❃ clary ❃

⠀⠀⠀perhaps adding the threat of ducks was a bit much, tessa thought, as she saw the complete betrayal on will's face, but she also knew that it won't take much for her to calm his mind. teasing each other was what they did quite often, but it always ended with them looking into each other's eyes and everything was back to normal, so she had experience in that area. ❛❛i trust your judgement, my love. just not when it comes to your sister's boyfriend. i do think, however, if you would try to get to know each other better, you both would bond over the similar qualities you two share. if not, then you should at least remember that you both care about cecily a lot.❜❜ tessa spoke as she stood up and joined will who was standing at the door. she had no time to change in black shadowhunter clothes, for they needed to leave if they were to catch up to cecily. the young warlock thought that no fighting would actually happen, so there was no need for her to go and change. well, no fighting for her, that is. tessa couldn't really predict what will happend between cecily and her brother.

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⠀⠀⠀they made their way to the front room of the building and tessa grabbed a coat to put over her dress. it was getting chilly outside, so a simple dress wouldn't suffice to keep her warm. once will and tessa were outside, they noticed that cecily had already managed to jump in a carriage and be on her way to the city. ❛❛let's go. i do hope that gabriel hasn't gotten himself into anything too dangerous.❞ tessa said as she stepped into another carriage that was standing unoccupied by the stairs. she was also a little nervous to see jem, who was brother zachariah now. she had seen him from time to time, whenever they needed any kind of help he would be the silent brother that came to their aide. also when will got particularly gloom, he would pretend to be sick with something that had never been seen before. it was a lie, of course, but no one called him out on it. tessa had to admit that it was nice to not have him completely gone from their lives, but it still made her nervous to be around him. perhaps it was guilt, guilt that she couldn't save him, that her love wasn't enough to be his cure. however, she tried to let thoughts like that go, her main focus was will now and her love for him was something magical and unique in its own way.

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⠀⠀⠀after cautiously walking for approximately 10 minutes, the shadowhunter gang had walked through a forest line and arrived arrived at an abandoned fire station. that must be the vampire nest, clary thought. it checked all the marks - abandoned, dark, graffiti on the walls which meant that there were occasional young and rebellious visitors. thanks to the soundless rune, all the shadowhunters were able to quietly make their way inside. they could hear some noises coming from the other side of the building and so they collectively made their way there. after walking upstairs and entering what seemed to be an old changing room for firefighters as there were lockers on all four of the walls and 8 metal poles that started at the ceiling and led to the lower floor where garage was located. the only light source in the room was a small window high at one of the walls. the moon was barely illuminating the the room and it wasn't easy to see. clary was about to activate her night vision rune when all the shadowhunters noticed that there was already someone else there in the room. all of them being on high alert, they didn't even think to check if the stranger was a vampire or not, because they were in fact at a vampire den looking for.. well.. vampires.

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⠀⠀⠀jace gave a look to izzy and nodded, signalling that she should use her electrum whip. that's how they usually started their fights, with izzy trying to capture the enemy and alec with his bow and arrow eliminating. the black haired girl gave a short nod in acknowledgment and, just as the stranger moved forwards, she released her whip around his legs and pulled him forward, into the soft light. as izzy did so and the sounds of the stranger falling on the ground echoed in the building, another voice screamed from a room next to the one they were in currently. a familiar voice screaming a name, name that clary herself had screamed so many times before, just in a different scenario. the redhead's entire body went stiff, cold shivers running down her back. izzy had pulled him all the way over to the gang and alec had an arrow drawn and aimed at the stranger. ❝drop it.❜❜ alec ordered calmly, noticing that the man pulled out something out of his pocket and was about to attack izzy. however, then sam came into the room holding a gun and aimed it at alec. ❝how about you drop it instead, huh?❜❜ clary was standing behind simon, next to jace, so she wasn't easily noticeable to the two men in front of them, yet, she could see both of them as clear as day. old memories flooded clary's mind, memories of simpler times when she would laugh often and smile a lot.

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⠀⠀⠀even though simon seemed sad that they had to leave, he bid both of them farewells and wished safe travels back to the institute. clary hugged him one last time and quickly walked outside to join izzy, unaware that she was being followed. once out in the fresh night air, the redhead took a deep inhale to clear her head from the loud music and the alcohol. clary really did have an amazing night and she was excited to get back to the institute and crawl in jace's bed and just sleep soundlessly until the morning.

