The Lost Shadowhunter

3

One week later...
"What's been going on between you and Jace? Things have been weird between you two." Izzy asks as she enters my room.
"Nothing, why?"I lie.
"You can't lie to me Arabella, I am your parabatai."
"Fine. We got into a bit of an argument on my first mission back. It was dumb." I state.
"If it was dumb, then why have you been avoiding each other since then?"
"You know I'm stubborn. I never back down, if Jace wants to fix things then he will. I don't care."
She sighs, "maybe you were in the fault here, Arabella."
"Are you saying that I should apologize?"
"Yes."
I scoff, "fine. Do you know where Jace is?"
"I'll find him and send him to you." She says, a look of satisfaction on her face as she leaves.
Just as I take my shirt off to change, Jace walks in.
"Izzy said you wanted to-", he stops, "oh."
"It's fine." I laugh as I slip a v neck t-shirt on.
"So what's up?" He asks.
"As much as it pains me to say this, I wanted to apologize."
He exaggerates a ghasp, "Arabella Ravenhart is apologizing for something?"
"Yes, if you'd let me finish," I roll my eyes, "I was really rude when you saved my ass from that demon last week, and I'm sorry."
"I accept your apology, and I'm sorry for being so hard on you."
"Great. So now that we've kissed and made up, what's our next move?"
"Actually we haven't kissed...yet." he responds.
I laugh, "another time then. Since I obviously suck at hunting demons, do you think you'd be able to train me a little bit?"
"Of course. How about we start now? We're both up, and almost everyone else is sleeping."
"Yeah, I'll meet you in the training room. I just have to get changed."
Once Jace exits my room I search through my closet for something decent to wear. I couldn't decide on anything cute, so I wore a black sports bra and leggings.
I go to the training room, and see Jace shirtless hitting a punching bag.
"Started without me I see." I state.
He turns to look at me and smiles a little. He motions for me to come over to him.
He immediately starts trying to hit me, which I block.
"A warning would've been nice." I bite.
"Do demons give warnings?" He scoffs.
I hold back the rude comments I'd like to spill.
As he's about to throw a punch at my chest, I quickly crouch down to block it. While I'm down I grab his ankle, making him fall onto the ground as well.
I stand up and chuckle, "come on Wayland, you should've expected that from me."
He nods and gets back on his feet.
I throw random punches and kicks, all of which he blocks, except one.
"Holy shit Jace, are you okay?" I ask immediately after accidentally punching him in the eye.
"I'll be fine. Let's keep going." He states.
"No. I literally just punched you in the face!" I say, shocked that he'd want to keep going.
"No offense Ara, but I've been hit a lot harder."
"Ara?" I ask, "I get a nickname now?"
"Yeah, why not?"
"No one's ever called me anything except Arabella or Bella, and the nickname Bella died along with my parents."
"I didn't mean to bring that up..." he trails off.
"It's fine, it makes a good distraction so I could do this." I quickly turn and grab his arm, flipping him over my shoulder.
I pin him how so he can't get back up.
"I like the nickname, by the way." I laugh.
He scoffs, "nice flip. But shouldn't we get back to training?"
"But that's so boring."
"Well I need to train, so you need to get up." He says with a smile.
"Make me."
He flips us over so he's on top of me.
"Is that a challenge?" He smirks.
"You know I love games." I smirk back.
He leans down and kisses me forcefully, which immediately return.
"Oh god, I'm sorry." We hear suddenly and look up to see a familiar redhead has walked in.
"Hey Clary." I state.
"Hi guys, sorry I interrupted whatever this is. I was just looking for Izzy." She stutters.
"I think she's in Alec's room." I start, and Clary leaves.
"Shall we continue where we left off?" Jace asks as he leans back in.
I put my hand on his chest, "actually, I think we should call it a night."
He nods and helps me up.
"I'll walk you to you room." He states.
The walk to my room is silent. It wasn't the awkward kind of silence though, it was comfortable.
"This is my stop." I state.
"See you tomorrow?"
"I wouldn't be anywhere else."
He's about a foot away when I call his name.
He raises an eyebrow.
I put a hand on his face, "thank you."
And I kiss him.
But it wasn't the same kind of kiss as before. It was more passionate, and slow.
"Goodnight, Jace." I smile ask walk I to my room and close the door.
"Gosh you take forever." A voice states as I close the door.
''Izzy! You scared me." I gasp.
"So, you and Jace?" She smiles.
"Me and Jace what?"
"Clary told me she totally walked in on you guys making out! She said you were rude about it."
"I knew there was something I didn't like about her."
"Does it have anything to do with the fact that she's Jace's ex?"
"They dated?"
She fills me in on everything that has happened between them in the past year.
"Wait. So they found out that they weren't related and they didn't get together after that?" I question.
"Nope. Clary is dating Simon now, the vampire."
"They're cute. I just never thought that her and Jace would've been together."
"I'll let you go to sleep and think about everything for a while. But you've got to keep me updated on your love life!" She says before she walks out.
I don't bother changing before I lay down and fall asleep.

I wake up the next day to Izzy sitting next to me.
"Good morning sleepyhead."
"What's up Izzy?" I ask, groggily.
"Downworlder rave tonight, you in?"
"Always. Is anyone else going?"
"Me, you, Clary, Simon, Alec, and Magnus. You should invite Jace."
"Ugh, I should've known this was an evil plan of yours."
"My intentions are pure, there's nothing evil about it. Anyways, I'm going to see if Jace is awake. Unless, of course, you want to?"
I laugh, "Izzy, no. Go wake him up yourself."
"Or we could both do it and scare the crap out of him."
"Now that's a plan I'm in for. Wait here."
I take a quick shower and get dressed.
"Let's do this." I state.
We go into his room quietly, making sure he stays asleep. We both stand on either side of his bed.
Izzy whispers, "one, two, three."
And we both start jumping on his bed.
"What the-" he starts as he jumps up.
Izzy and I both laugh.
"I should've known it was you two. I could've stabbed you, you know."
"But you didn't." I remark.
"I'm going to get breakfast. See you two later." Izzy states as she leaves the room.
"Okay, so there's a downworlder rave tonight and everyone is going. You in?" I question.
"I'm not the party type." He responds.
"So you're going to leave me alone at this thing? A vampire could kill me."
"You're more than capable of handling yourself, but fine. I'll go."
I smile, "I'm glad. See you tonight." With that, I leave his room.