Three Days Before the Wedding

Clary

Magnus conjured an arch and decorated it with the roses matching my dress. It was beautiful and everything was coming together for the wedding. I looked up and saw Jace on the terrace pacing back and forth. I really think that this wedding has him nervous like I never saw before. The next thing I knew, I was next to him without even knowing how I got there and held him in my arms. He looked at me with that smirk that just melts me away and kissed me lightly on my lips.

"You are going to pace a rut onto our concrete terrace if I did not come to stop you. This is not a dangerous mission you are going to or is it?"

"No babe, I am so sorry. It is my wedding too and I have to admit that I am nervous. Everything is looking beautiful and our day is almost here."

"Yes, it is, and I have to admit that I am nervous too. One way to look at it is that we will be married and it will be over. The wedding I mean."

"I sure hope you mean the wedding day, not anything else. Just kidding, because I do know what you mean, Mrs. Herondale."

"The name sounds like magic to my ears, Mr. Herondale."

Well, today is our wedding day. The list ended up being the immediate family, Maia, and Bat, a couple of Shadowhunter friends of Jace and Alex, Robert Lightwood and his new wife. I was really nervous even though I have wanted Jace since the day I met him. Magnus and Izzy help me get into my dress and they both worked on my hair and makeup. The best thing I loved about the dress is the fact that it was designed to hide my big baby bump. For one day, I will feel beautiful even though motherhood makes me feel good about myself, it does not allow me to be beautiful all the time. Jace doesn't care and treats me like I am the most beautiful woman in the world as far as he is concerned. Luke knocked on the bedroom door to let me know that it was time. He took one look at me and tears came to his eyes.

"Oh kiddo, you look so beautiful. I can not believe how my little girl has grown up to be a beautiful woman, wife, and mother. Jocelyn would be so proud of you."

"Thanks, Dad. I feel like she is right here with me."Well, let us not keep Jace waiting any longer.

"That boy has waited as it seems forever to marry you."

We walked out of my room and headed downstairs towards my new life and Jace, my Jace.

"Listen, I want to move the wedding up so that we can get married in one week. We have your gown and my tux, and the rings will be ready in another day. Are you okay with this?"

"Of course it is okay. I do not care when we get married as long as we do. Let us hope the others are okay with this."

Jace pulled me into his arms and kissed me. We went back to bed and Jace held me against his chest and we finally fell asleep. 

"Sorry guys. I do not mean to sound rude, but the nightmares I have been having had me on edge."

Magnus stood up and went to put his hand on Jace's shoulder.

"Jace, tell us about your nightmares."

"Clary and I kiss, start walking down the aisle and a guest stands up and runs Clary through the stomach and out her back with a Seraph blade. She was dead by the time she fell and I caught her. I wake up screaming her name. Clary has not gotten a good night's sleep in two days. I just want to marry her, wait for our child's birth, and go on with our lives. This is what I want but the reality is that we have to hunt down whoever is behind this plan to kill Clary and our child. He or she is out there, and we need to find them first."

Jace

I got into my tux and Alec had to help me with my bow. It was nerve-wracking trying to tie it with shaky hands. Why am I so nervous about it? I feel like I have waited forever to marry my Clary and make her completely mine. Once I was dressed I made my way downstairs and out into the garden where an arch had been erected for the ceremony. Izzy and Magnus made everything look so beautiful for Clary. I was pacing back and forth waiting for the ceremony to start. Luke said that he would go and get Clary so that I would not create a trench with my pacing in front of the arch. Clary must be ready because the music started playing thanks to Magnus and his magic. Alec came and stood by my side as my sungien and brother. Everyone watched as Izzy came walking down the aisle holding a pillow with Clary's stele. Alec was holding another pillow with my stele and our rings which I had designed out of adamant with both our family's symbol engraved to show the Fairchild and Herondale symbols. Then everyone stood when Clary arrived at the patios' double doors. I could not see her yet, but I knew she was coming. I looked up and saw this vision of the most beautiful woman in the world. My Clary was beautiful in her dress that was designed in white for the mundanes and intricate rosebuds in gold showing part of the Shadowhunter traditional gown. Her red hair was so vibrant and her smile made me gasp. I just wanted to run down the aisle and just take her into my arms, but it was her wedding day and I would not embarrass her in that way. The walk down that aisle seemed like it was taking forever, but I knew it was all my nerves and desperation. Finally, Luke walked Clary to the foot of the arch that was erected for the ceremony and gently kissed Clary on the cheek, then took her hand and place it in mine. He held our hands together and asked me to take care of his baby girl. He walked away to take his seat next to my mother and Clary and I stepped up in front of Jem, who was going to perform our wedding.

