against a wall and they were pressed together.

Jace pulled away, and shot an annoyed look at an amused Roxy.

"We were discussing an issue." Jace said mildly.

"An issue about what? The lack of condoms on the island? Please, do you want to know how many times we've gotten that complaint?" Roxy said, her smile curving up.

"No, I don't, but can you tell me one thing, if heavenly fire were to come to this island, what would happen to it?" Clary asked, waving away Roxy's comment about condoms, although she knew her face was red.

"Hmm, that's a good one, if it was unprotected I think it would burn out, the island has a demonic influence. So heavenly fire, depending on the amount or protection it has, would either destroy the place or go into hiding of some sort, but that's just a guess, it's never happened, so I'm just saying what would most likely happen." Roxy explained. Her forehead was creasing as she thought.

"Okay, thanks." Clary said, trying to smile.

"Why'd you need to know?" Roxy asked,

"Shadowhunter stuff." Jace broke in. Roxy gave them a weird look but seemed to decide that she'd better not ask.

"Well, if you need anything, I'm here; I think there is a stash of condoms somewhere, so if you need it, just ask!" Roxy said with a wink as she turned around and disappeared.

"Why does she keep assuming that?" Clary muttered under her breath, but Jace was silently laughing.

"I don't know Fray; we might just need them soon." He smirked.

"I'm choosing to ignore that, but at least we found out why, the fire went into hiding." Clary said, waving off Jace's innuendo.

"Maybe, but…"Jace trailed off, and Clary didn't think she had ever seen him look this upset.

"Let's go down to the beach, I think the sunset will be really nice." Clary said, she smiled and tugged Jace's hand, Jace paused and looked at their joined hands, a smile came over his face, and the certain glow that made Jace himself seemed to re-ignite in his eyes.

"Hmm, fun on the beach…" Jace trailed off again, but this time he was smirking and the trailing off was for an effect, an effect that was working on Clary.

"Jace, Roxy said…" This time Clary trailed off, but only because Jace had pressed her up to the wall once more, and his lips came down on hers, Clary felt a thrill run through her body, and reached her hands up to grip his shirt.

Jace smiled against her mouth and ran one of his hands over her side, while the other one cupped her cheek-

"WHAT THE HELL! I SAID NO SEX IN THE MEETING ROOM!" Roxy's yell caused them to break apart, and Clary saw that both she and Jace were flushed.

"Sorry." Jace said, but his tone suggested that he didn't mean it in the slightest. Roxy muttered something about lovestruck idiots, and walked out of the room, but not before shooting a glare at them.

"I'm starting to think this island has ears and eyes, first Lerial, now Roxy." Clary murmured, Jace smiled,

"Well, we could still go to our room…" He grinned when Clary blushed slightly.

"I still think the beach would be better." Clary murmured, Jace chuckled and pulled her out of the room.

Oh, if anyone has ideas for different kinds of Night Crawlers, please post a comment or message, So far we only have the ROUSes and the Draco Clan, which will pop up later.

I hope to start posting regualarly again soon