Shadowhunters the Mortal Instruments: Major Arcana Episode 7

This story will closely mirror the TV show Shadowhunters and I will post a chapter for each episode that premiers. It will have in depth points of view for our characters and focus on the relationship between Clary and Alec, because despite the show and books I ship them like a FedEx package. This story will become more AU to accommodate the Clary and Alec relationship while still following the TV shows storyline. For all of you who have taken the time to not only ready but also review, thank you so much! Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own the show or the characters. I simply saw that there was not any fanfiction for Alec and Clary in this series and decided to nip that right in the bud.

Previously on Shadowhunters Rewritten: It seems like the more I search for the truth, for answers, the more skeletons I find, how long until the closets clean? All I know is I'm not alone, I have Simon, Magnus, Luke, Izzy, Jace and I have Alec. Now, we have a way to get the Mortal cup. Hold on mom, I'm coming for you.

Clary's POV:

"I know where the cup is." My statement is met with a plethora of responses.

"Come again?" asks Jace as Magnus sits up from his reclined position on the couch.

"The tarot cards. My mom, she must have painted them years ago but the Mortal cup has to be hidden inside the ace of cups. The card looks exactly like it!" I see Jace meet Magnus's eyes and they both seem to be communicating something important, their expressions grave.

"Wait, why aren't you guys happy about this? All we have to do is find…Dot." I say as realization dawns and I see Magnus nod at me.

"If Dot had the cards when she was taken than we don't have much time. If Valentine gets his hands on the cup-."

"We know." Says Magnus with a hand up halting Jace's progression towards me. I admit it was a bit funny to see Jace's flustered face. "If Valentine started creating Shadowhunters or gained control of demons, it'd be like Beyoncé riding on a dinosaur through Times Square." He says circling around me before stopping directly in front of me and leaning close, "people would notice."

"But he can control demons I've seen it." I counter.

"Mmm, paying off a few demons is simple especially since they rarely survive long enough to collect."

"Still waiting on Valentine's thank-you card," interjects Jace causing me to smirk.

"Opening the gates of hell…that's a little trickier," Says Magnus once again invading my personal space. I wonder what's up with him.

"Valentine doesn't have the cards," a voice surprises us from the doorway and in walks a heavily bandaged Luke. "I do. They're in my desk back at the precinct." At our awed expressions he explains further. "When Clary went missing I cleared the loft out. I didn't want Circle to track her.

"That's great, this should be easy," I chime.

"Hmm, that's what General Custer said." Quips the warlock falling dramatically into a chaise.

"Magnus is right Valentine has spies everywhere, even in the NYPD. We have to be discreet." Says Luke.

"Discreet? You look like something out of the Mummy movie." I hear Magnus giggle lightly in his throat and give him a look, he looks away pretending that he didn't just make an embarrassing sound.

"Werewolf healing remember? This is nothing a few hours of beauty sleep won't fix." I just nod my acceptance and feel a larger hand take my own, I look down and see that Magnus is holding my hand in his and nodding reassuringly. I shoot him a look before extricating my hand from his unaware of Jace's raised eyebrow and the quizzical looks he's giving us.

Luke, Jace and I make our way to the precinct, the trip taking longer than it should as we are all acting as look outs wanting to make sure Valentine's men don't find us. Once we arrive Luke turns back to the two of us.

"All right, cards are in my desk, it shouldn't take long."

"All right," says Jace making a move towards the entrance.

"Whoa, whoa. It'll be easier to avoid unnecessary attention if I do this alone." Says Luke giving us a stern look before entering the building. I see Jace struggle to bite his tongue and cross his arms petulantly.

"It sounded boring anyway," he says making me smile. We decide to hide out behind a line of parked squad cars that provide cover and am excellent view of the station. It takes Luke a bit longer than expected so we settle in for a long wait.

"I've got a bad feeling about this. Why is it taking him so long?" I asks starting to get antsy.

"I know a way we can find out. Just go in and see for ourselves," says Jace.

