How It All Goes Down
And Death Shall Have No Dominion
- Clary returns with everyone to the Institute, which is deserted except for Max.
- She stays in Jace's bedroom, and he gives her a clean t-shirt to wear.
- While Jace, Clary's brother, hangs out all shirtless with his bare hipbones poking out all over the place, Clary tries to get in touch with Simon, but can't.
- Clary is mad that Jace kissed her, even though he didn't have a choice.
- They argue, and Clary admits that she loves Simon like a brother, and she loves her own brother like a lover.
- He suggests they get their incest on, but Clary can't bear to imagine what everyone else would think if they found out.
- Jace promises to never kiss Clary again, and she's heartbroken.
- She falls asleep, and has a dream of bloody feathers falling from the sky.
- When she wakes up, Jace is looking into a broken piece of Portal, hoping he can see his father in the reflection. But he never does.
- They decide to return to Magnus's, but the Institute's doorbell rings.
- Clary assumes it's Simon and runs to the door.
- It is Simon. Kind of. Raphael, the vampire, is at the door, holding Simon's dead body.
- He tells them that Simon came to the vampire lair, wondering if he were becoming one of them, because when Simon was a rat (in the last book) he bit a vampire and ingested some of his blood.
- The other vampires in the vampire lair killed Simon. Since he has ingested vampire blood, he will reawaken a vampire if they bury him first.
- Clary agrees to bury him, as long as they do it in a Jewish cemetery.