If you haven't read Ryland's story you might want to before reading this

For anyone wanting a description of some of the characters

Max: Dark blue eyes, dark brown hair (almost black), olive skin, 5'9, sleeve tattoo on his left arm

Ryland: Has one green eye and one gold eye, blonde curly hair he likes to keep it short, 6'1 athletic, perfect blend of Clary and Jace

Henry: Gray eyes, wavy brown hair, light skin, 5'7 athletic

Rylie: Brown eyes, long curly black hair, 5'4, dark skin,

Jessie: Gold eyes, long curly red hair to hip length, 5'6, looks just like Clary with little traces of Jace

Damien: Muddy brown eyes, brown curly hair, 6' light skin, athletic

Twins: Blue eyes, blonde hair (Liam's hair is short) (Logan's hair is long) Liam 6' Logan 5'8 They are the splitting image of Jace like little carbon copies, Liam- athletic Logan- slender

Cecily: Green eyes, straight blonde hair a little past her shoulder, 4'9

I don't know when Jessie's story will be posted i'm thinking about finishing 'I'll Be There For You' first before posting her story I haven't completely decided yet but it will be soon the summary for both stories are at the end of this chapter

Thank you to every single one of you who've read my story and taken the time out to review and gave me advice I seriously wouldn't have gotten this far without you guys giving me the will to keep posting so thank you guys and I hope you enjoy

Jace's Pov

Years later…

I've come to the conclusion that Clary is insane I mean I've known she was insane for most of our marriage but today I knew for sure. "You are kidding right?" I asked with milk dropping down from my spoon back into my bowl.

"Why would I be kidding?"

"Because this is fucking insane what you are saying."

"When was the last time we saw the kids?"

"When we go over to our children's houses or when they need a sitter for like a night." I said Clary gave me the duh look.

"So why not take them?"

"Because we have way too many grandkids to take them all."

"Well I've already told everyone we would do it so buckle up because they will be here soon." She said picking up her plate and reaching for mine.

"I'm not done yet." I whined she rolled her eyes. "What about Jess and Logan? They live in a different state so surely we aren't taking-"

"We are taking them Jace and that's final I've talked to Jessie and Logan the kids are flying out for two weeks."

"Two weeks? As in fourteen days?"

"We don't get to see them so I figured we keep them for a little longer."

"We're going to be drowning in children."

"Fine I'll just call our children and tell them you said you don't want them." She knew how to get me always I sighed defeatedly.

"No we can keep them at least now I'll know how my parents feel when we all dropped our kids off with them at once at least they only have ten grandkids we have more."

"Stop being such a sour puss it's going to be fun." She said and somehow I really doubted that kids were going to be running all over the place it's going to be a mad house.

"We can go the zoo and maybe-"

"I am not taking that many kids to the zoo and there are babies so-"

"There's one baby and I'm sure the twins would help out with him."

"Oh yeah? Which twins? Because twins seem to be a very reoccurring thing in this family."

"You are really being whiny today you know that?" Clary came up behind me and rubbed my shoulders. "Just calm down it will be fun to spend time with all of them won't it?"

"If we go anywhere we will have to rent a bus for our fifty million grandchildren." I said sarcastically she pulled away mimicking me. "That's not funny Clary."

"That's not funny Clary." She said and I groaned.

"This is really immature."

"This is really immature." Her voice was getting higher pitched I groaned and then she groaned.

"I do not sound like that."

"I do-"

"I want a divorce," I said and she glared at me.

"You want me to bury you in the backyard and then collect on your life insurance?"

"My life insurance isn't where it's at it's more in my will."

"Oh please you're giving everything to the girls probably." She took my bowl which I still wasn't done with and started to wash it.

"Not really I tried to divide it between all the kids equally and then I picked my favorite grandkid and gave him a little something but you get most of it… The house, the cars, the properties I own, other than the house I'm Miami Liam asked for it."

"He saw you writing your will and decided to ask you for things? Sounds like our son."

"Well not really he was there when I was rewriting it and I asked if there was anything he actually wanted and he gave me a very ridiculous list of things and I told him to forget it and he asked for the house so I figured why not."

"And did you go around asking all the kids what they wanted of yours?"

"I'm not stupid…. They would try and kill me and make it look like an accident just to get what they want." I said jokingly of course because she would hit me if she thought I was being serious.

