Chapter 3

Clary laid on Jace's chest making circular motions with her finger on his skin. She knew he was watching with those golden eyes and she smiled.

"By the angel, I love that smile." He was tracing up and down her bare spine with his knuckles.

Clary stopped when she reached one of the scars over his heart. It was clean, straight cut and it made her stomach drop just thinking about it. An absent tear ran down her face.

"Hey, baby don't cry."

She sobbed down in her chest as Jace tightened his hold on her. "Yeah but you died. I watched the light leave your eyes and you died."

He made her look into his eyes. "But I'm here now, aren't I?"

Clary sniffed and dried her eyes feeling completely stupid. "Yeah." She smiled. "It just reminds me of everything we've been through and how easy it is to snatch it away."

He stroked the hair from her face and kissed her forehead. "Yeah." He kissed her hard, no gentleness in it and Clary pressed herself closer to him. A loud vibrating noise came from the bedside table in the form of Clary's mobile phone. She drew away from Jace and he moaned.

"Just leave it... Please?"

She laughed at his pout and shook her head. "As much as I want to stay in bed with you. Naked." He growled. "But it might be important." She leaned over, shoving her chest in Jace's face.

"Okay don't move; I'm good here."

She opened her phone to find a text from Simon

Meeting in the library. Would come in to tell you but made that mistake before. Jace's ass will forever be imprinted in my mind. Ugh. Anyway hurry up and get some clothes on; seems important. ~S x

Clary climbed over Jace and jumped off the bed, scrambling for her clothes. "We have a meeting in the library." She felt Jace's large hands on her bare hips.

"Why don't we just say that we didn't get his message?"

Clary turned around in the circle of his arms and rested her bare chest on his. "Simon says it could be important."

His eyes boar into hers and he cocked his head to the side. "I thought you were the one that said you wanted to get away from it all?"

Clary laughed. "I did. But I'm being realistic here Jace. We can't just run away from our lives."

Jace looked serious. "I was thinking, when we were laying with each other; why don't we? For a little while."

Clary laughed. Even though she thought that Jace had took it better than planned she still didn't think that he wanted to take a break too. "So we just get up and go for a couple of weeks leaving everything behind. Just you and me and no one else. What about our friends and family. They would miss us. We live in the same house. I mean the adults would probably just rejoice but what about Alec? Issy? Simon? Even Magnus?"

"Bring them with us." He said brushing his nose against hers. "We have never had any holiday in our whole entire lives. We deserve a break."

She smiled. "You're serious?" Clary asked as she hugged him closer.

"Yes I am." He pecked her on the lips, drawing away and picked up his boxers. "Let's see what this meeting is about and then tell them."

Clary squealed and did a little jig in her mind. They were getting away from it all. They weren't going to talk about demons or the Clave for a whole two weeks. Could they do that? It had been her life for a good 5 years and she hadn't known anything else since then. Her parents- Jocelyn and Luke- had accepted what she wanted to do and had even let her live with Jace in the same room- when she hit 20. Maryse had accepted Clary her as a member of the family and took liberty to tell her and Jace off once in a while; like when she found them in embarrassing positions all around the Institute.

As Clary pulled on her underwear and fumbled in the closet trying to find her favourite jeans in the mismatch of dresses and skirts Issy had brought for her a flash of colour and shapes formed behind her eyes. She shook her head and finally found her faded blue jeans with the rips in the knee and pulled them on. She then pulled out her strappy green top that Jace said made the colour of her eyes brighten.

Another flash behind her eyes and Clary stilled. She could see demons surrounding the Institute and the smell of ichor and the sounds of screams. Jace was there graceful as always, his Seraph blades poised and ready to kill. Issy had her whip and was jumping in and out of the demons. Alec had his bow and arrow smoothly poising it, the arrows flying into the demons; embedding in their chests. Magnus was shooting sparks out the sky, his eyes white as her concentrated. His attention on the demons attacking Alec. Simon had his teeth out, needle long and sharp cutting through their throats. The feeling in Clary's legs disappeared and she went to the ground in a small thud.

Jace smiled to himself as he pulled on his jeans, snapping them shut. He and Clary were finally getting away. They were going to find someplace to relax for a while and concentrate on them. He would love her until they had no strength to even lift her arm to get a drink.

Clary was everything to him. Everything revolved around her and nothing meant anything without her. When Valentine had stabbed him, it wasn't the pain in his chest that worried him the most it was the fact that Clary lay un-protected and as the strength of him left all he could think about was Clary. Her soft lips on his and his hands in her hair. She was such a strong person and finding out that they weren't related was the best thing that ever happened to him. The relief over shone him and he didn't feel sickened by his actions to pursue this wonderful, smart, sexy woman.

They had spent the last five years training, loving each other in between but ultimately training to get her ready to go out and be a fully trained Shadowhunter. He thought that when she got all the training and she could nearly floor Jace then she was ready because even Alec and Issy couldn't floor him most of the time because- hey –he was awesome. Jace thought that he wouldn't worry as much now but he did. Every time they would go out to hunt his eyes would be trained on Clary as well as the demon he was killing. She fought with grace which reminded him of him but she also had that femininity that he saw when Jocelyn –her mother- had shown when they went out with the parents occasionally.

As he pulled his top over his head he talked to Clary. "Maybe we could go somewhere hot and with a swimming pool because-" When he turned round he gasped.

Clary laid on the floor twitching and thrusting like she was seizing. He bent down next to her cupping her cold sweaty cheeks in his warm hands. Her eyes were black and unblinking, her mouth open in shock.

"Clary." Jace shook her head slightly scared of hurting her. He felt for a pulse in her neck and found it beating hard- un-naturally hard. He never felt so helpless.

"Clary!" He shouted. "By the Angel Clary, wake up!" He shouted angry at himself more than her.

She stilled; the black eyes zoning in on him, her mouth closed and she stared into his eyes. She spoke out but it wasn't her voice, it was twisted, warped...

"They will rise again. Fighting in hundreds. But they will never give up this time for there are more. Many more. The Angel Children will be the only way to save them; their bloodline the key to open the door. Without them the world will be destroyed and life will cease to exist. Use the portal; they need the portal to help. The portal will be strong enough in time, but only in time. It won't be long. Hurry."

And with that Clary went still. Not even her chest moving. Jace checked for a heartbeat. Nothing. In that second his world stood still. Tear trekked down his face for the first time in years.

"By the Angel... No! Clary I need you!" He pressed his hands on her chest and started compressions. "God, what do I do?" After eight compressions he brought his mouth to hers and blew air though her cold- now turning blue- lips. "Someone!" Jace shouted. "I need help!" And hoped to the angels that someone had good hearing.

A/N: So yeah, I thought an Authors Note would be good here. Please don't kill me for a cliffy,,, Thanks to all the reviews and Story alerts they made my day. I think I know where I'm going but I've never really done a story this deep before so stick with me! I have gone through and re-checked the story finding a few errors so I put a few more sentences in and changed the errors so that it will make more sense for ya! Anyway hope you enjoy the chapter, I enjoyed writing it and now that I have more idea's I should update more,, so please review!

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