Chapter 5: Innocent Man

Clary awoke to an intense headache. She groaned and stared at her alarm clock, not really processing the time for at least a minute. 12:52 is what it blinked back. Clary groaned remembering all that had occurred the night before. The groan was more for what she had promised to him. Clary had dreaded going to sleep, knowing she'd have to go spend time with him the next day. Why had she been so stupid as to agree to helping him? Not only that, but she didn't hold her tongue about Kaelie and his relationship. Clary rolled into her pillow and screamed which only made her head throb more. She limply dragged herself off the bed and into the bathroom. After popping a few Ibuprofen, she sauntered to the shower and let the hot water burn her awake. She scrubbed at her face, trying to rid it of its nastiness.

Clary stood outside of the Lightwood Mansion, the grogginess had somehow subsided. It probably had something to do with the three cups of coffee she had and the fourth that she was sipping on as she rang the doorbell. A boy with dark hair like Isabelle's and bright blue eyes opened the door.

"Oh hi! You must be Clary. I'm Alec, sorry I didn't get the chance to introduce myself last night. Izzy has told me so much about you! She's in her room if you'd like to go up…"

"First off, it's nice to see you too, and second I'm actually here to see Jace." Clary blushed lightly. She was always nervous around people she didn't quite know.

"Oh thank the Angel he's moved on from little cheerleading whores!" Alec laughed.

"We aren't dating." Clary spoke slowly.

"Alec! The hot chocolate is getting cold!" A voice yelled from upstairs and it didn't belong to any of Alec's siblings.

"Be up in a second! Clary's here!" He yelled back. Clary heard feet on the stairs and a tall foreign looking guy was next to Alec. His hair was spiked and he smiled with bright white teeth at Clary.

"Clary! Isabelle told me all about you! I'm Magnus, Alec's boyfriend."

"Oh it's nice to meet you." Clary smiled. She gasped when the boy pulled her in for a hug.

"Did I hear you say Clary's here?" Jace came walking out of the kitchen barefooted and looking as gorgeous as ever.

"I'm right here!" Clary waved her arm at him.

"Boys you're going to scare her away! Come on Clary." He grabbed her hand. As his skin made contact with hers an electric charge surged up her arm. She played it off as a cold shiver and when Jace turned to look at her she gave a little smile. He led her back to the bedroom where he and Will had laid Tessa the previous night. It must be his she thought to herself. Odd that it was so clean.

"Are you hungry?" She shook her head. He sat on the bed and patted the space in front of him.

"Sit." He commanded.

"I will but not because you told me too, but because I want to." Clary crossed her arms and raised her chin, sitting on the bed. "So what do you not get about it?"

"Everything." He fingered through the pages of the thick book.

"How you don't get mythology is beyond me. All we had to do was read the first chapter and answer a few questions!" Clary sighed, looking over the top of the book. "I mean it's just a character description of the big twelve Olympian gods."

"That's what I don't get! They all run together." Jace huffed. Clary plucked the book from his hands.

"The best way to learn them is relate them to people you know. That's why mythology was so popular was because the gods were based off of the images of people."

"Who would I relate them too though?"

"Okay, Will. He's kind of Hermes. A trickster and he's very sneaky. Or Axel, he's a definite Ares, everyone pretty much hates him." Jace laughed lightly at her inquisition.

"Who would I be?" Jace secretly knew she would say Apollo. He was handsome and he never lied. Well he technically lied about the mythology thing but that didn't count.

"Zeus." Clary said almost absent-mindedly. Jace smiled.

"You think I'd be a good leader?"

"No, you're a man whore." She looked down at the book and Jace flushed. She looked at him. "I mean what I've gathered from your reputation. Anyways, if it makes you feel better your sister is a definite Aphrodite." She smiled trying to make him not look so upset. Wait, what did she care if he was upset?

"No she isn't." He stated flatly taking the book back.

"Well who do you think fits her description?"

"You."

"What?" Clary gawked at him.

"Or me. Seeing as how they describe her as being golden… Who would be Hera to you?"

"Jessamine." Clary thought it would be rude to turn back to that previous comment so she let it fall.

"Poseidon?"

"Wait shouldn't I be asking you this?" Clary snatched the book from him again. "Well?" She looked up at him and he couldn't help but grin.

"Alec."

"Hades?"

"Isabelle." He earned a swat for that. "Okay, Gabriel."

"Athena?"

"Tessa." Clary smiled down on the book.

"Artemis?"

"Cecily."

"Hephaestus?"

"Simon." Jace yawned.

"Hestia?"

"Sophie."

"Apollo?"

Me, Jace mentally thought but instead replied, "Jem. Or Jordan. Because Jem fits the personality while Jordan kind of looks like a wolf when he doesn't shave and another name for Apollo was the Lycian…What?"

"You lied to me." Clary glared at him.

"What do you mean?" Jace was kind of panicking.

"You said you didn't get mythology when clearly you do since you just told me one of Apollo's names." Clary was staring daggers now.

"I read ahead?" Jace failed, making it sound more like a question than a statement.

"Bull shit." Clary dropped the book and stalked out of the room. So maybe it was a bit of an overreaction, but she hated to be lied too. It was her dad's fault she guessed.

I'll be there in 15 minutes he had said. Well an hour and a half later her first grade teacher, Luke, was driving her home. Valentine had evidently had to show up in court that day. I guess that's what happens when your dad is some big shot lawyer. No wonder Jocelyn had left him for that same first grade teacher. Clary liked him a whole lot better than her own father. At least Luke was there for her. As Clary drove away from the Lightwood's she thought of the conversation she had just had with Jace. Clary could depict Hades so well in her mind, and the image was of her father.

So I now own The Mortal Instruments movie! Yay! And, sadly, no one guessed. Any who we are studying Greek mythology and I am such a geek when it comes to that. I read Percy Jackson in 5th or 6th grade and I used to read the mythology stories on Wikipedia and absorb them. But Jace slipped up and now Clary's mad. OOPS! At least we know that she hates people that lie. Valentine, grr. So does anyone want Jonathan to come live with Clary? He'd be the nice big brother of course. It fits him better in all human stories. Tell me what you think in that little review box and I'll make sure that it happens. I shall update for both this story and my other Love To this week. Thanksgiving Break starts Wednesday at noon so five day weekend and then two weeks after that is Christmas Break!

Well Tootle-Loo! - Emma