Dear Readers,

I was fooling around when I decided to write a fan fiction about Jace, and Clary and their life after city of heavenly Fire. It's the 7th book of the mortal instruments written by me! I will like you to note I don't own the mortal instruments and I'm doing this for Fun. Thank you for reading!

XOXOX – Clay

Chapter one

"The Tragedy of life is not death….But what we let die inside of us while we live" –Norman Cousin

Clary sat at the first patio table she spotted at java jones. As she sat down the wind blew roughly making Clary shiver more. She hung her back pack behind her chair and sighed with exhaustion. The backpack was full of clothes, her art supplies, and her steel. Jocelyn and Luke were going on a vacation alone so Clary had to stay at the institute for two weeks. It had been weeks since Luke and Jocelyn got married yet it was still hard to be around them. It always seemed like she interrupting something private Clary thought as she cringed. Jocelyn had told Clary they wouldn't go on a Honey Moon until Clary adjusted to the marriage. But that wasn't the only thing she needed to adjust to.

Simon was in training to become a shadow hunter which seemed completely ridiculous to Clary. "Why does he have become shadow hunter to be with Isabelle?" Clary said out loud as she hit the table too hard. Clary looked around to see if anyone noticed apparently no one did. Clary sighed Simon was the one thing she wanted to protect from the corruption. She remembered the argument she had with Jace.

"Hey look at this way you don't have to protect the mundane any more" Jace had said.

"Jace for god sake this is Simon! The boy who actually believed vampires sparkle in the sunlight" Clary had said to him in his room. Closing the distance between them Jace seated Clary in his lap and wrapped his arms around her. Slowly moving his lip to Clary's ear she felt her heartbeat speed up. Then he finally said

"Clarissa this the same mundane who gave his memories up for us and we sho-"

Clary phone started to buzz loudly in her back pocket. Reflectively she grabbed her phone only to read it was Jace calling. Instinctively clary pressed decline. Jace was expecting her at the institute by now but Clary didn't feel like training today. Instead she sat at java jones alone and stared at the crowds crossing the road. New Yorkers made clary smile all their different coloured hair. Some heads were electric blue, some heads were strawberry blonde, and some had the regular brunette. A dash of colour caught her eyes a slivery blonde shone brightly on muscular figure. Clary panicked she had only seen that shade of blonde once before. She closed her eyes as the familiar figure crossed the road "he's dead, he's dead, he's dead" Clary repeated to herself in a hushed voice.

Cary instinctively had taken her phone out and held it under the table. She started to dial Jace's number. Clary had closed her eyes as she held the phone up her ear. 'He can't hurt me in public' Clary reminded herself as she waited for Jace pickup. At the 6th ring a two familiar voice spoke to her. One was angered and worried and the other was genuine and confident.

"Clary? where the hell are you?!" Jace demanded crossly

"You're the Clary right?" The familiar voice asked confidently. The figure stood cross from clary. He was muscular but with a slightly slender frame, and just as tall as he was the last time Clary saw him. He appeared pale like always, and his face portraying his high cheekbones. The wind blew his slivery blonde hair out his eyes only to reveal the shallow ocean that shined within them.

Clary's voice shook as she asked the figure "Sebastian?"

Jace replied without thinking "No this is Jace" he paused on the phone and now his voiced sounded panicked "Clary? Are you alright? Clary!? Clary?! Where ar-" Clary heart skipped a beat until she noticed the phone fell out of her hand. A quick pale hand caught before it crashes in the bricked patio. Clary looked up at the male whom now had his hand stretched out to her with her phone lying in his palm.

"Yeah that's me" He paused and smiled genuinely "How'd you know?" Sebastian smiled ear to ear. Clary could still hear Jace on the other end of the phone calling her name franticly. But all clary could think was "he's alive, He's alive, Sebastian alive."