"What do you want to do today?"

"Aren't we getting a swarm of children today?"

"No that would be tomorrow morning I think Ryland's coming by early in the morning to drop the kids off and then Liam and Cecily will be here a little later."

"What about Jessie and Logan?"

"I have to call and find out what time their flight is I think only Jess is coming because Logan's working but I'll call later and find out everything."

"Well, what are we going to do today? I was prepared for pillow fights and throwing kids on to beds and stuff."

"You can throw me onto a bed." She winked at me.

"You might break a hip," I muttered which resulted in getting slapped. "I love you I was kidding stop abusing me." I tried to give her a kiss but she was still too busy glaring at me. "Are you gonna give me a kiss or no?"

"How about no." She said leaving the room sighing I followed her.

"Are you really upset?"

"Yes, you're a dick."

"I was just kidding babe I love you."

"You are so whipped I love it." She laughed pushing me back playfully.

"You are just evil….. Down right evil you hear me?"

"If anything you'd break your hip you are older than me."

"I'm like six months older than you."

"Doesn't matter you are still my old man with gray hair."

"Okay, first of all, I am not old and second I have no gray hairs on my beautiful golden head I will die with beautiful hair."

"Beautiful gray hair." She said giving me a fake smile.

"I don't have gray hair," I whined touching my head.

"Your right you are balding."

"Okay, I draw the line right there women! You can say I have a head full of gray hairs but do not tell me that I'm going bald."

"You're so sensitive." She pulled me down on the couch with her. "What do you want to do today?" She moved so that she was laying on top of her head listening to my heartbeat.

"I don't care, baby, whatever you want to do."

"It's weird not having kids in the house anymore right? I mean I know they've been gone for a long time but it just seems so empty now."

"Your right let's have another baby," I said and her head shot up and she shook her head aggressively.

"No no nooo… I was just saying I missed having kids in the house I do not want to go through all that again i'm very happy with our six children and as you said five million grandchildren."

"fifty million."

"Okay that is a bit much Jace and you know it."

"Well, when they are all together it just seems like so much remember when we all went to Disneyland together and our family couldn't even go on all the rides together because there are way too many children."

"You should have taught your sons to wear condoms then," Clary said still giving me that look.

"They don't listen…. Except for Logan, he was the only one who did listen and he was the only one who planned around children, really Logan should have given the boys the talk, not me."

"Logan had to plan for children it's not like he can just get a random girl pregnant and call it a day he had to actually be prepared."

"Didn't they all?"

"You think Ryland planned on having kids?"

"Well the first one was a surprise but I think the rest were planned."

"He called me freaking out each time."

"Okay…. Your right."

"I always am." She kissed my chest and then looked at me. "You know that our children were also not planned but everything worked out pretty well didn't it?"

"It worked out better than well."

Clary and I ended up at a little cafe she wanted to get some dessert even though we had stuff in the freezer and it was only like ten in the morning she didn't care though. "This is the best thing I've ever had in my mouth." Clary moaned biting her brownie ice cream blast whatever I raised an eyebrow.

"Really…. The best thing you've ever had in your mouth? Are you completely sure about that?"

"Don't be such a perv, Jace."

"I'm just wondering if I should-"

"Please don't finish that sentence."

"Fine I'll just keep my mouth shut and you can wonder what I was going to say."

"Trust me I won't be wondering because I really don't want to know." She took another bite. "Seriously just try this it's amazing." She led her spoon to my mouth.

"It's alright not the best thing I've had in my mouth but a very close second."

"Oh shut up." She threw her balled up napkin at me.

"I love you, baby."

"I love you too." She went back to eating her ice cream, I loved simple moments like this between us nowadays we did a lot of traveling so we had time for just the two of us but we were always running around doing things so I liked to take a break and just watch her eat and see how happy she was just doing simple everyday things.

Clary's Pov

We ended up going to Toys R' Us after because we didn't have toys and stuff for the littler ones Jace was groaning any time we went down an aisle and I said oh look at this he would roll his eyes and say great can we go now. "You aren't being enthusiastic…," I said picking something up randomly and putting it in the cart Jace took it out.

"This is a baby toy."

"But it's adorable," I said Jace shook his head.

"You said we weren't taking the baby."

