Hello. This is my first fanfiction and I hope that you guys like it. If you don't like it, feel free to tell me. I can take it as well as I can give it. So, enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own The Mortal Instruments.*Holds up pointy knife* For now.
Jace P.O.V.-
Clary was asleep in the Institute library when Jace walked in. She was lying on a couch with her bright red hair spread across the cushion like a halo around her head. Jace smiled at her, quickly before his face hardened again.
Isabelle, Alec, and Jace were going demon hunting, and Jace didn't want Clary to know. He was walking across the room to the shelf where his stele was. He was halfway across the room when Isabelle stormed in with Alec on her heels.
"I just don't get why it's such a big deal!" She said loudly. Loud enough to wake Clary. Clary sat up and rubbed her eyes. Jace groaned to himself.
"Hey." Clary said.
"Oh, hi, Clary. I didn't mean to wake you up. We were just going to go demon hunting… in fact," Isabelle said, with a sly look on her face, that was clearly directed at Jace," If you wanted to come, there's extra gear in the training room."
Clary thought for a minute. Jace almost hoped that she wouldn't say yes, but no luck for him. Clary jumped up. "Yeah, I'll be back in a few minutes." She said and walked out of the library.
"Isabelle!" Jace hissed when Clary was out of ear shot. "Why did you do that?"
"She isn't going to learn if you keep making her stay here while we go hunting, Jace! You can't protect her forever." Isabelle shot back, with just as much venom in her voice as Jace's.
"Watch me." Jace said.
Alec cut in there. "She's right, Jace." He said from where he was standing.
"Shut up, Alec." Jace said.
"Okay." Alec said. Jace turned back to Izzy. "Fine, I'll let her go. Now let's leave!" Jace said, as he started to walk out of the library.
"Aren't you forgetting something?" Alec asked.
"What?" Jace said.
"Your girlfriend, for starters?" Alec said. Jace sighed. Right.
Clary P.O.V.-
Clary ran to the elevator, eager to get to the training room. She was surprised that Jace hadn't put up an argument when Isabelle had asked her to go with them. He was over protective sometimes. She was going up in the elevator when she got a text from Simon.
You wanna hang out tonight?-s
Can't I'm going demon hunting.-c
Ok, bye.-s =D
Clary smiled as she stepped out of the elevator and walked into the training room. She quickly found he extra gear Isabelle had been talking about and started to put it on. When she was dressed she grabbed an extra stele and some daggers. She started to walk down the hallway.
When she got to the library Jace's face was a mixture of anger and pity. Pity for who, Clary wasn't sure.
"I'm ready to go." Clary said, walking into the room. Isabelle's back was to the door.
"Okay, we'll go in a minute." Isabelle said over her shoulder. She put what ever she had had in her hands back and turned around to face everyone else. Isabelle started to walk out and Alec started to follow, but Jace stopped him and whispered something to him. He rolled his eyes and followed Izzy out of the door.
Clary was turning around, but Jace caught her shoulder in his hand and stopped her.
"Clary, we need to talk." He said.
"Oookaay. About what?" She asked, worried it would be something bad.
"You're not ready to go demon hunting." Jace said in a hurried voice.
"Excuse me?" Clary asked.
"You don't have enough training."
"I've been doing just fine! I'm going to have to go out eventually. Just because you don't want it to be true doesn't mean that it isn't true. If I want to be a good Shadowhunter I'll have to do something!"
"Clary, no!"
"I can do this!"
Jace was silent for a moment, then something like fear flickered in his golden eyes. "Jace, please, let me go." Clary pleaded.
"No."
Clary softened her voice. "Please, I can do this."
"NO YOU CAN'T, CLARY!" Jace shouted. Clary flinched and took a step back, cowering.
"Jace," She whispered.
"Clary, I know that you can't do this." She felt tears welling up in her eyes. She didn't want to cry in from of him, so she started out of the room. He grabbed her wrist.
"Let me go." She said, her voice breaking just as Isabelle walked in. She opened her mouth to say something, but stopped when she saw the scene in front of her.
"What, exactly, is going on here?" She asked, her words sharp like daggers. She was glaring at Jace, her dark eyes glowing with fury.
Jace let go of Clary's hand and she took a step back wiping her eyes furiously. "Jace says that I'm not ready to go. He's refusing to let you take me hunting." She said.
"Of course you are!" Isabelle said, indignantly.
"I don't-" Jace started, but cut off when he realized both girls were glaring at him.
"No, Jace! You don't get a say in this," Isabelle said," You need to get used to the fact that this is her life and not yours you don't get to control it just because you're afraid of her getting hurt! Clary, come on. We'll go by ourselves."
"I'm not letting her do that." Jace said, but Isabelle was already out of the door. Clary turned around. "Watch me."
Jace P.O.V.-
"You are a tremendously large idiot." Alec said.
"Shut up." Jace said, pacing the kitchen floor.
"Stop worrying, they'll be fine."
"How do you know that? She could get hurt. She could get killed. She could-"
"Okay," Alec said, " I understand that you're worried, but she had Isabelle with her. And for some reason you keep forgetting that she is perfectly capable of taking care of herself. They are both capable of doing a simple task that we were doing when we were 11."
"Alec, you don't understand!" Jace said.
"What I don't understand that you worry about someone? Clary is just like you. She jumps into situations with out thinking it through. She doesn't realize how much it scares the people who care about her. She. Is. Exactly. Like. You." Alec said slowly, as if he were talking to a 5 year old.
Jace stopped pacing and put his hands on the counter, resting his head on the cupboard. He thought of Clary. The time she had walked into a vampire infested hotel just to save her weasely best friend. How she Portaled to Idris so she wouldn't have to be left out of everything. She was brave. And Jace loved her for it, but it scared him more than the most powerful demon ever could.
Okay,
he thought to himself, Alec is right. Clary can do this. She can do this.
"You're right." Jace said.
"I am? I mean I know I am, but I didn't think you knew that." Alec said. He clearly hadn't been expecting Jace to agree with him. Jace smiled and sat down at the table.
"You're right she can do this. She'll be okay. I just want her to be protected." Jace said.
"Jace, you love her. You want her to be safe, and I under stand that, but this is what she was born to do. And you need to get it through your thick skull that there will be a time that you won't be there to protect her and if you don't let her do the things she needs to do to achieve that. When that moment comes she might not make it, and it would be your fault." Jace felt a fear come over him. It settled in his stomach and twisted his insides. He stood up.
"I'm going to my room." Jace said.
"Are you okay?" Alec asked his parabatai.
"No."
I know that it's short, but I'll update in a few days. I hope you liked it!
