A/N: hi guys! *dodges seraph blades* I'm so sorry for not updating in ages, but school started and I had loads of homework and exams and hockey training. But because I'm ill I decided to update today instead of tomorrow. Hope you enjoy oh and I made it extra long :).

Jace's pov

Jace looked up as he heard someone come in to the kitchen, it's Cecelia. She was still very pale and was sweating; she sighed, stumbling slightly before closing her eyes. He quickly got hold of her and put her down in a chair. After a minute or so she opened her eyes. She looks straight in to my eyes which shock me quite a bit. Her eyes are a beautiful mix of green and blue. Isabelle hands her a glass of water and she gratefully takes it slowly drinking it, while some colour returns to her face. "What are you doing here? You're not allowed to get up yet." he said accusingly "I know but I was bored and felt lonely, so here I Am." she answered a cheeky grin on her face. Jace can't help but laugh even when she is probably feeling shit she is sarcastic, or at least trying to be.

Cecelia's Pov

"Well you should get back upstairs before anyone notices you're gone." The girl who introduces herself as Isabelle says "Why are you here? In the institute I mean" the black haired boy asked "Alec, you can't ask that!" Isabelle says pretending to be angry "Its okay." Cecelia said "I came here because I had no other place to live, my dad died when I was very little and when I was 6 my mom died. Nobody ever knew how she died, but I found out about how a week ago, see my parents were pretty rich and my uncle wanted the money so he decided to kill my mom make it look like and accident. Like that he got custody over me and he got the money. He used to get drunk a lot and he would hit me if I did anything wrong, or lock me up in a cellar. When I found out he killed my mom he tried to kill me. I managed to knock him out grab some money and run away I ran from Idris to Germany and then got a plane to get here. And then you guys found me" when she finished she looked at the three people in front of her. They all look shocked. "I'm so sorry for you Cecelia." Isabelle finally said "Don't be sorry, everybody always is and it doesn't change anything so I think it's useless to feel sorry for something like this. Oh and call me Celia." First they look shocked because of my words but then Jace smiles "Finally someone who agrees that feeling sorry for someone is useless" he says "And now you are coming with me to the infirmary. If not Magnus or Maryse is going to kill me." slowly she walks out of the room, Jace is supporting her from behind so she doesn't fall over again. As soon as Jace leaves her alone she curls op into a ball and starts crying softly. She may seem fine but really all the things her uncle did to her where affecting her hard time, more then she led on. "Are you okay?" a small voice beside her bed asks, she felt weak for showing her emotions and shouts "Do I look okay?" "I'm sorry," The voice sounds like it's almost crying she opens her eyes and sees a little boy, probably about 9 years old looking at her through thick glasses. "Oh I'm sorry I didn't mean to shout at you, really I'm just a bid sad." she quickly said. The boy nods and the hurt leaves his face "Why are you sad? Did someone hurt you? Where are your parents?" he asks curiously. Cecelia decided to tell him, he deserved as much "My parents died and now I have no family or any place to live. That's why I'm sad." A flash of pity passes the boys eyes "Oh, you can always stay here, I don't think my mom or dad will mind." he says smiling "That would be nice. My name is Cecily by the way but call me Celia." she says holding out her hand "My name is max" the boy says his smile growing as he shakes her hand. It goes a bit difficult because he is clutching a comic. "What's that your holding?" she asks curiously "It's a comic book. Do you know what that is?" he answers "Yes I know I have one myself, would you like to have it?" she asks looking for her bag. She looks everywhere but can't see it anywhere, slowly she begins to panic, she can't lose that bag, and it has all that's left from her family inside it. 'Dam where is it? She's on the verges of a panic attack; she starts hyperventilating and losing focus, she gets a familiar sick feeling in her stomach and her heart is racing as if she ran a marathon. Cecelia vaguely sees Max's scared look before he runs away probably getting help. She tried to control her breathing in, out, In, out, In... But it doesn't work the last thing she sees before slipping into full darkness are a pair of anxious looking golden eyes.

Jace's pov

Jace was on his way to his room when he ran into Max. He was going to say something rude but when he saw it was him he stopped. He looked incredibly scared, he was gasping for breath and said "Jace it's the new girl Cecelia, she started to hyperventilate and panicking and... and..." "Shh calm down Max, I'll come with you but don't worry okay?" Jace tried to calm him down but he was on the verges of tears. Together we run to the infirmary. Jace sees Celia sitting on her bed gasping for breath, he runs to the bed and pushes her down. She goes limb in his arms. Jace starts speaking soft and comforting words to her, while applying different runes. After a while she opens her eyes again, she blinks and sits up slowly. "Are you okay?" he asks. She nods slowly and then her eyes go wide as if she suddenly remembers something. "Have you got my bag somewhere?" she asks in a whisper. Jace looked startled for a minute and then remember, "Yes we thought it was Clary's so It's in her room don't worry. Do you want me to go and get it?" "No that's okay I can get it myself if you could just tell me what room is hers." Celia says while getting up Jace tries to stop her but she is already walking out of the infirmary "Well are you going to tell me or do I have to bang on every door in this institute?" she says turning around facing me. Again he's amazed of how strong she is. Even though her parents are dead and her uncle betrayed her she isn't crying in a corner. "It's the last door on the left." he says quickly "Okay thanks." she walks away slowly, Jace followed her just to make sure she is going to be okay. She knocks on the door and waits Clary shouts "GO AWAY!" he flinched at her outburst knowing she thinks it's him but Cecelia just stays were she is and answers "No I'm coming in if you want it or not besides you have something that is mine." There is a silence before the door opens and Clary's head comes out "Okay you can come in. But he" she says pointing a finger in his direction "stays outside." "Okay fine with me. Bye Jace." Cecelia says before walking inside. He stays there standing frozen for a while and then shrugs before walking away towards the greenhouse.

