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Impulses, Chapter 2: I'm ready, I'm not ready…

Clary's eyes fluttered open but she instantly regretted it. Her eyes burned as the sharp and sterile lights shone down on her as she rested on the most uncomfortable bed imaginable. She tried to pull her self up into a seated position but all her muscles ached and protested. She sighed with discomfort giving up on herself. Realisation washed over her as she realised that she was lying battered and bruised in the infirmary. Well that explains the bed.

She didn't remember much of last night except for some guy grabbing at her, and then she fell and that was it. Nothing. She guessed Jace beat the crap out of whomever the guy was which made her smile to herself slightly. Her head was throbbing, like a tight band of pain was constricting around her forehead.

"Ugh" She grunted quietly as she rolled on her side. Her vision was slightly blurry, fuzzy around the edges but she could see clearly enough to notice a slumped figure in what looked like the most uncomfortable chair sleeping softly. His golden hair was ruffled all over his head and he looked tired… with black shaded skin under his eye lids. Jace was almost beautiful to her, perfect and whenever she saw him like this, she felt like she had seen a piece of priceless art that the artist had never intended anyone to see. That had been hidden away in a dark attic collecting dust. But here he was, exposing that side of him to her without even knowing it and she sat in awe, staring at him knowing she was the only one who saw this part of him.

Knowing she shouldn't stare even if Jace was asleep she turned to face the wall determined to reach a seated position on the side of the bed. She heaved herself up whimpering slightly as pain struck through her, gripping her muscles screaming at her to stop. But Clary was Clary, and she wasn't going to stop. She tried to ignore the pain as she swivelled on her bum so her legs were dangling off the she sat up straight she let out a gasp as pain shot up her back.

'What had that moron done to me?' she thought to herself. Jace's eyes flickered open and quickly he was up out of the chair and pulling her softly into him.

"Are you okay? Does it hurt anywhere?" He whispered softly in her ear pulling back to look at her face. Clary knew he was overprotective so smiled slightly to herself.

"I'm fine Jace. Promise. Have you been sleeping?" She asked he delicate hand tracing the dark shadows under his eyes but he pulled back, her fingers dropping back to her side.

"It's no big deal Clary. All that matters is that you're okay" He hugged her again kissing her hair. Whatever had happened after she fell that night must have gotten Jace worried. But then again, when a pigeon swooped at her head in Central Park he was fussing over her.

Nothing New.

-Impulses-

"What happened Jace?" Clary looked up to him staring into his golden eyes. All he could see was the confusion on her face. He loved her, god he loved her! It was so stupid to think Jace had actually fallen for a girl. Not just wanted her, took her home one night then snuck out in the morning never to return again, he actually loved her.

"You just fell unconscious that's all" he whispered tracing patterns lightly on her wrist, "Do you remember anything?" He asked as a thought stuck him. What I she had heard-

"No, not really, I have a fuzzy memory of Alec calling mum but that's it" she replied softly wondering what she had missed, "did something happen?"

"No, nothing happened Clary" he murmured to her hugging her tightly, relishing in the feeling of her in his arms again. 'Not yet' he thought to himself.

'Not yet'

-Impulses-

Just a few bruises Clarissa and a twisted ankle. That is all. You should be fine. If there is any other issues please do not hestitate to call on the Silent Brothers.

One of the brothers who had inspected Clary walked out the door followed by Maryse who was asking him questions about how many brothers there now were. Valentine had slain a large portion of the New York Silent Brothers and there wasn't many left which was worrying.

"Who was that?" Isabelle asked whilst filling her nails. Her enthusiasm shaking the Institute.

"Brother Kalbi, he's new that's why he looks the most human. But he still doesn't talk" Jace replied.

"Uh-huh" Isabelle replied before giving Clary a sisterly kiss on the forehead and walking out of the room. Jace was praying Clary didn't remember what he'd said. He meant it of course but he wasn't sure to what extent. Would he marry her tomorrow? Next month? A year? He wasn't sure. It was a massive issue for him, he wasn't just going to get down on one knee and then be made a fool because Clary wasn't even ready. Was he ready? They hadn't even spoken about it or discussed the topic of marriage. He knew it was something Clary wanted but when he didn't know.

Clary was something special, no way was he going to let her go and maybe putting a ring on her finger would prevent him losing her.

