The Other Lightwood. (Jace Herondale.)

#4

Rosalie groaned, opening her eyes and turning her head to the side.

Sitting up, she noticed she was in a cage.

The door to the room the cage was in opened, and a few men, Vampires, walked in.

"Get up." One said.

Rose got up, as they came closer to the cage, opening it.

They both went to grab an arm, but before they could, she brought her fist up, hitting the one guy in the jaw.

After a few hits back and forth, here and there, they were able to grab hold of her arms, and she fought as they took her to the main room.

She saw Jace and Clary first, then the others.

"Let me go." Rose said trying to move to get out of their grip.

She knew then, that it wasn't a good idea, as the one guy took her arm, twisted it backwards, until a pop sounded.

Rosalie groaned holding her arm, as they then let go of her, making her fall to her knees.

Jace and Alec ran over, immediately, after the two guys stepped away.

"Are you okay? " Was the first thing asked, but that quickly died off their lips.

"We need to go back to the institute. Now." Alec said.

"You guys can, I need to find Simon." Clary said.

Just then, Simon was brought into the room.

Rose, being in too much pain to pay much attention, didn't know what was happening until they got outside.

"Here." Jace said coming over to where Rosalie was sitting.

He handed her his stele, making her mumble a thank you, before running it over her iratze rune.

Jace walked over to Alec and Izzy, starting to talk.

"Alec, stop! Just stop." At that, Rose looked over at them, listening to what they where saying.

"I'm older than you, Jace. I'm not in your shadow. "

"If you really feel that way about her, why did you help us tonight?"

"for my sister." Alec mumbled, looking at Jace for a minute, before walking away.

After they all returned back to the institute, they went their separate ways.

Remembering that she never gave Jace his stele back, Rose went to return it.

She paused as she got to his door, before knocking, and getting a 'Come in" after a second.

Walking in, she didn't expect him to be shirtless.

"Jace. I, uh, I wanted to give this back." She said holding out the stele towards him.

Before he could say or do anything, Clary barged in.

"Jace, I need to talk to you about something, it's really... Oh sorry, I, I really should've knocked first." She said seeing Rose, and saying.

"Did I interrupt something?"

"No. " Rosalie said immediately, adding.

"No, I was just returning this." She said handing the stele to Jace before leaving.

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"Magnus Bane. He's over 300 years old. And, as you can see, he's not exactly shied away from the pleasures of every century. His tastes are both exquisite and quite excessive." Hodge started, pulling up pictures.