"Luke told us to stay put so that's what we're going to do," I counter.

"So," he says trying and failing at subtlety. "What's going on with you and Magnus?"

"What do you mean?" I respond genuinely confused.

"I mean you guys seemed kind of close this morning, he made sure I didn't get near you but had no problem crowding your space and let's not forget the hand holding, I wonder what dear Alec would think."

"That was just Magnus being his usual weird self," I counter although I too was curious about his behavior as well. Were interrupted by the sound of my phone ringing.

"That's probably Luke now," I say while checking my phone only to see Alec's name flash across the screen.

"I doubt it," says Jace distracting me. I look over at him only to see his eyes trained on the precinct windows where a group of men in suits are leading Luke away. "Just so I'm clear he did say something about trying to avoid attention right? From the looks of it he's doing a terrible job." I press ignore on my phone even though it's the last thing I want to do and focus on Luke.

"Circle members?" I ask.

"No, Mundanes. Internal affairs officers."

"You can tell all that just by looking at them?"

"I can tell all that by their badges." He rolls up the sleeve of his leather jacket to reveal the invisibility rune. "Better than badges, he had his chance. Let's go."

"Okay," I agree, as we make our way to the doors. We follow the agents as they lead Luke into one of the interrogation rooms, we see the door open and decide to make our move. We slip into the room completely taking Luke by surprise, the agent questioning him tries to get his attention and looks around the room not seeing anything unusual. Shaking his head he leaves the room and Jace and I exchange smirks. Once the room is empty Luke reaches for the tissue and while under the guise of blowing his nose says 'camera' and Jace quickly disconnects the feed.

"Luke, what's going on?" I ask.

"I think I'm about to be a suspect in a murder investigation." I hear myself sigh, things just keep getting better and better.

"What do we do?"

"Get the cards. In my desk bottom drawer. And you can't glamour yourselves, I'm not the only Downworlder on the force and we don't know whose working for Valentine. If anybody spots you-."

"We'll be leading the right to the Mortal cup," finishes Jace.

"Exactly. Better to assume that everybody has the sight than gamble that they don't." We hear the door knob turning and I shoot a worried glance at Luke. "I can handle myself," he assures reading my concern.

"Hey what happened to the camera?" I hear the officer ask as we sneak our way past him and into the hall. These rune things are awesome.

Alec's POV:

I make my way through the institutes doors and who should I see but Izzy, is it too much to hope that she'll ignore me? Yes.

"You stayed with Clary at Magnus's all night?" she asks smirking.

"I didn't get much sleep," I snap, then realizing how that sounds was quick to clarify. "I was helping treat Luke's wounds all night, that's it."

"Really?" she says sarcastically making me turn back to her.

"What?"

"Nothing. I believe you." She says sauntering up to me.

"Okay, I finally talked to Clary and told her everything. That's it, that's all I'm going to say."

"When you're ready to talk, I'll be here," she says before turning to walk away but not quick enough so that I still catch the hurt in her eyes.

"Hey, I talk to you," I quip.

"About everything but your personal life," she says turning back to me. "You know and it's kind of not fair because I talk to you about mine all the time," she says her voice rising. "For example I broke up with Melliorn."

"Really? Turning over a new leaf?" she scoffs at that.

"He was a bit much. Apparently I need someone more Shadowhunter-ish." She says meeting my eyes and conveying a million different emotions. So our parents made her end her relations to suit their standards.

"Izzy I realize you're trying to take some of the heat off the family and I appreciate it, but you can't change who you are."

"Really? And you can?" She asks following me up the steps.

"I know who I am. I'm a guy who is about to be disowned when dad finds out that Jace and Clary are still out with a warlock and werewolf searching for answers."

"I'm sure he's used to that by now, this is Jace we're talking about."

"They said they'd be an hour, it's been three." I say trying not to show my worry, it doesn't help that Clary didn't answer her phone when I tried to check in earlier either. What on earth could they be doing?

Clary POV:

We were in a closet. A closet. One we de-glamour Jace turns to me.

