"Bane!" Came Grace's excited cry from down the hall of the redwood house before the soft footfalls of sock clad feet made their way towards Tobias and Sera's location causing the pair to look at each other in confusion. The trio had made their way back after Madame Dorothea proved less than helpful with anything else. Tobias was more than happy to leave the old woman forgotten in her almost suffocating residence with all the incense and heavy fabrics making him feel claustrophobic.
"Say what?" Came Sera's reply as Grace walked into the home gym that was at one point the basement and utility room.
"Magnus Bane. That's who Madame Dorothea was talking about, I'm sure of it!" Grace declared in triumph as if they were to know who that was. A few seconds passed before Tobias finally responded.
"Oh, that Bane" he said as his sister glared at him.
"You have no idea who I'm talking about do you" She replied in a huff looking between the pair. her face in a scowl, arms crossed over her chest.
"Well...yeah no clue. Though you can't really blame Sera for not knowing who he is" Tobias said shrugging and continuing with his current weight reps.
"Oh, yeah. Well we can talk about that later. Magnus is having a little party tonight and we were technically invited and I highly doubt he'll have much problem with Sera being there" Grace said to her brother before quickly exiting. "You should probably have a shower and get ready soon guys. It's already 10:30 and you take forever!" she added as an afterthought when she was halfway down the hall. Sera groaned at her best friend but got up off the lat pull down bench and headed to the bedroom she had temporarily...well more semi permanently, commandeered as her own.

The process of getting ready for the party that night took longer than usual for Sera, Grace forcing her to change her outfit three times before she deemed it appropriate party wear for the occasion. Before Sera found herself clad in what she deemed an impractically short lace dress, her agreement being on the sole fact that Grace swore black and blue that she would have no need to be free to move in the usual manner that Sera found herself dressing for and if the case did arise that the dress was in fact more motion friendly than what Sera was seeing at the time. Grace had then forced Sera into a seated position in front of her vanity mirror before piling Sera's platinum hair atop her head allowing the blood toned ends to show threw the intricate design the girl had somehow managed to wrangle it into before adorning the sides with two matching combs both delicate in appearance but with some sharper corners then Sera would think generally appropriate for something of this manner. Grace quickly changed herself before joining Sera back at the mirror and attacking her own dark hair into a waterfall braid which was then fashioned into an almost crown like appearance around the girls head a few flowers being added to it to increase the natural crown appearance that the girl appeared to be going for. All before both girls applied what they commonly referred to as their "battle paint", Tobias finally joining them in the room and sitting on Grace's bed staring at the roof as he groaned about having to wait. His sister throwing a sponge at his head before adding the last bit of mascara to her top lashes and declaring that they were ready.

The trek from the Redwood's to this Magnus Bane character's place was slightly longer then Sera was hoping, her general impatience coupling with her concern for her sister and mother meaning anything that took longer than five minutes was a waste of valuable time. Adding that they had chosen to walk and get the train instead of driving like they usually would when in a rush causing a minor amount of confusion for Sera as it wasn't like they would be drinking, all of them being underage. Eventually they arrived in what Sera was lead to believe was the right street Tobias running across the road to check out a bunch of motorbikes that had been parked there before bursting into laughter and wandering back to the girls.
"They're gonna be so pissed when they see their bikes" he managed to get out in between fits of laughter as he continued to walk down the street with his twin and Sera only able to stifle the giggles as Grace lead the way to a solid looking door with an intricate knocker/peephole combination that looked all too familiar to Sera.
"I've been here" Sera said as it slid aside to reveal an odd looking gentleman on the other side who Grace quickly flashed two cards at and mumbled something as his eyes darted to Sera before he simply nodded and the door swung open.
"Don't touch the rail Sera" Tobias muttered from behind her as they moved towards the stairs Sera's hand hovering above the aforementioned railing as she chanced a glance down to see it covered in some weird slime like substance. Sera's face screwed up slightly as she withdrew her hand and continued up the stairs careful not to touch anything that happened to be covered in the ichor, which turned out to be a fairly large portion of the staircase.

