Okay so very sorry that this is a day late, got caught up with school :/ But Anyways, please review! It lets me know whether I should continue with how the story is going.

*I dont own The Mortal Instruments or anything related*

Chapter 3

Jace was barely keeping his eyes open, and even though he knew that Magnus should know he was falling asleep, a part of him just wanted to retain any dignity he had left.

Nearing Lukes house, he sped up, all of the sudden just wanting to get it over with. As he assumed, but didn't hope, Luke was home, and opened his door as Jace was approaching.

"Hello Jace, why don't you come right on in? Just sit in the living room, and Ill be there in a second."

"Thank you Luke."

Jace sat on a faded sofa, waiting for Luke. He knew that Magnus had told Luke what was up, and that made him nervous. Everybody around him was slowly seeing him falling apart. Jace did not like this at all.

Luke entered shortly, and sat across from Jace. Two water bottles were in his hands.

"Hey man, so did you want anything to drink? I've got water if that's okay."

"Yeah, that's fine, thank you."

"So, Magnus told me why you were coming over today. I want you to know that if there are things you don't want me to continue talking about, just tell me and we can move on, alright?"

Jace nodded. This whole thing was making him nervous, and the carpet seemed to gain his fascination pretty quickly.

"Well, I don't know where to start Luke. Magnus said I need to tell someone my memories, so that the poison couldn't target them, but I have no idea where to start with them. He explained that bad ones are what I should get rid of first, but which years do I pick?"

"Jace, I don't know too much about this myself, but if you try, I will, too. How about some people that caused the majority, maybe we can knock many out at once. Correct me if im wrong, but I have a feeling that you wanted to speak with me, because the person we should be talking about was connected to me."

"You aren't wrong. It was V-, uhh, Valen-. Sorry. It was Valentine that caused much of this, and I knew that you would understand, sorry, I just knew that-"

"Please dont apologize, okay? I will talk to you, I do understand. That man was the source of many of my problems as well."

"Okay. Should I start at the beginning?"

"Yes, that sounds good. Start at the first bad memory and we will go from there."

Settling into his seat, Jace started picking at the fabric on the couch. Then he looked up to Luke.