So. Okay. This was one of the first ones I wrote when I began this series again, so it was written...Maybe a year ago, and I sort of don't like this anymore...I just wanted to say sorry for the dip in quality here.

N : Next Contestant - Nickleback
Song Requested by AFourAddict
Story Idea by reineLVIII

Is that your hand on my girlfriend?
Is that your hand?
I wish you'd do it again
I'll watch you leave here limping
I wish you'd do it again
I'll watch you leave here limping
There goes the next contestant

When she was at work, Clarissa Morgenstern was beautiful but unassuming. She would usually wear a long sleeved blouse—varying colours but all of them muted—and a high waisted skirt that showed off her slim waist but that would go all the way to her knee, very modest. Even in summer, she might wear a sleeveless shirt, but there would always be a thin cardigan over top, her shoulders and arms never exposed. She barely wore any make up and there were only wore a single stud in each ear.

She was sweet and she had a kind smile, and she was loved by every kid who approached her section of the library. Parents loved her as well, given she was more than happy for them to drop off their kids for an afternoon while they went and did the grocery shopping, and she would keep an close eye on them, reading to them and being gentle as she chided them to keep quiet.

Jace Herondale didn't have to worry about Clary when she was at work, except for the one male worker at the library, Daniel Quinn, who gave her long looks, but then he did that with most of the women that worked there.

It was outside of work where things would get a little...Complicated.

Clary had worked at the library for the past two and a half years and she fit in well there. She had moved to the small city of Idris after living in New York for a few years while she had been going through University, which was where she she had met Jace. He had met her when she had been in a similar state to what she was when she worked each day, and he had thought she was gorgeous.

Then she had reached up to reach for a book in the University library that was on the top shelf, and her shirt had hitched upward and he had seen the colourful tattoo along the left side of her lower back, curling over her hip and he had been hit with the realization that there was a lot more to the girl than met the eye.

She might have been studying English literature, which seemed like a stuffy subject, but she was nowhere near boring.

The reason she wore long sleeved shirts was because she had colourful tattoo's winding up both of her arms and across her back. The reason she wore skirts down to her knees or long pants, was because up her right thigh, ending just an inch or so above her knee, were bright flowers and dermal piercings glinting from the centre. She may only wear one stud in each ear at work, but she had three holes at the bottom of each ear, a tragus piercing in the right and an industrial bar that went through her left. Her nipples were both pierced as well, although that wasn't something that anyone but Jace saw. And she may wear nude make up to work, maybe venturing into darker pink lipstick occasionally, but that was nothing compared to the bright reds and the deep purples that she would wear in the weekends, and the heavy, dark eye makeup and glittering highlighter that showed off her cheekbones.

It turned out that her best friend, Simon Lewis, was part of an up and coming rock band, and she had helped them out a lot with their art work for their posters and album covers, and she was pretty into their scenes as well, going to clubs and bars when they were preforming.

And that was where things got complicated.

Jace would never tell Clary what to wear or what not to wear when they went out to clubs or to the concerts that were slowly getting bigger and bigger for Simon and his band.

He would never tell her how to act or how not to act.

He would never want her to stop dancing and screaming out the lyrics to every single one of Simon's songs and throwing her arms in the air and having fun because he loved all of those moments. He loved her having fun and letting her inhibitions lower and so completely full of life.

But he hated the way people would react to her.

Mainly men, but there had been a few persistent women that he had run into over the years.

Jace was a bit over protective by nature—a fact that could be easily backed up by his younger cousin that he had grown up with, Isabelle Lightwood—and maybe just a tad on the possessive side.

But he was pretty sure that even if it wasn't in his nature, it would still flare up when guys would move up to his girls side to try and dance with her. Some of them were drunk and just blatantly tried to grope her around the waist as she pushed her way to the front of the gigs. They would leer down at her tiny figure and take in the tight leather skirt she was wearing and the ripped band shirt and the tattoos and the bright red lips and they were suddenly tripping over themselves, desperate for a taste.

Jace didn't hesitate before grabbing them by the scruff of their shirt and sending them sprawling into the crowd.

Sometimes they came back, acting as though they stood a chance up against Jace in their drunken stupor, and they departed very quickly after that, with bloody noses and one even with a broken finger.

Then there were the ones that were still pretty sober, and would try to actually talk to Clary or buy her a drink. Jace didn't dance, which was why Clary was usually on the dance floor by herself, but he was always close by, keeping an eye on things. He would see her politely decline and try to focus back on the music. Sometimes that worked.

Sometimes Jace pushed his way through the crowd and made it work.

Clary once made a joke about how she should just get Simon to set up a little area that was cordoned off from the public for her to dance and sing in, and Isabelle and Maia Roberts when they came to the gig.

She was joking.

Jace seriously considered the logistics of it before Alexander Lightwood had snorted and said that would just make Clary look even more desirable, putting her on a pedestal like that, literally making her seem like forbidden fruit.

So Jace just settled for dealing with contestant after contestant as they came for his girl.

He kissed her hard when she was in her concert gear, tattoos on display and green eyes flashing and playful.

He kissed her harder when she was in jeans and a loose tee-shirt, looking so sweet he wanted to eat her up, to make sure that she knew he loved her in every phase of herself; from the sexy, tattooed party girl, to the understated, beautiful librarian, to the innocent, wide eyed twenty-five year old who loved to sing along with Disney movies.

He could deal with them as long as he had her.

1) Wrong Direction - Hailee Steinfield. 2) Walls - Louis Tomlinson. 3) Alanis' Interlude - Halsey and Alanis Morissette. 4) See You Again - Carrie Underwood. 5) Brooklyn Baby - Lana Del Rey. 6) Blood - In This Moment. 7) Casual Sabotage - Yungblud. 8) She - Harry Styles. 9) Living Proof - Camila Cabello. 10) Monsters - James Blunt.

My husbands favourites change all the time, but he has said that today the ones he played the most are Adore You by Harry Styles and First Man by Camila Cabello. I think my playing of the HS2 album on repeat has gotten to him, and he wasn't too big of a fan of First Man by Camila, probably because I played it so much when the song first came out, it always just made me so emotional. After her Grammy performance last night, though, he was an absolute wreck, and he said he played it all the way to work, so I think he's finally on board with that song!

We had a How To Train Your Dragon binge in the weekend, which was amazing, and I've just started a new showed called Reprisal, which seems pretty good.

Also keep in mind, I am sending you guys PM's in response to your reviews! Please don't think I'm ignoring you guys! I absolutely appreciate all your beautiful words and support, just currently has the alerts turned off for any PM's, which is incredibly frustrating, so you're just not getting alerted by them when I send one!

Much love xx