This one really doesn't have anything to do with the last chapter that was also entitled "Lightworm".
Clary was reading and Jace was listening to her breath as she did so. He was on top of her, his head resting on her stomach. He made sure that he did not put all of his weight onto her small frame. Every now and then, she would giggle at what she was reading. A few hours into her book, though, she busted out with laughter.
Jace smiled at her. "What happened?"
She held up her pointer finger to tell him to give her a minute to catch her breath. "Do you remember the whole thing about Benedict turning into a worm?" She asked.
"Yes, what about it," he said skeptically. When she had had him read that part of her book, he hadn't found it as funny as she did and she seemed disappointed. As small as it was, he still had felt like he let her down and he didn't want to do so again.
"Well- W-Will," she said between laughs, "Will came up with-with this name for the Lightwoods." She broke out in laughter again.
"Do I want to hear this?" He knew that his ancestor, Will Herondale, didn't get a long with Lightwoods very well. This was disappointing to him because his parabatai was a Lightwood.
She giggled. "I don't know."
He stared at her with curiosity. They both sat up and Clary tried to catch her breath again.
"What did Will call them?" Jace asked. He might have been a tad bit curious.
"Light-" she broke out in a giggle fit again. "Lightworms." She finally finished
Jace snickered. "No, I shouldn't be laughing at that!"
"But it's hilarious!" She exclaimed.
There was a knock on their door. "Come in!" Jace called.
Alec walked in and Jace and Clary looked at eachother, both of them trying so hard not to laugh. "Hey, we were wo-" He didn't get to finish his sentence. Jace and Clary lost their composure completely. They were laughing up a storm. Alec looked at them with total confusion, as Jace had done to Clary earlier.
"What did they say, darling?" Magnus walked in behind Alec.
Alec turned to him, still confused. "Not sure yet."
"What's so funny?" Magnus asked.
"Do-do you remember-" Clary was still talking between laughs, "-when Benedict Lightwood turned into a worm because-Demon pox?"
"Yes, but I fail to see where that's very funny," Magnus said. "Unless you're referring to something Will said, in which case, there probably is something funny." Magnus stared at them with his cat eyes. "Wait," Magnus began to giggle too, "are you talking about what he called the Lightwoods?"
Clary nodded and soon there were three of them laughing their heads off.
"What did he call the Lightwoods?" Alec asked his voice a mixture of confusion and hurt.
"You-you guys," Jace was trying to catch his breath. "We shouldn't be laughing at this!"
Magnus and Clary were trying to stop, but they just couldn't.
"What's taking so long?" Isabelle's voice drifted through the door. "And what's so funny?"
Simon was behind her. His eyes went straight to the book that was sitting next to Clary. "Demon pox?" He asked.
"Light-" Clary tried to say Lightworm but she couldn't talk anymore than that before her voice gave way to another fit of giggles.
Simon seemed to catch on though. "Herondale?" He asked.
Clary nodded.
"Oh, come on, that is just cruel!" Simon was laughing now too. "Stop laughing at that!"
"What did Will call us?" Alec asked again.
Isabelle was still staring at the scene before her. Magnus, Clary, Jace and now Simon were all laughing.
Magnus was the first to gain his composure. "I don't know if we should tell them, I think they might kill us."
"Yeah, probably," Clary agreed.
"Tell us!" Isabelle shouted.
"Will," Clary started. "Had a nickname for the Lightwoods."
"Which was...?" Alec said.
"Lightworm," Simon said between laughs.
"What?!" Alec and Isabelle exclaimed.
"Ok, ok, wait, let me explain!" Clary pleaded. They looked at her. "So, Benedict Lightwood liked... how should I put this?" She looked at Magnus for help. He had been there, he might know.
"I have no idea , biscuit, he was a strange man." Magnus was no help at all.
"Ok, well, he had Demon Pox," Clary continued. "Which, I believe somebody in The Infernal Devices said that it was basically a demonic STD? I'm pretty sure any way."
Alec and Isabelle looked horrified. "He had an affair with a demon?!" Alec exclaimed.
"Yes," Clary had stopped laughing, "and basically you need a spell or a potion or something to keep it under control or you turn into a demon. Eventually the person that he was getting the treatment from stopped helping him and he turned into a worm. Will hated the Lightwoods so he started calling them Lightworms. But it was all ok in the end. Cecily, Will's sister ended up marrying Gabriel Lightwood and they actually kind of became friend. At least I think."
Alec and Isabelle's expressions were priceless.
So, that was basically just some people laughing... it happens! I hope you laughed as much as I did writing this.
Did I get that story straight there at the end? If not please tell me, it's been a while since I read the books. I am planning on reading them here eventually.
Thanks for reading!!
