A/N: First and foremost I want to apologize for making you guys wait so long but now there will be time for this story! I promise for real this time. Thank you for waiting patiently for this chapter! I had half of it finished months ago but wasn't sure how I was going to do the second half until a few weeks ago.
Shout out to my beta ButteryHighlights for getting this edited to me so quickly and for loving this chapter.
Disclaimer: You will hate the ending and I do not own these characters.
Isabelle POV:
I got to the hospital around midnight, feeling guilty for not checking my phone earlier. As soon as I got here, all I could think about was how Clary has come so far these past few years as a single mom. The love she shows for Kevin is something I've never seen someone have before and hopefully I will in the future with my children. I can only imagine what it would be like to have watched what she witnessed tonight.
I slowly walk into the hospital and take in everything that's going on around me. Shouting, panic, cries, sorrow, pain, but also laughter, smiles, joy, and happiness. All kinds of emotions happening at once and it only made me more depressed to think that by the end of today, I could be experiencing the good or the bad. I rode the elevator to the third floor and as soon as I spotted the nurses station, I walked over to it.
"Hello, how can I help you?" One of them asked me kindly.
"I'm here for Clary Morgenstern and Kevin Herondale," I responded curtly.
"They are both still with the doctor and looks like they will be for a while but the ICU waiting room is down the hall and to the right. We should be with you with an update as soon as possible. May I ask your name?"
"My name is Isabelle Lightwood. I'm Kevin's aunt." She nodded and smiled in response. I walked away from the nurse's station and walked to the waiting room where I found everyone, including Jace, looking impatient. Alec spotted me first.
"Oh Izzy thank God you're here," Alec said as he came up and embraced me. "Did they tell you anything?" he looked at me, waiting for an answer.
"No, all she said was they were still with the doctor but they would be with us shortly." He grunted.
"That's what they've been telling us too but I'm sure it's not going to be shortly." I just nodded and looked over at Jace who had his head in his hands and his leg bouncing a mile a minute.
"How is he?" I asked.
"I don't know he's not really talking much but I can only imagine how he feels. Maybe he'll talk more to you?" I went over to him and tried to get him to talk but he was only being short with me as well. I sat down next to Simon who gave me a small smile while squeezing my hand in support and I rested my head on his shoulder. It made me feel like I was betraying Jace by getting to be with my boyfriend while the love of his life, whether he wants to admit it or not, and his son are beyond his reach.
We all sat there and waited, looking into space and not saying a word, not making eye contact with anyone else. After what seemed like hours, we all fell asleep one by one with our worry tiring us all. I was the last to fall asleep but not before I heard an almost silent sob come from Jace's mouth.
*The Light of Destruction*
"I'm here to inform you all of the condition your family is in." Hearing that, my eyes immediately shot open. I slowly lifted my head off of Simon's shoulder, knowing my neck would hurt later.
"Are they ok?" Alec asked. At this point everyone had their eyes open and bodies on full alert, prepared for any bad news.
The nurse just smiled as she said, "They are perfectly fine at the moment with minor injuries, luckily, but Clary Morgenstern is comatose. Dr. Greymark said it should only last a few days at the most and is basically just her body trying to calm itself down." We all sighed in relief at her words but my breath caught a little bit knowing she mentioned Dr. Greymark and there is only one Greymark that I know of that is a doctor. I guess it's only good she's their doctor though. Clary couldn't hide forever.
"Would any of you like to see her?" She asked kindly.
"Of course we would," Raphael said. Raphael, Alec, and I all three stood up and the others remained sitting, knowing they wouldn't be allowed back.
"Which one of you is Alec Lightwood?" The nurse asked, looking at Alec and Raphael.
"I am ma'am," Alec answered.
"Then I assume you are Raphael, correct?"
"Yes," he responded.
"Unfortunately you are not allowed back at this time," the nurse said looking at Raphael dead in the eye. I had to turn my head a little so no one would see me trying to hold back my smile, awaiting his response.
"What?" He snapped.
"Doctors orders son, I was told you are not allowed back until Clary wakes up to allow you permission back to see either of them." I'm starting to like this woman. Now don't get me wrong, I love Raphael, but he has to realize he can't be the knight in shining armor to rescue the damsel in distress all of the time. He's what makes me wonder that if a guy has balls, does he really have balls?
"What the fuck do you mean I can't see either of them until Clary wakes up? That's absurd! She's my girlfriend!" Raphael shouts. I knew my face was red at this point trying not to laugh out loud.
"Sir, the doctor doesn't want too many people with them right now and since you're not legally family only Jace, Alec, and Isabelle Lightwood are granted access to the both of them. I'm sorry," she said, not sounding very genuine. At the mention of Jace's name that's when I finally realized he was gone.
"Well how the hell do they count? I understand Jace being Kevin's dad and all but them?" I rolled my eyes and inwardly told him to get over himself.
"They are Jace Herondale's adoptive siblings, are you not?" The nurse asks Alec and I. We both nod our heads yes. "So technically, they count as the legal aunt and uncle of Kevin Herondale."
