Jace!

He stormed in and ripped Sebastian off me and beat him bloody. Sebastian was so drunk that he couldn't fight back. When Sebastian was knocked out, Jace slowly walked to me with sadness in his eyes.

He got down on his knees and slowly reached to pull up my dress, then he took the t-shirt out of my mouth and untied my hands.

"How did you find me?" I asked. My voice was scratchy and my throat was raw from all of the screaming.

"Well, I noticed you were gone and went to go find you, when I heard screaming. And well, you know the rest." He said, pulling me up.

"Thank you." I say.

"Of course," He replies, "Lets go."

I try to walk, but fall. So Jace swoops me up bridal style and carries me out, but not before he gave Sebastian on last kick.

He sets me in the passenger's seat in one of the cars and buckles me up.

"Are you okay?" He asks.

"I don't know," I say. "I just wish I could have done more to protect myself."

"Hey," He looks at me. "You did all you could. I noticed hat he had red marks and scratches on his body. "You did pretty well."

"Thanks. I feel like I should have known better, though."

"Hey! Look at me." He demands. "It was not your fault! There was no way that you could have know! I've seen this happen, the girl blames herself when it wasn't her fault! Don't you do that. It was not your fault! okay?"

"Okay." I say.

"Good." We were at the Lightwood's now.

Jace ran around the car, picked me up, and carried me inside. I laid my head on his chest.

He walked into the house and carried me to the bathroom. He set me on the toilet.

"I'll be right back." Jace said.

He walked out and came back with hydrogen peroxide and gauze.

I looked down at my wrists and realize that they are cut open and bleeding.

He knelt down and started cleaning them. The peroxide stings, but I let it do it's job.

"Thanks." I say, when he's done wrapping the gauze around my wrists.

"No problem." He picks me up again and sets me on his bed and started walking out.

"Wait!" I say. He turns around.

"Yes, Clary?"

"Can you stay with me? I mean you don't have to, I just don't want to be alone." I say.

He smiles and walks back. He lays down on the bed with me on the covers. But I make him cover up.

I scoot closer to him and lay my head on his chest. I try to sleep but it won't come.

"Can't sleep?" Asks Jace.

"No." I say.

"Do you want to talk about it?" He turns on his side, looking at me.

"Not really." I say "Did you let Iz and Si know that we left?"

"Yes. do you want to tell them about...other things?"

I shake my head. "Not yet. What does Jace stand for?" I ask.

"Jonathan Christopher."

oh J.C.

We just stare at each other.

"Are you okay?" He asks.

I shake my head. "No." I whisper. Then the water ways broke. he looked in pain. He pulled me into a hug and let me cry on him. While he was stroking my hair, I fell asleep, crying into his chest.

I wake up with someone's arms around me and someone playing with my hair. I look up to see Jace.

"Hi." I say.

"Hi ,Clary." He says smiling.

"How long have you been up?" I ask.

"Just a few minutes. Izzy woke me up by jumping up and down clapping her hands saying something about something called "Clace" and how cute we were together." He chuckles, then his face turns serious. "Are you okay?" He asks.

I shrug my shoulder. "I'm better...I guess. I just want to take a shower and wash him off me."

"Okay." He gets up and lets me off the bed.

"I'll bring you some clothes."

"Thanks." I say. He smiles.

I walk into the bathroom take off my clothes. I look in the mirror at myself. I have a hand print on my cheek, a bruise on my arm from where he grabbed me and some bruises and scratches on both of my thighs. I was in pretty bad shape. I couldn't help it, I start crying. I cant believe what that monster did to me!

I jumped into the shower and scrubbed my skin raw, trying to get his touch off of me. I got out of the shower and walk out to get my clothes and see Jace holding them sitting on the bed.

He looked up when I came in. As soon as he took in my appearance, he got angry.

"I'm going to kill that son of a bitch!" He growled.

I walk over and take my clothes. I go back to the bathroom to get changed, but then I realized that i needed concealer for my bruises.

I walk out to go find Jace.

"Hey, Jace, can you get me some concealer?" I ask

"Sure." He walks out the door.

a minute later he comes back. "Here." He hands it to me.

"Thanks." I say.

I sit down on the bed and get to work. Jace just watches me, with anger in his eyes. To be honest, I kind of liked that he was so angry at Sebastian. Maybe Izzy was right, maybe he does like me.

When I was done you could barley see them. Only if you knew what you were looking for.

"Okay, lets go." I say. "I'm hungry. As we were walking down I smell something burning.

oh no, Izzy was trying to cook. me and Jace share a look.

We run down stairs to find Izzy over the stove trying to make what looked like pancakes and bacon? Maybe?

"Izzy! How many times do we have to tell you!? STAY AWAY FROM THE KITCHEN!" Says Jace.

I felt kind of sorry for Izzy, all she wanted to do was cook. Maybe I should try and teach her some day.

"I just wanted to cook!" said Izzy. She grabbed my wrist. "Come on, Clary, you have some explaining to do." But when she grabbed my wrist her hand dug into my cuts.

"Ow!" I cry in pain.

She lets go, looking at me in confusion. Jace runs up to me picking, up my wrist very carefully. Izzy looks alarmed.

"What happened?!" She says when she sees them.

"It looks fine." says Jace. What was he, a doctor?

I look at Iz. "Jace will tell you."

"Are you sure?" Asks Jace.

I nod my head. "I'll be in your room, Iz." Well she would have found out any way.

I walk in her room and start cleaning it up. When ever I get sad I clean. And I don't know why.

I put all of her clothes in a pile on the floor and grabbed the makeup and put it on the table.

I was just starting to organize every thing when I heard stomping up the stairs. I was tackled by Izzy's arms!

"Oh, Clary!" After our hour long hug we broke apart. She said, "By the way the room looks great!" I laugh. "Jace told me to tell you that we are going to Taki's. but i want to know what happened with you and Jace later." She says, smiling.

"What's Taki's?" I ask.

"Only the most wonderful place on earth." said a voice behind Izzy.

I see Jace smiling behind her.

"Well, let's go then." I say.