Hey, I'm back! Sorry I haven't updated in ages. Thanks to SizzyFangirl, hellothere1234, and CLACEHERONDALE4EVER for fav/following/reviewing. And now for the story! This is for CLACEHERONDALE4EVER :D

CLACE (Clary x Jace)

Set in: City of Ashes, during a training session between the two

*No spoilers*

Clary scowled as she stood on the edge of a beam, looking down at the ground—and the Jace on it. "It looks so far away," she said doubtfully. "Are you sure I have to flip twice?"

"Clare-bear, I've shown you a thousand times. It's really not that far down, and you won't even fall. That's the point of the harness on your back."

"Don't call me Clare-bear! I'm not five."

"Well, if you were a real big kid, Clare-bear, you'd jump and flip right now, and be a woman about it," Jace smirked.

"Ugh. I hate you, Jacey." Clary closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and gingerly stepped off the beam.

Immediately she was falling, with Jace yelling things like "The axis of your body isn't proportional to the radius! Move!" and "Keep your legs and arms parallel to each other at a ninety degree angle!" In short, he was no help at all, and Clary flailed around as she fell, certain she was about to turn into a pancake.

About three inches from the ground, she abruptly jerked to a shock, and her eyes snapped open.

Jace's shoes were in front of her face—they were actually nice shoes, Clary noticed—and she tilted her head back to look up into his eyes. As usual, she got lost in their golden depths, and it was a while before she realized he was saying something.

"Earth to Clary! Hello? Was that a flip, Clary? You call that a flip? See, you have to keep your body right there—" Jace demonstrated with a hand motion— "and do this—" he made another, complicated one— "so your body will do this, and stop here." Jace finished his gesturing and looked expectantly at Clary. "Makes sense, yeah? Of course it does. I'm such a good teacher. They should hire me in Alicante."

Clary had had enough of Jace's blabbering and gesturing. While he'd been talking, she had been subtly working her harness off, pretending to keep it on, and now let it fall around her knees as she threw herself into Jace's arms.

He staggered back a bit, then grinned and pulled her farther into his embrace. Clary lifted her lips to his, still enthralled that she could call him her boyfriend, and they stayed like that for a long while.

"Okay. We should keep training," Jace said, pulling back. Clary noted with satisfaction that he was slightly breathless. "I don't want Izzy or Alec thinking that we're making out instead of training."

"Bit too late for that," a voice said from the doorway.

Clary jerked slightly out of Jace's arms and spotted Isabelle and Alec standing in the doorway, identical grins on their faces. "This is blackmail material for sure. If Mom finds out, I'll take over the training, and Clary can't make out with me," Alec said smugly.

"She can. She just doesn't want to," Jace pointed out. "'Cause she's in love with me, her sexy sexy boyfriend."

"Ew," Isabelle said, wrinkling her brow. "Come on, Clary, let's go shopping. You must be tired after training, and shopping is the perfect way to relax."

"Sure, "Clary said, ignoring Jace's protests, and headed to Izzy's side. The two girls set off, Clary still with a very faint smile on her face.

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