Clary pushed her sister out of the way saving them both from the vicious bird, the cup fell out of Skylar's hand. When the sisters looked up Hodge stood there holding the Mortal Cup in his hands. "You bastard," Skylar said, she saw Jace on the floor unconscious. "Jace!?" She stood up slowly, Hodge shook his head.

"Stay there." Skylar froze "He's not hurt,"

"All this time you worked for Valentine," Clary said dryly.

"I am one of his men." The girls heard a door open and footsteps approaching, Skylar turned around and her eyes widened.

"Father." She whispered in disbelief, her heart began to race, her palms were sweaty this was the effect this cruel man had on his own child. Valentine looked at her and walked over to Hodge, he grabbed the Mortal Cup and glanced down at Jace.

"Did you hurt him?"

"No, he's simply unconscious."

"Good."

"You promised you wouldn't hurt them."

"I did not say such a thing."

"The children had nothing to do with this," Hodge said

"I had no idea how fond you were of children." Skylar stood there frozen, she couldn't face this man not yet and not now.  They were invisible, Valentine didn't seem to see them.

"Is my curse lifted?" Hodge asked, Valentine, nodded and picked up Jace.

"It is done, enjoy your freedom." When Skylar blinked, Valentine, Jace, and The Mortal Cup were gone. Skylar fell onto her knees and sucked in some air.

"Hodge what did you do?" Skylar whispered in disbelief, Hodge sighed and cleared his throat.

"I did what was necessary." He replied Skylar was filled with sudden rage. He sold these children out, Jace was gone, Valentine was alive and now the Cup was gone as well, Jocelyn was still missing and Alec was hurt. Could things get any worse? Skylar pushed Hodge to the floor and pulled out her sword.

"Where are they?" She asked Clary, gasped and gulped.

"Skye, don't hurt him!" Hodge looked at the redhead and looked at Skylar, he didn't want to hurt the children.

"She won't do it, I am your only chance," Hodge said, Skylar, put her sword away and sighed.

"I can't kill you, you're right." Skylar turned around on her heels and glanced back at him. "But if Jace is hurt, if anyone is hurt I will come after you." She said in such a dark tone, Clary tilted her head now realizing how well deadly and dark-suited Skylar well.

~

Skylar and Clary ran into a room shouting Jace's name repeatedly, everything was chaotic at the moment. They had found Luke who told them the story of their father and mother, the shocking news was about their brother who was Skylar's twin. She had a twin and barely remembered him it was heartbreaking for her not being able to remember someone who was supposed to be her older twin brother. "Jace?" Skylar said seeing him standing there.

"Skylar? What are you doing here?" Skylar hugged him tightly, he held her tightly as well.

"I came for you," Skylar said

"You shouldn't have Skye." Skylar planted a kiss on his cheek and closed her eyes relieved, Clary watched with a smile on her face. "If something happened to you-" Skylar kissed him, Jace pulled her closer filling in the gap and pulled away.

"Nothing did, Luke helped us."

"Luke?"

"The Werewolf." Clary said, "He's downstairs fighting off Forsaken."

"You need to call it off, this is a huge misunderstanding."

"Misunderstanding? You were kidnapped. We need to go." She tried to pull away but he didn't let her go. "Jace?"

"I can't."

"Where did you get those clothes?" Clary asked last time she had seen him was wearing bloody, dirty clothing.

"If I told you the truth, you'd say I was crazy,"  Skylar gulped, he had a smile on his face.

"My father gave me these clothes."

"Jace your father died," Skylar whispered not wanting to hurt his feelings.

"Hodge lied to us, lied to me. My father has been alive all these years."

"Fine, where is Michael Wayland then?"

"My father is-" Jace was cut off by the sound of someone entering the room, Clary and Skylar looked back seeing Valentine walk into the room.

"So have you gathered your things? Our Forsaken can hold off the wolf-men for only so-" Valentine looked stunned to see the girls here. "What is this?" Skylar froze once again, she was so weak in front of this man every time she saw him.

"This is my father." Jace finished

~

Skylar pushed away Jace and walked back slowly, she was realizing what was about to happen. "Am I interrupting something?" Valentine asked "Son, who are these young ladies?" He asked,

"This is Skylar and this is Clary Fray." Jace introduced them, Clary took the lead for this one while her sister kept herself from breaking down.