'Wait' he thought to himself, 'I'd have to actually put a ring on her, at least for the engagemt!'. Obviously Shadowhunters don't use rings but Clary was a full Shadowhunter yet, she was almst there but it wasn't legal for him to put the runes on her. He'd have to give her an engagement ring. Great more options.

Does she like diamonds? Does she hate them? Gold, Silver, Rose gold, white gold? To many options. How many diamonds? The design! Would she want modern or classical. Jace didn't even hear Clary repeating his name until he snapped out of his higheway of thoughts and stared down at the girl he was so stressed about.

"Jace! What's going on? It looks like you've been turned to stone. Are you okay?" Clary asked staring at him.

"Y-yea it is" Jace stuttered slightly.

Oh god, this was going to be one hell of a roller coaster.

-Impulses-

"So do you know the kind of style she would like?" The young brunette at the jewelry shop asked sweetly smiling at his nervousness.

"Uh… n-no I don't. We haven't really um, spoken about it yet. It's k-kind of a er… surprise. Yea" he stuttered to the woman. She just kept on smiling which gave him a bit of confidence. Knowing she'd probably seen this all before.

"That's okay. So how old is she might I ask?" Jace looked down at the woman's tag.

"Um… she's 18" Jace replied nervously staring at the woman named Linda.

"well then perhaps we should look at a more modern ring, with silver and gold lace? Many of the younger girls seem to love it. Might I ask your price range so we know where to start?" Jace knew money wasn't an issue. He had loads of it. Bill Gates loads. The Clave just keep pumping it into the Institute and then on to Maryse. But it was more of a secret. Not many people knew of the Lightwood's financial status, they liked to keep it that way.

"I um… don't have a price range. If you know w-what I'm get-t-ting at?" He stared at Linda who just smiled.

"Ah. Yes that's fine. Follow me then" She walked along the red carpet behind the class cabinets filled with rings, necklaces, bracelets, pendants. The lot! Linda was quite tall and slim, very pretty and had a wonderful smiled which was the only thing stopping Jace from fainting right now. He felt like everyone was looking at him. This never happened, he was never so nervous, so sick in the stomach, so scared.

"Okay so here we have the modern selection of Silver and Gold lace rings. Are there any you like?" He peered into the glass bos in front of him were numerous rings sat, it was unbelievably overwhelming.

"I know, there are a lot. Maybe we can fine tune it. What eyes and hair colour does she have?"

"Um… red hair, green eyes. Like super red and super green"

"Righteo then, well then we should stick with a silver base rather than a gold base. And perhaps 2-3 diamonds? Unless you want the diamonds to go all the way around?"

As the woman was speaking Jace suddenly saw it. The ring, the one for Clary.

"Can I see that one?" Jace asked pointing to it. The woman nodded sweetly and pulled it from the glass box. As the woman rambled on about the history and maker of the ring Jace stared at it.

It had three strips of gold that created the ring, twining around each other, small diamonds trail the middle strip the whole way around. The middle strip was silver, as were the two others and just as the Linda had suggested, it had gold lace wrapped delicately around the two other layers so you could still see the silver underneath. It was simple but intricate and he knew Clary would love it.

"It's one of a kind so that does bump the price up a bit. The diamonds are the best clear diamonds you can get and the lace is real gold so it racks up to quite a figure. Are you interested?" Linda asked.

"Yes, very much. It's perefect" Jace's nerves had flown out the window. He had only come here to get an idea, not to actually buy one. He still had said anything to Clary, he wasn't even sure if she would say yes. But he knew he was as ready as he would ever be as he stared at the ring. He knew this was it, this was the one.

"How much?" He asked. Linda got out a small calculator and seemed a bit apprehensive to tell him the price. Obviously it wasn't the cheapest of the rings. Probably the most expensive.

"$250,000." She replied with a nervous look in her eyes.

"Can you do any better Linda?" Jace aksed. He could afford it for sure but he wasn't going to pay that if he could get less off it.

"Well… it would be difficult but I can probably make it about… $249,500?"

"What about $249,000?" Jace asked staring at the ring, if she said no he would buy it for the price of $249,500, if she said yes well super for him.

"I'll go to $249,250. That's all I can do I'm afraid" Linda looked at Jace praying he would buy it. It must have been her lucky day.

"Done" Jace said handing her the ring and watched them clean and polish it and find the best looking box for it.

"I just bought an engagement ring for Clary" Jace thought to himself, "Angel watch over me"

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