2 the Institute

After Jake left the three shadowhunters he hurries after Clary, catching a glimpse of her hailing a cab on her way home. To make sure she is OK he goes after her, activating his glamour rune with his own stele and sprouts his dragon wings on his back to fly after the cab.

When Clary arrives at home she immediately goes to talk to her mother about what happened and Jocelyn reveals that they are both shadowhunters by birth and that the protections she put on Clary are wearing off confusing Clary even more.

While they are talking Jake and Dot see circle members in front of the house and they go to Jocelyn to warn her.

"Jocelyn look out the window. They are here, they've found you." Dot says while Clary looks at them with a confused expression asking "Jake, what are you doing here?"

"I followed you to make sure you're OK with what is going on." Jake replies calmly.

"How would you know what happened?" Clary asks confused.

"I was there, in the back of the club." He explains while Jocelyn looks out of the window and sees the circle members coming towards her shop.

"Dot it's time. Listen you can not be near me, I made a very powerful person angry Clary." Jocelyn says and fetches a necklace from a drawer.

"What did you do?" Clary asks shocked.

"I hid something from him and his followers." Jocelyn replies.

"followers? Why don't we just go to the police?" Clary asks scared.

"the police men you need to rely on are Luke and Jake. Keep this with you and think of me when you wear it." Jocelyn instructs while putting the necklace around Clary's neck.

"Jocelyn you know you don't have to do this on your own, I can easily take care of this." Jake tells her.

"Thank you but I've gotta deal with this on my own or it will never stop." Jocelyn replies having made up her mind.

"Only if you need it." Dot tells Jocelyn, handing her a flask with a green liquid inside.

"Dot open it." Jocelyn says and Dot opens a portal behind Clary.

"Everything I've done is because I love you more than words can explain." Jocelyn tells her and moves her daughter over to the portal.

"What are you doing?" Clary asks scared.

"Luke and Jake can explain everything and remember I love you. Jake, get her to the station safely." Jocelyn tells them and Jake comes over taking Clary's hand before walking into the portal, arriving in the middle of the police station.

"You'll know in a bit, let's find my dad first. He can probably explain it in more detail. It's gonna be alright." Jake tells her, hugging her to calm her down.

Captain Vargas then approaches them and asks "Jake, Clary? What are you doing here so late?"

"We just celebrated Clary's birthday and Luke wanted to cook us something special, but since he's been busy we've decided to pick him up." Jake lies.

"Well, he's in the middle of an interview, could take a while." Captain Vargas tells them.

"Alright, thanks. We'll wait in the cafeteria." Jake replies and leaves with Clary to see his dad.

Meanwhile with Jocelyn and Dot

Jocelyn burns down Clary's room to protect her from being tracked before going to fight the circle memebers. Dot manages to delay them a bit before she gets thrown out of the second story window and falls unconscious.

Jocelyn manages to kill 2 of the 4 assailants before she takes the potion dot gave her and then falls unconscious to the floor, protected by a forcefield.

The circle members pick her and their dead comrades up and bring them to Valentine's base where he is shocked to see his wife, hears about Clary and orders his men to get her.

With Jake and Clary

The two teens are standing on the stairs leading to the bullpen where Luke is talking to two circle members.

"The minute we found out Jocelyn Fairchild was alive you were easy to track. Looks like you and Jocelyn never were that far apart. The circle has her now, it's only a matter of time before we catch her daughter." the male circle members tells Luke.

"You can have them both, we only want the mortal cup." the female circle member offers.

"I don't care about either of them, they mean nothing to me. Kill them both if you like. I want the cup for my son, why do you think I've been hanging around all these years? And when I find the cup my son will get it. He's the only one deserving of it and you can tell both Valentine and the circle that." Luke tells them threateningly.

"No one mentioned Valentine." the woman says.

"You didn't have to and now get out of my office!" Luke replies.

Unknown to Luke Clary and Jake heard him and while Jake knows that he's only covering for Clary she doesn't understand it yet and flees the police station, running home.

Jake follows her but she stops and yells at him "Get away from me, I heard what Luke said. He and you are conspiring against my mom!"

"Clary, Luke only said that so those guys won't get suspicious, he didn't mean any of it." Jake tries to explain.

"Shut up, I can't trust you." Clary yells angrily before taking off again headed home, with Jake following her but at a distance where she doesn't immediately see him.

When she arrives at home she sees the damage done to the shop and breaks down, crying and yelling for her mother.

After calming down a bit she arms herself with a double bladed axe that is lying around the antique shop and goes upstairs to search for signs of her mother.

Arriving upstairs she sees Dot waiting for her and drops the axe while Dot tells her "They took Jocelyn."

"Who took her?" Clary asks confused.

"Rogue shadowhunters who are looking for the mortal cup." Dot explains.

"What the hell are you talking about?" Clary asks scared.

"Think Clary, did your mother ever talk to you about a cup? A very important cup. It's gold almost like a callous." Dot asks.

"No I don't know anything about a cup Dot. One of the antiquities downstairs?" Clary asks.

"No not those, think Clary this could save Jocelyn." Dot pressures her.

"I can't think. Someone kidnapped my mother." Clary yells angrily.

"You know more than you think you do Clary Fray." Dot says and moves to attack her.

Clary instinctively stabs her with his stele and Dot falls to the floor and begins to transform into a reptile like demon with whitish scales and jumps at Clary attacking her and manages to cut on her shoulder with one of its fangs.

Clary tries to escape but is trapped between the demon and a wall.

