AN: thank you guys so much for all the reviews, favs and alerts, you've been awesome but alas this is the final chapter, more of an epilogue really. I do have some ideas for other TMI fics, one is a Hunger Games AU but I won't be writing any for a while since I want to focus on my daemon!AU.

Sorry, it's pretty short but I hope you guys don't mind but all is said and done :)

"Can't sleep again?"

It was 3am. Jace was sitting in the Institute greenhouse watching some night-time flowers bloom. He turned to find Izzy leaning against the door frame, dressed in pyjamas and pink fluffy slippers, dark hair captured in a loose pony tail.

"Sleep is for the weak," he shrugged and Izzy smiled sympathetically. She knew he meant, I'm terrified Sebastian will come back.

"It'll be okay," Clary had said when Jace had woken up free of Sebastian."It'll be okay, Jace. It'll all be okay now."

Jace had wanted to hit her. To scream at her because how could it ever be okay? Jace couldn't close his eyes without seeing what Sebastian had done to Alec. Alec wouldn't let anyone touch him, still had nightmares, wasn't eating right, wouldn't even look at parabatai hated him and for good reason. How could that ever be okay?

He had tried to apologise but how are you supposed to apologise for that?

"Alec, Alec, I'm so sorry I-" but Alec had cut him off, eyes firmly locked on the ground.

"It's fine." He'd said, before leaving. Alec was staying at Magnus', he hadn't been home in a week.

Clary had held his hand as Magnus explained that Sebastian wasn't gone; the spell was too powerful for that, he was merely dormant. Trapped in the darkest corners of Jace's mind. When Jace slept he sometimes thought he could hear Sebastian moving around, scratching at whatever mental chains Magnus had put him in, so Jace stopped sleeping.

Izzy was the only one he could talk to about what happened. Clary refused to, she said it might bring Sebastian back, that it was over, that they should pretend it never happened.

"What do you think would have happened if Clary hadn't found you?" Izzy asked as she sat down next to him.

Jace sighed. "I really don't know, Iz." He remembered Sebastian's uncertainty, his seeming reluctance to hurt anyone else. "I was trying to get him to leave," Jace said eventually. "To leave New York so he wouldn't hurt anyone else."

Izzy frowned, "Do you really think he would have?"

"I don't know. He was just...really; he didn't know what he was going to do."

Izzy watched him for a long time. "Maybe it was a two way thing. He got control of your body but that meant he got influenced by you too."

Jace drew his knees up to his chest and leant his head on them. "What happens now, Izzy?" he asked quietly. "How am I supposed to make this okay?"

He knew she'd know what he was talking about. "Alec will get over it, even if it takes years, Jace. You know he will." She reached out and put an arm around his shoulders. "What about you?"she asked softly.

"He's still there, Iz." Jace whispered. "I can feel him. I can't hear him or anything but I can feel him." It felt like a shadow, a phantom weight."What if he comes back?"

If he had said that to anyone else they would have assured him that it would never happen. Not Izzy.

"Then we'll deal with it," Izzy said. "We'll find a better spell, a stronger spell." She smiled softly. "Jace, no matter how bad it gets it'll get better; you of all people should know that. It might take years but we'll get there."

They were in the weapons room three months after The Incident when Alec touched his arm and looked him in the eye.

That was when Jace started to believe that it would be okay.