"Jace," I screamed as I sat up in bed, awoken by a nightmare. I was shaking, and I tried to calm myself. These nightmares were reoccurring every night ever since we all left Idris. I don't know if anyone hears them, but I haven't told anyone what happens in them. It was something I didn't want to remember in the daytime that my mind can escape from.

All of the sudden, a bolt of lightning struck outside my window, and I jumped. The trembling started again, and I took breaths to try and control it. Thunder came rolling around then, and that's when I knew that I wasn't going to get anymore sleep tonight. Jace might scold me in the morning for it, but I wouldn't care.

Jace is the love of my life. He's saved me more times these past few months than I have saved myself ever. We used to think that we were brother and sister, but now, to both of our relief, we aren't! I don't know how happy that I was when I found out that we were able to date. I've never made a wrong decision about him. I could never.

I shot out of bed at the next thunder roll, and I grabbed my training gear. I walked quietly out into the hallway, hoping not to wake anyone as I went. After I reached the end of that first hallway, I ran to the training room, knowing that I wouldn't hear anything outside as I trained, to my relief.

I opened the door to the training room with a sigh of relief as the door was closed. I walked over to the weapon's, and I picked mine up.

"Milisi," I whispered, and it started to life. I started practicing the moves, cutting Milisi's blade through the air. It was so relaxing to me as I practice. I didn't even notice when the door opened until it closed. I spun around to find Maryse Lightwood entering the room. Maryse was Isabel and Alec's mother. She was also Jace's adoptive mother.

"Mrs. Lightwood," I gasped as I put Milisi away. "I'm sorry if I woke you. I didn't expect anyone to come in here. I'll leave if you would like."

"No, it's alright, Clary," she waved her hand to dismiss it. "I was just coming in here to see if you were fine."

"I'm alright, Mrs. Lightwood," I replied.

"Clary, hopefully this will be the last time you call me that," she said as she raised her eyebrow.

"I'm sorry, Maryse," I answered.

"You must have had a bad night, I guess," she asked. I nodded. "Why don't you and I train for a change, huh?" I nodded, and we both walked over to get our weapons.

"Milisi," I whispered to active my weapon.

"Rais," Maryse said to active hers. Then she made her first move. We went back and forth between making moves between each other, and our fighting increased. I was glad to say that I was able to keep up. Maryse has been able to fight all her life, and that was longer than Jace and my life all together. She was also in the Circle with my father and mother. My father, Valentine, was the leader, while my mother was the one who planned against him. Now, almost everyone who survived, is against him.

"Argh," she yelled as she slammed her weapon down on the ground as she missed me just by a second.

"Maybe we should do hand to hand combat," I suggested as I breathed in and out. She nodded, and we both put our weapons away. Once we did that, we put our hands up to defend ourselves, and we began. Hand to hand combat was my weakest, so Maryse had the upper hand.

"Hah," I yelled as my fist slammed to the ground. She tried to get me in the back, but I moved out of the way before she was able to.

"What's going on," I heard Jace's voice question as he entered the room, but I kept my eyes on Maryse. I knew that I would have to watch her, and I couldn't get distracted. I decided to try and see if my round kick would be able to get her down, but she was able to side step it.

"Clary, why don't we stop for now, so we can both answer Jace," Maryse suggested. I nodded, and put my hands down. Jace walked over to me then and engulfed me in a hug. I rested my head into the croak of his neck and started to relax. My nightmares always involved him, but I haven't told him about them yet.

"Why are you up so early," Jace questioned. When I looked around, Maryse was gone. She must have gone back to her room.

"I needed to train, so I came down here," I lied. He just kept staring at me, trying to figure out the truth. I sighed and started again, "I had a nightmare again." He instantly recognized what was going on.

"The last time you told me you had a nightmare was a couple of weeks ago," he examined. "Haven't they stopped?" Tears sprung to my eyes as I shook my head.

"How did you find me down here anyways," I questioned.

"I woke up to the lightning and thunder, and I thought that you might be awake because of it, so I went to your room. When you weren't there, I started searching everywhere for you in the institute, and I found you here with Maryse." I nodded as I took in this information.

"How did you know that I was afraid of the thunderstorm," I questioned.

"Simon told me," Jace admitted. I should have known. Simon had been talking to Jace about me a lot for a while now, but I didn't really pay attention.

Jace's lips kissed mine softly before he pulled away. "Let's go," he stated before putting his arm around me. I rested on his shoulder as he took me to my room. There was still the thunderstorm outside, and it made me jumpy, but Jace didn't seem to think of it as a teasing moment. He had a frown on his face every time I did jump. He kept telling me that I was alright.

I entered the bedroom and walked into the bathroom to change. Once I did that, I walked out again to find Jace sitting on the bed. I walked over to him, and he pulled me down as he stretched out his legs to lie next to me. I jumped again as a thunder roll passed through, but I could tell that it was distancing itself from us, to which I was glad.

"Go to sleep, Clary," Jace whispered as I rested my head on his chest and started to doze off. "I'm here to protect you." Then the darkness took me.