Clary was just gonna call Jace when he called

"Hey!"she said

"Um, hey, are you free now, I'm sorry to disturb-- I know that you need to spend time with your mom, but if you are free, can you please come over to the institute? There's an emergency..."

Luke had gone to Idris for a few day to settle some downworld issues, and so, Jocelyn required Clary to spend some time at home, but now that she was asleep early, she took a chance,"Yeah, sure,"

"Wait! I'll come pick you up,"

"Okay,"

Jace landed in his demon energy consuming motorcycle at the road in front of Clary's house, and she was standing there waiting for him,

"It's kinda been my habit by now for staying near you," he said, a smile showing relief at finally being able to meet her had been plastered in his face, but there was something else too... something Clary couldn't quite define but was near as to tension, it would have be hard to think of it if it wasn't Clary, as she could always read him like a book of her own feelings,

"Wasn't anybody else free? You okay?"she asked, nearing him; wondering what it might have been that could've disturbed Jace,

"Yeah, sure," he could read concern on her face,"Everyone's been busy on this case for the last 2 hours,"

"What's it about?" She asked as she hoped onto the bike,

"Idk," he said

"What do you mean you don't know?"

"Nothing, just that I woke up early in the morning today and went for practicing some moves in the training room; later on I went to Taki's around six to get a cold coffee--" he abruptly stopped

"And...what?" Clary asked,

"Well.., while returning to the Institute I lost my way because I felt really dizzy... and i stumbled across paths until I finally got knocked out by some kind of vehicle... and I woke up to find that I was somewhere near the upper west side... by the time I became conscious it was already 6 in the evening and I had got some calls from Alec, on calling him back, he told me that there was some kind of case... so I rushed back to the Institute," On looking up close to Jace's skin over the hands-- which was the only part of his body that wasnt covered in cloth--he had small bruises everywhere and it looked like he was drained...

"What happened to your hands? And why haven't you used a steel?" Clary asked, confused,

"As I told you, I stumbled across the streets-- I must've acquired them--" he said, nodding at the bruises,"-- then, and after showering I called you and forgot to..."

Jace's phone rang,

"Yeah, I'm coming " He answered to Alec,

"Okay," came in his reply, Jace hung up and said,"So that's all,"

"Okay,"said Clary

And so Jace took off in the sky heading for the Institute.

By the time Jace and Clary got to the institute, Alec, Magnus, Izzy, Simon and Maryse were all gathered up near the oakwood table in the middle of the library, the two fairies as always in a look of turmoil under the table. Magnus--in his shimmering yellow pj's walked over and--filled Clary and Jace about the details they had acquired through the Silent Brothers, while the others were working up further on the case;

apparently there was a body of a faerie--all covered in blood-- which turned up at Magnus and Alec's house, there was a note tucked to the front of its shirt that read

Stop showing a fake peace with downworlders, shadowhunters; the truth is that you all just can't stand it-- to be on an equal level with us; you say we all have peace, but when time comes you slay us all saying that we have broken the law but all you do is despise us and think that we are not worthy of living. You have all put a spell on downworlders, making them think that they are on an equal level with you--no wonder even the heads of the the vampire and werewolf clans--Maia and Lily(whom we despise)--have been taking your help to solve the cases regarding downworlders, when all you do is ruin their work.

Face it shadowhunters, there is no great peace you say about that lies between us, break the accords and come to us face to face If you dare to.

"After the body was given to the silent brothers to examine," said Magnus," they found that the body that turned up was the faerie named Dalaine; his age was 23 years and he didn't have a family left, they all died in the dark war against Sebastian and he usually got into fights with any random person who disturbed his life, and there was a high amount of heroine found in his body so we can think that It must be the heroine that could have killed him but there is a shocking evidence that shadowhunter blood was found on his body--making it hard to think that this might only be a play,"

Jace, examining the note, said," This seems to be written by a kid--i mean, just look at the language,"

"We all thought that," said Alec," but the evidence is too disturbing to be done by a child," Simon and Izzabelle nodded to what Alec had said in agreement while Maryse muttered something about placing a call to Maia and Lily about the case, a little while later, their projections appeared in front of them, Lily looked all fresh while Maia was admittedly looking tired, "What's the matter?", asked Simon to Maia, " Bat took me to a party last night and it was a busy day, so I haven't slept," she explained; Maryse filled them in and considering Maia's condition Lily said that she would take care for the matter right now while Maia could rest to start investigating the next morning.

Simon, Izzy, Clary and Jace all went to Taki's for dinner while Alec and Magnus went home to take care of the baby. Clary was examining the note while Izzabelle, Simon and Jace were chatting, Simon asking why jace hadn't shown up to watch Star Wars over his house ( Simon was finally getting successful in making him interested in sci-fi and all the other mundane things) and Jace started to explain him what had happened. Clary coming to a conclusion by examining the note, said," The person who wrote this must be someone whom we must recognize,"

"How can you say that?", asked Izzabelle in confusion,

"Look at the words," she said," they aren't written by a person, becuz it's clear that this is printed and was first written on a device such as a computer or something."