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⠀⠀⠀from the moment clary walked out of the bar, she couldn't shake the feeling that someone was following her and izzy, but every time she looked behind her there was no one to be seen. only when both girls were almost at the institute, only one block remaining until their destination, they were approached by the mysterious follower who turned out to be a pixie. ❝you will pay for breathing the same air as my precious boy. you two are not worthy of him, how dare you make him sad?!❜❜ the pixie screamed in a high pitched voice. clary was confused and amused at the same time. ❝what the hell are you talking about?❜❜ she asked, not letting this weird encounter influence her good mood. ❝oh, you morons! you idiots! you both will pay for this!❜❜ the pixie screamed once again and then started to chant something in a language that clary couldn't quite recognise. however, her body suddenly began to hurt tremendously and she could hear painful sounds coming from izzy as well, meaning that whatever the pixie was doing, was affecting both of them. ❝stop! please stop!❜❜ clary screamed, but her voice didn't sound like her voice, it sounded deeper somehow, different.

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⠀⠀⠀one second clary was screaming in agony, but then just like that the pain was gone, and so was the pixie. when clary turned to make sure that izzy is okay, she stumbled a few steps backwards because izzy wasn't next to her anymore. instead some unknown man was standing there, with confused look on his face. ❝what the f...❜❜

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⠀⠀⠀as soon as the strange and unfamiliar boy introduced himself as matthew fairchild, all of clary's friends gazes swiftly landed on her. confusion and distrust shadowed all of their faces. the redhead was quite certain that she had no lost siblings, besides jonathan morgenstern, and she doubted that her mother would hide any from her. there was also something about the way matthew looked and talked, that made clary thoughtful.

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⠀⠀⠀the boy in front of them was clearly a shadowhunter, it was evident from his runes and his knowledge of demons. yet he seemed to be someone that wasn't familiar with the three people that was in front of him, or else he wouldn't try to pretend to be someone he's not. ❝did you hit your head on your way here?❜❜ jace spoke, not liking how matthew was eying his girlfriend and his sister. ❝there is no way that you're a fairchild or the consul's son. so how about you start telling the truth before i send you flying back to where you came from?❞ jace freed himself from clary's grasp and was ready to bring his sword up if necessary. before he could do anything, however, clary quickly took hold of jace again and brought him back next to her. something jace had said made the redhead realise what was it that she previously found so weird about matthew. ❝where and when exactly are you from?❞ clary asked instead, somehow feeling that that was the right question to ask.

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⠀⠀⠀suspicion crept on clary's mind as she was introduced to reuben. it seemed too convenient that two circle members are imprisoned in the same place as her and both appear to have no idea as to why they are there. the redhead was sure that there must be more to all of this and valentine surely knew, or at least suspected something.

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⠀⠀⠀camille eyed everyone in the room with distaste shadowing her face. ❛❛oh, dear. this pleasure is definitely just mine. see, i have found in my possession the soul sword, that you have so desperately tried to find.❜❜ as she spoke, camille walked back and forth in a straight line. her heels making a loud noise as they came in contact with the hard floor. ❛❛and a little birdie told me that you have the cup. the cup that i want.❜❜ as she finished talking, the vampire had made her way towards clary. camille grabbed a hold of the chain that held the redhead's leg and, with a swift movement of her arms, broke it. camille then proceeded to grab clary and lift her up, they both were standing on their feet now. ❛❛i know that the two of you don't talk often and that clary most likely isn't aware of where the cup is, but i'm sure that i can gain some useful information from her anyway.❜❜ a sinister smile formed on camille's lips as she started to walk out backwards out of the room with clary in her grasp. ❛❛i'm sure if i give you some time, you'll remember where the cup is, valentine, if not, then your daughter will suffer. think about that for some time.❜❜ camille spoke and left the room, leaving valentine and reuben on their own.

