quick as lightning

22. Anger issues

Piper had gone through the fourth punching bag today and left eight shadowhunters bruised and weak. She let out an angry shout as she punched through another bag.

"Jesus Piper your going to hurt yourself." Isabelle looked at the girl before her. She was drenched in sweat, her hair in a bun with her stele and knuckles pouring blood as she hung another bag. She began punching and kicking the new bag. "Penelope, stop this." Isabelle pulled the red head off of the bag and sat her down.

"Dear lord what happened to those guys?" Jace looked to the shadowhunters getting healed in the hub.

"And why are there multiple punching bags in the trash can." Clary then noticed the parabatai Who was wrapping Piper's knuckles. Obviously piper wasn't handling things well, and of course the source of her problems joined them.

"I just talked to Maryse, she says that she and Robert are going back to Idris?" Jace asked Alec, who looked a bit worn out. Lydia has him on a leash, walking all across him.

"What." Isabelle looked to Alec angrily. Isabelle clearly hadn't been told of this till now, she wasn't very happy with him either. "Another order from Lydia I presume." The tall man boy looked down.

"Who's lydia?" Jace asked and I turned to him.

"The woman from the conclave, who took over the institute and assumes me to be her second along side.." she trailed off, Isabelle had gotten an earful about her brother and ontop of Lydia's 'orders' for mileorn.

"Hi I'm lydia." Lydia held her hand for Jace to shake which he didn't. "I assume you've told them about us?"

My eyebrows vanished into my hairline. "Us" I repeated. Looking between the two. So this is why Piper had been booted out of decision making, they were now involved.

"Alec and I are getting married." She said and I felt anger welling inside me. Throwing down the leather wraps Izzy had forced me to wear I turned and stomped out of the training room.

Pipers main thought was stupid, which she repeated in her head over and over. She needed to be wheee no one would bother her. If only she could teleport away to some far off country like magnus. Magnus would be the one to talk to right now, distract her with some crazy story.

Fidgeting with her door she began to buck into it as it wouldn't budge. "Stupid fucking door always in the way!" She kicked a hole in it, open mouth in shock at her leg halfway through it. Making sure she didn't get any splinters Piper slowly removed herself and peered through. "Shit." It was decently sized and...singed?

Looking at the edge of where the hole was she noticed that the wood had a burnt look to it, still slightly smoking. How was that possible? Reaching through, piper unlocked the door and went to look at the wood scraps on the floor.

All of the pieces had been reduced to nothing but charcoal. Picking a blacked piece up it crumbled in her hand. "Strange." Piper looked down at her leg, theee was nothing special about it.

Clary and I walked with Luke and the newly vampire Simon. Isabelle called me warning me that Lydia was coming after my twin and I looking for he cup. I thanked her for the heads up as Clary turned to me holding a image of a rune. "It protects from shadowhunters tracking." Clary informed me and I pulled my stele from my hair, letting the air burn red hair ripple around my face before drawing it quickly on my arm and letting her do the same for me.

"We need to go somewhere that nobody can find us, that the clave would never think to look." I thought as I spoke before looking at Simon. "I never thought I'd say it but let's go to the hotel of death." But then she jerked back.