Serenity- Godsmack
The car stops and Rose opens the door. Her and Simon had been silent the whole way here, unless you count Simon's weak attempt at small talk. "Thanks for the ride," Rose finally says, hand still on the door handle.
Simon nods. "Anything for you," he replies almost absently. Clearing his throat, he looks at his hands on the steering wheel. "I guess I'll see you later?"
Rose nods. "Yeah… later." Not even thinking to apologize for her seemingly crazy actions earlier, she turns heading for the door, distracted by complete loss at what to do now.
"See ya Clary!" She hears him yell at her, finally driving off.
She watches the van disappear before opening the door and walking inside. It was empty, thank God. She'd look strange trying every door in the house till she found Clary's bedroom. When she does finally find it, she plops down on the bed, looking up at the ceiling. What did she do now?
All of a sudden, a voice fills her head. 'Hey!'
Rose jumps, almost falling off the bed. "And now I'm hearing voices," she groans. "Come on God, what did I ever do to you?"
'Who the hell are you? And what are you doing in my room?' the voice continues to yell.
"Could you stop yelling?" She flinches, not only from the screaming by also realizing she's now talking to the voices in her head. Oh well. Today was already crazy as hell, this couldn't make it much worse. "You're in this head to, it has to hurt."
There's a few moments of silence before the voice speaks again, quieter this time. "Oh...right. I see that now. Or more accurately, I feel it."
Rose goes silent, not feeling quite ready to make small talk with herself.
"Wh-who are you?" She hears after a few seconds, more softly this time, as if it was scared to ask.
She debates whether she should even respond "Rose.." She finally says, wondering if it was appropriate to ask the same question back.
'Rose,' its repeats back slowly. 'I'm Clary. In case you didn't already know.'
Despite the fact that she just found out there was basically a person living in her head, Rose finds herself breathing a sigh of relief. At least she didn't make up the voice. "Clary. Right." What a calm response to a situation that was about as far from normal as it gets.
'Why am I not in control anymore? Why am I just a voice? And where did you come from?' Clary fights to keep her voice down.
"Dont ask me.. I just woke up in some random chick's body dude." Well not exactly random..
Clary seems to try and take a deep breath, succeeding in choking them both up for a moment as their lungs got confused.'The last thing I remember is...oh God, Jace.'
"Yeah.. about him," Rose bites her lip. "I think I kinda pissed him off."
'You didn't do anything. He was already pissed off before I passed out.'
Rose nods."Yeah, he was mad before.. But then I may have accused him of kidnapping me and stealing my phone. Though he kinda thinks I'm you.."
Clary sighs. 'Oh well. I'm pretty sure he hates me already so I don't think it matters at this point.'
Rose shakes her head, sighing. "He doesnt hate you. I can promise you that much," She leaves it at that, not wanting to give too much away yet. That was a conversation for another time. "What do we do now?"
'I don't know. I've never heard of anything like this happening before.'
"It seems kinda like The Host. Except you know.. neither of us are aliens." Rose looks up at the ceiling. "Maybe we should try and explain everything to Jace. He might be able to help."
Clary laughs. 'Yeah right. Jace is too concerned with himself and everything going on with Valentine to be concerned with me.'
"Has anyone ever told you you are horribly unobservant?"
If Clary could have glared, she would have. 'I'm not unobservant. I'm an artist. I'm very observant.'
"Well then maybe it's just with this matter. I don't know how you can't see Jace is in love with you. He'd probably kill for you if you asked him to," Rose shakes her head.
Clary scoffs. 'Ridiculous. Jace is not in love with me,' but even as she said it, her voice got wistful. 'And even if he was, he'd need to stop. We both do.'
Rose grins, knowing something Clary didn't. Well.. alot Clary didn't actually. "He'll help us. I promise."
'I disagree. But if you say so,' she sighs, seeming defeated.
Rose stands, seeing as it was only five she might as well go ahead and meet Jace somewhere. "I'd ask whether Jace would freak out less in public or in private, but I think Jace would have yelling match in the middle of Church if the mood struck him."
Clary laughs.'Yeah. It doesn't matter where. Jace has enough self confidence that running down 5th avenue naked with antlers on his head won't even price his ego. He doesn't care what people think. Or at least tries to hide it,' she adds quietly.
"Yeah," Rose sighs. "Okay well, I guess I'll text him to meet us at Takis?"
Clary goes to nod and then remembers she can't. 'Yeah. Sounds great.'
"Going back to the unobservant thing, you'd think you would have asked how I know so much about you by now," Rose closes the front door behind her.
'I've learned in the past few months that sometimes I don't want to know the answer.'