"No, because he's with his other grandparents right now….." I said bitterly.

"Don't be bitter Clary."

"They only wanted him and I don't think that's fair if you take one you take them all."

"You've taken only one plenty of times."

"When we are going somewhere they others can't or if they don't want to go I've never purposefully said oh no I don't want to take the older ones I just want the baby because he's adorable."

"I think whatever makes it so Liam has fewer kids at night makes him happy."

"You would have been okay if say your mom came over when Cecily was a baby and just wanted to take her but not any of the other kids even though they wanted to go?"

"You didn't say that you said they took the baby."

"You don't listen to me," I said putting the toy back in the cart.

"We don't need-"

"It says for ages 6 months to one year so shut your cake hole."

"Might as well get everything in this section then." He said softly throwing something else into the cart.

"Don't tempt me, Jace, I have no problem spending all your money here." He rolled his eyes. "Why are you moody today?"

"I'm sorry I didn't sleep much last night I'll be in a better mood I promise."

"Are you upset about the kids coming?"

"No I'm actually looking forward to it I know I'm being a dick I'm sorry."

"Do you want to tell me what's actually wrong? Because I sleep next to you and you happen to snore."

"I miss having kids in the house too and then the grandkids come to visit which makes me miss our children more and it's not like we can just take a family vacation because they all have important jobs and I just miss them."

"We should get a dog or something," I said Jace smiled.

"Or I could get another snake or maybe a lizard."

"You have three snakes and some kind of creature…."

"She's a chameleon, Clary…"

"She's creepy and has weird little pinchy hands." I shivered remembering that one time Harlan thought it would be funny to put it on my head I screamed until Jace came and took it off of me, I laughed Jace raised an eyebrow.

"What's so funny?"

"Remember when Harlan decided to put her on my head?" Jace laughed leaning against the cart. "Okay, it wasn't that funny…"

"You screamed so loud I thought something happened to you."

"Something did happen to me! You conspired with our grandson to put that thing on my head."

"I had no idea he did that until you screamed."

"I really don't believe you."

"Ryland was there when it happened so I think you are looking at the wrong man." Jace's phone rang I stuck my tongue out at him while he answered it. "Hey princess." Usually, that meant Jessie or Cecily but now he had a lot more than two princesses and he came up with little nicknames for each of them I never kept track of all of them. "Why didn't you call earlier Jessie?" He said I sighed something probably happened and now they weren't coming. "Of course, pizza alright?" He said and picked up something pink I didn't get to see what it was before he put it in the cart.

"Everything alright?"

"Jessie's at the house."

"But we're not done…."

"The kids are hungry."

"Okay." He smiled at his lock screen before putting it in his pocket, it was a picture of him and Jessie dancing at her wedding and then his home screen was of Cecily's wedding.

When we got home we were bombarded by tiny humans jumping around.

"Grandma!"

"Pizza!"

"At least one of them has their priorities straight." Jace joked walking towards the kitchen with a kid hugging his leg.

"Hey, mom," Jessie said eating some crackers.

"Hey, baby girl." Jace was busy handing out pizza.

"Thanks for taking them are you sure you can handle them for two weeks?"

"I think we can manage." She rolled her eyes picking up another cracker. "Logan was working?"

"Yeah he's been really busy and I know he wanted to see you and dad."

"Well, hopefully he gets a little break on his days off now that we have the kids."

"Probably not he's been stressing a lot."

"About what?"

"You know how Logan is." She picked up another cracker but after the first bite she made a face and put it down.

"Is there something you'd like to tell me?" I asked she smiled.

"I'm pregnant."

"Oh! I'm so happy for you guys!" I pulled her into a hug. "You guys are happy about this right?"

"Yeah we are and the kids are pretty happy as well."

"Jace don't put soda in that sippy cup," I yelled he rolled his eyes.

"I want that!" A little voice yelled.

"No! Grandma got it for me! You have your own toy!"

"Here we go…." Jessie sighed.

"I just want to see it."

"I said no."

"Well, I don't care!" She grabbed the little-stuffed animal.

"You are going to rip his head off! Stop it!" He yelled.

"They can't behave like nice cousins this was them on the plane the entire time arguing," Jessie said and then looked over to the others who were sitting watching the two argue.

"I just want to see!"

"No!" He yelled.

"Grandma!" She yelled running over to me tapping on me.

