Where it all began…
Chapter 3:
"Well when I ran away I moved to Florida at first, I worked at the Miami Institute. Until one day my friend Emily and I went out on a raid to one of the notorious covens in the south. Well anyway she got bit, and I didn't want to go through with that 'my best friends a vampire' crap again. So I left across country to Seattle, I've been there for about three years now." I started.
"But what about the art career you wanted before you left?" Isabelle questioned.
"I started it a year after I left, and now I have five galleries across the country."
"Wait is that the new one on the end of Magnus' and I's apartment yours?" Alec asked.
"Yup, I live on the block behind it."
"Those new snazzy apartments?" Jace muttered.
"Yes, I own three of the apartments on the top level." I said as I prepared to knead the dough. When I took off my wedding ring it got Jace's attention.
"You are married?" He muttered through clenched teeth.
"Was… I was married." I answered as tears started forming in my eyes.
"Oh Clary, what do you mean?" Izzy asked.
"I was married to a mundane with the sight named Eric Williamson. We were married for two years before he died. We got married when I turned twenty and I got pregnant a month later. The baby was born dead, it was a baby girl." I muttered before all of the tears fell.
"Oh Clary!" Izzy whispered before coming around the counter and hugging me.
"We were going to name her Alexandria Isabella Fairchild-Williamson. And then after it happened Eric blamed me because I went demon hunting during the pregnancy. So we were on our way to the divorce attorney's office. When we were on a one way road in the middle of nowhere, three demons attacked. I killed two of them before I scared the third one off by cutting off one of its feet. I couldn't find Eric anywhere until I looked under the car. He had hid underneath the car like I told him too. But one of the demons had got him anyway." I gulped some air trying to calm down.
"He died three minutes later in my arms. Next to him was a note from Jonathan saying that Valentine would be disappointed in me. Ever since then I have been getting threatening notes from my brother. I got tired of it and moved back here, apparently he moved here too, because I got a note on my door earlier today." I finished.
As I looked around Izzy had horror on her face, Alec had sadness on his face, and Jace looked to kill something. That didn't make sense because Jace got married to Aline didn't he.
"Clary, how did you cope?" Alec said as he broke the silence.
"I took all of my anger and sadness out into my work at training and painting. Before I left Seattle I was the best shadow hunter in the North West. And for my paintings I have had more money than I do now."
"That's good Clary."
"Yeah, oh look I ruined the dough with my tears; I'll go out and get something from Taki's. I'll be back." I said before I could cry again in front of Jace.
"Be careful!" Izzy yelled before I could get on the elevator.
"I will!" I yelled back as the elevator doors closed.