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Post by Muse on May 28, 2011 15:05:51 GMT 10
Title: Everything Rating: PG Word count: 169 Pairing: Clary/Mattes Round/Fight: 4/A Summary: AU: Clary’s rogue years; arguing with Tom brings out a rebellious streak and she runs off to Port Caynn to get away from it all. Mattes follows, to stand between her and the darkness. Is there any way to recover from this? Get out there and find someone. (lyrics from Dance Floor Anthem—I Don’t Want To Be In Love By Good Charlotte.)
Footfalls mark out the seconds, sending up little clouds of road dust as Clary and Mattes make their way out to Jane Street.
Mattes doesn’t say anything, and this is new, this is different, and this is proof that everything’s changed. The roads through the Lower City are familiar, and so is his partner beside him, and they’re together under a familiar night sky, but Mattes knows more now and it sits intangibly between them.
He watches Clary purse her lips in thought, and knows the way they feel pressed to his own.
“He says he understands—me bein’ loose, and all…” Clary says suddenly, and Mattes doesn’t have to ask who “he” is, because he saw Tom come to the Kennel before their shift.
“Then…” he can’t ask the question, but Clary looks over at him, and she knows how to see the emotions in his eyes—the pain, the hurt, the love—and she nods.
“Everything.” She looks at the street in front of them.
“He knows.”
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Post by greenie on Jun 15, 2011 20:12:20 GMT 10
Aww, poor Mattes!
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