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Alisha is still sitting in her cell, her legs pressed to her chest as she rocks back and forth slightly. Suddenly, she sees Jace and Valentine step through the portal. The girl quickly wipes her tears, not wanting to show any weakness, and turns around to face them. She sees the arrow embedded in Valentine's arm and smiles properly for the first time in weeks. Jace looks around and sees Alisha standing in her cell. He quickly goes over to her after noticing her red puffy eyes.
"Are you okay?" He asks the girl and she looks at him.
"Yeah, you?" She asks while scanning his body for any injury's. He nods and they look back at Valentine.
"You gonna let her out of here?" Jace asks coldly and Valentine huffs. Alisha puts her boney hand through the bars and places it on Jace's shoulder telling him she's alright. He nods shortly. "You set me up to kill that vampire." He says, getting back to the point. What? Jace killed a vampire? Alisha thinks but she doesn't say anything.
"You killed her because it was the right thing to do. The world's a safer place without that thing wreaking havoc." Valentine winces as pulls the arrow out of his arm and throws it on the ground. "Would you rather turn her over to the Clave to stand trial?"
"That is my job!" Jace states firmly. "'The Law is hard, but it is–'"
"'The Law.'" The two male shadowhunters say together.
"Yet the Clave does nothing, nothing to enforce that. Downworlders multiply with a bite or a scratch, while our numbers dwindle year after year." Valentine activates his healing rune. "If we don't do something, a den like that one is gonna be on every corner on every street in the world. This is the only way." Alisha glares at him.
"You're wrong." Jace states, thinking of all the downworlders he knows and how none of them will hurt shadowhunters unless it's necessary.
"Like I was wrong about your mother?" Alisha looks down at the mention of Jocelyn. "I know you even better than you know yourself." Valentine says.
"You..." he looks back at Alisha, looking for some sort of comfort. She nods and smiles at him. "you don't know me at all."
"You saved my life. You could've Portaled me anywhere, handed me over to the Clave in Idris, but did you? No, because deep down inside, you know that I'm right." Valentine states and Alisha frowns.
In the training room, Alec is boxing. After Jocelyn explaining to Clary about why she shot at Jace, the ginger shadowhunter is going to look for Alec. When she walks into the training room, she sees a visibly annoyed Alec taking his frustrations out on the punching bag.
