Disclaimer: I do not own any of these characters. All rights belong to Cassandra Clare.
August first. That was Jace's last full day before he had had to go to OSU for training camp. He would be leaving the next day and he was both excited and upset. I don't think he new how hard leaving was going to be.
We didn't do anything fancy, we all just chilled together all day watching movies and swimming. And Clary, her mom, and my mom all made a dinner, because it would be a long time before he got a home cooked meal.
Sitting at dinner was like every other time. There was no awkward silence and we had a good time, knowing that Jace was leaving and that Jon and Alec would be leaving soon enough. Alec to OSU and Jon to Mount Union to work on becoming a forensic scientist. And Clary and I were going to be alone this year. Simon was in still in Detroit and we were trying a long distance relationship and Jace was going to be in OSU. And they were going to work. I'd bet my life on it.
As much as we wanted to spend the last night with him, we'd be driving him to OSU tomorrow without Clary and we knew he wanted to spend the night with her. They went driving back out in the country to star gaze for hours. And when they came back, she accompanied him to his room.
His room was one of the most changed things since he started dating her. First off, before she came, no one was aloud in there, accept for Maryse when she changed his sheets. Not even Alec. And second of all, it had been so bare. White walls, a dresser, and simple bed. No pictures. Only trophies. One shelf full or trophies, ribbons, and plaques, always organized precisely and never touched.
Now, it was filled with pictures. Of him and Clary. And of all of us. Everywhere. On his bedside table, hanging on the walls, on his trophy shelf, and on top of his dresser. Most of them with out a frame, accept for three.
All five of us, on the beach down in Florida. Clary in his lap smiling, Jon and Alec with their arms around each others shoulders, and I was laughing at Simon, who was taking the picture. We all looked so happy.
Two of him and Clary. He was wearing his football uniform in one, with his helmet in his hand and his other arm around Clary, who was kissing him. It was the cliche cute picture of a football player and his girlfriend. And the other was from homecoming. She was laughing at him as he smiled at the camera, their arms wrapped around each other.
These were the pictures he packed in his bag with him to go to college. Along with the painting Clary made. And whenever we face timed I could see them sitting on his bedside table and on his dresser, for all the world to see.
They made it. The first year was a little rough. She pretended she was fine but we could all see the loss of her brother and boyfriend hit her hard. She smiled less and spent more time painting. The only time she was ever happy was when she was face timing one of them or visiting one of them. And from what we could see of Jace, was that he was the same. Only practicing and going to classes. Never going out. Just wanted to face time her anytime he could.
Come summer time, they were so happy. Happy to see each other everyday. And when summer was over, they were still okay. Clary was going to OSU, too. She couldn't take another year away from him. And I went there too. Simon and I had lasted long distance and wanted to try being together all the time. So both of us went there. Clary and I were roommates for the first year before she moved in with Jace her sophomore year.
After three years of being the starting quarterback for OSU, he was drafted into the NFL. First round pick. To the New York Giants. So Clary transferred. To her dream school. She lived with Jace off campus, in between her college and his stadium. And they stayed there until she graduated NYU.
He had proposed her senior year. After he won. She came on the field to congratulate him and he got down on one knee. They were married within the year. Him a professional football player and her a famous artist.
People from all over traveled to see him play and to see her paint. And when he was traded to the Cleveland Browns they moved back to the city they had grown up in. Bought a big house and started a family. Clary started working from home as she raised their two children. And they were happy. They lived a life full of so much love together.
We went back to Florida. Before any of us turned thirty we went back to the exact same resort. Jon with his wife. Seelie. They had one child and another on the way. Alec and his husband Magnus. They had met in college and Alec had finally come out to us. Simon and I had gotten married a year ago, and I was pregnant with our first child. Clary and Jace. Both as happy as the first time, this time with two beautiful children.
Ten days. Ten days away from the outside world. Spending time together like we did before we went to college. Looking around at us all now, I was happy. But this story is about Jace and Clary. And none looked happier than them.
After they had put the kids to bed they had gone out to the ocean. Watching the waves meet the shore as they sat in silence. The married life had been good for them. I don't know how, but they fell even more in love with each other.
They sat there for hours. But this time, we joined them. All of us. Sitting in silence as we watched the ocean say hi to the shore. We hadn't changes all that much. Love was what had brought us all together and love was what was keeping us all together.
And Clary and Jace. They had made it. She had helped him realize there was more to life than shoulder pads and pigskin. She had saved my brother, though none of us new he needed it. And he loved her. He was everything her father hadn't been. A loving husband, a great father, and a perfect brother. And seeing them together now, was like seeing them together before. Completely at the mercy of each other. Loved and loving. And they'd last. They were never going to stop. Because they had found something so much better than Friday night lights and bottles of paint. They had found each other.
Okay, so this was the final chapter. But I had talked to a few people about maybe doing a few one shots or something like that of their first kiss of maybe an interview involving Jace as football player. I don't really know, maybe ill right another story, I don't know at this point. Anyways thanks for all of your support and input. Comment or leave a review if you have any suggestions, I'm open to almost anything.