"Hey sorry I'm late captains got me on the demonic murders" I hear a voice say out in the kitchen. Clary and I are still in my room doing our hair. I quickly run out of my room and straight into Luke's arms.

"Luke" I squeal while hugging him. Luke is the closest thing I have to a dad.

"Hey kid" he says pulling back from the hug and ruffling my hair. I groan playfully pushing his hand off my head.

"I just did the hair Luke" I joke. Clary finally makes it out into the living room and gives Luke a hug too. He pulls out a container of spray paint.

"I got you these" he says as she picks them up.

"Their perfect" she breathes out. Clary is planning on using them on Simons van. We're insisting that they change the band name.

"If I catch any of that on city walls" he points at us. "I will arrest you" clary opens her mouth to explain that she is going to put it on the van but he interrupts her. "And yes I'm talking to you aurora"

"It happened one time, Luke" I smile at him. He goes to ruffle my hair again but I grab his wrist causing him to smile and pull me in for another hug.

"The paint is for Simons van" clary explains to Jocelyn and Luke. She throws and arm around my shoulders. "We're insisting they rename the band"

"Oh yes please" Jocelyn sighs taking a sip of her tea. Luke points to the stele in my boot and to the stele in clary's pocket, looking relieved.

"Did your mom talk to you guys about those" clary pulls hers out and we look at it. I look back up at luke after examining the stele.

"The heirlooms? Yeah their beautiful" me and clary say at the same time. We do that sometimes and to be honest it kind of freaks me out.

"You're 18 now" his sentence is interrupted by clary.

"Guys I'm 18 it's not like I'm heading on some epic journey" clary tries to reason. I sigh I really hope they don't act this way on my 18th birthday in a couple of weeks.

"Oh but you are" Simon says putting an arm around me and clary's shoulders. "We are going out to eat after the show" 

"Why don't you come back here after"Jocelyn tries to convince us. "The city is not that safe right now" 

"Thanks joce but we're set" I say giving her a hug. I turn and give Luke a hug too. I whisper in his ear "luke  if I come back and Jocelyn doesn't have a ring we're gonna have a talk" I joke with him patting his shoulder.
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"Mom is so over protective lately" clary says leaning her head on my shoulder. I sigh I had noticed she was really overprotective lately too.

"Yeah I know" I breathe out. Simon, clary,Maureen and I are sitting on top of Simons van talking.

"Well maybe she's just defending you" Simon tries to reason with us while using his guitar as a pointer.

"Defending us from what" I ask Simon. Clary nods her head.

"Yeah, we spend all day in a studio" clary says Agreeing to my statement. "Our lives couldn't get more mundane" I nod my head at her statement. She's right I spend most of the day in a dance studio and she spends most of the day in an art studio.

" besides we don't know much from when she was young" I say to Maureen considering Simon already knows this. She shakes her head.

"So do what I do and get dirt from your relatives" that struck a cord for me. I don't know who my dad is and my moms dead, so I don't have any relatives but then again neither does clary. I stay quiet while clary answers Maureen. Simon must have noticed my discomfort because he grabs my hand and gives it a reassuring squeeze. I return his gesture with a smile letting him know that I appreciate it.

"Well I would if I could" clary says messing with a piece of string. "But she doesn't have any"

This shocks Maureen. She starts listing off relatives each one making me sadder. "No aunts, uncles, third cousins twice removed?" She ask to which clary shakes her head no.

"No just me my mom and this goof" clary says putting an arm around my shoulders.

"Yeah that's why the Lewis clan always adds four chairs to every event" Simon nods "one for Jocelyn, one for aurora, one for clary, and one for Elijah"

"Yes of course" we all nod agreeing with Simon.

"You don't think that's a bit weird" Maureen asks clary and I. "You not knowing anything about you family" she pauses for dramatic effect " your mom could be hiding some deep dark secret" I laugh out loud Jocelyn could never hiding anything from clary and I.

"It's not possible" I say and clary nods and finishes for me.