"I doubt we can get out of this closet without being noticed, how are we supposed to get the cards?"

"I have a plan," I say confidently although I am just winging it.

"How sure are you about this plan?" he asks suspiciously.

"90%. Oh and I'm sorry," I say as inspiration strikes.

"For what?"

"The other 10%." I respond as we walk out of the closet and make our way to Luke's desk, as soon as we step in the office every officer looks up at us. I whirl around and slap Jace across the face, grimacing as he jumps back in surprise. "You son of a b****." I yell making my way to Luke's desk. "Stop following me!" I feel him grab my arm before he whispers frantically.

"What about being discreet?" I pull away as two officers rush up to him to detain him.

"Wait, what did you say?" I screech. "You cheated on me?!"

"I…Huh? I did not." He stumbles and once again tries to follow me but the officers are not relenting. I'm at Luke's desk now and am looking through the bottom drawer but the desk is completely empty. I see Luke's boss the captain make her way to me and keep up my pretense screaming at Jace.

"You will never see me in your crappy apartment again!"

"That girl? Means nothing to me, nothing." He defends.

"Is that the boyfriend that I heard so much about?" asks the captain as she regards Jace arms crossed.

"Nope. Not anymore, I'm dumping him," I say turning to her. "Where is all of Luke's stuff?"

"IA took everything what are you looking for?" she asks concerned.

"I lost a house key and Luke normally keeps a spare here in his desk so is there any way I can get it?"

"No, not till he's cleared.

"Cleared? Of what?"

"Oh don't worry about it, we'll get it handled." She assures.

"Clary! I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I apologize. I just want you to know it only happened like…two or… it just happened a couple of times and I am totally-."

"Shut up!" The captain and I say at the same time.

"Babe, come on!"

"Listen. You don't get to call her "babe", okay? In fact you don't get to call her at all. Clary's done with you. You got it? Take him out." Says the Chief defending me. The officers both grip Jace's arms and lead him towards the exit.

"I have rights!" he shouts as he's being led away and it's taking everything in me not to start laughing. The captain then turns to me.

"Maybe it's for the best huh?" she asks and then I see her eyes roam my neck. "Oh, matching tattoo's that's a red flag right there."

"Oh, this?" I say trying to cover the exposed rune. "It's nothing."

"Don't worry, I get it. You always fall for the bad boy's right?" she asks with a smile.

"Right. I just- I really need that key," I say.

"I'm sorry Clary but IA has everything in the evidence vault upstairs."

Bingo! I think to myself. I make an excuse to leave and quickly walk away. Whew, that was close.

I meet up with Jace but it's nearly have to run to keep up with his angry pace.

"I think I'll just bring Alec next time. I'm pretty sure he's never slapped me in the face!"

"I'm sorry, I panicked." I exhale as we turn the corner and bump straight into Isabell and Alec himself. Oh God, please take me now, I bet Jace is going to tattle on me. The rat fink!

"Someone ask for back-up?" asks Isabell smirking.

"Yeah, I called you guys but you didn't answer." Snaps Jace.

"That's funny I was going to say the exact same thing," says Alec sending a glare my way. I simply look at the sidewalk as though it's the most interesting thing I've seen in my life but I can feel his hard gaze on me.

"It's complicated," says Jace also glaring at me.

"We found the cup." I suddenly announce hoping to change the subject.

"The cup?" says Isabell perking up, I knew I liked her for a reason, the guys are freaking out and she's calm and practical.

"Yeah, but then we lost it. It's back at the precinct vault."

"Well, this is a disaster," says Alec crossing his arms.

"Hey, demon pox is a disaster, this is an inconvenience. We just need a plan that's all." Quips Jace.

"What about a glamour?" Asks Izzy.

"We tried that. Anyone working with Valentine will see right through it."

"Can we ask Magnus to portal us inside?" I ask

"Yeah, I'm sure he'd want to do anything to help Clary," says Jace smirking at me.

"I already told you he didn't mean anything by it," I growl at him not seeing Alec narrow his gaze on us.

