Note: I thank those that took the time to read this story. Also, I apologize for the changing of Alec's hair color, I just figured if he has faerie/ warlock blood getting injected into his body there are going to be some alterations to his looks.
Chapter: 2
Pandemon was packed. Jace had been following the changeling demon while Alec followed him.
"Alexander…"
Alec turned and looked around and saw Jonathon standing by the bathrooms pointing to the male's bathroom before walking in. Alec turned to his brother and Isabelle and walked to the bathroom, wondering why he kept on seeing their supposedly dead brother.
The bathroom was empty save for Jonathon and himself. Alec frowned and stayed close to the door afraid of what his brother would do to him. "You've been a naughty boy." Jonathon said with a smirk. Alec frowned.
"What do you mean?" he asked.
"You haven't been taking your doses in the past three years. Though maybe that's for the best…" Jonathon said eying Alec's hair and the slight points on Alec's ears.
Alec sighed in relief, he hated how the injections made him feel afterward.
"Never mind, I changed my mind, funny how that works, isn't it?" Jonathon said grabbing Alec's arm and putting the large needle into it. He did this twice and then held Alec tightly as the liquid took affect.
This time Alec's hair stayed unaffected but his eyes became lighter and bluer and the points had gotten larger. Jonathon fixed Alec's hair, making it so it covered his ears and waited until Alec was able to stand and walk before he slipped away into the darkness.
Alec shook his head as he walked out of the bathroom and felt like the lights were brighter and the music was louder. He saw a girl with bright red hair run away from the area he had last seen Jace in and walked over feeling lightheaded over the sensations of the club and from the sliver liquid in his blood.
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Jace sighed, Alec hadn't been with them when they had fought the demon. He looked around the club and spotted Alec walking toward them holding his head.
"You okay?" Jace asked feeling concern for his brother.
Alec took a deep breath and nodded. "Yeah I'm fine, did I miss the fight?" he asked blinking his pale blue eyes at Jace and Isabelle.
"Yeah, but don't worry, we killed the demons quickly." Isabelle said with a smile before she walked away.
"That's good. Sorry I wasn't there to help." Alec said looking down. Jace knew his brother better than anyone looked at him and frowned.
"Are you okay? You seem upset about something." Jace asked.
"I feel a little lightheaded, but other than that, I'm fine." Alec said brushing off Jace's worry.
Jace sighed and decided to let it go, though he still worried for his brother.
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Alec still felt off the next day, he left his room and saw the little redhead from before. He scowled at her and went over to Jace who was talking with Isabelle, the girl was happy to donate some of her clothes to the redhead.
"What's that?" Alec asked pointing to the girl.
Jace blinked and smiled. "Why, that is a girl, Alexander. You know what those are, right? After all, Isabelle is one of those."
Alec rolled his eyes. "I meant what's that mundane girl doing here?"
Jace's grin grew. "She's not a mundane, see while you were doing who knows what at the club, she grabbed my fallen Seraph blade and it stayed lit. She's one of us, and earlier I saved her from some demons and they bit her and I applied a rune to her and her body accepted it." Jace said lowly.
"So why is she here? And why is she wearing Isabelle's clothing?" Alec asked looking at the redhead's attire.
"Her clothes were ripped and bloody," Isabelle chimed in, walking past the two boys. "So I gave her some of mine."
"But…" Alec said trying to find a reason to dislike the girl.
"It'll be fine. Do you trust me?" Jace asked grabbing his brother's shoulders firmly.
Alec frowned but nodded, of course he trusted Jace, he's trusted him since they were both really young.
"Good. Now her mother is missing and I think with your amazing archery skill and my awesome personality and Isabelle's whip, I think we'll be able to find her." Jace said with a grin.
"If Maryse heard about this…" Alec muttered remembering the last time their adopted mother was mad.
"She won't and besides, we have Hodge as an ally, he can back us up if she did somehow find out." Jace said giving his brother a reassuring pat on the back.
