Skylar sat on her room bed, well a room at The Institute of course. She stared at a book that Isabelle had given her to read. She couldn't sleep much anyways with everything that happened today, she ran a hand through her hair as she read. "Am I interrupting?" Jace asked as he stepped into her room.

"Yes actually, I was getting to the juicy part." Skye said before closing the book and sitting up a bit more straight. He chuckled before sitting down beside her on the bed, she lifted her blanket and threw it over his legs. "What's up?"

"Your sister's necklace is a portal shard." Jace said looking over at Skye before sighing softly. "She saw Valentine and your mother there-" He paused noticing Skye's face, mentioning those two was just hurting her. "You know never mind, let's talk about the fact you panicked when you thought I was dead."

I-I did not panic." Skye corrected and gave him a look. "I was just worried." She whispered as she turned her head to look at him. "A little bit worried, okay?"

"And I wonder why...." Jace whispered before leaning closer to her, his lips brushing against hers gently.  In a blink of an eye, Skye pressed her lips against his and they actually kissed. 

"Am I interrupting?" Clary asked as she watched the two, she made a face and tilted her head to the side.Skye pulled away from Jace and quickly got out of the bed, before shaking her head and clearing her throat. "Alec took my only way of finding mom."

"It's for your safety..." Skye said and cleared her throat. "It'll be fine, alright? We will find mom soon..." She added before walking over to her sister, taking her hand. She glanced back at Jace who was smirking, and winked at her before the two left.

~

Skye laid on the bed as Isabelle and Clary spoke, back and forth. The blonde closed her eyes and listened in, Izzy was trying to comfort the red head. She didn't want Clary to start to feel hopeless or else Skye would. In the blonde's mind..all she could think about was the kiss over and over again, soon it had consumed her thoughts making her sigh in defeat. "By the angel.." She whispered under her breath before sitting up, and following Izzy and Clary when they finished speaking.

Isabelle led the sisters to the entrance where Maryse Lightwood made an entrance, she looked her daughter up and down, with a slight frown. "Dressed to impress, I see." Maryse said, Isabelle looked down and fell silent. Skylar let out a soft sigh as she looked over at her parabatai feeling bad, she hated to see Isabelle act this way. "And you have been playing with the family heirloom."

"Hi, I'm Clary Fairchild." The red head said before she cleared her throat and looked at Maryse who was emotionless. 

"You look just like your mother. We know all about you in Idris." Maryse said as she looked at Clary then at Skylar, she inhaled deeply and sighed.

"Idris?" Clary asked before Skye cleared her throat and spoke.

"The Shadowhunter homeland. If you think the Institute is well-hidden, wait until you see that place." Skye said, Clary nodded understanding what she said before Isabelle asked the one question that was on her mind.

"How's Max? We all miss him." Izzy said, she truly missed seeing her little brother running around and causing chaos. He was adorable and cute...her heart ached when she thought about him. Clary had no idea Isabelle had a little brother, she looked over at Isabelle giving her a confused look before Izzy explained who Max was. "Little brother. Cute but clingy. Kinda Simon-ish."

"Robert's picking him up at the Mumbai Institute. Where's Jace? We have a situation that has to be handled now." Maryse said, she walked past the two girls and headed off the find Jace, Isabelle and the sisters followed as well.

"Well, that's my mom." Izzy whispered to Clary and let out a soft sigh.

" Is your mom always like that? She didn't even hug you." Clary said as they stopped and watched Jace train, Skye watched and smiled as she did. 

 "Shadowhunters aren't big huggers." Izzy replied and crossed her arms. Jace moved around, swiftly and fast, he was amazing and everyone knew that. When he finished off, he smiled at the sight of Maryse and headed over to her. 

"Maryse." Jace said "How's everyone in Idris? Where's, uh... where's Max?" He asked as he looked around expecting to see his little brother around here. Isabelle walked over and shook her head.

"No Max, just Mom with her hair on fire. " Izzy said as Clary and Skye walked over as well. Skye standing on the other side of Jace who glanced at her and smirked.