"That's right," said Simon

Jace chimed in," Well, we do have one more clue,"

"Why do you look so tired today?", Izzablle asked Jace, he made a face as if to say I'm-not-tired, and so Simon said," You actually do, though," and Jace snapped," Okay, so what you actually mean to say is that I look tired but in a way the the lion looks like when he hasn't got prey so it looks wild and it's prowling and so you technically mean to say that I look sexy-tired to you, and that means that you got over Izzy for me--sorry Iz, but it's what Si said-- but let me remind you, my friend Simon, that my wild heart stays with Clary,"

"Lord Montgomerry has long gone stopped to pay attention to other people except Izzabelle Lightwood, because she is the deadly flower that shines in my eyes and always will, dear friend, you have a wrong way of seeing things," Izzabelle planted a kiss on Simon and Clary gave hine a high-five,

" You're not supposed to do that!" Jace said in an innocently hurt tone to Clary,

"You do that with Alec and Simon... and," she said,"he is your parabatai, right? And Si--"

Jace cut her off," No--that's not the point here,"

" Then what is the point here?" Asked Isabelle trying to muffle her laughter

"The point here is that... I'm her boyfriend,"

Simon started saying the definition,"parabatai is a bond that can only be broken by death..."

"Yeah,yeah,whatever.." mumbled Jace

Kaelie, the faerie (pixie) who worked at Taki's, came to take thier order. Simon ordered a margherita pizza, Izzabelle a hot dog, Clary some sweet potato fries and Jace had a pause to even consider if he wanted to eat or not, it felt like he would throw up immediately, "And for you, would you like anything?" Kaelie said lingeringly; sometimes Clary thought that Kaelie wanted to date Jace again, "No, nothing... just a glass of water," he said

"You dont look like you've eaten much, have you even eaten anything else since yesterday?" asked Clary,

"Yeah,"joined in Kaelie,"you should eat something, even if not much,"

"I did eat yesterday, I just dont feel like eating, and if I do--I would probably throw up," he said

"Okay ..then," said Clary,

Jace had stumbled and stayed unconscious for hours but yet it felt as if everything were dizzy, his body felt light, but with his energy he could manage to be in a good posture,

As Kaelie went out of view, Clary asked," Since when are you not feeling okay? What have you last eaten?"

"A milkshake here in the morning and last night I came in here to get some spaghetti," he answered

"You shouldn't always go around eating that thing you know, like, all the time," said Izzy

"Maybe she does have a point ,you know," said Clary

Jace didn't really feel like arguing at this point,

"How early--exactly --did you wake up?" Clary asked

Jace had sweated and tossed and turned allt he night in bed , he had finally given up trying to sleep at around 2:30 a.m. and went to the training room," 2:30 at night,"

"Have you even slept all night if you mean that at 2:30 you woke up?" Simon asked

"Well, what do you think?" He asked, he wasn't really in the mood of talking about his current uneasiness to his friends. He changed the topic to ask Clary what she'd been doing all the time since her mother had required her to spend time with 'family'. Clary started to explain how she learned some new tricks about painting that her mom gave her while Kaelie arrived with their meals, as she placed the glass of water in front of Jace, she asked," You sure you don't want anything else?" For some reason, she was being extra sweet,"No,"he said," I don't," so Kaelie went away but there was a look of disappointment on her face,

"What's up with her?" asked Izzabelle,

"Yeah, she is , kinda being extra cheesy to Jace," agreed Clary

"Who knows?" Said Jace, wondering.

He put his glass of water to the mouth and started swallowing, the water didn't taste normal, it felt like there was something acidic in it, but he discarded the thought as something wrong within his own body and drank the water up in one go.

The rest of the dinner, he tried to remain cheerful but things just got worse, Clary would notice at instances and look at him with concern, so he did the extra mile of work to make it not look like he was gonna throw up.

Clary decided to go sleep with Jace that night--she wanted to know what was wrong with him.

On his way to the institute, he had stumbled quiet a lot of times, which astounded Them all because it was Jace who was tripping--so unnatural.

Once they got to Jace's room, Clary asked,

"Jace, are you sure this is only a spaghetti, like there is nothing else that might be wrong?"

"I don't know," he said, by now, his voice sounded like whisper, and it was clear something was wrong but no matter how much ever he tried to remain normal, it wouldn't work, so he let it go, for some reason he couldn't control himself and his emotions, he felt happy, kind of without reason, and all felt dizzy but wonderful, he was glad that Clary was there, he was always glad when Clary was with him, but today it seemed as if he wanted to celebrate the thought, of course Clary had come to meet him after a few days due to her mom, but she felt so precious to him he wanted to protect her from anything that came, but there was nothing to protect her from, his body and mind had started giving quick responses,"Clary," he said," I love you,"

"I know you do," she said in a soothing tone, she had started to worry about him, he looked all sweaty and where their hands interlace, she could say that his body temperature was rising, he had started to rock his right leg in a very fast to and fro moment, up and down, on the bed surface, she knew what this moment meant, because she did it herself when she was in anxiety," and I love you too,"

His face had a big smile plasterd on it by hearing this, it looked as if he were relieved by hearing that, " And you won't leave me, right?"

