The Other Lightwood. (Jace Herondale.)

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The only thing Rosalie saw was white.  She heard someone talking. Hearing everything clearly. Realizing it was Jace.

Soon it got quiet..

That changed the more time went by. She saw that night. The night with Valentine and his men.

She wanted to scream and wake up, but she couldn't.

After a few more long minutes. She woke up freaking out.

Seeing she was in a bed with tubes in her arms. It reminded her of being in that place. She immediately pulled at them to get them off.

Repeatedly saying no and frantically trying to continue to get them off.

"Hey. Rosalie hey, stop. You're ok. You're ok."

Jace told her as he tried to stop her, soon pulling her into a hug.

She stopped after being pulled into a hug and just cried into his chest.

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Jace was sat back on the bed, rosalie's head on his chest as she traced the runes on his arm.

Rosalie was calmed down and seemed to be okay.

"I heard what you said.... When I wasn't awake." Rosalie broke the silence.

"I'm sorry." She said tears filling her eyes again.

"Hey. Why are you apologizing? You didn't do anything." He said rubbing her arm slightly.

"You have done everything you could to prove to me that you wouldn't make the same mistake again. And I... I didn't believe you. I'm sorry that it took this long.... A lot of things have happened and I wasn't paying attention. I believe you." She told him.

He tightened the hug slightly. 

After a few seconds he got the guts to ask what happened earlier.

"When you woke up. Why did you freak out?"

Rosalie sat up turning to sit straight forward.

"I was taken back to the night Valentine got me. He injected me with demon blood. The pain was excruciating. He had, from what I could see, at least 8 different vials of it. He only injected me with 4. I was tied up, strapped to a bed. There were tubes in my arms. I got scared. I thought I was back there..."

Rosalie looked at the floor in front of the bed with a blank expression.  

"Rosalie... I..."

"I know... I'm not even sure I still have demon blood in me.."

"What do you mean?"

"I... I don't know what happened back there with the Sword. All I felt was pain, and it was so hard to breathe. Then I passed out. The Sword is supposed to kill any demon blooded creature right?  So what if, the pain, was the blood being destroyed.  What if I don't have demon blood anymore?"

"Rosalie I don't know... That's a big what if."

"I know. I just... I don't want to be considered evil, if everyone finds out."

"You won't be. Believe me. I once thought I had demon blood too. We would never think that about you. I promise." 

She nodded.

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Both Rosalie and Jace went looking for Clary. Inquisitor Herondale arrived and wanted to speak to the Jace and Clary but also with Rosalie.

They found Clary and Simon on a bench kissing.

"Clary." Jace interrupted.

"Sorry. What are you doing here? Is... is everything okay?"