"I completely forgot to say hello, Skylnn." Maryse said with a faint smile before looking at the four shadowhunters that stood before her. Alec walked over, greeting his mother before taking a step back next to Skye.

 "Mother. Welcome back. We didn't expect you." He said quite surprised, he wished that he had known early that his mother would be back...and had something on her mind.

""You should be prepared, whether you expect me or not." Maryse said in a strict tone, as she stood straight with her hands in front of her. "We'll talk about the Institute later. Right now, we have a bigger problem. The Seelies have stopped communicating with the Clave and won't explain why. My guess is they're still upset we asked them to send scouts to look for Valentine, but no one in their realm will talk." She explained, Isabelle was quick to speak.

"I have Seelie friends." Izzy said, hoping that she could be some sort of help. Skye looked over at her with a smirk on her lips when Izzy mentioned have some 'friends' she knew they were far from friends.

"Yes, I know about your friends. Isabelle, we stay separate from the Downworld for good reasons. The wrong move, the wrong word... Do you think there is such a thing as harmless rebellion? Who knows what offends these creatures?" Maryse asked

"Maybe you told him... them... something they shouldn't know." Izzy mumbled and looked down at her shoes again. Maryse gave her a look before snapping at her.

"Maybe you trod on one of their ridiculous customs without knowing it." Maryse said, Jace intervened..knowing it wasn't right for Maryse to be acting such a way towards her own daughter.

 "Wait, wait. I don't understand. You're laying all this on Izzy for having a friend in the Downworld?" Jace asked, Maryse shook her head before sighing. She needed them to understand her ways and perspective of things..the right ways that she learned.

"When someone upsets the natural order, everything falls apart." Maryse said, Skye nudged Alec hoping he would say something in order to get Maryse onto their side.

"She's right. She can visit with Meliorn and see what he knows." Alec said as he took a step back and glanced back at them. "Jace and Skylar will join her, they'll know what to do and how to approach Seelies." He added...they were off to another adventure...

~

Thanks to Skye's luck, she managed to get out of the mission with Jace and Izzy, she didn't really want to go and say something she wasn't. She really didn't trust Meliorn...for her own reasons. She sat down on the floor of her room and placed her hand on her necklace before speaking. "I kissed him." She said when she felt her necklace pulse a bit in response.

"Skylnn, I am not here to discuss your love life." Seraphina said in a cold tone and could be heard sighing. "You need to find your mother before your father pulls a stunt that could affect everyone."

"I know, I'll figure something out.." Skye said when she stood up and tied her hair up in a bun. "What's the plan when we are close to Valentine?"

"Kill him." Seraphina replied right after the question was asked. "The angels want Valentine to fall for what he has done, I want him dead for good."

"I-I can guarantee that is what will happen.." Skylar said as her blue eyes darker a bit, her necklace stopped pulsing and glowing when she said that which meant the once powerful angel was no longer listening nor interested at the moment. She left her room and headed to meet Alec to watch Clary and him train. Since she was already trained, there wasn't much she had to do or learn. All she did was watch Clary and Alec, train and speak to one another and some statements were referring to Skye who had spoken up a few times.

~

"Where are you both doing?" Alec said as he walked behind the two sisters, both flinching a bit. Clary had an idea to find this box Jocelyn use to take out once a year and cry about it. Skye already knew what that box was..and who it was meant for but she didn't say anything not because she didn't want too...because she couldn't speak about it without feeling sick at the thought.

"We are on our way to the loft." Skylar said as she crossed her arms over her chest, at this point they needed anything that connected to Jocelyn.

"There's something there that I think could help me find my mother." Clary added before looking up at Alec who looked quite annoyed with the two. He mumbled something under his breath. "Why do you always look so miserable?" She asked out of nowhere, Skye inhaled deeply and simply stayed silent.

"I don't." Alec replied, looking down at the red head.

"You do. It must be hard being in love with Jace and he's straight and everything." Clary blurted out. "And the fact that he's after someone else already."