"It wouldn't work," says Isabell. "Magnus can only portal us into places he's been in before-." Once again we are interrupted by my cell phone ringing. I look down and sigh as I see Simon's name flash across the screen.

"One second guys," I say stepping away to answer the call. Simon sounds panicked and is going on about how he might be sick, I wish he could just understand what I'm dealing with right now. Before I can say much I feel the phone being taken from me and the call being disconnected.

"Simon's little problem can wait. I've got a great plan."

"Oh really?" I ask amused. "Are we going for the most dysfunctional couple award?"

"Ha-ha," he says amused but I notice Alec's eyebrows sky rocket as he looks between me and Jace angrily. "Just follow my lead. Oh, and don't worry. In my plan, no one gets slapped."

"Slapped? What are you talking about? Clary what is he talking about?" demands Alec.

"Oh nothing, apparently my girlfriend had a problem with me cheating on her right babe?" says Jace placing his arm around my waist and leading me away before I can answer the now sputtering Alec.

Alec POV:

Just what the hell has my soulmate been up to today? I find out she's going around smacking people, Magnus seems to be messing with her and she's suddenly "babe" to Jace? We are going to have to sit down and have a serious conversation about her and other guys. I know I've always been protective of my family but when I imagined myself in a relationship I never thought I'd be the possessive jealous type but apparently I am. As Izzy and I make our way into the upper levels of the precinct near the vault and step off the elevator we see one officer manning the desk.

"Okay I'm guessing you're the distraction?" I say as I survey the halls.

"Nope. I've decided to grow up remember? No more distracting for me. Besides," she says turning to observe the female cop. "I don't think I'm her type." She smirks evilly.

"Oh, crap." I say adjusting my coat and flexing my tense shoulders.

"Don't worry, this is good practice." Says Izzy.

"Huh?" I grunt, barely registering her words.

"You know, for asking out Clary." I just give her a glare. She exhales sharply and starts adjusting my jacket and unbuttoning my shirt.

"Hey, what are you doing?" I ask

"Unbuttoning your shirt. What's it look like I'm doing?"

"Izzy this is not really my department," I mutter uncomfortable.

"You do this sort of stuff all the time," she encourages.

"You do, I don't!"

"It's easy, now go." She whisper yells.

I try to saunter my way over to the desk but I'm pretty sure I just looked like a stumbling idiot. I feel sick to my stomach just thinking about having to flirt with another woman and I'm not sure if that's thanks to my soul mate bond or general shyness. Making my way to the desk I lay my elbow across it and crouch down.

"Hey," I say flashing the woman my mist charming smile.

"Can I help you?" she asks looking at me with a blank expression.

Do… you come here often?" I stutter out. She gives me a look filled with annoyance.

"I work here, now can I help you with something?" Seriously Alec?! Thank the angels no one is here to witness my humiliation.

"Right, um. I'm just looking for some information." I say as my eyes scan her desk for anything I can use, I see stacks of paper and an unopened water bottle and decide to just go for it. "Oh, look at that?" I say pointing and 'accidentally' spill her opened water bottle all over the desk. "Oh, I'm so sorry," I say as I help her try to clean up. From the corner of my eye I see Izzy walk by and I casually flick the officer's badge to her as she passes. The officer is getting annoyed with my 'assistance' and tells me to go. I grab a stack of random pamphlets from her desk and walk away muttering my thanks. That was the worst minute and a half of my life and it doesn't help that my sister is trying and failing to contain her laughter. I am never living this down.

Clary's POV:

After marking me with a rune that will allow me night vision and receiving the signal from Izzy and Alec, Jace and I make our way up the elevator shaft and into the vault. After a few comments from Jace about me slowing us down and a disappointing moment where we found the card but I couldn't use my power to reach into the card to get the cup we decided to high-tail it out of there. As we make our way out to the sidewalk Alec immediately approaches us. I need to talk to him later, I was getting a pain in my stomach and feeling a bit shaky and I know it wasn't me, I had been feeling his emotions and I was worried about him.

