CLARY POV
"What the hell is taking the guys so long to find a cat! They've been gone for six hours and haven't texted or called!" I yell in frustration while training with Izzy. I am currently punching a forsaken dummy while Isabelle sharpened daggers.
"Don't worry about it! They are grown men and can handle themselves!" She said. We looked at each other and broke out laughing. "Who am I kidding, Jace is one of the most immature people I know!"she said between laughs. "Yeah, Simon could start a game of poker with a five year old and loose his life savings!" I blurt out. We finally recover from our laughing fit as the doors creak open and slam shut. Izzy and I creeped down the stairs to see who it is. All I can see is blurry gold smudges. I'm sorry I can't see so well from the small slots between the stair bars, but at least I knew that he was home.
"JACE!!!"
I yell, dashing down the rest of the stairs and leaping into his arms. He stumbled back from how sudden I came, but quickly regained his balance and hugged me back, placing a kiss to my forehead.
"Now?" I say, breaking out of his hold,"DON'T YOU EVER DO ANYTHING LIKE THAT AGAIN!!! NOT TEXTING OR CALLING FOR SIX FRICKIN HOURS!!" I finish my lecture, my face red with anger, and turn to our door. I could tell that he was caught off gaurd with my sudden out burst because he just stood there, frozen, and didn't right away follow me.
JACE POV
"Clary?" I say, walking into our room, looking for any signs of her.
After two minutes of looking I can see a ball of red fire behind the couch. "Clary?" I say again, this some softer. "Yeah." She whispered, getting from her hiding spot.
NO ONE POV
"Clary, I'm so sorry. I was going to call but the mundane got all crazy on me and tried to-" Her lips met his, stopping the endless ramble. Jace soon knew what was happening and pulled her closer. She wound her fingers in his soft golden curls as he did with her long, fiery locks. About a minute later they pulled away for air. Clary, still breathing heavily, said," Now you've made it impossible to stay mad!" Jace chuckled and wrapped his arms around her waist from behind, resting his head on top of hers. He buried his face in her hair and mumbled," I know," smirking.
Clary and Jace were snuggling on the couch in front of the fire when Clary realized Simon hadn't come home yet. "Jace, where is Simon?" Jace stiffened and remembered walking home right from their little fight, into the shadows. Clary, sitting right next to Jace, her head resting on his chest felt his muscles tighten. "Jace, what happened to Simon?"
Before Jace could answer, an angry Izzy and beat up Simon walked through the door. "What the hell happened to my boyfriend?" She yelled, pointing at Simon. Jace laughed, but quickly covered it with a cough. Clary smacked him in the arm and crossed her arms over her chest next to Isabelle. "Dude, you couldn't find your way home or something!" Jace laughed. Simon mock-smiled and said,"I could but then I wouldn't find my cat!" And he held up a dust and mud covered cat. This time Jace couldn't help it. He doubled over laughing. After a minute of laughing, Izzy cleared her throat. "Please explain his face!" She motioned to the bloody bruise on his jaw. Jace laughed again, now Clary joining. "You-you..want me... To explain what happened..to his rat face..!!" He choked out between laughs. Izzy chuckled knowing what she said but quickly stopped and became angry again. "The blood and bruise on his face and hands."
Jace sighed."We were looking for the damn cat when rat-face thought it would be a good idea to bad mouth the Clave and a Paribati, my Paribati. "Clary face-palmed and Isabelle sighed. No one bad mouths a Paribati to its other half, no one. And then," Jace continued," He asked me what Clary saw in me, because he said I was a angry coward and I punched him in the jaw." Izzy scoffed at her boyfriends stupidity. Has he met Jace. Did he really think he could get away with bad mouthing him and his Paribati and his girlfriend! "That kinda explains his jaw but what about his hands?" Jace furrowed his eyebrows." I have no idea what the stupid Vampire did to his hands!" Isabelle turned to Simon. He took a deep breath and began," after Jace PUNCHED me, I tried to take his seraph blade but the runes on it burnt me." There it was. The stupid truth. "Did you intend to STAB Jace with his own blade?" Clary piped up for the first time. "No, I just wanted his to think that I was going to!" Simon blurted out. Jace laughed and said," If you think I'm that stupid then you've got a lot to learn, bloodsucker!"
