"Uh… Am I missing something?" Clary asked after a very long and awkward silence.

Yes, Clary, actually if you see two people talking staring into each other you back. The fuck. Up.

That's what Lucy wanted to say but couldn't so instead, she replied:

"No, of course not. Got your phone?"

"Yeah, we can go now, is Luke coming with us?"

"NO. I mean yes, yes he is. He has to. Yeah." WHAT THE CRAP AM I SAYING.

"Sorry, we're going where?" Luke intervened. He didn't look nervous or alarmed. Lucy hated him for that.

"To talk to some of Charlie's friends. Or at least the people we know he knows" said Clary "so let's go!"

"Yeah, alright" said Lucy and then whispered to Luke "this is not over, you hear me?"

They left the station and took the underground to get to a neighborhood in east London and looked for one specific house. Finally they found what they were looking for and stood in front of the door.

"Are you sure this is the house?" Lucy asked.

"Yeah, I did some research earlier today. I'm sure" Clary replied. What would Lucy do without her.

"So we just ring the doorbell and ask if he's here? Just like that?" Luke wondered.

"Unless you want to kick the door down and tie him up to interrogate him then yes"

Lucy knew she was being unfair and excessively aggressive with him but she couldn't help it. She was mad and didn't know what to do plus Clary knew something happened and was watching them with particular attention. Luke said nothing.

Clary rang the bell and waited. The door was opened. By Alex Day I should add. He looked like he just woke up from a very long nap. It was 7 p.m.

"Yes?" He said.

"Alex Day"

"That's me"

"I'm Clary and these are Lucy and Luke, we come from the YSS…" and she couldn't finish the sentence because Alex was not listening anymore. He turned around and started running into the house like there was no tomorrow. The girls didn't even think about it and just ran after him. Luke, in the other hand was a bit left behind because he didn't react so quickly. Alex got out by the kitchen door and went to the street. He dropped everything there was in his way to try to stop the others and got to a car, took out the keys and tried to open the door with shaky hands but couldn't because someone, actually Lucy grabbed him by the feet and took him down. He turned around to face them, still on the ground just to find a gun pointing at his face 30 cm away from him. Clary was holding it.

Luke was surprise by how they managed to do all this without being scared, without hesitating or stopping to think of what they were doing. That's Alex Bloody Day, he thought but the South Team looked dead serious.

"I wouldn't move if I was you". That was Lucy, standing right behind Luke, addressing to Alex.

"Would you actually shoot Alex Day?"

"I've done worst" Clary replied.

"You serious? How old are you? 12?"

"Old enough to kick you and make it hurt"

Deep silence. Nobody moved.

"Fine, you wanna talk? We'll talk, let's just go inside"

More silence. Everyone was tense.

"Lucy, get him inside" said Clary still pointing with the gun, without taking her eyes of nerimon.

Where the fuck did she get a gun?! Was also a question on Luke's mind.

Lucy made Alex stand up and walked him up to the house. When Luke had a closer look to the guy's face he noticed how much older he looked since he left youtube. And tired. Very very tired. Once inside they locked the door and made Alex sit in the sofa. Luke just went to the kitchen by himself and nobody noticed. He was not being really useful, plus it seemed Lucy didn't want him there. But as a proper British, he knew he could solve his problems with a cup of tea so that's what he did.

Meanwhile Lucy and Clary sat in front of Alex in silence.

"You alright, Alex?"

"Don't act like you care! It's not like people have being caring to much about me this last couple of months. It's all about Charlie, isn't it? Well, bad news for you, I have no idea WHERE THE FUCK HE IS"

"I hope you're kidding. Tell me you're kidding. Do you have any idea how much your fans miss you online? Have you checked the internet lately? It doesn't look like so. It looks like you've been caring about Charlie too. You also look exhausted. Have you been sleeping alright? It's like you're just as worried as we are about finding Charlie. Or maybe you are just as worried as we are but because…you don't want us to find Charlie. Some would say you would be pretty jealous of the audience Charlie would have if he just came back one day and started making videos again but I don't believe it. I think your interests are way beyond that. You want to hide him. You are helping Charlie to stay into the shadows"

"What the hell, Clary?! Do you really think that?"

"Now more than ever"

"Why?"

"Mainly, because I never said my name was Clary".

"Ah fuck"

"Nah, don't worry, that mistake has been made before"

Alex sighed. He lost the battle, there was nothing left to do. But he couldn't tell them. He couldn't and he would never forgive himself for doing it but at the same time…at the same time he was tired, as they said. He was tired of running after people that left him behind. He was tired of covering up their mistakes and dealing with the pain of lying to his dearest friends, if he still had some.

"So, are you going to tell us where he is?" Lucy tried to hurry.

"I can't tell you where he is because I don't know where he is. Yeah, I was honest about that. He came home a couple of times in the past year, once every two months or so. At first it was awful. He left one day without telling me and I thought he was gone to his mother's in Bath but I called her and she said she hadn't heard of him. Then I thought he might be with Bryaly but Bryaly was left to America by the time I wanted to contact her. A few weeks later, after searching the entire city, I logged into youtube and saw Charlie uploaded a video that day. I watched it as everyone else, no idea where or when he filmed it. I was shocked and sad and I…I just couldn't believe what he was saying like, I still don't believe he actually meant…"

"Yeah, we've all seen the video. Go on"

"Well, he came to visit me that day. I thought he was coming to stay but he just came to talk to me. He said he needed to leave. I asked him about the video but he just answered he had to post it. That the world should know about that. Then he asked me for help, he asked me to hide him and get information about the YSS, you know, to know the enemy. I didn't want to, I wanted him back and make everything like in the old times but I did it anyways. He left and came back in October and then in December and so on. Before I could think of it I was left alone at home, helping Charlie to scape, keeping my friends out of it, lying to them. I felt so bad about it until I was able to finally tell the truth to someone."

"You mean someone else knows about this?"

"Never mind that, how come no one noticed Bryaly was missing too?"

"Bryaly? I don't know, it's not like I've had time to worry about her"

"Okay, then who else knows about this?"

Luke walked in holding a cup of tea, just chilling around like this was everyday stuff.

"I'm not gonna tell you! You already know enough"

"If you want to bring Charlie and get the life you used to have, you need to tell us"

"You know what? I am going to give you the name. But not you, girls, him" he said pointing at Luke

"Me?"

"Yes you. In private"

They were all pretty confused but the girls got out of the house and waited. Ten minutes later Luke came up to them and stared blankly at the girls.

"Well?"

"Well… fuck"

"What? Did he tell you?"

"Oh yes he did. And we have a double agent in the YSS"