A/N: KAY SO I JUST SAW BREAKING DAWN PART TWO AND OHMAHGAWD! IT WAS CRAZYNESS. AND CAN WE JUST TAKE A SECOND TO FANGIRL OVER HOW JAMIE SAYS MUNDANE! This chapter isnt very long but its very important :D! Alright I'm done rambling. ENJOY!
I pry my eyes open and find myself still in the hospital and the monitors beeping steadily beside me. I look around to see I'm the only one in the room except for a sleeping Jace. He looks so peaceful when he sleeps, not as angry or closed off. His golden head of hair is tangled like when we were younger and the creases in his face are relaxed.
I smile to myself because the boy sleeping in front of me isn't the boy who broke my heart, it's my best friend. He shifts in the cot and sits up groggily and mumbles some non-recognizable words. He looks around and his eyes widen when he sees me awake and he jumps up and sits on the chair beside my bed.
"Clary." Is all he says, his voice still rough with sleep. He grabs my hand and rests his head on top of our intertwined hands. I don't push him away but don't comfort him either.
"Look Jace." I say. Better to get this over with. "I know you apologized but I'm not sure I completely trust you yet. I missed you so much when I moved but seeing you again has just brought back all these horrible memories and it hurts seeing you every day. You were my best friend and I trusted you with everything. You told me you never cared about me and a day hasn't gone by where that hasn't changed the way I look at things. I find it so hard to trust people now because I'm afraid they are going to turn on me." I say.
He looks up at the pain clear in his eyes and I then I see something that shocks me. He has tear pooling in his eyes. Jace always has a wall up guarding his expressions but right now I can see right through him.
Pain. Regret. Hope. Love. Desperation.
"Clary just please listen to Me." he says, his voice cracking with emotion. "I have regretted what I said to you for years. The day you left it was like my other half was ripped away. I shouldn't have listened to those kids! They told me you were weird and uncool and that I could do so much better. Because of my self-consciousness I listened to them and told you I didn't care and I never liked you. After you left crying I sat there in shock at what I did. I ran home and cried on my mom's lap all night hating myself. As soon as I woke up the next morning I ran as fast as my sorry ass could to your house. When I got there and I saw the note on the door saying you had moved I couldn't believe it. My best friend and other half had left hating me and having a damn good reason to. I was cold, rude, and sarcastic and closed off to everyone after you left. I was determined to not hurt anyone else. When I saw you in Taki's I was so happy I had a second chance with you. Then I realized you probably didn't want to ever see my face again. I, Jace Lightwood, have been desperately in love with you, Clary Fray, for many years and all I'm asking for is another chance." By the times he's done he has a steady stream of tears running down his face.
For the first time I notice that I am also crying. What Jace said to me that fateful day on the beach in L.A. hurt him just as much as it hurt me. His head collapses on our still joined hands again and I stroke his golden hair trying to soothe him.
"Jace I missed you so much but after my last relationship I'm just not ready for another one but we can sure as hell be friends again." I say chocking down my tears.
"Why? I thought being in a relationship with an evil master mind would be comforting!" he says as sarcastically as possible in a time like this.
I stifle out a sobbing laugh, "Hey look at us. Bonding in a hospital room after I was kidnapped and abused by my psychotic father. Bet you didn't see that one coming."
I feel him chuckle and he sits up and wraps me in a gentle hug and bury his face in my hair.
"You still smell the same. Like strawberry's, I missed it." He mumbles into my shoulder.
"I missed you to Jacey." I say using the nickname I made for him when we were younger.
He sits back and stares me in the eye.
"We never, EVER mention that to Izzy okay? She doesn't need a reason to torment me." He says threateningly.
I laugh and then stop as pain laces through my ribs. Oh the joy of having fractured ribs.
"Clary? Are you okay? Do you want me to get a nurse?" Jace asks worriedly.
"No Jace I'm fine. Just distract me. How have you been?" I ask trying to change the subject.
We spend the rest of the day laughing and sharing our lives since we last saw each other.
I never realized how much I missed this. Jace and I were friends again and things were finally clearing up.
Or so I thought.
A/N: So I updated really quick because I had a day off school! So nothing really happened but Jace and Clary are back on track! Reviews are greatly appriciated and make me update faster so please feel free to review.