Here's the next chapter. I keep forgetting to do the disclaimer so here it is.
Disclaimer: Highscars are my creation everything else belongs to Cassie Clare.
~Tiliger
"Again with the fricken toes," Jace called up to Laney who was up on the rafters doing more flips. "How many times do I have to tell you not to point them? It's why you're getting hurt."
"No, I'm getting hurt because you keep distracting me! You're making me nervous," Laney said hanging upside down on one of the beams.
"I make everyone nervous," he smirked. "You're just jealous that you're not as good as me."
"And there's the annoying ego everyone seems to be talking about."
Jace rolled his eyes. "Just do it again, this time no tiptoes, got it?"
She rolled her eyes too. "Whatever."
"Do you want to tie a rope to you wast so you don't hit the floor when you fall?"
"Ropes are for pansies," she laughed as she pulled herself up and started her flips again.
Jace laughed and went over to the punching bag. He started kicking and punching it.
"Where have you been?" Jace turned around to see Clary with her hands on her hips. Her red hair was up in a bun and she was wearing one of his t-shirts.
"Hey, babe," he said going up to her and kissing her on the cheek.
"I woke up and you were gone, Jace. Did you even sleep at all?"
"I don't need sleep, I need answers."
"Well," Clary said, "you're not going to get answers if you don't sleep. What are you doing anyways?"
"Training," Jace said as he turned to pick up a dagger on the floor.
"That's all you ever do," she muttered.
"What," he asked turning back towards her.
"Nothing, nothing at all."
"Clary—"
"I said nothing," she snapped. "Now drop it."
Jace rolled his eyes. Here we go again, he thought to himself. Every time she said drop it and he dropped it, she would get mad at him. "You said something."
"So?"
"What did you say? It's a simple question, babe."
She stayed silent.
He threw his hands up in surrender and walked over to the target painted on the wall. "Whatever, don't say anything."
He heard her sigh. "All you do is train. I understood last week that you had to train Laney but even before then. It's all you do, Jace."
Jace leaned against the wall and looked at her. He really looked at her. She wasn't looking at him; she was looking at her feet and fidgeting with her hair. She looked upset. In fact, she looked like she was about to cry. She always did these days.
"Sebastian is still out there and if I don't train, then I won't have a chance against him. I need to train in order for me to protect you, Clary. You are my life and if something happened to you, I wouldn't forgive myself."
"I don't need to be protected, Jace. I just need you. With everything that's happening, you fade further and further away and I'm left alone." She looked up at Jace, tears forming in her eyes. "I just really need you now."
Jace left his spot on the wall and put his arms around Clary. "You are never alone, Clary. I'm always there when you need me."
She pushed away from him. "No you're not! I've needed you for the past few weeks and you weren't there. I needed you and you weren't there, Jace. You might be here but not all of you."
Jace sighed. "I know. I'm just trying to do what's best for everyone right now. And I guess that it's not best for us. I'm sorry, I'm going to try to be there for you more often, I promise"
"Okay," she said, walking away.
Jace grabbed her hand and pulled her towards him. He started kissing her and she kissed back. They kissed for a while until someone cleared their throat.
Jace and Clary looked up to find Laney hanging upside down on one of the beams.
"Do you guys have to do that in front of me," she asked. "I mean, come on, it's a training room, not a bedroom."
Jace laughed. "You shouldn't have come in here then."
"I've been in here. Since 7am, training."
"Oh yeah, I forgot you were in here."
"How did you forget? You were the one yelling at me less than 10 minutes ago."
Jace shrugged.
"God, I feel like I just walked in on my sister and her boyfriend having sex," Laney said with a shiver.
"You have a sister," Clary asked.
"Yeah, her name is Grace. She's at college right now," she said pulling herself up to stand on the beam.
"She's a Shadowhunter, shouldn't she be training?"
"No, she's the good child and does whatever mommy and daddy tell her to do," Laney said with sarcasm. "They wanted us to go to college when we hit 18. Grace wanted to go. I don't. I'm a shadowhunter, it's what I'm good at. I was never good at academics when they tried putting me into school."
She flipped down off the beam and stuck a perfect landing.
"See," Jace said. "I told you it was the toes."
"Actually, I landed on my tiptoes. That probably won't be able to do that again." She walked past Jace and Clary. "I'll be at Barns N' Noble, I heard that another book came out for one my favorite series and that the author is sighing them. See you later."
Laney left the room, leaving Jace and Clary alone.
"Did you know that she had a sister," Jace asked.
"No, did you?"
He shook his head. He realized he knew almost nothing about that girl.
And yeah, that's it for this chapter. Still working on my homework but I took a break to write this. Review!
~Tiliger
