A huge thanks to my beta Oneandonlyfangirl! I always forget to thank here with these chapters but she goes though everyone one of them! Enjoy!

Jace was a snoring mess when I found him this morning. Somehow that snoring mess looked freaking sexy, though. Then I remembered it was Wednesday and I had the honor of going back to the hospital for some more cancer fighting poison. I grab a pillow from my bedroom and toss it at Jace's unconscious form. He blots straight up, still groggy. "What?" He asks rubbing the sleep from his eyes.

"Time to rise and shine."

"Alright, Mom." He stands up with his blanket falling to his feet. He slept only in basketball shorts. His entire upper body is exposed. Damn, was he beautiful. Defined muscles like a stone statue. His body almost seemed to glow. "Like what you see, Red?"

"Just get dressed." I say heading to my Keurig. "Coffee?"

"Sure. I'll take it black." He walks up and embraces me around the waist from behind. I slide the mug into the brewer and press the start button. "You need a better couch."

"That couch was twenty bucks at a yard sale. The buy of the year!" I joke.

"It's gonna break my back." he shot back.

"Well, currently I'm this thing called broke." I grab the now full mug and wrap Jace's hand around it.

"Let me buy it." He recommends.

"No way."

"Come on. It will be payback for for all the food I eat here and the coffee."

"Nope. If it hurt your back so much you could always sleep in my bed : it's big enough for both of us."

"Really, Red?" He turns me to face him. He face has a sly expression.

"Oh. Not like that." I feel the heat rise to my cheeks.

"Really?" He pushes further.

"Maybe a little like that."

"I thought so."

"Not now though. Not with all this happening."

"Alright. How long until we have to leave?" he questions.

"45 minutes." I reply.

"Can I use your shower?" he asks.

"I was going to." A sense of mischief appears on Jace's face. "No. I mean yes." I give up. "I'll go in after. Be quick!" Jace places his mug down and slides down the hall and into the bathroom.

I grab Jace's full cup of coffee and add sugar to make it my own. Then I sit down on the couch, which is still warm from Jace's body. The TV flicks onto the news. A celebrity died and apple has a new product. I was amidst a report about a murder investigation when Jace walked in. He was butt-naked except for a towel that he tried to wrap around his hips. "Keep a strong hand on that towel, Goldilocks." I say reaching down to the bag Jace brought with him. It's a sling bag and the moment I lift it up I realize it's filled with bottles. One by one I pull them out and set them on the coffee table. Even one I pull out makes me laugh a little harder. Hair Gel. Hair spray. Leave-in conditioner. There is ten bottles in total. "Okay," I say looking up at him, "that's a little unnecessary." I try to contain my laughter.

"I have to work for the perfect sweep. Even though I'd knock everyone dead even without it."
"I'm still kicking. Seriously. That's more hair products than what I used the entirety of high school." Granted, I didn't have much if any hair for a large amount of high school.

"Umm. Showers free." Says Jace trying to change the topic from his obsessive amount of hair supplies.

"Thank you Captain Obvious." I walk by him, but one of his arms sneaks out and pulls me close. He kisses me and I kiss him back. Electricity seems to be flowing through us. It is as if our lips are sewn together. Then we pull apart. I sneak out of his grasp and into the bathroom.

-0.o.0-

We pull up to the hospital and swerve into the underground garage. There is a spot on the second level down. We get into the elevator and I press the button for the lobby. It climbs stopping to pick an elderly couple up on the garage's first level. I am back in the familiar lobby. Jace wraps his hand around my shoulders. When we reach the elevators Jace doesn't even ask the floor number. He just presses the button already knowing it without me telling him. The doors close leaving us not alone, but crammed in with other people. Everytime the door opens the people inside awkwardly push around to let a different group out. Luckily, Jace and I don't have to go the top floor. The two of us get out and walk to the check in desk. "Clary Fray," Jace says to the nurse, a rather large African American in a Winnie the Pooh nursing shirt.

"You're Clary Fray?" She jokes with Jace.