Jake who caught up with Clary comes across this situation and jumps to the axe lying on the floor, grabbing it, causing it to light up before rolling over to the demon and ramming it into the demon's back.

The demon disappears in a burst of flame and Clary tries to catch her breath, when Jace arrives and sees what's happened and looks at Jake with wonder at how he's able to use a seraph weapon since Izzy told him that Jake is a warlock.

"What's going on?" Jace asks them.

"A demon attacked her and managed to wound her, can you help her. I'm not that experienced with runes." Jake asks him, a worried tone in his voice.

"OK, first let's get her back to the institute." Jace agrees.

"Lead the way." Jake replies and picks up Clary who is falling unconscious after complaining weakly "What are you talking about? You're making no sense."

the next evening

Clary is lying in a bed in the institute while Izzy watches over her.

Clary wakes up from a vision and shoots up accidentially bumping heads with Izzy.

"Ow." Izzy says surprised.

"What? I – I don't know you." Clary says scooting back in the bed to put as much distance as possible between them.

"I'm Isabelle. I've never seen Jace so curious about a mundane, or distraced. Like you saw earlier distractions are dangerous in our line of work." Izzy says while Clary is looking around the room confused.

"I have no idea who you're talking about. Who's Jace?" Clary asks confused.

"You really don't know much do you?" Izzy says gently.

"All I know is some psychos took my mother and now you people have taken me." Clary replies scared and distraught.

"And by taken I assume you mean saved your life." Izzy corrects her.

Jace, Alec and Jace come in the room and Alec complains "The mundane shouldn't even be here."

"She's not a mundane." Jake corrects him.

"And where is here exactly?" Clary asks looking at all of them confused, lingering on Jake.

"Isabelle, can you .." Jace asks his sister motioning for her to get off the side of Clary's bed.

"I'm Jace Wayland. You're Clary Fray, we know who you are." Jace introduces himself sitting down on the edge of the bed.

"Am I the only one who finds this unusual?" Alec complains.

"You find everything unusual Alec." Jace tells him.

"I have to report this to the Clave." Alec replies.

"You know what? Dial it down a notch." Jace says.

"My brother doesn't have a dial, I love you Alec but you have a search that is always on." Izzy cuts in relaxing on a sofa in the room.

"You know what? Give us a minute. This will be one of the few times you'll hear me use the word please." Jace asks them and Alec leaves with Izzy and Jake.

"What is with him? There is no such thing as new shadowhunters. And what is he still doing here?" Alec complains to his sister pointing at Jake.

"Hey, I'm standing right here and I've told you already she has always been a shadowhunter. She's just never been introduced to the downworld." Jake says.

"What I find strange brother is why you're so upset. Maybe you're upset by the way Jace is looking at her, you know you should be happy is looking at someone else than himself for a change."

"Maybe I'm pissed because she ruined the mission, we've never found out who's buying the blood.

That was our one job." Alec replies before walking off.

"Hmm he's a stickler for the rules isn't he?" Jake asks.

"Don't take his attitude to heart, he doesn't mean anything by it. But you know maybe he'd be more trusting if you were to tell us your name and how we've supposedly met." Izzy replies.

"Well if you insist. I'm Jake Garroway adoptive son of Luke Garroway of the Brooklyn pack.

And as to how we've met, like I said it was two years ago. There was a case where you've asked the werewolves for help in tracking down a demon who was going to open a portal to get an army to attack the institute. Remember that?" Jake says.

"Yeah, is that how we've met? You're one of the wolves who helped?" Izzy asks curiously.

"No, I've heard about what was going on from Luke and decided to help but when I arrived the demon had already opened the portal and pretty much your whole Institute was under a sleeping spell by a Warlock collaborator." Jake continues to explain.

"I remember that. We still have no idea what happened. We just assumed the portal was flawed and we got lucky." Izzy says.

"Well that is not what happened at all, but that would explain why you don't remember me. Well as I was saying the portal was already opened so I decided to let loose, seeing as there wouldn't have been any other way to safe you guys." Jake tells her.

"Let loose? What your warlock powers?" Izzy questions intrigued.

"Well I don't know how but I'm actually not a full Warlock, I'm a hybrid of pretty much every race since my dad was a Warlock with Shadowhunter ancestors and my mom was a Seelie. According to Luke I'm at least racially speaking an anomaly but I like to think of myself as a dragon since that's pretty much what I look like when I transform myself." Jake explains smiling proudly.

"A dragon seriously? I've never heard of one other than the demon look alike." Izzy asks doubtfully.

Jake sprouts his wings asking her cockily "still doubt me?"

Izzy looks at the wings stunned, touching one carefully whispering "cool" to her self.

Meanwhile Jace explains the general situation to Clary. The existence of Shadowhunters, demons and the other downworlders. And Clary pleads him to help her find her mother to which he agrees.

Clary then gets called by Simon who is standing in front of the church, having tracked her phone and asks her what is going on.

Clary tells him that she'll meet him in 5 minutes and then gets dressed in the clothes Izzy left her, since Clary's clothes were ruined by the demon.

While dressing herself in a short leathery dress Clary sees a rune on her neck and Jace explains what runes do, having thought she'd know about that because of her drawings.

Soon after Clary and Jace go outside the Institute to meet up with Simon, when a circle member confronts them. Jace who is still in glamour along with the circle member fights him and when Jace kills the circle member his glamour drops causing Simon to be shocked and confused while Jace drops his glamour and leads Clary and Simon inside the institute telling them that they are not safe outside.

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