Clary's pov

After she let Cecelia in she sits down on her bed again. Cecelia hesitates before sitting next to her. Her eyes wander around the room and freeze when she sees a backpack sitting in a corner. She shoots up and grabs the bag. Then she sits down again and slowly opens it, she takes out some clothes, a book, a ring, a necklace, a comic and some money. She hugs the book and the necklace and Clary can see a tear slowly rolling down her face. She carefully puts a hand on her shoulder first she tenses but then she relaxes. She looks up after a while and says "I'm sorry for crying it's just I thought I lost the photo book and the necklace and I..." her voice breaks as more tears make their way down her face "Shh it's okay! Izzy told me what happened it must be hard for you. And don't worry crying is not a bad thing you know." Clary says trying and probably failing to calm her down. "My uncle always said that crying showed weakness and that I wasn't supposed to be weak. I was a shadow hunter. No man would want me if I showed weakness." she answers. Clary looked at her in shock what a terrible uncle she must have had, just as bad as Valentine. They stay in silence while Cecelia slowly wipes away her tears. After a while she gets up and walks out of the room with her things.

Cecelia´s pov

Cecelia sat on her bed in the infirmary looking at her mom's old photo book.

She smiled at the picture of her mom and dad on their wedding day. She couldn´t remember barely anything about her dad, as she never knew him.

On another page was her mom with her brother, Valentine Morgenstern. Yes my mom was a Morgenstern, Valentine´s sister, who barely anyone knew about. But he never cared about her or her mom, they said he supposedly died but her mom or her never believed it. She hated Valentine, he broke her mom's heart faking his own dead, and not as much as a single letter telling her he was okay. She almost killed herself when she found out he had died. Cecelia didn't notice she was crying again until the teardrops hit the picture. Quickly she turned the page around, there was a picture of her and her mom, she was on a horse and her mom was standing beside it smiling. Her mom had blonde curly hair just like her only a little longer. Her eyes were a bright blue, just like the sky on sunny days. Her name was Leila Morgenstern. She was one of the nicest people you would ever meet. She loved her brother even when he formed the circle, although she never joined it. She, unlike her brother was full of love, but she could also kick ass like him. They were twins, inseparable until their dad got killed by a werewolf. She was close to killing herself because she couldn't bear to see valentine like this. That was until she met my dad and Valentine met Jocelyn. My mom was out walking one day when she saw a horse coming her way with a guy running behind it shouting and swearing. She caught the horse and gave it back to the man. He introduced himself as Elphidius Herondale. She found out his second cousin was in the circle with Valentine. They got married shortly after meeting. The night of the uprising her dad got killed and she was born, so she didn't exactly like my birthday better said hated it.

Cecelia kept on watching pictures, the last picture she had with her mom was on her 6th birthday. She had a big grin on her face and was leaning over a birthday cake her mom had made for her. After there was a picture of her in her first shadow hunting gear, training, with her uncle who actually wasn't even family he was just one of her dad's best friends who insisted she call him uncle. She had also put a lily in the book because it was her mom's favourite flower. She opened her bag and got her necklace out, it was a little gold cage with a small ball that lights up in the dark, basically like a witch light, but nicer.

She was so caught up in her memories that she didn't hear Jace and Maryse walking in, Cecelia was still glaring at the picture of her parents and Valentine. "Why is Valentine in that picture?" asked Jace startling her. She turned around and quickly closed her book. "Because he is my uncle" she answered there was a long silence, she looked at Jace who had gone very pale "Its true Jace she is your cousin" Maryse said "But your surname isn't Morgenstern right?" Jace finally said. "I use my dad's surname; my mom was Valentines twin sister." Cecelia answered saying the last bit with venom in her voice "I'm getting the idea you don't like him very much." Jace said smirking "no I don't, he has never done anything to help me or my mom when my dad died and he broke my mom's heart faking his own dead, she almost killed herself because she was so depressed." She had tears in her eyes again. Jace sat down on her bed and hugged her tightly. Maryse left the room giving them some space. They stayed like this for ages. After a long silence Cecelia said "I'm sorry if it is a shock for you I didn't mean to tell you so soon but I've never had any siblings or other family so..." she trailed off. Jace nodded and said "I understand, when I thought my father had died and I was alone I felt the same way but we have each other now." Then he did something she didn't expect he leaned forwards and kissed her softly on her head. But they didn´t know Clary had seen it, she thought they were really kissing, and even though she was mad at Jace, she didn't really want him kissing any other girls. She dropped the coffee mug she was holding and ran away. Jace and Cecelia looked up when they heard the crash and saw a red blur disappearing "Shit!" Jace said before running after Clary, Cecelia hot on his heels, although a little slower as she was still a bit unsteady on her feet.

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