This is my favourite story out of my new ones, and I actually already have a sequel planned if you guys enjoy this one. As a point of reference for the appearance of the werewolves, they look like the ones on Teen Wolf when they're changed, not full wolf looking, just the face and claws and fangs. Google image it if you're unsure. I hope you guys enjoy this, because I absolutely loved writing this one!

Disclaimer: I do not own the characters.

Sometimes Clarissa Fray wondered how she ended up here.

Running through the woods, her clothing shredded and blood dripping down her arms and her legs burning, chased by men who were carrying guns that were loaded with bullets made of silver and laced with wolfsbane. Her hair was flying out behind her, a completely tangled mess around her face, thanking God that she had worn a good pair of running shoes that afternoon when she had been hauled off on yet another one of these adventures.

And with werewolves at her side.

Just three years ago, she was in high school, flirting with the hot, dark haired guy who sat behind her in Chemistry and was on the basketball team. She had plans to go off to University in the city, she wanted to get away from the town she had grown up in, get away from the memories of her abusive father and away from the cattiness and drama of teenager-hood. Her mother had planned to move to New York, in with her boyfriend, Luke Greymark, who she had been seeing for over two years and had actually been in a relationship with before she had met Clary's father. Her best friend, Simon Lewis, was far too smart for his own good and was planning on getting out of the township as well for some sort of forensic science degree.

They had even made it out of the tiny town, moving into a bigger township about an hour and a half away, a few weeks after they finished school. It was just meant to be a temporary thing, they had both been accepted into Universities across the country, and until they had to leave in four months time, they wanted to get some time away from their parents and their high school companions. They got a dingy little apartment together, found part time jobs, and everything went well for all of three months. Simon started dating a pretty girl, a girl that Clary got on well with, and things seemed as though they were getting serious. Clary was actually getting a bit worried that maybe Simon was going to put off his plans for University for a year, just so he could spend time with her, but then there was the accident.

It had been a late night, Clary and Simon had been coming home from a movie when suddenly the car was spinning out of control, and they were skidding across the empty street directly toward a power pole. Simon's side of the car had taken the brunt of the attack, and he hadn't been conscious when suddenly a creature that Clary thought was a hallucination had appeared on his side of the car and roared. It's eyes were glowing, and there was a sickly smell that assaulted her senses, and she wasn't able to even scream when suddenly it was frightened and taking off into the dense woods. At the time, Clary had absolutely no idea how Isabelle Lightwood and her angry looking friends had showed up only minutes after the accident, and hunkered down over Simon's twisted body in the driver seat. Clary had been in shock, barely able to process what was going on, all she could see was Simon, covered in blood, looking broken and barely breathing.

Isabelle had been pleading with the furious looking golden man that Clary had seen around a few times. Clary couldn't understand what was happening, the dark haired man that Clary was pretty certain was Isabelle's brother, had hauled her out of the passenger side of the car. The next day she would realize that he had actually ripped off the door car and pulled her out, but at the time she was just staring dumbly at Simon. She didn't get what Isabelle kept saying, asking the golden haired man to save Simon—he didn't look like any kind of doctor. They were having some argument, and Clary just kept mumbling Simon's name over and over again, trying to reach out for her friend, and the golden haired man had looked at her. His expression was torn, but it must have been a combination of Isabelle's begging and the look on Clary's face that made up his mind.

Then his eyes flashed red and suddenly his face morphed into something maybe similar to the creature she had originally seen, and there were a whole lot of sharp teeth, and then Clary blacked out.

That was how she ended up here.

A shot rang out beside her ear and Clary instinctively ducked her head, but kept right on running. She heard a growl nearby, but there had been no hisses or howls of pain, so she assumed that the shot hadn't hit anyone around her. They just had to get a little bit further, just a few more minutes of running and they would meet the rest of their pack, then they would be safe.

Another shot sounded off, this one a whole lot closer to Clary's face, and she felt her fast beginning to rabbit even faster, and then suddenly there was a vicious roar and her body acted automatically, throwing herself to the ground in a roll. The rest of the pack had heard the gunshots and must have run toward them. The were's around her would have heard them coming but it's not as though they had time to tell her.