"Yeah she cant hide anything from us." She says retracting her arm from my shoulders. "We always find out"
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"So you went on stage as champagne enema tonight" i say to Simon and Maureen as we stand at the back of the van. Maureen nods her head with A look of disgust.

"What were we thinking" Maureen sighs. Honestly who thought of that band name it's awful.

"But now" Simon says pointing his finger up at the sky. "We're rock solid panda" I laugh. out of all the band names they choose rock solid panda.

"Rock solid panda coming up" clary says shaking a can of spray paint. "I'm feeling inspired."

We follow clary around the side of the van and sit there for half an hour as she paints. She finishes up with one last spray and steps back admiring her work.

"What's that tag?" Simon asks pointing out the strange symbol at the top.

"I don't know I didn't even realize I drew that." She pauses and I take the time to examine the symbol. I remember seeing that on the stele. I decide to keep that to myself for now.

"You know they have confirmed cases of people waking up and speaking French." Maureen says but then shortly continues "and they've never even studied the language"

Clary looks at me and makes a face but I can't quite put my finger on it. I shrug at her. I was about to walk away when someone bumped into my shoulder.

"Can you watch where you're going?" I ask the muscular blonde guy that bumped into me. Out of the corner of my eye I see clary come over to my side.

"You can see me?" The blonde asks genuinely shocked. I laugh at the look on his face. He's human how could I not see him.

"That's kind of the point, but you obviously didn't see her" I put a hand on clary's shoulder that way she doesn't freak out on him. He bumped into me, it was an accident.

"You have the sight" he says almost more to himself than to us.

"The what?" Me and clary say at the same time. I give her a brief glance. I think it's creepy when we do that.

"How could I not know who you are?" He asks himself. Clary and I look at each other. Was he really trying to hit on us.

"Has that line ever worked" I say putting my hand on my hip. He gives clary and I a smirk.

"Jace" a voice yells from the crowd. The blonde spares us one last glance and then hurried off towards the person calling his name.

"Can you believe that blonde dude?" I ask Simon and Maureen when me and Clary walk back over to them.

"You mean the imaginary dude you were talking to?" Simon asks me while rolling up his sleeve. I turn to clary and give her a confused look. He was standing right there.

"No the guy running into the club" clary tries to reason. This whole situation is making me feel crazy.

"There's no one there" Maureen adds,
joining the conversation.

"No the guy covered In tats" I persist. I know he was there. I have a witness too. "Okay, could you stop making me feel insane"

"Well then stop acting like it" Simon comments. Clary suddenly unzips her hoodie and throws it at Simon.

"Where are you going?" Simon yells at us as we walk towards the club.

"To get some answers" I yell back at him.

"Remember your fake ID's suck" Simon yells back at our retreating figures.
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"I'm gonna go fail at getting us some birthday drinks" Simon yells over the loud music in the club.

"I'll help" Maureen says walking away with Simon. They'd be a cute couple I think to myself. Me and clary begin to make our way towards the blonde but I can't shake the feeling that someone is watching us. We squeeze our way through sweaty bodies all of them dancing to the beat. We follow the blonde to a restricted area that's blocked by a curtain. We both grab an arm of a guy that's about to go in.

"Someone works out" clary comments to the man. His eyes suddenly flash a bright blue color.

"Cool contacts" I breathe out. The contacts are captivating.

Once we get in I see the blonde talking to a brunette lady. Suddenly he pulls out a blade ready to murder her.

"Watch out" I hear clary yell from beside me. She rushes out towards the brunette and pushes her out of the way.  When the brunette looks back at us she has tentacles.

