Clary awoke to the bright ray of sunshine streaming through the dusty curtains. As soon as her head lifted the pillow her head started pounding. Memories of last night flooded back and she slowly turned to see she was not alone in the bed. Another being was quietly asleep under the covers wearing only shorts.

Jace.

His hair was tousled and his arm was hanging off the side of the bed. Clary felt like she was going to be sick. How could she have let this happen? All she could remember was fuzzy images including dancing with Sebastian and suddenly being with Jace. She was in a night dress which she had no idea where from. She shivered-she was disgusted with herself. She flung on her clothes in the bathroom and grabbed her bag. Clary checked her phone and realised she couldn't call her mum as her phone was dead. She would just have to sneak out. Her hand was on the door knob when Jace sat up quickly and seemed to realise where he was. His eyes slowly looked around the room until they settled on Clary. He let out a loud groan.

"Oh God", he said and put his head in his hands. Clary silently let her hands fall from the handle. She was worried she might actually be sick.

"What happened?" He asked after a few minutes. He looked up at her and she could see how worried he looked. Clary felt what he looked like.

"I don't know", she whispered. Tears started falling down her cheeks and landing on the floor. Jace looked away obviously ashamed about what they had done.

"Did we", Jace asked quietly looking at his hands. Clary had assumed he wouldn't be affected by this like she was.

"Yes", she replied as strongly as she could. Jace gave another loud groan. Clary sighed and leaned against the door feeling faint.

"Let's go home", he said and stood up. Clary turned around facing the door while he changed, holding her breathe to stop herself screaming. Where was Sebastian? She hoped he didn't know what had happened.

"What will we tell my mum", she asked, Jace gave a cruel laugh and rubbed his eyes.

"Our mum", he corrected her harshly. Clary couldn't believe her ears. Was he finding this a joke?

"We have to tell her something", she hissed. Herr anger was climbing upwards and she was scared she was going to break down.

"Ok,we will tell her that her daughter and soon to be son just spent a night in bed together", he shouted. His eyes were blazing and his hands were in fists by his side.

"I DIDN'T WANT THIS TO HAPPEN", she screamed.

"WELL TOO BAD, IF YOU COULD HAVE JUST CONTAINED YOURSELF", he shouted back. Clary wanted to smack him.

"CONTAIN MYSELF? ALL YOU CARE ABOUT IS SCORING", she replied harshly. Jace looked taken back and Clary used the opportunity to run outside of the building.

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Jace couldn't believe it-had he just slept with Clary? He quickly ran out after her and caught her arm. She pulled it free and turned to face him.

"Where are you going?" He asked. She looked at him in disgust-Jace couldn't blame her. He shouldn't have said that to her. Clary didn't deserve it.

"Home", she whispered. Jace sighed.

"I'm sorry", he said and Clary nodded. Jace hailed a cab and they both say down.

"Don't tell anyone", she said as soon as the car started. Jace nodded-who would he tell anyway? Hopefully Sebastian hadn't seen them, it would be awful if he had. They sat the way in silence, both wondering what to tell Jocelyn.

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"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU STAYED IN SEPARATE ROOMS IN A HOTEL", Jocelyn shouted. Clary felt awful for lying, but she couldn't tell her the truth.

"We were drunk and tired", Clary said. Jace was standing awkwardly in the corner. Clary couldn't look at him.

"Well, did you bond?" She asked quietly. Clary nearly chocked on her next words.

"Yes, we've become good friends", she replied. At this Jocelyn smiled and looked at Jace.

"Fine, I'll let you off this time, next time please text me", she said sternly. Clary nodded. There would never be a next time though.

Monday morning

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Jace had been avoiding Clary all weekend-which he had found hard. She had mostly been in her room with the exception of dinner. Jace had breakfast and ran upstairs to wait until the car came for training. After a couple of minutes, Jocelyn called them and they were making their way to training in an awkward silence. They mounted the steps and greeted Alicia. Sebastian was already there and Clary immediately ran over to him. Jace's stomach twisted, was he jealous? Clary was probably asking if he saw anything on that terrible night and Jace could see him shaking his head. Relief washed over him, hopefully it could stay their little secret.

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Clary finished packing away her things and made her way down the stairs with the boys following closely behind.

"Bye", Sebastian said and walked off before she could reply. Jace leaned against the lamppost away from Clary as they waited for the car to come. Clary waited patiently for what seemed like forever-but her mum didn't come. Every spare second she checked her phone for some indication where she was. She was never late and Clary began feeling worried. After half and hour, Clary gestured Jace to follow her and they jumped on a bus. They say down and Clary looked out of the window until they got to the station. They then walked two streets and came to the house which was partly glamoured to keep straying mundanes away.

But it was barely a house anymore.

Smoke was coming from the chimney and the lawn was ablaze. Black ash was pouring out the half broken front door. Tears came and Clary watched as the roof came down destroying the house beyond repair.

"This is the war", she whispered. Jace came up beside her and put a hand on her shoulder. She didn't move away.

"They've taken my mum", she said and anger was replacing any emotions inside her. Jace squeezed her shoulder blade.

"We will find her Clary, I promise", he said. So the two teenagers sat down on the pavement trying to think what to do next.

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