Another update! I have to make up for my long absence. There is a lot of POV switching.

I don't own TMI.

The plan:

Step 1: Find closure, which means I need to forgive Jace.

Step 2: Change back into the old Clary, but more improved.

Step 3: Be happy.

These were the steps to my plan. Now I have to find Jace so I can forgive him. I can't believe that I am actually going to forget about the whole situation. But, I have to so I can be happy.

Jace POV

"Psst, psst Jace!" I heard a voice say. I turned around to see Clary. Everyone else was catching up with me, so I followed her. She led me back to the Institute. I was very confused.

"What are you doing Clary? Wouldn't you want me to be hurt by everyone, who now hates me?" I asked her.

"Well, yes, but I have to talk to you first," she said. I was getting scared. What did she want to tell me? What was so important, that she saved me from being hurt? "That makes me feel so much better," I uttered sarcastically.

"Oh, just shut up! So, I don't have a lot of time before the others find us. I just want you to know, that I forgive you. I know this is crazy, but I forgive you. The whole incident was provoking me. I wasn't able to do much, because I was afraid of getting hurt. That's why I am forgiving you. I'm pretty sure that we both need closure, but I'm doing this for me, not you," Clary said, looking me in the eye the whole time.

I smirked, not comprehending what exactly was going on. "I knew you couldn't resist me. It was only a matter of time before you wanted me back," I retorted. Then, when I realized what she said, my eyes widened. "Wait, you forgive me? After all that has happened, you forgive me?" I asked.

"Yes, crazy right? Oh, there is something I wanted to ask you about," she told me.

"What is it?" I asked her.

"What is the accident that you all keep talking about? They said that it somehow affected your shadow-hunting." My face paled. The accident was not something I liked to talk about. But, she was taking a big step in forgiving me, so I can tell her.

"Um, the accident happened after you left. Everyone went out to search for you: Izzy, Alec, Magnus, Simon, your mom, Luke, Maia, Jordan, Maryse, Robert, even Aline. Out of nowhere, a demon came and attacked me from behind. It got me in the back, and I was losing a lot of blood. I turned around, got my seraph blade out, and killed it. Then, a horde of demons came. There was four was cornering Izzy. I jumped in front of her and killed those demons too, but not before it injected poison in me. I was weakening. The poison was spreading through my body, then, I passed out.

"While I was unconscious, Ithuriel came and spoke to me. He told me that I could've died. He also said that until golden light shines, I will never be the same. That part I never told anyone. I couldn't figure out what until golden light shines meant. Well, that's it," I concluded.

Clary POV

I was surprised to hear all of this from Jace. This must suck for him. Well, step one is done. I forgave Jace, and let go of the past. Now, I have to leave. I need to go back to New York to find my old self, and talk to my parents.

I placed a locking rune on my door. I packed some clothes to last a week, made a portal, and stepped through. I landed in my apartment in New York. My mom looked up in surprised.

"Clary, is that you?" she asked. I smiled and said, "Yeah, mom, it is." She ran up a hugged me. She was crying, and before I knew it, I was too. Then, Luke came out. He was surprised and happy at the same time. I wiggled out of my mom's embrace, and ran into his. We talked for hours, although, I never mentioned the incident with Jace. I caught up on a lot of things I missed. I even met my baby sister. I spent the rest of the week going through my old things. I began to feel happiness again. I thought back to all of the old memories I had of this place I used to call home. Then, I had to leave.

I looked at myself in the mirror. Gone was the girl clad with leather and boots. Here was the return of the girl in worn sneakers and denim. The hair that was usually curled to perfection was back to its untamed frizzy self. The only thing that didn't change was the fact that I was a shadowhunter. No one could take that away from me, not even myself. I drew a portal rune, and returned to the Institute. The voices I heard ceased as they looked upon me.

Jace POV

I was freaking out. Where the hell was Clary? She came to talk to me, and then she just disappears! We were all frantically thinking of places she might me. Everyone kept giving me dirty looks. Izzy even came up to slap me.

"This is your entire fault Jace! She probably was overwhelmed with emotion from that video tape, and left or something. What if she got kidnapped?" Kat asked. Then, we heard footsteps and a short red-head appeared. Everyone fell silent.

"You guys should stop blaming this on Jace. I'm here now," she said. Clary looked different. She didn't look like the badass chick we saw before. She looked like the artsy geek when I first met her. We were all just staring at her. Then, Simon starts to smile and hugs her, which confuses everybody even more.

Simon said, "It's good to have you back Clare."