Skylar sat on the steps of the Green House, after getting in trouble Hodge had grounded her and told her that she was going to stay in for a week which meant she wasn't allowed to help with any investigation just eat, study, train, and sleep. "There you are." She looked up and saw the golden boy walking in with a brown bag in his hands. "Look what I have." He shook the bag lightly as he walked over.
"Hmm...either you're trying to get into my pants or has something happened?" Skylar asked with a smirk.
"You know me so well," Jace said and leaned against the railings, he handed her the brown bag. "Which one is it?" He asked, Skylar, opened the brown bag and saw a cupcake. She pulled the first one out and took a bite.
"Something has happened." Jace nodded waiting for her to go on, he watched her with an amused smile when she had finished and had frosting on her nose. "Skye, you got something on your nose-" Jace reached over and wiped the frosting off her nose with his thumb. Skylar smiled and looked at him, he licked off the frosting from his thumb and cleared his throat.
"What happened?" She asked the smile on Jace's face vanished right as he was about to answer the question Isabelle and Alec walked in.
"Guess what Skye? A mundie almost got Jace killed!" Isabelle shouted, her parabatai looked at Jace who nodded. "Go on Jace explain."
"I was about to until you decided to rudely interrupt."
"A redhead saw us. She had the sight." Alec said
"Have you spoken to Hodge?" Skylar asked she found this extremely odd. They haven't had a Mundie with the Sight in forever. It was a rare thing that could possibly occur, and everyone knew that something was wrong.
"Not yet, but I want to find her," Jace said, he had his determined face to find this mysterious redhead. One that oddly intrigued him in such an odd way.
"No you're not, let the Clave handle it."
"Like you let The Clave handle the demonic infestation at the warehouse? And then I had to come and get you?" Jace said, he was talking about the incident that got her in trouble in the first place. The very incident that had kept Skylnn from leaving this Institute for a few days even up to a week.
"Shut up," Skylar mumbled and frowned. Even mentioning it happened to upset her, causing her bright blue eyes to darken a little bit, the memory of how reckless and dangerous she was acting was going to haunt her.
"I am going to speak with Hodge, and we will decide after that," Jace said before anyone can argue with him, Jace had left the greenhouse. This wasn't good, Jace planned on doing whatever he thought was right....this was about to get ugly.
"He's gonna do it anyways." Alec stated, "Someone needs to watch him." As his parabatai, and basically his brother it was important that he did whatever was necessary to protect Jace..but he needed the girls to help him once in a while.
"I will, I'll find a way plus I've been dying to leave."
"It's only been a few days."
"Yes, it has."
~
Skylar followed Jace across the street where the mysterious redhead happened to be. She looked into the cafe through the window and scanned it. "There she is." Jace point at the short, redhead with green eyes and freckles.
"She's cute, don't you agree?" Skylar elbowed him softly with a smile on her face, Jace rolled his eyes and sighed.
"Not the point."
"Really, are you sure about that? I know you like them short." She hinted, why not take the time to talk about his love life? It had been a while since they last spoke about that.
"Fine, I find her attractive."
"Ah, Jacey has a crush." Jace groaned and shook his head.
"Not this again.." He mumbled, Skylar smiled and kept staring at the mystery girl oddly enough she seemed familiar. This girl kinda looked like Skylar's mother, Jace watched his best friend's facial expression slowly change, from amused to confused.
"What's wrong?"
"She looks like my mother."
"Really?" Skylar reached into her pocket and pulled out her phone. She quickly looked through her images and handed him her phone. Jace had only spoken to her mother through the phone a few time but has never met her in person. "You two don't look alike.." He pointed out
"I look like my father, I wonder if she was calling me ugly in the process," Skylar said, she turned around and saw Jace had swiped left, he was looking through her photos.
"How cute are you, are these what the mundies call a 'selfie'?" He asked,
"Give me that!" Jace held her phone over his head, Skylar frowned. Jace was 5'11 while Skylar was 5'4, she should have worn some heels. Skylar got on her tippy toes and struggled to reach for her phone. "Jace Wayland! Give the damn thing!" She shouted. Jace chuckled and smirked.
"Come on Skye, it's not too far." He teased, he loved this...she was so close to him plus she looked adorable.
"Fine then," Skylar elbowed him in the stomach causing him to groan, he dropped her phone and turned around in pain. Skylar caught her phone and giggled. "My bad."
"You didn't need to hurt me.."
"Yes I did now can we kidnap our mundane?"
"Yes, we can."
~
"Your friend's poetry is terrible," Jace started off, Skylar snorted and looked around the ally quietly. She was here to make sure Jace wouldn't do something stupid like he usually does.
"What?" Clary asked. she wasn't expecting him to say such a random thing.
"Your friend sucks at poetry honestly, I bet Alec could better," Skylar said, Jace nodded in agreement.
"And Alec isn't good with words like me."
