Hey :) So. This year has already felt as though it's lasted a century and we're only two and half months in. Shiiiiiiiiit. I hope you're all okay and have support and love and care surrounding you. I love you all.

So, I absolutely adore this song. I think I first heard it on that TV show Scream, if I remember right? But anyway! Absolutely amazing song, go and listen to it!

R : Rescue My Heart - Liz Longley
Requested by Jling

Come down
Rescue my heart
I'll drown
Without you

Come down
And rescue my heart
I'm deep underground
I can't dig my way out
So come down

Jace Herondale's eyes narrowed as he looked across the roof of his car toward the winners circle. Sebastian Verlac was standing there with an arm wrapped possessively around Clarissa Morgenstern's shoulders. They were surrounded with about twenty or thirty after racers—half of them were racer bunnies in scraps of clothes and the rest were other racers. Jace teeth clenched together as he watched Sebastian accept a few kisses from one of the racers bunnies who bounced between all the racers, Kaelie Whitewillow, and her friend, Seelie Queen.

"Watch it, Jace," Alexander Lightwood said under his breath as he followed his cousins eyes. "You don't want him to catch you staring at Clary." Jace's fingers curled around the dark blue metal of the door of his Mazda RX-7 and tried to tear his eye away, but he couldn't.

He had returned to Los Angeles nine months ago after serving two years in prison for grand theft auto and his whole body had been wound tight as he had seen Sebastian—a long time rival of his and his best friend, Jonathan Morgenstern—showing Clary off as his girlfriend. If Jon had still been around, he would have ripped any body part off Sebastian that had touched his sister from his body and then hidden his little sister on some tiny, deserted island in the middle of the pacific.

Unfortunately, Jon wasn't there.

Jon had died in a car accident a couple months after Jace had been sent away, and Jace hadn't even been able to attend the funeral, prison rules stating he wouldn't be given leniency as he hadn't been family.

Family by blood anyway.

The two were practically brothers, they had grown up as neighbours and Jace had been fiercely protective of Clary, just like Jon had been.

Clary had always had something of a crush on Jace, but given the three year age gap between them and his loyalty to Jon, Jace had never let anything happen between them. While he had been in prison, Clary and Jon had visited him regularly before the crash, but afterwards, she had only come and seen him sporadically and had mainly just sent him letters.

It had been because of the money.

Clary hadn't been the one to tell him that, it had been Alec and Isabelle Lightwood.

Jon had lived for nearly a week after his bad car accident, before a blood clot had come loose and traveled to his heart. That week in hospital had been enough to rack up the bills, and then there had been the mortgage of the home that Clary and Jon taken over when their mother had passed away as well as the monthly rent of the garage that Jon ran.

She was drowning in debt.

And apparently that was where Sebastian had come along.

Jace didn't know the details, but from what Alec and Isabelle had told him, it sounded as though Sebastian had swooped in when she was at her weakest and practically brought her affection. Jace knew that there was a lot more to it, because Clary wasn't some damsel in distress who would have just fallen into the arms of the first man to come along, but she had been in a vulnerable position, and he knew that she would have felt as though she was letting down her brother by selling their childhood home or giving up the garage.

The reason that he didn't know the details was because he had barely spoken to Clary since he had been released.

She spoke at his parole hearing, but there was something different in the way that she talked and held herself, and it had been then that he had seen Sebastian sitting at the back of the room, watching her with narrowed eyes.

Once he had been released, he had gone by her house—the only place her and Jonathan had ever lived in—and his eyes had widened in surprise when he had seen Lydia Branwell, her cousin, living there with her girlfriend, Maia Roberts. Lydia hadn't said much about Clary, only that she had moved in with her new boyfriend and she wasn't around all that much these days. Jace had been angry at first, because Clary had never been the type of girl to ditch her friends and family for some guy, but the first time he saw her since getting out, at the downtown races where he was getting behind the wheel of his baby for the first time in years, he could see why she had.

There was a bruise on the side of her face that make up was doing a poor job of hiding and so her hair was down and covering half her face.

She wasn't driving either, she was standing on the sidelines with the rest of the crowd—the same girl who had thrown a temper tantrum when her older brother had tried to tell her that street racing was dangerous and she would be safer on the sidelines. Since she was fifteen years old she had been racing and winning, and now she was in the crowd, with a bruise on her face and a fake smile on her lips.

Jace swore to himself right then and there that he was going to rescue her.

He owed it to Jonathan.

He owed it to her.

And so over the past couple of months, he found out as much as he could about what had happened to Clary and what it was that she owed to Sebastian. He didn't have a lot of money, so it wasn't as though he could buy her out of whatever financial issues she was having, but Jonathan would never want her saving their house and their garage at the risk of her body, and mind, and heart.

So he was going to get her out of there.

"Jace," Alec's voice was quiet. "You don't want to start anything right now. Not tonight." Isabelle was close behind her brother and she reached out and put her hand on Jace's shoulder, giving it a light squeeze. Jace took in a deep breath, calming himself down and focusing on Clary one last time. She was still standing at Sebastian's side, his heavy arm over her shoulders, but her eyes had found Jace. She was staring at him and when he caught her eyes, she gave him a tiny, almost imperceptible nod.