Alec nodded and gave in, accepting their strange and very useless addition to their already strange family.
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Within a week of searching for clues, they met Magnus who Alec instantly felt drawn to…and Simon. They had to save Simon from the vampires and Raphael Santiago. They had just left the vampire hideout when Alec heard his name being called. He looked around and saw Jonathon gesturing toward him from a dark alleyway. Alec looked to his brother and the others and frowned before running over to Jonathon, wondering what his brother wanted.
"Father is very interested in the results." Jonathon said.
Alec blinked, he had no clue what Jonathon meant by that. "Huh?"
"One more dose and you should be ready to see father." Jonathon said grabbing Alec's arm and pulling his sleeve up before injecting the silver liquid. Alec collapsed to the ground, his body felt heavy and he couldn't move. He looked up weakly at his brother before darkness took over his vision.
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Jace looked around, he had been so happy to help Clary that he hadn't even noticed his brother had vanished. "Hey, did anyone notice where Alec went off to?" Jace asked looking at the other three he was with.
"I saw him walk into an alleyway, maybe he needed to relieve himself." Simon said with a shrug.
"Alec's the most private person ever, he would never go into an alleyway to "relieve himself"." Jace said glaring at Simon.
"Maybe he saw something and ran over to investigate." Clary suggested.
Jace sighed. "You're probably right, which scares me. I'm going to check on him. Izzy, can you take them back to the Institute?"
Isabelle nodded and led Simon and Clary away. Jace watched them leave before he ran over to the alleyway.
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Jace ran over to Alec who was unconscious and scooped him up, looking at his left are that had puncture wounds in it and frowned. "What happened, Alec?" Jace asked softly.
Alec's eyelids fluttered open and Alec looked up at Jace, his eyes were bluer than before but his hair was still the same light, light brown it had been since they were 14.
"Why are you staring at me like that?" Alec asked frowning at his brother's expression.
"I'm worried about you, I mean this is the second time this week that you've run off, and when ever I see you next your either passed out, or you have a head ache, and it seems like when ever you run off, your appearance is altered slightly, either your hair will lighten, or your eyes will lighten, or sometimes your eyes will even become bluer. I don't know what's happening, but I do know that this has been going on since we were 8." Jace said crossing his arms as if to tell Alec that he wanted an explanation.
Alec sighed and looked down, ready to tell his brother everything that had happened to him since he was eight. "The reason is…" before Alec could finish though a large demon came from no where and attacked. "There's a demon right behind you." Alec said pointing his bow toward the beast.
Jace turned and glared at the demon, it had interrupted them and was going to pay. He pulled out a Seraph Blade and named it quickly before he sliced at it. Alec shot at it and together they brought the demon down.
Jace smiled at his brother and pushed his sweaty blond locks out of his hair. "So, you were saying?" he asked.
Alec frowned and decided to change the subject, he didn't know why he was so afraid to tell Jace anything, he just knew that he was afraid too. "Uh, I hope Isabelle and the others are alright, we should go see them and make sure." Alec said and scurried away quickly.
Jace frowned, there was no way he was going to drop the subject just like that, not now when Alec was actually going to tell him everything.
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Alec was already in his room by the time Jace came home; Isabelle and Clary ignored the brothers as Jace went up the stairs to see Alec.
"Alec, open the door and let me in, we're not done talking." Jace said banging on the door. He heard a click as the door opened and walked in looking at his brother. "Talk. Now."
Alec took a deep breath and looked at Jace. "Talk about what?" Alec said nervously.
Jace glared and pushed Alec down on the bed keeping him still as he looked at the brown haired bow with a fury. "About why you have puncture wounds in your arms, about why your acting all dodgy, about- why are your ear pointed?" Jace asked looking at Alec's ears.
Alec frowned and felt his ears; sure enough he felt two identical points, one on each ear. "I don't know why they're like this, have they always been like this?" Alec asked.
Jace gave him a look of raw stupidity before he shook his head. "No. your ears have never been pointed like that. Now quit stalling and tell me everything."
