Teen parabatai mush. So there!

Jace sees the parabatai bond as a great opportunity. He and Alec are already a fantastic team but this will make them unbeatable, the best team anyone has ever seen.

And Jace won’t be a stray anymore. He won’t be just Alec’s friend, he’ll be his parabatai, a status held in the highest regard by all Shadowhunters.

That’s what’s on Jace’s mind when he clasps arms with Alec and recites the oath. But when the bond falls into place and his soul’s linked with Alec’s…

Love, that’s what he feels, that’s the first emotion that seeps through the newly established bond: Alec’s love for him, deep and true and almost overwhelming. Jace has never been loved like this, by anyone.

And in that moment, Jace truly realizes that the bond’s not just an opportunity, it’s a commitment, too. A promise to love and protect Alec, to lay down his own life to save his if need be. And Jace intends to keep that promise.

Pulling Alec closer by their clasped arms, Jace hugs his parabatai tight and basks in his love - and he swears to himself that he’ll never betray that love, that he’ll never allow it to wither and die.

Because now that Jace’s experienced it, he doesn’t think he could ever live without it.