Hi All. So here i am with a new story, Some of you may remember a story i had started writing a while back for Jace and Clary but as you can see i deleted it, I had no idea why i deleted it as it was actually a good story with lots of potential but here i am with a new Clace story. It may be confusing to begin with but i hope you all like it...
Clary Mogernstern was usually calm and calculated nothing like her brother, he was rebellious and wild.
Standing in her bathroom staring down at the white stick that held those stupid lines, she felt stupid.
She had spent two month in New York with another group of Shadow Hunters learning about Runes and the power behind each one.
She had stayed in the New York Institute a place her mother had once mentioned as one of her favorite institutes but right now Clary hated New York and the stupid institute.
Clary looked up into the mirror, the bile rising in her throat as a knock on the door sounded out
"Clary Hurry up! I've got a clave meeting to go too" Clary quickly fumbled with the test and the box and quickly hid it in her backpack.
She opened to door to her brother wearing his robes "Finally! Mum said Luke won't be home until late tonight. Something about the wolves having a meeting of their own" Clary sighed as She walked down to her bedroom,
she had hoped her mother wouldn't bother her but knowing Luke and Jon weren't going to be home, she would make a big deal about her rune classes in New York and the sights she might have managed to see.
Jace Herondale was anything but ordinary, he thought of himself as much more.
Walking through the institute with his leather jacket covered in ichor he followed behind Izzy and Alec as they made their way to their bedrooms before leaving them as he headed towards the Library where is grandmother had asked to meet him.
Walking through the bulky wooden doors he watched as Imogen Herondale's face lit up
"Jonathon Come here and let me see you" He grinned as he came closer, she was the last link he had left to his parents after his mother had died two years previous.
"Do I have to? And my name is Jace, you know I hate being Called Jonathon" Imogen grinned as Jace came towards her
"Jonathon is a strong name, you were named after the first of our kind. Though I had no idea why your mother gave you the middle name Christopher, it should have been William or James, two strong Herondales in our family line"
Jace rolled his eyes as his grandmother gave the speech about his middle name once again, just like all the other times she had visited him at the institute.
He would have settled for Stephen, he would have been happy to have his fathers name.
"I have to go and get cleaned up before we head out to eat, you know how bad Izzy's cooking is" He said earning a smile from his grandmother.
"I wanted to ask how everything went with Clarissa Morgernsten-Greymark? Did she learn much?"
Jace didn't really know what to say about her other than the fact she had beautiful green eyes and he loved her fiery red hair "Er, Yeah. She was really good, A bit of an artist so she managed to study the runes pretty quickly, I still don't understand why she came here though"
Imogen nodded pleased that Clary had taken her studies seriously
"When children were all born the nephelim believed in preserving our names. When Jonathon was born he was betrothed to Sophia Wayland his parents and hers had agreed that Jonathon would continue the Morgernstern name with Sophie as his wife, However Clarissa is betrothed to Alexander Lightwood, this was why she was sent to the New York institute.."
Jace stopped his grandmother abruptly
"Alec hates her, He couldn't wait for her to return to Los Angeles"
Imogen took a deep breath as she turned from her grandson "Oh dear, their arrangement looked set to be a good one, just as yours with Aline Penhallow is set" J
ace's eyes widened "What? No! I'm not getting married gran. I don't want to end up like my parents unhappy"
Imogen looked at her grandson warily "He wasn't always unhappy. Did your mother ever tell you about your father's first marriage?"
Jace was stunned, he had no idea "He was married before my mother? I didn't know"
Imogen sat down in the desk chair as she retold Jace of his father
"He loved her, Stephen was a careful boy and when he met Amatis Greymark he found love instantly, he would walk her home each night after a day at the Academy would tell her it was to protect her from demon's that may break through the wards but your grandfather and I knew that he was in love so we went against the Montclaire and Herondale arrangement and spoke with the Greymarks.
We understood that they were in love and that this would be the first marriage of true love in a very long time. Your other grandparents were angry at us for breaking our agreement but the clave agreed to marry them on the understanding that Amatis bore a child within the first two years of marriage to continue the Herondale line"Jace looked astounded.
"Did she have a child?" Imogen looked at her hands
"They had a daughter named Cleo, She.." Jace cut off his grandmother
"I have a sister? You mean to tell me I'm not the only one left"
Imogen tried to hide her face from her grandson but she knew he would have to learn the truth
"No Jonathon, she passed the evening of her first birthday. She was a delicate little thing but the day before her first birthday she had become sickly and unwell. Your father and Amatis thought she had a simple illness but when they went to check on her the evening of her first birthday she had passed. It tore them apart, Amatis would lock herself in Cleo's nursery while your father would sleep at our home. Eventually they parted Stephen had slowly fallen in love with your mother and left Amatis."
Jace couldn't speak, he felt such sadness for Amatis and a tinge of hatefulness towards his parents.
Maybe his father needed an escape and that was why he eventually married his own mother.
"She didn't deserve that, my father was selfish to let her mourn her child on her own"
Imogen was startled to see her grandson defend a woman that had his father's heart before his own mother
"He never stopped loving Amatis, no matter how much he said otherwise. You reminded him of Cleo when you were born, he said you had the same eyes and then when you were a year old he sat beside your cot for a whole week as you slept in fear that something may happen to you. Jonathon, he loved you dearly despite what you might have thought of him"
Jace watched as his grandmother opened her case folder pulling free two photographs
"This is your father and Cleo and this is you and your father" Jace smiled as he realized the similarities of him and his older sister, he just wished he could have met her.
Clary laid on her bed still contemplating what to do next, she decided to go out and see her best friend Simon and ask for his advice.
Climbing from her bed she folded over her sketch book and headed out the door
"Bye mom. I'm going to meet Simon" She called aloud so her mom could hear her as she rushed out of the door leaving Jocelyn stood over the kitchen counter cooking dinner
"So I'm on my own. She forgot to bring out her washing too."
Jocelyn stood talking to the cat that sat on her kitchen window ledge as she placed the knife down and walked towards her children's rooms.
Walking into Jonathon's room it was neat as a boy could be and his clothes piled down by his bed.
On his bedside table sat the photograph of him and Valentine when she was a child before Valentine had been murdered in a demon attack when she was pregnant with Clary.
She loved the photograph dearly and it still upset her that her children never really knew the good man that their father was.
She closed his door on the way out and headed towards Clary's room piling Jonathon's washing into her laundry basket and lifting it to take it to the kitchen but a box on the floor by her backpack startled Jocelyn and paralyzed her with fear.
She dropped the basket and went to the box lifting it up to find the white stick, pulling it free two lines stared back at her. Her Seventeen year old daughter was pregnant…
R&R
A/N: So as you can see Jace is a Herondale and he knows of his father's first marriage and child. I also wanted Valentine and Jonathon to be good guys but i also wanted Valentine gone from the story, I needed clary to know Luke as her father. We won't have these characters coming together just yet but i do intend to have a some Clary and Alec moments, I haven't decided if they will marry yet or not but i don't intend to just throw Malec under a bus it will happen! Please is you have any questions let me know :)