It really sucks when you find someone that's so beautiful and handsome and perfect, but then you get slapped in the face by reality: he's in love with someone else. AU. Short Story.

Clary never realized she needed to be saved until she held the blade against her wrist. And then Jace comes along and changes everything. This is Clary's story through a lifetime of birthdays- the first time she met her best friend, the first time her father hit her, the first time she fell in love and the darkness inside of her. Trigger warning: dark, suicide, death, rape. A/U