City of Actum Tempus(City of Past)

Chapter 5: Burning

A/N: Sorry about the late update. I was soooooooooo busy with school plus add a bit of writer's block to the mix and BAM you have a recipe for late updates!

I am not sure if I should bring Valentine back as his redemption. Any opinions?? It will be fun; we could make him suffer as I believe his death was too painless; he should've suffered more.

LONGES CHATE YET!!! Actually I had a little typed up and the rest drafted on paper but well I just kept going.

Enjoy

-Huda

The two stood with their faces wiped of emotion as the angel sent a bolt of gold and blue flames from his hands into the two children beneath him. Clary and Jace cried out in agony, dropped to the ground and erupted into a pillar of golden flames that reached the sky. There were surprised gasps from everyone, some were filled with fear others stayed silent too shocked to say anything.

A shock when through Clary's body like a bolt of lightning that started from her head and travelled down her petit frame. The pain was excruciating. It started with an intense burning in her head, like her brain was roasting itself inside her skull. The next moment it was licking a flaming path of intense agony through her circulatory system; spreading throughout her body. A person would have to be on the brick of death to be in this much pain; Clary didn't think that it was possible for her to survive this. She believed her heart to be too weak to survive this ordeal. What has she done to deserve this punishment? Sure, this can't be anything but punishment for the direst sin, right? Why wasn't anyone stopping the fire? Clary thought with dismay, surely by now they had noticed her body go up in flames as it undoubtedly was. Had she done something soo bad that they won't end her suffering even by death?

Clary couldn't remember anything she had done to deserve this fate as the fire engulfed her in its cloak. She was having trouble thinking anything, even her own name. The burning pain chased away all the thoughts until there was nothing left but the flames enveloping her body, moving through her bloodstream. She wasn't aware of the time she spent burning but all of a sudden the pain left her body- just as fast as it had come- and took her strength away with it.

Before she could hit the ground, strong arms caught her; she looked up into a pair of molten gold eyes, not unlike the fire that had burned her moments ago.

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As soon as the pain receded Jace's first thought was of Clary. She had just gone through what he had, the only thought in his head was of comforting Clary and making sure she was alright. In a way he was expecting the torturous pain after already being burned with heavenly fire before to sever his bond with Sebastian, but Clary wasn't. His aching body coiled with worry for his little red headed darling. He rushed to the other side of the angel faster than he thought possible, ignoring the crowd of shadowhunters even his family. Clary was his first priority. He got to her just in time to catch her tiny form in his arms before she fell to the ground. Now kneeling with Clary in his arms he felt utter exhaustion creeping up on him, but he pushed it back with all his might not knowing if Clary was alright yet and the raw innocence he saw in her eyes further helped him hold onto his strength for her.