(DISCLAIMER: I do not own TMI that is all Cassandra Clare)
Blood Is Thicker Than Darkness
Chapter 3
Nightmares and Sneaks
(Clary POV)
I'm running through the streets of New York and something is chasing me, I don't know what or who it is every time I look over my shoulder to check, there is nothing there. But I can feel it, watching me, chasing me, hunting me. I have to run faster to try and lose it, I make an abrupt left down one street then a right and another left but I couldn't lose it.
Even worse he was getting closer, it had to be a he because the emotions coming from my pursuer were too cruel and full of malicious and vindictive intent to be anything else. So I keep running no matter what I have to keep running , there is absolutely no way I can let him catch me.
After running for what feels like hours I risk another look over my shoulder and see that there is no one there. This though was a mistake because when I turn back around I trip over the curb and fall head first into the street. Lying there trying to catch my breath, I start to struggle back to my feet because I know I can't stay down for long or else I'm done for.
I just make it up to my knees but I'm so wobbly from the fall and all the running, I can't even think to fight back when I feel my pursuer yank my shoulder and flip me over.
He shoves me down on the street, straddles my chest and pins me down with an elbow to my throat. With a sinking suspicion I let myself come to the realization that I knew who my pursuer was this whole time, but was too afraid to admit it. As I lay there under my attacker I am eternally grateful that my hair has fallen over my face to obstruct my view of him and clench my eyes shut just to be safe.
Why, why was this happening!? He's dead and never coming back, yet the weight of him on my chest, his arm on my throat, and his breath in my face tells me I was horribly mistaken. As I'm processing all of this in my head he leans closer and closer to me and I feel him move my hair out of my face.
Then I hear his voice and it's like I'm paralyzed, "Look at me. Open your eyes and look at me."
If anything I clench my eyes even tighter which only seems to make him angry because the pressure on my throat increases, "Look. At. Me. Now. I said, LOOK AT ME NOW CLARISSA!"
I am so shocked and scared that my eyes spring open, and there sitting on top of me, sneering at me with a cruel light in his eyes is my brother Jonathan Morgenstern.
"I'm back little sister, and I'm coming for you", he growls at me and that's when I screamed.
I woke up with a start and tried to sit up but I was so tangled in my sheets it was like I was wearing a straight jacket. After a few minutes of struggling to get untangled I give up and flop back down on the bed, staring at the ceiling I can't get my mind off the dream when I would much rather forget about it entirely. It's been a few days since I killed that demon at Pandemonium, and what it said has been stuck on repeat in my head like a broken record. Unfortunately even though I haven't wanted to admit it my nightmare gives me no choice but to have to accept it, my brother is back and he's coming for me.
(? POV)
It's been three days since we snuck out against Magnus's wishes, and it has been three days of him avoiding us. This was not a smart move on his part because it only set us out to be more on edge. So that's why I'm sitting at the kitchen table in the dark, at the ass crack of dawn on a Wednesday morning waiting. Waiting for the little sneak to try and leave and avoid us for another day, and here he comes now. He really should remember to jump the creaky step when he's trying to be inconspicuous; he comes down the last few steps and enters the kitchen and heads to the coffee pot not even noticing his surroundings in his haste to leave.
"Morning' Mags" I say and Magnus jumps in surprise finally noticing that he's not alone.
"Oh! You're up, it's rather early for you isn't it?" he says trying to pull off a look of complete innocence, "I could ask you the same thing Mags, where are you off to so early?" Magnus gives me the deer in the head lights look "Ummm uhhh you know out", I give a snort of disbelief and he sighs in defeat and plops down into a chair "Well you know what I've been doing, avoiding you and your brother, where is he by the way?"
"Still asleep, he didn't need to be up for this, you and I can sort it out just fine" I say and give him a cheerful smile to which he returns with a glare.
"I already know what you want, and I suppose we have waited long enough. Me, you, and your brother will go to the institute this afternoon, I just hope we know what we're doing because this could go badly." This time Magnus gives a wary sigh and slouches back in his chair "Oh come on Mags a little faith, it won't be a complete disaster and even if it is the three of us will still be fabulous" I say with a beaming smile to which Magnus responds with a loud bark of laughter. So at least we started the morning with some smiles because who knows what's going to happen once we get to the institute.
(Clary POV)
"THWAK", "THWAK", "THWAK", and my last dagger sank into the practicing dummies chest along with the other two but that's not enough. I unsheathe the two katana swords from my back and sprint toward my target mid-way I launch myself into the air and as I sail over the dummies head upside down I bring my swords down in an 'X' at the neck and then finish out with a flip on the other side.
As I rise from my crouch I hear a voice from the shadows by the door say "I think you missed", to which I turn around to see Jace grinning at me. Since I still can't only raise one eyebrow, I raise both in a sardonic kind of way and say "Really are you sure about that?"
"Well yeah, I mean the head is still kinda attached" he says while walking over and wrapping his arms around me, and at that very moment the dummies head slid of its shoulders made a loud 'thunk' as it hit the floor and rolled across the room.
Jace's eyes widened "Well I'll be damned" and I chuckle at the surprise on his face. "Yeah and if you're not careful I might take it upon myself and deflate that ego of yours" I say with a wink and with a look of mock horror on his face "You would never! I thought I was your favorite?!"
So I leaned up and planted a hungry kiss on his lips which I let linger longer than necessary, but come on its Jace we're talking about here! "Oh you most defiantly are my favorite", I say with a grin and soak up the look of absolute adoration on his face.
"Well… Ummm… Yeah… the reason I came in here was to tell you Magnus is coming over and apparently he has something to tell us soooo we should go dow-", I cut Jace off with a giggle "Have I told you how cute you are when your flustered?"
Jace snorts in indignation "I am not cute, I'm sexy or handsome or drop dead gorgeous, but I am certainly not cute!'" "Yeah, yeah sure you're not Jace whatever you say", and I grab his hand and we start heading out of the room "By the way did I mention how hot it is when go running around chopping things to pieces?" To which I snort and continue on in search of the others so we can wait for Magnus to get here, I wonder what he wants to tell us?
Well here it is Chapter 3 I hope you enjoyed it! The next chapter I will be officially introducing my new characters and I hope you will love them as much as I do! Please review and let me know what you think!