Chapter 1

Jace woke up to a startlingly bright room and shut his eyes immediately, trying to blink out the pain. He groaned when he opened them again, but the room didn't seem as bright as before. He placed his hand on his face and rubbed his eye with his fingers and felt the stubble across his chin with his palm. He sat up and half ruffled his hair/half scratched his head while trying to ignore the pain in his back that the izrate hadn't gotten rid of.

Glancing to his left he saw that Clary was still asleep with her fiery hair spread around her and her hand underneath her cheek. She sighed gently in her slumbers and sank deeper into the pillow. Jace leaned back down carefully and rested his chin on his hand and just stared at her while she slept. She'd always been beautiful, but when she slept everything was just so peaceful that she almost glowed with her beauty.

A few minutes passed and the sun was coming directly in through the window on to her face. Jace rolled softly off the bed to pull the curtains shut and when he came back he found that Clary was awake and blinking the sleepiness out of her eyes. She yawned largely and then smiled afterward as Jace yawned in response.

"Good morning," she said lightly.

"Good morning," Jace replied with an uneven smile upon his face. He reached over to her and started playing with her hair. He could feel her green eyes focusing on him, but he didn't care. They were both alive. That was all that mattered.

"Well you're in a good mood," she said, chuckling under her breath and then abruptly sobering. "Jace?" Clary asked quietly.

He looked away from her hair for a moment and glanced into her eyes. "Yes?" he replied then went back to running his fingers through her hair.

"Did all of that really happen last night?" That made him stiffen and pull his hand away from her.

"Yes. It did. But we needn't worry about that now," he said, some of his eloquence working into his words as he tried to get Clary off the subject with his calm.

"But we do!" she said. "What about Alec and Isabelle? What about my mom and Luke? What about Maryse and Rober—"

"Clary," Jace sighed, cutting off her rant. Those could go on forever if she wasn't stopped in the beginning. "We can go and check on everyone now if you'd like that."

She paused at that and Jace hadn't been expecting her to do that. He thought she would have jumped up from the bed and ran to go find everyone. "You're sure they're all okay?"

"They're all fine. I was conscious. Everyone was brought here and Magnus was around making sure they would all make it through the night."

"Thank you."

"You're welcome." He paused. "How are you feeling?"

"Sore. But other than that I feel alright. Do you know how he got here? I mean into this dimension? I thought all the portals into New York were gone. And why would anyone be summoning…them?" she said trailing off as Jace's face stayed the same.

"Magnus and I have been talking a bit. He's been noticing a lot of demon activity randomly coming from this area."

"You mean the demons are coming from around the Institute?"

"Not quite. I mean the demons are coming out of the Institute. Or rather they're appearing from the Institute seeing as they're never really inside it." Jace could tell that Clary didn't understand and even he didn't understand some of it. "That portal you made to Idris may have disappeared from this side of it, but Magnus believes that it's still existent where the other end is. That means that demons can get in easily if the portal hasn't been closed and it's leading them right to the Institute," he said gravely.

Clary worried her bottom lip with her teeth and looked down at the bed. "You mean to say, that I caused all of this. I almost killed everyone. I got us all attacked by a Greater Demon last night?"

She was going on a rant again. Jace took the hand closest to him from off the bed. "Clary," he said trying to calm her down. She didn't stop.

"I just almost killed everyone that means anything to me. I'm a horrible per—"

"Clary!" he said, cutting her off mid-word. "You are not a horrible person. None of us had any idea that this was ever going to happen. Don't blame yourself. Please," he murmured after she started paying attention to him.

"I…okay," she mumbled dejectedly after a pause that sounded like she was going to fight it.

"Thank you," Jace said as he leaned closer to her and brushed his lips against hers. He felt her fingers twine into his hair and he deepened the kiss slightly. Her lips were soft against his and he could feel her heartbeat stuttering. Jace, he thought to himself, don't get distracted. You have work to do. With a sigh he pulled back slightly and stared at her face. She looked a lot better now that she wasn't worrying about everyone else, but now it was his turn to do the worrying. Gently, he untangled himself from her and sat on the edge of the bed. He heard her tumbling off her side of the bed and coming around to look at him.

"I'm going to go take a shower," she said looking down at herself. Jace hadn't even realized that she was still covered in mud.

She opened the bathroom door and glanced back at him. "Jace?" she asked again. He looked up. "Are you alright?"

"I'm fine," he lied. "Go take a shower. I'll be downstairs." With that he stood up and tried to walk as normally as he could so that she would believe what he had just said.

I'd like your reviews of what you think. New chapters should be coming out every week to two week since school starts next week. I might get a lot in this week. If I get more than one chapter up, I'd advise you not to get your hopes up that it will be like that every week.

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