Ey sorry I haven't updated for…. Errr 3 months. I'm not gonna give you excuses because I'm sure you know the pressure of end of year exams. :P . anyway now it's the holidays I decided to update and I promise to update frequently now because frankly I have nothing better to do. Love you guys. Please RnR

It was a trap.

Clary felt so stupid! Here she was trapped in the damn cave because she happened to want to believe that her mother was here. Just like that.

What's worse is she's trapped here with the guy she wants to kiss and punch at the same time. Talk about confusingly insane.

"Soooo….. what now?"

Did he really have to speak?

"I mean we're stuck here in the middle of nowhere –actually in the south- of Idris, in some cave, probably going to starve to death … we don't have a stele so I can't get us out because someone dropped it in the-"

"Oh so this is my fault? You're the one who wanted to follow up on something that was so obviously a trap!" Jace replied tauntingly. She just looked so adorable when she's angry… he can't help himself. Besides, he considers this as a lover's tiff.

Clary just grunted and didn't reply. Isabelle would find them eventually. She's going to start looking for them here in… a couple of hours. In the mean time she would just have to endure.

After a long silence, with Jace staring a hole on her back, she turned around and decided to make nice. "I'm sorry I got as here."

He playfully glared, but Clary didn't get the joking sentiment. "You should be. We're gonna be wasting a lot of time here because of you."

Ok, to hell with being nice, Clary thought.

"I know you'd rather spend your quality time making kissy faces with your girlfriend but you just have to endure not having physical contact with her right now because honestly whining will not teleport you back to her."

"Oh and sitting there uselessly in complete silence will?"

"God, Jace, I didn't mean to get us here okay? You're the one who decided to tag along. If it weren't for you, I'd have a stele right now. I'd be here sanely alone. And I'd have made a rune to get me out!"

"Ok, so maybe this is both our fault. Can we leave it at that?"

"Yes!"

"Ok then."

They didn't speak for two hours and thirty seven minutes. Not that Jace was counting. He finally snapped his silent composure. "I'm sorry about Aline."

Upon hearing her name, Clary stiffened and turned back to glare at Jace. "Did you have to bring that up? I don't even care!"

"Yes. I did and of course you care!" Jace finally snapped. He was tired of them pretending to be anything less than in love. "You care about who I kiss and get close to and I care about who you dance with. It's the way we are with each other and-"

"the it shouldn't be. Face it Jace, I'm your sister. This can't happen."

Jace groaned. He knew their situation very well. He doesn't like it but it won't stop him from loving her. Believe it, he tried. Unfortunately, reason, logic and apparently, even blood ties can't stop him from loving her that way.

"Can you stop caring about what others would think? This is about you and me! What do you want Clary? Do you love me?" He paused to catch his breath. "Because I love you."

Exhausted from being torn and pulled into two directions –the societal way and her heart's desire-, Clary slumped to the cave's ground. "I do… but-"

She was interrupted with Jace's lips on hers. "No buts. We love each other. We'll be together." He kissed her again. "Run away with me."

Their foreheads touching and breathing heavily, Clary said regretfully. "I can't. My mother-"

"We'll find her first."

And without letting her argue more, Jace kissed her with all he had. And she wasn't complaining. Already she had wrapped her arms around her neck and entwined her fingers with the roots of his hair. He had his hands around his waist and soon enough they were both on the floor with Clary on top of him.

Both continued to explore each other, both were fighting for dominance. Her hands found their way from his hair and down to his chest. Jace let out a strangled moan and pulled her even closer to him.

His hands wove their way around her waist, her sides, and were now making their way down her shirt. Just as he was about to reach her bra and unclasp it, there was a sudden gasp and light illuminated the whole cave.

Isabelle stood before them, a teleporting rune behind her, her hand on her mouth.

Reluctantly, they pulled themselves off each other, as Jace gave Clary a quick peck on the lips which made her turn red.

They were right in front of Izzy for God's sakes! She must think we're sick!

"You guys are sick."

And there it was.

They went through the portal in silence. Jace looking happy and pleased, occasionally touching his lips as if in disbelief that his biggest dream have come to life; Clary hiding a smile behind her blushing face, and Izzy with her eyes still wide as saucers.

They got to the Penhallow's manor in a second and all three of them went separate ways.

As Clary went to Magnus and Alec's room to tell them about the trap, Jace poked his head out his bedroom door, halfway inside.

"Clary?" he called. The goofy grin from the cave still in place.

"Yeah?"

"I know you remember last night."