Hurting and Afraid

Love Me

Clary stood in front of Jace's family. They were all gathered in the living room.
"I called you all in here so you would know that Clary and I are dating now." Jace announced and Clary blushed towards the floor
"Great. Can I go back to painting my nails now?" Isabelle asked
"Isabelle! Respect your brother. This is wonderful news sweetie." She said to Jace "welcome to our family Clary"
"Um, thanks. thankyou" Clary stumbled on her words. And kept looking down.
Jace lead her away from everyone and down the hall to his room.
"Make yourself comfortable. I told mom I'd do the dishes." He said "and when I get back, Clary, we need to talk." He kissed her on the forehead and left towards the kitchen.
Clary sat down on Jace's bed everything in his room was so neat. There were no posters on the wall or dirty clothes on the floor the only idication someone lived in this room was one picture on the nightstand of a little boy with golden blonde curly hair standing between a man and woman. All three had brilliant smiles on their faces as stood in front of some trees that were obviously changing color for fall. Just then Isabelle cane into the room.
"Hey. Listen I think we got off to a bad start but I really think we could be friends."
"Um, sure Isabel-"
"Call me Izzy. Everyone else does"
"Ok, izzy" Clary was always awkward when it came to normal conversation
"So where's Jace?"
"He said he was doing the dishes" Clary shrugged
"Okay cool. Thanks" and with that Izzy danced away
Jace came back a few moments later and smiled at her from the door way. Clary couldn't even ask what he was thinking before he ran at her and pinned her to the bed playfully. He held her arms up beside her head and straddled her hips. He started planting little kisses on her jaw and then her neck then he kissed her nose and her forehead and both cheeks then brushed his lips against hers teasingly a small moan escaping her lips. That made Jace come undone and he gave in and kissed her passionately it didn't take long for Clary to open her mouth to him and as his tongue explored her mouth his right hand left hers and traveled down to her waste while Clary used her free hand to tangle Jace's perfect soft curls around her fingers. Jace slowly pushed up the hem of her t-shirt he grabbed her hip but released it and pulled back when she gasped and yelped in pain. She pulled her shirt back down but not before Jace could see what was hidden underneath.
"Clary pull your shirt up"
"No. I'm fine. Don't worry about it. You just surprised me that's all."
She inched towards him trying to get him to kiss her and be distracted from the bruises he saw but it wasn't working. With every inch she got closer he got farther away.
Until he suddenly got on top of her again pinning her down on the bed he pulled her arms over head with one hand and pulled her shirt up just enough to reveal her stomach. He looked down and felt his jaw drop. She was covered in cut and blackish/purple/blue bruises.
Jace felt tears coming to his eyes. Jace never cried. He got up and turned away from her so Clary wouldn't see his eyes watering. How could someone do this to their own daughter? And to Clary who was already so small and delicate to begin with. It made him so angry. He knew his hands were clenched into fists. He got up from the bed and walked over to the corner of his room to try and calm down. He ended up punching the wall as hard as could
Clary watched Jace pace back and forth she was started to become scared again.
"Why won't you just leave Clary!? Come stay with me where you'll be safe!" Jace didn't mean to but he was shouting "I can protect you here! I can keep things like that" he pointed to her stomach full of bruises "from happening to you ever again. Just stay hear and stop being so goddamn stupid!" He threw his arms up over his head.
He didn't think about his actions until Clary jumped so hard she hit her head on the wall. He looked at her then really looked at her at her posture curled up with her knees tucked to her chest in the corner of his bed. He noticed how big her beautiful green eyes were and how they were darting back and forth from his face to his hands. And he noticed the tears streaming from her eyes. How could he be so stupid acting like that in front of her. Acting like Valentine. No. He wasn't Valentine. He would never lay a finger on Clary.
He took a step towards her slowly and she cringed back making his heart sink. "Clary please. Look at me. I won't hurt you Clary. I would never. Look at me."
Clary opened her eyes and saw Jace standing in front of the bed. When he'd gotten mad she started to picture Valentine but she knew Jace wouldn't hurt her and she could see how hurt he was that she would cringe away from him.
Clary hurried over to him and hugged him tight. Jace wrapped his arms around her as Clary cried into his chest
"I would never ever hurt you Clary... I love you"
"I-i love you too Jace"