Jace breaks apart first, and takes a step back.
"I-" He's about to say something, but gets cut off from the door to the institute opening. My mother comes rushing in.
"Clary! Are you okay!" She yelps as she runs up to me. I look up at Jace, then back at my mother.
"Yes mom, I'm fine. Just a bit…caught up." My mother throws her arms around me.
"Thank god Clary. Is everyone else okay?" She asks me.
"Yes mom." I say. Jace then speaks up.
"I'll show you the room you can stay in, then you can meet them in the library. My mother and Jace walk off. Once they turn the corner the door open's again, and Magnus walks in.
"Hello biscuit, I heard that you all need my help." I nod my head.
"You should come in the library. Jace went to show my mother her room, then they're coming back." He walks up to me, and I lead him into the library. Once he sees Alec he rushes over to him.
"Alexzander Lightwood!" Alec turns around. Once he sees his boyfriend he throws his arms around him. "Are you okay Alexzander."
"Yes Magnus, I'm fine, and you know that I like to be called Alec."
"I know, it's just I like to be able to call you something different then everyone else, to show that you're not just the same guy to everyone else , than you are to me." I see them both smile and kiss each other. Once they break apart my mother and Jace walk in.
"So, When Magnus is doing a protecting spell on this place, and disabling the portal…" Jace turns his attention onto me. "Clary, I think you should tell you mother what happened." Says Jace. I look at my mother as she sits down next to me.
"Okay…" I say, and I began to tell her about the battle.
Once I stop talking my mother is silent.
"Mom…" I ask her. She was staring at the floor, but she now look's up at me.
"I'm so sorry Clary, that this is the kind of life you get." I hug her, hoping that that will calm her down.
"It's okay mom. It's not the life, it's the… some of the people in it." I say to her.
"I will protect you Clary, if it's the last thing I do." I feel tears coming on.
"Th-thank you mom" I hug her more tightly then let her go.
"Oh, I put you things on your bed, Jace showed me your room." Says my mother.
"Thanks." Right then Magnus comes back over to us.
"It's done. I disarmed the portal and did a protection spell for the building." Says Magnus.
"Really? That fast?" I ask him. That did seem pretty fast.
"Yup." He says popping the 'P'. "I'm not the high warlock of Brooklyn for nothing you know." I turn to face my mother.
"I'm going to go set up my things."
"Okay, honey." I walk away from her and past everyone else to get to my room. I start to set my things up in the room, it only takes about two minutes for a knock to sound at the door.
"Come in." I say expecting my mother. But it's not, it's Jace. "Oh, Jace, I wasn't expecting you."
"Clary, can I talk to you?" He's standing at the door way with the door open.
"Sure." I say. He closes the door, then looks back at me.
"I'm sorry I kissed you." I don't know what to say. But I have to admit to myself I did kind of like it.
"It's fine, Jace." He takes a step closer to me.
"It's just, I kissed you because…" He trails off. "Because, I like you Clary. Like, I really like you." At the exact moment he says that I realize that I like him too.
"I-"
"It's okay Clary, you don't have to say anything, I get it if you don't like me or anything. We just kind of met I guess. I'm sorry." He turns back around.
"Jace!" I say. He turns to face me.
"I like you too." I take a step closer to him. I can see happiness pop into his eyes like a little kid walking into a candy shop.
"Like-" I cut him off.
"Like, I really like you, Jace." I feel myself smile. As I say these words, I know that they are the truest words I have spoken, even if it's to a guy I just got too know. We both take a step closer to each other. I have a feeling that we are about to kiss, before I hear a knock at the door. I look behind Jace at the door, and then back at Jace. "One minute." I walk to the door and open it up, there at the door way stands Isabelle. "Isabelle!" I exclaim.
"Clary, I need to talk to everyone, get Jace too, and meet me in the library." She says. Jace walks up to Isabelle behind me.
"Lizzy, I'm right here, what's wrong?" She looks from Jace, to me, resting her eyes on mine.
"Before I passed out, your brother, he gave me a message to tell everyone."