Alec frowned, but decided telling his brother everything he had been hiding since he was 8 would be the best thing he could do. "Remember when dad asked me to go down to the basement? After we ran into that demon?" Alec asked.
"Yeah, I remember, why?"
"Well, when I went down there, dad injected me with something, I don't know what, but it burned like crazy. Anyway everyday I was given injections of that stuff, but after dad died, they stopped, or so I thought. When we 14, remember when we were playing hide and seek? Well I saw Jonathon, he gave me three years worth of injections and then left, those injections were the reason I had such a bad headache. And in the club, I saw Jonathon, he injected me again and like before he left. And tonight he was there again, he injected me again and said I was almost ready to see dad. I didn't tell you before because I didn't know how to, but now that I did, I don't want you to hate me." Alec said honestly, feeling lighter once some of his burden had been lifted.
Jace sighed. "You moron, like I could hate you, did you forget? We're brothers, no matter how stupid one of is or what stupid thing one of does, the other stuck with them no matter what. And next time you see Jonathon, tell me and we'll deal with him together." Jace said with a smile.
Alec smiled back. "Thanks, oh and Clary thinks she knows where the mortal cup is, ready to get it?" Alec asked.
Jace grinned. "Like you even have to ask, oh yeah, where did the mundane go?"
"Outside, apparently he and Clary got into an argument." Alec said with a shrug.
"I'm guessing he's coming with us though?" Jace asked hoping Simon would just leave.
"He is, but he's just driving us there." Alec said.
Jace swore under his breath. "Fine. So when do we leave?" he asked.
"Tomorrow. Isabelle thought it would be best if we were to go after we got some rest." Alec explained.
"You know, I can still hear some British when you speak." Jace said with a smile before he left his brother's room.
Alec laughed softly as Jace left and got his stuff ready. He knew he'd need at least 8 hours sleep, so he couldn't stay awake too long, but he also knew it was important to get ready early, plus he was starting to get hungry so he was going to go down and eat dinner soon.
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The next day, everyone got their gear on and got their weapons loaded in Simon's van. Jace had given Clary a Seraph Blade and told her to only use it in an emergency while Alec and Isabelle started discussing a plan on what to do when they got the Mortal Cup in their possession.
"Obviously we have to give it to the Clave." Isabelle said.
"I don't know, maybe it would be safer in the Institute, at least until we have a good idea on who our allies are." Alec said causing everyone to look at him.
"You think there are people that are going to betray us for the Cup?" Isabelle asked.
"I mean, why not? The Mortal Cup is powerful, and who ever possesses it can control demons and create new Shadowhunters, there are going to be people out there that are going to want that kind of power for their selves and at the moment I think keeping it locked in the Institute is the best option until we can call Maryse and Robert." Alec said.
"Alec's right, we'll keep it locked in the Institute until we can contact Maryse and Robert." Jace said and looked around as the van came to a stop. "Okay we're here." Jace said getting his Seraph Blades together.
Isabelle uncoiled her whip and wound it up while she put a Seraph Blade in her weapons belt.
Alec felt a headache start to form in his head and shook it away before he grabbed the first weapon he could grab, a feather staff.
Jace frowned at him, Alec had never used anything but a bow, using a staff was just asking for trouble. "Alec, aren't you going to use your bow?" Jace asked hoping it was a mistake on Alec part.
"Hm? Oh, no. plus I doubt we will run into any trouble anyway." Alec said and walked ahead of the group.
Jace frowned once more but chose to let Alec use the staff, even if he did have a bad feeling.
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It was quiet in Clary's apartment; the three trained Shadowhunters were walking through with stealth and precision while Clary stumbled behind them.
"Over here." Clary said moving into one of the rooms. Jace went in with her while Alec and Isabelle stood by the door.
Alec closed his eyes as his headache worsened and opened them as Isabelle's voice came to him.
"We got company, Clary hurry up!" Isabelle yelled.
