The next morning Clary woke up, alone in her bed. At the first sight there wasn't any sign of Jace. 'Did I dream all of last night?' When she looked around in her bedroom, she saw his shirt lying in a corner. His boots too stood in front of her bed. 'OK definitely no dream!'

She put fresh underwear and his shirt on. It smelled like him. Then she went out of her bedroom, hearing someone in the kitchen. In front of the stove stood Jace with his back to her, shirtless. It seemed like he was preparing breakfast. She went to him, embraced him from behind and kiss the back of his neck. "Good morning!"

He gave her a kiss on her hand. "Good morning sleepyhead! Did you sleep well?" "Yeah, sorry about falling asleep in the middle of the conversation."

"Don't worry. It's understandable. You relieved a whole year in one evening. And it wasn't an easy year. Your mind had a lot to Prozess and needed the rest. Are you hungry? I made scramble eggs and there is toast. I thought about getting croisants, but I didn't want to leave your apartment without you knowing where I was. So I just looked up what you had here. I hope you're OK with me going through your things in the kitchen?"

"When it tastes as good as it smells, I'm more than fine with it." she responded smirking

"So please tell me. What happened the last year, while I was gone? How are the others? Are Izzy and Simon still together?..." he stopped her questions bei putting his finger on her lips. "I'd like to tell you all of that, but I don't know if I'm allowed to. I should talk to Izzy first about what happened last night. That way I can say that I really didn't tell you anything." Clary grinned at him "You really wanna tell her all about last night?"

Jace chuckled "Maybe not all. I'll say you got your memories back by just touching me. Not the part with us having sex." "I think Izzy'll know exactly where touching will've led us!"

"But she doesn't have to know that you got your memories back during orgasm!"

They looked at each other and bursted out in laughter.

After they calmed down Clary asked "So no visiting the institute this morning for me? "

"I'm afraid not. I think it would be best when we wait til I explained it to the others, sorry"

"No, it's OK. Actually I have to go to work at 11 o'clock." "You have shift in the diner today?" "Yeah. Somehow I have to pay for my bills, and since my pictures doesn't pay enough for that..." "Yeah I know...when are you finishing work?" "At 5 pm. I have the middle shift."

"I'll bring you to work, then talk to the others. I'll pick you up at 5. We can go here and order pizza. Maybe Izzy and Simon will come too. They'll want to talk to you first."

"It would be nice seeing them again. Before I can go to work I'll need a shower. Care to join me?"

She didn't need to ask twice.


Jace entered the institute around 11:30 and went straight to Izzy.

"Hi there! Simon told me you were out on a date?!" "Ähmn yeah..." "And you stayed at her place. Good I'm glad you're moving on. I know things with Clary were hard on you but you have to have a life outside of demon hunting!"

"About Clary... I have to tell you something..."

Isabelle Lightwood knew Jace for very long. She knew there was something going on "What about her?! I told you you should her let be! What have you..." "She remembers!!!"

She wanted to scold him, but he stopped her.

"I used the cloaking rune when I visited her vernissage last night. Til that time she never recognized me when I was cloaked. I even had been with her in her apartment and she didn't see me! But last night she came straight to me and asked me iff she knew me. She even knew my name. So we agreed to meet in her apartment after her vernissage and when she touched me she got her memories back. "

"Could it be that you forgot to activate your cloaking rune?"

"No! I had it activated, both times!"

"But why could she see you than?!"

"On her 18 birthday she started to see us too! Maybe the angels think one year without memories is enough!"

"We have to tell Alec! That's not something only for us to deside. We have to involve the clave!"

"Yeah, but please, for the moment Alec is enough. I don't want her have to be confronted with the whole clave, the day after her memories returned."

"OK your right. Where is she now?" "Working in the diner til 5"

Of causes Izzy knew exactly where Clary lived and worked. Jace wasn't the only one who kept track on her. The only difference was, she did it less obvious than him.

"I told her that we would meet after work to talk. We agreed to order pizza and that you and Simon would probably come to. You can see for yourself that she has her memories back."


Alec just sat in his office in Alicante, when the firemessege arrived.

Come to New York. It seems Clary got her memories back. Please don't tell the clave right now. We should check it first.

Izzy

He had to read it several times before it sunk in his mind. He jumped up from his chair and ran out of the room. He told his secretary that he needed some time off and speeded home. His secretary wanted to ask what had happened and how long he would be gone, but there was no chance.

When Alec arrived at home he found Magnus talking to a client on the phone. He had to wait til he was finished and for Alec it seemed to take hours. Magnus saw that Alec had something important to tell but couldn't get to end the call any sooner. When he hung up the phone he looked at his husband expectant.

"I have to go to New York! Now!"

"What happened?!" "Clary.." at the mentioning of this name, Magnus started the portal. After Alec was through he followed immediately.


Arriving at the New York institute in Izzys office he asked: "What happened to her?"

Izzy came by "Nice to see you both!" she hugged both of them

Magnus asked again "What happened to biscuit? Why did we have to come straight here? Is she OK?.."

Izzy answered: "I asked Alec to come here cause Jace told me she would have her memories back"

Both men asked "How?!"

