Max was asleep in the chair when she woke up, it was fairly sudden, one minuet he was dreaming about the cell and the next he was aroused from his dream by the sudden scream of.
"MAX!" he jumped up, only to find Clary staring at him with half vacant eyes, he stared at her before his mind kicked into gear and he was screaming for someone, anyone. When Magnus ran in he instructed everyone out to work on Clary. Alec kept Jace away and dragged Max out.
It was hours before she was fit to see anyone and the first person she wanted to see was Max. He hurried to her bedside.
"Clary" he said, rejoiced at seeing her, he went to hug her but Magnus stopped him.
"Careful kid, she's still healing" and then he left. When he did Clary leaned up and pulled Max into a hug anyway. She then proceeded to check him over.
"Where you hurt?" she asked, as if it didn't matter that she had a blade sticking through her.
Max shook his head and let a stray tear run down his face.
"I thought you were dead, like really, really dead and I-i-i-I" Clary sighed and made Max sit down.
"If that ever happens again Max I need you to run, get yourself safe and when you know it is safe then you get me help okay? When I collapsed I was so scared that someone would hurt you and I need you to know that even if I am just collapsed you will save yourself" Max looked at her funnily and shook his head.
"But you teleported us to the institute you knew it was safe" Clary looked down
"I just pictured somewhere safe, I didn't know it would be the institute and I'm sorry I scared you with the whole dying thing" Max laughed
"Yeah don't do that again" Clary nodded and looked over Max again. He was cleaner now, wearing clothes that actually fit and wasn't looking like he was starved to death, he looked like the Max she knew two years previous but he had dark circles under his eyes, she was going to ask him if he had slept when Jocelyn and Luke stormed in. At first Clary was confused as to why her mother was awake but didn't question it when she was pulled into her mother's embrace.
Her mother looked healthier and vibrant whilst Luke looked less Haggard. Clary smiled at them and Jocelyn tried to hide her tears.
"Oh my baby" she said, stroking Clary's hair like she was a child again. Luke placed a hand on her leg after sitting down. Clary gulped.
"Erm Luke… could you please not Urm touch my leg." She said as she saw images of Sebastian touching her. Luke looked at clary cautiously but did as she asked.
"So erm… how have you been?" Clary asked awkwardly. Max laughed at the three of them.
"Clary they are still your parents" Clary looked at the little boy and grasped his hand in support.
So Clary told her mum and Luke how much she missed them and that she was okay, which of course was a lie.
After a while Magnus came back in.
"Okay, Clary you need to sleep, you need to heal" Magnus said all this whilst looking at the floor, feeling awkward. As everyone got up to leave Clary grabbed Max,
"Please… can you stay… till I fall asleep" she asked. Everyone was about to protest but Magnus silenced them with a look.
"Clary" he said delicately. "Max went through an ordeal to and needs time to recuperate. You should let him. I swear no one is going to be that far away, just scream and we will all come running" she nodded but her eyes told a different story. She was terrified. Slowly though she let go of Max, Max let out a sigh and pulled her into a hug.
"It's okay Clary, I promise that nobody is gonna take me or you away. Just in case I will leave the light on so if they try you can see them" the adults watched in amazement as a ten year old seemed to take away the eighteen year olds worry.
"Promise?" she asked timidly. Max smiled at her
"On the angel" at that Clary sunk under the covers. When the others went outside Max turned to Magnus.
"I'm worried, in there she showed no fear or any emotion, why is she so…. I dunno skittish?" Magnus placed a hand on Max's shoulder.
"She has been abandoned for two years Max, she showed no emotion with Valentine because she couldn't and now it's just us… deep sown she knows we won't judge her" Max's shoulders sagged but he caught one last glimpse of Clary sleeping before the door shut.
"I'm going to save her" he declared before going to bed.