Hi again! And happy New Year guys! I hope you had a nice New Year's eve, and didn't do anything stupid! Hahah.. Anyways: Thank you for your reviews again! And to you greygirl2358:I loved your review. Christmas is my favorite holiday aswell! I have to admit that I haven't read Cassandra Clare's TID, but it is on my to-do-list! So, I don't know much about Will.. But I imagine him much like Jace... And about Valentine. Yes, I didn't want to make him like he really is, I wanted to give Clary a decent caring father and to Jocelyn a decent and loving husband. Again, thank you so much for reviewing! I hope you love this chapter aswell! :)

And to rest of my lovely readers and reviewers, I'd like to give you a big hug! You keep me writing! I always come back here thinking 'I have to update!' because I don't want to let you down! Anyways (again) : here's chapter 23! Please enjoy!

!Warning!: the end of this chapter is M-rated! I think I should change the whole story's rating from T to M...

Disclaimer: I still don't own the Mortal Instruments OR the Infernal Devices (Will Herondale..). They belong to Cassandra Clare!

Chapter 23:

CPOV

We were all sitting in the living room, Jace and I explaining my ring to the others (mainly to my mother).

"No. No, we're not getting married yet, Mom. Dad explain it to her, she won't listen to me." I pleaded.

"Jocey-darling, listen to me. Jace came to me and asked if it was okay to give Clarissa that ring. He told me he isn't stealing our little girl from us, he's just promising to love her everyday for the rest of his life. And Jace also said, that he would marry Clarissa, BUT when the time is right. Which isn't now. He said that they'll go to university etc. It's a promise ring, Jocelyn." Dad sighed looking my mother in the eyes.

Slowly mom looked at me again with her green eyes. I knew that look. I had seen it many times when I was younger. In a toy-store when I wanted a huge teddy bear , when it was my time to go to bed and I didn't want to go because Jonathan wasn't going, at the breakfast table when I was suppost to eat toast or something healthy but because we had pancakes from the day before, I wanted to eat them. It was the look of giving up. My smile grew bigger and I jumped up from my seat and danced to give her a hug.

"Thank you." I whispered to her ear. "I love you."

"I love you too, honey." She laughed. Dad winked to me behind her.

I walked back to Jace and took his hand as I sat down. I looked at him and he was already watching me. I stared into his golden eyes and saw my own reflection. I put my other hand on his cheek and caressed it with my thumb. Then I placed the hand to back of his head and pulled him into a gentle kiss. Jace deepened the kiss and I wasn't complaining.

"Okay, that's enough. Separate them, please. My eyes are bleeding." My brother said. I pulled away and laughed. I took a pillow and threw it towards Jonathan.

"You're just jealous." I laughed to him as he catched the pillow easily.

"Jealous of kissing Jace Lightwood. Right. That's every man's dream. To kiss Jace. Oh sister please..." He shivered.

"Sorry bro, but I'm not changing this girl." Jace said kissing my cheek.

"Awww, that's so sweet." Isabelle said, clutching to Simon's hand.

"Okay kids, behave yourselves. These oldies are going to bed, to sleep, Jonathan and Jace, before you make any nasty remarks." Dad said as he and my mother stood up, aswell did Maryse and Robert. Jonathan and Jace bursted out laughing and soon we were all laughing on the floor.

"Okay, good night children." They said to us.

"Good night!" We said back.

"Okay, what'd you like to do?" Jace asked after our parents had gone.

"Let's play Taboo!" Magnus said. "I saw it the other day when I was looking for my glitters in our room." (Do you know what Taboo is? In my country we don't have that, we have a similar game Alias. I did a little research and found out that Taboo is almost like Alias, Alias is a little bit easier. But same idea. It's a board game where you have to explain some word to you pair without using the actual word. In Taboo there's five (?) additional words listed on the card. We don't have that in Alias. So I'm going to make them play Taboo.. )

"Oh yeah! That's a good idea!" I said. I loved that game.

We were just splitting into pairs as Jace's phone rang in his pocket.

"Oh hey." He answered. "Yeah, sure. I'll come to open the door." He got up and ran to open the door. I heard a male's voice. Will.

"Hello guys!" Will said as they came into living room.

"Hi Will." I said. "We were just about to play Taboo. You want to come?"

"Yeah, why not" he smiled. Isabelle wrote his name on the paper and put it into a bowl. She shook the bowl and took one paper out.

"Maggie. Your pair is..." she lifted the next paper. "...Jace!"

she dig her hand into the bowl again and picked one paper.

