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Chapter 17

Clary woke at the absence of warmth; she slowly sat up, rubbing her tired eyes. She looked around the room to see if Jace was there, but he wasn't. She shrugged the covers off, went over to her window and pulled back the curtain. The sun was setting; she had pretty much slept all day. She huffed at the wasted time but she knew she had needed it. She decided she go and get something to eat, her stomach had grumbled and made her realise she hadn't eaten anything for the last two days except for that faerie drug ant the Bone Chandelier. Her heart ached as she thought of Sebastian. She entered the kitchen to see Simon sitting on the bench, legs crossed playing on his phone, as soon as the door shut behind her Simon was off the bench and giving her a hug.

It was starting to drag on, "You can let go now Simon."

He slowly pulled back, his face riddled with concern, "Are you ok? Is there anything I can do?"

She thought for a moment and then a childish grin crept onto her face, "Make me pancakes?"

He smiled back at her and went over to the cupboard to get the pancake mixture, "I see you're feeling a lot better."

She sat down on the stool and sighed to herself, 'I hate lying like this.' "Yeah... Mostly, I don't think it'll ever be fully better." 'I shouldn't be able to lie this easily and to my Best Friend!'

They made some simple chitchat while Simon cooked the pancakes; she caught up on his and izzy's sitution and apparently Alec and Magnus hooked up once but they both refused to get back together and that they just keep saying it was a one time drunken hook up, but Isabelle knew Alec wasn't drunk just depressed about him and Magnus and she knew Magnus wasn't drunk because warlocks don't get drunk. When the pancakes were done Clary ate them all within the span of 10minutes, she hadn't realised just how hungry she was until now.

Her and Simon were washing up, he was washing she was drying. As Clary dried the last plate, Simon unplugged the sink and let the soapy water drain away.

He turned to her with worry in his eyes, "Clary..."

She put the plate in the cupboard and looked at him curiously, "yeah?"

"I'm your best friend right? You'd tell me anything?"

This was a stupid question but she was hesitant, 'why is he asking this?' "Of course..."

He was awkward, he was always awkward but now he was nervous, she could tell because he was fiddling with the edge of his shirt, "So what aren't you telling me?"

She didn't quite understand, "What are you talking about?"

"Clary I know you more than anyone else aside from your mum and even then I know a few things she doesn't, I can tell when you're keeping something from me, I can also tell that you're keeping it from everyone else as well... Clary what's going on?"

'Crap!' Her body filled with panic, she knew that if she opened her mouth she won't be able to lie again so she did what she knew, she squeezed her eyes shut and bit as hard as possible down on her bottom lip. She felt her knees give in as soon as the blood left her lip. She didn't fall to the cold ground though she fell into cold, soft arms and she heard Simon calling out to her as the darkness took her.

"Sebastian! Sebastian I need you!" She called out; she was standing in an empty warehouse. She felt the tears start to form again. She was shaking, before she knew it her knees gave in and she collapsed to the floor with that the tears fell once again. She was only crying for a moment before she felt strong-arms wrap around her, she leaned into the embrace.

Her ears tingled when she heard his voice, "Clary?! Clary what happened? What's wrong?!"

She pulled out of his arms and stood up in frustration, she wiped away the tears angrily, "I'm so sick of crying! I can't handle this anymore!"

Sebastian stood up, a bit confused, "What happened Clary?"

"Me and Simon were washing up, and then..." She choked back the tears, "and then he said he knew when I was keeping something from him and from others and then he asked me what I wasn't telling him and then it all just hit me and then I didn't know what to do so I came here and now I'm thinking that wasn't the greatest idea because Simon is probably freaking out and when I get back I'm gonna have to lie again and I just-" She was cut off by Sebastian lips on hers.

He pulled away, her mind was still racing, his voice was calm, "Now. I know that it's hard but I have a plan. Now I need you to go back and play the part, give me a few minutes and I'll fix this."

She slowly nodded, "What do I have to do?"

"Ok. They've taken you to the Institute, right now your body is in the infirmary, I have my people fighting off Magnus' attempts to figure out what's wrong with you but he's breaking through so you have to go soon, now I'm going to break in and 'steal' you, when I do you need to act like you're struggling. I already have people at your house packing your gear." She nodded her head, processing what he was telling her, he kissed her on the forehead, "ok you need to go now, good luck."

She closed her eyes once again.

She sensed that she was back, her eyes flung open and she abruptly sat up, she put on the act, she looked around panicked, "Where am I? What happened?"

Magnus, Isabel, Jace, and Simon were standing at the end of the bed; her eyes darted around the room.

She flinched as she felt a warm hand on her arm; it was Jace, "Clary... Just breath."

"What happened?"

"We're not sure but Magnus is trying to find out what happened, we think it might have something to do with Sebastian." Jace explained.

"Sebastian?" She started crying, she was getting good at this, maybe a bit too good.

She could see that no one knew what to do, just as Jace was about to pull her into a hug everyone's heads whipped around to the door, their was a huge BANG!

Standing in the doorway, surrounded by his demonic army, stood Sebastian with that wicked smirk across his face. Jace, without a second thought, lunged at Sebastian. Just before he hit him something struck his side causing him to collide with the wall. This started the fight. Everything was a blur, at some point Alec had come into the room and joined the fight. Her eyes suddenly fell on Sebastian, him and Jace were fighting like crazy. In one swift move Sebastian's fist contected with Jace's face, it was obviously a strong hit because it caused Jace to stumble back and hit his head on the wall, he collapsed to the ground, without realising it Clary let out a blood curdling scream, "JACE!"

Sebastian's spun around and locked his gaze on the fiery redhead girl sitting in the infirmary bed. He strode over to her, pushing through the fighting crowd. Her eyes kept darting between him and the struggling Jace. Sebastian grabbed Clary's wrist and dragged her off the bed, he pulled out his stele and started drawing the portal rune. Clary wasn't acting anymore she was actually scared, when she saw him and Jace fighting his eyes went black. Just before he dragged her into the portal she looked back at Jace his eyes were full of despair, he was watching the girl he loved being taken away from him 'how can I do this to him?' But it was too late to turn back now, she was being shoved and pulled through the portal. She stumbled into a huge field.

She looked around to see Sebastian holding his hand out to her, "Come on, we're not there yet."

She took his hand hesitantly, he led her about a metre ahead, "Brace yourself." He pulled her into an invisible force, her ears popped and her jaw tightened but loosened up when she realised where she was, 'this... No it can't be...but it is... The Apartment?'

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