Chapter 1: Home Again

Hello everyone! Welcome to the sequel to Rock Star; Life After. If you haven't read Rock Star yet, I highly suggest it because this story will make more sense, but hopefully you should be able to follow the story without having read Rock Star. This story will update every Tuesday and Friday. I hope you enjoy the chapter, and the story! If you have and comments, questions or suggestions for the chapter or the story, leave them in the review and I'll get back to you in the next chapter. Enjoy!

"I can't believe it's been three months - it feels like we left L.A. a week ago," Jace says, shifting his bag to his other hand so he could hold his fiance's hand.

"I know what you mean," Clary says, turning back to get one last look at the building they had called home for the past three months. They had come here straight after everything had finished up with Clary's band. Since then, they had done almost nothing except relax and just be with each other. "But I think it's time to go home."

Jace smiles down at her, and then leads her towards the boat that was waiting to take them to the mainland.

After a little while, they are seated next to each other on a plane, holding hands once again, ready to go back home. Clary was aware of people taking photos and videos of the couple as they walked past, headed for their own seats, but she chose to ignore it. She was determined to cherish these last moments of their holiday, and a few photos weren't going to get in the way of that.

"I can't believe we're going home; to our home. It's finally done. We haven't seen it since…" Jace says trying to think of the last time they had visited L.A.

"That would be since the Oscars," Clary says, poking Jace in the side as he rolls his eyes. They had taken a brief intermission in their holiday to go home so they could attend the Oscars. Jace ended up winning best actor for his role in the David Bowie movie, and the film had picked up a few other awards on the night. Clary had taken every possible occasion to bring this fact up, and for possibly the first time ever, Jace was choosing to be humble about his achievements.

"Whenever it was," Jace says, quickly moving past the topic, "it still wasn't finished. It'll be good to finally see it."

"Well just sixteen more hours and then we'll be home," Clary says, quickly kissing Jace on the cheek as he falls back into his seat with a moan. "Sixteen hours isn't that long," she says, giggling at her fiance's expression. "A couple of movies, some dinner and a sleep - we'll be there before you know it!"

"I don't know how you use to fly so much," Jace says, looking over to Clary. Clary had been in a band for over six years, where they had done five global tours, which equated to a lot of flying time.

"You get used to it," she tells him. "Besides, I would usually sleep on the plane."

"Whatever," Jace says, starting to swipe through the available movies on the screen in front of him.

Hours later, they get out of the car in front of their new house. They both stand at the gate for a while, just looking.

"It looks exactly like I'd imagined," Clary says, after a while of silence. She moves towards the front door, and puts in the code to unlock it. Before she can move into the house, Jace grabs her arm to stop her.

She looks back at him confused. He moves to grab the bag out of her hand, and places it on the ground next to his. He then proceeds to pick her up bridal style to carry her through the front door.

"We didn't just get married," Clary says, laughing.

"I don't know… feels right. Christening the doorway or whatever it is," he says, moving further into the house, still carrying Clary.

"You know you can put me down now… your doorway's been Christened," Clary says, watching Jace's face as he looks around at their new home.

"I know… but I'm not going to," he says, finally looking at Clary. "Welcome home, baby."

Clary looks around the room they are standing in. Once there was furniture inside, it would become a sort of welcoming slash living room. The actual living room was further into the house, closer to the kitchen. Jace walks them through to this area, and gently places Clary down on the kitchen island.

He then goes and opens up all the big sliding doors that lead out to the backyard. He looks back at Clary and holds a hand out for her to grab, before lightly pulling her out into the yard.

There was a wooden deck that dipped into the grass where there were bluestone stepping stones that lead to the pool. The grass went on for a while before hitting the edge of a small cliff which dropped down to a beach. Clary smiles up at Jace before running towards the staircase that leads down to the section of beach that came with their house.

After exploring the beach and the rest of the house for a while, Clary and Jace lay in the grass in their backyard.

"There should be a truck arriving with the furniture that was in storage from my old house," Clary tells Jace, "so we can use that to live for a little while, and just replace and add to it as we find things that we like."

Both Izzy and Magnus had offered to shop for furniture for the house, or to hire an interior designer to deck it out, but Clary and Jace had agreed that they wanted to find the furniture themselves.

They had already bought a massive picnic table in Greece that was going on the back deck, and Clary and Jace had researched some antique furniture stores that they wanted to go to, to find accessories for around the house.

Jace is about to respond, when they hear a knock at the front door. Jace rolls onto his side and smiles at Clary, before slowly getting up and holding a hand out to her, to help her get up. They go to the front door, where the moving truck man is.

They spent the next few hours getting the furniture, and finding the best place for it at the moment.

They go to bed that night, absolutely exhausted, but excited about the prospect of turning their new house into a home.

"So now that we have some furniture in the house, and we're finally getting back to reality… I think it's finally time to start organising… some other things," Jace says, smiling at Clary. They were sitting on the edge of their deck, looking out at the ocean while eating breakfast.

"What did you have in mind?" Clary asks, moving her spoon around her bowl to mix her yogurt with the muesli.

"Well I did propose to you over seven months ago. I think it might be time to start talking about our wedding… maybe think about a date, or location…" Jace says, looking into Clary's bowl and taking one of the raspberries.

"You really think you proposed to me?" Clary says, grinning at Jace.

