La Belle Amour ➳ A. L.

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"In the changing wind, it echoes deep. Wearing thin the heart beneath." - Ruelle

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Alec walked over to Izzy who just strode into the institute. "Where the hell have you been?"

"Where I needed to be." She replied coldly. "Away from you and Thea."

"Jace and Clary are on the run. I can't protect you if you don't tell me the truth." He scolded.

"I don't need protecting. Meliorn's alive. That's all that matters."

"Do you think anyone saw you there?" Thea asked knowingly.

Izzy just glared.

She sighed and turned to walk away when she's met face to face with a familiar face.

"Well if it isn't Lydia Branwell. What are you doing here?"

Lydia smiled curtly but her face turned serious again. "I'm sorry about this my old friend." She then stepped past Thea to stand infront of Izzy. Another shadowhunter, Raj, who was one of the guards who took Meliorn to the silent brothers, trailed behind her smugly.

"Isabelle Lightwood, by order of the Clave you are under arrest for high treason."

"What? On what grounds?" Thea questioned.

"Only a handful of people knew about your Meliorn op." Lydia stated.

"And everyone knows she's sleeping with him." Raj added distastefully.

Izzy laughed in disbelief. "You know Lydia, people like you are exactly like Valentine, but at least he had the guts to tell downworlders to their faces that he wanted them all dead. You, you hide behind the law."

"I don't hide behind the law Isabelle, I simply follow it. Because it guards against one very important thing: shadowhunters fighting other shadowhunters." She asserted.

"And you think that's not what's happening now?" Thea chuckled darkly.

"If she is convicted she'll be stripped of her runes and banished." Alec blurted. "I can't let that-"

"Don't" Izzy called as she handed her stele to Raj. "It's not your fight." She finished as Raj led her away, but not before she bumped Lydia's shoulder harshly.

"What do you think you're doing coming in here and just arresting her? I'm the one in charge of this institute." Thea demanded.

"Raj called the Clave. And you're lucky you weren't arrested along with her. The Clave questions you now as well." Lydia sneered.

"Okay stop." Alec broke in from the ongoing cat fight. "I have to come clean about what really happened last night."

"Isabelle was there." said Lydia.

"Yes. And Jace, and Clary, and the vampires and werewolves. They thought they were stopping a war with the downworld"

Lydia sighed her expression softening. "Well they weren't wrong but we had orders." She said as she glanced at Thea.

"And I understand that but I can't let Izzy be exiled for this."

"In the eyes of the Clave she's guilty. How do you propose we get around that?"

Alec walked closer to the two women. "I may have something the Clave wants. I can give them the Mortal Cup."

Thea looked shock. "Alec, you have it? Why didn't you tell me before?"

Alec looked guiltily at her. "I'm sorry it's just that I promised Jace to let Clary be the one to turn it in but now..."

"No it's okay, I get it. He's your parabatai."