A hidden World

Chapter 6

Secret dreams

"So let me see if I got this. You want to know how she drew something she hasn't seen before, right?" Magnus said. He was wearing black pants with a purple dress shirt and a long green coat.

"Yes." Jace said.

We were at his house now to meet Magnus and as Jace said, he was one that would most likely know why I have been dreaming the Moira Forest. To me, it wasn't a big deal until I saw myself covered in blood but I didn't tell him that and I also didn't want him to know that I saw him there too.

For me it was just a bad dream but with the last events I didn't know what to believe any more. I was sure that if anyone told me that vampires and werewolves exist I could easily believe them.... not that they exist of course. See, my mind always provided me logical explanations whenever I needed one, as at this case.

My mind was screaming at me that Jace was crazy for believing in such things but I couldn't get out the image of Simon as he told me that everything was true. He had been so serious and honest; I could see it in his eyes. Then again, there was a proof. The sting in my arm. I couldn't ignore that.

"Then... I don't know." He said as he fixed his hair, glitter falling down to his shoulders.

"You should easy up with the glitter. Because of you I have to clean twice a day."

"Yea, like you actually do that Isabelle." Magnus said and with a snap of his fingers the layer of glitter sitting around him and some on the sofa disappeared. I blinked. What did he just do?

"Mangus?" Jace said angry this time.

"What? I said that... "

"Come with me. At the library. I need to talk to you." Jace said and headed for the stairs.

"Hey, I don't know what is happening here but I am telling you, it was just a dream." I said not understanding what was happening.

"Was it Clary? Was it just a dream?" Jace come closer. "I am pretty sure, you are saw other things too."

"I.... I" How did he know that I had seen other things too?

"Leave her alone. If see says that she just saw the forest then it's true." Simon came to defend me.

"I am sure you hiding things too. It can't be just a coincidence that the demons attacked you and you happen to be able to see them and that she can apparently see visions." Jace said glaring at Simon. Simon was about to say something when I interrupted him.

"I wouldn't say call them visions. None of them happen."

"See. You just said it. You have seen others too." I hadn't realised what I said, because I was mostly talking to myself and now he knew for sure that I have seen other dreams too.

"Yea... but as I said... I only have seen the forest nothing more." I tried to avoid his eyes.

"And what are you doing at the forest?" He asked coming closer now.

"What do you mean?"

"You see yourself in the forest right?" I just nodded. Simon was looking interested to find out too as he and Magnus leaned closer to hear me. Isabelle was looking too but far away from me. She was leaning against the wall opposite me.

I couldn't take their stares and I got up leaving Simon on the sofa, passing Jace and going to the window. It was almost dark outside just a touch of pink colour at the sky near the mountains where the sun had hide.

"Well?" Magnus said now eager to know.

Why my dreams had to mean something? Dreams are supposed to reflect our secret desires and worries, not the future.

"Well.... I see the forest... I always see the forest and that's why I draw it. I kept seeing it so many times that I had to draw it. I thought it might go away.

"If it is a vision, then I am afraid it won't stop with just a picture of it." Magnus said.

"But you saw others things later, right?" Jace said and I just nodded and kept talking.

"It was always the same dream. Just the forest, no one in it. Just the forest and how quietly it was in the dark. But after the night I was attacked I had another one. This time I was in the forest walking a path just like the one you had for your party. I kept walking barefoot with a white dress covered with blood. The blood wasn't mine and I didn't seem to bother so I kept walking. As I said it was dark, I had only the fire sticks to provide me some light when a strong light hit me from my left. It was so bright that I couldn't see where it came from, so despite the fact that something was telling that I was supposed to stay on the path I went for the light and then everything went dark and I woke up." I said still looking outside not wanting to see them when I would tell the part about the dress.

"See it was just a dream about what happened to her the previous night." Simon said. "She saw the same path from the party, right?"

"You know it could actually be just a dream. You know... she was attacked... so all that stress could have and up in her dream. I know it was The Moira Forest Jace, but are you sure that the Moira Forest isn't similar to another forest?" Isabelle said obviously to Jace.

"She has a point, you know." Magnus said but I had to speak again.

"The dress I was wearing though was the exact same one with the one Isabelle gave me, and I didn't see that till I wake up." Now everyone was silent.

"So what does it mean?" I said this time turning to face them.

"Something, that's for sure. It can't be a coincidence all this. You seeing the forest and then being attacked from a demon." Jace said and then Isabelle added,

"And they didn't attack Simon, although there were two of them. They could have easily taken them down."

"Have you seen any others dreams after that?" Magnus said.

"Well yes...." How was I going to tell them, tell him that I was seeing him in my dreams? "Last night I saw the same dream except that I wasn't covered with blood anymore and when I went towards the light nothing happened. I just kept going and I saw someone there waiting for me." At that point I looked at Jace who was watching me carefully not wanting to miss a word. "And that's all."

