Nightmares

JACE POV:

"Get up, Jonathan!"growled Valentine."I said GET UP!"

I was roughly shaken awake from my dreamless sleep by my father- Valentine. He sounded angry.

"Jonathan, I must say I'm quite disappointed in you", he said

"I told you to train this bird into being obedient! But you taught it how. TO. LOVE!" he said holding up my bird.

"Father, with all due respect, may I ask you something?" I said

"Ask." He said in an eerily calm voice. You would never have guessed that he had been angry a few minutes ago.

'Here goes nothing' I thought. "Father, why are you s against love?" I asked.

His face went from white to red to purple with rage.

'Oops, wrong move on my part' I thought.

"Jonathan, I used to love your mother, and she BETRAYED ME! She left me and stabbed me in the back by turning against me! From that day, I knew that she destroyed me with her love! I decided to get my revenge on her! I killed her. But I ended up destroying both, her and me! So listen to me very clearly. TO LOVE IS TO DESTROY! Do you understand?"

I just nodded.

"Now about that bird..."he said.

He took out his kindjal blade and sliced through the neck of the bird and then threw the headless thing at me.

"This is what you get for teaching love! If you had not got attached to that thing you would never have felt hurt and sadness at its death!" he sneered eyeing at my tear filled eyes.

'Give me a break! I'm only nine' I wanted to shout .But I kept my mouth shut. 'So, to love is to destroy...Then I will never love anyone in my life."

I woke up with a start realizing that it had only been a bad dream. Then I realized that it was Clary who had waked me up.

"Jace? What's wrong? I heard you shout out something so I came to see what was up with you." She said with a worried expression.

I sighed. "Clary...Why do you love me? I am so messed up!"I said.

"Jace, if you are talking about the whole ' To love is to destroy' crap then I don't believe it. I love you because you make me feel safe and I have never felt that way about anyone before."

"I love you too Clary, but I am worried I may end up destroying you."

"Jace... you will never do that. I am sure of it because you are nothing like Valentine. He was just cruel and heartless but you are more than that. You have feelings. You know what it is like to get hurt and you never would want another person to feel it."

I sighed and kissed her telling her that she had made me feel a hundred times better. She kissed me back telling me that I had her support and that she would never dessert me.

"Thank you Clary." I smiled at her and said.

She just laughed and snuggled closer to me.

"well seeing how you are practically sleeping in my bed, how about you spend the night here?" I smirked at her.

" There comes the cocky Jace back" she laughed and we drifted off to sleep.

This time I had dreams of Clary and me and not nightmares of Valentine.

This is my first story so please go easy on me! Criticism is accepted. No flames please. Have a good day!