"No, I won't, Jace," she assured him again, she could see sweat trickling off his face and neck making his face gleam in the glow of the white light in his room, he looked angelic, but with an innocent look on his face, unlike Raziel, and his eyes were shining, but as she noticed, it looked like they were filled with water-- or tears? The skin over his eyes was rimmed red,"I think we should go to the green house, maybe you could get some fresh air?"

"Okay..." he said, Clary was struggling hard to hear what he said, sometimes his voice was normal but sometimes it was like he was only whispering to himself.

Clary changed in her night clothes- some spare black shirts and a tank top she kept at Jace's. Jace Didn't quite look like he was going to be able to make it for the greenhouse, but Clary was worried about his body sweating so highly in the room-- she thought that maybe fresh air would do some work for that.

Jace even in his condition, had started off very fast but Clary held him back leading him carefully up the stairs.

They reached the greenhouse and Clary opened its door for them, Jace stood there staring at her before the greenhouse, unlocking the door, feeling very happy, this was the place where he had his first kiss with Clary, he remembered that day very clearly, how he was not able to control his body, he had felt that way for the first time, when he kissed Clary. Clary remembered that day too, she knew what Jace was thinking when he was staring at her," Hey," she said," come on now,"

He heard her, and smiled in her way, it was a smile he couldn't control from emerging. They both went inside, and sat facing the plant who's flowers bloomed at 12 in the night.

Clary huddled Jace near him, thier heads resting on each other, slowly Jace moved his head to face Clary, and thier lips touched, to Clary, it seemed as if he were exhausted, his breath running in and out fast, he seemed as if to rest there, but in the next moment they were kissing each other, Clary placed her hands near his neck, his skin was always warm, but this was something else, as if he were having fever; his mouth too, tasted weird like some medicine, between thier kisses, she said,"let me get you some ice packs,"

"No!" he said in alarm, and instantly grabbed her hand,"don't leave me," he said,

"Okay, okay," she said,

They both rested their heads on each other, Jace liked it because Clary's skin felt cold, and Clary could feel Jace's heart, beating wildly where her hand rested on his chest.

As if out of the blue, he said," You're like a witch light to me, Clary," his words were tumbling out fast," I can use your light when you are with me, but what if I lost you?"

"You'll never lose me Jace," she said," because I'll stay near you,"

"But still, what If I do?" He asked,

"You'll know how to find me," she said," you always do,"

He giggled,

It was 12 now and the flower started to bloom, they watched it together, holding hands in hands,

"You could still have it ,you know, the teenage mutant ninja turtle," he nodded at the place where her tank top strip was covering her mark

"Oh, thanks for telling me that, because I remembered it already..." she said, teasing him

"Oh, sure, I'll make it sure to remind you again," he said, as if he didn't notice her teasing

Clary thought she was coming to know what Jace going through, but not exactly how; she obviously needed someone to help her, but the institute was empty except Maryse-- Izzy and Si had gone off to Simon's and Robert was in Idris-- though, none of them--Robert or Maryse--seemed to be the ones she could confront for something like this, and she was not even sure if it was that exactly.

She read Jace a A Tale Of Two Cities which she had brought with her from Jace's room, and he was listening to her in fascination but not exactly getting put to sleep--that was what Clary wanted, his eyes were rimmed red and watery but he was restless. They heard a flutter of wings, a bird had passed near the nets of the greenhouse, Clary had paused; Jace stood up and walked over to the spot where a moment ago the bird had flown.

"What if the falcon was still alive, would he be with me?" He asked

"Yeah, he obviously would, I wonder how your bond with it was,"

"Maybe, if I had been careful by what Valentone meant, you could've been able to see him today," he said sadly,

"No Jace, that's not what I meant," Clary said," it was Valentine's nature, don't blame it on yourself,"

"But I should've known what to do," he said," shit, I'm so dumb,"he speaking was like a whispering, and all came out of his mouth so rapidly," shit shit shit, I should've known the consequences...how can I be so--idiotic?"

"No, Jace, you're not dumb or whatever you say you are... you were ten and it's not your fault, besides, do you think you would've had a bond with it without loving it?"

"But it would'nt have hurt if if I didn't love it in the first place,"

"But weren't you happy with it for the time it was with you, even if it bit you at first, could you think it's time with you could've been replaced by emptiness?"

His face looked as if he had got a quick realization,"Yeah, Clary, you're right, I'm such an idiot, and you're such a genius, what could I have done without you?"

"Jace, you know you are more than that," she said, she was worried, she had to do something fast...

Noticing the hands and his condition again, she remembered he had not put on an irtaze, she took her stele out and and made three irtazes, one on his neck--due to his temperature--and two on his hands, he let his hands move freely by hers and watched her contentedly. And he looked as if he had kinda got his senses back for a moment,"Something's wrong with me, Clary, help me please.. "

She pulled him in a hug, Jace rested his head on her shoulders, while she slipped her phone from her short's pocket and searched the symptoms...