𝗦𝘂𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲 | 𝗔. 𝗟𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗼𝗱

𝗘𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻, 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗱

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Hope went to eat with Luke, Hayden, and Simon since she didn't have anyone to talk to since Izzy was on lockdown and she was avoiding Alec.

"I can't eat this," Simon stated pushing the food away

"You are in no position to be picky," Luke scolded the boy

"No, I can't eat at all. I can't just go to a restaurant, order food, and just sit there and stare at it," Simon ranted to the man

"You need to learn how to adapt to what's in front of you so on the plate, around the meat, what do you see?" Luke asked showing the meat

"Blood, what should I do, lick it up? That would be suave," Simon remarked to the man

"See? You're all set," Luke spoke after he poured the blood

"And that move is supposed to help me look normal?" Simon asked with a sigh

"Yeah, maybe a wine glass would be better," Luke joked around with the boy

"Probably," Hayden added with a chuckle

"Thank God, we have pizza," Hope joked looking at her brother

"We need help!" Clary yelled as she came in

"Clary, what happened?" Hope asked as she stood up

"We thought we found Valentine, but he was already gone," Clary explained to the group 

"Michael Wayland?" Luke asked looking at the man

"Valentine took my mother with him but we found Jace's father," Clary explained holding Jace

"What? I thought Valentine killed Jace's father," Simon added looking between his best friend and the man

"He tried, hello, Lucian," Michael greeted the man

"This can't be, I thought I'd never see you again," Luke admitted in shock

"I never thought I'd see anyone again," Michael added in a soft tone

"What happened?" Luke asked his adoptive daughter

"Demon got him. He can't fight the poison. His runes are too weak and he needs blood, but we can't go back to the Institute, Simon, there's gotta be some kind of blood at Hotel DuMort. Could you call Raphael?" Clary asked the young vampire

"Can you get some water?" Michael asked looking at his old friend

"I'll get some," Luke added before walking out

"Calling won't work. We have to do this in person. My van is in the garage. You drive, I'll hide under a blanket to stay out of the sun, and there's underground parking in the hotel," Simon explained to them

"He's weaker, you gotta hurry," Michael spouted to the three

"Jace, listen to me. I'm coming back. Please, just hang on," Clary spoke before kissing Jace's forehead

"Simon, Clary, let's go," Hope called out as she started to walk out

"Come on," Simon directed the two

They had gone to the vampire hangout to get the blood as they needed it for Jace to heal, Hope still had a bad feeling about this place since she had gotten kidnapped the day of her and Hayden's birthday. 

"Why can't we just take what we need and leave?" Clary asked looking around

"If we were transfusing goat blood, no problem but human blood, that's against the Accords," Simon explained to the shadow hunter

"I'm surprised you know that much," Rafael stated as he walked in

"Why do you keep doing that to me?" Simon asked in a hurt tone

"If you worked on controlling your enhanced senses, as you should, you wouldn't be surprised. Clary, Hope, you really have to stop barging in here," Rafael scolded the girls

"Sorry, Raphael but we need blood," Hope explained to the vampire

"So I've heard, human blood, it's funny how those rules for Downworlders stop being such a big deal when you need our help but no can do," Rafael said before Simon scoffed

"Okay, listen. Come on. Last night, I bumped into Bernice, she overheard a couple of bridge and tunnel vamps gossiping about Camille," Simon admitted looking at the man

"You said Camille took a leave of absence, right?" Rafael questioned in return

"Yeah, but they didn't care about that. They said she kept around a couple of humans. She'd feed on them, but never went all the way, what are they called? Submissives?" Simon mocked coming closer

"Keep your voice down. They're called subjugates. Horrible things and even Camille got sick of them," Rafael scolded the younger vampire

Simon: "Okay, so, they're gone but keeping around human beings just to drain at cocktail hour, that's against the Accords. Camille had a taste for the real stuff. I know from experience. She had to have something on ice," Simon explained looking at the vampire

"I'm sorry. If you want to tattle to the Clave about Camille draining humans, fine. I'm the new administration," Rafael deadpanned to the boy

"Yeah, you could probably get over on them with that line but you weren't exactly an innocent bystander in our case," Hope scolded crossing her arms

"We agreed not to discuss that," Rafael remarked to the blonde

"Did we? Funny, I can't really remember. Hey, did you ever tell the Clave what Camille did to me?" Simon asked walking closer

"You can't, I'd be implicated," Rafael reminded in a tone

"Then help us, Raphael, Jace will die without it," Clary pleaded with him

"I can't believe you'd do this to me, blackmail," Rafael mumbled under his breath

"Save it, you're getting off easy," Hope snapped to the man

"What's his blood type?" Rafael asked the trio

Simon: "Go for type O. Universal donor," Simon said before Rafael gave him the blood

"Thank you. Simon, let's go," Hope spoke starting to walk away

"Yeah, not so fast. I like the way you handled yourself in this negotiation, stick around," Rafael stated to the boy

"I'm the ambassador to the werewolves, It's very time-consuming," Simon remarked in return

"Let me take that burden off of your shoulders but as of now, you've been recalled. You're an advisor to the interim chapter president don't complain, my new advisor has to stay here," Rafael remarked looking at him

Simon: It's okay. Just go," Simon told Clary who nodded

"Thank you, both of you," Clary stated before walking out

Clary went to help Jace and Luke as Hope went back to the compound, she went to her room where she had packed up some since she was thinking about moving back with Luke. She asked Clary for updates but she never got any response making her sigh and lay down since she was tired from an eventful day.

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