What the Heck?

After saying goodbye to the other Jace and Clary, Jace Herondale scattered Magnus's liquid Portal potion in a nearby doorway. And was pleased to find that walking through it sent him home, just as Magnus had said it would. Well, not home precisely but to Magnus's loft back in his home world. Magnus, Alec and Luke were shocked to see him, because according to the clock, only a minute of time had passed while he'd been gone.

"Didn't it work?" Alec asked.

"Look at his face, it worked alright." Magnus laughed. "Now sit down and tell us all about it." They called Luke in from the other room, and Jace proceeded to tell the three about the other world.

"I tell you, it was so strange looking into my own face like that and to get a glimpse of what my life might have been like if I hadn't been a Shadowhunter. You know, Alec. This other Jace always lived with the Lightwoods. He was sent to them as a baby and he never even knew Valentine, let alone being raised by him. He's so much more light-hearted than I am. And I dunno, maybe that's why. Anyway, they are happy. And their Jonathan is a real brother to Clary. Jocelyn raised him right alongside with her and he's normal. He and Jace are friends. I'm telling you, the whole thing was so weird." He sighed, still trying to figure it all out.

"Yeah but it is progress. Now, not only do you have your first world to check off your list but you know a few things for certain now that we could only speculate on before. You know that there are normal Jonathan's out there. You know that you don't spontaneously combust when you meet yourself. And you know that you know that my liquid Portals work so you can get home again, which is pretty important." Magnus grinned.

"You mean there was a chance of it not working?" Jace blustered and would have attacked Magnus if Luke didn't put a hand on his shoulder to calm him down.

"A very slim chance Jace and it did work, so don't worry about it. Are you ready to try another world or do you need time to recuperate?" Magnus asked him.

"Give me fifteen minutes to have a coffee and a snack and then I'll try another one since it seems to work so well." He smiled.

And so, fifteen minutes later, Magnus had given Jace another liquid Portal and he was ready to head off into another world. He thought hard about Clary again, since that seemed to work so well the last time, and then he stepped through to find out what would await him this time.

As he got his bearings, Jace immediately didn't like what he saw. In fact he loathed what he saw. Remember Jace… that is not your Clary. Your Clary is at home and well. This is a different Clary, albeit a fucking crazy Clary by the looks of things. He thought to himself. When he entered this other world, it seemed the Portal had dropped him in a bedroom. A bedroom where a very naked a far less innocent looking Clary was receiving oral pleasure from a very content looking Jonathan, not Jace. He also noticed she had far more runes all over her body. And about this time, she noticed him. Oh shit.

"Jace?" She asked him, looking confused as well as flushed.

"Did you just fucking call me Jace, Sera?" This world's Jonathan asked. What did he just call her?

"No Jon, Jace is here, look!" She pointed over at Jace, looking excited by his presence.

"Holy shit! He is here!" Jonathan grinned and walked over to Jace and then of all things, he hugged him. "About fucking time you showed up, I'm in agony how about you?" Jonathan asked. What does he mean in agony? Oh gosh, does he expect me to have drugs or something?

"Did you just come to see us or is something wrong? You don't look so good." The redhead, whose name might possibly not be Clary in this world asked. Jace didn't know what to say. These people didn't seem surprised that he would portal into their bedroom and yet it seemed they weren't exactly expecting him either. And they also hadn't made any sort of move to get dressed.

"Seraphina, something's wrong here. I don't feel better." Jonathan said. So that's her name, Seraphina? Isn't that Valentine's mother? Oh gosh, they must be raised by Valentine. This could be very bad. Jace realized.

"What do you mean Jon?" Seraphina asked him.

"I mean, Jace is here and yet, I don't feel better." Jonathan said, now glaring at Jace. He walked toward him and grabbed hold of his arm, pulling the sleeve up. Shit, now it makes sense, he's looking for a rune. A rune that I don't have! Jace panicked. "Who the fuck are you and why do you look like Jace?" Jonathan yelled.

Ah hell!

"Would you believe, I'm an alien and I abducted him?" Jace said, trying to be funny.

"No, I wouldn't believe that now tell me what the fuck is going on!" Jonathan glared at Jace.

"Alright, I will. But can you both please put some clothes on first?" Jace asked.

"Yeah, we can do that." Seraphina said, trying to smooth the waters. This should be interesting. Jace laughed to himself, wondering what exactly he'd gotten himself into this time.

"So, you come from another world?" Jonathan asked Jace for the third time.

"Yup." Jace replied, trying not to lose his patience.

"A world in which I died?" Jonathan asked skeptically.

"Yep." Jace nodded, noting the irony.

"And she killed me?" Jonathan smirked.

"Uh huh." Jace grinned, wondering what they both must think of that idea.

"But she feels bad about it?" Jonathan rolled his eyes.

"You bet." Jace smiled.

"And so you want to find another Jonathan from another world to replace the brother that she killed?" Seraphina asked.

"That's basically the gist of it, yeah." Jace said.

"Wow, dude, you're fucking whipped." Jonathan laughed.

