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I woke up in the middle of the night to the sound of Max crying. Getting out of bed, I decided now would be as good a time as any to tell Izzy. She was sitting in a rocking chair holding Max in the room she had put the crib in. Max was slowly drifting to sleep as I stood in the doorway watching. When she stood up to place a sleeping Max back in his crib, I motioned for her to follow me. I led her to the living room where we sat and I told her I was pregnant.
"There's something I need to tell you," I began. "A couple of days before Jace purposed, I wasn't feeling to great. He had already left for work and I was puking my brains out. I looked at the calendar and noticed I was late. I decided to take the pregnancy test I kept hidden just in case I needed one and it came out positive. Izzy, I'm pregnant." Tears were forming in her eyes. "Oh, no. Izzy please don't cry."
"No. No, no, no. I'm not sad. I'm just so ridiculously happy and this whole having a baby thing has made me such a wus. I cry about everything now. It's so annoying."
We laughed as we hugged on the couch then got up to return to bed. It wasn't anywhere near time to wake up.
Jace was sitting up in bed when I returned. "Where did you go," he asked.
"I woke up when I heard Max crying," I explained. "I told Izzy." I snuggled up against him waiting for the comfort I felt to put me to sleep.
"I told you everything was going to be okay." I nodded and fell back asleep against his chest as our breaths synced.
I woke with a start and saw Jace still fast asleep. I eased myself off the bed careful not to wake him and headed toward the kitchen. The light was already on and I assumed Izzy or Simon had woken up early with Max and couldn't go back to sleep. When I rounded the corner to enter the kitchen, I saw someone sitting with their back turned to me. I wasn't awake enough to notice something was off.
"Hey, how's Max," I asked obliviously.
"I would imagine he's sleeping," he said as he turned around. I saw pale hair and sharp features with cold, dark eyes. I froze. Finally, I was able to speak.
"H-How did you get inside? How did you get past the barricade?"
"You underestimate me, baby. The barricade was easy and you forget that we used to come here all the time together. I know this house like the back of my hand, like the fact that the lock to the back door can be picked with anything sharp."
"What do you want Sebastian?"
"We didn't appreciate the little trick you played on us yesterday. We know the stone is fake, so why don't you just give me the real one and we can forget this ever happened."
"I don't have it and I wouldn't give it to you if I did."
"Then, I guess I'm just going to have to take you with me." He lunged forward and grabbed me. I lashed out trying and failing to loosen his grasp.
"Sebastian, let go! You're not going to get away with this! There are squad cars all over the state looking for you!" Just then I realized there had been one positioned outside the house. "What happened to the car outside the house?"
"Oh, I took care of him. He won't bother us." He started moving towards the door as I raised my knee to his groin and his grip loosened enough for me to break free. I ran back towards the kitchen as he straightened up and grabbed a knife from the counter. I ran as fast as I could, but he was faster and had me in his grasp with the knife against my throat quickly.
"Please, cooperate, baby. I don't want to have to kill you." I gave up on screaming afraid he would actually do it, knowing he was capable of it. I would not let myself cry or show any fear. I had to be strong, not only for myself, but for the child growing inside of me. He began his journey toward the door once more when I felt his grip loosen. I turned to see Jace standing behind me with his arms holding, choking Sebastian's neck.
"Clary, run," he shouted. I ran to the edge of the room, but was stopped by the fear of loosing Jace. I had to stay and help however I could. I watched as Sebastian struggled to be released from Jace's grasp.
"I swear, I will kill you, Lightwood," he shouted.
"That's where you're wrong, asshole. If you don't leave us alone, I will kill you! Get over it! She is with me now and you can't change that! You were an inconsiderate prick and she made the right choice in leaving you. Get it through that thick ass skull of yours! She will NEVER be with you!"
Sebastian turned in Jace's arms and lifted the knife to thrust it into Jace's chest. I heard my voice scream Jace's name as he deflected the knife and connected his fist with Sebastian's jaw. He stumbled back and lunged for Jace once more. He ducked and tackled Sebastian like a football player. Jace was on top of Sebastian raining punches down on Sebastian's face, occasionally throwing an elbow down to connect with his nose. There was blood all over the carpet and Sebastian was unconscious. I came up behind Jace and stopped his hand from coming down on Sebastian's face once more. He turned to look at me with a wild look in his eyes. When he saw the look on my face, his fell and he collapsed around me. We stood and left Sebastian lying unconscious on the floor.
I sat with my arms wrapped around Jace rocking him as he tried to control his sobs. I called to Izzy from downstairs and told her to take Jace's phone and call Jordan. He needed to know everything that happened and get someone out here to arrest Sebastian before he became conscious again. I ran my hands along Jace's back trying to calm him.
"Shhh, Shhh. Its okay," I said as I rocked him.
