Chapter 1

I awoke to the sound of the door banging against the wall and my parabatai crying hysterically. I sat up from the couch, half-conscious, half-asleep.

"Alec?" I said, rubbing my eyes, "What happened?" Alec squeezed the breath out of me in a tight embrace, tears still pouring from his eyes.

"It's Magnus," he replied sobbing, "h-he broke up with me!" Alec cried into my chest, soaking my shirt with liquid pain.

"Alec," I said, "this is Magnus we're talking about. He was probably being over dramatic about-"

"No he meant it!" Interrupted Alec. "He told me to leave and never come back and then he just stormed off! And I...I just stood there...like a fool!" Once again, Alec used my chest as a tissue. I patted his back lightly. I wasn't exactly sure what to do in a situation like this. I'd seen Isabelle get like this before, but she would always cry to Clary for help.

"There there," I said as I patted Alec. "Everything will be ok. You should call him up and-"

"I've already called him 3 times and he won't answer! I don't know what to do Jace!" Alec continued to sob into my arm and tugged on my shirt.

"Ok, well maybe you should ema-"

"I tried! Nothing!"

"Face-"

"No response from any of my messages!"

"Twi-"

"No reply!" I was beginning to run out of options on how to get in touch with people.

"Did you try talking to him face to face? I'm sure if he 'stormed off' like you said he did, he probably didn't get a chance to hear your side of the story. Am I right?" Alec sniffled and wiped his nose on his sleeve.

"I guess that's right," he responded.

"Good," I said, standing up and pushing Alec towards the door. "Now you just go on over to the warlock's apartment and-"

"I can't go over there!" Protested Alec as he stopped himself in the doorway. "He told me not to come by! He doesn't...doesn't want to speak to me..." Alec began to sob again, more tears coming down from his eyes.

"Well," I said shrugging, "I don't know what else to tell you, brother. If I were you, I'd-"

"That's it!" Yelled Alec in excitement. "If you were me! Jace, could you go talk to to him for me? Please?" I chuckled.

"Are you kidding? Magnus hates me! And you want me to go beg him to take you back for you?" I scoffed. "Yeah, right." Alec looked up at me, his blue eyes enlarged and full of sadness.

"Please Jace," he said, "It would mean alot to me. And, and you're my brother. Brother's help each other, don't they?" More tears were building up in Alec's big blue sad eyes. Unfortunately, the soft side in me couldn't take it anymore. I sighed.

"Fine," I said at last, "I'll go talk to him for you." Alec smiled bright and wrapped me up in a warm embrace.

"Thank you Jace! I promise I'll make it up to you!" I patted Alec's head and mumbled to myself.

"Raziel, help me. Ugh, I can't believe I'm doing this."

"Call me once you're done," said Alec, "I'll be here waiting. Trying not to think about...about..." Alec sat on the couch and covered his face. I rolled my eyes and sighed as I walked out the door.

"More waterworks," I mumbled as I headed out the door. I could already tell I should've stayed asleep.