hidden feelings//a.l

•chapter eight•

ALEC AND SHAY made their way through the back entrance of the place that Izzy had text them both about.

"All I'm saying Alec, darling, is that you should smile more, because you look good. You can't be moody all the time."

"I can be moody as long as we keep breaking the Clave rules all because Jace can't keep it in his pants."

Izzy overheard her brother's comment and laughed quietly to herself, noticing how Alec was beginning to have more fun, make more snarky comments now that him and her strawberry blonde best friend had admitted their feelings.

"If I didn't know any better brother, I'd say that Shay is rubbing off on you, especially after that comment you just made about Jace."

Alec turned to his sister, with a dead serious look on his face, not appreciating the comment she had made, especially when they were about to take on god knows how many vampires, all while breaking the rules of the Clave.

"We got your text. Where are we exactly?"

"It's an old meatpacker's service entrance -"

"If we go back there, we come up into the basement of the Hotel DuMort."

The siblings turned to look at their favourite person, shocked that she would know something like that. Shay noticed the looks on their faces and just shrugged her shoulders.

"What? I do my research. As much as Izzy enjoys herself when she gets us information like this, I don't trust the Seelies, they like to trick you, so when she sent us the address I made sure it led us where we wanted to go."

Izzy smirked at her best friend, and carried on walking towards the door that led to the basement of the hotel in question, and looked at her brother, who was looking around, not listening to a word anyone was saying.

"Perfect right? We distract the vamps, Clary and Jace have time to find Simon."

"Okay."

"Okay? It was hard work interrogating Meliorn to get this intel."

"Izzy be quiet, we both know you enjoyed yourself a lot more then you're letting on."

"That's not the point Shay, it was still hard work."

Alec turned to smirk at his sister, still pissed that they were on this mission in the first place.

"Great job Izzy. You have faerie dust on your dress. And I hate being the distraction."

As Alec walked off, still in his mood, Shay and Izzy turned to each other smirking, both of them knowing that they had mastered the art of distraction.

"We don't."

The comment made Alec frown even more, he hated it when Shay was the distraction, he got extremely jealous when any other person (specifically the men) touched his strawberry blonde beauty, and he'd be damned if he let her be the distraction anymore. Izzy noticed how quiet and easy it was getting into the hotel and decided it was the best time to tease the couple in front of her.