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⠀⠀⠀now: clarissa fairchild, daughter, shadowhunter, parabatai, fighter.
❛❛ugh, i shouldn't have had that mexican food before we left.❜❜ simon, her parabatai, spoke from a seat next to her, bringing clary back to the present from the reminiscing she was in the middle of. the car they were in wasn't in the best condition and combined with the rocky road, everyone in it were being thrusted from side to side as the car tried to make its way forward. jace, izzy and alec were also in a car with them. clary thought of all of them as her family for they've all been through heaven and hell together. she once upon a time was briefly dating jace, but that didn't last too long for she wasn't able to fully commit to him. when clary thought about it, she concluded that she hasn't been in a long, serious relationship since high school. however clary didn't like to dwell on it too much. she tried to not think about her life before she became a shadowhunter. ❛❛you're actually turning green.❜❜ clary commented and everyone laughed; everyone besides simon, that is. because he really did seem to be feeling quite ill. ❛❛it's not far, we'll soon arrive at the stop and then we'll have to make the rest of the way on foot. the car would be too loud and we wouldn't want that feral vampire nest to hear us.❜❜ alec spoke, to which simon just nodded absently. they were outside of the new york limits. clary usually didn't join on these far hunting trips, but there was something about this one that made her change her mind at the very last second.

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⠀⠀⠀the car screeched to a halt and all of the shadowhunters jumped out of it. they made their way to the back of the car to grab their swords and other gear that could be necessary in this fight. they weren't fully informed as to how many vampires were actually there, but the gang thought that it's nothing 5 shadowhunters couldn't deal with. geared up with weapons, their runes activated and mentally prepared, the shadowhunters started to walk through the dark forest in a direction they calculated that the vampire nest should be in.

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⠀⠀⠀then: clary fray, daughter, best friend, senior, soon to be art college student, lover.
the redhead was laying on a bed, her naked body covered by a soft, cream colored blanket. she wasn't alone in that bed, the sound of frequent deep breaths coming from next to her. the moon was shining in from the outside, illuminating the entire room she was in and highlighting the already perfect body of the boy next to her in an even better light. her heart ached to touch him, but her spite didn't let her. he was leaving in the morning. leaving the school, the city, but most importantly leaving her. clary was angry, she was furious, mad, outraged, irritated and all the other words that she tried to find to label her feelings. but even with all that negativity inside of her, she couldn't last long without feeling his skin. her pale fingertips rose from where they were previously resting, on top of her own stomach, and settled on his shoulder. he was sleeping on his stomach, his back arched and providing a canvas for the moon to play on with lights and shadows. he was facing clary and she didn't know if it was better that she could see his face or if it would be better if he'd just turn around and she would have the opportunity to sneak out and not prolong this pain and heartbreak that was creeping on her heart minute by minute. but he didn't turn, even when clary lightly traced her fingertips along his shoulder and his back. the redhead made a mental picture of this moment, tried to focus on all the details as perfectly as she could so that tomorrow, when he's gone, she could paint this view in front of her and have a reminder of a time where everything stood still and her heart and body was full of love and happiness. ❛❛oh dean,❜❜ clary whispered as quietly as possible, she definitely didn't want to wake him up. ❛❛how am i supposed to do this without you?❜❜ a single tear escaped from her eye and making its way down her cheek, landing on a pillow. how, indeed...

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⠀⠀⠀when clary and jace entered the apartment, they were greeted by magnus, alaric and elizabeth. well only two of those received greetings were warm, but clary tried to not let her temper get the better of her and instead put on a fake smile. clary has always had problems with tolerance towards other people's attitude, but she was trying to work on it. especially since being with jace whose temper was a lot worse than hers. the shadowhunter girl wanted to confirm what lizzie had said, that they indeed were clary and jace, but before she even could get a word out jace spoke up firs. ❛❛no, we're adam and eve.❜❜ he said with an eye roll. jace was never good with dealing with people who threw attitude at him because he always threw it back twofold. well either that or he threw his fists around, but clary had helped him to get rid of that bad habit. clary elbowed jace in his side for being impolite.

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⠀⠀⠀❛❛khm, if everyone could pay attention now that would be great.❜❜ magnus spoke up, trying to distract everyone so that the tension in the room would ease up. ❛❛we have important things to focus on and we need to work together for this.❜❜ he continued, handing alaric and jace one folder; lizzie and clary another one. ❛❛you will have to work in pairs, i've already given out the rest of the binders to other students of both shadowhunter academy and salvatore boarding school.❜❜ clary nodded and walked to stand next to lizzie, the redhead's shoulders were stiff with tension. ❛❛each folder contains a different clan leader, leader's second hand and everyone who works under them. your task is to watch them, keep notes of what they're doing and report back to me. currently i'm pretty sure that the clan leaders are being possessed, but i don't know how far down the ranks that possession goes.❜❜ clary turned to lizzie who, opposite of clary, was wearing light colored simple clothes. ❛❛are you ready to start now or do you need to change?❜❜ she asked, trying to be polite.

