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Chapter 27

Clary slowly started to wake, her body screamed with pain. Her head was pounding, 'What happened?' She thought back and her mind raced with images, Sebastian, Jace, Magnus, Collapsing to her knees, the searing pain, her coughing up blood after that everything was black or blood red the main she remembered was the pain. Her chest ached but not with pain but with something else, like a part of her missing and she'd never get it back. She suddenly noticed the warm set of hands wrapped around her left hand. Clary sleepily opened her eyes to see Jace sitting next to her on the bed, holding her hand, looking down at her his eyes were red and full of pain and concern, a small wave of relief flashed across her face but to quickly for Clary to notice. She turned her head as she heard footsteps across the room, 'Sebastian.' He was watching her from the other side of the room, his eyes were red his face was unreadable. 'Is he only in my mind? Can Jace see him?' She looked back and forth between them, Sebastian noticed that she what she was thinking and decided to stop her racing thoughts, "He can see me. I'm here, actually here."

Clary sensed Jace tense up at the sound of Sebastian's voice. She still couldn't comprehend that Jace was letting him live. Clary went to talk but choked as she felt the burning in her throat.

Jace quickly handed her a cup of warm honey tea, "Here, drink this, it'll help."

Clary moved herself up onto her elbows and then fell back down immediately as her body screamed in pains, she rolled over and muffled her cry with her pillows, her hands fisting the bed. She rolled her head to the side as the pain dimmed down she was able to choke out, "What happened?"

Jace looked at Sebastian and knew Sebastian should probably be the one to tell her even though it crushed his soul he still knew he was the one who had to tell her. Jace slowly let go of Clary's hand and stood up from the bed. Clary watched him worriedly, 'where is he going?'

Jace walked over to the door and before exiting he took one last worried look at Clary. Jace stepped out into the hallway, closing the door behind him.

Clary put all her force to roll over and look at Sebastian, he was standing in the middle of the room looking at her with empty eyes. There was an uncomfortable silence in the room, they stared into each other's eyes, Sebastian's empty ones and Clary's pain filled ones. Clary's felt her eyes start to water as she felt that she was about to be told something really bad that would scar her for life.

She cleared her throat and choked out, "Sebastian... What happened?"

Clary saw his hesitation before he slowly made his way over to her and sat on the bed, he couldn't look her in the eye, he couldn't watch her heart brake.

He took a deep breath and collected himself, "Clary... First you need to know that I never stopped looking for you ever since they came and stole you away from me. But you also need to know that I never talked to you through the lip biting thing Magnus is sure they were hallucinations."

Clary's head was spinning, "Hallucinations?"

Sebastian looked over and locked eyes with Clary, "When I found you I came I came straight her, no heaitations I didn't care if they Clave caught me I just needed to make sure that you and our...our... our baby were ok. When I arrived the warlock answered the door and then you came out and my chest sank. Just seeing you made my mind blank and seeing you carrying our child made it worse, I dropped my guard completely. You started saying that we'd been talking for months now and that's when Magnus confirmed his suspicions."

"Suspicions?"

Sebastian couldn't tell her... Not yet, he continued, "Then Jace turned up and we hate each other, you know that and immediately we were fighting but... But then you screamed and collapsed and everything changed. Clary you started coughing up blood and convulsing it was destroying me and Jace might I had to see you like that. We brought you into the bedroom and Magnus explained what was happening." He hesitantly paused.

Clary became even more worried, Sebastian had never talked like this never with so much... Emotion, "Sebastian, what happened?"

He swallowed awkwardly, "Clary... My demon blood and your extra angel blood, it was... It was, one way to put it is it was fighting for power the only way to fix it would to give you more angel blood to fight off the demon blood or give you demon blood to fight off the angel blood. But either way it would have been against nature and it would have... Clary it would have killed you. We had a decision to make, save your or save the baby." Sebastian went silent and watched Clary break into a million pieces as she realised what had happened.

Clary's heart exploded into a million pieces like a shattered mirror, she slowly moved her hand down to her stomach and felt her the flatness used to be the bump she had gotten used to. That's what the empty feeling in her heart the feeling she would never get back, she had lost her child for good. She let out a cry as the tears started to fall. She kept asking herself, 'Why? Why? Why?"

Sebastian pulled the broken girl into her arms, he cradled her in attempt to sooth her but it only made her cry harder, he felt the wetness of her tears against his shirt. His eyes started to water with each cry, tears threatened him for the second time in his life. He was asking himself the same question as Clary, 'Why? Why? Why?'

