All characters are the work of Cassandra Clare via the Mortal instruments series. Only the plot is mine.
Feel free to review, would love to hear what people are thinking. Its my first attempt at writing so go easy J
Chapter eight:
Clary sprung up in bed, Why was Izzy being so loud?! She pushed herself out from under the covers and went straight to the bathroom to shower, pulling the curtains scorr to block the sunlight. After viewing herself in the mirror and not liking what she saw, Clary decided to wash her hair and get changed into some comfy clothes for a lazy day in the dorm. Maybe she would paint something, although she needed to get some new colours, the ones she had just weren't allowing her to capture the beauty of this new world around her.
"knock knock" Izzy yelled as she banged on the bathroom door.
"I've got a surprise for you!"
Clary decided her reflection was about as good as it was going to get and opened the door…..to Jace.
"Hi" she said, still mortified over last night.
"Hey, hope your feeling better. Izzy told me I'm giving up my Saturday to train you?" he said, with a slight smile.
"What?" Clary said, turning to Izzy.
"Its brilliant. Me, Alec and Jace, the best in the academy, are going to spend our weekends and a few afternoons a week training you until the end of the semester. You'll be a pro in no time, and because me and Alec both have prior plans today, you'll start with Jace" She smiled, clearly very proud of herself.
"Oh" was all she could manage.
She was warming up to Jace a little since her initial first impression of him, but she still wasn't sure about him and now they were spending their whole day together?
"Only if that's okay with you, I'm sure you have better places to be" she said, giving him an opportunity to escape.
"Its fine, I have somewhere to be this afternoon, but I'm all yours today" She would have expected him to have some sarcastic sexually changed comment for her, but instead he was being…. well, nice.
"You get changed and I'll meet you in the gym in 5" he said, walking out of the room.
Clary turned to Izzy, unsure of what to say.
"Hey I wanted to talk to you about last night, I hope I wasn't getting in the way of anything between you and Simon, we were just chatting" Izzy said before Clary could get a word in.
"What! No! Simons great but were just friends Izzy. If you're interested, go for it. You two would be great together" Clary smiled.
"Me and Simon? He's a vampire Clary! Yeah his a nice one, but no I'm totally not interested" Izzy glanced over to the corner of the room were a mens blazer sat folded over the chair.
"I actually better get that back to him" she said, finding herself suddenly preoccupied by anything but Clary.
"Whatever you say. I've got to go. Apparently someone organized for me to get my butt kicked all day" Clary said, chucking a tank top and some sweats on.
She quickly made her way to the gym, opening the door to see Jace in his workout gear hitting a punching bag with more force that she thought he would have had in his slender frame. His skin was already covered in a thin layer of sweat, with his top sticking firmly to the muscles of his back. Hearing her enter he turned, attempting to flip his blonde hair out of his eyes. He slowly took his gloves off and made his way over to her.
"Before we start, I just wanted to apologize for how I've been acting" Jace started
"I've been treating you like I treat any other girl, but I've realized your not like them Clary. So I'm sorry. Your actually pretty cool, and not at all superficial. So I was thinking that if you'll forgive me then I can stop being a total jackass and we might even be able to be friends" he laughed.
Clary felt a huge weight lift of her shoulders that she hadn't even known had existed. Since when did she care so much what he thought about her? And he thought she was cool? She didn't think anyone would ever use the world cool to describe her. She smiled.
"Sounds to me like a pretty descent plan" She said, earning a smile from him that extended to his golden eyes.
By the end of the day Clary was a sweaty mess. Her tank top had a thick layer of sweat, causing it to cling to her body. Her hair, which had begun in a tight ponytail, now had tendrils of messy curls falling every which way as threw herself down onto the matt to catch her breath.
"You did well" Jace laughed, jogging over. He layed himself down next to her.
"You're a natural, you'll be up to scratch in no time" he said, turning his head to her.
His hair was plastered to his forehead in sweaty strands of gold, and his shirt was lifted enough for Clary to see a large black marking over his left hip.
"What's that for" She said, before realizing she had just given away that she had been checking him out.
"It's for stamina, you could probably use one yourself, you look beat" he laughed.
Sitting up, he jogged to a gym bag he had in the corner of the room; grabbing a small metallic object and making his way back over. He sat back down next to her on the matt. Clary could see it was a beautifully adorned blade in his hand.
"Every shadowhunter needs an angelic rune" he said, turning his hand over and showing her the delicate design marked on his left wrist.
"Have you thought about getting yours?" He looked unsure of himself.
"Yes" she said, looking up into his eyes as she put her small hand on top of his.
"The first one always hurts the most, but it shouldn't be that bad" he said as he touched the object to her skin. She looked away feeling the skin slightly burn as he moved, creating an intricate pattern.
"All done" he said. She turned back, looking down at the marking on her wrist. It was beautiful. Her pale skin seemed to shine around the dark black marking.
"Thanks" she said, looking up at him. His gold eyes made contact with hers as he began to move towards her.
"Your beautiful Clary, the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. I thought it the moment I met you"
His lips met hers in a gentle touch before he pulled back and stared at her, unsure of himself.
She stared, what was he doing? He was beautiful, and he was looking at her with those eyes, the kind of eyes that should be reserved for some truly spectacular girl. But more than that, he looked at her with an honestly she doubted he had ever looked at any girl with.
Before she could think herself out of it she quickly leaned forward to him, closing the gap between them and linking her arms around his neck as she placed her lips on his. No longer holding herself up, they fell onto the matt next to each other. She gasped, linking her arms around him tighter. He took this as permission to deepen the kiss, nibbling on her bottom lip before exploring her with his tongue. The kiss went from delicate to passionate in the space of a few seconds as he pushed himself up, rolling over her and supporting himself with his hands. She looked up at him, placing her fingers on his shoulders and tracing them down his side. He felt damp with sweat but she didn't care.
He leant down to her ear.
"You scare me Clary fray" he said, before nibbling on her lobe and kissing his way down to her collarbone. She gasped, pulling his face to hers before kissing him with all the passion she could muster. His hand went to her hip were her top had begun to ride up and she instantly felt self-conscious.
"We should stop" She said, pulling away and scrambling to get out from under him.
"Did I do something wrong. I'm so sorry Clary, did you not want that" He was up and next to her before she knew it, pulling a strand of hair out of her eyes.
"No, no I did. It was just going a little fast" she said, staring down at her feet.
His hand was under her chin, lightly pulling her up to face him.
"Your perfect" he said, smiling down at her, lightly kissing her forehead.
"I should go, but maybe I can take you someone tomorrow. Somewhere I like to go. We can skip training for a day, Izzy will never know" he laughed.
"I'd like that" she said as he grabbed her hand and walked her to her door.
Before he could say anything she leant up and gave him a delicate kiss on the lips.
"See you tomorrow" she said, before quickly darting inside.
With her back against the door she slowly sunk down to the floor. Izzy, who was sitting by the mirror turned.
" That bad huh? What did he do to you" she laughed.
Clary turned to look at Izzy. "He kissed me"
Slight cliffhanger. New chapters soon :)
How will the inexperienced Clary deal with her feelings for Jace.