"Careful" the blonde yells pushing clary out of the way. I rush over to her and help her up. "Are you hurt?" The blonde asks us. Out of nowhere he gets punched in the face sending his blade my way. I catch it mid air and send it straight through someone charging at me. I get a surge of energy run through as I see the man disappear into dust. I back up scared of the feeling I got. I killed someone and it felt good. I stumble backwards and feel myself hit something. I feel hands grab my shoulders and spin me around to face them. I look up and see a man with tentacles on his face just like the brunette lady. Suddenly the man dissolves into dust. Behind the cloud of dust is a man. He's tall and has tattoos on him similar to the ones on the blonde. He gives me a strange look and then pushes me behind him to stab another person. I see clary run out so I follow her. I push myself out of the curtain and begin to follow clary. As I'm pushing myself in between the sweaty people I bump into an Asian man with cat like eyes. Time seemed to slow down as he stared at me. A flash of him with a blue cloud around his hand flashes in my mind but as soon as it shows up it's gone. I back up away from him and continue to chase clary. I finally catch up to her and we get in a cab to go home. I rest my head on the window thinking about today's events. I killed someone today and it felt good. I shudder thinking about it. I just need to get home and tell Jocelyn what happened. She'll know what to do. She always does. The cab stops at the store and clary and I rush up to the loft.

"Mom, mom!" Clary calls once we stumble into the loft.

"What? What happened?" She asks sitting down her cup of tea and striding across the living room to us.

"There were these guys and...and they had tentacles coming out of there faces then... then they just vaporized" I say out of breath. "I mean we were drugged right?"

"What did the markings look like?" Jocelyn asks me. Is she serious? I murdered a guy and she's worried about the guys tats.

"Who cares mom!" Clary exclaims. "I mean aurora thinks she killed someone" I stay silent at clary's comment. I don't want to think about it right now or ever really.

"Did they look like this?" Jocelyn asks. I pull my head up from my hands and look at her. She pulls up her sleeve and runs a stele of her arm. Markings like the blonde guy had appear on her arm. I literally think I might pass out right now.

"Am I going insane?" I ask looking in between clary and Jocelyn. That's it The trains stopped in crazy town, next stop psycho city.

"No, no your not" Jocelyn sighs shaking her head. "But the protections are wearing off, you need to know the truth" she says to clary and I. Do you think you can check yourself into a mental facility I think.

"What are you talking about Mom" clary stutters out.

"You're scaring the hell out of me, joce" I say looking down at my shaking hands.

"I know" she practically shouts. "And that's why I have put this off until the last possible second"

"Jocelyn look out the window" I jump at the sound of dots voice behind me. "Magnus called to warn us" she sighs " they found you"

Jocelyn hurries over to the window. She sighs when she sees whoever dot was talking about.

"Dot it's time" Jocelyn calls walking away from the window. "Kids" Jocelyn says putting her hands on our shoulders. "You can not be near me I got a very powerful person angry"

"What" clary stutters out.

"Please  say the mafia" I sigh. This causes Jocelyn to give me a sad smile. She always said I had a knack for turning sad situations funny.

"Mom why can't we call the police?" Clary says quickly. Jocelyn turns clary around sticking a necklace around her neck.

"The police men you need to call is luke" Jocelyn says to me knowing I'm closer to luke than clary is. I nod my head at her letting her know that I was going to do what she said.

"Only if you need it" dot says handing Jocelyn a bottle with green liquid inside of it. Clary's eyes grow as big as saucers when she sees it.

"Trust your instincts" Jocelyn says to clary and I. "Your more powerful than you know" Jocelyn turns to dot. "Dot open it."

At Jocelyn's command dot sticks her hand up. I'm shocked when I see a purple cloud in thee middle of the room. Oh my god forget psycho city we've moved on to delusional district. Jocelyn pulls clary and I in front of the cloud.

"Luke will explain everything" Jocelyn says quickly. This is getting crazier by the second. "He'll hide you from the circle he's the only one you can trust, trust no one else"

"Mom I don't..." clary trails off. Jocelyn starts to shake her head.

"Where's luke now?" Jocelyn shouts at us.

"Uhh Uh the police station" I stutter out. Before I know it Jocelyn pushes back into the cloud muttering an I love you before she disappears completely.
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Yay can't wait for her to officially meet the shadowhunters.

Luke or Simon?