Jace was in band. He had gotten used to the strange dynamic many of the band members had. Strangely enough, it wasn't like what he saw on the TV. There were band geeks but there were also, jocks, stoners, punks and everywhere in between. The trumpet section was five people, only one of which you could ever hear. The flutes were all weird and would make faces at each other when they weren't playing. The brown haired girl that everyone said was the ring leader of the freaks was one of the face-making flutes. Jace learned her name was Vivian and she was an honor student.
They were playing some stupid march as Jace wasn't really paying attention, but then, the band teacher asked Vivian to go grab another stand and when she turned around Jace noticed something that made him jump in his seat.
She had the same, hair, build, and even moved exactly the same as the warlock Violet.
Jace tried to peel away the glamour and see her horns, but he couldn't. Doubt flickered in his mind. There were plenty of brown haired girls in New York and her build was very common for a high school girl, but still. Something had always seemed off about her, was it possible she was not a mundane, but a warlock?
The band teacher started the song again and Jace had to peel his attention away from her, but the thought lingered in his mind for the rest of the day. Every time he saw her, he tried to see through the glamour, but it didn't work. When he got to lunch he shared his theory with the others.
"Vivian?" Isabelle asked doubtfully.
"Yes. Can you honestly tell me you didn't think there was something strange about her when you first saw her?" Jace asked.
"Well she was acting crazy if that's what you mean, but that applies to the entire table." Isabelle said.
"I noticed it too, when we were running there was something about her that seemed strange, but I couldn't place it." Clary added.
"Exactly, and didn't Magnus say Violet protected something? The foster home. She's protecting the kids in the foster home, we even walked past it before we saw her." Jace explained.
Isabelle looked doubtful but Simon chimed in. "Yeah and on the first day, on the bus when we stopped at that stop, I thought there was a vampire just inside the door, but I assumed it was a trick of the light and shrugged it off."
"Ok so now we're pretty sure that Vivian is Violet, but what do we do? Confront her? She only appears to be helping." Isabelle pointed out.
"Yes but there are mundanes at that foster home, you aren't allowed to expose the foster home to mundanes." Jace said.
"C'mon Jace, you aren't actually saying we should bust someone just trying to protect some orphans just because some mundanes may have been told she was a warlock, are you?" Isabelle said.
"No I'm saying we should know what's going on in there just in case. And it would be good information to have seeing as they're practically in our back yard." Jace said.
"So how do you think we should do this?"
"I think we should go to the foster home after school and check it out. We'll just say we were walking by and heard something." Jace suggested.
"Ok but that's still pretty suspicious."
"She probably already knows we're Shadowhunters, the lie is just in the very unlikely event I am wrong and she turns out to be a mundane." Jace said.
"Fine. So after school, we'll get Alec and head over?" Isabelle verified.
"Yes, that's the plan." Jace confirmed.
"Fine but if she turns out to be a mundane, you'll be answering to the Clave." Isabelle warned.
"I am fully aware." Jace said.
Another loud round of laughter came from the other table, silencing their conversation.
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On the bus ride home Clary sat beside Jace and rested her head on his shoulder.
"Are you worried what the Clave might do if they found out about this?" Clary murmured.
"She hasn't done anything we aren't already doing." Jace said with determination. "They cant punish her for anything."
"That hasn't stopped them before." Clary pointed out.
"I know that we're playing with fire, but it isn't the first time and it wont be the last. If the CLave does find out about her and decides to say she's endangering mundanes for attending this school, I will fight them the entire time with my very last breath if necessary." Jace said.
"Why?" Clary asked.
"Because she owed us nothing and saved you any way, I will not pay her back by letting Shadowhunters persecute her for doing nothing wrong."
"You may not be able to stop them."
"Yes, but that wont stop me from trying."
They rode the rest of the way home in silence.