Alec looked around saw a large demon come over to them.
The demon looked each of them over and roared slashing at the air in front of Isabelle and Alec. Both Shadowhunters dodged and jumped back, making it so they were with Jace and Clary.
"Please tell me you have the Cup." Alec said using his staff to block an attack.
"I do, I- ahh!" Clary screamed and cowered as the demon entered the room.
The demon roared in response and swung its monstrous tail around the room, knocking everyone back.
"Clary, stay back!" Jace ordered.
Alec saw an opening to attack and lunged at the demon, piercing its thick skin with his staff.
The demon brushed off the attack and turned to Alec stabbing him in the chest before flinging him against the wall.
"Alec!" Jace yelled and slashed at the demon with his seraph blade as a way to get the demon away from his brother.
But then the demon vanished and standing on the other side of the beast was Simon, he was holding Alec's bow and was visibly shaking.
Jace ran over to Alec and held him while Isabelle working on healing him. "Jace, it's not working." Isabelle said. She had tried multiple times in multiple places to heal Alec with a healing rune, but nothing was working.
"Damn it, hang in there Alec." Jace said softly while he brushed some hair out of Alec's face.
"We need to go back to the Institute, Hodge might be able to help, plus we have the Cup with us. Jace we have to go." Isabelle said.
Jace nodded and scooped his injured brother up and ran to Simon's van with the rest of the group following.
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Simon was driving faster than he had ever driven before while Clary sat next to him and Isabelle and Jace sat in the back with Alec's head resting in Jace's lap.
Jace look at his brother as Alec began to cough and gently wiped away some blood. "Drive faster!" he yelled worried about Alec's health.
"I'm driving as fast as I can!" Simon called back his focused on the road.
The van skidded to a stop as they pulled up in front of the Institute and everyone hurried out. "Clary go get Hodge, tell him what happened and that you have the cup." Jace ordered while he hurried in carrying Alec into the Infirmary.
Isabelle followed him in and got out medical supplies while Jace placed Alec in one of the beds.
"Jace…" Alec said weakly clutching his brother's hand as if it were a lifeline.
"Don't talk, just rest." Jace said.
Tears formed in the unearthly blues that were Alec's eyes. "…Jace…I'm scared that if I don't speak, I'll fall asleep and never wake up." Alec said his lip quivering and his voice barely audible.
"It's okay, I'll make sure that doesn't happen. Just try and get some sleep, I'll get Hodge." Jace said and pried Alec's hand from his own before he left.
Jace ran down the hall to the library, trying to find their tutor. "Hodge, where are you?" Jace called out looking around for the man.
A small demon flew at Jace, trying to attack him. "A demon?!" Jace dodged the creature and stabbed it with a seraph blade he had kept on his belt while he continued his search for Hodge.
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"Hodge!" Clary called out. She had been looking for the man since they got out of Simon's van.
"Clary!" it was Jace he looked relieved and disappointed at the same time. "Any luck in finding Hodge?" Jace asked.
"No. how's Alec?" Clary asked.
"Not good. I need Hodge's help." Jace said and looked past Clary, spotting Hodge at the top of the stairs. "Hodge!" he yelled startling Clary.
Hodge came down the stairs looking confused. "Jace? What happened? He asked noticing the blood covering Jace's shirt and hands.
"Alec's hurt, this is his blood, and why are their demons in the institute?" Jace asked thinking about the demon he saw in the library.
"I don't know, but Clary, the Cup, do you have it?" Hodge as looking at the redheaded girl.
Clary frowned. "I do… but I'll give it to you only if you help Alec." Clary said holding her jacket closed tightly.
Hodge nodded and headed into the infirmary with Jace and Clary following.
"What attacked him?" Hodge asked looking Alec's wounds over.
"The greater demon, Abaddon." Isabelle said placing a cool washcloth on Alec's head.
"This is not good, I fear these wounds and that demon poison far exceeds the capibilities of myself or the silent brother for that matter." Hodge said.