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⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ┈ @toxicladies

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⠀⠀⠀a light bulb was flickering above clary's and her friends heads giving the entire room an ominous vibe. the redhead shadowhunter was placed upon an altar that was made out of stone and was extremely cold to touch, and a warlock, that she didn't know that well but the only warlock who was able to assist in this spell, was changing around her and performing a spell that would lead her to her brother jonathan morgenstern. clary would feel a lot more safe and comfortable if it were magnus doing the spell and helping them in this, but since he and alec weren't on the best terms currently, magnus wasn't reachable to anyone. clary tried to go to see him at his apartment, but no one was there and he also wouldn't pick up his phone so she had no way of knowing his whereabouts. so they contacted the next best thing, in their opinion.

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⠀⠀⠀clary could feel the spell working, her entire body was tingling and the word ❛morgenstern❜ was being constantly repeated between other words in different language that clary didn't know meaning of. at one moment clary was laying flat on the altar, the cold stone making goosebumps rise on her skin, and in the next the redhead woke up in a soft bed with a black cat laying next to her, licking his paw. clary blinked a few times because for a moment she thought that perhaps she fell asleep on the altar and is now dreaming, but nothing changed around her. however, a few seconds later the cat spoke to her in human voice. the cat spoke to her.. clary was definitely losing her mind. ❛❛you seem to be lost, girl. who or what exactly are you?❜❜ clary sat up on the bed and took in her surroundings. the room she was in looked like a simple bedroom with bed placed next to the window, some shelves and a closet arranged against the walls. she liked the décor, the one who owned this room definitely had a good taste. ❛❛who or what are you? cats aren't supposed to talk.❜❜ clary replied in her bold tone. instead of replying, salem just chuckled and stood up. ❛❛i think you'll fit right in. come, i'll give you a tour.❜❜ to say that clary was confused was an understatement, but she still stood up and followed the cat out of the room. she had to know where she was, after all.

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⠀⠀⠀as clary and emma walked down one of the main streets of new york, clary was once again overwhelmed by the sheer difference of residents in this city that were around during the day between the ones that were out during night time. downworlders seemed to fit in there perfectly among the outcasts and other weirdos that were human and lived in the city. ❛❛of course, i will show you everything and we should ask alec to join us if you want the juiciest places from jace's childhood as well.❜❜ clary replied, enjoying this effortless teasing of jace between herself and emma. they did a quick catch up informing each other about the important and weird events that had occurred to them in this time. clary also told emma about her unsettling feelings that have clouded the redhead's mind lately.

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⠀⠀⠀when both girls arrived at their destination, they got enveloped by the smell of fresh pizza. both of their stomachs rumbled in unison and the girls shared a look and laughed. they entered the small diner that wasn't known to that many people, for which clary was glad because that meant that she never had to wait long for her order. after walking to the cash register, clary placed an order for her favourite pizza that she had ever tasted and, promising to emma that she will love it as well, ordered second one just like her own only with extra cheese. after that they went to sit down at the booth by the window and it was only a few seconds later that they both received their complimentary cokes that came with the order.

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⠀⠀⠀after a few wholesome minutes of talking and eating the delicious pizza, both clary and emma were stopped in the middle of their conversation by a sudden excruciatingly loud noise that came from the street. it sounded like hundreds of layers of glass breaking and shattering. clary glanced to her right and was shocked to her core to see a giant crack in the middle of the street. it formed fast and seemed to be really wide and deep, many cars that were parked on the street fell in it and so did numerous people that were just walking by.

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⠀⠀⠀clary felt her heart beat faster within her, doing solid and hard thumps against her ribcage. even after months of being a shadowhunter and receiving the best physical training one could ever receive, the redhead girl still felt a tinge of fear every time she encountered downworlders. it was weird because she had close friends who were downworlders - luke, someone who was like a father figure to clary, was a werewolf, simon, her best friend in the whole word, was a vampire for some period of time, and magnus, a lover to one of her closest shadowhunter friends, was a warlock. clary was exposed to downworlders daily and she knew that many of them weren't living with a malicious intent, but it still caught her off guard. the deep, unsettling fear she felt whenever she met someone new.