"No. She is."

"Alright then, Clary Fray and Mr. Not Clary Fray can follow me." The woman stands up and walks out from behind the desk. She grabs a clipboard and asks me my birthday. I tell her and she opens a curtained station. I get up in the big chair. The nurse hooks me up to a series of medicine lines. The clear liquid starts to pour into me. Then the nurse leaves Jace and I alone.

"I wonder if Alec is here?" Thinks Jace outloud. He pulls his phone out of his back pocket. He pushes some buttons and closes his phone. Not a minute later a phone dings on the other side of the curtain. "I guess he's here."

"Maybe it's a coincidence?" I suggest and Jace send another text. There is an identical ding.

"He's gonna kill me."

"I won't let him."

"For once the damsel will save the prince."

"Don't call me the damsel."

"Fine, but you can still call me the prince." He looks down guilty at his phone. "One more text?" He asks.

"It's rude."

"But..."

"Fine." There is more button pressing and not soon after a ding. Both of us start to crack up. There is the sound of footsteps leaving the booth next to mine. Then someone opens the curtain around Jace and I. It's Alec.

"Hey Clary."

"Hey." I say.

"Hello dearest brother," starts Jace.

"Quit it. I mean it." He sighs." Izzy's upstairs with Max. He might get out today."

"That's good." Jace offers quietly.

"We just need to find a better place for all of us to hang out. Anyway I got to go." With that Alec leaves. Jace still has his phone out as if to debate Alec's wrath over his own enjoyment.

"Stop." I say to Jace who apparently decided his own enjoyment was worth more.

"I'm done. I just told him I'd stop."

"There's no hope for you."

"Yet, you're still here."

"I like a hopeless cause." Jace scoots his chair next to mine. Then he offers me a headphone and turns his Ipod on. Coldplay fills my ears. Nice choice, "The Scientist." I recline the chair I'm in. Jace laces his fingers through my hair and glides them from root to tip. We don't say much for a while, only listening to the music. It swells and dies out. "Hey, Jace." I say after a couple songs.

"What's up, Red?"

"That."

"What?"

"Red. Soon enough you won't be able to call me that."

"Why not?" He asks.

"Because..." I start but let it die. This is something I haven't really thought about. Most likely sometime this week my hair will start to come out. I know in the battle of my cancer being gone or my hair the former lives. But Jace won't be able to call me Red anymore. It was something I hated but learned to love. I flick my eyes up and hold them open. I am trying not to cry.

"I'll still call you Red, Red."

"How though? It won't make sense."

"It will to me. It's a inside joke, you and me."

"Alright then, our joke." I sigh, smiling. "You know what?"

"What?"

"I'm pretty sure I love you." I don't know why I did I just did.

"Well, guess what?"

"What?"

"I'm sure I love you." He leans over kissing me on the head. The sound of Coldplay comes back up.

-o.0.o-

When nurse comes back to free my arm from the machine, Izzy texts Jace asking if he could drive to the hospital and pick up her and Max. Izzy gets the text from Jace saying that he is already here when we bump into her in the lift.

"Clary? Jace?" She starts, "what are you two doing here? I texted you like a minute ago."

"I had an appointment." I say lifting my arm to show the pump where they hooked me up.

"Oh, sorry."

"Not your fault." That's when I notice Max is in a wheelchair. Instantly I feel bad for the kid. "I guess we get to go to Forbidden Planet now?" I say to him.

"Yeah!" He says lifting his arm limpy to try to pump the air. The doors open to the ground level. Jace goes to pay the parking ticket. Izzy pushes Max through the lobby. I follow Jace up. When I get there, he is already done.

"Okay?" he asks.

"Yeah." I say. Jace signals Izzy over and her and Max join us at the garage elevator.

Jace drops Isabelle and Max off first. He rolls up to me apartment building after. "Do you want me to stay?" asks Jace.

"No. Go home to Max."

"You sure?"

"Yeah. I'll be fine."

"Ok then. I'll call you later."
"Talk to you then." We hug and he leaves.