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Clary's soft hand grazed Jace's cheek. He looked upon her in wonder. Almost to afraid to hope. "What do you think they are?" he replied to her unanswered question about the runes tattooed across his body. She looked at him curiously. "It's as if I'm trying to see through a cloud, as if I'm trying to remember a dream. I know you're on the other side but-" he cut her off when she felt his hand brush her cheek. unbeknownst to her she had been crying. "You're crying." He said to her. She wiped her tears gently. "I feel happy. But I don't know why. My heart feels like it's screaming for me to hear it. It's pulling me towards you." She looked into his eyes and realized she couldn't stop smiling. Her heart knew why but her head was slower. "Can you close your eyes for a moment." She asked him and he shut them. His beautiful blonde lashes brushing his cheek. The spontaneity in her rose from somewhere deep within and she reached up. He felt her breathe on his face before she hesitated a moment. Then when she did kiss him when she captured his lips with hers she felt like this was right. Behind her closed eyelids she felt like she saw an explosion of colors. Making her want to reach out and grab them as if to paint a masterpiece as memory after memory flooded back to her. Pandemonium, the ravener demon, the institute, the Dumort, the wolves, her friends and Jace. The greenhouse, a bone city, their first kiss. Everything came back and was Jace. From him saving her from the lakes poison to her saving him at the lake. Losing him to Lilith and him finding her in Paris. Being corrupted by the twinning rune and being saved when Jace plunged the sword into her heart. How many times had she lost him and gotten him back now? All she knew was now she felt right with his arms around her waist and hers around his neck. Him holding her so close it's as if he wanted them to be one. And she knew that right now she wanted nothing more than that as well. To have him and for them to never be parted again. But there lips did separate and she took in a deep breath of cold air as he stared smiling at her. Seeing the love in her eyes she had for him. Something he was unsure he'd ever see again. Her pink tinged cheeks and slightly swollen lips. Little did she know at that moment his heart was crying out too. She kissed him quickly over and over laughing. She never thought she could feel so happy. He took her hand they walked out into the street. Holding hands and walking in silence down the sidewalk. Once they got to the park they sat on a bench and he finally spoke. "I prayed every night for the angels to bring you back to me. I told them our love was stronger than anything they could have done" She smiled at him almost sadly. Knowing how much he must have suffered this past year, whilst she was unaware of any of it. Unable to comfort him, be there for him. But then again if she was, his suffering would never have been in the first place. "From the moment I woke up till the time I went to sleep, every second I thought of you. Then at night I would dream of you. You walking through the institute doors, running into my arms. Telling me you remember and we could spend the rest of our lives together. Or that you'd wake me up in the dream, and I'd ask if it was real and you'd promise it was. The happiness I'd feel till I really woke up." His eyes held unshed tears "Izzy, Simon, they all told me to move on. That you'd want me to be happy. I think the only one who truly understood was Alec. He understood why I could never forget you. Perhaps because as my Parabati he felt what I was feeling in a way. All those days I watched you. It was the first time in my life I wanted to be a mundane. Just so you'd see me. So I could be next to you. I felt as if I'd had done anything for it." When he finally he stopped she spoke. "I used to dream, my emotions would come as if in a blur within them. I couldn't make sense of it. I felt so many things but these feelings also felt disconnected from me. But there where some nights a dreamt of you." She said with a smile. Jace raised his eyebrows "Of me?" she continued "I would see a man with tattoos covering his bare chest. Along with so many scars and blemishes, so stunning. I remembered hair like gold I knew must be softer than silk. With pure white wings. I had never seen someone so beautiful. My mind forgot you but my heart never did. When I'd wake up my hands itched for a brush, a pencil. I longed to draw you, to capture your image so that it may never fade from my memory but still it did all to quickly. Those days I felt sorrow. I never knew why, just that my heart ached. But when I saw you again in my sleep, I was so happy. Each time I saw you the only emotion that came to me was overwhelming love. In my dreams I knew but awake I did not. But tonight when I saw you, the emptiness I felt during those days of forgotten dreams. The feeling like something was missing. It all vanished. You were always my home." At that Jace couldn't help but kiss her again. Half hoping that this wasn't another dream. He wouldn't wake up with a broken heart. But somehow he knew it had to be real. The hand running through Clary's flaming soft hair, the sweet taste of her lips on his. The look in her emerald eyes when she said she remembered him, loved him. This happiness, this love couldn't be anything but real. After that they walked hand in hand through the park as he recounted the past years events. "The High Warlock of Alicante" Clary said with a slight smirk. "The discrimination towards and between Downworlders lessening thanks to the efforts made by everyone. The Clave has come so far." Clary said in amazement "And Alec the Inquisitor." She paused to laugh "It's so wonderful" Then Jace continued "Izzy took his place as head of The Institute." Clary cut him off "What about Simon? Are they still" Jace smiled "Yeah, They actually seem rather perfect together. I've been training him." Clary looked at Jace curiously "Training? He's a vampire." she reminded Jace "And yet still is so easily able to get his ass kicked." They laughed together at Jace's remark. Before either of them knew it they were at her door. Clary didn't feel much like going back to the art gala. He kissed her but when he made to pull away she put her hands on the back of his neck. She didn't want this to be a goodbye. So took hand and lead her up to her apartment. When they walked in their lips never broke apart. They got to her room and the part of her mind that would normally hesitate and say things were going to fast wasn't anywhere to be found. But she did stop. "Tonight can you please just hold me. I just want to feel your arms around me after so long." Jace smiled softly secretly he wanted that too. Just to hold her. Hold her so tightly to make sure she would never disappear from him again. So she changed and he stripped down to his boxers and they laid down. She put her head on his chest and he put his arms around her locking her to him so that she may never escape. She ran the tips of her fingers along his bare chest. Tracing the runes, the scars. Perfection in every way, wondering if she'd ever see them on herself again. And although she knew she could find out if he'd just give her a blade, a stele, he didn't. She thought a part of him knew she was too scared of disappointment. She could see him, she remembered everything. But was she Nephilim again? Her life now was everything she ever wanted as a mundane. But she would give it up in a heartbeat to be a Shadowhunter again. From feeling a brush to a stele. Her stele, her runes, were they still gone from her? She put the thought, the questions away from her. She just focused on the feeling of his arms around her. Jace himself she could see already had his eyes closed. He looked so beautiful. This moment was so perfect. So she finally closed her eyes as well. And Jace drifting off to sleep for the first time in what seemed like an eternity didn't fear waking up. Because he knew she'd still be there. She'd always be there. His Clary, his light, his love...
So should there be a chapter two? What are you're thoughts? I tried to mirror the Clace from the books with show aspects. Be honest but be nice = )
(Tell me if you think I should right Clace M)
(Any Harry Potter fans should check out How It All Began)