Raised From Hell

Chapter 6

Chapter 6:

CLARY POV:

It's the one thing that I haven't told anyone yet. I'm not sure why I didn't mention I found my brother to Jace. I guess I was just sick of all the dramatic revelations.

But it also probably had to do with the fact that I didn't want anyone to think of my mother badly even though it turned out my mother wasn't the amazing women I always thought she was. She was always a little bit loopy. But then again who isn't.

When I was released, social services had looked up if I had any living relatives. My brother Jonathan popped up in the system. My mother had some serious mental health problems when she was a teenager, due to drugs and alcohol. But it had just gotten worse after my father knocked her up. When she found out she was pregnant with Jonathan she changed into a horrible person.

She kept taking drugs because she didn't want the baby in the first place. When he was born my mother became extremely paranoid. Not paranoid as in, oh something is going to hurt my new born baby. No she was paranoid that 'Demons' had possessed her child. She couldn't understand why the child had such black eyes. Why it looked so sickly and horrid.

In a report she gave the social workers when filling out all the paper work to give him up for adoption she had said that something was wrong with him. He would never cry, never complain, wouldn't make a sound. Of course it was because of all the drugs she had taken while pregnant with him.

It had gone into his system rather than food. She had hardly eaten because the drugs had made her feel full, so she figured she didn't need to. Doctors had said it was a miracle he had survived.

One of the social workers named Luke, turned out to be an old friend of my mothers. Though Valentine refused to let her go near him as his father was a police officer, he always kept an eye on her.

He told me that a few years after Jonathan was born she had cleaned up her act and so had Valentine. She started to get prescription meds for her psychological problems and both she and valentine had stopped with the drugs. They got jobs and eventually got married, so Luke decided to move on with his life as well. He never knew Jocelyn fell pregnant again. With me.

After finding his number, Luke called my brother. It was a shock to Jonathan as well. Not only did he have a sister. But his parents were dead.

Jonathan accepted me with warm, open arms. And he truly was a terrific person. You would never imagine he had grown up in foster homes until he was four. Yes he had one or two medical problems but not more than any average person would have.

Granted I don't know what his eyes were like before, but I can imagine. Whereas now he has a slight green tinge to that black abyss. He has fair skin and a sharp looking face yet not sickly more like deadly, as if, if you were to touch it. You would be cut. He was fairly masculine as well not the body of a druggie of any kind.

Though he has a rough exterior, he has a kind heart. At the moment he's studying on a full scholarship to become a primary school teacher.

I'm proud of him. Though I would never admit it out loud I look up to him. He is a great person that overcame so much. He's everything I'm not.

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Time Skip

IZZY POV:

As I lay in bed next to Simon I stare at the ceiling. I'm not really listening to what he's saying all I can think about is that horrible feeling in my gut that I get every time I see Clary talking to Simon. I know this feeling. I get it whenever Simon talks about Maia too.