I stared worriedly at my Wedding Bouquet...
I never wore heels because I was such a klutz. Isabelle was putting up my hair and I twisted my pinky finger in the ivory sash around the waist of my traditional gold shadowhunter wedding gown. We were 18, and Jace had proposed to me exactly one year to the day. The white anemone flowers laced into the bouquet were my mother's touch made specially for the bridal bouquet, Isabelle looked down at me in confusion.
"What's wrong Clary???" She asked, "aren't you happy???"
"I'm terrified..." I whispered.
"Why?" She asked, blinking, startled by my answer.
"Ever since I was a little girl, I had been dreaming about this my entire life...
What if I mess up and ruin it all... And it's not how I imagined it to be...?" I said, my voice trembling.
Izzy pinned my messy ginger braid into a bun, and sighed.
" Clary...you guys deserve happiness... You've been through so much, even more than Simon and I, or even Alec and Magnus... I mean for a while Simon and I called you two the institute's star crossed lovers...
Don't worry. Whatever happens, he'll be there to catch you when you fall... For the rest of eternity..." Izzy murmured and I nodded
"I-I'll try..." I said,Then I jumped, startled, when Luke took my hand: it was time...
The music that was playing was beautiful, a thousand years by Christina Perri, on piano,but I was so focused on the music that I didn't pay attention to my feet and tripped over a bump in the long thin carpet, I could feel tears welling up I looked up and saw Jace start to move towards me, when Alec, his best man, held him back, mouthing,
"She's gotta do it on her own!"
Luke helped me up, and an embarrassed tear slipped down my face, but I saw Izzy, my maid of honor, nod, encouraging me to go on, I smiled and nodded back-
I had been through worse than this, I triumphantly marched up to Jace and Luke let me go to him, I could see the relief on Jace's face that I didn't sprain my ankle or something, that would have been awkward.
As a shadowhunter preacher talked, I could see a tiny tear slide down Jace's face. I gasped, he hadn't cried since his falcon was killed when he was a little boy, he was finally letting go. I could see by the pure happiness on his face.
Then it was time to say our vows, which we had written ourselves.Jace took a deep breath,
"Clary...
We both know that it was obviously not love at first sight, but in the end it didn't matter, because we went through so much together, and you are such a beautiful, amazing little girl, and I know you hate it when I call you little girl, but there's a reason for it:
It brings back memories of when we first fell in love, before all the chaos of worrying we might be brother and sister kicked in,I know we've been through a lot of messed up stuff over the years, almost getting killed ten times over, in fact if it wasn't for you I'd be dead,but I wouldn't trade it for the world because without it we wouldn't be standing here today...
Like I said to you once before, there is no pretending- I love you and I'll love you until I die, and if there really is a life after that, I'll love you then. "The audience awed, and I could feel a tear slide down my cheek,
Jace wiped it away with his long fingers, and said
"Clary... Don't cry..."
I nodded, and started, my voice trembling with tears of joy.
" Remember when I first met you and I thought you were some kind of psycho killer? I think that should have foreshadowed the chaos that was going to happen in my life, but how could I predict that, as clueless as I was, as insecure as I was, that you of all people could possibly love me, I think the moment I realized I loved you was on my birthday picnic, but I figured, he couldn't love me, I'm too boring, he's probably got a crush on Isabelle, but then you kissed me, and all my doubts melted away...
There's a song by Christina Perri that says
I have died every day waiting for you
Darling don't be afraid I have loved you for a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more.
I can relate to that song, because I could have died many times, but before I met you, my life wasn't worth living, it was purgatory...
You saved me Jace.
And now I get to save you too."The preacher pronounced us husband and wife and we kissed in earnest...
As we slow danced on the dance floor later that night, I couldn't think of anyone I'd rather be with than my new husband...
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