Hello everybody and finally HeartGlow2112 is back. You cannot imagine how bad it was for me to not update, it was worse than the one time I had to get braces, ughh…. And believe I hated braces, I still do. But anyways, I am back and with just my luck I broke a bone in my ankle and now I have to stay in bed for a longgg time, so I will be uploading more.

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So onto the chapter now:

Clary heard voices before she got up. She heard Sebastian's voice echoing in her thoughts.

'Stay with me Clary, stay..please.' he said. 'I know I have been a bad big brother but please, I need you now.'

Brother!? Why the hell will he call himself her brother, her eyes shot open at the reference. For one small moment she saw light and was blinded by it, after her eyes adjusted a little to the surrounding she gasped out loud.

'Jon?' she whispered.

'Yes Clary it's me, but I don't know how much time It will take for Sebastian to kick in, my best guess is when it will pain me like hell.' He said trying to amuse her. that's just Jon, trying to diffuse the tension in the weirdest ways. But Clary didn't dwell upon that much.

She sat up. 'Jon, we will find a way, we will rescue you.' She started but was hushed when Jon pointed his finger up her lips.

'Clary I don't have much time, soon enough Sebastian will find the painting of darkness and burn it, with that my entire existence will vanish and only Sebastian will live.'

'But the painting is with us, we have protected it well enough, Jon.'

'No Clary, he can do anything, he is working with Lilith and trust me she has gained much more power now. Maia is helping her gain power.'

'Maia?' Clary asked confused and then quickly remembered the scene she saw in her vision from the cube. As if in queue she glanced at her hand hoping to find the cube still there

Jon noticing her said. 'No, its not there, I struggled hard but was able to get it off you, actually Sebastian did that but whatever, it kept there on that table.'

Clary glanced there and gave Jon a quite nod.

'Listen Clary, I have seen Sebastian think and practically have taken a tour in his soul, his soul is in that painting and that painting can be destroyed by one thing and one thing only.'

'What is that?'

'Think Clary, think. What was the substance that he wanted too badly, so badly that he called upon a whole army of monsters to get hands upon.' He said

Clary's first thought was, herself. Sebastian would have done that for her no doubt but it was absurd, she didn't have Sebastian's soul in herself. Therefore she went with option 2

'The Nirvana Dulcet?' she said in hushed voice.

Jon gave her a knowing smirk. 'Exactly!' he said.

~.o.0.o.~

Jace, Isabelle, Alec, Maryse and Jocelyn sat in the institute with Bat. Maryse provided him access to enter formally. Right now he was lavishing himself with a big glass of red wine and a blueberry muffin. They were staring at him waiting for him to stop eating and start talking. Finally isabelle couldn't take it anymore.

'Ughh, we will talk now?' she said exasperated.

Bat looked at her, observed her but it rather looked as if he was staring into space. Finally he stopped eating.

'Sure I will.' He said and sat up squaring his shoulders. A minute passed, then two.

'So..' Jace said spreading out his hands as if something was obvious. 'Are you going to tell us where Maia is or not?'

Bat sighed. 'For that you will need to know her story after Jordan died.' They nodded, desperate to get information.

Bat started telling them then,…

Maia was broken when Jordan died, you all were too busy getting Sebastian. She came to me broken and devastated, asked me if I could help her do something, find work or a friend. To be honest I was confused, I was the last person on the planet that she would come to. I asked her to join my pack, which she refused.

She hated you guys, somehow she thought you were responsible for his for it is still unknown how he died. She used to scratch her nails and cry for days earlier. Worked in a bar for 5 days, the results were devastating, she used to get fucked up 3 times a day by different people, people who's names were still unknown to her.

I rescued her, told her she should, quite practically scolded her for wjat she was doing, she wasn't in her senses. That's when Amatis came around, before Amatis died she convinced Maia that Sebastian loves her and is willing to spend his life with her.

Maia didn't take it seriously at first but then Sebastian started using her, giving her sleepless nights, making her do spy work. All that time she had no idea as to why he was doing that, you know the real reason behind it. I knew it though, I love Maia, quite literally I do and when I came to know that Sebastian was doing that just to get to Clary I wanted to kill him, make him grieve.

I went to Maia in order to tell her the truth and as expected she didn't believe it, too blind to see the reality she still thinks Sebastian loved her and is in no intention to lose him too. Trust me, she can go to massive depths to gain his love. I just wish she would have not done the things she did, those things, not Jordan's death made her go insane precisely.

Though now it's too late…

Bat finished telling them.

'That means she is still with Sebastian, because she quite clearly cannot stay away from him.' Jace observed.

'Yes, she is till in his mansion, I can take you guys there, I know where it is.' Bat said and was welcomed by encouraging nods and determined faces.

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