#runesbroken

       jocelyn understands why maryse has been distant. things in both their lives have been crazy. and it’s hard to know where you stand when SOMEONE ONCE SO DEAR TO YOU now knows nothing about you. well...perhaps that’s not exactly true. they’ve changed and grown, sure. she can see a darkness, a weight on maryse’s shoulders that wasn’t there when they’d known each other as girls. it’s why she’s brought the wine with her. if anything, it may help LOOSEN THEM UP.

but then she’s mentioning clary, and oh, jocelyn can’t help but smile. ❝ you’re telling me ! ❞ funny, how their daughters are both so like their mothers...and how jocelyn suspects clary and isabelle would both find that news SHOCKING. ❝ the first time i saw isabelle, i nearly tripped over myself thinking it was you. funny...how our girls already seem to be fast friends. clary tells me isabelle was THE FIRST PERSON THERE FOR HER when she woke up in the institute, and i’ve seen her fight. she’s...extraordinary, maryse. your handiwork, no doubt. ❞ 

          She her mother look so devasted was difficult. in her eyes, maryse had always been nearly invincible in isabelle’s eyes, someone who was far above everyone else. so the thought of something hurting her? It was unimaginable. she reached over gently to swab the tear from her mother’s face, before gripping her mother’s hands tightly. she would always be there. izzy’s trust was hard won, and there were only four people who had ever truly had it. jace. alec. max. and her mother. and she would do anything for all of them. “we’re all here for you, mom.” head falls to rest on maryse’s shoulder, voice soft. “you don’t have to thank me.”