"I'm sorry," he said. "You shouldn't have witnessed that. I'm sorry I couldn't control myself. I just hate him and everything he's done to you so much. I wanted to kill him and I think I would have if you hadn't stopped me." He noticed the blood on his hands. "I need to get this off."
"Come on, baby. Let's go get you cleaned up."
I led him to the bathroom and washed his hands in the sink. He had a small cut above his eye and I cleaned it and put a Band Aid on it. By the time we exited the bathroom, Sebastian was gone and Jordan was standing in the living room taking notes.
"I need you guys to tell me exactly what happened here," he said as we entered the room. We told him and he took furious notes. "Okay, there's no way he's getting away, so we just have to worry about Valentine and Raphael now. I'm going to put a whole team in place to surround the house. You all need to stay here until I give you the all clear. I'm going to have someone go out and buy you food and groceries, so give me a list of everything you need. We aren't any closer to catching Valentine, however, so you may be here for a while. Just hang tight and we'll end this."
He left us standing in the living room. I wrapped my arms around Jace's waist and buried my face into his chest.
"I can't believe he's finally out of our lives," I mumbled into his chest. "I'm sorry you had to go through all of that."
"Hey," he lifted my head away from his chest to look me in the eyes, "I would do it a million times over if it meant I could be with you." He kissed me sweetly on the lips then moved his lips to my forehead. A stray tear escaped from my eye and I was suddenly exhausted. "Where are Simon and Izzy?"
"I told them to take Max into their room and stay there until we told them to come out. I guess we should go do that."
We walked upstairs and stood outside their door. I raised my hand to knock.
"Uh, just a minute," Izzy said through the door.
I giggled as Jace's face turned pale white realizing what we were interrupting. Isabelle opened the door with swollen lips and her shirt mis-buttoned.
"Really, Iz," Jace asked, "your newborn child is in the room."
"He's asleep, asshole," she said through squinted eyes.
"Anyways," I said trying to change the subject, "you guys can come out now. We just thought we should let you know. You can go back to whatever you were doing, but I need a list of groceries from you so one of the officers can go to the store for us."
"Yeah, okay. Give us like ten minutes and we'll be right out."
"I think I'm going to be sick," Jace said as he faked gagging.
"Okay, come on you big baby," I teased him, "you know they do it. They do have a child."
"Yeah, but knowing it and seeing it are two completely different things. I would prefer to believe that my nephew was born out of immaculate conception."
"Okay, well you might want to leave, unless you want to see it for real," Izzy teased him. His face grew even whiter if that was even possible.
"Iz, I can take Will for you," I said and Simon appeared in the door to hand over the child.
"Great, thanks, now leave." I giggled as I started walking down the hall and the door was shut in Jace's face.
"Babe, stop being the overprotective brother and come with me." He backed away from the door slowly and followed me into the living room. We sat on the couch as Max started to wake up. Jace reached over to take him from my arms. I watched as the man I knew, the strong, confident, arrogant man, turned to mush as the baby smiled up at him. I smiled at the thought of Jace holding our own child.
"Do you want a boy or a girl," I asked.
"I don't care," he said. "As long as the baby is healthy and has your green eyes, I don't care."
"What if it doesn't have green eyes," I teased.
"Well that's a deal breaker," he shot back. "But really, it could have blue hair and purple eyes and I would still love it more than anything in this world."
"Have you thought of any names?"
"Actually, I have. For a girl, Celine. It was my biological mother's name."
"What about a boy?"
"Alexander." My breath caught. It was the first time he had mentioned his brother since the funeral. "I would have wanted to use his name in some way anyways, but now it just feels so much more important." I placed a hand to his cheek and he leaned into it.
"What if we named a girl, Alexandria," I asked. "That way, either way, we honor your brother in some way. Her name could be Alexandria Celine Lightwood."
"I love it," he said as he leaned in to kiss me. Simon and Izzy entered the room looking slightly more put together.
'What are we talking about," Simon asked as he sat down on the couch taking Max from Jace.
"How disgusting you and my sister are," Jace said only slightly joking.
"You're so funny Jace. Anyways, I guess congratulations are in order. Izzy told me you're pregnant."
"Oh, yeah," I said, "Sorry, I wanted to tell you, but your wife can't keep a secret to save her life."
Jace put his hand to my belly. I was about three months along, if I calculated correctly. I had been to the doctor the last week to confirm I really was pregnant and he said I would be due in early April.
"So, we're going to have to stay here for a while," Jace explained. "They aren't close to finding Valentine and this is the safest place for us to be at the moment. Jordan put more squad cars outside and they will get us anything we need."
Simon and Izzy nodded in response. "I couldn't think of anywhere else I would want to be," I said as I looked up into Jace's golden eyes and placed a kiss on his lips.
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