Accidental Life (On Hold)

Chapter Thirteen

Jace's POV

Instead of leaving, I quietly made my way upstairs and pressed my ear to her bedroom door, hearing her loud sobs.

Knowing that I couldn't help her, I walked back downstairs and pulled out my phone, calling rat-face.

"What do you want? Izzy doesn't want to talk to you."

"Not about Izzy. I'm over at Clary's and she took a phone call after the pizza got here and she about started crying. Then, she got another phone call and was extremly upset. She told the woman that she would get a restraining order against her and that she wished she would've died in prison. She basically told me to leave, stormed into her room and locked the door, but I could hear her crying. What do I do?"

"Shit. Nothing. Leave her alone, I'm on my way." He hung up and I looked to the baby monitor as Lily started to fuss.

I rushed upstairs and into her room, seeing Lily standing up in her crib, looking like she was going to try and break out.

She reached out for me and I smiled, picking her up and keeping her on my hip. I grabbed her sippy cup and walked downstairs, filling it back up with apple juice.

"Mama." She said and I tightened the lid before handing it to her.

"Mama will see you soon, sweetheart." I sat down on the couch and turned on that Paw Patrol show that she likes.

She laid back against me like she had done to Clary earlier and stared intently at the big screen up on the wall.

Eventually, the front door opened and Simon and Izzy walked in.

"She still locked in her bedroom?" I nodded to rat-face. "Iz-"

"Go. I'll take care of Lily. I know that she needs to talk about things that I'm not allowed to know." He kissed her cheek and took off running up the stairs.

She turned to me and Lily, but focused on Lily.

"It is way past her bedtime, what is she doing up?"

"Clary locked herself in the bedroom, so I went and got her when she started fussing. I didn't know what to do, so I did the two things I knew how since I knew Clary had done it. I made her some apple juice and turned on Paw Patrol."

She sighed and walked to us, taking the sippy cup from Lily, which made her whine, so Izzy replaced it with a worn out blankie.

Izzy walked to the kitchen and soon came back with the sippy cup. "You give her water before bed, apple juice will keep her awake longer. Too much sugar." I nodded.

"Please forgive me, Iz. I need you, I have no idea what I'm doing with her. I'm so sorry for everything I did. What can I do to get you to forgive me?" Her eyes softened and she sighed.

"Be there for Lily and don't ever hurt her. If you do, you're dead."

"Thank you, Iz." She sat down beside me and leaned against my shoulder.

"You're welcome."

Clary's POV

I heard my door being unlocked and then opened, but I continued my sobbing into my pillow.

"Clare?" I heard Simon's voice. "Hey, what happened?" He laid down beside me and I turned to face him, crying into his chest. "It's okay. Shh. I will never let that bitch get to you. Never."

He rubbed by back and talked to me, eventually getting me to calm down.

"Tell me what happened."

"I kind of forgave Jace when he came over and I let him stay and we had pizza after Lily went to bed, but then I got a call from Patrick, the head Detective on my case all those years ago and he told me that he was sorry because he forgot to call me when Jocelyn got out of jail. Then, Jocelyn called me and told me that she was sorry for everything she did and she hoped that I could forgive her, but I told her that I wished she had just died in prison. I hung up, told Jace to leave and came up here."

"She will never touch you ever again, Clare. I won't let it happen. Whatever I can do to help, I'll do it. Anything." I sniffled.

"Could you call Patrick back and tell him to set up the paperwork for a restraining order?" He nodded and kissed my forehead.

"Of course, I can. I'll be back. Do you need anything else?"

"Some water? My head is pounding." He nodded again and left the room, but my fears and anger washed away as I began to fall asleep.

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The next day, my head was once again ponding and I got out of bed, walking to Lily's room and finding her asleep in her crib.

I turned to go back to my room and Jace emerged from the bathroom at the end of the hallway. Ufortunately, I was only wearing a t-shirt and panties, so my legs were on full view, which he definitely took notice of.

"Fuck off, Jace." He looked up at my face and I walked back to my bedroom, aware of his eyes on my ass.

"I'm sorry. Can we talk?" He entered my room and stood just inside the doorway as I slipped on my robe and tied it around me.

"About?"

"Last night."

"What about it?" I played dumb.

"Those calls you got. They made you upset. Why?" I scoffed and started to make my bed.

"That's none of your damn business. If I wanted you to know, I'd have told you. And, I'll never be close enough to you, to tell you. So, forget it ever happened." He shook his head.

"Can't do that. I get that you don't want to tell me, but I won't forget it. I just wanted to know if you were okay."

"Nope. Not okay, but thanks for asking." I replied in my bored/irritated tone.

"Could I, by any chance, have Lily for today?" I actually looked up at him this time.

"No. I don't trust you enough for that yet. Besides, the nanny is coming over and I have an appointment to get to."

"What kind of appointment?"

"A 'none of your business' kind of appoontment." I grabbed my towel from the hook. "Now, I need to shower, so if you want to do something, wake Lily, change her diaper and put her in the outfit I set out for her yesterday." He nodded and left my room while I went into my adjoining bathroom.

I showered, brushed my teeth, dried my hair, brushed it and then got dressed in a maroon spaghetti strap shirt, black jeans, a sweater and black ankle high boots.

In all this time I was doing that, I still come to find Jace truggling to put a diaper on a sleeping Lily as she lay on the changing table.

"Exactly why you can't have her for the day. You can't even change a diaper." I moved him out of the way and changed the diaper myself in a matter of about forty seconds.

God, he is so fucking clueless......