City of Secrets

Chapter 4

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Izzy angrily stormed up to Simon and pushed him hard against the wall, "This is all your fault!"

"Izzy please, you don't know what Camille would have done if I hadn't answered the phone", Simon said his heart aching.

"Like you couldn't have used your magic against her", Izzy said bitterly.

Jace and Clary immediately rushed to Izzy and pulled her off Simon and Clary took Izzy out of the room to an empty room to talk.

"Izzy! How can you do that to Simon?"

"Why are you taking his side? You're supposed to support me!"

"You didn't see Simon's nightmares about Camille, if you had you would understand why he's so scared of her".

"What did she do to him?"

"I only know what I heard him say when he had his nightmares and I'm sorry I can't tell you without his permission. But it was so bad Iz I was really scared for him. We've been best friends for years and he still won't open up to me", Clary said sadly.

Izzy put her head in her hands, "I wish I hadn't treated him like that I didn't realize how awful she was to him. I need to apologize I just hope he'll forgive me".

Clary gently took Izzy's hands away from her face and rested her forehead on hers, "Simon's a very forgiving person, I'm sure he'll forgive you".

Izzy smiled gratefully at Clary and she smiled back, Clary took her hand and lead her back to the room. They were glad to see that Raj had been taken to the infirmary as he was in bad shape, but when they entered Alec's room it was complete chaos. Maryse and Jace were yelling at each other, while Magnus was trying to comfort a very upset Simon. Clary immediately rushed to Simon and joined Magnus in trying to comfort him.

"The warlock needs to be punished for this, he should be locked up!"

Simon flinched at this and felt a stab of pain in his heart, he did so much for Maryse over the years and they had even become friends. He couldn't believe she was treating him like this, that she really wanted him locked up. Simon had lived for an extremely long time and had had to live through many betrayals, but it still hurt each time. He was still reeling from Dot's and now Maryse. How many more people would betray him?

"Maryse, the warlock has a name it's Simon and we have already told you it wasn't his fault! Don't you realize how much you sound like Robert right now?" Jace shouted. Jace was so angry, how could Maryse think this way? Jace knew that if it came down to it, he would do anything to protect Simon from Maryse.

"How dare you compare me to Robert-"

"Mom Jace is right, Camille would have badly hurt Simon if he hadn't answered her you know what she is like. We need to be finding a way to save Alec not shouting at each other!"

Simon looked at Izzy in surprise and felt hope, it had hurt so much when he thought he was losing her, but Izzy had stood up to Maryse for him maybe he hadn't lost her after all.

Maryse visibly deflated and tears started to form in her eyes, "I just want Alec back".

"We all do mom, but you can't treat Simon like this it's wrong".

There was a few minutes of tense silence and Maryse looked at Simon, Simon returned her gaze and just as he hoped she would apologize Maryse stormed angrily out of the room. Izzy sighed and Jace moved to follow her but Izzy stopped him. Jace gave her a confused look but Izzy shook her head.