Chapter Three

I say the first name that pops in my head. "Alec?" The person turns to me and if it wouldn't hurt so much to cringe I would. Valentine. "But you're dead." I say. "Oh no Clarissa I am not dead." My eyes widen. They are the only part of my body that can show shock, the rest of me is in so much pain. "Clary wake up." I open my eyes.

I am still in the white room. This time my mom is sitting on the edge of my bed. Valentine is nowhere to be seen. I exhale in relief. "What happened? And where am I?" "You were in a car accident. You are lucky to be alive. You are in the hospital." The images fly into memory. I was in the car, talking to Alec when the driver drove into my side of the car. I remember the feelings of blood dripping from my head and my bones breaking and shattering. "How long have I been here?" "A week and a half. The doctors said it would take a while for you to wake up. Alec never left your side while you were asleep. He had to leave because Maryse made him." "Can you call him mom? I want to talk to him." She picks up a phone. "Yours was destroyed in the car crash. Luke got you a new one." She passes it to me. It's an IPhone. Wow. "How do you get to your contacts?" Mom shows me how and I call Alec hoping he will answer.
"Hello?" "Alec?" "By the Angel. Clary is that you?" "Yeah." "I'm one my way. Give me five minutes." He hangs up.
Five minutes later Alec walks into my hospital room. He is wearing a brown sweater and dark blue jeans. He looks like he threw all of it on in a couple of seconds. My mom stands and leaves the room, leaving us alone. Alec comes and sits on the hospital bed, next to my shoulder. He grabs my hand. "What happened to you?" I ask. "Bruises and minor injuries. Nothing too major." "Thank Raziel you are okay." "I'm fine. I was so worried about you." "I know. I'm lucky to be alive." I say nonchalantly. "You aren't lucky. The mundane doctors think so. But in the middle of the night Brother Jeremiah came and healed you. But it prolonged your coma. So you slept for longer than the doctors said you would. That made the doctors worry but you're fine. Brother Jeremiah made sure of that." "My mom said you never left." "I didn't till yesterday night. My mom made me come back to the institute." "What happened to me? My mom didn't tell me." He sighs. "Four broken ribs, internal bleeding around your lungs, you're going to have a big scar on your right side where the car slammed into your side, you cracked your head open and the was extra pressure on your brain, as well as torn ligaments in your knees and you broke you left shin." "By the Angel." "Okay you are lucky to be alive. Even by Shadowhunter standards. But I knew you would be fine." He kisses my forehead lightly. "I should also tell you Jace showed up." I attempt to jolt up but it hurts too much so I wince and groan. Alec presses me back down by my shoulders, lightly. "When?" "A couple of days ago. He flew in from Los Angeles. Izzy told him what happened and he came." "What did you do?" "Yelled at him and told him to fly back because you don't want him here."

Flashback 2 days ago

Alec P.O.V.

Jace saunters into the room like he owns the place and I look at him in surprise. "What are you doing here?" I ask rudely. "I heard what happened to Clary. I wanted to see if she was okay." "Of course she's not okay! She was in a fatal car accident and managed to survive! And you are lucky she's asleep because she doesn't want to see you!" "Of course she wants to see me. She is in love with me. Deeply in love with me I must say. She will never give up on me. And what are you doing here? You don't even know her?" "She is my girlfriend, thank you very much. And now you better leave." "Your girlfriend? Wow! Things didn't work out with Magnus?" I stand up quickly and stand really close to him. "If you don't leave now and fly back to L.A. I will find you and kill you slowly and painfully and I will make that damn Carstairs women watch." "I dare you to try." "You don't know what you did to her! She would cry for weeks all the time! Because everything reminded her of you! She wouldn't come her for a week because of you! She was crying yesterday because of you! She heard you were getting married to that Carstair's girl and it broke her heart!" "So she's using you to get over me is she?" "Get out. Get out before I kill you." "Vos can non occidatis me. Vestra sum parabati." "Utinam non erat. Tu es mentiendi, improbis, malum bastardus. Iustus amo Valentini. Numquam te videre. Relinquere et nunquam rediisset. Angelus vel iuro ego interficiam te. Parabati te mihi nolo. Ego occidam te." Jace walks out.

Present

"Clary?" "You would actually kill Jace?" "Indirectly. I would put him in a condition he is likely to die. Hoping he would." "Good. You are perfect Alec. I love you." The monitors start beeping and her heart rate is dropping rapidly.