Sera's eyes widened as she emerged into the loft like apartment at the sight that greeted her. The mass of moving bodies all with unusual characteristics, the flashing lights and pounding music contributing to an almost drug like haze, or what Sera believed that would be like anyway. Grace grabbed Sera's hand and guided her through the throngs of revellers all whilst looking for Magnus Bane. Sera's eyes scanning the crowd around them trying to take in as much as she could about those surrounding them, Tobias following closely behind watched Sera's eyes dart over the crowd, his own senses on high alert in case someone reacted to Sera's presence in a less than favourable manner. Sera quickly yanked her arm out of Grace's grasp and ran towards the bar area, leaving a confused set of twins before they quickly raced after her apologizing to those around them as they went.
"Sera! Where are you going" Grace called as she caught up with her friend briefly before her eyes caught what the other girl had already seen.
"Clary!" Sera shouted as she collided with her sister pulling her into an embrace before quickly scanning her for any injury. "Clary! Oh god you had me worried sick! Where's mom, Clary?" she asked her eyes staring at her twins face trying to gage her reaction and searching for any signs that something was wrong. Clary's eyes fell as she looked at her sister, shaking her head slightly.
"I don't know Sera..." she replied looking at her forlorn before she suddenly realized where they were. "Wait how did you get in here? How did you know about Magnus? How'd you know we were coming to see him" She shot off looking at her twin confusion spreading across her face.
"The twins bought me, Grace said that we should talk to the Magnus guy about something..." Sera replied quickly looking at the twins over her shoulder, the action causing her to become more aware of those around her...well more specifically those around her sister.
"You!" Sera shouted at the boy with the pretty eyes from the other night as she grabbed her sister and pulled her behind her, using her own body as a shield. The way the boy had his hand resting on his belt loop that was obviously designed to hold something a little more dangerous than thin air having set Sera's nerves on edge.
"You know him?" Clary asked looking between her sister and the boy.
"We had a run in the other day at the club" Came Sera's response her eyes never leaving the boys except to quickly glance at the other boy standing next to him.
"Well if it isn't the Redwood twins!" Came a jovial voice from off to the right interrupting the standoff Sera was having with the boy.
"Magnus! It's been too long" came Grace's reply as a sparkly man walked up to the group before greeting Grace and Tobias individually. Sera quickly eyed him as before returning to staring the other boy down, holding her sister firmly in place.
"Sera! Let me go!" Clary cried out trying to yank her arm away from her twin sister a pitiful attempt as far as Sera was concerned as she turned to look Clary in the eyes.
"Clary you have to be kidding me, you don't know these guys!" Sera said reading her sisters facial expression as she once again pulled on her arm.
"No you don't know them Sera!" Clary cried using her other hand in an attempt to help free her arm from the stronger twin.
"Clary did you need some help?" Came a voice from one of the two boys that Sera had previously been glaring at.
"You stay away from my sister!" Came Sera's quick retort rounding on the blonde boy in front of her, her eyes finally meeting his golden ones. As she was about to continue with her retort another somewhat familiar figure stumbled up to the group.
"Where's Simon?" Clary asked looking at the tall brunette girl who was a little wobbly on her feet.
The tall girl teetered on her heels slightly as she looked at Clary. "He's a rat," she said darkly.
"Did he do something to you?" the boy she was currently using as a support asked his voice full of concern. "Did he touch you? If he tried anything-"
"No, Alec," came her irritated reply. "Not like that. He's a rat."
"She's drunk," came the voice of the blonde boy, Sera had just began another mental barrage at, as he begin to turn away in disgust.
"I'm not," She said indignantly. turning her nose up slightly at him "Well, maybe a little, but that's not the point. The point is, Simon drank one of those blue drinks- I told him not to, but he didn't listen- and he turned into a rat."
Sera watched her twin closely as she registered the words of the drunk girl in front of them, her face falling quickly as she looked to the area she had just sauntered from. Her mind catching up with what was happening as she quickly took off towards the bar set up a few feet from them crouching down to see if she could see any rats hiding under it. Sera shook her head slightly before following after the other girl. Her list of things she needed answers for growing ever longer as the night progressed. As she bent down to help her sister she couldn't help but growl slightly to herself, the presence of the blonde boy being made clear to her.

Again I know this is really short. I kinda feel the need to separate this up a bit more then in the book, mostly because Sera isn't around her sister and the rest of the guys much at the current point of time.

Anyway. Once again thanks to all those who reviewed/ Favorited and followed this. I apologize for the major delays in getting this out, been a bit stuck mentally. Hopefully I'm over that now.