I'm getting tired of writing these for the chapters that I'm posting from LuminousFishy's profile so Imma just copy and paste now. This is posted from her page with express permission. See chapters 1-4 A/N for more info.

I roll over in my sleep, body feeling oddly bruised. I tug my duvet over myself, basking in its warmth. It feels like it's shrunken a bit though, maybe the rest of it's on the floor? I grope around, searching for it. I panic when I feel a hard, rough surface instead of the bed I was expecting. My eyes fly open in confusion and I glance down at the muscular arm I'm clutching like a blanket. I hastily push it away, my cheeks burning as I recollect the past days events. A deep voice, which I assume belongs to Jace groans and tugs me closer to his chest. I attempt to escape, but he keeps a firm hold on me. How did I even get into this situation?

"Jace…" I say, turning in his arms to shake him awake, my face pressed into his chest rather uncomfortably. His face is disconcertingly close as I watch his eyes start to open until they focus on my rather annoyed expression.

"Good morning Red" He greets me with a smirk.

"Hi, can you please move your arm?" I say, deliberately tugging on it.

"You're quite comfy actually"

"Jace! Please!"

"Only because you said please" He chides, letting me go. I roll my eyes in exasperation and stand up, locating my now dry jacket. I head out to the entrance of the cave.

"Hey! Where are you going!?" I hear Jace shout but I ignore him.

The cave widens out onto a beautiful lake, shimmering in the blaring sunshine. A line of trees rims the edges of the lake, forests that lead all the way up into the mountains. Everything gleams with morning dew which sparkles in the sunlight underneath a clear blue sky.

"Pretty isn't it?" Jace speaks up, his breath tickling my neck startling me so that I take a step forward. A step forward off the edge. I shriek as I'm suspended in thin air above nothing, a moment of impending doom passes before Jace catches me and pulls me back in, laughing the whole time.

"You're not going anywhere until I decide you have the appropriate training" Jace informs me, leaning back against the cave wall.

"Oh really, I just have to do what you say?"

"Well, basically, yes"

"Well, obviously, no"

"Well, obviously you wouldn't last five minutes out there by yourself" He argues, raising an eyebrow.

"Well-"I start but don't finish as Jace grabs me, twirls me around and gently pushes me into the cave wall where he was just standing. My eyes widen in shock.
"News flash: Clary doesn't have any training!" He says, his eyes sparkling in amusement.

"Um, this just in: My friends, and not to mention my mum, may be dead and I need to go find them" I retaliate, pushing him back.

"Here's the weather: Torrential storms of demons and evilness" He sasses back, moving forward and placing his arms either side of my head, caging me in.

"Hot off the press: I'm a Shadowhunter" I say, right up in his face.

"Breaking news: YOU DON'T HAVE ANY TRAINING!" He moves forward just a little bit more so that our noses touch. I blush and pull back quickly, accidentally thwacking my head back against the stone. He smirks, which I now assume is his signature expression.

"I just need to make sure you can defend yourself, and then we find your friends and your mum. I know Alec isn't dead because he's my parabatai and I can assume the other's are also okay"

"But that's only an assumption" I point out.

"Clary, it's the best we can hope for. Now, the sooner you can handle a seraph blade, the sooner we can go looking for them" He states, turning around and heading back into the cave. Having no intentions of being left alone, I follow him.

He takes a seraph blade off his weapons pile and hands it to me. I grasp it in my hand like I had when I fought off the Hydra demon.

"No, no, no. You don't want to hold it like that" Jace comes over and moves my hands into a better position.

"That's better, now you want to swing it in a big arch" He demonstrates by guiding me hands with his. I'm suddenly hyper aware of exactly where Jace is and suddenly also aware of how clammy my hands are getting. I can't really remember how long he spends patiently teaching me to fight, he also teaches me how to throw knives. Knife throwing appears to be a practise purely for showing off, but if Jace says it's useful it probably is. We finish up around lunchtime and after a quick snack from Jace's rucksack he deems us ready to set out. He quickly scans the cave opening and points to a previously unnoticed, but also incredibly narrow cliff pathway up to the top.

"We can't seriously climb that?" I ask him, incredulously.

"Seriously, we are" He simply replies and jumps up onto the ledge, expertly balancing. This time I take his outstretched hand. The climb is both physically challenging and completely terrifying. Every time I look down I am overcome with vertigo, I nearly fall off numerous times however Jace seems perfectly at ease. Maybe his mother gave birth on a cliff, or he's half mountain goat. Or maybe he was conceived on a cliff ledge…eww what? Sometimes even I don't know what I'm thinking. Jace comes to a stop and I suddenly realise we are at the top, he heaves himself up onto the cliff top. I make the mistake of looking down under the pretence of checking where we are. Bad idea. My heart thunders with fear, making my hands go all clammy with sweat and my fingers slip.

