Clean Slate

by Omnicat

He had to learn to see things as gifts. / Jace x Clary, drabble

Title: Clean Slate

Author: Omnicat

Unofficially Adapted From: Cassandra Clare's The Mortal Instruments series.

Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: All of the above.

Warnings: None.

Characters & Pairings: Jace x Clary, mention of Valentine

Summary: He had to learn to see things as gifts. / 100 words

Author's Note: Enjoy.

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Clean Slate

He would have died.

Jace would have honest-to-god died because the demon's skin was covered in poison the slime was as sticky as paint they couldn't get it off there was no hot water and soap and –

– Clary had Written –

– and Jace hadn't died.

And when Clary next put her stele to his skin, scrubbed clean of the scars layered like years and the first runes that had been one of Valentine's many double-edged legacies, she thought it was high time he remembered that.

She wrote back his identity, drew away his words, and stamped her love into his heart.