"Oh please, you are not good with words, stop lying to yourself," Skylar mumbled and Jace gave her a look that made her mouth open again. "Fine, you are good with words." He nodded and smirked.
"What?" Clary repeated, "Why are you following me?"
"We're not following you, Skye and I happen to love cafes."
"That's bullshit, I hate cafes and mundies. Look red we're here for you." Jace nodded slowly and ran his fingers through his golden locks.
"Funny, how would the police feel about this? Stop stalking me."
"That invisible people are bothering you? Trust me, little girl, the police aren't going to arrest someone they can't see." Jace said, ridiculous how clueless these mundanes were about the shadow world.
"My name is not 'little girl'. It's Clary." The redhead corrected, yes she may seem small in height but she liked to think that she was an adult in her own little way.
"Like the herb clary sage," Jace said and glanced at Skylar. "In the old days' people thought eating the seeds would let you see the Fair Folk. Did you know that?"
"I have no idea what you're talking about."
"You don't know much, do you?" Skylar asked. Clary can see the boredom in her bright blue eyes slowly grow.
"You seem to be a mundane like any other mundane, yet you can see me. It's a conundrum." Jace said. he was getting bored as well.
"What's a mundane?"
"Someone of the human world. Someone like you." Skylar answered her question, she leaned against the wall and twirled her long blonde hair.
"But you're both human," Clary said.
"We are," he said. "But we're not like you."
"You think you're better. That's why you were laughing at us."
"I was laughing at you because declarations of love amuse me, especially when unrequited," he said."And because your Simon is one of the most mundane mundanes I've ever encountered. And because Hodge thought you might be dangerous, but if you are, you certainly don't know it."
"I'm dangerous?" Clary scoffed after what she witnessed last night this was ridiculous. "I saw you kill someone last night. I saw you drive a knife up under his ribs, and- And I saw him slash at you with fingers like razor blades. I saw you cut and bleeding, and now you look as if nothing ever touched you."
"I may be a killer," Jace said, "but I know what I am. Can you say the same?" Clary tilted her head in confusion.
"Good job Jace, you stumped red," Skylar said and sighed. "Still with us?" Skylar asked and waved her hand across Clary's face.
"I'm an ordinary human being, just like you said. Who's Hodge?"
"Our tutor. And I wouldn't be so quick to brand myself as ordinary if I were you." He leaned forward."Let me see your right hand."
"My right hand?" Clary repeated. "If I show you my hand, will you leave me alone?"
"Certainly." Clary rolled up her sleeve and held out her right hand. Jace examined her arm and frowned.
"Anything?" Skye asked
"Nope." Clary pulled her arm away feeling uncomfortable and gulped. "You're not left-handed are you?"
"No why?"
"Most Shadowhunter children get Marked on their right hands-or left if they're left-handed like I am-when they're still young. It's a permanent rune that lends an extra skill with weapons." Skylar explained, Jace showed her the back of his left hand; it looked perfectly normal to her.
"I don't see anything," she said.
"Let your mind relax," he suggested. "Wait for it to come to you. Like waiting for something to rise to the surface of the water."
"You're both insane." Clary relaxed and stared at the back of his hand. It was a black design like an eye across the back of his hand.
"A tattoo?"
"I thought you could do it. And it's not a tattoo-it's a Mark. They're runes, burned into our skin."
"They make you handle weapons better?"
"Yup, look." Skylar pulled out her sword and smiled. "Seraphina." She whispered its name causing it to glow up.
"Whoa! That's what this guy used to kill that boy." Clary said
"It's a sword, what I believe you saw Jace use was a blade."
"A blade.." She whispered
"It's nearly full dark. We should go." Jace said, Clary shook her head and backed away. Skylar put her sword away and nodded in agreement, she looked up at the sky and stared at it.
"You said you would leave me alone!"
"I lied." Jace responded with a casual shrug, not really caring about how the redhead felt about this. Jace would not leave someone as different and unique this current case was.
"I never said that I mean he could leave you alone and I would have handled you," Skylar said and looked at the redhead, Clary gulped again not knowing what to do. Before they said anything else, Clary's phone began to ring loudly, The blondes looked at each and then Clary who stood there.
"You can answer if you want." Clary reached into her pocket and answered her phone.
"Mom?! Mom?? I am on my way!" Clary took off sprinting, Skylar's phone began to ring afterward. She pulled it out and answered.
"Listen to me Skylnn Morgenstern, t-they found me and I don't have much time! Just remember I love you!" The phone went dead, Skylar's eyes widened and looked over at Jace.
"J-Jace, something has happened to my mother." The panic in her bright blue eyes said it all, there was something wrong and Skylar could feel it in her heart that her mother was in some sort of danger.
"We'll deal with the mundane later, let's go find your mother," Jace said, he grabbed her hand and led Skylar who was in shock. What was going on? What the hell did her mother get herself into this time? One thing was for sure, poor Skylnn would have to clean up this mess once again.