I don’t own The Mortal Instruments characters but the plot is mine.
Two months Later
My little baby bump is starting to show. It’s been two months since I came to live in the L.A. Institute. It really feels like home now. Carter has been training me every day since I came. I’ve been getting better that I ever could if I had stayed in New York. Carter is patient and a good teacher I learn things twice as fast. When I’m not training I’m helping Vic and Carter run the Institute when Arthur had ran off somewhere or helping Julian and Emma with the Blackthorn kids. I’ve been doing well babysitting two year old Tavvy. Tavvy was in my arms sleeping while I rocked back and forth.
“You’re going to be a wonderful mother” I turned to see Carter standing in the doorway watching me. He slightly leaned on the doorframe his arms crossed in front of his chest. I turned back to hide my blush and laid Tavvy down for her nap.
I turned back to Carter that was still watching me “thank you. It’s nice to be getting some practice before I have mine.” I walked across the room to the door. He stood up and backed out the doorway to let me out. I close the door gently behind me. When I turned, I bumped into Carter losing my balance. His arms were around my waist and our faces were inches apart. I don’t know who moved but seconds later. We were kissing. We stood there for a good ten minutes in a make-out session. We separated gasping for air. He looked at me and smiled. I smiled back and then we fell back into yet another kiss, but this one was much shorter and gentler like we could both break at any moment.
After separating again, Carter told me, he’d wanted to do that since he met me. I smiled at that and told him that I was glad to have him there and then told him that I would easily trust him with my life. He smiled and kissed me on the lips and said he would trust me with anything and that he would never cheat on me, in a million years he would protect this child even though it’s not his and me with every fiber in his body.
“I want this baby with you. Even though it’s not physically mine. I want to be his or her dad. He or she deserves one. I want to be that one.” Carter said moving one hand to rest on my baby bump. Tears started to stream down my checks.
Carter whipped them away “what’s wrong?” he looked worried.
“I’m just so happy.” I said smiling while tears still streamed down my checks. He kissed the tears away.
I haven’t been allowed to train much since I’m getting so close to my due date. I’ve really been working at running the Institute full time mostly now. I can’t do anything else. Vic walked into the office. She jumped and landed lying down on the couch. She asked me a few days ago while we were training together to be her parabatai I had accepted but we made plains to get it done after the baby was born.
“So Clary have you figured out the baby’s name yet?” Vic asked popping her gum afterwards.
I had found out I was having a girl but I hadn’t figured out anything to name her yet. “No. Why you got ideas?” I asked with a smile. I could use a few.
“Well… yes” Vic sat up on the couch now. The excitement was in her face. “So I was thinking maybe Jennifer Fairchild or Alexandra Herondale.”
Hearing that name was too much. I haven’t seen Jace or the rest of my family and friends I had left in New York since the day Jace cheated on me. “Why Herondale?” I asked in a quiet voice.
Vic’s smile fell from her face “I’m sorry I thought you would want your child to have a little piece of her real dad.”
“I like the name” said a voice from the door. I looked up. Carter was standing in the doorway. “I think it will be nice for the girl to have something of her fathers.”
I ignored his comment. I didn’t want my child to have anything of her father’s. “I like the name Alexandra and for the middle name I want it to be Isabelle. And for the last name…” I said looking down at my hands in my lap. “How about Bloodrose” I had been thinking about it. I wanted my child’s name to be special. I didn’t want her name to be Herondale or a mundane name like Fray. I looked up at them and saw Vic look at Carter with a wide smile on her face that made her eyes crunch at the ends. Carter also had a big smile on his face. He looked at me with so much love in his eyes.
“Alexandra Isabelle Bloodrose. I like it.” Carter said walking around the desk and giving Clary a kiss on the lips. I loved the name too. It reminded me of two people I had left behind in New York. The name Alexandra reminds me of Alexander but we called him Alec whom I got really close to in friendship the past few months before I had left. The name Isabelle for well Isabelle but we called her Izzy one of my best friends before I had left. I wonder if they miss me as much as I miss them.
Seven months later:
It had been a long labor but I had done it. Now I was holding a beautiful baby girl in my arms. She had my red curly hair but she had Jace’s facial fetchers. She had Jace’s golden eyes but with a green tent to them and freckles all over her little face. Carter was standing next to the hospital bed looking down at the baby and me. He was so happy the day I decided to give the baby his last name. It was better having him here. I wouldn’t have wanted anyone else… actually that’s a lie I would love having Jace here to see our beautiful baby girl but he made his choice to leave me to leave us. I sometimes have to remind myself why I left, that I hate Jace, and that he doesn’t love me anymore.
After leaving the hospital with my little Alexandra, we went back to the Institute where everyone was waiting to see the newborn baby. Vic was at the door waiting for us to walk in so she would be the first to hold Alexandra. We spent an hour passing her around to everyone who wanted to hold her.
I took her upstairs to her room that connected to mine. I sat in a rocking chair and fed her before putting her in her crib to go to sleep. I watched her peacefully sleep in her crib while my mind was somewhere else.
I thought about how after 9 months of pregnancy I finally had my beautiful baby girl here with me. I thought about how I would protect her with my life. Lastly, I thought of Jace and how we made this beautiful baby but he would never see her because I will protect her from everything even if one of them was her father.
