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Chapter two

Clary sat on the Lightwoods humongus leather couch, petting a now purring Church. The kitten was sleeping on her lap, despite his freak out in the car. It surprised Clary since he was fine on the way to her apartment, but she contributed his laxness in his first car ride to shock. She was now sporting tiny scratches all down her arms. Jace of course went crazy and started yelling in the car when the kitten started scratching her and that made Church even more afraid until Clary finally got Jace to quit acting like an idiot and leave the poor thing alone before she lost an eye. Lets just say, if looks could kill, Jace would have killed Church in a second. He was so mad at the tiny kitten, it was actually kind of funny, a 17 year old teenage boy holding a grudge against a three pound kitty cat. She suspected they were at the Lightwood's house for Max. The youngest Lightwood often felt alone due to the age difference between him and his siblings, she was pretty sure Jace was going to give Church to Max to have as a companion of sorts. Usually she positively adored the relationship between Jace and Max.

"Clary!" She jumped when she heard her name being yelled, which in turn scared poor Church out of his mind and she had to scramble to keep ahold of him.

Max Lightwood came streaking into the Living room, a huge smile spread across his adorable face. Max was a tiny kid, but his personality made him seem big for his age. His glasses were slightly askew when he tackled Clary in a hug. Luckily, Jace had predicted this and he grabbed Church before the kitten was crushed. Neither of them looked to happy with the arrangement. Both of their eyes slit and looks of disgust crossed their faces, Clary was sure if Jace could, he would have laid his ears back against his head like Church was. Men, it seemed they were all the same no matter what the species. Max held onto Clary for awhile causing Jace to roll his eyes. It appeared that Max had a small crush on Clary, and Jace wasn't quite sure how to handle the situation. Clary giggled at Jace and lightly pushed Max off her, the smile never leaving her face though.

"Is that him?" Max inquired excitedly, staring at the kitten in his brothers arms.

"Yep, that's him, I named him Church because that's where I caught him, but if you want to you can change it." Clary told him. She watched him walk across the room and relieve Jace of Church, much to their satisfaction.

"No that's okay, I like the name Church, its different. Are you sure you want me to keep him? I don't want to take him from you." Clary smiled and nodded, telling Max that Chairman Meow wouldn't be very happy if she kept the kitten, and when the Chairman wasn't happy, nobody was happy.

She got up and got the bags of stuff Jace had gotten from the store while she had waited in the car. Max went over to them and started digging through them, Church seemed to take an instant liking to the young boy and was content to sit on Max's lap until he finished scoping things out. While Max was busy, Jace sauntered over to Clary and sat next to her on the couch, pulling her into his lap as he did. Clary rolled her eyes and Jace leaned in and pecked her once on the lips before she pushed him off of her. He looked at her with one eyebrow raised and she nodded at Max who was looking at them with a blank expression on his face. Though his eyes showed his hurt.

"I'm going to go upstairs and show Church around." Gathering up his stuff Max hurried out of the room and Clary punched Jace in the arm and stalked out to the house and back to the car. Jace followed her and pretended to not know why she was pissed off. When he asked her why she was upset she went off on him.

"Your such an assbucket! You know you hurt Max's feelings, he's just nine years old you don't have to crush him like that!" In her rage Clary kicked a rock and sent it flying down the driveway. Wisely, Jace waited until she calmed down before he opened his mouth.

"What am I supposed to do? He can never have you and he knows your my girlfriend. What do you think I should do, he should know that he doesn't stand a chance before he gets to like you even more. I'm just trying to help him but I don't know how to do that without him getting hurt!" Jace was looking at her with confusion in his golden eyes and Clary felt her anger slide away. Jace wasn't meaning to be a total ass, he really didn't know what to do and that was clearly a foreign feeling for the all mighty Jace Wayland. Clary pulled him to her and laid her head on his chest, listening to his heart beat. The sound helped calm her completely and she leaned up and gently kissed him, cupping his face in both of her hands. His eyes slid shut and he leaned in to kiss her again, when her phone rang.

"Don't answer it," of course was Jace's immediate answer, Clary sighed and pulled her phone out of her pocket looking at Jace apologetically before answering.

"Clary," Magnus' voice sounded scared and urgent and she knew this was serious, she asked him what was wrong immediately thinking some thing had happened to her mom, panicked she asked him what was wrong, Jace looked at her questioningly before hitting the speaker button on her phone.

"It's my crazy ass mom. She was down at the counseling center with Luke, she kept bothering him and he kept telling her to shove it and to leave him and I the hell alone when finally she couldn't take it any more and she," Magnus' voice trailed off and Clary shouted at him to hurry the hell up and just spit it out.

"He's at the hospital your mom is at. She shot him Midget," he finished quietly, using his pet name for Clary, stunned she hung up the phone and stood there, she was vaguely aware of Jace gently picking her up then setting her down in the car. She looked at him with her stunned green eyes and his golden ones stared back, unsure of what to do. "Take me to him." And that's exactly what he did.

Magnus and Alec met them in front of the hospital and Magnus explained to Clary that Luke had been shot in the side and he was currently in surgery. Magnus' mother had been arrested and she was currently at the police station. He didn't know exactly where the bullet had struck Luke, or how badly he was injured. Tears started streaming down her cheeks and Jace pulled her to him and gently stroked her hair. Alec was rubbing Magnus' back and then he took Magnus' hand and they headed into the hospital to wait in the freezing waiting room. Magnus called Simon and Isabelle and they both showed up within minutes to wait as well. Simon tracked Clary down and hugged his best friend telling her that Luke was the toughest man he knew and he was sure he was going to make it. Luke was all Clary and Magnus had as a parent figure and she prayed he wasn't taken from her. She was with Jace in her mother's room and as she sat on Jace's lap in a chair by her mom's bed and held her hand, she prayed that everything was going to be alright.

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