Better Than Revenge

Chapter 11

"I don't think I've heard from him since Jace and Clary broke up. And I don't blame him. Clary's like his sister; they grew up together, and to have someone crush her just like that, well, I'd be fuming if I were him," Alec answered as Magnus took his hand and intertwined their fingers.

"Do you mind?" Jace asked through gritted teeth.

The last thing he needed was public displays of affetion flying through the air while he's being miserable.

"Actually yes, yes we do mind," Magnus answered.

"Whatever. I'm just gonna go and read a book or something," Jace said before getting up and leaving the room.

"What got his feathers all ruffled?" Magnus asked, looking at the Lightwood siblings with a genuine look of curiousty plastered on his face, making Isabelle sigh.

"I'll be in my room," she said in, what sounded like, a really tired tone.

Magnus gave Alec a questioning look.

"Was it something I said?"

Meanwhile: In Japan

"Clary?" Sebastian knocked on his sister's door, waiting for her to answer.

     "Door's unlocked, Bash!" He heard the redhead call from the other side. Turning the doorknob, he entered her room and was greeted by her blue walls with drawings taped on them like little posters and little christmas lights around them.

    "What are you smiling about?" Clary asked him and only then did he realize that he's been smiling.

    "I dunno. Just impressed by how quickly you turned this used-to-be plain room into something that someone could actually stand," he answered as he sat down on her queen sized bed.

    "Uhh, thank you?" She answered, unsure of what to say and returned to her drawing.

     He watched her as she glided her pencil over the canvas, eyesbrows furrowed in concentration and a chuckle escaped his lips causing the redhead to snap her head in his direction.

      If looks could kill, he'd be a corpse by now.

     "What are you laughing at?!" The redhead glared, only making her brother smile.

     "You look adorable when you focus like that," he smiled as Clary's face retracted into something that looked close to disgust.

      "What?" He asked in pure confussion.

     "If you've got a thing for me, I'm gonna tell dad to get me another apartment that a gazillion miles from you! Incest is on the top of my 'Eww that's disgusting on so many levels!' List," Clary seriously answered.

     Sebastian sat there, stunned at wha his sister just said before grabbing a pillow and slamming it on her head.

     "You. Are. Disgusting, Morgenstern!" He said, hitting her  with the pillow as he said every word and continued to hit her.

      Clary just laughed a her brother's reaction.

     "I was jus kidding! Bash! Seriously! You're a Morgenstern too, you know! Seriously though! Oww! Stop it!" She laughingly exclaimed while using her arms to shield her.