"Jonathan... You're..." she lifted next piece of paper up. "... with me! Yay!"

"Clary... And Will!"

"So that means, Simon and Alec, you're a group."

We sat down around the table. Will was on the other side of the table, right opposite to me. Next to him was Jace, so Magnus sat next to me. On the other side of Magnus was Isabelle, so Jonathan was next to Jace. And at the other end of the table were Alec and Simon, Simon next to Jonathan and Alec next to Izzy.

Will and I started. I managed to explain 5 words to him before our time was up. We high-fived and moved our pawn five steps forward. Next was Jace and Magnus. Magnus started to explain and Jace tried to guess the word.

"What? What the fuck is girl's best friend that makes everything better? Me..? Magnus explain better!" And that's when the sand in hourglass had drained down.

"Chocolate, Jace, chocolate..." Magnus muttered. I bursted out laughing. They got only one correct word, football.

"Oh come on, I'm not a girl!" Jace defended himself. "Right Clary?" He winked at me.

I blushed while Jonathan hit Jace's head with his palm. "Shut the fuck up Jace."

The game went on like that and in the end Will and I won! We high-fived again and the other looked at our beaming with their grumpy-cat faces. We put the game back where Magnus had took it and sat down on the couches. Will told us about himself and where he lived. He said that he would be moving to New York in a week with his girlfriend, Tessa.

We just sat there and talked until it was midnight and Will had to leave. Tessa had dropped him off at our house on her way to meet her friends here for the last time. And now she was on her way to come and get Will. She sent Will a text message that she was outside, so Will said his goodbyes to us and said that he would call when they were in New York.

Our vacation was over soon and it was time to go back home. We stayed up really late that night and stuffed our belongings into the cars and drove to the airport. It was something around midnight when we arrived to the airport. There we went through all the security checks etc. and went to eat something. I was wearing my comfortable navy blue sweatpants and under my winter jacket I had a plain black long-sleeved t-shirt. I was holding hands with Jace as we silently walked forward.

JPOV

Clary and I had offered to get something to eat for our group with Alec. The three of us were waiting for the two girls behind the counter to make our sandwiches, coffees, juices and teas ready for us.

Clary was obviously tired; her eyes were drooping and she yawned, covering her mouth with her free hand. I reached up with my free hand and pushed gently a strand of her hair, that has dropped out of loose bun on top of her head, behind her ear. She smiled to me and rested her head on my chest, nuzzled her cheek on it a bit and wrapped her tiny arms around my waist. I pressed a light kiss on top of her head and wrapped my stronger arms around her. Clary hooked her thumbs through the belt loops of my black jeans. I had packed my comfortable clothes first last evening and didn't realize, of course I didn't, that I had to sit on the plane for hours with my jeans and leather jacket on. So that's what I was wearing. Black jeans, white t-shirt and my brown leather jacket.

I saw Alec looking at us smiling and I smiled to him aswell. Minutes later the girls brought our orders to us and we paid and took them to the others. Isabelle was asleep, leaning against Simon's shoulder and Jonathan had his head propped up against his arm on the table; he was asleep as well.

Okay, I couldn't blame them.. We had woke up at 6:00 in the morning and went to skii for the last time, then came back to the house and packed rest of our stuffs into suitcases. Then we packed our cars and drove to the airport. Our parents went to some different dinner place after giving us money and told us to call if we needed anything.

Simon gently shook Izzy awake while Clary tapped lightly Jonathan's shoulder. He lifted his head up, groaning something about a hard table, leaning against the back of the sofa and rested his head against the wall closing his eyes again.

"Jon wake up or I'm going to eat your sandwich." Clary said reaching for her brother's sandwich.

"No, don't you dare. Fine, I'm awake." Jonathan said swatting gently Clary's hand away. Clary laughed at him and ruffled his hair.

"That's my boy." she laughed at her brother before turning her attention back to me. She took my hand under the table and stroked my knuckles with her thumb. I smiled to her and kissed the corner of her mouth.

"I love you." She whispered. Again, my heart skipped a beat at her words. I smiled to her and pressed my forehead against hers.

"As I love you." I whispered back.

"Okay love-birds, eat your food." Magnus said winking to us. We ate our food in silence and then decided it was time to start walking towards our gate. We would meet Jocelyn, Valentine, Maryse and Robert there. I walked slowly holding still hands with Clary, there was plenty of time. Half an hour later we were all together at the right gate. Jocelyn was in Valentine's arms, looking extremely tired, just like her daughter. I smiled at them.

