I got this idea ages ago, but I never bothered to actually do it. The couples are Malec, Sizzy, and Clace. I would add Jaia or Alielen (however you spell it), but The Game of Life can only have up to six players. The coupling will be mostly Malec, but nothing major. Just kisses and hinting. Beware, this fic is pure crack. In this fic, Isabelle and Simon are dating, Magnus and Alec can't keep their hands off each other, and Jace and Clary are well, just them. I'm not big fans of them, but I love how Jace interacts with Alec and Izzy and how Clary interacts with Simon. By the way, I have no life and I actually played The Game of Life so every spot they got really happened, but some spots were edited because I kept landing on certain spots and it annoyed me and there are certain spaces on my board that I don't like, so I tend to ignore their existence.

I do not own The Mortal Instruments nor The Game of Life. That would be the lovely Cassandra Clare and Hasbro.

Clary was sitting in Luke's living room with her boyfriend, Jace, his siblings, Alec and Isabelle, Alec's boyfriend, Magnus, and Isabelle's boyfriend and Clary's best friend, Simon. They were all chatting aimlessly, but she could tell they were all bored. They all had been meeting up at different places to stick together in case there were any signs of Sebastian, but it had been almost a month without a single hint of him. As much as she wanted to stay on her toes, she was getting bored out of her mind with the wait. Almost none of them were patient people.

"What? You had never gone to the supermarket until Simon took you?" asked Clary, astounded.

"Never saw a mango that wasn't cut up either," smirked Jace, as if it was something to be proud of.

Clary simply shook her head.

"Hey, Clary, I think I know how to get rid of this boredom," began Simon.

He always seemed be on the same drift as her.

"What is it?"

"Bet none of these shadowhunters and maybe even this warlock never played a board game."

Clary grinned widely.

"I bet they haven't, have you?"

"I've played many of the classics, but none of these new ones," answered Magnus.

Jace and Isabelle shook their heads while Alec furrowed his eyebrows in confusion, which Clary took as a no. Clary got up from her chair and went off to find some of her board games. They were mostly at her old apartment, but she was sure there was at least one or two at Luke's. She finally found one in one of the closets. She brought it back to have found that Simon had cleared off the kitchen table for it and they were all sitting around it now.

"The Game of Life? I haven't played that game in forever! Though, the game is even more unrealistic now that I'm a vampire," said Simon as he began to help Clary set it up.

"I played the original of that. It wasn't so happy and go-lucky. It had suicide and death in it," stated Magnus as he watched them.

"Really? That's a bit disturbing."

"Don't you get married in this game? Can I marry Alec?"

Alec blushed furiously at that.

"Well, you are suppose to marry an imaginary person, but the person never contributes to anything as if your spouse is a ghost. So we'll tweak the rules to be able to marry each other. You'll marry Alec. I'll marry Jace and Simon will marry Isabelle. When we get to the marriage spot, we will stop and wait on it until the other person gets there and then we'll get married. We'll even share our money," answered Clary.

Magnus smiled at that, but at Alec, though Alec was trying to hide his red face in his drink.

"Okay. Now to figure out what cars we'll be. I own the game, so I pick first. I'm green," said Clary and before she could say who could choose next, Magnus grabbed the blue and purple cars.

"I am purple and Alec is blue. Anyone who wants to argue with that will be turned into a rat. Ask Samson; I don't joke about turning people into rodents."

"Samson? Well, you started and ended with the correct letters," said Simon.

"Normally I would argue, but I do not care for either of those colors. I want red," announced Jace as he took the said car.

"And I'll be yellow," said Isabelle.

"I guess that leaves me with orange, but that's cool. Orange is an awesome color," said Simon.

"I'll be in charge of the bank since I own the game. That and Simon can't do math," mentioned Clary.

"Hey! I can count just fine. Sesame Street taught me that well. The Count and I have a lot in common now that we are both of the same species."

Clary rolled her eyes before saying, "What order should we go in?"

"We should go in the order of age. Magnus, you should spin about fifty billion times before we can play!" laughed Jace.

"Piss off!" was the retort he got out of him along with the finger.

"Going in order of age isn't a bad idea, though. It would be Magnus then Alec then Jace. Wait, who's older? You or Isabelle?" asked Clary.

"I'll be seventeen in two months," replied Isabelle.

"I turned sixteen seven months ago. She's older," responded Simon.

"Okay. Then I'll go last," stated Clary. She then turned to Magnus. "Okay, Magnus. College or Career?"

"I think I should play this game how I truly am. Since I don't have the patience for college, career it is," he answered.

Clary picked up the career cards and shuffled them. "Pick three."

He grabbed three at random without being able to see what they were. "Mechanic, hair stylist, or salesperson. Well, I am not getting under anyone's damn car or getting grease on me and we already established I have no patience, so I'm not going to waste my time trying to sell something to someone. I do rather enjoy the hair stylist choice even though they have a sucky pay. Alec, darling, you are going to have to get a high paying job and make all the money because I am becoming a hair stylist."

"Now you can spin," she instructed.

Magnus twisted his hand on the rainbow colored spinner and it spun until it landed on eight.

"Snowboarding Accident, Pay $5,000. Alec, you definitely need to make a lot of money, especially if I'm going to be so accident prone in this game," stated Magnus as he paid from the pay day he passed.

"Alec's turn is next. College or career?"

Alec looked at Clary in confusion from her question.

"What's college?" he requested.

It was amazing how smart the boy was about the shadow world then how, well, not smart he was about the human world.

"College is school. By going to it, you can get certain jobs, usually higher paying, but you have to pay for it to go. In this you'll be in debt the beginning of the game if you go to it, but like I said, you'll have a better job," she answered.

"You should go to college, Alec. You're smart enough for it," said Magnus, smiling at him.

That apparently did it for Alec for after that he blushed and said in a quiet voice he wanted to go to college. Clary handed him the bank loans.

"What's this?" he asked, looking at the paper loans.

"Your debt. Now spin."

Alec furrowed his eyebrows, but he set them down and spun the spinner. It landed on six.

"Spring Break in Florida, Pay $5,000," read Alec.

Clary handed him another loan and the money that made up the difference. "Here's more of your debt, college boy!"

"Even in this board game, it seems Magnus and Alec travel all over," laughed Isabelle.

"It's your turn, Jace. College or career?" asked Clary.

"Seeing how in debt Alec is, I'm going for career," said Jace.

Clary shuffled the career cards and Jace picked three.

"Let's see, I can be an athlete, police officer, or entertainer. Wow. Tough choices. I can entertain people with my charms or I can hunt down bad guys or I can play a sport. You know what? I'm going to be an athlete," said Jace. He then spun a four and landed on a pay day.

"Okay, Isabelle, you know the drill," said Clary as she turned to her.

"I'm going for career, too. I have my eye on one already." Clary showed her the cards and she picked three. "Mechanic, salesperson, or police officer. Yes! I wanted the police officer!" She then spun a two and rented an apartment.

"I'm going to college. Give me my debt, Clary," smiled Simon.

Clary handed him the bank loans and then he spun and got a part time job. Clary chose college for herself and got her loans. She spun and grinned when she got a semester in London even though it wasn't real. She always had loved this game and had never played it with so many people before. She wondered how the rest of the game would go.

And there you have it. This will be continued and it will be more crackish once the game actually starts. I doubt it will be entirely in Clary's point of view. I wasn't sure who's it was going to be going into it and Clary was the best one since she owned the game. Alec barely talked in this because he's so quiet. Jace and Izzy will have more comments, but they were baffled by this board game in this chapter. Mundanes and their strange objects!

~Camille Cayden