Runes, Rings, and Little Things

Chapter 34- Christmas Special!!

{CLARY}

When they tell me to push, I push. When they tell me to stop, I do. I just feel so faint. I feel like I'm not the one in labor. This is my third baby. I should be a pro by now.

{ISABELLE}

When they stitch me up, they tell me it's a girl. A baby girl. Simon walks in with her sleeping in his arms. He hands her to me ever so carefully and I smile. "Name?" Simon asks with a hint of nervousness in his voice.

"I don't think I care anymore," I reply "But we have time to decide. Lots of it." I smile at him and let him kiss my head.

"What do you think of the name Emma?" Simon asks me. I think about it for a moment. I look down at the tiny tiny baby in my arms.

"Emma," I whisper to her. I smile and shake my head "I like that. But for a middle name? How about Marie?" Simon smiles and also nods. "Emma Marie Lewis. Oh, and Simon? We still have to get married.

{CLARY}

Nothing. I feel nothing. Empty. My baby lump is gone, as if stolen from me. I ask a frowning nurse what happened and where my child was, and she hands me a blanket with a cold baby inside.

"It would have been a boy," the nurse tells me. Would have been. Those words fill my head until I gather the unholy truth. It wasn't Isabelle's baby that didn't make it. It was mine.

{JACE}

Right now all I can do is hold Clary and cry. Clary practically threw him into my arms, but not literally. She made her point, though. I named him Bennett. Bennett Joseph Lightwood. But Clary cries into my arms as I lay the child in hers. She stares at the blonde head and closes his green eyes.
"Take him away! Take him away!!!" She yells at a nurse "PLEASE!" She bawls out. She sobs into my arm and I lay next to her on the bed. 'And the boy never cried again.' Those words haunted me. They aren't true, anymore. I cried and cried. And Clary never released a grip on my arm.

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Oh snap what happens neeeeext? M'Kay so comment thoughts and feels and stuff :)