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“When you fight now, I will be still by you. When you walk in the world, I will be the light at your side, the ground steady under your feet, the force that drives the sword in your hand.  We are bound, beyond the oath. The Marks did not change that. The oath did not change that. It merely gave words to something that existed already.”

“one last word, one last moment to ask you why you left me here behind ”

— Parabatai, Will Herondale & Jem Carstairs

“not strange at all.”  she cuddled in close against his side. “exactly right. ever and always, exactly right.”

“I told you before, Jem, that you would not leave me," Will said, his bloody hand on the hilt of the dagger. “And you are still with me. When I breath, I will think of you, for without you I would have been dead years ago. When I wake up and when I sleep, when I lift up my hands to defend myself or when I lie down to die, you will be with me. You say we are born again. I say there is a river that divides the dead and the living. What I do know is that if we are born again, I will meet you in another life, if there is a river, you will wait on the shores for me to come to you, so we can cross together." Will took a deep breath and let go of the knife. He drew his hand back. The cut on his palm was already healing- the result of the half dozen iratzes on his skin. “You hear that, James Carstairs? We are bound, you and I, over the divide of death, down through whatever generations may come. Forever.”

“you hurt everyone,” said jem. “everyone whose life you touch.” “not you,” will whispered. “i hurt everyone but you. i never meant to hurt you.”

fangirl challenge ∞ ten pairings: will herondale and jem carstairs ☆ the infernal devices

Besides, they were soulmates. There was no way they wouldn’t be thanking her for this later.