Tell Me A Secret || Alec Lightwood

Chapter XI

"The Mortal cup is hidden in the cards? How?"

"That's a good question Clary. But the only thing I know is that Dot has a track of cards where one of them is a image of the Mortal cup. And if I heard it correctly, it is indeed the Moral cup."

Izzy walks around in the bedroom where everyone is currently present.

"We will figure this out but the others can not know about this, alright?"

"And why's that?" Alec questions Jace as usual.

Jace looks at Alec with a very serious facial expression. "If they know where the cup is, they will take it away. The cup is our only hope to track down Valentine in order to find Clary's mother."

Alec glares at you and you know what's it about. Quickly looking away you focus your attention on Clary who's looking at her sketches.

She's fidgeting with her red pencil. "Maybe Amelia can take the cup out of the card? You're a warlock after all?"

Ooh if she only knew

"I'm not sure. I've never seen such a thing. Putting objects in drawings.." You look back at her sketches and raise your eyebrows in surprise.

Izzy follows your gaze and copies your facial expression. "Clary? Why did you drew a pencil all of a sudden?"

Clary's the third person to look confused. "I didn't-" But yes, in fact there was a pencil drawn on her sketches.

Everyone stared confused at her paper.

"She didn't draw it." You whisper in surprise.

"What you mean didn't draw it?" Alec asks you while staring at the drawing.

You look at Clary with big eyes. "She put the pencil in the paper. So she can get the Mortal cup out of it."

At the police station

"10 minutes. After that were coming in to help."

"We won't need your help Alec. We got this." Jace calms his friend.

Izzy chuckles softly at her brother. "Stop worrying. They will be outside in no time."

"You think so? I have a feeling we will have to safe mundanes again."

Simon holds his finger up towards him. "Hey technically I'm not a mundane anymore. I'm a big bad vampire while Clary can take care of herself."

Alec raises his eyebrow in annoyance. "Big bad vampire? And how did you become one in the first place? Can you still remember what happened before that?"

You sigh deeply at Alec's behavior and turn towards Clary and Jace. "We will wait here. Good luck."

They smile at you and rushes inside.

"You really need to calm down. You'll get older much faster with all that stress."

"Don't tell me what to do. You know I'm right."

"I know you're a grumpy head."

Izzy interrupts your stubborn discussion with Mr grumpy head. "Alright, Simon and I will check around the building just in case there would be anything dangerous. Definitely not an excuse to get away from this noise."

She smiles while walking away with a flip of her hair. Simon following her soon after with an apologetic look on his face.

Damnnit, now I'm alone with Mr grumpy head

"We haven't been able to talk by the way."

You mentally shouts at Izzy for leaving you alone with him.