"Clarissa, stop." Skye replied in a cold voice, she wasn't interested in making enemies with Isabelle's older brother who she loved very much and cared for. The red head had let it go and fell silent as they headed off to their mother's loft.

~

"There's nothing left of me here." Clary said breathless as she stepped into her room, inhaling deeply her eyes scanning what use to be her room. Skye followed her sister and Simon into the room, Alec stood behind them watching out.

"Your mother was trying to erase any trace that you existed. So that you couldn't be tracked. She was protecting you." Alec explained, Skye nodded as she walked around a bit. Her ears picked up a sound of the floorboards sounding a bit different. Clary bent down and moved the floorboards revealing a box with the initials J.C which she remembered.

"Is this the box you remember?" Skye asked as Clary nodded and stood up, holding it in her hands tightly.

"She used to wait till she thought I was asleep and then take it out." Clary said as she opened it, seeing a lock of baby hair and a baby shoe. "I don't know what any of this is." The blonde had tensed a bit and closed her eyes for a second before shaking her head slightly..she knew what that was...exactly who that belonged to.

"There's someone here, get what you need. Do not move until I get back." Alec said as he left the three alone, and had gone off to see what was going on and who else could possibly be here.

~

"She's not showing up." Jace said as he tried tracking the girl with an item as Izzy tried the cell but she sighed and walked over to the when she noticed they were getting nowhere. Izzy pulled a ring off her finger and looked at Jace.

"Let me, Skye's my parabatai and she will show up." Izzy said before she used her tracking rune to find Skye, the dark haired shadowhunter kept her eyes closed and let out a soft sigh. "Come on, Skylnn...give me a sign.."

"It was your job to look after her." Jace hissed as he stepped towards Alec filled with nothing but anger, he was beyond angry and disappointed in his own parabatai. "And you lost her, how do you lose her? Tell me!"

"I did my best, Jace." Alec replied before Isabelle opened her eyes slowly and shook her head. She wasn't getting anything at all which made her frustrated.

"Then maybe your mother was right, and your best is just isn't good enough." Jace said, Isabelle shook her head and stepped in between the boys, giving them a look.

"That's enough! We need to find them and fast...there is a chance that Skye can be outnumbered where ever she is." Izzy said as the boys fell silent. Their main concern was finding the three and get them all to safety.

~

"Alaric, did you arrest us for trespassing or something, because, news flash, I was in my own apartment." Clary said as she leaned forward the table, she was speaking to the one person she recognized,

"We're just having a little conversation, that's all."

"Do you always handcuff people you wanna talk to? I bet this guy has one of the scariest online profiles ever." Simon said as he glanced over at Skye who was silently serving where she was and how to get out of here.

"This guy's funny. I like funny."

"You just need to tell us where the Mortal Cup is." Alaric said as he shifted his gaze between Skylar and Clary, any of the two would know where the mortal cup was.

"Everyone thinks I can find this Cup, but I don't know where it is!" Clary said rather quickly, annoyed and becoming impatient. She needed answers and she needed them now.

"Think, Clary or Skye. I'm trying to give you a chance." Alaric begged, Skye looked directly at him...emotionless.

"We can't help you. I'm sorry." Skye replied before the man sitting beside Alaric suddenly stabbed a fork in the table causing Clary and Simon, in a blink of an eye the blonde had grabbed it and stabbed it into his hand causing him to grunt in pain. "I suggest you let us go before I do ruin you, doggy." She hissed...

~

Theo let out a grunt of pain and growled under his breath as he felt the pain go through his arm and up. He grabbed the fork and pulled it out, glaring at the blond and leaned closer to her. "You want to play nephilim? Let's play." He hissed, he called over a few more werewolves to come over and took Simon, and Skye.

"No!Hey, hey - Hey, don't touch them!" Clary shouted as she glanced back at her sister and bestfriend, her heart racing at the thought of them getting hurt.

"Tell us where the Cup is or your funny friend, and weak sister are dead."Theo said, Skye quickly shook her head at her sister and frowned.