"So what, we're just supposed to give up and let him die?!" Jace asked glaring at the older man.
"No, but we'll need warlock magic for this case." Hodge said.
"Magnus!" Isabelle said with a smile.
"Magnus Bane?" Hodge asked looking at the girl with confusion.
"Yeah, he'll help us, I just know it." Isabelle said with a smile.
Hodge nodded and went over to the medical table and began to quickly write a fire message to Magnus.
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Clary meanwhile had left the infirmary to find a place to hide the Mortal Cup.
"Clary."
Clary jumped as Hodge entered the room and frowned at him, for some reason Alec's words about find allies rang in her head.
"Hodge." She said backing away from the man.
"Give me the Cup Clary and I'll put it somewhere safe." Hodge said walking closer to Clary.
"I already hid it somewhere." Clary said not trusting the man.
"Your lying, now where is it? You told me if I helped Alexander, you'd give me the Cup, now give it to me!" Hodge said his temper rising.
"So, if I didn't have the Cup, you'd leave Alec to die on that hospital bed?" Clary asked.
"That's not fair Clary, you know I would never harm these kids." Hodge said and lunged at Clary, not knowing that Jace was behind him.
"Clary keep the Cup with you, I'll deal with Hodge, just go!" Jace yelled and blocked Hodge from getting to her.
Clary nodded and ran off while Jace stayed and fought Hodge.
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Meanwhile Alec was doing worse than before, he felt like he was calling out for his brother, for Isabelle, for his adopted parents, but nothing came no matter how much he yelled and screamed, nothing would come out.
"Hey!" he heard Isabelle yell. Alec wanted to open his eyes to see who she was yelling at, but his eyes wouldn't open, it was like his whole body was shut down, and yet he was still reeling in pain. But suddenly the pain was gone and replaced by a soothing cooling numbness.
"Magnus?" Isabelle asked. Alec didn't care who it was, as long as the pain was gone, he'd take whatever help was given to him.
The cooling sensation stopped briefly and all the pain that had washed out of Alec came back full force.
"A-aah!" Alec yelled out the pain was too much for him to handle.
"Sorry, I just had to find where it hurt the most." Magnus said and the cooling numbness was back.
Magnus stopped healing again and looked over Alec, scanning him to make sure he got all of the venom out.
Alec was struggling to stay awake, he was still in pain, but with the venom out of his system, he was finding it easier to ignore the other pain.
"Rest Alexander, I'll be here when you wake up." Magnus said softly.
Alec nodded and went to sleep, no longer afraid that he wouldn't wake back up.
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"Hello, Clarissa." Jace ran into the library where Clary was and saw a man he never thought he'd see again, Michael Wayland, his and Alec's father.
"Dad?!" Jace asked looking at the man in disbelief.
"Wait "dad"?" Clary repeated confused by what Jace had said.
"Yeah, he's Michael Wayland, my father and Alec's father." Jace explained.
"How is Alexander? I had heard such positive things about him, I was hoping to see him as well."
"Alec's healing right now, but why are you here, and how are you alive?" Jace asked gripping his blade tightly.
"I'm here to take the cup and reunite my family, my beautiful daughter, my lovely wife, and my sons." Valentine said walking over to Clary.
"You mean, me and Alec are related to…Clary?" Jace asked swallowing hard as he thought back to his kiss with Clary.
"You're more than related, you are all siblings, a bond more powerful than any simple relative thing." Valentine said watching as Jace paled and Clary looked away from Jace. "Wait, don't tell me you two did something."
"It was nothing. Let's just drop it." Jace said looking away from Clary as well.
"Very well, but before I leave with the cup and your mother, Jonathon can you please bring me your brother." Valentine said.
Jace paled and peeked to the door watching as a shadow vanished. "I-I'll go check on Alec." Jace said suddenly nervous as to what Jonathon could do to Alec while he rested and healed. 'Isabelle's there, so is Simon and Magnus, he should be safe.' Jace thought worriedly.
