Jace POV
I turn towards Clary to ask her if this dude was really her dad. As I turn I see her start to sway and her eyes start to close.
"Clary!" I shout and lung for her, catching her before she hits the ground. "Clary baby, please answer me!" I say pulling her to my chest. "Jon, we need to get her to the nurse's office." I quickly stand up with her in my arms.
"What's happening with my daughter? What have you done to her?" The dude asks. I look at him and his name clicks in my head from the stories that Jon and Clary both told me.
"I didn't do anything to her Valentine. Now get out of my way so I can take my girlfriend, who is my responsibility, to the nursing office." I say and push passed him, Jon trailing behind me.
"Class, today is going to be a free. Stay in this classroom." Valentine calls behind me. Then he leaves the class room, following us, a few paces behind, through the hallways to the nurse's office.
"Jon get the door." I shout he nods and runs ahead to get the door. We reach it just as Jon is getting the nurse up from the station telling her about Clary.
"She just passed out, and well she's…" He looks at me and I nod my head understanding where he's going with his story. "Well she's pregnant." Jon squeaks and the nurse gasps.
"Place her down there son." She says pointing to the bed, I walk over and place Clary down, brushing her hair off her face. "How far along is she in her pregnancy?"
"Pregnancy!" Valentine shouts, getting to the office just in time to hear he's gonna be a grandad.
"She's two months along. We think, she has an appointment after school to be sure." I reply ignoring Valentines outburst. The nurse nods and gets the blood pressure cuff from in her draw. She places it over Clary's arm and takes her blood pressure.
"Her blood pressure is a little high for someone who's pregnant. Could someone call her parents or legal guardian please?" She asks looking between me and Jon.
"I'm her father, I can be here for her." Valentine steps forwards.
Jon scoffs from the corner. "You're no father. You're a sperm donor. You left when Clary was 3. You have no right to that title. Luke is our father." He claimed and dials a number on his phone. "Hey Dot, any chance you could put mom on the phone. It's urgent. Thank you." While he waits he sends glares at Valentine who seems speechless after Jon's outburst. "Mom, you need to come to the school. Yeah, it's urgent. Clary collapsed in Math class. Were in the nurse's office. Yeah ok see you soon. Oh and mom one more thing. The asshole is back, I'm guessing that the stress is what cause Clary to collapse. Yeah see you soon, Love you too bye." He hangs up. "Mom will be her in 5." He says and comes to sit on the other side of me, next to Clary.
"Jonathan. You may not think it but I am your father. I have a right to know what's happening with you and your sister. Now tell me. Was it this sleaze bag," He points towards me, I clench my fist and try to calm myself down before I punch him. "Who knocked up my daughter at 16, or was it someone else?" He raises his voice, his face red with anger.
"Firstly," I speak up before Jon can butt in, "I am no sleaze bag. I have been in your daughter's life since you left. Which was 14 years ago. Clary is 17 and has been 17 for over two months. And secondly, yeah, so what if I'm the father of the miracle growing in your daughter's stomach? We love each other and both plan on being together for a long, long time. The baby wasn't planned but doesn't mean that we can't look after it." My anger growing the more I talk to this bastard.
"Calm down Jace." Jon says placing a hand on my shoulder. "He isn't worth getting all aggravated over. We know that you and Clary will be amazing parents. We don't need his approval." He says and turns his head to the nurse. He looks down and reads her name tag. "Sarah, could you please remove him from the room. He has no rights to be in here." He says. She nods and walks towards him.
"I'm sorry Mr Morgenstern. You may be these children's father but unfortunately when I was checking Clary's file, you are not listed as a person to contact. I would advise you to go back to your classroom." With that she shuts the door in his face and sighs a happy sigh. "Thank you so much for asking me to do that. I know it's very unprofessional of me, but I really despise that man. He's only been her a day and he's already tried to make every member of staff to do something different because it's 'better' his way." She shudders when she does the air quotes and walks to her desk picking up a file. I read the tab and it has Clary's name on the side.
"Okay, this file doesn't tell me anything because she's never been her before. Is she prone to fainting spells?" At her question both Jon and I shake our heads. "Did she have breakfast this morning? Okay what did she have?" She asks at our nod.
"Um fruit and yogurt. Apples, grapes and bananas with strawberry yogurt." I go into more detail.
"Hm, well her blood sugar shouldn't be low. Could something have triggered this, was she under stress when she fainted?" She asks and looks between Jon and I.
"Yeah. That pompous ass made a snide comment about her being sat on my lap, when she lifted her head he realised who she was, we all then looked up and he notice Jon as well." I say pointing to Jon. "Then he started walking up the isle towards us and she hid behind me. I didn't know who he was so I asked Clary who he was and he shouted at me. When I turned back to speak to Clary she was falling." I finish telling the story and reach for Clary's hand.
"Okay, it seems like she may have fainted due to stress. I will speak to her mother and hopefully she will be able to get a quicker appointment at the hospital in order to check on the little guy." She says gesturing to her stomach. She smiles and moves to her desk to write up the report. "Okay guys, just for you to know, I've had to write in her notes about the pregnancy. Just for you to tell her. If she needs a break during school, if fatigue takes hold on her, like it did when I was pregnant with my son, she is welcome to come into the nurse's office and lay down. I work every day." She smiles at us.