"JACE!" I scream as I grasp onto the ledge with only the tips of my fingers. A rock gives way under one foot and I flail around, desperately crying to cling to the wall. Jace's concerned face appears above me and he stretches his arm out, his wrist band gleams in front of me. I grab at the 0.00 numbers wildly, my hands finally making a connection with his, his eyes go wide as he pulls with all his strength upwards. I use my feet to kick myself up the cliff, and as soon as my other hand is clear I use it to push myself up in one short burst of energy. Jace also gives one big tug and I go tumbling forward, crashing into his chest. He goes flying back and hits the ground, I go down with him. He looks up at me with relief, and I return the look with a small smile. His golden eyes bore into mine as our chests rise and fall in synchronisation. I realise I've been staring at him too long and I roll off of him onto the soft mossy grass. I lie there, catching my breath. The sky is a brilliant shade of blue and the clouds look like little fluffy marshmallows. For once in my life I fully appreciate just being alive. They all lie; my life didn't flash before my eyes, despite my life threatening situation. Sad times. I sit up and take in my surroundings. We're atop a high cliff, in a brilliant clearing, overlooking a stunning mountain range.

"Beautiful isn't it-?"

I turn to ask Jace, but he's already gone. I see his back disappearing into the woods behind the clearing and I sigh, just me, alone, again…

Jace comes back some time later with a pile of wood in his hands, he dumps it in front of me.

"Another fire?" I question.

"That and a shelter" He says, producing a large leaf to act as a canopy. It is surprisingly hard to build a wigwam (Wooden Shelter), although Jace appears to know exactly how to place all the logs against each other to stand up.

"How do you know so much about all this survival stuff?" I ask, generally curious.

"Me, Alec and the other boys used to have camps for fun in the forests around the Institute. The older members of our families encouraged it; after all we'd need the skills later on in life"

"Older members? Was it like some kind of community?"

"It is. It is a community, rebel Shadowhunters set up secret bases, Institutes if you like. They are a place of safety, a haven for groups and families opposed to Valentine's tight and cruel reign. You see, it's different for mundanes who are easy to control but Nephilim? It's a whole new story, a story I know too well"

"I wouldn't know, mum always kept me hidden from the outside world"

"She was right to do so; the real world is a scary place"

I nod.

We continue in silence until I have to stop.

"I'm gonna go..."

"Go? Where? Why?" He immediately questions.

"Oh…um…yunno go"

"Go?"

"I need to toilet Jace! So I'm just going to go in the woods… I'll be right back!" I rush, eager to escape the increasingly awkward situation. I can almost feel him laughing behind my back.

When I arrive back, Jace has already lit the fire and finished the shelter. I can currently see his silhouette, lit by the setting sun. It makes him look like an avenging angel, and as I draw closer his expression made him look like he'd seen the whole world burn before his eyes and he couldn't stop it. Maybe it did. I have an intense urge to paint the scene, but alas I have no art supplies. I silently come and join him, taking in the breathtaking beauty with him.

"Had fun?" He asks, jokingly. I roll my eyes, a gesture now familiarly associated with Jace's whims. Jace brandishes an apple from behind his back and looks at me expectantly.

"I didn't have time to get a cake, so this was the best I could do"

"Cake?" I ask, and then it hits me. "Oh right! It's my birthday! How did you know?"

"Clarissa Fairchild please do not tell me you have had your birthday displayed on your wrist for eighteen years and you cannot remember it"

"Yunno I was kinda busy with the whole not-dying thing"

He chuckles.

"But thanks anyway" I mumble, taking the apple from him and taking a bite out of it. I hand it to him and he also shares a chunk.

"I've been here before" Jace realises, filling the comfortable silence. "I was tracking a demon with Alec. Actually, I've never been anywhere more beautiful at midnight before"

"Midnight?"

His eyes gleam with excitement, something else I can't quite put my finger on.

"Just you wait, it's the most beautiful thing you'll ever see. Well, aside from me"

"Egotistical much?"

"I see no wrong in telling the truth" He hands me back the apple, we sit down and I rest my head against his shoulder. I nearly fall sleep but Jace nudges me.

"What?" I ask, he responds by pointing at the landscape. A small gasp escapes my lips as the nature surrounding us starts to unfold and glow, it's possibly the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. Jace takes my hand and pulls me up.

"It's a natural phenomenon, the plants come from Idris, they must have been planted or maybe they just happened to grow…" He turns to me. "Either way, it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen"

"Me too"

He leans down and I don't stop him as his lips connect with mine. It's like a magnet is pressing us together, like we were meant to happen. I guess all those romance novels I've read are true, it really does feel like fireworks. Jace pulls back first and rests his forehead against mine.

"I realised earlier, when you were falling off that cliff that I couldn't bear to lose you. Even if we've only met a day ago, I've never known a mundane with as much courage as you"

"Maybe it's because I'm a Shadowhunter"

"Or maybe because you are simply just extraordinary"

This time I lead forward and in that beautiful moment, I finally feel complete, no more soul mate problems, no more numbers, no more control. Sometimes you find someone to love and hold in even the darkest of situations. And for once I am glad that my life turned upside down, because Jace's life turned down with it.