"Fair enough." Clary's phone vibrates in her pocket. Automatically she goes to swipe at the screen. Then she remembers touch screens barely existed yet. she sighs, opening the flip phone. Just one letter, K. "For someone who hates you, he sure agreed to that mighty fast," Rose smirks.
Clary goes silent for a second, seeming to not know how to respond. 'He must just be bored or have nothing else to do,' she finally says.
"Yeah.." Rose rolls her eyes. "Um.. Clary?"
'Yeah?'
"I know Takis exist.. but I have absolutely no idea where it is."
Clary laughs. 'Hail a cab. That's the first step. Unless you want to walk. It's not that far.'
"Ill walk," Rose says not wanting to use Clary's money. "Just tell me how to get there."
'Right. Go left first. When we get to the street we need, I'll tell you then.'
Rose does so, Clary telling her what road as promised. They get there about ten minutes later and Rose stares around in amazement.
Clary laughs. 'Close your mouth and go inside. He's probably waiting.'
Rose nods, shutting her mouth which had really been open. Opening the door, she sees Jace waiting in the far corner. Sliding into the booth, she crosses her legs ordering a water when the waiter comes by.
Before she had sat down, he had looked really bored, not paying attention anything. That is, until she sat down. He sits up straighter, more alert. In only a half second, he composes himself again, looking like his usual uninterested, cocky self.
"Ha," Rose mutters to Clary. Jace probably heard her, but she moves on before he can comment. "Hey."
"What did you want to talk about?" He asks bluntly.
"So we're skipping the small talk I see," she rolls her eyes. Well if he wanted to cut to the chase then... "I'm not Clary."
Jace stares at her a moment before bursting out in laughter.
"What's funny?" She crosses her arms.
He stops abruptly, staring at her straightly. "You."
"Why thank you," she flicks her hair. Or Clarys.. "But I was being serious."
Jace raises an eyebrow. "How hard did you hit your head when you passed out?"
"I don't know, wasn't even in this body till I woke up." Damn, that sound really weird.*
He stares at her. "You know how crazy that sounds, right?"
"Yes, but most things that come out of my mouth don't make much since. I've gotten used to the strange looks by now," Rose smiles.
He's quiet for a few moments, chewing on his lip, before shaking his head. "Sorry Clary but I have to go. I forgive you for wasting my time."
"I don't remember asking for you forgiveness. Sit down please, I wasn't finished." You'd think being a Shadowhunter would make him a little more open minded, she internally sighs.
Clary laughs. 'Jace is one of the most stubborn people I know.' Jace sighs and sits down again, crossing his hands in front of him. "What?" He ask a little harshly.
"Look," Rose sighs. "I know you might now believe me… but my name is Rose Cartwright and for some reason, I'm not in the right body anymore.I need your help. If not for anything else, do it for Clary? I don't think she likes not having control over her body.."
"I don't think anyone would like that. And anyways, let's say I believe you, how do you expect me to help?" He leans forward onto the table.
"If I knew how you could help, I could do it myself. I'm more.. asking for suggestions to fix our little problem.." Rose never understood why someone would ask how you want them to solve your problem. If she knew how to solve it, she wouldn't be asking in the first place.
"Like? I'm not a magician. For all I know, you're screwing with me. Magnus is probably more help than I am or could be."
Rose feels stupid, realizing he was right. "Oh.. right. Well then.. Clary, you wanna tell me how to get there?"
Jace stares at her in confusion. "What?"
"Well you see.. Clary's still.. in here," Rose tries to explain.
Jace shakes his head standing up, still not seeming to quite believe her. "Never mind. Forget I said anything." He flashes her a small smile, leaving a few bills on the table for his undrunk coffee.
Rose nods, turning to leave.
Right before she gets to the door Jace speaks again. "Take care of yourself. I'll see you later." She looks back at him just in time to see him walking away through the crowd of tables, running his hands through his hair.
"So where to?" Rose sighs as the door closes behind her.
'You might want to hail a cab this time. It's a little long to walk.'
Rose nods after a moment, walking to the edge of the road and standing there awkwardly. "Um.. how do I do that exactly?"
Clary laughs. 'It's sort of like hitchhiking. Not that I've done that,' she adds. 'But when you see a cab coming, go to the edge of the street and wave.'
Rose nods, "Okay. I've got this." And five minutes later she was victoriously getting into the back seat of a cab.
'There. You did it. Not so bad, huh?' Clary giggles softly. 'Easy.' She tells Rose what to tell the cabbie.
The cab pulls off a few seconds later, Rose staring out the window. It was so.. crowded here. They get to Magnus's a little while later, silent the whole way there as Rose couldn't respond to Clary without looking totally insane.
Rose steps out the cab after paying the driver. In front of her was a Magnus' apartment, not looking far off from how she imagined it to be. It was time to figure out what was going on.
