Chapter 1

The dream

Jace's POV

Rain. That was the first thing I noticed. I could feel the cold droplets pelting my skin. Next, I noticed I was standing outside the Wayland Manor in Idris, and I was not alone.

I could see a figure not too far out in the distance, standing on a lush hill. A girl.

She was standing tall and strong. Her waist length golden hair and her long white dress billowed in like a flag of surrender.

With her back turned to me, I couldn't see her face, yet I didn't feel threatened. I knew her somehow…

As if she could sense my presence, she slowly turned to face me. Her golden eyes locked with mine.

"You left me…" I could hear her loud and clear despite the distance separating us. Hurt tainted her voice.

"I didn't want to! You know I didn't!" I said with desperation. "I would never leave you by choice!"

"You left me with him! How could you do that to me? I'm your little sister! Your family! Family doesn't do that to each other! They don't leave each other for dead!" anger seeped into her voice. Tears flowed freely down her angelic face.

"I didn't leave you for-"

"No. That's exactly what you did! I can never forgive you for that…" she said as she turned and started walking away from me.

"Don't do this!" I shouted at her retreating figure.

Without responding, she disappeared into the forest behind her.

"Jace! Jace wake up!" I woke up gasping for air. Sweat drenched my body. I opened my eyes to see Clary's bright green orbs staring back at me worriedly.

"What's wrong? I could hear you screaming from my room." She asked me.

"Nothing, I just had a nightmare. Go back to bed." I said shrugging off the memory of my dream.

"Are you sure you're ok?" She asked me gently.

"Yeah, just- just stay with me tonight. Please?"

She looked into my eyes, searching for an answer as to what was going on in my head before she finally sighed and lied down next to me.

I wrapped my arms around her small frame and gently pulled her to my chest. With her by my side I fell into a dreamless sleep.

No POV

The next morning Jace woke up to the feel of something soft and warm curled up against his chest. He looked over to see Clary's firey curls splayed out over her pillow.

Asleep, she looked so peaceful. The sun shone through the crack between the simple black curtains and landed on her beautiful face. The golden rays lit up her bright red hair making it practically glow.

Her eyes slowly opened with a flutter, revealing her bright green orbs.

"Good morning beautiful" He whispered. Hearing Jace's voice, she turned her head to face him. A beautiful smile lit up her face. He couldn't believe this beautiful creature was his.

"Good morning to you too" She said stretching her arms high above her head, making cute baby dinosaur noises. "What time is it?" She asked, looking around his room for a clock.

"Pretty early. Maybe around 6:45? The sun hasn't been up long." Jace told her.

"I should probably go back to my room before Maryse comes to wake you up." She let out a small giggle as she could out of bed. Maryse had to wake Jace up every day because if she didn't, he would sleep till three in the afternoon.

She bent down to the floor and grabbed her sweatshirt, slipping it on over her sleep shirt as she walked over to him.

"I love you. See you soon." He said. The corners of Clary's mouth tugged upwards to form a smile. She got up on her tip-toes, her hands rested on his strong shoulders for balance, and pressed her lips to his in a soft kiss. Even with the added height that being on her tip-toes gave her, Jace still had to lean down a bit for her lips to meet his.

Pulling away, she dropped back down so she was once again flat on her feet. She walked away and quickly slipped out of his room.

Clary- No POV

The hallways of the institute were quiet. The early morning sun shone through the windows. The sound of her footsteps echoing off the polished wooden walls was the only noise.

Her room was thankfully, not very far from Jace's. Coming to a stop outside her room, she quietly open her door and stepped inside.

After marrying Luke, her mother finally realized that Clary needed to be at the institute where she would not only be safer, but also trained properly. Her mom only had three conditions: There had to be rooms separating hers from Jace's, she had to visit often, and Jace was not allowed in her room unsupervised or with the door shut.

Although she loved her mother and Luke, she couldn't help but be happier at the institute than she was at her mom's house. Home was a constant reminder of the lies her mother fed her from the moment she was born. At the institute, she was never lied to. Everyone was straight forward with her and treated her like the age she was instead of the five year old she was treated like at home.

Looking up at the clock, she found that it was now seven a.m. There was no way she could go back to sleep now. Throwing on a pair of tattered jeans and pulling on one of Jace's old sweat shirts that she had swiped from his room a few days ago, she slipped out of her room and back into the silent hallway and headed down to the kitchen in hopes that Maryse had started making breakfast.