Clary POV
I heard someone calling my name. I turned around and saw Max (Maryse and Robert's)
"Clary" he said solemnly
"Max." I said running and embracing him. He seemed smaller than from reminder but he was short for his age, even being as young as he was. "You need to be careful, Reading mystery manga comics never prepared me for what my fate had for me. His planning something, by the end there is going to be no one left. My family can't be endured with that." He said protectively. "What do you mean? Sebastian?I promise you Max I will kill him for what he did to you, to others. Your family miss you, they longing for you. Even I am at times being the newly friends we were." I said trying to make him not feel so lonely. "You think I lend my Manga to anybody. He picked up my Manga once, I got angry that he read my manga. I never got angry when you read it." He said smiling. Being as young as he was. He still tried to be the strongest one out of him and Clary. He was certainly succeeding. Then he was gone. "Max! I will avenge you, I'm sorry for what my connections lead to you. You were much more a shadowhunter than I. " I hoped that wherever he went to that he would have heard that. Known that he was loved and that he will be avenged.
My eyes opening barely, but opening reveal a lounge area inside the institute. Alec and Izzy were sharing a lounge, Izzy taking up most of the space she was staring at Alec. It was like they were communicating. Maybe it was a common thing with siblings, that was something I would never know. On another was Simon. In visible view was the Parabatai rune on his lower neck/shoulder picking at his fingernails. Magnus was in a cushioned chair dozing and then julting awake. Jace beside my lounge on the floor. Waiting, his eyes tired but fixed on me.
"Clary -"
"Jace. Where's Simon?" Disappointed but before he could give an answer, Simon spoke for himself
"I'm here. Your okay." He said all heroic. 'Of course she would ask for her Parabatai now. He mattered a lot now after all. He mattered before but there was no promise before, only responsibility' Jace thought.
"Your okay?" Clary said wearily
"Yes, but your the one -" Simon hesitated.
"What happened?" Simon asked
At that they all leaned in.
Clary sat up with Jace's assistance. Her ribs hurt. She lifted her shirt up and there was a rune, it was pulsating.
"What in the Angel is that?" Jace said, he was smoothing his finger over it back and forth. Clary's vision blurred and she remembered what happened. Her brother was back alive. It was worse enough seeing the Heavenly Fire burn away the evil and see her true brother and see him die, without getting a chance to know him. Yet he returning somehow and not even being the decent side. The side that she would have given the chance to know her real brother. Her eyes blurred more and before she could hold them in tears started streaming down. She wanted to hold it back, but the more she tried to control it the more the water ran.
"Sebastian -" she managed to say when Jace was embracing her in a protective hug. Trying to shield her, wanting every inch of her body to be warmed by his touch. To keep her safe.
"How is he alive? I'm sorry to bring this up but what did you see?"
"You guys didn't see?" She asked sensitively.
"No. We didn't Biscuit." Magnus said solemnly
"While in the ceremony. I got pushed out of the circle and I couldn't get up. He weighted me down and cut my Parabatai Rune. He was angry that he hadn't arrived sooner to stop it all. Obviously he cut the rune too late."
"Yeah. It didn't have an effect." Simon said showing his rune. They smiled at each other. A comforting smile that he would have given Parabatai or not. He knew Clary inside and out even before the ritual.
"He didn't want us to be Parabatai. He said that I was being disloyal to him." Clary thought she was going to be sick.
"You are not like some Proda Handbag with a engraved label on you. He doesn't own you Clary." Isabelle said. She lost everyone at the mention of 'handbag'.
"He wanted my blood, which he got. He said he was binding me to him." Clary got up from the lounge. She couldn't stand everyone wide eyed like waiting for her to tell them a 'once upon a time story'. This wasn't a fairytale, this was her life. Their life's. Clary knew that wasn't their intention but she didn't want to retell everything. Her tone of voice was trembling each time she said something. She hated being weak for what felt like all the time. She went to a glass wall which acted like a mirror and looked at her neck.
"It's healed."
"Clary, we never saw a cut on your neck." It was Isabelle. Her voice gentle but it was her attempt at it.
"Clary." It was Magnus. "There has been a couple of mentions of a situation like this for a Parabatai Ceremony. One going -"
"You think I'm crazy?" Clary spun around disbelief in what she was hearing. "You think everything that I said was a lie!" Anger rose from her voice.
"No. If you let me finish I was going to say that this had happened after the ritual was over. Therefore it was nothing to do with the ceremony. I believe you biscuit." Magnus said sadly.
There was suddenly too many eyes on her. She felt exposed even though she physically wasn't.
Jace paced quickly over to her and held her protectively.
"We believe you. I'm sorry that I couldn't do anything to help. We couldn't see him. If I did I would have tore him from limb to limb." He whispered quietly. She shook violently in his arms uncontrollably.
PANG, they all turned toward the window. Alec opened it, a letter flew at Clary's feet. The green coloured paper indicated -
"It's from the Faire folk. Once you read it it will burn to flames and never be able to read it again." Isabelle exclaimed
Clary held the letter which they all hurdled around. The stamp was from the Verlac Family.. And they wouldn't be reaching out to them. Therefore it had to be from; Sebastian.
A/N; I hardly do these at the end but just wanted to get your input. Do you think these chapters need to be longer. Because I'm typing and typing and when I overlook it, it doesn't appear a lot. And if you guys have any suggestions on what you would like to see, comment somewhere and I will reflect on it. Cheers,
Ciena
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