"Now, Izzy," Jace said. "Call them now." Isabelle nodded and stepped away. She was wearing a tight pair of jeans and a red shirt that blatantly showed off the fact she wasn't wearing a bra, and yet she was still dressed more modestly than most of the other women who were there. She pulled her phone out of her pocket as she wound her way toward where other cars were parked and that was when Jace and Alec lost her in the crowd. It would take a few minutes before there would be any response to Isabelle's phone call, but once it happened, everything was going to be pushed into fast forward.

"I'm going to head out of here," Alec told Jace and the golden haired man turned his head to look at his cousin. "Don't be gone too long, okay?"

"Only as long as we need to be," Jace replied, taking in a shaky breath.

He was going to be violating parole.

He was going to be leaving the only city he had ever called home.

He was going to be saying goodbye to the only family he ever had.

But like he had said to Alec, they would only going to be leaving for as long as they needed to. As long as it took them to figure out a way to get Clary out from underneath Sebastian's thumb, and then something that Jace hadn't told the redhead yet, but helping to fix her heart and soul after losing her brother and being held down all these years by someone who just wanted arm candy and treated her as though she was worth nothing.

Jace pulled his phone out of his back pocket and saw a text from Isabelle had come through, saying that she had just finished her call. Jace put his phone back in his pocket and looked at the scene around him.

This had been where he, Clary and Jonathan had lived, every Saturday night for years. They would all race—Jonathan was the best racer out of all of them, he was virtually unbeaten, and Jace was a close second. Clary was damn good as well, and she hated it when she got compared to other female drivers. She had always wanted to be compared to other drivers, regardless of their gender.

He hadn't seen her behind a wheel of a car since he had been back.

That hurt.

"Cops are inbound!" Came a shout from someone who had been listening to the police scanner. "Cops are coming!" They repeated, raising their voice to be heard, and once a few people heard him over the music and general chatter, the news spread like wildfire and people began to disperse rapidly. Everyone was scrambling for their cars, especially the ones who had cars that were worth more than what some people earned in a year. In the whole mess and chaos, Sebastian and Clary got separated.

That was what he was counting on.

Jace jumped into his car, turning on the engine and shifting into first gear, one foot on the shift pedal and the other on the accelerator, keeping the car idling as he watched Sebastian run for his vehicle. As expected, he glanced around for Clary when he got to his car, but when he didn't see her around, he just got in and drove off, leaving her to fend for herself.

Or for Jace to look out for her.

The passenger door was thrown open and then Clary was sliding into the passenger seat next to him. Her face was pale and she wrung her hands together, but Jace didn't have time to ask her if she was okay because they just needed to get out of there before the cops descended on the place. He pressed his foot down hard on the accelerator and the car launched forward. He shifted easily between the gears as he sped down the long stretch of road in downtown Los Angeles, following closely behind a couple of other cars. He indicated right and then pulled a quick left. They could hear the sirens and Clary's hands were clenched tightly together, he could see that her knuckles were white, and Jace swallowed hard as he made another tight turn.

"We're going to be okay," Jace said through gritted teeth. Clary didn't say anything. Her shoulders were still tense and she was staring through the windscreen with wide eyes. Jace kept on driving, turning through the streets of downtown Los Angeles until they reached a highway. It was only as they got onto the highway and were speeding up, on their way out of Los Angeles that she took in a deep breath and relaxed a little. "We're going to be okay," he repeated to her.

"You don't know that," Clary's voice was raspy.

"I do," Jace said firmly. She had packed a few things and given them to Isabelle, and they were in the boot of his car, next to a bag of his own things. "I know because it's you and it's me and we're gonna do Jon proud, yeah?" Clary blinked quickly and she seemed to relax even more as she looked over at him with a small smile.

"Yeah," she murmured. "You're right."

I hope you guys enjoyed the update :)

My top 10 songs for this week;

1) Kissing Other People - Lennon Stella. 2) No Time To Die - Billie Eilish. 3) Mikrokosmos - BTS. 4) Euphoria - BTS. 5) Is It Just Me? - Emily Burns. 6) Parents - Yungblud. 7) Cherry - Lana Del Rey. 8) In Case You Don't Live Forever - Ben Platt. 9) Hope Is A Dangerous Thing - Lana Del Rey. 10) Homesick - Dua Lipa.

I've only been watching old stuff recently, like Criminal Minds and Hawaii Five-O...My husband has big plans tonight though, and has suggested that we get high and watch Little Mermaid, so that sounds brilliant and like exactly what I need for the end of my week. If you guys have any suggestions for animated movies, send them my way, because we need all the good stuff we can get in the world right now! Ooh, if I can suggest a twitter thread, actually, there's one posted by a user PAYOLETTER which is just...A feel good time about how so many people now have their pets as colleagues now that they're working from home. Making the best of a bad situation. The thread is filled with pictures of animals, if you need fluff, that's where to go!

Love you all x