Disclaimer: I do not own any of these character, they belong to Cassandra Clare.

(Jace's POV)

Can you and Izzy go and get my stuff from Magnus's? Alec text me. I throw my dagger at the target. Bull's eye, not surprise. "Izzy, Alec wants us to go and get his stuff from Magnus's." I yell.

"I'm right here. No need to yell." Izzy said, walking into the training room. "Why do we need to go pack Alec's stuff?"

"I don't know." I grabbed the dagger out of the target. "Clary, I need a portal!" I called as I load my belt with sharp and dangerous items. Clary walks in, her red hair pulled back in a braid.

"Why?" She asked.

"I guess Alec and Magnus had a fight. Alec wants me and Izzy to go and get his stuff."

"OK." Clary pulled her stele out of her pocket and did something that no Shadowhunter should be able to do: create a portal.

Izzy and I ended up right in front of Magus's door. Izzy pressed the inter com button and received no answer. She pulled out her stele and used an open rune on the door. All of the lights were off. The only light coming from a half open curtain. Magnus was on the floor, his knees pulled up to his chin. He was weeping. "What happened?" I asked.

At first I thought that he didn't hear me, but after a while he said, "Alec left me. Called me 'filthy'."

Izzy shook her head and went to start packing Alec's stuff. I turn back to Magnus. "Why would he say that?"

"I d-don't know. I proposed and he said 'no'. And called me a 'filthy Downworlder' and that he couldn't s-stand to look at me."

I was puzzled. "Alec would never say anything like that about you. I have never heard him talk about you like that. He is crazy in love with you."

"No he's not." Magnus rolled over so that I couldn't see his tear stained face.

There was a sharp pain, hot in my back. Then my parabatai rune began to throb. "Alec is hurt!" I run out of the house, the rune directing me. I find Alec in an alley, covered in blood and ichor. His hair was matted to his forehead and temples in places, his clothes ripped. A nasty oozing yellowish purple bump, about the size of a soccer ball, was on his back.

I gently pick him up and hear him mumble something. "I didn't mean it… love him too much… Immortal and I'm not… please forgive me… Not going to die and leave you heartbro-" Alec takes a deep rattling breath and then stops breathing.