That was fine, though, Jace Herondale's roar had been enough to notify her of their presence.

She hit the ground just in time for Jace, Alec Lightwood and Jem Carstairs leap past her. Their eyes were glowing, their faces wolfed out, all three of them snarling. With their Alpha and two other pack mates at their sides, Simon, Isabelle, Max Lightwood and Maia Roberts spun around to face the hunters that were advancing on them. Magnus Bane wasn't too far behind them, blue magic swirling around his fingers and his eyes glowing gold, a similar gold to the beta wolves. He looked down at her for a moment, glancing her over, and she gave him a short nod, assuring him that she was okay, before turning back to face the hunters.

The hunters exploded through the tree line and came to a stop when they saw six werewolves and a warlock, rather than just three were's and a human like they had thought they had been chasing.

"This isn't your territory, Alpha," the hunter in the front spat out at him, waving his gun around, the men on either side of him glaring at the eight in front of them. Clary got to her feet, trying to control her breathing, wiping her hands on her jeans. Even her human senses could hear more people approaching behind them, but from the way the were's weren't panicking, she guessed that it wasn't a threat.

"No, but it is mine," Will Herondale appeared behind them, along with his second in command, Bartholomew Velasquez, close behind him. "And you're not welcome here." The hunter in front, who was clearly the one in charge, clenched his jaw and glared between all of the were's.

"Maybe you should have thought about who was going to come after you if you attacked one of ours," the hunter snapped. Clary glanced from side to side, noting the way that Simon and Max were scenting the air. She wasn't sure what they could smell, but whatever it was made them give one another strange looks. Alec seemed to be able to sense the same thing, because his frown deepened.

"If one of mine attacked one of your hunters, it was because they were a threat," Will stated, his voice taunt as he tried to keep his anger under control. "However, none of my pack has attacked anyone, human or otherwise, and so there is no reason for you to be here."

"It was my little sister!" The hunter on the left yelled out, and Clary stepped to the side to look over Jace's shoulder to look at the man talking. Jace turned his head to the side slightly to look back at her, before returning his gaze steadily at the three hunters. The man on the left seemed uncertain, and the more she stared at him, the younger he looked—maybe even younger than her. "And it was only a couple of miles from here! It was on your territory!"

"I'm sorry for your loss," Will's words weren't exactly sincere, but then again, these three men had trespassed onto a packs territory with the intent of harming one of his own, so he couldn't exactly be blamed. "But it was not us. Now, no one has been harmed, and given the circumstances, I'm going to let this slide." Clary's eyebrows raised as she looked over at Will, who's eyes were burning red. It was a surprisingly calm decree for the man, given how quick tempered and quite frankly, violent, he could be. She guessed that Jace had been the one to plant the idea in his head, subtly letting him know that attacking these men wouldn't lead anywhere good.

"The police declared it an animal attack," the first hunter was speaking again. "We all know what that's code for."

"I will look into it," Will snapped, his red eyes flashing and his fangs beginning to show. "But it was Not. Us." Bat shifted behind his Alpha, clearly coiled tightly, reading to lash out if given the signal. "If I so much as smell you around the borders of my territory, there will be problems." The hunters knew they were outnumbered, and they knew that they were getting let off lightly, so the three of them began backing off.

"Follow them," Jace grunted as he looked over at Max and Alec, and Will jerked his head at Bat, who nodded, and took off after the two other beta's.

"Well, that was fun," Magnus sung out, his eyes fading back to their usual green-gold colour and the blue swirling magic around his hands disappeared into thin air. "But it's almost three in the morning and I'm more than ready for my beauty sleep."

"Gonna take more than sleep to fix that face," Clary smirked and nudged Magnus in the side. Magnus rolled his eyes at her and grinned, throwing an arm around her shoulder. Clary winced at the sudden contact and he frowned at her. "Don't worry, just landed wrong," Jace's head whipped around, his eyes narrowing at her as he looked her over. Now that the adrenaline was starting to subside, Clary could feel the sting of the cuts on her arms and one on her cheek, and her shoulder was throbbing. Jace was practically glaring over at her, and she knew that he wanted to reach out and drag away her pain with his powers, but he restrained himself, knowing she would just pull away.