"You're not Jace's father," Clary said. "You're trying to trick us. Jace's father was Michael Wayland. The Lightwoods know it. Everyone knows it."

"The Lightwoods were misinformed," said Valentine. "They truly believed- believe that Jace is the son of their friend Michael. As does the Clave. Even the Silent Brothers do not know who he really is. Although soon enough, they will." "But the Wayland ring-"

"It was flipped the wrong way." Valentine said "Simple mistake." Skylar suddenly felt the courage to speak.

"The Uprising was your fault." She said Valentine glanced at her not expecting her to say a  word. "You let people die because of you! You ruined my life! You've done nothing but make my life a living nightmare!" Skylar snapped and stepped back, she never had the guts to stand up to her father as a child.

"What are you talking about?" Valentine asked, "This is the first time I have ever seen you." Skylar walked closer to him, Jace grabbed her wrist holding her back.

"Stop lying!"

"Skylar that is enough! Don't talk to my  father like that." Skylar turned around and smacked him across the face.

"He's not your father!"

"Why are you so determined not to believe us?" Jace rubbed his cheek that burned red from the smack.

"Because she loves you," Jace looked at Skylar who stayed silent.

"She fears I am taking advantage of you," he said. "That I have brainwashed you. It isn't so, of course. If you looked into your own memories, Skylar, you would know it."

"Skye, I l-" Valentine cut him off immediately.

"Let her come to us one her own Jonathan."

"Jonathan? I thought Jace was your name?" Clary asked

"Jace is a nickname." Jace said, "For my initials."

"Jonathan Christopher." Skylar and Clary said in unison

"How did you two know-"

"Jace, I had thought to spare you. I thought the story of a mother who died would hurt you less than the story of a mother who abandoned you before your first birthday."

"My mother is alive?"

"She is," said Valentine. "Alive, and asleep in one of the downstairs rooms at this very moment. Yes, Jocelyn is your mother, Jonathan. And Skylar is your twin and Clary is your baby sister." Skylar felt her heart shatter, she was in love with her own twin brother? She felt disgusting, horrified how could something like this had happened? Jace's face had lost all color, he felt his heat shatter too. This is what Dorothea meant about falling in love with the wrong person.

"This is not true. Please tell me this isn't true?" He looked at Skylar who now stood far away from them holding back tears.

"Jace, don't talk to her." Clary said, "Leave her alone."

"Clarissa, your sister needs to hear the truth for once."

"I've heard enough from your father," Skylar said and ran her fingers through her blonde hair.

"Girls get out of here now," Luke said walking in with a dagger in his hand, he was ready to fight with Valentine. Skylar grabbed Clary's hand and led her towards the door, Jace stepped between Skylar and the door.

"I can't let you out, it's too dangerous." Skylar let Clary's arm go and watched Jace who avoided eye contact with her.

"This is the end, Lucian." Clary turned around when she heard Valentine say that, she ran over and stood between him and Luke.

"No!" She shouted, Valentine looked at his youngest child, eyes filled with nothing but rage.

"Move." He hissed "Clarissa move! Skylnn, Jonathan remove her now! Or else I will kill her!" Skylar looked at Jace and smiled lightly.

"I love you." She mumbled, it was hard to admit now knowing the truth but she needed to say it to help him. Jace needed to help Skylar take down Valentine, 

"I love you too." He mumbled back, in a blink of an eye both of them stood in front of Valentine. The tip of their sword touching Valentine's neck.

"I should have known the twins would gang up on me," Valentine said, he dropped his weapon and put his hands up surrendering. "Kill me."

"You know we can't do that."

"Softhearted children." Skylar giggled

"Softhearted warriors, you mean? Your soldiers, you trained us quite well I will admit that but your methods of training were cruel father..whips and beatings weren't necessary because even before those punishments I would have listened to your criticism but you couldn't wait to hit me.." Skylar said, Luke, walked over and put his hand on both of their shoulders.

"I'll handle this from here." Skylar pulled her sword away and looked at Jace, he held it steady as if he wanted to kill his father. Skylar put her sword away and walked over to Jace.

"Give it to Luke." She whispered, he glanced at her for a second and gave it. Jace handed the sword to Luke.

"You all should leave.." The three Morgenstern siblings nodded and made their exit leaving Luke and Valentine alone.