"There's no need." Valentine said smirking at his son while he looked to the door.
Clary frowned and looked to Jace before she took out the cup and went to the portal that was glowing brightly behind Valentine. She took a deep breath and held the cup in front of the portal. "Hey!" she called out getting the attention of Valentine.
Valentine turned, his eyes wide as Clary put the cup into the portal. "What did you do?! Where did you send it?" Valentine asked glaring at Clary.
"You're no father to me, Valentine, because if you were, you'd know exactly where I sent it." Clary said.
Valentine let out a yell. "Jonathon forget about Alexander, we're getting out of here!" Valentine called out. A white blur appeared and left through the portal while Valentine followed shooting Clary one last glare. "I will be back my children, and when I come, we'll be a family once more." Were the chilling words he left behind.
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Alec groaned as he awoke, he could barely sit up and he noticed his shirt was gone and in its place were bandages that wrapped around his entire abdomen. He turned and saw Magnus looking out the window he morning sun shining into Magnus's cat-eyes making them prettier than they were before.
Magnus turned back to look at Alec and smiled at him, causing Alec to blush and close his eyes, pretending to be asleep.
"You can stop pretending to be asleep." Magnus whispered into Alec's ear, causing Alec's blush to deepen.
"How long was I asleep?" Alec asked trying to sit up.
"Three days." Magnus said with a shrug.
"What?!" Alec asked trying to get out of bed, not knowing he had stitches where the bandages were.
"Stay still will you?!" Magnus said and pinned Alec to the bed, landing on top of him. "I don't want your stitches to open."
Alec blinked. "Stitches?" Alec asked trying to not think about the situation he had gotten himself in.
"Yes, stitches. I healed you, but the wound was so deep that by the time I finished getting the demon venom out of your blood, you were already losing too much blood, so I stitched it up. Really you're lucky to be alive, and once I rest and my magic is back, I'll speed up the healing on them, though you'll still need to use crutches for a few weeks." Magnus said getting off of Alec.
"Why do I need crutches?" Alec asked with a frown.
"Because, your adorably cute ass, opened up the stitches making it so it's longer for you to heal, now before I cast a spell that knocks you out, I suggest you rest in this bed." Magnus said.
"Did you just say "your adorably cute ass"?" Alec asked.
"Why not? You are adorable, though you'd look cuter if you had black hair." Magnus said shooting Alec a knowing smile.
"How…" Alec asked his jaw dropping slightly.
"I'm the High Warlock of New York, plus I did a full scan of your body and found faerie and warlock blood in your system, it appears the faerie blood has fused with your blood. That explains your ears, and your eyes. Though how you got it in your system…" Magnus said.
"Um, how long will it take until I am healed?" Alec asked trying to get the subject away from him.
"As long as you don't move around too much until your stitches are full it should probably take a couple days, after that you'll be walking around with crutches for a few weeks like I said, for I can quicken the healing process, but until you're fully healed, you'll have to take it easy, I already informed your brother and Isabelle that you won't be going on any missions for a while." Magnus said.
Alec nodded though he looked upset over this. "As long it helps me get well, I'll put up with not going to help with any missions."
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After Magnus had left and Alec aloud to leave the infirmary, Jace had told Alec everything that had happened with Valentine. "So Clary's our sister? Didn't you,"
Jace shot Alec a challenging glare daring Alec to finish that sentence. "Yes. She's our sister. And if you say anything else, I will make it so it takes even longer for you to heal." Jace threatened.
"Okay, okay I'll drop it." Alec said grinning at his brother.
Jace sighed heavily knowing he was never going to hear the end the end of this. "Just hurry up and get better." Jace said leaving Alec's room so he could rest.
Alec laughed. "Okay." Alec said and waited until Jace was gone. "But you kiss your sister." Alec said laughing harder as he heard a groan from the other side of the door.
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Chapter two is done people! Yay! Now Alec knows what Jonathon and Valentine had been injecting into his blood for years. Tell me what you think.