"Yes, baby girl?"

"Does he have something I don't?" She asked.

"What?" I was so confused by that she sighed.

"Yeah," he said hugging his stuffed animal. "I got two dads and you only have one." He said Jace choked on his drink.

"Why is that relevant?" Jessie whispered to me.

"He's naming stuff she doesn't have," I whispered back.

"Ahhh…."

"Why don't you two go eat with grandpa," I said but Jessie was shaking her head.

"If you are gonna start acting out because we are here you're going to come home you hear me, young lady."

"Mommy I just-"

"No he didn't do anything and you started being mean to him you got something he didn't to stop being a spoiled brat no one likes that." She crossed her arms and started to cry.

"Come here, baby."

"Mom." Jessie groaned giving me that don't undermine me look that I have given so many times it's so nice to be a grandparent I can baby them all I want without feeling bad because it's not my kid at the end of the day.

"Is mommy being mean to you baby girl?"

"Yeah…"

"Cry, baby."

"Hey," Jessie said. "Do you want me to call your dad and tell him that you are already being bad too? Because he won't let you stay here."

"No…. I'm sorry please don't call him Jessie…"

"Go sit down and eat." He ran before he got yelled at again.

"When she leaves you and I can eat ice cream and watch movies we don't have to worry about mean ol' mommy," I whispered to her bouncing her up and down trying to get her to stop crying.

"And me to grandma?" I heard from the table beside Jace.

"Of course baby girl." Jessie was shaking her head. "So how far along are you?"

"Not very far I just found out two weeks ago."

"Found out what?" Jace asked.

"That I'm pregnant." She said and I knew he was happy but he would always view Jessie as his baby girl instead of a fully grown adult with children of her own.

"Tell him to keep his dick in his pants."

"Dad!"

"What's a dick?"

"Shit…." Was all Jace had to say.

"Oh, mom Kayla wanted to know if she could drop the kids off today because we are going out tonight and it would be easier for them."

"Where are you guys going?"

"Kayla, Cecily, and I are going out for dinner."

"What about your other sister-in-law?"

"Do we have to invite her?"

"Be nice Jessica."

"Oh come on mom do you even like her?"

"To a certain extent, I do she makes Liam happy and that's what matters I didn't like her when I first met her but she's grown on me."

"She always talks super slow when I'm around like I'm a freaking retard or something and honestly I do not see what Liam sees in her I think I should hit him upside the head a few times."

"I think you should let your brother be happy."

"I've done it a few times for Ryland and look at how happy he is with Kayla even if she did leave his sorry ass for a while things worked out in the end…"

"So you like Kayla but not-"

"I love Kayla and I hate-"

"Give her a chance Jessie."

"I will when you do…." She muttered, it was no secret I wasn't a huge fan of Liam's wife and even Liam knew that but I kept my mouth shut because he was really happy with her and I wasn't going to take that away from him. He was successful in the NBA and all his wife saw was dollar signs and not him so of course, it hurt but I supported him because he's my baby.

Jace's Pov

The second conclusion I came to today was that Clary was also a liar when she said all the kids would be over tomorrow because now we had all the kids I at least thought I was going to get one more night of peaceful sleep before I lost it for two weeks or maybe more depending on how long they trick us into keeping them, curse summer break.

"Hey, grandpa."

"Hey, buddy." Harlan plopped down on the couch next to me watching all the kids run around throwing things at each other. "Nice to have a conversation that doesn't involve poop or colors that look like poop or having to poop." Harlan laughed.

"I think I got over the poop thing when I-"

"Last week? Yeah, I know." He punched my shoulder. "What's grandma doing?"

"She's putting the little ones done for naps."

"How's your hand?" He had surgery again on it to make it a little better he looked down at it in his prosthetic and shrugged.

"This was my sixth surgery on just this hand alone I'm hoping they are done trying to do things to it I really hate casts where even my fingers are in it I look crazy."

"Remember when you were six and you had two of them?"

"Yeah I had to eat with my feet it was pretty awesome because mom couldn't couldn't yell at me and I got a lot of toys but it was also painful…."

"But look at the end result." He looked down at his hands.

"What's up loser? Hi, grandpa."

"Hey, Peanut." She didn't stay for long she ended up following the sound of her name.

