First a few side notes: Be forewarned that this story contains City of Heavenly Fire spoilers! So, please please don't complain about them because YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. Anyways, lets get on with it!
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Jace heard Clary giggling at him and lift up his head to kiss her. He really did think that they were going to be the best parents ever. They thrived under pressure and it only made them fall further in love.
Clary POV
Clary could not believe the way that Jace talked to her stomach. She knew that the baby wasn't even close enough to be being big enough to hear anything, but it was cute how Jace wanted to tell the baby he loved them, that we loved them. She really was in love with him, and somehow she just knew that everything was going to be okay. She climbed out of Jace's bed as he fell asleep and made her way to Alec's room to find Magnus. She knocked when she got there and was greeted by a confused looking Alec at the door. They weren't exactly all that close, but they were working on things since the demon realm.
"Um, can I have a second with Magnus?" Clary asked kind of awkwardly.
"Can it wait? We were um, a little busy." Alec said bashfully.
"Oh!" Clary said with a red face, "I'm sorry. I can wait. Just tell him to stop by my room before he leaves tonight, I have a question about my um, diagnosis."
Alec nodded in affirmation and closed the door. Clary walked back to Jace's room to make sure he was still asleep before she wrote a little note, left the institute and headed off to central park to go on a walk. She really needed a little time to think some more about when and how she wanted to tell people about her new situation before she chickened out and just didn't tell anyone. She also wanted to think about the options laid out before her and Jace.
Obviously it wasn't ideal to be a teenage parent but, her parents had managed, and so did millions of other shadowhunters, right? She wasn't really so much worried about what the community would think, but more likely how her mom and Luke would respond. She hadn't been brought up as a shadowhunter, she was raised like a mundane and in the mundane world teenagers having a child was not exactly a positive thing. Luke would definitely be disappointed in her, and although he would reign in her mother he would most likely give her a lecture that would only make her feel worse than being grounded for a thousand years. Robert and Mayrse were most likely going to be disappointed, but accepting. Clary didn't doubt that when it came down to the wire that her parents would accept their grandchild with open arms and spoil them with love and gifts, but they would not be happy with Clary and Jace for quite a long while.
As if her worries about her parents weren't enough, Clary started to think about their living situation. She knew that she wanted to stay at the institute as long as she was welcomed, but if she wasn't training there wouldn't be any reason for her to be there. She needed to be with Jace through this whole ordeal though. She wanted him involved, and he wanted to be involved, and that required them living together. If she got kicked out of the institute, her parents would never allow Jace to move in with them and stay in Clary's room with her, even if she was already pregnant. They were not liberal parents. Their other option seemed to be moving to Idris and into the Herondale Manor. While having a beautiful home in the country of shadowhunters seemed appealing they would have no family around to help them with their transition into parents. The only family Clary had there was Amatis and she was gone. Maybe, maybe Zachariah would be in the city, but he wasn't the same as their family. It was an option to just move everyone with them into the Herondale Manor, but Clary doubted that anyone would be willing to make the move. So they wouldn't be going there anytime soon.
As she walked in thought Clary felt her phone buzz in her pocket. She looked at the caller ID and saw that Jace was calling her. She answered quickly knowing that he was easily prone to overreacting.
Jace POV
Jace didn't realize I had falled asleep until he turned over and heard the crinkling of paper. He looked over and saw a note sitting on my pillow. Since he didn't hear or see Clary in the room he just assumed it was from her.
Jace,
I went for a walk to clear my head. I just need to think about some things. I have my phone if you need me. I'll be back soon. I love you.
Love you,
Clary
Jace could understand most of Clary's worries, they were mostly his worries too. The only difference between the two of them was that Jace didn't necessarily worry about the outcome of the future, he just knew that it would work out for them in the end. Clary tended to freak out a bit more than he did. He didn't blame her, it was just her personality. He took out his phone and dialed her number just to make sure that she was still okay. He knew that she didn't carry weapons around everywhere she went like the rest of them did, and if she encountered anything nasty she wasn't likely to fight now.
"Hello?" he heard Clary say on the other line.
"Hey, Clare-Bear." He laughed to himself at the use of the nickname that she hated. "I just wanted to make sure you were still okay."
"I'm fine. I just went on a walk Jace. I'm pregnant, not crippled." She said back in her fiery, annoyed voice. Jace chuckled.
"I know that. I'm just making sure you didn't run into anything, get kidnapped, accidentally drown…. You know anything like that." He said innocently.
"I'm fine, I'm heading back now actually, but I'm meeting with Magnus again so I might be a while tonight. I'll find you when I get done, okay?"
"Alright… I love you Clary Fray." He said to her a little disappointed that she wouldn't be back in his arms right away.
"I love you too Jace. Bye."
When she hung up Jace decided to go talk to Izzy and ask her advice on a few ideas he had to surprise Clary. He really wanted to show her that he was ready for this next step in their life and that he was going to stand by her through the whole process. Obviously he couldn't just go out and buy everything they needed for a nursery, but he could get her a baby book or two and maybe even a shadowhunter baby book- if that even existed. Jace knew that shadowhunter births and pregnancies were a little different because of the angel blood in their bodies, but he didn't know if anyone had ever written a book about it. He decided to ask Izzy about, she was a girl, she should know.
"Izzy! Let me in! It's important." He called after he had knocked on her door three times just to get told to go away.
"What?!" she asked as she opened her door in very little clothing and a sheepish looking Simon behind her. He may be human again, have very few memories, and was now ascending into shadowhunter lineage, but that apparently didn't mean that he and Izzy were slowing down any. Jace glared at them.
"Its. About. Clary." Jace said through his clenched teeth.
"Clary?" Isabelle asked.
"Clary," he confirmed. "And peanut." He added.
Isabelle just gave him a funny look but clearly got the message. She sent Simon to go get them something to eat and maybe a drink so that we would have a few minutes to talk alone. She was obviously a little frustrated that I interrupted her and Simon, but she was willing to help in any way I needed her to with peanut and Clary.
"Peanut?" She asked.
"Well I can't name the baby, if I don't know what it is." He said seriously to his sister.
"What do you need Jace?" she replied rolling her eyes.
"I want to get a few things for Clary to show her I'm gonna be right here through the whole thing with her, but I don't know what I can get her this early."
"I have an idea!"
"Shoot. I'm open to options."
"What about an engagement ring!"
I rolled my eyes. "Izzy she isn't ready for that."
"Well, what about something of yours from when you were little? When you first came here you carried around a raggity old blanket and we weren't even allowed to touch any of your things. I mean, I know now that they don't hold much meaning to you with Valentine and all, but they used to be the only memory you had left of your father."
"I'll think about it. Um, hey Iz?" he asked awkwardly.
"Yeah?"
"Do they make like a shadowhunters guide to birth?"
A/N: Okay! So, two chapters tonight! It was my only day off today, so you got a little spoiled, until next time!