"Did you get the cup?" he asks.

"Theoretically," I respond.

"What do you mean?" he asks confused.

"I found the card I just have to figure out how I reached into my notebook before. It's not an exact science."

"Can't you just pull the cup out?"

"I can theoretically, I just, it's not as easy as it looks Alec," I say growing frustrated.

"Listen you two can discuss theory as much as you want when we get back to the institute. But right now, considering we just stole from the cops I think we should go," Jace cuts in.

"Guys… I think the mundanes might be the least of our worries," says Isabell her necklace pulsing.

"Well at least we know the demon necklace is working," quips Alec.

"Never a dull day," responds Jace. "Let's go," They all set off at a brisk pace and I quickly fall behind.

"Guys slow down," I ask and before I can take another step and elderly woman is blocking my path and her bag falls. "Oh, I'm sorry," I say as I bend to pick up the bag, when I look up I see that her face gas transformed into a hideous creature like the first demon I saw at the night club. Alec is suddenly behind her and his blade is thrust through her chest faster than I can blink.

"What the hell," I mumble as Izzy and Jace make their ways towards us.

"Language, not in front of grandma," scolds Jace.

"How did it find us?" asks Alec

"I don't know," says Isabell. "But she brought friends." As we try to make our way past the station I notice more and more officers with glowing eyes begin to surround us.

"There's too many people," I say worried.

"I don't say this, but I agree with Clary," says Alec. "We need to get out of here."

"Here! This way," I say taking the lead and directing us towards an alley and into an electrical room with a back entrance. From the corner of my eye I see Alec rune his quiver full of arrows and load his bow.

"Hey, what are you doing?" asks Jace.

"I'll stay and hold them off, you get Clary back to the institute." He responds shooting me a pleading look when he feels the tightening in my chest.

"No, we fight together, I'm not leaving anyone behind," argues Jace.

"We have to go! All of us," I say urgently.

"This isn't the first time Alec had saved your life and I doubt it will be the last," Isabell says with a reassuring smile my way. I look beyond her and meet his gaze, he gives me a nod and with that I am being ushered away by Jace and Izzy. We make our way through the passages at a brisk pace but I can't help but feel like I left my heart behind me because in a way I did and the ache in my chest is refusing to go away, in fact it's getting worse. I try to hide it but it's making itself known through the tear tracks running down my face.

"Wait, guys…" I say panting. They both turn to assess me and share a worried look.

"It's okay Clary, take your time." Says Jace.

"Clary I know your worried about him, I am too but you need to calm down so that Alec can focus, your emotions are tethered remember? Just breathe, we're going to make it out of this-." She is stopped short and we can all see her necklace glowing and pulsing.

"More of them?" asks Jace.

"Yeah, but I don't know where, it's like they're right here but we can't see them." Out of nowhere a demon suddenly jumps out and attacks Jace. He makes quick work of dismantling it before commanding us to split up and ordering me to keep running no matter what, until I reach the institute. As much as I argue he tells me to go and I have no choice but to keep making my way through the halls. In my hurry I don't realize it but I've hit a dead end and I can see a rapidly approaching rex demon.

"Oh crap!" I mutter to myself. By now I am hyperventilating and I have no weapon to protect me. Pulling out the ace of cups I place my palm over the card and it immediately begins to glow. I reach my hand through the card and my fingers grasp the bottom of the cup, holding tight I pull it out and brandish it at the demon.

"Get back! Get back!" I yell and to my relief it skitters off frightened. Unable to process what just happened I take a few moments to breathe and calm my heart beat, I make my way back the way I came and find it empty and quiet, too quiet.

"Jace? Izzy?" I call out. I suddenly see Jace come around the corner and let out a relieved breath.

"Jace, are you okay?" I ask noting the blood on his cheek.

"I'm fine. What happened?"

"I was cornered by a Rex demon but I did it, I got the cup. My instincts just kicked in.

"Great, I knew you could do it," he says quickly. "Now give me the cup and let's go."