"Let's go," Will stated, and the were's relaxed, clearly the hunters far enough away that they felt safe to leave. Jace was still staring at Clary, and she stopped herself from making a face at him. Finally, he looked away, back at his cousin.

"You weren't surprised about the attack on his sister," Jace's voice was low, almost a growl. "What's going on?" Will sighed as he shoved his fingers through his hair.

"About a month ago we smelt a werewolf that must have been passing through," he admitted. "We knew that there was a dead body, the sheriff told us, and we went by and saw the girl. The were's scent was all over it." Jace's eyes were sparking red, and Clary knew that he was wondering why Will just let it go without telling them, even though Will was within his rights to do so since Jace's territory was several hours away. Will knew that was what Jace was thinking as well, because he continued with a sigh. "Look, it was right on the outskirts of our territory, we didn't smell the were until the body was discovered and he was long gone. We followed the scent for as long as we could, but they disappeared."

"Alright, well, you'll contact me if you need to?" Jace raised an eyebrow and nodded.

"Are you heading home? Or did you want to spend another night?" Will asked as he and Jace started walking ahead of the were's, Jem and Simon nudging up against Clary's side, both of them looking over her scratches and her shoulder, the pair of them concerned.

"We're going to start home," Jace replied. "Our things are all packed up and Jordan has booked us into a hotel about two hours away, on the way home." There was a rush of footsteps and suddenly Bat, Max and Alec were running back toward them. They were almost near the main road, where there cars were parked, and when they got out of the woods, Clary tipped her head back to look up at the bright moon that was shining down on them.

"When are we seeing you around again, huh?" Bat came up beside Clary with a grin. She grinned back at him as she dropped her chin to face him.

"I don't know, Bat. But you've got my number, you know how to reach me." It was playful flirting, it happened whenever they were together, both of them dancing around each other even though nothing was ever going to happen. "Although don't call me tonight, or tomorrow. I'm so fucked, I'm pretty sure I'm going to sleep for the next twenty-four hours."

"Alright, girl," Bat leaned in to give her a kiss on the cheek. The growl from behind him made Clary roll her eyes, and Bat made a face as though it didn't bother him, but Clary felt him pull away a little quicker, his posture stiffening. Jace stood there, his eyes flashing a warning red at Bat, who gave a respectful nod and then walked off.

"Oh yeah, you're a big, bad Alpha," Clary rolled her eyes again as Jace stared at her. She sighed, the remaining adrenaline in her body leaving her body. "Are we done here? I'm ready to get to that hotel room." Jace nodded shortly, looking over his shoulder toward the rest of his pack who was saying goodbye to Will and Bat.

"We're off," Jace grunted, his voice quiet but his pack all quickly finishing their goodbyes and walking toward their Alpha. Jace put his hand at the small of Clary's back, directing her toward where their cars were parked.

Right! So...How was it?

I've got lots of recommendations I want to make coz I've been away for so long, but I'll just throw a couple out there. Movies—Moana! It was amazing. So was Rogue One, which I didn't expect to like because I'm not a big fan of Felicity Jones, but it was incredible, and Diego Luna is my new love. And a couple of songs I'm in love with at the moment are Falling For You by Lyon Hart and Dangerously by Charlie Puth.

Alright, so, tell me...Did you guys all have an amazing Christmas/New Years? Me and my hubby always travel for Christmas to see extended family, but it was just a quiet one at home with a couple of his family members, so that was nice. And for New Years we rented out a house by the beach with a couple of our close friends, so that was amazing.

Tell me what you guys got up to, and leave a review.

And if you guys want a preview of the next chapter, just ask, and I'll throw one out there ;) Don't forget to check out the new multi-chapter stories, which you guys all voted on, as well as a bunch of new oneshots I've written. I've gone and put some of them up :)