Jace was woken from his sleep from a small whimper coming from the bathroom. His head snapped up as he realized that Clary was no longer snuggled next to him in bed, and was instead making small noises from their connected bathroom.

"Clary?" Jace called, knocking on the door. "Are you okay?" She didn't open the door, and Jace wondered how long would be acceptable until he broke it down. "Clary, come on, please." The sounds of her being sick filled the dead silence for a moment before Jace pounded on the door again, no doubt waking the others in the rooms nearby. Another minute passed before Jace heard the shuffled sounds of his girlfriend moving toward the locked door.

As the door swung open, he saw her face was pale and shivers racked her small form. "By the Angel, Clary. Why didn't you wake me?"

He reached down to feel her forehead, and pulled his hand back when he felt the heat radiating from her. "You looked tired,"She mumbled, her words slurred from exhaustion.

"Come on, Clare… let's get back to bed okay?" Jace scanned her face for confirmation that it was okay to move before reaching down to lift her shaking form into his arms. Clary's head lolled back to rest against his bare shoulder, allowing him to truly feel the extent of her clear fever.

Despite the heat of Clary's forehead, she shook as Jace laid her down gently in their bed and covered her in the pile of blankets that had been previously shoved to the bottom of the mattress.

His fiery-haired girlfriend blindly reached out to him in an attempt to keep him closer to her, but he pulled back, "I'll be right back, Clary. I just need to get a few things from the bathroom,"

Jace softly pressed a kiss to her forehead before heading the bathroom to run cool water on a cloth and to pick up some fever-reducing tablets.

When he came back into the room, and had coaxed the medication into his girlfriend, he placed the cloth across her head, before pulling over one of the chairs and sitting next to the bed.

Briefly Jace wondered if he should retrieve his stele from the side table, but whenever he or the Lightwoods got sick, they never used runes and that made him wary to try on Clary.

As Clary fell back into an unrestful sleep, he took her hand, focusing on her face.

When she slept it made her face seems childlike again. After all the things that they had been through, her eyes reflected a sort of burden that Jace wished he could lift. Sometimes he thought back to that young girl he had first seen in that club, and he wished he could go back to those times. The times when they weren't burdened by their history. And then Jace thought back to all the memories that would take away, and he knew that he would never give those up.

He watched her sleep through the night, periodically checking her steady fever and insuring that her breaths remained steady. He knew this was only a small illness. A cold at best, the flu at worst, but he couldn't let go of his fear that someday something might happen and he would no longer have Clary by his side.

When she awoke the next morning, groaning of a headache and coughing fitfully, Jace confined her to the bed.

"You can't force me to stay here all day, Jace."

"Well, you can't very well move from the bed without my help, so I think I can."

This was true. When Clary had first moved to get out of the bed that morning, she found that her legs had become weak and useless as a newborn fawn, and she had almost fallen over had Jace not moved under her to keep Clary upright.

Jace gave her a knowing look, but Clary just blinked up at him, playing innocent. "I think that today might have to be a stay in bed day, Clare," He helped her back into bed, and pulled the covers over her.

Clary sent him a half hearted glare, not truly angry but keeping the act anyway. "Oh please," he laughed, a light sound that made Clary grin, "You know you love me,"

She pulled his face down to hers, running her fingers through his golden curls, and pressing her lips to his.

"That I do,"

Hey guys!

It's been a minute. Anyway, this is pretty short but I wanted to get something up because I missed writing and finals are kicking my butt. Lol. I really should be studying and i'll try to post something next weekend when finals are done :)

-MischiefManaged1961