Hey everyone! Welcome back, if you have not read 'Angels Revealed' I suggest you leave now-spoilers I guess you could say are going to be in this series big time! Anywho, I am so excited to write this, I like the new name, at first I wasn't sold but...yea. I'm so excited, I have some very interesting things planned for this series. Haha, I hope you enjoy!
(This picks up exactly a year from where we left off. Jace is 20, Clary is 19, and Abby is 1. Jordan and Maia had their baby a little bit after Clary visited her in the last chapter of Angels Revealed. Jocelyn and Luke got married shortly after Clary's wedding. Jem has moved in town. Sneak Peek: POV's of Emma and Jules will be in this series. This series is also planned to be 20 chapters until further notice...)
Clarys POV
Over the past year has been so much fun with my baby girl. She has learned to crawl, clap, talk (sort of, she only has 3 words in her vocabulary.). And, Izzy was able to get pregnant 3 months ago, her and Simon are elated, they knew 1 month in. I was in the living room on the couch with my head rested on Jace's shoulder, him and I have just started trying for a baby about a week ago. Since Abby can crawl, she pretty much is like a little monkey all over the place. Honestly, sometimes she is like a dog, she loves crawling up the stairs but can't come down them, it's exhausting yet fun at the same time.
"Owwww!" I hear Abby yell out, wails of screams coming right after it. My head jerked back, Jace was standing before I could even recognize my head fell from his absence. I stand up, worries fill my thoughts. Jace was picking her up, she wore blue jeggings and a white shirt with slobber over the top. She was rubbing her head, it appears like she hit her head on the side of the stairs.
"It's okay, daddy's got you. Shhh…" Jace calms her abnormally quick, she loves Jace more than anyone. I was right all along; she is a daddy's girl.
"Otay." she still sobbed, a new word she picked up. I'm a proud mommy. She managed to grasp talking easily but few words, probably from me considering mom said my first word was 'dada' at 8 months. Her first word was also 'dada', she's kind of learning 'mama', she can only say 'ma' right now though. Other than that she is having a hard time on speaking actual words, a lot of it is gibberish. She laid her head on his shoulder, perfectly connecting with his neck like puzzle pieces.
Her hair has grown out to side bangs and curly tips at the top of her neck. I can faintly see high and pronounced cheekbones and a more sculpted jaw than usual for a girl but it was barely noticeable. I imagine her cheeks would look like Angelina Jolies when she gets older.
"I think someone is tired, huh baby girl?" Jace coos to her as he gives me a nod and heads up the stairs, Abby's eyes already drooping closed as she takes a heavy sigh. I run my fingers through my hair and then tie is back in a ponytail, my tummy grumbling. I list off the things to cook- or at least if I had the ingredients to cook them.
Chicken.
Mmm, that sounded so good at the moment. Lucky me, if I was correct we had some marinating chicken in the fridge. I opened it up and was pleased to see that I was right, I heard Jace lightly sing to her from upstairs, I smile at myself. I grabbed a skillet and started cooking the food, on the side I made a caesar salad.
Soon enough my food was ready, I served it to myself on a red plate. Jace came down the stairs gracefully.
"She's asleep." he said, I nodded. I figured she would be, little girl loves her daddy. "I was planning on taking her to her first mall trip, something like that. A daddy/daughter date."
"Okay, I'll have the house to myself which will be nice." I say, it's been awhile since I've had quiet. Yes during nap times were good but she wakes up crying every 30 minutes, and usually takes 2 hour naps. But a house to myself-that seemed foreign. "Why do you think she cries so often during her naps, do you think it's nightmares or…" The topic seemed to slip from my mind to my mouth.
"I'm not sure, maybe tomorrow while you're home alone you could call Jem, he's the guy who delivered your baby right?"
"Yes, yea maybe I will ask him." I say curiously. "I wonder if it's pain, like she has back pains or something hurting her internally but she can't speak real words so the only way she can signal us is through crying." He paused.
"Maybe… but why only while she sleeps?" he asks as he comes up to me and cups my face like he was going to kiss me. He leaned in, I smile slightly and say, "That's the thing we need to figure out." I say softly and quietly. He kisses me a bit rougher from what I got from his gently touch, a splash of hunger in his kiss. His tongue grazed my top lip, the steam of my food warming under my chin, I back out from the 'steamy' situation. See what I did there… because of the food? No, okay. I shoot him a smirk as I walk past him, I walk over to my painting station where I left my sketch book. I pick it up and walk over to the couch, taking a bite out of my hot chicken.
