Previously

Jace and were snuggled up in the very back of my dad's old pick up truck he drove before he was killed.

*FLASHBACK*

2005 ( Clary, Jace, Isabelle, Alec and Magnus 14 and John 16)

John and I were over at Isabelle's with Jace and Magnus and since Alec was her brother he was there too. We had a small match of football going on in their backyard. The teams were Jace, myself and Alec and Isaballe, Magnus and John. Alec was in goal and Jace was playing mid-field while I played forward. Isabelle was playing defense, Magnus was forward and John was in goal. the score was 5-8 us. Jace and I had a strong strategic goal strategy and we each scored four goals. we had stopped for a water break when John recieved a phone call.

"Ahoy?"he said

"I see." he responded

"Okay I will tell them to come with us because Maryse and Robert are away on buisness and toke Max with them" He added

From where I was standing the voice souded robotic almost inhuman kind of like the receptionist who picked up when I called 4 years ago. But almost like my mother who worked at Hospital downtown Liverpool.

" Love you Mom see you soon."John ended the call and looked extremely panicked

"Okay guy go change out of your sweaty clothes into something more presentable and we are head to the hospital mom works at" he said extremely calm like when you know somethinng bad happened calm

After the others went and changed he pulled me aside and said

"Dad has been in another accident that didn't involve one of our friends parents..." John said glumly

"Oh S**t that isn't good" I said. John gave me a pointed look

"Hey I'm Swiss on Dad's side and I'm his special princess let's go I'm gonna change." I finished and rushed into the house and ran for Isabelle's room.

"Izzy open up it's Clary." I said rushed

"Come In!" she yelled through the door.

"I need non-sweaty clothes to wear." I said calmly

"Already taken care of." She responded and gestured to the bed which had a Baggy Black Hoody with the quote 'Where Words Fail Music Speaks' written on it in white in a cursive font and leggings with a black beanie. I grabbed my converse phone and purse and rushed down the stairs with Isabelle hot on my heels in her brother's old faded black V-Neck T-Shirt and Jeggings with black Doc Martens.

~0*0~

We arrived at the emergency room in the 5 minutes after we left the house. At the front desk sat mom's back up receptionist which meant she was with Dad. I knew the lady well because it was Jace's mom Celine.

"Hey Mrs. Herondale can you point us in the direction of Dad's room." John said eerily calm at the same time Jace said "Hi mom"

"3rd floor room 345. His waiting room is right across the hall." She then added "Hello Hun." and gestured for Jace to give her a hug and kiss on the cheek. He quickly obliged and rubbed his sweaty forehead on her shoulder because none of us had time to shower. In result Celine yelled out in disgust which caused som dirty looks from random passer by doctors and patients. After that we rushed off to my dad's room. We took the stairs instead of the elevator because that would be to slow. The doctors taking the stairs were confused at why a group of 6 teenagers were climbing the stairs in the hospital. We arrived at the top of the stairs and power walked down the hall until we arrived to the room with the bold numbers 345 printed onto a piece of metal beside the door. everyone but John and I sat down in the waiting because we saw our mom in the room we went in aswell. Inside John and I saw our father hooked up to wires and an I.V pump with an oxygen tube running across his his supplying oxygen for him. John and I slowly approached our mother who was sobbing into Dad's hand.

"Oh Val!" She wailed and burst into another fit of sobs. John went over and comforted her while I went over and knelt next to Dad on the otherside of the bed and took hold of his hand.

"Daddy? I don't know if you can he hear me but I need you to come back to me. I love you too much to let you go. Multum te amo plurium. Ne longe fias a me." I said. Dad had taught me and John Latin. We used to use it as a secret language only me, John, and Dad had.

"Te amo nimis Pricipis. Ego te Desram. I will always be in your heart." He whispered. He turned to mom and kissed her softly on the lips and pulled us all into a awkward one armed bed hug and whispered

"Multum te amo Plurium Ego te Desram. I love you I will never leave you. Princess, Johnny and my beautiful wife I love you." He trailed off as his heart monitor flat lined and John, Mom and I burst into tears at his bedside. The doctors came in and unhooked him from the wires but left the heart monitor for last. They made sure he was all unhooked and wheeled him to the morgue room. John and I walked into the waiting room tears rolling down our cheeks. The others stood up and pulled us into a group hug and comforted us. Izzy and Magnus were in tears aswell. When the hug pulled apart we went back to the Lightwoods but none knew that I had taken my dad's ring while holding his hand.

(END FLASHBACK)

When I was pulled back into reality I had a stray tear rolling down my cheek. Jace had taken notice and wiped it away with his thumb and whispered in my ear

"Are you thinking about your Dad again Clare-Bear?"Jace asked. Him, John and Izzy knew me better then anyone. I nodded and now my tears flew freely down my cheeks while Jace pulled me close and whispered sweet nothings into my ear.

After I got over my crying spell my hand made it's way to the chain that held my dad's ring and shoved my finger through the ring part and just held it there. In the silence you could hear nothing but the movement of the wheels on pavement. The sounds of the car and the whispers of my mom, Celine, and Stephen lulled me to sleep.

LATIN TRANSLATIONS:

MULTUM TE AMO PLURIUM - I LOVE YOU

NE LONGE FIAS A ME- DON'T LEAVE ME

TE AMO NIMIIS PRINCIPIS - I LOVE YOU TOO PRINCESS

EGO TE DESRAM- I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU

These may or may not be correct because I'm using Google Translate for these phrases.