"Give you the cup?" I ask, alarms going off in my head. Jace would never ask me for the cup.

"Yeah, just until we get to the institute. You know I would do anything to keep you safe." He says. This isn't Jace but I decide to play along.

"You're right," I say as I reach into the bag but instead of the cup I feel my hand tighten around my angel blade and in one quick motion I brandish it and plunge it into 'Jace's' stomach. His eyes go wide in shock and he places a hand near the wound.

"C-Clary," he stutters out. Oh my God, is this really Jace, I feel myself begin to panic.

"Jace…" as I utter his name I see his eyes turn a bright blue just before the demon makes itself known and I finish plunging the blade into it. My breaths stuttering when I see it dissolve into ashes. I'm so focused on looking at where he once stood that I am caught off guard when suddenly Luke and Alec appear in front of me.

"Get back! How do I know your Luke?!" I ask frantic.

"I got you spray paint for your Birthday," he says as they make their way towards me slowly, hands raised. Alec places a hand on Luke's shoulder to halt his movements and makes his way towards me.

"Clary, just focus on me, can you feel me? Like at Bane's, focus on trying to reach me." Listening to his words I think about Alec. About the way I feel when I'm around him, about his stormy eyes, about his smile that I love and I am suddenly able to feel him. His heartbeat, his emotions, his essence. I let out a huge breath and run to him. His arms were already open and he pulls me to him holding me tight, making me feel secure. I pull back just enough to look up at him.

"Are you okay?" I ask, my eyes trying to check him for injury.

"I'm fine," he says placing a hand on my cheek. "What happened?"

"Uh, demons…long story." I say still trying to get a hold of myself. "Where'd you come from?" I ask looking at Luke who is regarding us oddly his face a mixture of confusion and intrigue.

"Jail. I ran into Alec, he said you were down here and you might need some help." Alec is looking around inspecting the quickly disappearing ashes on the ground.

"Apparently not. Looks like she took care of it." He says talking to Luke but looking at me and I detect a hint of pride in his voice.

"Shouldn't we get going or something?" I ask, not really wanting to spend any more time her than I already have. "Shall we?" I ask.

"Yeah. Right." Says Alec waiting for me to pass so that Luke is in front and he is watching our backs.

As soon as we arrive at the institute and assure Izzy and Jace that I'm all right Alec and I head into the weapons room to return our cache of weapons. As soon as the task is done we turn to each other, both unsure what to say.

"I got the cup," I say proudly.

"Clary, I don't care about the cup. I felt you, I felt your fear and I was so worried that I was going to lose you. What happened?"

"There was a demon, a shape shifter who looked just like Jace and at first I thought I was safe but then he started asking me for the cup and I knew it wasn't him so I stabbed him with the blade but then there was this moment when he said my name and I thought- I thought I had killed him." I mutter, my eyes filling with tears.

"Hey, hey it's okay," he says wiping my cheeks and cradling my face.

"It was all too real and then you staying behind, I don't want to lose you, I can't lose you," I say fisting my hands in his shirt front.

"I'm sorry. I'm sorry," he mutters softly rubbing up and down my arms in a soothing motion. Last night at Magnus's he made the first move, he showed me how he felt and now it's time for me to reciprocate. Taking a deep breath I stand on my tippy toes and place a hand behind Alec's neck drawing him to me. My lips meet his in a passionate and frenzied kiss. I am trying to convey my emotions to him through that kiss and after his initial surprise he takes control slanting his mouth over mine. Hi hands reach up to fist my hair and my soul feels complete. His lips are soft and warm and the kiss is perfect, we pull back when we need to breathe but don't break apart. He lowers his forehead to rest on mine. I may have found the Mortal cup, Valentine and the Circle may be after me and things may have gone to hell in a hand basket but right now it's just Alec and me and in this one moment, everything is right in the world. That is until Alec had to ruin the moment.

"You and I are going to have a serious talk about exactly what you got up to today with Magnus and Jace." says Alec with a slight smirk. Oh no.

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