"No, I just love her very much and I'd do anything for her." Jace defended.

"Well I hope that includes dying for her cuz this random world hopping shit is probably gonna get you killed bro." Jonathan pointed out. Which, Jace had known perfectly well when he started this was a real possibility.

"I would die for her, if I had to. But I am hoping it won't come down to that." Jace frowned.

"Yeah well, let's hope not. So, you say in your world her name is Clary, the fuck is that all about?" Jonathan looked confused.

"Is it short for Clarissa?" Seraphina asked.

Smart girl, I guess they must have considered naming her Clary in this world too. "Yeah it is." Jace told her.

"How the fuck did you know that?" Jonathan seemed peeved at her for knowing something he didn't.

"Mother told me her and Father used to fight about my name. She wanted to call me Clarissa and he wanted to call me Seraphina. Father won."

"Well, apparently he lost in his world." Jonathan chuckled.

"Umm, actually, in my world Jocelyn left Valentine when she was pregnant with Clary. Clary was raised as mundane until her teenage years. Jocelyn's actually married to Luke now, although you would most likely know him as Lucian Graymark?"

"What the fuck kind of woman marries her rapist?" Jonathan spat.

Oh my, I didn't see that one coming. Jace thinks. "Oh, umm wow, that never happened in our world. Luke's a decent guy in our world." Jace assured them.

"Well in ours he's a dirty Downworlder, so let's not talk about it." Jonathan frowned. Uh oh, that doesn't sound good.

"Oh, there's still a Circle in your world huh?" Jace asked tentatively.

"Isn't there in yours? Jon, I don't know if we should be talking to this guy, I don't think he's loyal. Maybe we should just kill him?" Seraphina said, with a look on her face that Jace had never, ever, seen his Clary wear.

"Sera, we can't kill him, okay? He's Jace. He might be from a fucked up world that doesn't know what's good for them, but he's still Jace. I'm not gonna kill him." Jonathan reasoned.

"Fine then, I will!" The next few seconds were a blur as Seraphina lunged at Jace and Jonathan grabbed her. While he was restraining her, Jace didn't wait around to see whose willpower would win out over the other. Instead, he quickly used their window to make a Portal and head for home.

"Sera, stop, Sera, calm down!" Jonathan soothed the beast as the Portal formed.

"I hereby render unconditional obedience to the Circle and its principles... I will be ready to risk my life at any time for the Circle, in order to preserve the purity of the bloodlines of Idris…." Jace heard her starting to recite The Circle's loyalty oath, as he left their world hoping never to return to the land of Crazytown, as he would forevermore refer to that place.

When the Portal took him back to Magnus's loft this time, he didn't just waltz in like before. He collapsed on the ground, fighting to catch his breath and regain control of his sanity.

"What happened, Jace?" Alec asked, rushing to his side.

"I was almost killed." He gasped.

"What, by whom?" Alec's eyes went wide.

"By Seraphina." He sighed.

"What's a Seraphina?" Magnus asked.

"Well in this world she goes by the name Clarissa." Jace shook his head to clear it.

"Clary tried to kill you?" Luke asked.

"Yeah, and you'll never guess who saved me." Jace smirked.

"Ooh, was it me?" Alec asked hopefully, he loved being the hero.

"Nope, it was Jonathan." Jace said, to which the other three nearly fell flat on their faces.

"What?" They asked in unison.

"What kind of world did you go to?" Magnus inquired.

"It would seem I ended up in a world where The Circle still exists and thrives with most of its original members plus their children and I'm guessing a whole lot more. I got the impression they may have even rivaled the Clave in power. Oh and did I mention the fact that when I walked in Jonathan and Seraphina were having sex? Or how about, the fact that their version of Jace, is Jonathan's Parabatai? And that the three of them were all raised together by Valentine and Jocelyn who are still together?

"Oh and they don't have a very high opinion on their version of you Luke. Aside from being a, and I quote 'dirty Downworlder' apparently in their world you raped Jocelyn? It was about the time I started defending you that Seraphina decided I needed to die and lunged at me with a dagger reciting the loyalty oath. If Jonathan hadn't held her back, I wouldn't have had time to make a Portal and it'd be one of you stuck world hopping trying to find her a new Jace!" He exclaimed all in one breath and fell back onto the couch and put a pillow over his head to block out the light in an attempt to fend off the stress headache he was getting.

"So I wasn't your Parabatai?" Alec asked.

"Seriously Alec, out of everything he just said, that was the tidbit you decided was important?" Magnus sighed, ruffling Alec's hair. "Let's leave Jace alone to get some rest. I think he's had enough for a while."

"I can't believe I was a rapist." Luke muttered under his breath, shaking his head.

"You too Shaggy, let's go!" Magnus said, pulling Luke out the door as well.

"Where are you all going?" Jace asked sitting up.

"We're going to Taki's for lunch. Find a bed Jace, get some sleep. We'll be back later." Magnus smiled.

"Sleep does sound pretty good." Jace said to himself as they closed the door behind them.