AN: Thank you to everyone who has reviewed and I hope you will like the chapter. So here is Chapter 26.

Jace's point of view

I woke up in the middle of the night when I heard a scream. I couldn't ignore it so I climbed out of bed and walked down the aisle following the sound of the scream. My heart nearly skipped a beat as I realised that it was coming from Clary's area.

I burst into her small area and saw her screaming and cowering in her sleep. I rushed forwards to her side and gently shook her awake.

Her green eyes flew open as soon as I touched her and then she tried to punch me so I had to grab her wrists in my hands and hold them whilst saying "It's okay Clary. You're safe now."

I could see that her eyes recognised me and she then stopped wriggling from underneath me and said "Oh god. You scared me to death Jonathan what the hell?!"

I then understood her fear of men near beds, her father or brother had tried or even succeeded to rape her so now she hated being near a men and a bed.

She then curled up into a small ball and started sobbing which was something that I had never seen her do before.

I had no idea what to do but in the end I sat next to her and hugged her and whispered to her repeatedly "It's okay Clary. No one's going to hurt you now."

She just curled up even more as though if she went small enough she would just no longer exist.

When she finally calmed down from her sobbing stage she looked at me through her messy and knotted sleepy looking hair and asked "What are you doing here Jace?"

I gently said "I heard you screaming in your sleep and I thought that something had happened to you so I woke you and you tried to attack me and then you started sobbing."

She took a deep breath and said "Okay that's better than I thought you were going to say for a minute."

I was still holding her but she didn't seem to notice or if she did she didn't care and I didn't really want to let go of her now I had touched her.

I gently asked "Do you want to talk about it?"

She thought about it and then said "Do I really need to say my reason? You know my story don't you?"

I nodded and said "What did they do to you when you stayed there?"

She shook slightly but she still told me "It depended on how 'bad' I had been and when do you want to know about it."

I didn't say anything and she then continued "If it was a small problem and near the start then it was only kicking or punching me. If it was slightly bigger and later they started to throw knifes at me as well. If it was what they classified as a middle problem then it was throwing everything they had in the room which would hurt me at me adding on to the others. If it was a big problem then it would be the whip of belt too. If it was a bigger than big problem then it was cutting my wrists in the bathtub too. If it was like a riot or massive problem then it was all of them and then they would try to rape me or drug me and I don't know what they did then but whatever it was then it wasn't very nice."

I frowned at her words, she had and probably will never know if they raped her or not, some of it would be when she was drugged or even unconscious.

I could see why barely anyone knew about her past. She had been right all those weeks ago; it definitely was not a good bedtime story.

I hugged her closer and she just shifted and said "Thanks for coming to see if I was okay anyway."

I nodded and answered "It's fine. It's not like your past is a bedtime story is it?"

She smiled and said "You can remember that sentence from ages ago?"

I smiled back and said "Yeah I have a good memory for most words or lines from books."

I could tell that she was trying to laugh as she said "I remember most things except from when Jon screws with my mind."

I wondered how she could almost laugh at that thought and I ended up accidently voicing my thoughts by saying "How can you laugh at your past like that?"

Her laughter disappeared as she said "People who morn their past are always the people who have nothing to live or die for. If someone has something to live or die for then they should focus on the present or in the future no matter how bad of a past life they have had."

I could tell that she was telling the truth and I decided to let it go so I asked "So what was the argument with Simon about earlier then?"

She froze slightly and said "Just stuff."

I asked "Emphasise on 'stuff'."

She sighed and said "Fine. We started out talking about the fire and Valentine and how I should go to his funeral as I am his family. Then he told me that I killed him so I answered with I had to otherwise me and you would have died." Oh this sounded fun already.

"He then got angry so I asked him why he was so angry about me saving you as well and he said that I was always happier around you and I apparently have a dreamy look in my eyes too. So I told him that he was wrong but then he ignored me and told me…" I thought about what she had said. Simon was angry at her for saving my life and being happier around me. He wouldn't be a great friend even if he tried.

She continued by saying "He told me that he loves me and that he had since the day that we met. I- I tried to say something but again he ignored me and told me to tell and promise him that I would say that I could never love you. But my point is that I've never really thought about it before so I told him that I couldn't and he just stormed out of here and left me without even saying another word really."

After she had finished I could feel her sadness of fighting with her only trusting friend and I could only feel anger about Simon. It's not her fault that she had no idea about how to love or even thought about it. It was truly ridiculous.

I smiled at her trying not to show my anger to her and said "Well goodnight then Clary."

She smiled and said "Goodnight Jace" and she turned onto her side facing away from me and sighed before going to what I presumed was to sleep.

I walked back to my bed and saw that Aline was waiting there with her stern expression on her face. Dammit why does she have to notice me gone and now I'm going to get her nagging and moaning about me never being there when she needed me the most and whatever else she moaned about.

I wish that I could be there with Clary and just talk to her. She always seemed to understand and she hardly needed anyone near her to be herself. I thought back to what she had said about her and Simon's argument earlier and jumped through me as I remembered that she had said no to promise that she would never love me. I wish I could tell her that I loved her, maybe then that would change her mind.

Clary's point of view

I heard Jace leave and go back down the corridor. I again wondered why I had told him everything about mine and Simon's argument earlier but he just seems so trust worthy and listening that I told him everything that happened.

I know I can't get back to sleep so I pull out my sketchpad and started to draw again. I missed Jace at the moment and I wished that he was still here but I knew from the whisper shouting I could hear from the corridor that Jace was having another argument with Aline so I better not interrupt them.

About half an hour later I started to feel thirsty and I could still hear Jace and Aline's whisper shouting match in the aisle.

I got up and walked outside of the small doorway type of thing and sneaked down the corridor hoping that they wouldn't see or hear me.

I had almost accomplished my mission until I heard Aline say to Jace "Why do you keep glancing at Clary every time she's near us then? Oh look she's right there."

I froze this was going to be my amazingly bad sense of timing considering that now both Aline and Jace were watching me get a drink.

They kept on staring at me so I said "Has anyone ever told you two that staring is rude? Even if they are doing something so interesting like pouring a cup of coffee for them to drink."

They both just blinked at me so I said "Seriously I mean it. It is rude to stare at people."

Aline got out of it first and said "You need to stay out of our business."

I smiled and said "Well I was thirsty and I wasn't listening anyway and you also mentioned my name so I believe that it would be about me as no one else here is called Clary and you also pointed out that she was there and indicated me so I presume that you would mean me and that would make it partially my business."

Aline glared at me and said "You've brainwashed him, that's what happened.

I said sarcastically "Oh dear god there goes my amazing evil plan of the century. I totally have to think of another now someone's figured it out."

Aline narrowed her eyes and Jace was trying not to laugh. I smiled and said "Well now I have my drink I can leave you two people to carry on with your pretty little argument which at some point involves me because I have apparently brainwashed your boyfriend."

Aline glared at me again and I smiled innocently before saying "Well goodnight to the both of you and try not to make a scene like making out or murder because it will make a horrible mess and not a pleasant scene for me to walk into when I get my next coffee."

And with that I left the both of them in the aisle and went into my enclosed space for my privacy and started to draw again.