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Chapter 10

Clary

Clary slowly came back into consciousness. At first she couldnt open her eyes, but she noticed she was laying on something both cold and hard. Her head was raised a bit by something boney.

She finally managed to open her eyes. Sitting up, she rubbed her eyes in fists, and looked around. Turns out, Clary was in a cell located in a dimly lit room. She turned over and found Vanessa sitting there, crisscrossed, looking at her intensely.

"Are you ok Clary?"

"Yeah I'm fine. Where are we?" Clary asked as she stood up and looked around.

"Remember how in Pretty Little Liars, A had a lair? This is B's Lair."

Clary smiled. "If Kyle was here right now, he would lecture you on how stupid that show is."

Vanessa chuckled. "So how are we going to get out?"

"I don't know. Maybe I can draw the open rune on the cage's bars. It'll be hard, but it'll work." Clary reached into her pocket, but found it was empty. She checked her sheath in her boot, and found that Heosphoros wasn't in it.

"Yeah, Bethany took our weapons."

Clary groaned. "You've got to be kidding me."

Just then, Bethany opened the door, and walked into the room. "Glad to see you girls are awake!"

Clary crossed her arms. "What do you want from us bitch?"

"I already said this before. I want to kill you and your annoying little friends."

"Ok well I know that, but why? Why do you want all of this power?"

"So many questions." Bethany walked over to the wall, and leaned on it, her arms crossed. "I want power, because I want to take over the Clave. We are puny Shadowhunters, but with Lilith's and my help, we can make better Shadowhunters that I can use to take over this world."

Clary looked over, and saw that Vanessa was sitting in the corner with her knees up to her face. Her eyes were wide.

Clary turned back to face Bethany. "How are you going to get the rest of them here? They can't come to me when they don't know where we are."

"I'll just send them a note, telling them to meet me somewhere and I'll take them here."

"Wow. You really thought this thing through." Clary hesitared before asking the next question. "Are you really going to kill Jace? You obviously love him."

Bethany smirked. "I'm not. But I'll make sure he watches you slowly and painfully die." She pushed off the wall, and walked closer to the cage. "And don't say he won't care. We all know he still loves you. And you sure as hell still love him." With that, Bethany walked out of the room.

Clary walked over to where Vanessa was sitting, and slumped down next to her. "What have we gotten ourselves into."

There was a long pause. Finally, Vanessa answered. "Do you really still love Jace?"

Clary looked over towards Vanessa. "What?"

"Do you really still love Jace. You can tell me, I won't be mad."

There was yet another long pause. Clary was wondering if she should tell Vanessa. After all, she was her best friend. But Kyle was her brother, and she wouldn't want Kyle to hurt him. She sighed, and decided that she should just tell the truth. "Yes. I do still love Jace."

"Oh. Ok." Vanessa uncurled from her human ball, and turned towards Clary. "Please, don't get mad at my brother for this. Or even Lilly."

Clary interrupted. "What are you talking about Vy?"