City of Heavenly Fire: TMI

Chapter 7

Sebastian and Clary appeared in a cell, where he tossed Clary. It had three stone walls and an iron bars with no door on it. "Not escaping from me this time." He touched his ring again and appeared outside the door. He was confident, no, willing to be this Infernal Cup that she couldn't escape. He had had it tested against every weapon he thought that any shadow hunter could use, supposing any of them could ever make it here. He chuckled.

He stood there and watched Clary. She looked so beautiful while sleeping.

'Soon she will be mine' he thought. He stood there for hours, watching her sleeping figure. The rune he had put on her should be wearing off in an hour or so. He turned to leave. He would have to come back later, he had important business to attend to. He traipsed up the stairs, wishing he could be in the dungeons with Clarissa. He walked for minutes that seemed to stretch into hours before he entered his office.

He sat behind his desk in the big leather chair specially for him. As he was about to review the plans for the next phase, a demon burst through the door. "Sir, I have the report on the progress of Phase 1."

"Excellent. How is it going?" He asked, rubbing his hands together. He had finally been able to rearrange his plans to accompany the slight change. Jace, even though it delayed my plans I must thank you. You have suddenly made all my plans possible. Upsetting Clary actually made everything fall into place. But he could be the undoing of everything. Well he shouldn't worry, Jace is out of the picture, soon will be any memory of him.

"Not to well, he wont talk. He refuses to tell us what we want to know."

"Have you tried the demon metal?"

"Not yet, but you said that was a last resort. There is still more before we get there. But I really came here to tell you he is growing weak. He is losing the will to resist. Soon he will tell us what we need to know."

"Then we can set Phase 2 into motion."

The demon raised an eyebrow, or what would have been. "You got the girl?"

"It wasn't a problem. She didn't even see it coming." He stopped and looked back down at his work. He kept working for a few minutes. He glanced up, glaring at the demon still there. "Well, what are you waiting for?" He snapped "Get lost...."

"He was interrupted yet again as the door flew open. Before the demon could speak he slammed his fist on the table. How many interruptions was he to tolerate. "WHAT? Make it good or you loose your head." he hissed

The demon gulped and started trembling. 'What a pathetic lot' thought Sebastian.

"She's awake sir." Before the demon could say anymore, Sebastian hurtled himself over his desk and pelted out of the office. His princess was finally awake. And there was no one else stopping her from becoming his.

He ran to the dungeon and stopped outside, recollecting himself. Finally, everything was falling into place.

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Clary awoke with a pounding headache. She slowly attempted to sit up, but the movement had made spots appear in her vision causing her to almost pass out. She laid back down, trying to remember where she was and how she had gotten there. She laid for minutes thinking, when suddenly it all came back.

The rush of memories pounded against  her skull, making her feel worse. She didn't care. Jace was gone and she couldn't get him back. She clutched the Morgenstern ring to her chest, breathing coming out in short gasps. Magnus had betrayed her. She just couldn't believe it. What had happened between Alec and Magnus to make him become like this.

Her thoughts were interrupted by a piercing male scream. It made her stand up, battle instincts king in. She reached for a blade and was surprised to see there was none. She realized all the blades on her person had been taken as well as her stele. She felt the stele that she had shoved in her boot, hope flooded through her.

"Ah ah ah!" The male voice said. It made shivers run up her spine and made her eyes blur over with rage. "Hand it over." He smiled widely at her. "I can't believe they were so careless."

All the hope she had been feeling had, leaving behind just pure rage that filled her soul. She took out the stele slowly, waiting for the perfect moment. She approached the cell wall, holding the stele in her right hand, as he held out a hand for the stele. She was about to put it in his hand when, out of the blue, she changed directions and aimed the stele at this heart. Before she had even broke the fabric he had gripped her wrist. He held her wrist in an iron like grip, squeezing tighter, resulting in the stele falling from her hand and clattering on the floor.

He shook his head slowly. He was hoping it wouldn't have to come to this but she had left him with no choice. He slowly twisted her wrist, watching with an odd satisfaction as her face went from a grimacing at the pain to gasping as he slowly broke her wrist. He heard a sickening crack and dropped her wrist. She immediately grabbed it, cradling it with her other hand.

A few tears had escaped her eyes but it wasn't enough to stop the inferno of rage building up inside her, in fact it was only fuel to the flame. She dropped her bad wrist and ran forward to punch him. She knew she wouldn't have been able to do much, especially with just her left hand, but she needed to do something. She couldn't just let him get away with it. SH hit him a few times, almost breaking his jaw. He suddenly grabbed her wrist and pulled her towards him so their bodies were pressed together through the bars.

The scream echoed throughout the dungeon, making Clary jump. He pulled her closer, if that were possible. "Shhh. Your love shall protect you."

"HE CAN'T YOU KILLED HIM" She screamed at him trying to let out some of the pent of frustration and anger. But it didn't help. Just like the pain, it had only increased her desire for Sebastian's blood.  

"I'm your love, darling." he said calmly ignoring her yelling and anger

"I will never, ever, be your love." She hissed at him. He roughly he pushed her backwards, causing her to fall painfully on her already broken wrist. She screamed out in pain. She dimly heard the others screams mingle with her. She finally regained control to see Sebastian smirking at her. The angry fire within her was starting to build again.

"You here the start of Phase 1" he said. The screaming continued in the background but Sebastian carried on as if it were nothing more than the birds chirping. "You will be key to what comes next, even of you don't know it. But never forget that I'm doing all this fro you, darling." He hissed the last word, his smirk widening into the stuff of nightmares. "Have fun down here alone ." he said as he turned on his heel. Snuffing out the candle on his way, he left her to the darkness, her thoughts, her anger and the mysterious male screams.