My Father & my Brother (TMI)

Chapter 6.

Clary pov.

After the 'studying' which was interesting but not what I wanted I went to my room and stayed there until Jonathan picked me up for dinner. I have been irritating Valentine as much as possible during our study session and I would say it is successful. He is sitting at the head of the table and looks stressed while eating his food. Me and Jonathan had to sit on both sides of him. We are all eating in silence until I grab my knife and put it right in the table. Valentine looks up at me with an interesting sparkle in his eyes.
"What?" he asks me. I lean back against my chair and cross my arms.
"I think it is unfair." I answer and raise my chin at him. Valentine sighs and rubs his eyes. He looks tired.
"What is unfair, Clarissa." He sighs.
"That you both are sitting here, with weapons and steles." I growl. "Where are mine?"
"Well, when are you going to give the cup?" Valentine shots back. "When I get the cup in my hand, then we can talk about you carrying weapons." I laugh at him and shake my head.
"That is not how we are going to do things." I smirk at him. I see Jonathan looking up at me with one eyebrow up, wondering what I am about to do. "I do not even know for sure why you want the cup, so it is still unfair."
"You do not even know how to use a stele or even a weapon properly." Jonathan comments. I look up at him and sees a daring grin on his lips.
"How would you even know?" I shot back at my older brother. Jonathan straightens his back against his chair, and I do the same. "You never saw me with any weapons, or a stele now did you?"
"Enough." Valentine interferes. "You two already give me a headache." Jonathan's body calms a bit and looks up at me.
"But I still did not get my answer." I tell Valentine while looking at him. He looks back at me while taking a sip of his wine. "What do you want with the cup? What do you want with me?" Valentine sighs and massages his eyes. We probably do give him a headache.
"You do ask a lot of questions, Clarissa." He sighs and Jonathan nods knowingly. I roll my eyes.
"Because I never get an answer." I shot back. "So, answer the questions." Valentine looks up at me with a stern expression.
"Do not demand me to do things, Clarissa." Valentine says with a hard tone in his voice. "I am your father and you must respect me, so do not talk to me in any way like that ever again." I roll my eyes and wave with my hand to gesture that he should go on. He sighs again and shakes his head. "I need the cup to make more Shadowhunters." I frown and lean back in my chair.
"That's it?" I ask him kind of disappointed.
"Do you even know what The Mortal Cup is?" Jonathan asks and I look back at him. "Yes, it can make a shadowhunter out of a mundane, but it also leds to power."
"Power?" I ask. "What do you mean?"
"Power as in leadership." Jonathan explains. "Whoever had the cup, has the power over the Shadow World, everyone must listen to that person." I scoff and cross my arms.
"Hmm, okay." I nod. "What about me?" I ask and look back at Valentine who looks at me like he wants me to shut up. "Why do you need me?"
"You are my daughter, a Shadowhunter." He tells me. "You should've been raised as a true Shadowhunter."
"And we need you." Jonathan adds and Valentine nods. I frown and push my hair back behind my ears.
"Need me?" I ask. "For what exactly?"
"For the war of course, when we make new Shadowhunters." Jonathan nods. "We shall attack the Clave and take their place." I frown even more.
"We only need your mother and then we will rule Idris as a family." Valentine adds this time. I laugh and shake my head.
"Mom will never work along with this." I laugh at him.
"She will, with a good reason." Valentine nods.
"And the good reason is...?" I ask.
"You." Jonathan and Valentine say at the same time. "Your mother wants to protect you, and for that she has to be with you." Valentine finishes.
"So as long as I am here, she will be too." I mumble and they both nod. "I must say, you thought it through." I nod and lean back again.
"Now, may I finish my dinner?" Valentine asks and I nod.

Jace pov.

So now that we know Clary is with her real brother, we can also track him down with the stuff Jocelyn had of him. Magnus tried but it did not work yet. We are also still unable to track Clary which is unfortunate. Jocelyn also still did not wake up, and we still do not know how to wake her up. We keep studying her state and try to figure out how to wake her up, without success... Nothing goes well for us now; we are getting desperate. Magnus says he is trying to track both Jonathan and Clary down every hour and would let us know when he finds something. So, I just hope to hear something from him soon...