Ch 3
I entered the busy streets and took a deep breath inhaling the
polluted air of new York. I hailed a taxi and took it straight to...
Luke's. I knew I would find my mom there instead of our house. We were
planning on selling it in a few weeks anyway. I walked to the doorstep
digging through my pocket for the spare key.
"Mom?" I called. I heard a voice from the garage which my mom had
turned into an art studio as I expected. I made my way to the bottom
of the stairs. I saw my mom working busily on another one of her
paintings. She loved art as much as I did. I stared at her paintings
in awe. It never seized to amaze me. Her paintings were mostly scenery
in idris some which I recognized while others were completely
different from what I had ever seen.I paused at a certain painting. It
was a picture of the hillside that Jace and I had sat when we were
celebrating the victory of valentines official death. The picture was
so fascinating I didn't even hear my mom walk up behind me. I gaped at
the painting with all the good memories of that night flooding into my
mind.
I jumped when I heard my mom call me. "oh sorry I ..." I trailed off
suddenly remembering why I was here. I was mentally preparing myself
for a very persuasive speech of staying at the institute.
"I'm guessing you are not just here to stare at my paintings" my mom
said giving me the perfect chance.
"I was thinking and I think it would be great to stay at the
institute. It would be better for my training and it would be more
convienient on demon hunting. I could always visit. Could I please
stay at the institute?" I pleaded.
"Well, if you put it that way. I guess it wouldn't be a problem as
long as you promise to visit." she said.
" Of course and thanks for being so understanding" I exclaimed. I
gave her a quick hug and ran back up the stairs as she went back to
her painting. I quickly packed up my stuff in the extra boxes. I sat
down and called for help.
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Isabelle's Pov
I sat down and made myself comfortable in one of the leather seats in
Jace's infirmary room. I stared up at the ceiling waiting for jace to
wake up and Simon to call. I heard a faint rustle of the blanket and
snapped back into reality.
"where's clary?" he mumbled groggily.
"I think she's at her mom's or something" I told him. He mumbled a
response and I took out my cell. Just as I had it in my hand it
started ringing. It was clary.
"hey" I greeted her.
" hi, I need your help, tell Alec and magnus to come too. Don't tell
Jace" she said.
"Why not?" I asked. I let my eyes wandered over to Jace who was lying
sideways, eyes closed thouh I knew he was listening.
"Oh" I said as I realized why. I went to gather magnus and Alec. They
came out begrudgingly with rumpled clothes. I did not want to know
why. We all took the subway to Luke 's and knocked on the door. Clary
opened her door panting as if she was just running from a demon. She
led us to her room.
"I asked my mom if I could stay at the institute. So I need
someone to help me move my stuff.
" that's great!" I squealed in excitement. A sudden thought went
through my mind.
"Why didn't you just ask magnus?" I asked.
"I guess I didn't think of that"she said sheepishly.
"Magnus?"she motioned to her boxes. "Oh right" he said as he waved
blue sparkles over her things making them glow and suddenly
dissapeared. He made a swirling portal and one by one we stepped into
it following her belongings.
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Clary's Pov
I hurled out of the portal clumsily landing on my knees while the
others stepped out of it with gracefully. Isabelle showed me my room
which was coincidently across from Jace's. I knew they probably saved
that room for when I would move in. I stared into Jace's room which
was unbelievably neat with little things. I noticed something
different sitting on his desk. It was a framed picture of us in front
of the Wayland manor. I spotted a dark figure sitting on his desk. He
looked at me questioningly.
"Im moving in the institute"I exclaimed. We were in a passionate
embrace when Izzy cleared her throat.
"what? Jealous? " Jace said obviously annoyed.
"in your dreams"Isabelle scoffed."mom wants us to meet at the
library in five minutes".
"we'll be there" I promised.
... ... 5 mins later...
"there's been demon sightings consistently increasing around the
institute. Due to Jace's umm injury we did some research. There has
been the same incidents in other institutes too. " said maryse calmly
although I could see that she was worried.
Seeing all the worried and shocked looks on our faces except jace's
she added"it's nothing too big yet. You can go on your regular lives
until we find some more information. That's all I wanted to say. You
can go now" she assured us. We all started to leave the room except
Alec who was the one who worries the most. He stuck to maryse like a
moth to a flame asking questions like "about how many are there?" or
"does the clave know about this?" Just before I stepped out of the
room I saw magnus prying Alec away while giving him plenty assurances
and soothing words. I steppedout of the room unworried knowing no
matter how bad it would turn out to be it wouldn't be worse than what
we've been through (COG situation) Or so i thought. Maybe it would
be worse. Like losing the one I love.
Author's note:
First I would like to give a big thanks to my first reviewers
HollyJayy and hots4jasper...( sorry forgot the number after it ) I
took longer for this chpt because of two reasons. One becuase it's
longer than usual and two because i had to go through and start the
dialogue on another line. Hope you enjoyed the chpt. I will try to
update next week. There are a few more fluff filled chapters but as
you can see the plot is slowly unraveling. Hope you liked this chpt.
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