Shadowhunters | [ON HOLD]

Chapter 8

~Katiana's POV~

Jace and Isabelle burst in the room and Jace immediately speaks up.

"Where is she? Where's Clary?"

"She's gone," Alec answers.

"What do you mean 'gone'?" Isabelle asks.

"Simon and her got arrested while we were busy," I answer, still looking out the window.

"I was checking the fire escape and got distracted," Alec adds.

"The mundane was here?" Jace questions, clearly displeased.

"Simon? He's gone too?" Isabelle asks at the same time.

"It was an unmarked car. I don't know where they took her," Alec informs, his head down.

"What did you do Alec?" Jace asks.

"It's not his fault," I snap at him.

"Well obviously you don't care about Clary," Jace snaps back. I turn around and throw one of my knives right next to his ear, shocking everyone.

"She's my sister," I say lowly. "Of course I care." I take a deep sight to calm myself down. "Anyways, blaming someone isn't going to help us find her."

I take my knife out of the wall and walk out to the alley. The three shadowhunters join me, Jace with a drawing of Clary to track her.

"Damn it. She's not showing up," he informs and turns to Alec. "We need parabatai tracking. Alec, concentrate. Alec!" Jace snaps.

"I’m doing it. She’s not showing up," Alec retorts. Isabelle walks to them after ending her call.

"Just like I thought. She wasn’t arrested," she informs us.

"It was your job to look after her," Jace blames Alec.

"I did my best, Jace."

"Well, then maybe your mother was right, and your best just isn’t good enough," he says and I immediately push myself off the wall.

"Jace!"

"Oi! Clary snuck out on her own, she's eighteen and more than able to make her own fucking decisions! Stop fucking blaming him," I yell at him.

"Are you so blinded by your feelings for Clary, you’ve lost sight of us? Clary snuck out. I went after her… to protect her. I did nothing you haven’t done a thousand times before," Alec snaps too.

"Yes, you did. You lost her."

"Enough, all of you," Isabelle warns us and I go back to leaning against the wall, thinking about where she could be and glaring at Jace.

"Whoever took Clary and Simon must be holding them over a body of water. That’s why our Tracking rune won’t work," Jace states. Clary's phone rings from her backpack and Jace picks up.

"Hello?... Where are you? Where's Clary?" I figure out it's Simon and Jace puts him on speaker.

"I don’t know. Some Chinese restaurant, I think? This cop Alaric arrested us, but it was a total fake-out. Him and his buddy, they took us… They took us to their hangout and then they told Clary that they’ll kill her if they don’t find the Cup," he answers and I feel anger growing inside me. Alaric is kind of friends with Luke.

"Just calm down, all right? Tell us what you see."

"Okay. Uh… we’re definitely on a pier. There’s a ton of water. Uh… I see lockers and… Oh, my… I’m in some sort of torture chamber. There’s claw marks all over the wall."