"In the Night."
Chapter 8 "Bite the Hand that Feeds You."
General Pov
Everyone who was in the institute was summoned to the banquet hall, there sat a long table a place for everyone even Clary. Clary sat at the end of the table as people came into the room one by one taking their places silently; of course they looked down at Clary who kept tapping her fingers against the table.
Clary felt herself relax as she saw Jace walk into the room and instantly their eyes met, but her bone was sent to a chill when Jonathan came up behind Jace and whispered something into his ear. Clary looked down at the table that was so shiny she could see her reflection, she looked pale, bruised and above all else plain out exhausted.
Everyone in the room whispered with each other until Jocelyn and Valentine entered the room, the chatter went to a hush as Valentine took his place at the end of the table. Clary looked up from the table and glanced towards Valentine who was starring right at her, not even trying to hide his stare which sent shivers down Clary's spine.
"well now that we are all here, I have some very important news to share you all of you." He stood up and held his hand towards Clary and smiled. "We welcome a new comer into our home, we shall treat her as any other Shadow hunter, we will teach her our ways, and I shall choose one of you to train this young child." He said and indicated for her to stand; she looked around watched as everyone watched her slowly stand in her place.
"What is your name dear child?" A woman asked who sat next to Isabelle.
"Clarissa… Clarissa Garroway." Clary said loud enough for everyone to hear.
"Why were you living with a werewolf?" another person asked, She looked over to see a young child sitting next to Isabelle on her other side.
She looked over at him and widened her eyes. "I don't, I live with my father." She said and went to sit down but Valentine cleared his throat readying himself to start an argument.
"Well that is very peculiar Clarissa, we sent others back to your apartment to sift through whatever we could find out about you. There were claw marks on your fathers walls in his bedroom, and there were bags packed by the front door when they arrived. It's very coincidental that your fathers bags were packed on the night of the full moon, can you be sure that he wasn't a wolf." Valentine asked looking over at Clary who was fuming at the part where they went into her home without permission.
She breathed in without looking away from Valentine, she smiled and nodded her head. "Yes." She said and paused. "His bags were packed because he was on his way to his girlfriends getaway house, when I was taken by your son and his companion." She said sternly. "He would've gone if I hadn't had called him before being taken." She said and crossed her arms over her chest, and then laughed. "And for the claw marks on the wall, as you said earlier, were from a previous dog that we had years before. In fact that was the reason we got rid of the dog, damn thing chewed everything and clawed everything. I forgot that there were claw marks on the wall, but thank you for the reminder." She said with a smile and nodded her head.
She could her with her ears as Valentines heart picked up pace as she basically told him to go fuck himself in a nice way. Valentine stood there glaring at her, as she could hear Jace stifle a laugh back and try to look serious.
"You mock my questions little girl, why must you mock, must be that you are trying to hide thing you know." Was his comeback, which threw clary off completely.
"You say that I am to be treated as one of you, but I stand here and now being questioned as a criminal. I have never done anything wrong in my life; I have never done anything that has affected your life. So I can't seem to wrap my head around the fact of why am I still here." She stood her ground which Valentine was not expecting.
"You are still here because you have the gift of sight, you can posse runes and you can enter the holy ground of this Institute. We are in a war Clarissa, the accords are broken, we must defend ourselves against the savage Down worlders and our cause needs every living and able Shadowhunter." The older black haired women said standing up along with us. "And you mock our people as you sit here and snap at our leader." She said and looked to Valentine who was still glaring at Clary.
"Your people have been perfectly fine without me, I don't see the difference I can make." Clary snapped back at the women. "And he will never be my leader, I don't follow a Dictator."
The black haired woman was in rage she clenched her fists and slammed them down on the table which shocked everyone except clary who was expecting her movement, since her senses were heightened she could tell what some one's body intentions are before they even happen. "How dare you speak about our gracious ruler who has wel-." She didn't get to finish her lecture of course.
"Maryse please let me explain to this ignorant girl what it means to be in our cause." He mused and smiled at Maryse as she sat back down. "Clarissa being in our cause is an immense honor, first of all, you get to train, make allies and if you were to fall during this cause your body would be burned in the City of Bones alongside your other brothers and sisters that sit among us here and others all around the world." Valentine said with pride.
"Well that's lovely, fighting with you sounds like an honor, but my intentions are still the same as they were when this irrelevant meeting began. I will not fight with you and your people, I do not belong here and I will return home at the end of all this."Clary said and hit the table with her fist which leads to the table cracking in the middle.
Everyone at the table watched as the wood split and sat with wide eyes and silence. Valentine looked down at her fist and then at the crack of the table and cocked his eyebrow at her action. "Clarissa there is a room that has been made for you in the upper levels, you will be accompanied by Jace to go back to you apartment to fetch clothing. You will come back and begin your training tomorrow morning with Alec and Jace, is that clear." Valentine looked at Jace and another boy who just nodded their heads and looked back down at the table.
Clary looked at Valentine with rage and felt nails begin to grow; she clenched her fists together, making her claws imbed themselves into her palm causing blood to spill. She looked and saw her red fingers; she kicked back her chair making it hit the wall and stormed out before anyone saw her hands.
Of course she wasn't alone for long Jace came running out of the room, coming up behind her. By the way he was breathing she could tell he was mad, and she wasn't in the best mood to be yelled at.
"Have you lost your god damn mind?" Jace said furiously as Clary's back was turned to him, she didn't answer but continued to puncture her palms. Jace started to get angrier that she didn't answer and she wouldn't look at him, he grabbed her shoulder and turned her around to see blood dripping down her wrists, he looked up to her eyes and saw sapphire blue eyes staring back at him.
Panic set into Jace he looked back at the meeting room door to check if anyone had come out yet. No one was there, he sighed and grabbed Clary's forearm and dragged her behind him, and they hid in a closet near a stairwell. He turned on the light and heard Clary start growling, Jace looked around and shook his head. "How do you change back?" he hissed impatiently.
"I…have...Have…to…calm...down." she said as she gasped out in pain as they bother heard one of her ribs cracking in half. Jace panicked he couldn't have her shift in the middle of this closet and kill him, or worse Valentine catching them.
He looked Clary in the eyes as he saw her cheeks begin to drip from tears. He hissed and grabbed both sides of her face forcefully; she instantly resisted and started to growl at him, but instantly stopped when he pressed his lips to hers.
Clary starred at him with his lips on hers, she felt herself begin to calm down as she looked at Jace in confusion. He pulled away and smiled as he saw her eyes turn back to the emerald green color, he sighed in relief and looked up at the ceiling.
Clary starred at him with daggers in her eyes, she was mad but not as mad as before. "What the hell Jace?" she hissed at him.
"It got you to calm down didn't it?" he said and shrugged his shoulders.
"Don't ever… ever do that again." Clary warned and pushed past him out of the closet.
"I amused it was mind blowing for you as I see your reaction." He said smugly, he watch Clary walked fast down the hall way in search of a bathroom, she held up her middle fingers that was red.
"Don't flatter yourself little boy." She said and laugh which sent Jace into his feelings as he watched walk away.
Hurt by her words he looked down at the ground, not paying attention, he didn't noticed a little 10 year old hiding behind an old plant, watching everything that had just unfolded before him.