Beneath the Skin

New Wounds Part 1

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*Some scenes contain mature topics that might be sensitive to some. If that is you, I advise you to skip past this chapter!*
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It wasn't long after that Jace gained composure and got off his knees, ignoring the blood stains on his gear- Alec's blood... He walked out of the bathroom, passing by Simon and pushing him out of the way with his shoulder.

"Hey!" Simon called out to Jace, "What was that for??" Simon wanted an answer and he wanted it now, but when Jace turned back around, glaring at him, he knew he had made a mistake.

Jace walked toward Simon and when he reached him, he saw that Simon began to shake. Jace didn't care in the slightest and picked up Simon by the front of his shirt, "Shut your damn mouth, Mundane." His teeth were clenched, showing no human emotion to Simon as he put him down and walked away.

That word... It hit Simon like a ton of bricks to the stomach. He knows how much I hate being called that..! Simon began to clench his fists and was about to follow Jace, but a hand grabbed his wrist, stopping him in his tracks.

"Simon, don't." It was Izzy. She had moved from her corner to keep Simon from moving, even though she knew he could easily move his hand away from hers. "Just leave him. His parabatai is missing and he can feel that he's in trouble." She tried talking sense into Simon, but she was still motionless, just like Jace had been moments ago. "Please." Izzy begged.

He turned around to face Izzy and she let go of his wrist. he had opened his mouth to respond to her, but was stopped by a SMASH coming from the living room, which made Isabelle unfreeze and run out of the bedroom where she found Jace, breathless, and glass shards all along the floor.

Izzy carefully walked around the shards, careful not to cut herself on it as she made her way towards her adoptive brother. "Jace," she started as she went to put her hand on his shoulder, but he smacked her hand away.

"Don't," He firmly said, pausing, teeth still clenched, his hands in fists. "touch me." Jace kept his head down, looking at the mess he had just made out of the many vases Magnus had in his apartment.

Isabelle couldn't help but start to tear up. She had never seen Jace like that before, and if she was being honest to herself, it scared her. "Look, I get it, Jace." Isabelle started to say.

Jace cut her off before she could even finish her thought, "No Iz, you don't!" He lifted his head back up to look his sister in the eyes, "You have NO IDEA how I'm feeling!" Jace's voice became louder the more he talked. "Don't tell me that you get it when you don't even have a parabatai! You don't know what it's like to be connected to someone like Alec and I are and you never will!" Jace was no screaming at Izzy, Simon standing in the background, baffled.

Those last few words threw Isabelle off balance, losing the will to speak. "J-" She tried to say his name but Jace just pushed her awake, knocking her off her feet, sliding into the glass shards. She screamed in pain as the shards dug into her skin at all angles, her scream echoing just as it had when she saw the horror of a bathroom.

Simon ran to her and was by her side in a millisecond, his vampire speed kicking in. He fell t the gorund beside Izzy who was biting her lip, trying to contain her screams. "Izzy!! Are you okay??" Simon asked her, watching as his friend, Clary's best friend, was bleeding. "Isabelle, can you hear me?"

Jace saw Isabelle lying there and it was as if he snapped out of the trance he was in. He looked down at his hands, turning the around over again, realizing what he had just done. "Iz-" He paused, "I'm s-so sorry!!" For once in his life, Jace didn't know what to do. So he ran. He ran towards the door, opened in, and ran out, never looking back.