Jace sat in the kitchen he could here her cries all they way down the hall. His heart broke at the thought of Sebastian comforting her, 'it should be me in there! Not him! How can she even stand to be around him, after what he did to her? Wait... No... She couldn't have... She wouldn't have... She loves ME not him! No! No! NO!' Jace jumped to his feet and stormed down the hall and burst through the door. Clary was being held by Sebastian, this only fuelled his anger. He came over and yanked Sebastian off her, throwing him across the room. Clary looked at Jace in shock.

She was scared as she saw the anger in him, "CLARY! How could you! I thought you LOVED ME!"

'He knows.' "Jace-"

"Don't you dare tell me that in not right, when you went with him you went willingly didn't you?! DIDN'T YOU?! Look me in the eye and tell me you don't have feeling for him!"

Clary's heart started racing she looked over to Sebastian, he had been knocked unconscious,which made her stomach tighten.

Se looked between Jace and Sebastian, "I... I... I can't..." Clary looked down in shame.

She flinched as Jace's voice got louder and was filled with even more anger and heart ache, "HOW! HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME! I THOUGHT YOU LOVED ME!"

A hint of anger rose in Clary, "I DO LOVE YOU! I NEVER STOPPED LOVING YOU! I'VE NEVER STOPPED LOVING YOU SINCE THE DAY I MET YOU EVEN WHEN WE THOUGHT WE WERE BROTHER AND SISTER! EVEN WHEN YOU PUSHED ME AWAY, EVEN WHEN YOU WEREN'T YOU! I'VE NEVER STOPPED LOVING YOU!"

Clary didn't realise that she had stood up and was looking Jace straight in the eye. Her anger, heart ache and fear dulled the pain.

Jace's eyes slightly softened, "But you have feelings for him! Of all the people! You chose him! He's evil! He killed dozens of people, he is a monster! And yet again you want to know what makes it even worse is that HE'S YOUR BROTHER! WE LOVED EACH TOHRR WHEN WE THOUGHT WE WERE BROTHER AND SISTER BUT WE DID BECAUSE WE KNEW DEEP DOWN THAT IT WAS A LIE! BUT YOU KNOW THAT YOU TWO ARE SIBLINGS! YOU KNOW DEEP DOWN HOW WRONG IT IS! DON'T YOU?"

"NO!"

Jace took a step back in shock, "What?"

Clary looked over at Seastian one more time and then back at Jace, "Jace I never stopped loving you and never will. But I honestly it doesn't feel wrong, at first I was disgusted in myself for feeling this way but now it honestly feels right."

Jace's anger rose again and along with disgust. He raised his hand to slap her across the face in disgust but his hand was stopped mid air.

Sebastian was standing in front of Clary, his hand gripped tightly around Jace's wrist, his eyes were fierce, "Don't you dare touch her." His voice was strong.

Clary watched in shock at the scene before her, if this was 6 months ago it would be the absolute opposite, Sebastian would be attacking her and Jace protecting. But her world had been turned upside down since then but not even in her wildest nightmare had she thought Jace would try to hurt her, not intetially anway. The boys stood infront of each other, Sebastian still had a grip on Jace's wrist, they stared at eachother friecrl; fighting for dominace.

Jace's voice was harsh as he spat, "you disgust me… both of you, I'll tell the Clave and you, both of you will be executed for your betrail!"

Clary sucked in a harsh breath, she had never heard Jace talk like that to anyone. He sounded like… he sounded like… Valentine. Clary's heart shattered even more at the realisation. She saw the pain in his eyes, hidden behind the disgust and hatred. She saw the heart broken boy and knew she had to do something. She slowly stepped around Sebastian, placing her hand over his, Sebastian releasing his grip on Jace. Sebastian's eye locked on Jace, Jace's had drifted to stare into Clary's sympathetic ones. She intertwined their fingers, and looked deep into his broken soul. She gently brushed his angular jaw with the back if her hand.

Her voice was soft and distraught, "I will love you, forever and always but it's not the same type of love anymore. I love you Jace, remember that. But Sebastian has changed and so have I. It's time for you to let me go… let me go Jace…"

For a single tear ran down Jace's cheek, he shook his head silently.

Clary felt the tears burning at the back of her throat, "Yes. It's time to let go…" She leaned up and brushed her lips against his for one last goodbye. Jace squeenzed his eyes shut, wishing that this wasn't happening. She whispered into his ear, he could hear how broken she was, "Good-bye Jace."

He kept his eyes closed as he felt her body move away and her finger untangle themelves from his. He kept them shut for a moment and then slowly opened. He looked around, they were gone… she was gone.

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