Chapter 8

Clary woke up to the water crashing onto the shore, laughter and sun shining through. She turned over rubbing her eyes and heard a crunch of paper. She squeezed her eyes open against the sun and tried to read the letter that had been written in Jace's handwriting.

Come and join us outside sleepyhead. The suns shining and I want to see you in a bikini.
Jace x

She smiled and walked over to the floor to ceiling window. There was a door imprinted in the glass and she opened it onto the balcony. She leaned on the rail and watched the scene before her.

Alec and Magnus were laying on a towel together talking, heads together smiles on their faces, Simon was covered in sun screen and had a D&D top on to stop himself from getting burnt. Even though sun didn't affect him now he had Jace's blood in him he still burnt like a human in the sun. It was typical Simon and she loved that he hadn't changed too much.

Jace and Issy were playing in the sea. Jace was chasing Issy trying to get her hair wet, she was screaming in protest but there was a huge smile plastered on her face. Jace grabbed hold of her and swung her up over her shoulder. She kicked and punched him but the cheeky smile on Jace's face just got bigger.

Then a massive wave came crashing down and both Issy and Jace got caught in it and fell over. Jace came up wiping his face and smiling. Issy came up in a mess of hair; her whole face covered in it. She wiped it over her head gracefully and then shoved Jace in the chest and storming out the water.

Simon waited for her by the shore line and pulled her into hug whilst laughing. She shoved him and went to lie down on her towel near Alec and Magnus. Simon came and lay next to her and gave her a kiss and she soon brightened up.

Clary made her way back inside to get change and join the fun.

Jace lay on a towel by the shore and watched the sea. It was a good life not having to worry about things, not having to train or not having to strap up with weapons every time he stepped outside. In fact it felt kind of weird. He still had one hidden under his towel –just in case something was going to happen on an island this deserted, well, you couldn't be too prepared.

He still couldn't get used to the fact that he didn't have to get up a six am and had found himself lying awake that morning with Clary in his arms not being able to sleep. He had gotten up thinking that no one would be up but when he went down Alec and Issy were up too. It had been like that their whole lives.

Clary on the other hand was sleeping like the dead and though she had been training for some years now, she still hated mornings and Jace hated trying to get her up in the morning. Coffee usually did it or the promise of hot shower sex.

Issy was sat over with Simon they were both talking in hushed voice and their foreheads were pushed together. Jace thought he knew what they were on about. What they were all on about nowadays; if Issy really wanted to change. She did. He knew she did, it was Issy by the Angel. She would do anything for Simon and he would do the same and that was why it was so hard for Simon to say yes to her. He was taking away her life and he didn't want that. But he would give in because he wasn't strong enough to let her go.

"You mind if I sit there?" Said a feminine voice behind him.

Jace turned his head and had to squint against the sun but what he saw made his eyes widen in shock. Clary stood there in an emerald bikini that made her beautiful eyes brighter. The halter neck pushed her breasts up and together that accented her cleavage and a skimpy bit of material covered her junction between her thighs. Jace had to learn to close his mouth and he smiled.

"Whoever your boyfriend is, he must be a lucky man." He whispered, taking her hand and pulling her down next to him.

"Actually," She said, flicking her hair over her shoulder and meeting his eyes. "He's my fiancé and he wouldn't be happy about me talking to you. He's really protective."

"Ah, well I think you should run along then, he seems a pretty decent guy."

She smiled. "Eh, he's alright."

"Is that so..." He went to kiss her neck but something averted his gaze.

Jace looked down and saw the diamond on her ring finger. She hadn't been able to wear it back in New York and he hadn't expected her to do so now. She had the ring he gave her but Jace thought she had left in their room back home. He hadn't chosen the ring he had been given it by Amatis, she somehow knew he would need it and had given it the last time they were in Idris.

It was hers when she was married to his father, Stephen Herondale and it was the most beautiful ring in the world. A one and a half carat diamond sat nestled between two smaller diamonds on either side all situated on a platinum ring. Jace hadn't wanted to take it but after Amatis had insisted he had given it to Clary. (So Jace knew it was most likely that Amatis knew about their engagement)

She had cried which Jace had to admit made him cry. When she said yes it was the happiest moment in his life so far.

So Jace stared at the love of his life with adoration and a smile on his face.

She cocked her head to the side and smiled at him. "What's going on in that head of yours?" She asked, brushing her thumb along his knuckles and then he kissed them.

He shrugged and brought her closer for a kiss. "Just thinking about us."

She brushed her nose against his and asked, "What were you think about then?"

He stared deeply into her eyes and didn't answer for a while and then spoke, "I think once we get back it's time we told your parents and start planning to get married."

Clary pulled back and looked at him, a range of emotions crossing her face; happiness, love, fear about her parents and maybe a bit of apprehension. But then she smiled and stroked his cheek. "I think it's time isn't it?"

Jace nodded and then they kissed and Jace bit the bottom of her lip and she smiled against his. They kissed in a kind of savage passion and they both had their hands on each other. He brought his hand up to the edge of her top bikini until cold sea water was chucked over their heads.

Clary screamed and stood up trying to shake the water off and Jace looked around to find all four of the gang with buckets in their hands, smiles on their faces. The fight started and like little kids not adults in their twenties they had a water fight.

Clary ran away from the cold water that Simon was about to chuck on her and bumped straight into Jace, his arms winding around her and he picked her up, both of them laughing and stealing kisses. When he put her down, he went over to Issy and chucked some more water at her. Clary went to the shore and watched the scene content to not being a part of it.

But she loved her family, they weren't her blood and if she didn't know them she would probably hate them but she loved them all so much that without one of them, the whole group fell apart.

Then so suddenly Clary didn't know how it happened the scene before her disappeared and something else covered her eyes. An apartment that she didn't recognise was before her she could hear heavy breathing.

"I didn't mean to... it was just... they... are stronger than you think master."

Clary thought she recognised the voice and she wanted to see it, to know where it was coming from.

"I don't want you to apologise I want you to make it better." A distorted voice that scared her answered her back.

The scene in the beach returned and then disappeared and she felt her legs collapse and the last thing she heard was Issy.

"Clary!" She screamed, before people rushed before her and Jace's hands were on her cheeks.

Then a new voice spoke. "I want her... and whoever is protecting her, will be killed."

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