"Clarissa, listen to me. Do not say a word, Simon and I will be fine!" Skye said quickly before the werewolves had taken them away and into a cell...this was the first time that Simon and Skye were in a situation here.

Skye had began to look around for a way to get out, she wasn't as panicked as Simon was who kept walking back and forth. He had been kidnap once again and it was...starting to annoy him quite a bit as well. He turned around and watched the blonde, who began to whisper to herself as she walked around. Mentally, she was speaking to Seraphina who well...wasn't really doing much. She knew that the angel...well could only do so much around Simon..revealing herself was not apart of the plan.

Simon began to look around, looking though a few lockers...as the blonde kept walking around acting crazy. He found a phone and his eyes lit up, he needed to think of someone to call. "What's Jace's number?" He asked, Skye stopped and looked back at him...she told him the number that..well she memorized..for situations like this. He quickly dialed the number, placing it near his ear waiting for an answer. "Oh, I thought I'd never utter these words, but thank God it's you. It's me, Simon." he said as he spoke to Jace through the phone. "Some Chinese restaurant, I think? This cop Alaric arrested us, but it was a total fake-out. Him and his buddy, they took us They us to their hangout and then they told Clary and Skye that they'll kill them if they don't find the Cup. Uh- I am not sure where he are..." He paused when Skye motioned him to put the phone on speak and he did.

"On a pier, we are with werewolves." Skye began to speak as she glanced around and inhaled deeply when she noticed where they were. "We're at the Jade Wolf Chinese Restaurant on the pier at Greene St." Skye said and walked over, taking the phone from Simon. The two could hear Jace's sigh of relief...he was worried about Skye the most and it was obvious. "Just hurry...we don't have much time....Clarissa is in trouble..she is alone with them. They believe that she knows where the cup is." She nodded as Jace spoke and looked over at Simon.

"We need to stall them." Skye said to Simon who frowned slightly as he looked at what he was holding in his hands.

"How? All I have are clothes and a lighter."

"Start a fire, Simon." Skye said as if it was obvious, Jace had hung up the phone since the three nephilim were on their way to them now..needing to get there before anything bad happened. Simon started to work on starting the fire, Skye had also helped him wanting to make sure her little sister was alright.

~

Simon waved the smoke away from his face before the two who were locked in began to cough. Skye looked out through the small bars and let out a soft sigh. She was trying to breath in the fresh salty air then the smoke coming from the dire. "Move away Skye." The blonde heard a familiar voice, she had taken a step back and smiled when she saw w whip curl around one of the bars, and pulled the entire thing out. Giving her and Simon a way out of there.

"I'm getting seriously tired of saving your life." Isabelle said with a smirk as she looked directly at Simon, Skye rolled her eyes and got out quickly before helping Simon out. They followed the dark haired shadowhunter towards the others, Simon running over to Clary and hugging her while Skye had walked over to Jace. He smile down at her and placed a hand on her cheek, feeling relieved that she was alright.

"You're safe now." He whispered before pulling out a blade and handing it over to her, she had left her blade and stele in Clary's bag since she wasn't expecting any of this to happen. He pulled his hand away and held onto his own blade before clearing his throat. "I hate to break up this little reunion, but we got a bunch of werewolves trying to kill us so maybe we should get going."

Skye looked at her blade and sighed when she saw it glow brightly but before they could move, she froze feeling her necklace pulse. "Wait, do not make a move..we got wolves...all around." The others looked around and stopped when they saw them. Simon was the one who froze and was getting a bit worried. Everything that had happened next was in a blink of an eye. One, they saw the alpha heading over but then it was attacked by another wolf.

The shadowhunters had an idea of what was happening, a normal wolf was fighting to become an alpha and all they could do is watch. When the fight ended, only one wolf stepped out and transformed revealing himself to be Lucian Graymark..the one and only person that Skye and Clary had who knew everything. He had become alpha..but then dropped.....things had suddenly become increasingly difficult once again.