After 50 minutes of trying to draw Magnus and Alec like Magnus asked me to do as a gift for Alec, I couldn't get the shading right. I zoomed in on the picture he wanted me to draw of them. I looked back at my portrait, eventually I saw that my shading was right but something was off and I couldn't pinpoint it. Proportion? I realized that it was proportion and I'd have to start all over again. With a frustrated groan I tossed my sketchbook to the floor, it tumbled over revealing a flower drawing I did once. I close my eyes and shake my head, irritated with my drawings.
"What did that sketchbook ever do to you?" Jace said from behind me as he leaned over, his golden curls tickling the sensitive flesh under my ear. He kisses my jaw, it slowly started taking away the frustration. "Abby is asleep, wanna head up to the bedroom?" he asked, his voice was husky and sexy. I sighed as I turned around and lifted myself off of the couch, slowly he brought his face up to kiss me.
We both walked up the stairs and into the bedroom, closing the door. I took off my shirt and laid down on the bed, Jace following as he took off his. A sudden cry burst from Abby's room, I sigh and look at Jace.
"I'll get her." I throw my shirt back over the top of my head, pushing my hair back. My padded footsteps were loud, my narrow hips lightly swung, my shoulders back. I open the door to see Abbi sitting up with one of her hands clutching her side.
"Ma! Ma!" She cried, I pick her up, her tossed curls were all messy from sleep, I wiped a curl out of her face and behind her ear. "Where does it hurt, lovebug?" I ask, she takes her hand and points to her side, to her ribs. That's not good. Was it a broken rib, there was no way of telling? Maybe I'll call Jordan to do an x-ray ASAP. Jace came in the room with a worried look, a line between his eyebrows.
"Honey, it's her ribs. She says her ribs hurt, we should try to call Jordan and see if he could do a x-ray soon." I say, he looks as Abby and rubs her side, she flings her arms out so Jace could carry her. He lifts her out of my arms, "I think it's best we call him now because she has to go back to sleep, hour naps don't settle for her. If you can try to get one today. Plus, the sooner the better." he says, Abigail still lightly sobbed as he held her.
I walk down the hall, out of the dark room into the brightness, my eyes squinting. I grab my phone which was next to my empty plate and dial Jordan, he picks up on the 3rd ring.
"Hello?"
"Jordan, it's Clary."
"Ah, hello Clarissa. Everything okay?" he asks, a babies laugh from the background. The baby is a perfect blend of both of them. It's a boy, his name is Zachary and he has light tanned skin, barely any brown hair with Jordans eye shape, nose, and Maia's mouth shape and tiny ears.
"Umm, er. Not really, something is wrong with Abigails ribs, she wakes up 4 times she naps crying about it. Is there sometime we can schedule an x-ray?" I ask as I bite my fingernails, creating a bad hangnail.
"Oh, oh…" I hear Maia in the background asking what was wrong, some sort of childrens show on in the back. "Uh, okay. Yea, I'm just trying to see when I can schedule the closest appointment possible. Give me one second."
"Okay." I say, Abby's crying eventually faded, I waited impatiently. I point the phone outwards and sigh heavily so they don't hear me, then I'd sound like an impatient b-
"Alright, turns out I forgot a client of mine at 4:00 is canceled, do you want to come in then?"
"Thank you so much, will do!" I say, "Bye-bye."
"Uh-huh, bye." I end the call and walk up the stairs to Jace when I feel something in my tummy. Can't be-already? After 1 week? I run to the bathroom instead and take a pregnancy test, we got some when we started trying. I look down at the pregnancy test after I flush the toilet. I look up, wondering what Jace will think.
It was positive.
Hey, sorry I meant to post this last weekend but with Easter and family coming over that I haven't seen in a few months which I usually see every weekend, I was busy. But it was fun, I hope you guys had fun last weekend too. Please tell me what you think on this so far, I actually have something in my fanfiction bio about reviews. Look at that and it mind change or at least tilt your mind on reviews, please review! I feel like my writing isn't as good as it was, I feel like I'm not describing things enough so please criticize me on that! Thank you, I hope you enjoyed, byyyyyyyyyye :*
