Heart By Heart (A Mortal Instruments story)

Chapter One

Jace, Alec, Isabelle and I walk a few blocks away to this insane all ages nightclub. I hate going there. Whenever we go, Izzy makes me dress like a person whose phone number should be on a bathroom wall. No one even gave me a reason as to why we had to go there. "So, tell me again why we have to go to the Pandemonium?" I say to no one in particular.

"Because there is a demon there." Jace says.

"So, you're telling me Isabelle made me dress like a hooker to impress a demon? Nice move Izzy." I say rolling my eyes.

Isabelle begins to say something but Alec interrupts her. "I'm not in the mood to hear you two bicker right now." Alec says. Sometimes I hate that Alec is my older brother. He treats me like a baby. Even though I'm a better fighter than he is, if there is a battle, Alec is always telling me I can't go. If Jace wasn't here, I would most likely have to stay home all the time. Yet he doesn't worry that much about Isabelle and we are just a few months apart! Calm down Skylar I think to myself. I guess I always get carried away when I think about how Alec treats me.

"Uhh Sky? Where is your rune?" Jace asks me.

"Oh I forgot to draw it before I walked out. Can you draw it on the back of my leg? My dress covers that part." I ask Jace.

Thank god I'm not wearing thigh high boots like Isabelle. I pull up my black dress so he can draw the rune. My dress is identical to Isabelle's white lace dress.

"Sure, whatever." Jace says taking out his stele and burning the glamour rune into my leg.

"Thank you. Now let's go inside." I say when he finishes. We push past the bouncer and walk into the club. The club was full of dry ice smoke, colorful lights, and sweaty mundanes dancing. "Yuck!" I say as we pass by an Asian looking couple making out very passionately.

"Don't act like you've never kissed anyone, Skylar. Remember Jacob?" Jace says reminding me of this faerie I used to mess around with.

"Oh... he doesn't count." I say.

"And why not?" Jace asks.

"Because he was a horrible kisser." I say laughing. Jace smiles. He rarely smiles so I was a little surprised. I suddenly see a boy with electric blue hair and a red jacket. He also had a sword. It obviously had a glamour on it to make it seem fake. "I found our guy." I say pointing to the boy.

"Go and work your magic, Izzy." Jace says.

"Will do!" Isabelle says as she walks away from us to go be all sexy and lure the demon straight to Alec, Jace, and I.

"Come on Sky. We have to follow Isabelle." Jace says pushing through the crowd.

I follow him immediately. As a Shadowhunter, I constantly have to keep my head in the game. Something I happen to have trouble with sometimes. I look for the boy's electric blue hair in the crowd. When I spot him, he looks mesmerized by my sister's beauty. He follows Izzy right to us. Once Isabelle is in the right spot, she lashes out with lightning speed striking the boy with her whip. The boy hits the ground hard.

"He's all yours guys!" Isabelle says smiling. Jace and Alec push him against a pillar and tie his hands up with a wire.

"So," I say slowly. "Are there anymore with you?"

"Anymore what?" The boy spits out.

"Aw, come on. You know what we are." Jace says mockingly. He puts his arms up and lets his sleeves fall down showing all the runes burned into his skin.

"Shadowhunters." The boy hissed.

Jace smiles wide. It was a very devious type of smile. "There we go!" I say, our expressions the same. I put one hand on my hip and Jace puts his hands in his pockets.