"I remember asking 'Clary Fray. Will you marry me?'," he says, quickly grabbing another raspberry. "I don't see how you could think otherwise."

"I remember running through an airport to stop you from leaving me… and then pretty much proposing to you," Clary says, lightly hitting his hand as he tries to take another raspberry. "There's lots of video's if you need a reminder."

"Okay well… whatever. I think we should start planning. And I'm going to get some more raspberries because you're not nice enough to share," Jace says, sticking his tongue out and then getting up and heading into the house.

Clary's phone begins ringing, and she picks it up to see Simon's face on the screen.

"Hey Si, what's up?" Clary asks.

"I heard you guys were back. What are you up to?" he replies.

"Well we've just been getting used to the new house… planning our wedding apparently," Clary says, as Jace sits back down next to her, with a punnet of raspberries.

"It's about time…" Simon says, laughing.

"So I've heard. Anyway, are you busy tonight?" Clary asks.

"I'm sure we're free. What have you got in mind?" Simon asks.

"Jace and I were talking about having everyone over to the house. I'll have to warn you; it's majorly under-furnished," Clary says, looking over her shoulder and back into her house.

"I can live with it. We'll be over at seven?" he says. "Oh, Izzy just got home from her cycling class - I'll see you tonight."

"See you later Si," Clary answers, hanging up the phone.

"Izzy and Simon coming over tonight?" Jace asks.

"Yeah, at seven. You call Alec and I'll call Kit?" Clary says, already dialling Kits number. Jace kisses Clary on the side of the head before going back into the house to get his phone.

"Hey, Christopher," Clary says once Kit answers the phone.

"Clarissa," he says. "What's going on?"

"Everyone's coming over tonight to check out the new house, have some drinks. Probably some pizza. You free?" Clary asks.

"For drinks and pizza. Hell yeah!" he says.

"Okay, well it starts at seven. I'll see you tonight," Clary says, laughing a little.

"Jace, I'm going to go have a shower," Clary yells out, walking into the house.

"Okay," he says back. Alec and Magnus are good to come tonight," he says, lightly kissing her on the temple.

When Clary comes back to the kitchen around ten minutes later, Jace is sitting at the bench on his laptop.

"What'cha looking at?" Clary asks, wrapping her arms around Jace's waist and resting her head on his shoulder, looking at the laptop screen. It was a big house on a property in upstate New York.

"I thought it might be nice for the wedding," he says, scrolling through some more photos.

"Looks nice. I've also thought about getting married in France? Somewhere close to where you grew up. It was just so beautiful there," Clary answers.

"We've got all the time in the world to plan," Jace says, opening up a link for a new location. They keep looking through locations all over the country, and a few overseas when they hear a knock at the door. Clary kisses Jace on the cheek, and then goes to the front door.

Izzy and Magnus are waiting on the other side.

"You guys know you're not meant to be here until seven, right?" Clary says, laughing a little, but letting them into the house anyway.

"We know, but Simon told me you were finally starting to plan your wedding… and obviously we had to come help," Izzy says, holding up a binder.

"You two made a binder for our wedding?" Clary says in disbelief.

"Look, you and Jace are cute; but you're not cut out to plan a wedding," Magnus says. "And no wedding planner is going to take care of you like we will."

"Isabelle, Magnus…" Jace says, spinning on the chair to face them. "I should have known you'd be here. You probably heard us talking about our wedding all the way from your house."

"More like I heard Clary talking to Simon about it," Izzy says, "and really. You tell Simon but not me? I thought we were friends, Clary."

"You probably would've found out tonight," Clary says, shrugging.

"Ten hours later. Not acceptable," Izzy says, dropping the binder onto the kitchen island next to Jace's laptop. "Oh look Magnus, how cute. They were researching locations."

"Ohh France," Magnus says, looking at the screen. "Maybe they will be open to our bigger budget plan!"

"I've been shopping with both of you," Clary says, laughing. "I don't think we can afford your bigger budget."

They all talk it over for a while and decide that they don't want to get married in a big city, and are open to getting married in France. Clary also brings up how pretty the hotel looked when Jace was planning on proposing… with all the lights and candles, and Izzy says they'll definitely be able to bring that into it.

"Also we should go wedding dress shopping as soon as possible!" Izzy says, as Jace ushers her towards the door.

"We made a list of shops, we'll send it over!" Magnus yells into the house, just before Jace shuts the door.

Clary takes a deep breath. "Well that was a lot."

Jace laughs and grabs Clary hand, "at least we know they're on board. And I'm thinking about a swim," he says, pulling them towards their bedroom to get changed.

"We've got to get drinks for tonight; I was going to do it earlier, but…" the fact that Isabelle and Magnus had taken up their entire morning and a good chunk of their afternoon hangs between them.

"We can go quickly and still have time to squeeze in a swim," Jace says, grabbing the keys for the car and changing direction, so he is now pulling Clary towards the garage.

"Whatever you say," Clary says, running a few steps to catch up to him.

When everyone comes over later that night, Clary and Jace are still in the pool. After a quick tour of the house, they spend the rest of the night in the pool, drinking and eating pizza, and sharing stories of their adventures from the past three months they had spent apart, which suddenly felt like no time at all.

Hopefully you enjoyed that chapter. I promise the story will have drama in it, but I just thought it should start out nicely. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions about this chapter or the story, let me know in the review and I'll get back to you in the next chapter! Have a great week.