Chapter 4

Jace's POV

The pain. Ah, I hurt so much. I can't let Clary bring me back from the dead. Slowly I walked up to the golden gates of safety. The Angel Raziel looked down upon me.

"Young man." his voice echoed around me. The Angel emitted a golden light as bright as the sun that lit up the area around us. Raziel pointed downwards where I could see Clary beside my body. She was pulling herself along by her arms in Valentine's direction. An exact copy of the Angel Raziel floated above the water. My heart cringed as he blasted Valentine into oblivion. Though he was not my father and he was a despicable man, that broke my heart. The Angel's distant voice spoke to Clary.

"Now you, Valentine's daughter, are worthy. I can grant you one wish." she didn't even hesitate or take a minute to consider. She could have wished for world peace, a cure for cancer or an infinite supply of money. No. She asked for me. It touched me that Clary chose me over everything, she'd go to the end for me, hell, she'd bring me back from the dead. She loved me.

I love Clary.

Then I woke up. Where was Clary? Was she okay? We were in some random stranger's house. Xav was beside me using his gift to heal whatever was wrong with me. Clary was asleep sat up on the floor beside me. Sky was curled up next to her and Zed was sat in the window quietly strumming away at his guitar. Now there were even more faces in the room, ones I didn't recognise. A Hispanic man and a beautiful woman that looked like a flamenco dancer cooked in the kitchen and five other boys were scattered around on chairs.

"Hey everyone. Sleeping beauty's awake!" Xav called and every person that was awake (minus Zed) hurried towards me. Zed sauntered behind them as he had already spoken to me earlier.

"If I didn't already know that a Savant's partner had to be a girl, I would have presumed that you were gay" I choked out with a crooked grin. Zed whooped and a boy in glasses shouted 'He told you Xav'.

"Zed, Yves! Calm down. Sorry for the racket but they are still young. I'm Karla by the way and that is my soulfinder Saul. We are the parents to these wonderful boys." Karla huh. I always liked her in the books.

"Jace thought that you were always a good character mom." Yves chirped. Zed batted him around the head and muttered 'rude' before turning on his heels and picking his guitar back up.

"Why thank you Jace. Also young Clary has already explained everything to us so don't worry your pretty little head." Karla chuckled. All of the boys introduced themselves and at the end I said "Can I remember them how Zoe remembers your names. Trace, tough; Uriel, ultra intelligent. Victor, very mysterious. Will, wacky. Xav, x-treme sports. Yves, yummy. And Zed."

"If you want to mate but it makes you sound like you have the hots for Yves, so unless you want to be mistaken for gay..." Xav chimed. No witty remark popped into my head. Wow, I must be tired.

Clary's POV

We had spent two days with the Benedict's now. Well, a half day and yesterday. Xav had instructed Jace to rest all of yesterday so the boys wanted to take me out on the slopes. Uriel and Zed were both fighting to take me up. Zed wanted to teach me to board and Uriel wanted to take me skiing. I opted to go with Uriel as I would have felt like a third wheel if I'd gone with Sky and Zed. I borrowed one of Sky's newly brought ski suits as we were around the same size. Actually, it was still a bit too long. We'd grabbed two pairs of skis and headed up the lift. At the top I brought a coffee from Jose. Seems like he flirts with every girl, unless he only girls for short girls.

"Shame all the good ones are taken. This one yours Uri?" he'd questioned. Uriel had replied with a tight nod and dragged me away. Uriel apologised to me later and explained that Jose was a bit of a player. If Jace found out about this he would go mad...Anyway, turned out I was a natural at skiing. I tried the easy routes and some of the harder ones. I ended up racing Uriel and Zoe down the hill without realising. I won, of course.

Today Uriel was taking me to a place he likes to ski. We traipsed up past the J shaped slope where Sky had her special boarding lesson. We came across a more extreme setting. Steep cliff faces surrounded a frozen over lake. Snow covered the small bit of land between the lake of ice and rock faces.

"Wow Uriel, this is beautiful! This may sound like a stupid question but how are we going to ski?" I asked him shrugging off my rucksack which contained my phone and lunch.

"I know I told you to bring skis, but I came prepared for something else!" Uriel told me as he produced two pairs of ice skates from his bag. "I took your shoe size from your boots, I hope that doesn't sound creepy. It didn't sound weird in my head." I laughed at him and gently touched his arm.

"Not creepy just slightly deranged. You could of just checked the skis I used yesterday." I informed him with a knowing smirk. He face palmed before strapping on his skates. I plopped to the floor and pulled my shadowhunting boots off. We didn't bring spare changes of clothes only the things we had came in. That didn't matter because all I've been wearing is ski suits. Xav was lending Jace clothes for the time being but if we decided to make this a holiday then I'd have to portal back and grab a few spare changes of clothes. Though, I didn't want to overstay our welcome.

"Don't think like that Clary. Everyone loves you and Jace, it's not like you two are any hassle. Besides, you've only been here a few days." Uriel took the thoughts right from my head. I got to my feet and thought about the sleeping arrangements. I shared the sofa with Jace, Zed shared with Yves and Xav and Trace, Uriel, Victor and Will shared a room.

"Yes we are, I bet usually a few of you boys stay in the lounge." I replied as I stood up. One foot on ice, I pushed off into the centre of the rink. I twirled on the spot and waited for Uriel to catch up with me. Suddenly his hands were on my shoulders and his lips came crashing down against mine. I skidded backwards and he came down stopping himself with his arms before he landed on top of me. Uriel's hands tangled in my hair. Small sparks were produced as our lips moulded in harmony. It felt so wrong. What about Jace? It felt so right. Why? His warm body contrasted the cold ice on my back. It was tender and romantic , frantic and violent and all the levels in between. I pushed away finally. I was enjoying that even though I knew deep down it was betrayal to Jace, I wanted more. I needed more.

"Xav told me that you were part savant. And that's when I knew why I'd been so attracted to you, my soulfinder." Uriel whispered in a hoarse voice.

AHHH WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!