A Little Girl's First Ice Cream Cone

*Thanks muchly to my beta Jace loves me for checking my mistakes etc. You rock!*

AN: Hi, Seraphina here again! I just wanted to say a couple of things before we start this one. First, I'm not telling the story of my birth because even though I've heard it several times it still creeps me out to tell it. So, we're skipping ahead a little bit. This is the story a pretty significant family outing because it was the first time all the kids of my generation were ever in the same place at the same time. And yes, there is pictorial evidence of this! Again, you may want to check out my profile if you're confused about anything. Feel free to review or PM me if you want :-D The internet in Idris has gotten a lot better over the last few years, so I can get back to you pretty quickly! - S.R.L-W.

Jocelyn's POV

"Valentine, may we do something totally crazy? May please we celebrate the end of Project Angel? With... ice cream?" I smiled at my husband who was the love of my life.

He laughed. "You want to celebrate the fact that we no longer have a celestial being living in our basement… with ice cream?"

"Sure, why not? We can get all of the families together and the Angel Babies can have their very first taste of ice cream." I grinned, pleased with my idea.

"What is ice cream mommy?" Our four year old asked me.

"Jonathan Sweetheart, Ice cream is a cold treat that tastes nice on a hot day." I smiled. Smiling at Jonathan hadn't always been something that I was able to do.

There was a time when I couldn't stand the sight of my own son because I thought that the demon's blood had made him evil. And after spending the first two years of his life trying to get through to him with absolutely no progress, I was even more convinced of that fact.

However, when I brought a little red headed bundle to him for the very first time, it had been evident right away that he was capable of so much more. He was capable of love. 'Is that my sister?' he had asked me.

'Yes Jonathan, she is your sister.' I had smiled at him then, for the first time.

Then he had laughed for the first time and, smiling back at me, he'd said 'She is beautiful mother. Very beautiful!' That was when I knew he could be saved.

And now, after I had explained to him the concept of ice cream, he walked over to Roxanne's crib and picked her up in his arms and while letting her play with his hair he said to his sister, "What do you think Phinny? Want to go get ice cream?"

She let out a giggle and said "Jah Jah, pway tase!" This was her little toddler way of asking Jonathan to chase her.

"Okay Angel, I'll play chase, but after that may we please go get ice cream father?" He asked looking innocently up at my husband.

"Yes Jonathan, yes we may." Valentine conceded. After all, he couldn't hold out against both of us asking.

"Okay so, the Lightwoods are coming, the Penhallows, the Herondales, the Waylands, plus all of us. And Lucian said he won't miss either his Godchildren or his niece having their first ice cream cones, so he's planning on crashing the party. And with that many people, we will have to take our cones to the park because, there's no way the ice cream shop has room for all of us to sit at tables." I laughed, putting Roxanne's coat on.

"Well, that's fine, Seraphina and Jonathan haven't been to the park in a while, so I'm sure they'll be thrilled." He said, helping Jonathan tie his shoes.

"We're gonna play at the park mommy?" Jonathan asked, looking excited.

"Yes Sweetheart, after we get the ice cream." I smiled.

"Jah, Jah, pway tase?" Roxanne pleaded.

"Yes Phinny, at the park once we eat our Ice Cream, we can play chase." Jonathan laughed.

"It's so good to see you all again!" I laughed, hugging Maryse, Robert, Alec and Isabelle in turn.

"Yes, you too, and Jocie, kids, we've missed you!" Maryse said, hugging Valentine and I and then Jonathan and Roxanne. "Valentine's been out to the Manor so much but I hardly get to see you, girl!" She grinned.

I smiled. "Yes, well, a certain little person keeps me pretty busy." I said with a quick nod in Jonathan's general direction.

"I know I'm that certain little person mommy, you can say it." He laughed. "But I have to keep you busy, mommy. Phinny's too easy. Without me, you'd be bored!" He said proudly.

"It's true. I would be!" I smiled reassuringly at him. Jonathan had come so far but he was still very, very mischievous and I needed to keep an eye on him at all times.

"Well, you're welcome to bring him over some time. I mean, how bad could it be?" She laughed.

And just then, as if on cue, Jonathan started trying to pull all of Isabelle's hair out by the roots and she began shrieking inconsolably. I decided that Maryse and I had better take the children outside and wait while the men ordered the ice cream or else we would probably be kicked out for causing a disturbance.

Once we had the herd all rounded up and ushered them outside, I sat down to talk to Jonathan. "Son, it is not okay to hurt someone. We've been over this before. What you did to Isabelle was wrong. Do you understand that?" I asked him.

"Mommy she took Phinny's toy! Phinny almost started crying and I had to get the toy back and what she did was wrong, so I had to punish her!" He said pouting.

"It's not your job to punish people for the things they do Jonathan. If it's another child, that job falls to their parents. And Isabelle has a wonderful mother who can take care of disciplining her without your help, Son. Do you understand?" I asked and this time he nodded.

"Yes Mother. I need to say sorry to Isabelle and to Mrs. Lightwood don't I?" He asked.

