Hi everyone! My teacher has been giving me a lot of homework lately. Ugh! So that is why I am late putting up a new chapter. But I haven't forgotten about it. Though this chapter is gonna be quite short! Sorry.

CHAPTER 11: WAKE UP CALL

CPOV

During her nightmares, she'd experienced terrifying sights. Wars, loved ones being tortured, killed. Sebastian setting demons on the world, humanity dying out, monsters stalking the night.

And the worst part?

Whenever Clary trie to save someone, the dream would slip away like oil sliping betwee yur fingers.

Finally, when the torturous nightmares were over, Clary just lay in the darkness.

The heavy weight had lifted off of her, and a numbness was starting to replace it.

She tried to open her eyes, but to her dismay, she found that she couldn't.

There was only darkness.

Finally, after what felt like hours, she started to hear voices from a distance.

Fear shot through her.

The nightmares that she'd had earlier had nearly made her want to scream, they were that terrible. But all she could do was scream in the dreams.

Some of her nightmares weren't nightmares at all, but her worst torturings.

Now, she was too tired to be able to see any more torturous nightmares.

As the darkness weighed down on her, she realised that her hearing was getting better.

Somebody was sitting or standing beside her. Their breathing was even, so she figured they were sleeping.

That's when she realised she was going to wake up soon.

She felt her heart start to hammer in her chest.

Was Sebastian here? Was he the one beside her?

She managed to open her eyes after what felt like hours.

She turned her head away from the blinding light, trying to get her eyes to adjust to her new surroundings.

When they did adjust, she found she was lying on a bed. It was a small Infirmary, she realised.

But it wasn't the New York Infirmary.

She felt movement beside her.

Without even thinking, she jumped off the bed, taking two steps back towards the door.

That's when the pain really hit. She felt her legs buckle underneath her, pain searing through them, her back aching from the whippings she hadn't recovered from yet.

She looked up to see Simon with a worried look on his face.

He helped her even when she flinched away from him.

"It's all right, Clary. Your safe now," he reassured her.

"How did you get out of the prison?" Clary croaked, her throat feeling as if someone had scraped it with their nails.

"When you went missing, Jace demanded that I be let out of the prison. They let me out just in time, because the prison went up in flames soon after. But Hodge died before we could get him out," Simon told her.

As he lifted her up onto the bed, she tried her best to hide the urge to pull back.

"Where's Jace now?" She asked.

"I finally got him to take a shower and relax when I told him I'd take care of you," Simon informed her.

She lay back down again, hiding the wince as pain shot through her back.

"Will I get Isabelle or Alec to get you something for the pain?" Simon asked, finally.

"Who said I'm in pain?" Clary asked, forcing a bewildered look on her face.

But Simon knew her too well.

"I saw you wince, Clary. I'm not stupid," Simon told her, his eyes exasperated and concerned for her at the same time.

"Fine! Get Isabelle, then!" She snapped.

She watched him leave, then closed her eyes.

She wanted a bit of alone time right now. She'd been tortured and then she had to suffer through flashbacks of her worst torturings and nightmares.

Now, people wanted to ask her questions that she didn't feel like answering.

As she lay against the pillows, thinking, the thought she saw a flash of gold. Just for a second, but it disappeared as quickly as it came.

IPOV:

"Clary wants some help. She's just woken up," Simon said.

Isabelle nodded.

She grabbed the antidote Magnus had given her, and left the room.

As she wondered through the hallways, looking for the Infirmary, she wondered why Clary had asked for her instead of Jace.

She opened the doors of the Infirmary to find Clary lying stiffly on the bed.

Clary jumped and tried to get up.

"It's alright. It's only me," Izzy said.

But Clary remained tense, even though she was now looking at Izzy.

"I wanted you to come instead of Jace. I guess it's because he'll get mad if he sees them. I don't think you will though," Clary said.

Then she showed Isabelle her back.

I guess it's longer than I expected it to be. I decided to surprise you all by putting Simon in.

I promise ye there is Clace in the next chapter.

Please review me!

Julia.