Hey guys! I'm updating early because I'm going to band camp next week so no chapter then! I am sorry about that... Also, this does partially follow the events in Clockwork Princess, but not quite. So, here's chapter two, I hope you enjoy! Oh, and thanks to the reader who reminded me Charlotte's eyes are brown, not green! Thank you! -SeraphAnaklusmos
Clary looked at the boy, and the boy looked at her, as of wondering who this redheaded midget was. She stared back until his eyes flicked over to the Herondale girl, Cecily, and widened slightly.
He didn't look back at Clary.
"What's going on?" Gideon ran to his brother, followed by a red faced Sophie.
"Father's a worm," Gabriel replied.
Will laughed. "And he finally sees sense."
Jem shushed him, but gave up as Tessa came down in a dress of gold. Clary remembered an old rhyme Jace told her:
"Black for hunting through the night,
For death and mourning the color's white
Gold for a bride in her wedding gown
And red to call enchantment down.
White silk when our bodies burn,
Blue banners when the lost return.
Flame for the birth of a Nephilim,
And to wash away our sins.
Gray for knowledge best untold,
Bone for those who don't grow old.
Saffron lights the victory march,
Green will mend our broken hearts.
Silver for the demon towers,
And bronze to summon wicked powers."
Tessa must be trying on her wedding dress. Clary wondered who her husband-to-be was, that is, until she saw the way Tessa gravitated towards Jem, and they way he looked at her.
"I know, hewas brought shame and dishonor on the family and name of Lightwood-" Gideon started, but Gabriel interrupted him: "You don't get it! He. Is. A. Worm. A giant bloody serpent thing!"
Cecily's eyebrows shot up, and Henry looked caught between amusement and horror. "So we just step on him?"
Gabriel sneered at him. "He is fity feet long, five feet wide, at least. I found some of the servents after he changed. And by found, I mean bits and pieces of them, scattered around the estate."
"So no to the stepping," Henry announced.
"We must go at once," Gideon said. "I shall take my brother back to Chiswick and we will fight it."
"You won't have to go alone," Charlotte declared. "We will assist you."
"Well," Cecily shot a look at her brother, "I am already, conveniently, in gear."
Will spun around and glared at her. "ABSOLUTELY NOT."
"She has the right, Will," Henry told him.
"She's fifteen!"
"You were doing the same when you were her age," Jem told his Parabatai. Everyone stared at him in shock, Clary included. The two were closer than Jace and Alec; they were almost one person.
"Fine! Now Tessa will want to go!"
Tessa crossed her arms. "I most certainly am going."
Will stared at her. "May I remind you that you are in your wedding dress?!"
"That does not matter, I am going." Tessa stared right back at him. Clary wondered if the two had feelings for each other. Ah, Herondale boys and their forbidden women.
"She's going, that's the end of it," Charlotte snapped.
"Me too?" Clary asked.
Will gave her an odd look, but Charlotte nodded. "Of course."
"Her?!" Gabriel demanded. "She's what- fourteen?"
Clary snarled at him. "I'm sixteen!"
Will laughed. "She's coming Lightworm."
"Worm?! LightWORM?! You know something about this, don't you? Aren't you the expert?" Gabriel choked out.
"Well, don't act as if I invented the disease. There's pleanty of books in the library."
Clary laughed, and Will shot her that look again, as if he were thinking about her mental stability.
"Enough!" Charlotte yelled. "It is time for us to depart. We must save Chiswick, if at all possible."
The other Nephilim nodded their assent, and they split up into groups to ride in carriages. Clary was not at all surprised that Gabriel and Cecily were in the same carriage. Clary opted to go with Will.
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Looking better in black,
Yours truly,
SeraphAnaklusmos