"Yes Jonathan, you do. That's a good boy now, go on." I said encouraging him over to where Maryse was consoling her little girl.

"I'm sorry I took your job away from you. The next time I catch your little Angel behaving like a little demon, I'll come to you instead, I promise." He said, giving Maryse a hug and a wink. She laughed heartily at his solemn proclamation.

"It's alright Jonathan. I understand. And we all act like little demons sometimes, even if we don't mean to." She said, and ushered him toward Isabelle.

"I'm still mad at you for making my sister sad but I know it wasn't nice to hurt you. So for that I'm sorry Isabelle. And I hope that next time, we can both behave better." And he kissed her on the forehead.

"Like I said…" Maryse smiled. "You can bring him over to our house any time."

Soon the rest of the Inner Circle showed up and we sent all of the men back in to get the ice cream. Maryse and Jia and Céline and Amatis and I, sat with the children outside. "Let's take a picture of all of the Angel Babies together, shall we?" Céline asked. And I seconded the motion. So I sat Roxanne down in the grass next to Isabelle. And Céline brought their Jonathan over (who they had started calling Jace). Amatis brought Amelia over and Jia sat Patrick Jr. down next to her.

The five Angel Babies looked so cute together, sitting there waiting for their ice cream, it was adorable! As soon as we finished taking the picture, Lucian arrived. He first went over to hug Amatis and snatched Amelia out of the group of babies.

"Where's Michael?" He asked her.

"Inside with the boys, getting the ice cream." She smiled. Around the time that Michael's wife had died was when Stephen had divorced Amatis and married Céline, a match that Valentine had had his hand in when he was furious over Lucian's transformation. After that, Michael and Amatis bonded and ended up marrying after a whirlwind courtship. They'd been blissfully happy ever since, and went on to have a daughter together, little Amelia, who was one of the Angel Babies.

"Alright, when he comes out, remind me to talk to him. I want to ask his permission to take you and the kids fishing tomorrow." He grinned mischievously at his sister.

"Why can't he come along?" She asked puzzled.

"Because he's going demon hunting with Robert, he told me so himself." He said, Amatis rolled her eyes and looked at Maryse.

"Did you know about that?" She asked her.

"Nope, but we both what that's code for." Maryse frowned. "Jocie, why don't you and the kids come over to my place tomorrow? It looks like I may be in need of a distraction." She sighed.

"Or better yet…" Valentine said, emerging from the ice cream shop. "Jocelyn, why don't you and Amatis both go over to Maryse's for a girl's day tomorrow and Lucian, you and I can take the children fishing? I have some things I need to discuss with you anyway regarding the search for the cure." He smiled his award winning smile at us.

"All of the children?" I asked, looking at the pile of babies around our feet. He laughed at that.

"Well, if we're taking all of the children, maybe we had better drag along a couple of extra fathers. Stephen, Patrick, what do you say, want to come fishing?" He asked them while I quickly did the math.

If they had Jonathan, Roxanne, Alec, Isabelle, Jonathan, Amelia, Aline, Patrick Jr. and Jace, then that would be nine children for the four men to watch. Could they pull it off? Just maybe and besides, all of the Angel babies were exactly that, little angels.

"Sure." Stephen and Patrick both agreed.

"Good, that's settled then and everybody's happy." Valentine smiled.

Maryse sighed and I heard her under her breath say "Almost everyone."

I looked her in the eyes and whispered "We'll talk tomorrow, okay?" to which she nodded. I knew she never handled Robert and Michael's little 'outings' quite as well as Amatis did. Which I think was because in spite of it, Michael and Amatis still had a good relationship, whereas Robert, well, to say that Robert Lightwood wasn't a multi-tasker was putting it lightly. As soon he had eventually succumbed to the thing with Michael, he had stopped paying attention to Maryse completely. I think if you asked him, he'd tell you he still loved her, but they seriously needed to work on their relationship and neither of them seemed too willing to do so.

We all began to eat our ice cream while I snuggled up to Valentine. I whispered in his ear, "I'm so glad we fixed our marriage problems." He smiled and rested his hand on my thigh.

"I am too, Darling, I am too."

By the end of the ice cream adventure, all five of the toddlers were covered in ice cream. And so were all four of the preschoolers. "Well, aren't we a sticky sight!" I exclaimed, as myself and the rest of the mothers cleaned up the mess and got cloths ready for cleaning ice cream off of the children.

"Yes but a cute sight! Smile for the camera kids!" Uncle Lucian exclaimed.

And that was when I noticed something very weird but awfully adorable. The little boys had taken it upon themselves to lick all of the ice cream off of the little girl's faces like puppies. It was a curious sight and I wasn't sure whether to scold them or laugh. And when I saw which little boys were licking the ice cream off of which little girl's faces, I couldn't help but wonder if it wasn't a sign of things to come.

Eventually we got all of the children cleaned up and they frolicked and played in the park for a long time. It wasn't until a group of ducks landed on the pond later and Jace began shrieking blue murder that we decided to call it a day. And in all the years that followed, as our little group went through so many adventures, none of us parents ever forgot Ice Cream Day!