I'm sorry for the long wait! Havent got an excuse I'm afraid :(
Anyway, this isn't my best work. I'm not very good at action scenes :(
Still, hope you like it and please, please Review.
Everything happened so quickly. One minute, Clary was opening the door, fully-clothed and nervous to see Jace again, next minute she was staring into Jace's horror-struck face as, behind him, the muscled man with the surprisingly sharp teeth was smiling.
"This one with you is she?" he asked in a husky voice. Clary stood frozen, as did Jace. But only for a second. He pushed her backwards into the room, but his actions weren't fast enough. Somehow the sharp-toothed man had lunged forward an impossible distance with impossible speed and tugged at her arm so that she was now being pulled to the top of the stairs to join the other scary men. She squeaked as he spun her around so her back was pressed up against his body, his large arms wrapped around her, crushing her to him.
She concentrated on Jace. He'd taken control of his expression so now all she could see was pure fury in his narrowed eyes and the angry set of his mouth.
"I'll teach you to damage things I care about" Said the man as Clary tried to squirm away from him. But he was strong. As strong as he was fast and his huge arms were keeping her still. He leaned his head down to smell her neck, burying his face in the crook of her shoulder for a second before looking up at Jace with an expression Clary couldn't see. But she did see Jace's expression. He looked green. And angry. Very, very angry.
"You're going to wish you hadn't. Believe me. Let her go. Now." He warned with a tightly controlled voice. He'd unsheathed two deadly looking daggers, as had Alec who was standing tensed and ready on his side.
The man didn't say anything else. Clary was distantly aware that there were other men huddled behind the one still clutching at her, but the next moment, every thought left her head as pain and panic took over.
The vampire's teeth sank into Clary's neck and she screamed. It was a blood-curdling scream of pain that twisted Jace's insides. Throughout his training he's been taught to work out what he was going to do, not blindly run into a fight. He figured out strategies. Exits, possible weapons or weak spots. An important one was the stakes.
So, Jace and Alec had been doing just that. But, as the sound of flesh ripping open and the sight of Clary's blood dripping down her neck, Jace forget his training. He plunged forward, hacking the knife into the vampire's neck. It howled in pain and fell back against the others, releasing Clary to where she fell to the floor. The others advanced forward like an angry mob in a cheesy gang movie.
Alec and Jace exchanged a glance. There were four, maybe five, super fast, super strong vampires and probably more downstairs. The time for thinking had passed. Time to blindly fight.
Clary was panicked. She felt the pain and the liquid flowing down her neck. She saw the widening of Jace's eyes. She saw his advance and felt the smack of the floor on her forehead as she was dropped suddenly. She must have blacked out for a second as when she opened her eyes she was curled on the floor near where four of the men were advancing on Jace and Alec. Both had weapons in hand and a determined expression.
Her forehead throbbed where she'd hit it on the floor and she was sure she could feel the wetness of blood mingling with the tears that were blurring her vision. Her head felt heavy, she closed her eyes and struggled to open them again. When she finally did, she caught a glance of a huge wolf, bounding up the stairs and joining the fight. She saw it glance back once, looked at her as though he actually saw her, as though it was registering her. The last thing Clary saw before the blackness took her was the wolf's teeth closing on one of the men's shoulder and tugging.
Right, the next chapter shouldn't take long. But, in case you want to read more Jace & Clary stores of mine, go to my profile, i have several :D Thanks for reading R&R R&R x