(Clary's Pov)
The next day I woke up with a searing pain in my stomach where I was stabbed. When I tried to get up the pain got worse. I winced when I finally got the energy to get up. I slowly made my way to the bathroom. Once I get in the bathroom, I can see a big hand print left on my neck and a bunch of bruises all over me. I lift my shirt up and carefully take off the bandage. When it's off I only see how bad the cut was, and without my stele I couldn't heal the cut or my bruises. The cut is red, swollen and still bleeding a lot.
I take off the rest of my clothes and get into my shower and lay down in the bath waiting for the water to rise. Once I'm done, I get out and I add some new medicine and put on a new bandage.
I made my way downstairs, grabbing my keys, and making my way to school. I hopped in my car and drove to school. Once I got out of my car everyone turned and stared at me. I then remembered that I never covered my neck and face, everyone could see the big hand print on my neck and the bruises all over my face. I put my head down and walked into school. I went to my locker and when I was there saw Jace, Alec, and Isabelle all by my locker.
"What are you guys doing here?" I said, opening my locker and taking out my books.
"Hello, I'm Isabelle and this is Jace and Alec!" Isabelle said perkily. I rolled my eyes and crossed my arms.
"Yeah, I already know about you guys," I said in an annoyed tone.
"So why do you have those bruises on you, why couldn't you heal yourself with your stele?" Jace asked with a confused tone. After that, I had enough with these guys. I turned around and started walking towards my classroom. While I was in class, I got a call from the institute telling me that some demons got loose.
"Excuse me, can I go to the bathroom?" I said, raising my hand.
"Sure." She said, turning her back to face the board. I grabbed my bag and jumped into my car. Once I got to the destination, I took out my seraph blade from under my car seat. When I walked out of the call, I saw that Jace, Alec, and Isabelle were there. I ran into the place, but when I went there were way more demons than I thought. I fought as hard as I could, but one snuck up behind me and attacked me. I killed him, but right after I started to feel the demon's venom. I dropped my sword and fell to the ground. While I'm lying on my stomach, I see the three of them run in. Alec and Isabelle go and finish off the demons when Jace comes over to me and picks me up. Bringing me to the infirmary. I passed out on the way there.
(Jace's Pov)
I picked her up and started carrying her to the institute. I looked down at her face, she is so beautiful despite the bruises all over her face. I then look down and look at the bruise on her neck, who would hurt her this way. Once we get to the institute, I lay her down on a bed and her clothes start disappearing. Before I can put a blanket on her I see a huge bandage on her stomach. I peel off the bandage and see a huge gash mark on her stomach, it was red and swollen and still bleeding. Why couldn't she just heal herself with her stele? I take out my stele and activate her healing rune, that is on her neck. Once I did that all her bruises and her big gash healed. After that, I could see her true beauty. I just sat there waiting for what seems like forever for her to wake up. She was asleep for the next two days.
"Hello, where am I?" Clary said, confused. Once I heard her voice, I made my way over to her as quickly as I could.
"Hey, how are you feeling?" I was concerned. At that moment, for the first time, she looked at me and smiled.
"I'm fine, thanks to you," Clary said with her head down and her eyes looking at me with a smile. She is so beautiful; I can't believe someone would hurt her like that.
"Would you like to tell me who gave you those bruises and that big gash on your stomach?" I was concerned. She then turned her head and looked away from me. I took my hand and put it under her chin and turned her head to look at me.
"I-I can't say." Clary said, stuttering, putting her head down. I have no idea what this girl has that the other ones don't. She is so much more different.
"Hey-hey, it's okay, I'm here you can trust me," I said in a confronting tone.
"Okay, so my full name is Clarissa Morgenstern. My father and brother are Valentine and Jonathan. My dad grounded me and I got mad and slammed the door and left before the conversation was over. When I came home, he was drunk and he punished me for leaving. He threw me around, he broke his beer bottle, and stabbed me in the stomach. I was going to use my stele, but he took it and broke it so I couldn't do anything but bandage up my stomach. " Clary with tears in her eyes, she turned her head while more tears came out.
"Hey - hey, come here," I said, standing up, opening my arms. She got up and made her way into my open arms. When I started to hug her, she started to cry into my arms.
"Hey, you need to get out of that house, why don't you stay here for a few weeks?" I said I felt horrible for her. As soon as I said that she lifted her head and gave me those puppy dog eyes.
"Really?" She sounded broken, her voice was scratchy, and was raspy, almost like she had been crying forever.
"We would be happy to have you here." As soon as I said that, she gave me the biggest smile. I just realized that I was still hugging her so I finally let her go.
"Well, we should go to bed, you could use some rest," I said, taking a step away from her and turning around.
"Yeah, we should, thank you for everything." She said getting close to me, and before I knew it, she was on her tippy toes and she kissed my cheek.