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⠀⠀⠀for example, this girl in front of clary who looked gorgeous and at a first glance, seemed completely human and innocent. however, the way she talked, moved and looked after further inspection, and the sheer fact that she asked for a downworlder bar, gave clary enough clues to put two and two together and realise that a vampire was standing in front of her. after all, clary wasn't a novice in dealing with vampires. ❛❛uf, hello.❜❜ clary spoke, her startled mood showing a little in the tone of her voice. yet, she wanted to be polite, not knowing someone and them being a vampire doesn't necessarily mean that they want to kill you, right? ❛❛yes, i do know where it is and it's not actually too far way from here. but it is hidden in a narrow alley so i understand how it could be a bit hard to find.❜❜ the redhead shadowhunter went on, rambling as usual. ❛❛i can take you there, if you wish.❜❜ clary wasn't fully sure if what she was doing was the right thing, but nothing too bad could happen from her accompanying this beautiful vampire to the bar, or so clary hoped.

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⠀⠀⠀tessa observed cecily's facial expressions as will continued to tease her relentlessly. everyone sitting by the table knew not to take will's words too seriously, but cecily hadn't known him for so long to know that most of the things that came out of his mouth were pure gibberish. yes, she was his younger sister and knew will as a child, but he had changed quite a bit since coming to the institue. he had been through so much and developed a quite unique way to express himself. also cecily hadn't really built up mental resistance towards will's endless remarks, but truth be told jem was the only one who could understand the actual meaning behind will's each and every word. tessa was learning to do that, but she wasn't fully on that level yet. cecily tried to hide her bitterness behind a neutral expression and a few pieces of flying bread, but tessa saw through her and she didn't like how upset will was actually making her. she turned to face will, ready to smack the back of his head and tell him off, but, as if he'd already anticipated something like that, will leaned back from her and continued his rant. cecily couldn't take it much longer and so she stood up and told will that she's going to help gabriel herself, since will was so incapable of being decent. as cecily left the dining room, tessa sent will an annoyed look. ❛❛why don't you go after her and help her, will?❜❜ tessa spoke, she feigned a nice tone but it was combined with her hard, unyielding facial expression, informing will that if he does not act right in this situation, he will be welcomed not only by hard books and vases as beating objects, but something much worse. tessa mouthed the word ❛❛ducks❜❜ just in case will needed a bit more encouragement. she couldn't let cecily storm off like this, even if she was a gifted shadowhunter and picked up things quite fast, just like will had, it was still dangerous out there and she should be protected.

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⠀⠀⠀it had been a successful night for new york institute shadowhunters, which were on their frequent nightly patrol. at first clarissa wasn't sure if she wanted to go out tonight for there was a deep unsettling feeling resting within her and at the edge of her mind. she predicted that something weird, neither good nor bad, but just weird, would happen tonight. with that feeling troubling her, she decided to join jace and izzy to protect them for they were in a definite need of their steam being let out with the help of physical fights. so clary had to join them on their nightly demon hunt, if not to fight then to just look out for her close ones.

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⠀⠀⠀after a few hours of dicing and slashing, jace was covered in demon guts and blood and izzy, even though she slaughtered just as many demons or even more, amazingly looked the same she did at the beginning of the evening. clary had taken care of some demons as well, but only when it seemed necessary. her mind wasn't fully in the fight, but, by the time they were on their way back to the institute, she had calmed a little since nothing unordinary had happened the entire night.

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⠀⠀⠀clary was holding her belly, laughing hard at izzy's disgusted facial expression as jace tried to clean his dirty blades on his even dirtier shirt. clary was just about to offer her extra t-shirt that she sometimes brought with her just for times like these, when jace gives no care for his state of appearance, when jace suddenly stopped and with a stone cold look on his face raised his weapon up in defence towards whoever he saw. izzy and clary shared a look before following jace's gaze and then they noticed someone at the front of the institute. someone they didn't recognise. ❛❛who are you?❜❜ jace spoke up first, taking a step closer and positioning himself in front of izzy and clary. the redhead shadowhunter wrapped her fingers around her stele, ready to draw any rune that would be necessary if a fight would ensue.

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