Who: Jace and Alec What: Jace is sad boy; Alec probably doesn't help When: Tonight-ish Where: Outside the prison walls Warnings: Language and violence most likely
Jace almost felt empty. Talking with Clary only solidified the fact that things needed to change. The two of them were too quick to put their lives on the line for eachother, to give up everything for eachother. Jace knew he was capable of so much where it had to do with Clary and vice versa. The fact remained that throughout everything, being here, what happened at home, the wish, the possession, the violence, her possible death ...
It was enough to have an understanding. Jace loved her so much and maybe that was the problem. Maybe it made him jaded. His vision was skewed when it came to her and they just needed the break. Right now they needed to focus on getting out of here.
Of course, that was after Jace beat the fucking zombie to ... what, it's second death? It wasn't the zombie's fault. Wrong place, wrong time. Besides, there was no way that a zombie was going to get one over on Jace Herondale. He needed something to take his frustration out on and when the head was swiped clear off, Jace breathed hard and sighed, his eyes averting ahead as he felt his Parabatai come closer.
Standing up straight, Jace didn't bother turning around. He knew that Alec was concerned for him, but there was nothing to be concerned about. The walls were back up, the old Jace was back. Love was just a distraction. Love was the cause of everything horrible and -
"I'm fine, Alec. You can go back to the prison," was all he said then before he began walking away but even Jace wasn't naive to think that Alec would just listen. In fact, Alec rarely listened, but at the moment, Jace wasn't giving him the time of day. He didn't want to talk about it. He wanted to find a way out so Alec and Izzy could go home. Clary couldn't leave and ... it wasn't like he could just leave her. Despite what he said or didn't say, he wouldn't.
It didn't matter. Not right now. Jace continued to walk through the wilderness. He noticed the cabins nearby and in the distance and the thing was, people were living in them and Jace was just doing his public service of taking out the zombies that would and could descend on them.