Clary and Jace- ' I can't cope anymore, please help me...'

Clary and Jace had a baby boy called William Herondale and who was the splitting image of Jace by a mile.

William was two weeks when Clary started getting symptoms of postpartum depression. Most of the time she would stay up all night in the kitchen with a drink and just watched the clock go around, only getting up if William needed feeding or changing. Jace knew that something was wrong with Clary, but he did not know what was wrong with her. Swirling her hair around her fingers, she would stare into darkness while Jace was watching her, his face clearly with worry.

It was on a Wednesday that Jace knew that she needed help. Clary hadn't been sleeping in their bed that they shared together. He knew that she had not slept in that bed since William was only very little. William was now 6 weeks old as he was now kicking and cooing at people that he loved and knew.

WAAH! WAAH!

A little cry filled the room which came from the nursery on the other side. Sighing, Jace got up to go and get William, knowing that he would just need a cuddle. He walked across the hallway of the Institute before stopping and seeing Clary again with William as he peeked around the door. Stopping himself from going in, he kept peeking around the door.

Clary was holding William in a tightly blue blanket, holding him tightly. She rocked him to side to side trying to stop the crying, but the crying only got worse.

"Stop crying, William will you please?"

Clary then began to start rock him back and forth again which still didn't stop the crying. Frantically, Clary started to search for any signs of what it looks like any illness and then stopped at a mark on his neck.

"William, ok, omg, William baby it is going to be okay, I will get you better. I am such a hopeless mother, why did I let it get this far?"

The door opened and there stood Jace. Clary looked at him in confusion, but then looked down at William and began to cry.

"Jace, he is not well, he has a mark on his neck, we need to get him to Maryse now or it might be too late," she said to Jace and looked at him for reassurance, tears rolling down her eyes as she spoke.

He looked at her and began to see how much of a mess she was. How had he had not noticed how much Clary had changed over the past weeks after William had been born? Never wanting sex, never wanting to see family and friends and now this obsessing over little William's health. How had he not noticed it at the start and not a couple of weeks after it had start?

"Clary, he began and was regretted everything he had been doing these last few weeks, there is nothing wrong with the baby, which is his birth mark, you know he has a strawberry mark, and there is nothing wrong with him."

Holding William tightly in his blanket, she began to look at Jace and shook her head at him. Still crying, she wounded the blanket around him more making him more secure to him.

"He got something wrong with him, let me go to Maryse, Jace please?"

He blocked the path to where she was going to be heading, which she immediately tried to get past with the baby, but failed as she had the baby with her.

"Give me William, Clary..."

"No, Jace."

She casted herself on onto the floor where she was holding the baby and looked at no- one as she just started at the floor. Jace came and bent down towards to her level and William and began to reach for the baby, hands outstretched.

"Please, Clary, give me the baby please?"

No answer. Clary began to rock back and forth again, as William had started crying again at his mother's outburst while Clary herself was crying as well. Jace began to try again.

"Please, Clary?"

The baby began to cry louder, making Clary curse loudly which made her scream "I AM FINE, LEAVE ME ALONE!" The baby screams got louder which made Clary shout out " Jace, I can't cope anymore, please help me!"

Clary handed the baby over to Jace who immediately snuggled and went to sleep. Jace put him in his cot, while Clary had a breakdown. Jace raced back to her and put his arms around her and cuddled her close, kissing her lightly on the forehead as he did.

Hi guys! Did you like this? I put some research into this, as I knew nothing about it? Comment and please post reviews! ~ Phoebe x