Before we can reply we hear a commotion outside the room. "What are you doing here? You didn't want to know them growing up, you get no right to see them now they are older!" Jocelyn screams from outside the office.
"I have every right Jocelyn! They are my children!" He shouts back.
"Jon is 18 Clary is 17. Neither of them are children anymore! If Jon wanted he would have the right to ask Luke to adopt him and we wouldn't even need your signature on it to say yes! Clary can do the same on 10 months and I bet when I tell them they will be ecstatic to finally have Luke as their father! (No idea if this can actually happen, but it's cute so in my story it can) He's been there for them. When Jon won his first football game in high school Luke was there! When Clary fell out of the tree house and broke her arm, do you know who she wanted? That's right Luke! Not you! You have no right to come here and tell my children how to live their lives!"
"You obviously aren't doing a good job of raising them if she managed to get herself knocked up before she finished high school!" He says. "I have every right to take you to court and get legal rights over both of them. They are my children as well as yours! Not Luke's" I can see Jon shaking from beside me in anger. He's up and out of his seat, before I can do anything about it he's opened the door and taken a swing at Valentine. He falls to the floor like an old sack of potatoes.
"Don't you dare! Don't even think of talking to her like that! Don't think about talking about Clary like that! My mother is an amazing mother, I couldn't have asked for a better one. And as for you being my father, that's not going to happen. I've told you once and I'll tell you again, Luke is my father. Not you. Never you! Now leave my mother alone, go back to your class and don't bother looking for us around school. If I need to I'll put my own restraining order against you and you'll have to leave this school. I'm being nice enough letting you stay in this job. Don't worry. We won't be in your math class after today." He walks back into the nurse office and sits next to me again.
"What… what happened?" Clary asks blinking her eyes. Looking around the room. Her eyes harden when they fall on Valentine but go soft again when she looks towards me, Jon and her mother.
"I'm so glad your awake Fireball." I say leaning up and planting a kiss on her head. "You fainted in his class room." I point my finger to Valentine when telling her. "We brought you here because we didn't know what to do. I thought it…" I choke on my words. "I thought it may have been something to do with the baby. But Sarah thinks it was stress that caused you to faint." I rub small circles on her arms telling her all I know.
"And I phoned up the hospital. We have an appointment at 10:30 to check you over." Jocelyn speaks up, she glances down at her watch. "We have to leave soon, but before we go I'd like to go and speak to Mr Starkweather about some things. Jon can you collect Jace and Clary's things and bring them back here for us. You have to stay in school unfortunately Jon." He agrees and jumps up and walks to get our stuff, shouldering Valentine on his way passed. "And you, you have to leave. Go back to your class room. Don't even say hello to my children if you pass them. You ignore their presence unless they talk to you, which is doubtful." With the last word said to Valentine she turns around, shutting the door in his face and walks off towards Mr Starkweather's office.
"Jace, what if the stress has done something to the baby?" Clary says, pulling my attention back to her. I take in her face, tears streaming down both her cheeks and jump up pulling her to my chest.
"Shh Clare, nothing's going to be wrong with the baby. He's going to be fine. Or she." I look over to Sarah who holds up 9 fingers. She's 90% sure that He's fine. "I promise." I say moving my eyes away from Sarah, who's smiling at us, and bury my head in Clary's curls. It's another 10 minutes until Jocelyn comes back to get us, and the whole ten minutes I spent holding Clary to my chest.
"I've spoken to Mr. Starkweather, he has agreed to move you both, and Jon into the other math class. Also He agreed to the finishing school early thing." She says as she puts the car in revers and makes her way out of the school's parking lot.
"Wait. What finishing school early thing?" Clary asks from besides me. Jocelyn looks up at me, one eyebrow raised. There is a clear question in her actions. 'You haven't told her' it says. I grin and look down at Clary who is looking between me and her mother.
"Well, I thought with the whole pregnancy thing, and the fact that you would be due around the time we would be sitting finals, that it would be a good idea for us to finish school earlier than everyone else. The only down side is we have to take extra classes after school. So no more cheerleading and no more football." I say to her. Her mouth falls open.
"But Jace, you love playing football! You don't need to do it as well. I'd never expect you to give up football." She says shaking her head back and forth.
"That's just the point Clare-bear. I'm not asking you to expect me to do it. I'm telling you I am doing it. I can still train with them. I'll just have to do it in the morning on my own and during dinner on a game day. Would you mind me doing that in order to finish school in plenty of time to have a beautiful family with you?" I ask a smile on my face. Clary's smile lights up the whole car and she nods her head and wraps her arms around my neck, pulling me into a hug. One of the best hugs she has ever given me.
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Okay, here it is! Thinking of doing a bit of Jon's POV for the next chapter, what do you think? Or do you want me to go straight back to Clary's? Let me know in the reviews!
On another note, I've been reading a lot of FanFiction and almost every story I read mentions a Beta. What is a Beta?
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