Magnus and Alec were sitting on the bench, heads close to each other talking quietly. Alec seemed happy with Magnus and that made me happy too. Alec had always been there for me when I had needed a friend. He was always worrying about everyone else, his own happiness wasn't the most important for him. Other people's wellbeing was. I always knew Alec was gay, even when he wasn't sure about himself. I couldn't care less if he had three heads or pink feet. He was my brother and nothing would ever change it.

Clary lifted her head from my chest, followed my gaze and smiled.

"Alec's happy with Magnus." she said quietly.

"Yeah, he is." I said turning my head towards Clary. "And I'm happy with you."

Clary smiled and put her head back against my chest. I knew she was happy too; she didn't need to say it out loud.

Another half an hour later we were sitting in our seats, this time Clary by my side. The flight went fast. Clary sleeping, her head against my shoulder and me sleeping resting my head on top of hers. Soon the flight attendant woke us up and told we were just about to start landing. 10 minutes later the seat belt light went off and we stood up to take our stuff. I helped Clary out of the plane and pulled her to get our suitcases. After all of our big group had got their suitcases we walked out of the terminal and to our cars.

I went with Clary and Jonathan to their house. I helped Jonathan to carry all of our suitcases inside while Clary slept in the back of the car. After all the suitcases were inside I lifted Clary from the back seat and carried her into her room. She woke up just for a moment, to take off her shoes and to change into her PJ's. I took off my jeans, t-shirt and jacket and took my spare pyjama bottoms from Clary's drawer. I had some clothes here since I spent a lot of nights with her in her house.

We climbed into her bad and buried ourselves under the covers. I pulled Clary's warm body closer to mine and inhaled her scent through my nose. She was already asleep in my arms so I closed my eyes and soon the warm, familiar and good darkness swallowed me.

[ First, I thought this was the right place to stop and end the chapter.. But then, I don't want it to end yet... hmm... Hahaha, just kidding. Continue reading, please.. (though this would have been a reasonable ending of the chapter, don't you think! The rest of this chapter is just something I wanted to write, it has actually nothing to do with the story itself. But it's just a nice filler! And you get more Clace fluff! Who doesn't love that? And also a.. hmm.. M part will be at the end...) ]

2 weeks later

CPOV

My mom and dad had their 20th anniversary and they had rented a huge mansion where they could celebrate with their family and friends. They had invited the Lightwoods aswell so Isabelle had dragged me to mall to buy a new dress.

I had tried at least 10 different dresses on. I liked all of them but Izzy didn't approve any of them. The next dress was long black dress with one beaded detailed shoulder strap. The back was open and it has a long side slit, reaching the middle of my thigh. The dress hugged my petite body and gave me the curves I thought I didn't have. The left side of the dress had also beading, reaching the side slit.

It was perfect. Not too revealing, and it fit me perfectly. Isabelle looked at me smiling like a crazy.

"That's it! Do you still have those silver glitter heels I gave you?" Isabelle asked.

"Yeah, I think I do." I said nodding. They were probably still in their box in my closet.

"Perfect. You'll be wearing them. And I'll come to your house with Simon to get ready, okay? Now let's go." I went to pay the dress with dad's creditcard which he nicely gave to me.

At home mom and dad were running around the house while Jonathan just sat on the couch watching TV. I flopped myself next to him on the couch and sighed closing my eyes.

"Isabelle tortured you again, huh?" He laughed

"Yeah..." I answered. "But I got a beautiful dress." I smiled.

Jonathan just rolled his eyes but nodded, smiling too.

"Where's your suit?" I asked.

"Mom just ironed it."

"Oh, good. Why are they running around like that?"

"Mom said something about a lost earing or something and dad mumbled about his tie." Jonathan sighed.

I nodded and watched as mom ran first across the living room, then she went back to kitchen and came again into living room.

"Mom, do you need help?" I asked. Mom didn't stop to look at me as she ran again.

"Oh hey honey, you're back. Did you find a dress?" She yelled from the bathroom.

"Yeah, I did. Listen mom, what are you looking for?"

"Oh, I've lost the golden earing your father gave to me last christmas." She said, still in the bathroom, looking for her earing.

"That earing... It's in your bed room. In you jewelery box." I said sighing. Mom was just like Jonathan. Something was always lost. Dad and I were the systematic ones in this house.

"Jocelyn-dear I told you to check that box." Dad yelled from Jonathan's room.

"Okay dad, what are you doing in my room?" Jonathan asked.