"Who was it? Didn't you see?" Jace asked me looking me with those yellow eyes that for a second I thought I should tell him but I settled for a no instead.

"No, I couldn't see him."

"So it was just a dream." Simon said. "You can't believe she can see the future now, can you?

"Visions are not seeing the future mundane." Jace said to him a little frustrated. "It's all about the meaning of things. It's like the future being told in a different language."

"We have to take her to Dorothea." Magnus said and I had to cut in now.

"Wait, I came here for.... thinking of it I don't know why I came here. Anyway, I don't believe in fortune tailors or visions. To us, the normal people, it's just dreams. And now I think it's time for us to go." Simon got up. "And thank you for saving my life from whatever that animal was."

I went to the door only to be stopped by a hand holding my arm that belonged to Simon.

"Clary maybe you should listen to them."

"What? Simon this is crazy. Why should I have visions and why?"

"Exactly. I think you should go with them."

"Simon..." I whispered so they couldn't hear me. "I don't know them. They are strangers to me. They could easily be crazy serial killers or something."

"You are right." Jace said. He had heard us. "You should go home and stay under your covers waiting for your mummy to take care of you while the dreams get worse. Because I am sure that soon enough you will see the demons. And when you see them you will believe us."

That was it. He had hit the wrong nerve by telling me that. I was looking at him furious now.

"You don't know anything about me so don't you dare tell me what to do."

"It seems that you don't know yourself either."

We just stand there glaring at each other when Magnus spoke.

"Jace let her go. If she decides that she wants to see her, she knows where we are."

"You don't understand Magnus. She can..."

"I know Jace but we are not him. We are not going to act like him."

I couldn't understand what they were talking about and I was so mad that didn't want stay a minute longer to this house so I grabbed Simon and left.

The cold air helped me relax only till Simon start speaking.

"Clary... maybe..."

"Simon, not you too."

"Clary I know things about them, and I know that they want to help you."

"How did you know?"

"Remember that I told you that I can see them. The demons I mean. Well one of them killed my father."

"Simon your father died on a car...."

"No, that's the story for the people who don't know."

"Why? I mean... what has that to do with them? Does your mother know?"

"Yes, she knows. She doesn't speak much about it though. She would prefer not to speak about it but she hadn't a choice since I was able to see them. You know Clary, my father was a shadowhunter.

"shadow what?"

"I have to tell you the story from the beginning. So look. Once there was..."

And so he told me all about shadowhunters and that they fight demons to protect the people or the mundanes as they call them. He also told about the downworlders. Vampires, werewolves and faeries. But he assured me they don't attack people; they are bound by the law.

"So your mother is...."

"Human."

"But I thought that was..."

"Forbidden. Yea he broke the law. Shadowhunters are not supposed to marry humans."

"Why?"

"Because they think their children won't be good warriors since they are half human.

"That's ridiculous. He must have loved your mother very much." He didn't say anything. He just sighed. After a long pause he said

"Well I don't know. I never knew him, I was just a baby and whenever I ask my mother she keeps telling me that he is gone and that's what matters."

"Doesn't she know that you are a shadowhunter?"

"Yes. But she can't do anything. She doesn't know how to train me besides I think she's happy that I don't hunt demons."

"Of course she is. She doesn't want to lose you like she lost her husband. And I don't want to lose you either." He turned and smiled at me, taking my hand. We kept walking holding hands like we did when we were little. We had been living next to each other since we were 8.

9 years had passed and we still acted like this. Whenever a problem hit we were together acting like 8 years old kids. Simon was always there for me when I needed him and I was always there for him.

"Simon?"

"Yes?"

"I don't understand why you haven't told me before.

"Clary, if I had said to you Hi, I am Simon and I kill demons, what you would say?"

"That you are probably crazy."

"See and we wouldn't end up being friends. Not that I have actually kill one."

Simon was telling the truth. Everything that he told me now made me believe that demons exist, and it surprised me how quickly I believed him. Maybe the fact that all these were coming from my best friend, Simon. Simon who never lied to me and when he did he always came back to spill the truth out. But if he could keep this secret all this time, lying to me...

He wasn't lying. I never asked him what he was. It was obvious that he was human so I never asked. So technically he didn't lie to me, he just kept a secret. A secret I couldn't understand, not until now.

"Simon, do you really think that I should go see her?"

"Dorothea?"

"Yea... I don't know what to do."

"Well I don't know much about it. I have read some of my father's books about dreams and what they say is possible."

"About seeing the future?"

"Not necessarily. It doesn't mean you can see the future. No one can. But sometimes there some people that can have them only for a short time like a warning for something."

"Like what?"

"I don't know, maybe a great danger?"

"What great danger am I going to have? That doesn't make sense."

"That's why I think you should visit her."

I knew that eventually I would go. Just out of curiosity but not right away. I didn't want to give Jace the satisfaction that I did what he wanted. Maybe I could find Magnus.