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Clary breathed heavily, her lungs burning from running. Her legs were tired, her core was exhausted, she had a burning cramp in the side of her stomach, but she ignored it. Somehow, she kept pushing and finally reached the Institute. Clary looked at her watch. 10:12 the clock read. Ugh. Late again.

Clary punched the button on the elevator and rode it up to the second floor. As soon as the doors opened, she sprinted as fast as she could to the room. On the way she crashed head on into a very grumpy Alec, who was coming out of his room. "Ouch!" he said. "Oh it's you. You know, Clary you aren't very good at being on time, are you?" Although he was right, she had been late four days in a row this week, Clary rolled her eyes and mumbled something like "Move please".

Clary scrambled to the training room and when she arrived, she leaned against the door frame, ready to drop. Jace stood in the room with a smirk on his face. "Tired? Think of it as your warm-up."

"Ha. Ha." Clary was so weary that her knees gave out. Jace, immediately worried, kneeled next to her.

"Are you okay? Here, I'll get you up." Jace picked her up in his arms carefully. He acted like she was made of glass. That's what she liked about him. He was strong enough to bend metal, but tender enough to not break the things he loves. Jace carried Clary to the chair on the other side of the room. Clary nestled her head in his arms and he hugged her closer.

"Yeah I'm fine. Do you have water?"

"It's in my bag. I'll get it for you." Jace said. He set her down on the chair and tossed her the water bottle, which she caught with one hand.

"Not bad." Jace gave her a grin.

"Alright, let's get training." Clary said as soon as she finished gulping down the cool wetness.

In a few minutes they were up on the rafters balancing. Jace jumped off and did three flips. Since he was Jace, he landed solidly on his feet.

Clary took a deep nervous breath and leaped, doing one and a half flips, but she couldn't turn the rest of the way and realized she was going to hit the ground flat on her back. She crossed her fingers hoping Jace would catch her. Just then, Clary hit something hard, but not training-room-concrete-floor hard. Jace had caught her and was laughing.

"You're going to have to do better than that, Fray." Jace chuckled.

Still in his arms Clary said with a sly smile, "I think I know what I was doing wrong." And with that, she leaned in and kissed him gently. Jace placed her on her feet, all without pulling away from the kiss. He kissed her back with more force. Clary pushed on his back and he did the same to her to deepen the kiss. Jace traced her lips with his tongue and she parted her lips, welcoming him. At that, Jace pulled his shirt up, and over his head. Clary stepped forwards and was going to start kissing him again when she tripped on the laces of her sneakers and fell forwards, knocking Jace over to the floor. She landed on top of his bare chest, giggling, and crawled up to kiss him again. Their lips crushed together and Jace rolled so that he was on top of her. Clary could feel the warmth from his chest radiating through the piece of thin cloth that separated them, with the exception of her stomach (her shirt seemed to have magically rode up). He was above her kissing her with passion and maybe even a twinge of desperation, and Jace moaned softly when she twisted her fingers through his hair. Clary was filled with delight at what she could do to Jace, that she of all people could make him feel this way.

"You drive me crazy, you know that?" Jace told her.

"I know." and with a smile, Clary kissed him once more.

Someone at the doorway cleared their throat impatiently.

Shit. Clary thought, we forgot to shut the door.

Clary tugged her shirt back down quickly, turning a deep shade of red. Jace, however just looked at her, but then when he turned to the doorway, he immediately jumped off her, like he'd been shocked and grabbed his shirt. Clary glanced and the door, and then her face turned even redder (if that was possible) at seeing who it was.

It was her mother.

OOOOOOOHHHHHH what's going to happen?

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