City Of Bones

Chapter 6

"We didn't do anything wrong," Clary pointed out. She grabbed Simon's sleeve and pulled him closer, feeling as if these shadowhunters would take him away. No teenagers noticed the scene. All they saw was Clary and Simon screaming to mid-air since Jace, Alec and Isabelle had glamours.

"Oh yes you did." Jace objected. Clary's expression twisted in confusion and Jace nodded his head to Simon. "He knows." Clary looked at Simon who was staring at Jace with anger burning in his eyes.

"I said I don't follow Clave rules." Clary snapped and Jace lifted an eyebrow.

"That doesn't seem right," He smiled and stepped closer. "May I ask why you do not obey Clave rules?" Jace placed an arrogant expression on his golden face and suddenly Clary did not want to draw him with his angel smile. Suddenly she wanted to draw him falling off a building, pleading for help making him look utterly vulnerable. Clary stared at Jace, knowing she couldn't reveal the truth. Either way it would send her to the Clave so she kept her silence.

"I think you should come with us to the Institute." Jace suggested and Clary's head snapped up. Surprisingly, so did Alec's as he looked at Jace incredulously.

"But Jace, Hodge won't let us bring her." Alec objected and stepped toward him, trying to convince him, but Jace didn't look at him.

"Hodge wouldn't mind. Frankly, I think he would be quite interested in this girl's story, and plus we can't let her roam New York. She's a threat to exposure of our kind," Jace explained and Clary's eyes burned with hatred.

"I am not a threat," her voice burned with venom. "I told Simon because I had too. He's my best friend, and I do not have to go anywhere with you. You have no right to take me with you, and you certainly can't make me." Clary exclaimed with a warning tone in her voice. Jace didn't wince at the harshness in her voice as if he was expecting this type of response.

"So what are you going to do?" Jace asked in a tone full of amusement. "Call the police and say you are being kidnapped? The mundane authorities aren't interested if the kidnappers cannot be seen. We aren't real in their world, in their world we don't exist." Clary was about to snap at him but suddenly Simon nudged her. She looked over to him and he jerked his head to the side.

"Fine. Give me one second to talk to Simon." Clary ordered but by the look of Jace's expression it didn't seem like he agreed with her plan. "We won't go far. You can see us if we run away--which we won't." She added, reading his mind. Jace nodded slowly and Simon pulled Clary away, into the crowd where the shadowhunters couldn't hear them but could still see them. "What is it Simon?"

"You need to go with them," Simon revealed and Clary's eyebrows knitted together. Would Simon really make her face the Clave?

"What? No, I can't go with them. They will send me to the Clave!" Clary refused.

"Clary, where will you stay if we escape from them?" Simon pointed out and regretted it when he saw Clary's face twist in sorrow.

"Can't I stay with you?" Clary pleaded, not knowing what Simon was trying to say. Wasn't he going to stick with her and help her until they find her mom? Didn't he promise he would?

"Clary, I would let you stay with me but what about my mom? She's friends with your mom and she will obviously call your house to find out if you are allowed over. What will happen when no one picks up? She will go to your house to find your mom nowhere then involve the police." Clary was about to object but she saw his point. She can't stay with Simon if his mom is involved, but the shadowhunters would take her to the Clave if she went with them.

"But they will send me to the Clave and find out I have the cup. I'll never be able to find my mom or Madeleine!" Clary groaned at the situation.

"I think I have an idea," Simon squinted his eyes and thought a bit before answering.