Alec looked to Jace who just entered the room "What have you done?!"

"Nothing! I swear! She could see me even when I had activated my cloaking rune and she knew my name. When she touched me the rest of the memories came back."

Magnus looked at Jace, than at Alec. He asked Jace with obvious doubts "Just through touching?"

Jace got a little embarrassed "Yeah that was where her memories started to return..."

Izzy interrupted "He stayed the night at her place"

Alec mumbled "Yeah just touching." to Jace he said straight forward "What I got through our rune wasn't just touching. I suspected there was something off yesterday night."

Magnus looked at Alec and whispert "but last night was great, wasn't it?"

Izzy chuckled when she saw the expression of the boys "So you had kind of a 4some?"

She got 3 very mad but also embarrassed glares as answer.

She asked Jace "So, did Clarys memories return before you went in bed with her?"

"Most of it" the other 3 glanced at him "She knew about the shadowhunter, the runes, demons, that we were together before her memories were erased... All what she didn't know til then came with..." Jace felt like he was interrogated. They looked at him expectantly. Magnus quipped "So you fucked the rest in her?!" Alec and Izzy glanced at each other and started laughing while Jace looked at Magnus horrified.

"Please don't talk to Clary about it that way! I told I wouldn't even mention that we had sex last night!"

Izzy calmed down from the laughter first and informed the others "I think it really was the touching, what triggered her memories. During sex you simply touched each other more. But where does this leave us now? Can Clary come back to the shadow world or was it a big mistake, that Jace triggered her memories? I mean, what do the angels want to tell us with that?" they all got sober immediately. No one of them knew the answer

"that Raziel and I disagree" all 8 eyes looked in the corner of the room where that came from. There in Izzys office stood..

"Ithuriel!" "But I thought you were killed by Lilith!"

"Dying is going to heaven or hell."

"So she just sent you home?"

"I was severely injured and needed recovery time. During that time my brother decided about Clarissas faith. I just could resently convince him, that she didn't want to do any harm. It was wrong what she did and she needed punishment, but I convinced them that one year was enough. Especially since less shadowhunters are born than dying and the bond between Johnathan Christopher Harondale and Clarissa Adele Fairchild would be of promising outcome." All of them looked at Jace who didn't feel comfortable in his skin. 'damn I didn't ask Clary if she was on birth control!'

He couched and asked "So she can be a part of our world from now on? Does she have any restrictions about which runes she is allowed to use?"

"I gave her the memories back so she could use her runes, within reason!" "so no awaking death people, but portals are OK?" "When someone dies, the good part goes to heaven the bad to hell. Only an angel can revive the heavenly part, which was done to you. It was only your heavenly part and it was weaker than you as a whole. Clarissas runes can only awake the other part. Raziel doesn't like it that my own race was created."

Izzy was confused "So since Jace was revived he is pure good?" "He recovered from that weakness"

"What if she uses your runes and Raziel doesn't like it? Will he erase her memories again?" "I will try to prevent it"

"That still isn't a no"

"Indeed." with that Ithuriel was gone.

Magnus looked around. "hey I'm still here I survived a visit from an angel!"

The other 3 gaped at him like they just realized that he wasn't an offspring of an angel like them but rather part deamon.

"What do we now? I know you guys won't like what I say, but is it really wise to bring Clary back? If Raziel doesn't like what he sees and erases her memory again, we all have to relieve it again. Not to mention that it will be difficult to convince the counsil"

"So half-downworlder can be shadowhunter but only cause she has the blood of two angels she can't?" Jace was offended over what his parapatei suggested "Of course Clary will be a shadowhunter again. She already got her memories back. If they'd be taken away again it'll already be like relieving all over again. So where's the point in locking her out and punish her for doing good? She lost all cause she defeated Johnathan! The clave should take her with a hand kiss!"

"I don't think they'll see it that way. They'll think, Raziel, the angel who created the shadowhunter, doesn't want her to be one. That Ithuriel restored her memories and not Raziel himself only proves that."

"Why are you against Clary? Did she do anything to you? You know I love her. You created a job for your husband in Idris, who's by the way half demon and I can't be with my girlfriend even if she didn't do anything wrong?! "

"I don't have anything against her. On the contrary! I wished she could be here with us. It maybe didn't seem that way, but the year she spent with us she became something like a little sister to me. I really want to protect her from all this. That's why I ask you here without her being present 'What will we tell the clave?' She did draw the rune reviving her father, she did draw the alliance rune with downworlder"

"She revived Valantine cause the consul herself ordered her to! And the alliance rune was to save Izzy and Magnus and we killed Lilith cause of it!"

Izzy had heard enough "Boys stop it.What's the problem with you two? We'll tell the counsil simply the truth. Ithuriel convinced Raziel allowing her coming back. You two should really take a break and talk to other when you have both calmed down. "

"You really think they won't ask any further question? " Jace asked abashed

Alec answered "I hope so"

Jace checked his phone "Clarys shift ends in half an hour. I'll go pick her up." he looked in the round and asked "Could you tell Luke and Simon what happened?"