"Oh, I was just looking for my black tie. You haven't seen it here, have you?"

"Umm, no? Now get out of my room." Jonathan yelled.

"Do you have something to hide? Drugs? Alcohol? Condoms?" Dad asked with a serious voice.

"What?" mom poked her head out of their room. "Jonathan?"

"Hey, calm down! I'm sure Jonathan just meant that he didn't want anyone into his room. I'm not allowed to be there when he's not." I said, standing up for my brother.

I knew about his.. Umm.. Guests... When mom and dad where in California and we were here, I heard very often moaning and shouting from his room. I think I don't have to explain any further. He still has those guests every now and then. Last night I heard again that disgusting moaning and whispering as I went to bathroom. I heard my own brother moaning some girl's name. This time the girl's name was Sarah. I have seen her before, once, when my brother thought no one was home. Jace and I were lying on the couch when Jon and the girl, Sarah, came through the door. Jonathan pushed her against the door and lifted her up. Sarah wrapped her legs around Jon's waist and his hands were under her short dress. I'm sure they would had took off their clothes right there and had sex if Jace hadn't bursted out laughing. I'm still thankful that he did. There's some things you don't want to see your brother doing, although you know he does those things, a lot.

Jonathan and Sarah's head turned quickly towards us. The shock in Jonathan's eyes was clear as he looked at me. Sarah just lowered her dress quickly and hid behind Jonathan.

"Oh I don't bite. I'm Clary, Jon's little sister." I said getting up from the couch. I walked to her and offered my hand. She took it and smiled to me.

"I'm Sarah." She said shyly. Jace came behind me after patting Jonathan's back.

"Hi Sarah, I'm Jace, Clary's boyfriend." He offered his hand aswell and Sarah shook it.

"Hi."

"Okay, that's enough. Let's go to my room Sarah. Bye Clary and Jace." Jonathan said quickly, pulling his girl up the stairs with him.

"Don't do anything reckless!" I yelled.

"Shut up!" was Jonathan's answer.

I laughed as Jace and I sat down again. Jace lied down again, resting his head on the couch's arm. He pulled me on top of him and I rested my head on his chest, listening to his heart beating. 10 minutes later I heard grunting from Jonathan's room. Soon there was also girl's screaming.

"Okay, this is disgusting." I said laughing.

"Mmhm.." Jace said, sounding a little weird.

"No, Jace... Don't say that-" I didn't have to end the sentence before I felt something hard on my abdomen.

"I'm sorry, but I can't help it! Please Clary, listen to that..." Jace said blushing.

"No I don't want to hear my brother moaning. But I could help you with that..." I said winking to him.

Jace gasped as I moved myself backwards so I was on my knees, between his legs. I began slowly to open his belt and jeans. He lifted his hips so I got his pants off, along his boxers. I placed my hand on his member and he grunted quietly.

"Thanks." Jonathan whispered to me, ripping me out of my memories, as our parents continued what they were doing.

"Umm.. Yeah.. Sure... No problem..." I said blushing.

"I'm going to go to bed. Good night Jon." I said standing up and walking up the stairs.

"Good night Clary!" Jonathan shouted.

I changed into my PJ's and brushed my teeth. I climbed into my bed and buried myself under the duvet.

I woke up as Isabelle shook me. Not so gently.

"Come on Clary, wakey wakey!"

"Okay, I'm up!" I groaned sitting up.

"Goooooood, now take a quick shower and I'll start doing your make-up and hair after that." She said happily, clapping her hands together.

2 hours later Isabelle had done my hair and make-up. My hair was in smooth curls, hanging freely down my back. I had black eye-liner and mascara added to my eyes, blushed cheeks and red lips. Isabelle helped me to put the dress and the heels on. Then she stepped back to admire her work. She spun me around and I had to admit that I looked good. Isabelle was wearing a red strapless long dress that hugged her every curve. Her dark eyes had dark make-up and she also had red lipstick on her lips. She was beautiful with her long straight black hair.

"Okay, let's go to meet the boys. Jace should be here too."

We walked together down the strairs to meet the boys. Jonathan looked handsome in his black suit, with light blue tie. He had asked Sarah for his date, and she looked beautiful too. She had long floating light blue dress and her light brown hair was in a beautiful bun on top of her head. Her blue eyes matched perfectly with Jonathan's tie. They looked good together.

Then I saw Simon, with his black suit and red tie. Obviously the boys choose their ties to match the girl's dress. Simon looked good, with his soft-looking hair combed to one side.

