ꜰʀᴀʏᴇᴅ |ᴀ.ʟ.| ꜱʜᴀᴅᴏᴡʜᴜɴᴛᴇʀꜱ ꜰᴀɴꜰɪᴄᴛɪᴏɴ {ᴛʜᴇ ᴄᴀᴍɪʟʟᴇ ꜰᴀɪʀᴄʜɪʟᴅ ᴛʀɪʟᴏɢʏ #1}

{𝔹𝕣𝕠𝕜𝕖𝕟}

I know it's been a hot minute since I updated this but, honestly, after writing imagines for so long it feels weird to write in first person again.

But.

I'm back with another chapter so, hopefully, you will enjoy this and continue to support this story as much as my imagines

ily

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"What is this place?" Simon asks as Jace leads us through to the main room, adorned with huge, high tech monitors and a smattering of people clad in black swarming around the room like bees, "There's a lot of gear in here. What'd they do, rob a tech shop?"

Simon continues to ramble on to Clary as Jace comes to a sudden stop by a large screen, adjusting one of the monitors before clicking a bunch of buttons on it, then swiping up a live security footage of police officers roaming around outside the building.

"Won't they find us?" I ask Jace, cutting through Clary's explanation to Simon of demons and Shadowhunters

"No" Jace replies, "Our wards will deter them. And the NYPD will do their typical mundie thing for a few hours and then the area will be clear"

"What is going on?" A voice from behind me demands

I turn on the spot, instantly spotting Alec's looming figure behind me, disapproving expression and all.

"Why is there a mundane in the institute?" Alec continues, looking over at Simon, the dissatisfaction only becoming stronger in his tone

"A Circle member followed him here to get to Clary and Cami" Jace sighs, tone on par with Alec's

"What exactly is a Circle member and why are they trying to kill us?" Simon asks, not any less confused then when he'd found our home trashed and us missing.

"All we know is...a long time ago the Circle led a revolt" Jace explains, "A lot of Shadowhunters got killed...including my father"

My head snaps to Jace's face, a willing distraction, I'll admit, considering I had been staring at Alec the entire time.

His father had died in a Shadowhunter vs Shadowhunter war?

And I thought my life was tragic.

"And since the revolt we've been forbidden to even hear about the Circle" Alec continues to explain and my eyes draw back to his face a little too eagerly, as if magnetised. Alec's eyes are already on me when I turn to face him but he looks away quickly as I meet his eye.

Clary, more interested in backstory than in the cute guy, continued with her persistent questioning, "But, how is that even possible? It's your history."

"Says the girl who didn't know she was a Shadowhunter?" Jace scoffs, following Alec to another set of monitors where I notice Isabelle sitting, swivelling around in her chair, checking each monitor thoroughly.

"Yeah. Yeah, you're right" Clary snaps, a hard edge to her voice, "And now the only person who knows the truth is missing, so I don't care about your rules or what's forbidden, I'm...There's gotta be someone out there who can tell me...tell us why they've taken our mother"

"There is" Jace prophesies, moving from Alec's side and past Clary and I "You coming?"

"Yeah" Clary agrees, taking my wrist and pulling her with me. As we move closer to the room Jace is leading us towards, a pain in my shoulder flares up and I feel myself getting light-headed and nauseous.

"No, no, no" Jace stops in tracks, raising his hand to Simon, who was following us, "Not you"

"Hey, the three of us are a package deal" Clary insists, earning a smug 'Yeah' from Simon