This fictional story is inspired by the singer/songwriter Ed Sheeran. The songs lyrics used in this story are from: One, Take It Back, Shirtsleeves, Thinking Out Loud, Tenerife Sea, Photograph, Afire Love, Even My Dad Does Sometimes, Runaway, Nina, and Bloodstream. These songs are from the album 'x' (pronounced 'multiply')

Thinking Out Loud

Take me into your loving arms

kiss me under the light of a thousand stars

place your head on my beating heart

Part Three

When we hear the knock on the door, Clary insists on getting it. I'd rather she didn't, but as a compromise I walk behind her as we get up from the couch and walk to the door.

Isabelle, Simon, Alec and Magnus are on the other side and greet Clary with warm expressions. Isabelle hugs her and everyone else walk around them to get inside.

Today is a fairly sunny day, which is a nice change from the rain we've be getting recently.

Everyone sits in the living room, Isabelle on Simon's lap in the arm chair, Alec and Magnus on one sofa and Clary and I on the other one.

"So what do you and Jace have planned for your birthday tomorrow, Clary?" Isabelle asks at one point. Everyone pretends to wait for her answer, but we know what it'll be.

"Oh, Jace and I are going to the beach!" Clary smiles wide looking very excited. I told her last night while we were stargazing and she was overcome with excitement. Isabelle fakes surprise.

"Can we come?" Isabelle requests looking at me.

"Nope, I'm stealing her for the day." I say before Clary can reply. She stares at me pleadingly but I shake my head and his kiss her forehead.

"Just us." I argued to her sad face. With a sigh she dropped the topic.

We talk for a while, always avoiding the issue of Clary's tumor. We get close a few times, but I make sure to consistently steer away from it like the conversation is a boat the tumor talk is a giant rock that might sink us.

Even once the sun sets dialogue doesn't stop. When there's a knock, Clary jumps up to get it.

"Stay." She say pointing at me like dog. My eyes slightly widen with fear.

"But Clary–" She shakes her head.

"Jace, I'll be fine. I'm walking to the door, not running a marathon." She walks to the door and I watch every step, ignoring everyone else. I can feel their confused stares. I'm prepared to rush to her aid at the first sign that she's unstable.

She reaches the door and opens it, letting Jocelyn and Luke inside.

"Clary! Good to see you." Jocelyn hugs Clary, then Luke does the same. I go to the kitchen and bring two chairs into the living room.

"Thank you Jace. Nice to see you too." Luke and Jocelyn sit in the chairs I brought and I sit back down on the couch with Clary.

"Jace, on the phone you said there was something we should discuss. Would you like to talk about that now or…" Luke looked at the rest of the people in the room. Clary dismissed the idea with her hand and answered for me.

"They all known, Luke. Besides, the sooner the better." I was surprised by how calm Clary was being. She took a deep breath before explaining.

"These last few weeks I've been having headaches, dizzy spells, and sometimes vomiting. I hoped it wouldn't be anything serious but I went to the doctor just in case." At this point I see Luke stare at me sternly.

"Jace," he says, interrupting Clary. "You said she wasn't pregnant..." I blush and everyone else tries to muffle their laughs.

"Let Clary explain." I say, patting Clary's knee. She smiles tightly and continues.

"When I explained everything to him he thought I should have a CT scan, which is a brain scan." Jocelyn's eyes bug out and Luke reaches for his wife's hand, trying to send her a reassuring glance. But it doesn't seem very reassuring, especially since he looks quite nervous. Clary keeps going.

"He showed me the scan results and… And I have a brain tumor." Clary held her breath, waiting for her parents' reactions.

Jocelyn jumped from her chair and wrapped Clary in a hug. Luke joined a moment later and I could hear someone sobbing. I guessed it was Jocelyn.

"My baby, oh my baby I'm so sorry." Jocelyn kept murmuring this, and Luke looked simply disbelieving.

"It's okay mom. I'm not going anywhere." And with that, Clary gave a strong smile. Only I could detect the glimmer of sadness in her blue eyes.

Somebody grab the tissue box... :_(

Alright; thoughts on this chapter? It was mostly filler+repetition, but the next chapter is... A surprise! Did you really think I'd give it away? Be sure to say what you think is going to happen in your review :)

Alright, I can only say one thing for the view count; WOW. Yesterday I got over 500 views, and we're already closing in on 3k views. Incredible!

I'm sure no one noticed, but I did add an extra song to the list in the beginning (of each chapter). I added 'Nina' because when I was writing that section it wasn't working well and I needed more so...

That doesn't affect the story right now, but in total there are probably going to be closer to 35 chapters now :)

Please check out my second TMI fanfic; His Blood was the Battleground. Longer chapters and actual Shadowhunter-stuff :D

Well, I doubt anyone reads this anyways so I guess I'll shut up now :)

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