"I'm gonna go see what everyone's doing," Harlan said standing up.

"I know being different than everyone isn't the best thing but you are amazing I hope you know that."

"I do because my mom tells me that every day, I wish I can be like everyone else but then I remember I have a robot hand and it hurts a lot when I punch people so hey there's a plus right?"

"Get out of here before I give you bad advice." He laughed and just as he was about to get up someone pounced on him I couldn't tell who it was until I saw bright red curls.

"What's up my dude?" Harlan said rubbing the wild red curls.

"Grandpa, can we play outside? Please?" His eyes were all his father.

"Go ahead but don't let the baby outside."

"Okay." He jumped off of Harlan.

"You know he's not a baby he's a toddler."

"He's one."

"That's a toddler."

"You're a toddler…."

"Nice comeback gramps."

"You better be quiet before I take that robot hand and start beating you with it." He laughed and lifted his hand up.

"I'll tell my dad on you."

"I am not afraid of your father."

"My mom?"

"She's slightly scarier."

"Try living with her…."

"I'll pass on that one."

Clary came back in I could tell she was tired from running around with them the entire day she laid down on top of and closed her eyes. "We are supposed to be keeping an eye on them outside."

"They came back in because they are getting tired."

"It's only like eight…"

"You do realize that five of them live in a different state where they are three hours ahead of us?"

"Oh right… I forgot about that…"

"Grandpa I'm sleepy…"

"Go to bed princess."

"Can you tuck me in?"

"Yeah, i'll be up in a minute." She nodded and ran up the stairs, Clary looked upset or something was bothering her at least. "What's wrong?"

"What do you see?"

"Huh?"

"When you look into my eyes? What do you see?" She asked out of the blue.

"Where is this coming from?"

"I just…. Please?"

"You wanna know what I see when I look into your eyes?" I took a step closer to her kissing her nose.

"What?" She asked kissing my nose back even though I hated it because it made me feel less "manly'.

"A beautiful little girl who held me when my mom died, a happy teenager who was glad to be home who lit up my world, a broken teen mom who did it on her own for our beautiful little boy, a mother of the most beautifullest little red head ever, a woman who only holds love in her heart, someone strong enough to raise crazy twins, and a strong wild energetic stubborn little girl, a woman who can deal with my stubborn ass, but most of all when I look into your eyes I see My best friend, my rock, my love, my life, my reason for living, the better part of me, my wife."

"I didn't prepare a big speech for you."

"Just tell me you love me too."

"You know what I do have a speech, our children are grown and have families now of their own, I never in my wildest dreams thought we'd make it this far, we always argued we always fought I always felt like we were doomed from the start but we always came back to each other we always loved each other and I cannot imagine my life without you." I leaned in to kiss her when a small voice filled the room.

"Grandpa... You promised to tuck me in." I turned my head to see my little granddaughter blinking trying to keep her eyes open.

"Come on my little princess," I said she lifted her hands up for me to pick her up. "I'm sorry, I was talking to grandma," I said walking towards the guest room.

"No! I want to sleep in mommy's room." She said softly laying her head back down on me I turned around and went to the room laying her down in bed. "Grandpa?"

"Yes, baby girl?"

"Can you sing to me?"

"Any request?"

"Twinkle Twinkle Little Star."

"That's a great choice."

"Daddy says I'm his little star so he sings it to me when he's home and mommy sings it too when he's gone for work."

"Well, I hope I can sing it as well as your dad does."

"I think you'll be better."

"Thanks, baby girl."

"I love you, grandpa."

"And I love you Kenzie." I was thankful for how my life turned out, I was grateful for Clary, my kids, my grand kids, my entire family, I owed all my success and all my love to Clary who was my entire life.

Ryland's story (out now)

Where Did It Go Wrong

Rylands always felt like he's had it all, the fame, the fortune, the girl who stole his heart when he was young, but things aren't always what they seem, one phone call will change his life forever just when he meets the women of his dreams… Will everything turn out okay in the end or will he lose sight in himself

Jessie's Story (Logan's Story as well)

The Perfect Life or Maybe Not

Jessica Herondale has always envisioned ending up with Henry and living a perfect life but with his dangerous job in the FBI tracking serial killers and Logan's eagerness to join in can Jessie stay grounded and finally get her happily ever after or will it be ripped from her in the blink of an eye