"This is so fucking stupid. I don't want that asshole around my girlfriend." Asshole? Last time I checked he was the one going into a total meltdown earlier and you weren't so who's the asshole now? I knew Jace must have had a hand in not letting Raphael back at all but do I really care? No, no I don't. Jace needs a little alone time with Clary and his son to think things through and to show her who is really there for her when she wakes up and it's definitely not going to be the whiny baby that's making my ears bleed.
"You know what? I think we'll just wait here for a while and let Jace know that when he's ready to just call us back to see them. I'm sure we can let him have his time with them because we know he needs it," I said sweetly, congratulating myself on the inside, knowing I'm making Raphael furious. The nurse agreed and said she would be back soon and left. Alec looked at me and rolled his eyes. I can't help that even though Jace can be an asshole, he really deserves being with them right now. I just hope he makes the best of it.
Clary POV:
When I opened my eyes, the first thing I noticed was a sickly green color on the walls and a stale smell in the air. I immediately realized I was in the hospital. I think of Kevin and my heart monitor starts beeping a little bit more rapidly. Please, I say to anyone listening, Please let my baby boy be alive.
"Clary?" I looked over and noticed Jace sitting in a chair beside my bed with his hands folded in his lap.
"Jace," his name barely a whisper passing by my lips. "You don't know how happy I am to see you."
"See me? You're the one that's been in a coma for the past week. You've had me worried that I would never get to talk to you ever again or never get to apologize to you." I smiled sadly. A week? How could you not have woken up earlier! You knew your son needed you!
"How's Kevin?" I asked, my heart monitor speeding up again as I awaited his response. I tried to sit up but my arms were too weak to support my weight.
"He's perfectly fine." I let out a long, shaky breath. "He's a fighter just like you." I look up at him but he looks down at his hands in shame. I feel guilty just looking at him and the shape he's in, knowing he's not slept at all since I've been at this hospital.
"He looks up to you, you know. Kevin does. I think that we should tell him really soon that you're his dad before he figures it out first." I laugh awkwardly, half at my attempt of making him feel better and half at how weak that statement was. Jace gets up from his chair and paces around the room, chewing on his thumb nail. He makes me nervous when he does this because I know something serious is about to come out of his mouth and I'm not sure if that's a good or a bad thing at the moment.
He finally stops and ends up at the other side of my bed, facing the window, blocking the moonlight from my eyes. It casts an eerie shadow over his face. He stares into nothingness before looking at me in the eye. I already know I'm not going to like what I'm about to hear.
"I'm leaving, Clary. For good this time. I thought that maybe, just maybe I could make things right again but I know I can't. I have this feeling inside of me that I'm not good enough for you and especially not Kevin. I don't want to do this to any of you but you don't need me anymore. You've built a life for yourself without me and now you have Raphael. There's no room for me here." His voice doesn't waver once and it has a hard edge to it that makes my whole body sting. Unlike him, I have tears starting to fall down my face.
"No, please don't do this to me. Not again. I can't handle it all over again," I say between sobs. He just looks at me with pity in his eyes. That's when I realize he said earlier he wanted to apologize to me, this is his apology. Saying he's sorry for the life I've had without him. Dick.
He leans over towards me and I let him, through the hot anger I am sure that has my ears blowing smoke and my hair the color of pure flames. I feel his cold hearted lips touch my forehead and for a second, I forget about everything with him touching me. I felt like I was floating on a cloud with no worries for there was no problems to deal with. But that cloud quickly crash down onto the ground when his body stilled and I felt something cool run down my cheek. I rub whatever it is on my face off and look at my hands but can't tell what it is. And as quick as I could blink, Jace was on the floor.
My heart monitor was beeping out of control to where it was making all kinds of weird noises but no one came. No one heard. Somethings wrong. I look to where Jace was just standing seconds before and there he is with a bloody knife in his hand. Sebastian.
"You know Clary, I don't understand how you can put up with this heartless bastard," he says to me. I gasp in horror realizing what he's done.
"Sebastian! You killed him!" I scream in horror. My breath is rapid like I've just ran a marathon.
"What was he going to do for you anyway? Didn't seem like he was going to be any help from the way he was talking." As he walks closer, I can smell alcohol on his breath. I stare at the knife in his hand, dripping Jace's blood.
"Please Sebastian, put the knife down," I tried making my voice sound as strong and assertive as Jace's was a moment ago but it was far from it.
"Oh Clary, you pitiful thing, I can't. You see, I'm not quite finished here yet." He raises the knife over his head and points it at my body. All I can do is scream. I scream for my life. I scream for Jace. But then I open my eyes and I'm sitting straight up in bed. I look around this new room with gray walls and see that, peeking through the window, is the mid afternoon sun. I'm in a hospital bed with tubes coming out of my arms, nose, and a heart monitor attached to my heart. I look down at my hands, clean from any blood.
"Clary?" I look to my left to see Jace sitting in a much more comfortable chair, his hair a mess from running his hands through it, and tears streaming down his face.
A/N: You all probably have a few questions and they will get cleared up soon! In the next chapter you will get a hint of who Sebastian's ally is in all of this because I know you're all dying to know. Trust me, it's not who you're thinking at all. I hope you all liked the chapter and if you did, leave a review because those are always appreciated and I love hearing what you guys think! Also, let me know if you want more of Isabelle's POV because I loved writing about what she thinks and if you do, I'll put in more. Thank you all so much and I'll talk to you soon!