Jem

"Friends, family, and fellow Shadowhunters, we are here to see the union of Jace Herondale and Clarissa Fairchild. These two have professed their everlasting love for each other and will mark each other with the wedding rune. One in the hand and one over their heart."

Clary

After Jem said his part, Izzy stepped forward so that I can take my stele and mark Jace on the inside of his right arm with the wedding rune. Jace rolled the sleeve of his tux and shirt with a smile on his face and I marked him with the rune. He took a deep breath and took his stele from Alec and he marked the top of my right arm with the rune as I also smiled at him. He took a deep breath when he was finished and took a wedding band offered to him by Alec and placed it on my left ring finger. I took the other ring from Alec and placed it on Jace's ring finger as a tear just rolled down my eye. When I looked at Jace, he too had a tear running down his eye and just smiled at me with that beautiful smile of his. My Jace looked so handsome and almost made me gasp out loud when he winked at me. We turned to face Jem and he said that "Now we were one." We faced each other again and Jace pulled me into his arms and kissed me passionately, our first kiss as husband and wife. He pulled away slowly and we faced the guests as Jem introduced us as Mr. and Mrs. Jace Herondale. Everybody started to applaud and when we were about to step down of the dais to walk down the aisle, Jace stiffened and held my hand in his so tight that it actually hurt. I looked up at him and he was scanning the room looking at the family.

"Jace, it is going to be alright. This is not a dream. We are safe, I am safe."

Jace looked at me and smiled. He put his arm around my waist and held me tight as we started to walk down the aisle. Nothing happened as we made it into the ballroom without an incident. He took me into his arms and kissed me again, as his life depended on it leaving me breathless. We walked out of the ballroom and into the living room waiting for Izzy and the family to rearrange everything for the reception. This gave me a chance to sit for a bit and relax.

"Clary, you look absolutely stunning in that dress. I cannot see the baby bump and makes you look like when I met you the first time. I am so in love with you that it hurts. Now you are my wife who will soon have my son, completing my little family. I have been thinking a lot these past few weeks and have come to a decision if it is alright with you. I want to stay here at the manor, permanently. All I want is to live our lives, have a few more babies, and watch them grow and marry with children of their own. We have this huge house already, why go back to New York and go through all the trouble of finding a house and starting over. Unless you want to go back to New York. Idris is my home, but New York is yours after all."

"Jace, you are my home."

Jace

I am her home is what Clary said to me when I asked where she would like to live. In a couple of months, our baby will be here and we will reach a decision of where to live. I want to do right by my new family. Our wedding went well and soon we were drifting to sleep in each other's arms. The sun was shining through the window and woke me up. Clary was still asleep most likely exhausted from the wedding. I put some sweatpants on and I went down to the kitchen to make her some breakfast. An hour later Clary came into the kitchen just when I finished cooking. I poured her a cup of coffee and placed the plate in front of her and sat down next to her with mine.

"Jace, I was thinking about what you asked me last night. I think that I would like to stay here in the manor. This is the best place to raise our children. It is quiet and peaceful, besides having all the room we need. We already started memories here with our wedding and the nursery waiting for a baby to occupy it."

"Really? You will stay here with me at the Manor?"

"Of course, if this is what you really want. As I said, you are my home, no matter where we live."

I pulled her onto my lap and kissed her. She really loves me when she pleases me all the time, but I want her to be happy too. I never dreamed that my life would change this way. Up until two years ago, I was alone and never committed to a relationship, then Clary came into my life and changed me. Here I sit with her in my arms, married, and with our first child on the way in a few months. This is the perfect life I never thought that I would have, but now I do. Mrs. Clary Herondale, my wife, my love, and my soulmate, forever.