CLARY

I awoke to a crash. I looked around frantically and ran to my window. The street was lit dimly by the street lights, but I could see nothing but an overturned rubbish bin. I studied the hedges and the trees, trying to spot the creature that overturned the bin. I found nothing. I was about to go back to bed when a flaming red set of eyes appeared in the house across the streets bushes. The eyes moved into the light, a hellish looking body following behind. It looked something like a large dog but with wiry black fur and a murderous look in its eyes. I stood frozen at my window, as my neighbour's tabby stumbled onto the road. I almost shouted a warning out to it, but knew it was hopeless. In a flash the mutant dog was upon it, tearing the cat to pieces. The flaming red eye's started looking around the street.

That's when I moved. I shot down onto my knees and crawled, to ensure the dog thing didn't see me, towards my bedroom door. The minute I escaped from the bedroom I dashed down the hall, not to my parent's room but to the place I had run to for years whenever I had a bad dream. I knocked on John's door frantically. "Wake up Johnathan!" I whispered when I didn't hear anything. I held back on racing right in, the image from a hot summer night three years ago suddenly burning in my brain. I knocked again and half whispered half shouted, "JOHNATHAN CHRISTOPHER MORGEN, WAKE UP RIGHT NOW!"

I heard a thud signalling John falling out of bed. The door opened a moment later and a tired face appeared leaning against the door frame. "You not feeling too great after that pizza either?" he asked sleepily.

"John, listen to me," I pushed myself into his room, "outside my window is an enormous, hellish looking dog, with giant red eyes and it just ripped Crazy Dorothea's cat to shreds!" John's face turned from sleepy to panicked, in a matter of seconds.

He stepped back and ran his hands through his hair roughly. "Clary, listen to me," Johnathan paused a moment as he grabbed a strange object from his bedside table before he started drawing on himself, "Clary, you haven't seen anything tonight. You've had a nightmare and you're going to stay in my room and go back to sleep. I'm just going to go talk to Mum and Dad. Don't follow me and don't say anything." John walked out of the room and muttered something about persuasion runes, whatever they were.

JACE

I stood in the corner of the room and watched as the chaos unfolded around us. More demons had been appearing and many of the Memory Wiped had started seeing them. Magnus was trying to calm everybody down, but was failing dismally. Robert Lightwood stepped up and ordered for everyone to be silenced. For once, they listened. "We all know this urgent meeting has been called because of the rise in the demon population and because the Memory Wiped have started seeing. Bane, do you know why this is happening?" Robert looked at him expectantly.

Magnus Bane stepped forward and gulped nervously, before he started explaining. "The rise in the demon population is meaning the spells I have cast have been working overtime and are now wearing down faster. If one of the Memory Wiped sees a demon and tries to attack it… well, let's just say the results could be dramatic. I would advise that each of the Memory Wiped are under constant supervision from a Shadowhunter or Downworlder so they have a lesser chance of seeing a demon," Magnus looked over at Robert with a slight look of contempt on his face.

The whole room looked at Robert for directions. Robert was the go to man, the guy behind the genius or, at least, that's what he liked to think. He stood there awkwardly for a moment before saying promptly, "Sound's good Bane. Everybody get going." A dodgy order if I'd ever heard one, but the occupants of the room seemed to respond, and soon everyone was moving.

The room itself fell into an organised chaos, with people desperate to make sure their children and siblings where always under protection. The Memory Wiped files where soon being handed out hurriedly, with scribbled Protector name's on the front. We were now the protectors of not only mundies but our own memory wiped kind. Yippee.

Magnus raced over and handed me my targets information file, his cat eyes glistening with excitement. It was probably the most exciting thing that had happened in the last 15 years, not that it would seem like that long for a warlock like him. "Jace, Jace, Jace, you've been assigned to someone important. I reckon she'll keep you on your toes. I wouldn't want to mess around with her too much either, her big brother might get scary," Magnus winked at me before bouncing off to hand out more profiles.

I looked down at the Memory Wiped Profile I'd been given, and sighed. Dramatically. If there was a competition for dramatic sighs, I would have won. Of course, it had to be her.

CLARY

I woke that morning in John's bed, completely unaware of how I got there. I had a shower and got dressed before going down to the kitchen for breakfast. I stopped, however, when I heard Mum, Dad and John's hushed voices in the kitchen. "-we can't risk Clary finding out." "We can't hide it from her forever, Jocelyn." "-and they'll look after her for now." I opened up the kitchen door and I saw them all turn around to do something suddenly. I walked over to the sink and saw a sticky note with a scribbled phone number written down and the initials M.B on the bottom.

I picked the note pad up, "Hey Mum, who's M.B?" Mum snatched the pad out of my hand and shook her head while telling me to eat some breakfast before the bus came. I looked towards John questioningly, but he looked away. "Hey John, I don't remember coming to your room last night? Do you know what that was about?" I asked, determined to get something out of him.

He shrugged, "You said something about a nightmare. Probably just the pizza, I didn't feel too well either. I'm getting a lift with Alec this morning," John ruffled my hair, casually, before getting up and flinging his bag over his shoulder, "See ya Mum, Dad."

I grabbed some toast before shoving everything I needed in my bag and walking out the front door, deciding I needed to talk to Simon early.

I grabbed my usual seat next to Simon, whose curly brown hair was messier than usual and glasses slightly askew. I tried to smooth his hair down a bit, knowing I was putting off what I was about to propose. "Clary, as much as I love you trying to tame my untameable hair, but you're acting strange. What's up?" Simon asked.

"Something's up. Mum's acting really weird, I woke up in John's room this morning and I don't remember getting there, I don't even remember waking up. Then John's being really weird and shifty, and then there was a sticky note with a phone number and when I asked Mum about she totally flipped out and-"

I was cut off by Simon, "Okay Clary, slow down. You seemed to be a bit stressed at the moment. You're probably just overthinking everything, I mean I haven't been sleeping that well cause I've been so stressed about end of year tests," Simon reassured me. He paused a moment before adding quietly, "What you should be worrying about is how much Jace has looked at you in the past 10 minutes." I looked towards the back of the bus and saw his golden eyes flicking away from me.

JACE

We reached school and I followed Clary off the bus, before meeting up with Alec, Izzy and John. "How was that?" Alec asked.

"Simply marvellous, I got to sit on a bus for half an hour and watch that douche's little sister," I directed most of my annoyance at John, "Plus I saw another three, no four, demons on the ride. I'd rather look after Max than the redhead and her nerdy friend.

"It would be weird if you turned up at Max's school, and it's heaps easier having Tessa as his teacher in the first place," Izzy said, "And you don't have to look after Simon."

"They're pretty much a packaged deal, Izzy, unless you manage to do something about him, you've had an interest in geek freaks lately, haven't you," I snapped at her. I glared at all of them before slouching off towards my first class.

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