Cassandra Clare owns.

How long has it been? A year? Maybe longer? I am sorry, this story comes back to me all time, and I always want to finish it and I'm finally sitting back and giving the end it deserves.

Dooms Day Part 1

I sat down on my leather sofa, snapping the neck on my fourth beer tonight. I really tried not to drink so much, but since Celine... things just always seemed to lead to the bottom of a bottle. Celine... happy, caring, kind, fun Celine. My charming beautiful sunshine Celine. I took a deep breath, staring up to the ceiling, hoping for some sort of divine power to lead me to the right direction. Celine would of known what to do. She always did with Jace, with the business. If Jace had a bad day at school, Celine would know exactly how to take the blues away. If I was a bad having day at the office and the final puzzle piece just wouldn't fit to cracking the case, if I let her look over it, she seemed to find the final puzzle piece. I would not be where I am today if I hadn't of met her at high school and sometimes I felt like without her I didn't know where I was. She always pushed and supported my dreams of owning the law firm. Stayed up with me on late nights through law school, helping me through the bar exam. I closed my eyes and thought of our wedding day. Celine had not cared for a big wedding, we were fresh out of college and her parents did not think I would make it as lawyer so we didn't have much help but that day she still looked a million dollars. The more I thought about Celine the quicker I downed my beer and walked to fridge to get another. As I walked through the house I passed some pictures of our little family at the beach, when Celine had first died I had taken all the pictures down...

I couldn't stand the sight of them, they made my depression worse, but one day when Sophie had dropped by because I wasn't answering my phone and there was clients asking for me and trials coming up and it wasn't just me, Jace still needed a father as well. She walked into our home at the time, and saw me lying on the sofa, beard very over grown, not showered and Sophie, sweet and kind, who hardly raised her voice, began to shout.

"Where is Jace?! Stephen! Get up! Look at the state of this place! Have you eaten? Or even showered in days?" I could see her getting angrier as she walked into the kitchen. Where was Jace? She was right, I did not know. She didn't say much for a few minutes and then walked back into the living room where I was. She walked straight slowly and knelt by me.

"Stephen, I know this is hard, but you need to get up, find Jace, shower, eat." She breathed in slowly. "Maybe not in that order, but you need to get yourself together because while you have lost your wife, which is devastating, Jace has lost his mother!" She breathed in calming her self down again, looking like she could cry herself, "Believe me when I say, he needs you more than anyone else in the world right now. You two need to help each other through this, you only have each other now." I looked into her eyes and she seemed so sincere, so worried about my son and me, I realised she was right.

"Have you heard from Jace?" Jace. My little boy.

"No, I haven't..."

Jace had been staying at a friends for a few days at the time, he had thought I would need the time alone. Jace looked exactly like his mother, I thought he laughed like her, smiled like her, even slept like her. Sometimes as he grown up, while I was still grieving it had been unbearable to be around him. I didn't mean to think it, the boy had lost his mother, we should of handled the pain of losing her together, but it just didn't play out like that.

I dug around in my pocket for my phone, I had to do the only thing that would settle my mind right now, I had to call the only person who would be able to help me through tonight, so if I couldn't call Celine, it would have to be Sophie who I was always called when it came to Jace. Somehow she, like Celine always knew how to handle situations with him, un like me who was always 3 steps behind. At Jace's prom she had known to buy him a tux and flower for his date, while I didn't even know it was prom, throwing myself into work the best I could. Sophie may have been my PA but she was also a life saver for Jace.

I lifted the phone to my ear, and waited for the rings to click,

"Hello Mr Herondale, what can I help you with on this late," she paused, "or early Monday Morning," her tone was friendly. I took the phone from my ear to eye level, it had just gone 12.

"Im sorry its late Soph, were you asleep?" She answered quickly,

"No the babies just going back to sleep don't worry, how can I help?" My round the clock therapist.

"Jace," i took a deep breath "is how you can help, it turns out my son, no matter how hard I try, will always defy me at every turn"

"Hey hey Stephen, calm down, talk to me, explain what happened." I began to tell her the events of today, our talk at his apartment, Clary turning up, him leaving me. She listened quietly and didnt interrupt me which helped. I needed to vent to someone. When I was finally done, she was quiet for a few minutes.

"Sophie are you still there?" If she fell asleep, could I be angry?

"I'm sorry I was just trying to process this. Why exactly are you angry?"

Why was I angry? Jace had to always try and sleep with his PA, was he even doing any work in his office. I knew he was, he was good at his job, won cases, but that didn't give him the right to do what he wanted.

"Its like he'll sleep with anything with a pulse and he will never grow up!" I put my head my in my hand.

"Well I don't think thats true." I looked at the phone in shock and brought it back fo my ear to hear her thoughts "For starters, he came and told you about the relationship, like a mature adult, every other time he's let you find out by the poor girl handing in her resignation. I do not think Jace has ever done that in all the times he has needed a PA. Also if he came and told you about the relationship I would say he really cares about her. Stephen, you said he hadn't even slept with her yet! All of HR had bets if this girl would even last a week," Did they? "Stephen, what would Celine say right about now?" She paused and let me think. The unspoken question in my thoughts all night. What would his mother say right now?

"She would tell him that if he really liked this girl than to go for it and too not let anything stand in the way off it, not even you or the job." She took another deep breath, "And lets be honest Jace is an amazing lawyer, are you really going to lose him?" Women always seem to wrap things up with a bow on top. I had to ask Sophie my final question, which had stopped me from reaching her conclusion on my own.

"Okay, what if this ends badly? It is just a fling? She leaves and we have another law suit on our hands?" Sophie huffed. She knew the stress Jace had caused recently with his playboy ways.

"If," i could imagine her looking at me wide eyed trying to make a point of the word, "that does happen, then we will deal with it, but ill be honest with you, Jace is showing all the signs of a guy head over heels and if he's anything like you at that age, shes the one and that would really be perfect because I want them both happy." I laughed at that but then thought for a minute about what Sophie had said about him being truly happy. I missed Celine every day, and I was not going to stand in the way of that and put my only shard of that kind of hurt.

"Thank you for your time Sophie, as always you have gone beyond your job,"

She laughed, "Remember that at my next appraisal," I laughed and we said our goodbyes.

I promise, for real this time to have another chapter uploaded tonight!

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