Lie

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Katherine was standing on Alec's one side while Izzy stood on the other as Jace and Clary approached them..and judging from the defeat on Jace's face, she knew that the Fairchild was avoiding her brother..again.

''Any word from Magnus or Luke?''

The older girl shook her head and sighed in defeat ''Nope.'' Alec looked at her before looking at the younger girl ''With Valentine free the downworld cabinet has been holding secluded meetings at the seelie court.''

Jace frowned in panic ''Well, that's not good.'' ''You think anything good happens in the Seelie Court?'' Clary shared a look with him as Katherine looked between the two with frowned eyebrows.

''The Clave isn't gonna let this go unpunished.The Inquisitor's sent an envoy to assess the situation.Chances are they'll be the ones replacing me as the head of the Institute.'' Alec said and the older girl noticed the tension of his muscles causing her to place her hand on top of his. 

It did soothed down some of the tension in Alec, it was visible in the way his relaxed on the table with her's on top of his.

''Not if we can recapture Valentine.'' Izzy looked between the four ''Sebastian and all available personnel are searching.We already know Duncan managed to hijack the portal.'' ''If he was Luke's accomplice he could have been orchestrating the secret transfer all along.'' Jace looked from Izzy to Katherine who nodded her head in thought.

''Could be.''

''Listen...I appreciate the effort but Valentine escaped on my watch.I deserve to take the heat for it.'' Izzy looked at her brother ''This isn't your fault.It's mine, I was the one in charge of the transfer team.'' Katherine shook her head as the younger girl tried to take the entire blame ''You weren't the only one who was, Iz.''

''Hey, all of us three were.'' Jace reminded the two before looking at his parabatai ''Look, Alec you are a good leader.You can't just let Imogen fire you over something you didn't do.'' the older twin nodded her head in agreement ''He's right.''

''Alec will do as he's ordered.''

Their heads snapped the direction the familiar voice came from and Katherine's eyes widened in surprise at seeing Robert looking at all of them. ''Dad?'' the same surprise laced Izzy's voice as she looked at her father.

''What are you doing here?''

''I am the Clave's envoy...we need to talk.''

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''Something's wrong with Jace.''

Those words were enough for Katherine took go look for her brother with Alec and Izzy behind her and   she felt a sudden jab of pain in the palm of her hand and a pull towards the library. She followed the pull and wasn't surprised to see the library in a mess.

''By the angel.'' Izzy and Alec appeared on her side as Katherine's eyes went to pieces of glass laying on the floor ''By the angel indeed.'' this time her eyes did widened and then narrow in confusion. Alec followed her gaze to the broken shards of glass ''What the hell?'' he knelt next to her as she picked up a piece of glass.

''What happened here?'' Izzy asked as she knelt as well.

Katherine raised the piece of glass higher up for all of them to see ''Is that a lake?'' the shock and surprise of that had loosened her grip on the glass piece and Alec's eyes widened as he saw the broken shard of glass cut her palm open.

''Kate!''

She hissed as blood emerged from the wound and Alec took her hand in his own before running his stele over her irtaze ''Be careful, Kate.'' he ran his thumb over the healed skin of her palm in relief and Katherine smiled at him ''I am fine, it wasn't that big thing, Alec.'' he looked up at her ''When it comes to you, everything is a big deal for me.'' Alec's eyes showed sincerity and love.

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