Then my eyes landed on Jace and god he looked good. He was wearing a tight black suit and white dress shirt under the suit jacket. He had chosen a black bow tie. His golden curly hair was also combed and he was wearing his trademark smirk as he looked me from head to toe.

"Wow." He whispered as he walked to me. "You look absolutely gorgeous."

"You don't look that bad yourself either." I said and pulled him into a gentle kiss, making sure my lipstick didn't mess his lips.

"Okay, let's go." Isabelle said, taking Simon's hand into her hand.

Mom and dad had sent a limousine to get us. Half an hour later we were at the mansion. It was big white beautiful building, with a fountain in front of it. We walked inside and the waiters guided us to our seats. Mom and dad had placed Jace and I to sit with Sarah and Jonathan. The boys helped us to sit down before sitting themselves down. I caught Isabelle's gaze and smiled to her. She was sitting with Simon, Magnus, Alec, Maryse and Robert.

At the same table with me, Jace, Sarah and Jonathan was some mom's friends I didn't know, so I chatted with Jace, Sarah and Jon. Soon the waiters brought our food and we ate in silence. Then the music started to play again and Jace got up asking me to dance with him. I stood up taking his hand and he guided me towards the dance floor where Isabelle was dancing with Simon along many others.

I placed my arms around Jace's neck as he put his hands on my waist. We swayed slowly and looked at each other.

"You're so beautiful tonight Clary. I have to force myself not to tear that dress right now." He whispered to my ear and kissed it.

"Patient, Jace, be patient. Later you may do that, if you behave yourself for the rest of the night." I breathed seductively into his ear and nipped it. He groaned silently and looked around to make sure nobody heard it.

"I'm not sure if I could behave." he grunted.

I pulled my other hand down, trailing down on his chest, down to his sensitive part. I gave him a firm squeeze and he bucked his hips into my hand.

"Oh jesus Clary. Stop. I don't want to get hard in front of everyone." he hissed through his teeth.

"I need to go to bathroom, you want to come with me?" I breathed again to his ear. I took his hand and pulled him with me out of the saloon. We walked, okay, ran up the stairs and into the bathroom no one was using. Jace closed the door and pushed me against it.

[M part!]

"Oh, how I missed doing this." He murmured as he kissed me neck, his hands roaming my body frantically. He lifted my dress up my legs to my waist on lifted me to up. He sat me down on the counter and I took off his suit jacket, throwing it on the floor. I opened his bow tie and the buttons on his shirt and threw them on the floor aswell.

I put my hands on his belt and opened it. Slowly I trailed with my hand under his pants and gently touched his rock hard member. Jace whimpered against my collarbone and moved his lips lower. His hand went to my back, opening the dress and pulling the top part down. His hands attached my breasts and squeezed them. I moaned and grabbed his member, squeezing it as I opened his pants with my other hand, pushing them down.

Finally he found my lips again and kissed me like there was no tomorrow. I moaned into his mouth as his hand went down to between my legs.

"Take me now." I breathed out.

"As you wish, my lady." Jace chuckled.

He pushed himself into me and I was home again. He lifted me up from the counter and put me gently on the floor, still inside me. I was lying on the floor, Jace on top of me thrusting in and out slowly at first.

"Jace, please." I whimpered, pleading him to go faster and harder.

And he did. We tried to be as quiet as possible but I had to whimper and moan every now and then. Jace wraps my legs around his waist to go even deeper. Moments later I felt him stiffen and his thrust became to come irregular. He reached between my legs and massaged the bundle of nerves with his thumb. I felt the familiar warmth in my lower part and I saw stars again. Jace thrusted the last hard thrust and came inside of me. My walls contracted his member and milked his orgasm. Few moments later he lifted himself up, offering me his hand. I took it and he pulled me up. I smooth my dress, lift the top up again.

"Could you please close the dress for me." I asked. Jace's hands lingered on my back as he zipped the dress. I smoothed my hair back to look normal and made sure the make-up was fine. Jace put his pants up again and took his shirt from the floor. I helped him to tie his bow again and out the suit jacket on again. After we looked good again I unlocked the door and we walked out.

"Jace. Where's my underwear? I had black lace thongs but not anymore! We have to go back!" I panicked.

Jace just laughed into my ear and whispered "They're in my pocket."

I blushed and hit his arm playfully. Jace just leaned down and kissed me.

"I love you." He said and wrapped his arms around me.

"I love you too." I said to him.

Tadaaaaa! Did you like it? I personally did... ;) Please tell me if I missed something, what you think about it or something! I'd like to hear! :)

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