MOVED TO MYRICDS

IT DOESN’T TAKE MUCH TO KNOW THAT JACE WOULD BE WARY OF HIS suggestion ; despite him having been the one to push and push for Clary to join them. It doesn’t take much either to sway him to his side; a soft reassurance there and a promise that no harm would come to his sister was easily enough all it took. ( Although he’s sure, the reminder that the faster he finished his errands, the sooner he’d be able to get back to them. ) And with that, the other boy was out of the apartment, leaving Clarissa with him all on her own. 

Not that he thinks she would have found it all preferable considering she had only decided to join them for Jace. 

Not him. 

A CLICK OF HIS JAW AND HE TRIES TO IGNORE THE GRATING ANNOYANCE that runs a line down his spine like fire. An impulse ignored as he hears her foot steps coming out of Jace’s room. A page turned in between breaths from one of the local newspapers he’d conjured for his morning. The mundane world was always interesting to read about ; their concerns from fashion to business to world disasters always feeling so minuscule when you understood the reality of it all. A war was coming and they were none the wiser. 

    “ Good morning, Clarissa. I’m sure Jace left an assuring note on his bedside table for you. Breakfast? “ 

He asks, barely looking up from the paper as he turned another page. Hearing how close her heart beat was but her still barely within his view. She could sneak around the apartment as much as she liked. Nothing happened within its walls without him knowing. 

it had taken her a moment to remember where she was when clary had awoken in a strange bed. yet another to realize she was alone where she hadn’t been the previous night. comforted by the presence of the delicate faerie ring on her finger, and the familiar scrawl of jace’s handwriting, she’d made her way toward the kitchen to find some caffeine. 

now, as the tendrils of sleep still cling to her form, keeping her mind slightly groggy and less perceptive than she’d like to be, clary startles at the sound of her brother’s voice. her heart beats hard enough to echo in her ears the fear that she should feel with every moment she remains in this place. sebastian is not someone she should underestimate --- this she knows. but she’d agreed to come here to save jace, and despite every other risk at hand, that’s exactly what she intends to do.

she works to calm herself before stepping into the room, offering no more than a nod at the mention of jace’s note ( and wondering idly if the bond between the two boys means he knows even what it says ), and clears her throat as if to dash away the remnants of sleep from her voice.  

∑ - Isabelle had been nothing but rude to the newest recruit, but that was all to hold back the jealousy, Jace looked at her like a real life Angel, no one looked at Izzy like that, she was meat, Clary was a beaming light. She wanted the life Clary had, oblivious and ignorant of the pain and torment of a shadow world that Izzy was born into. A family that wasn’t even together, her parents fighting, her brother gone, her other brother unable to come out without fear to their parents, and an adoptive brother that was tied to Valentine and Johnathan’s plans. She never thought she’d open up, even a little bit, to Clarissa Morgenstern Fairchild, apologise to being snarky towards her. But it was time, the girls needed to band together, if there was strife between them, it would only cause future problems. A hand softly gripped the paler teens hand, softly with a regretful look in her eyes. “I’ve been mean in the past, I’m sorry Clary, I know you want it to be different, but this is the life we’ve been handed. You joining late, me growing up in this world. I understand, if anyone hurt Alec, I don’t think I could handle losing another brother. I wouldn’t be able to move, the thought of Alec in pain already makes me feel sick. Just please, awareness is key, I can even help you train. Let me help you, not put you down any longer.” 

Alec: [snorts]