Magnus, with his magical reflexes, put his hand over Alec's heart and began a healing spell. With his other hand, he grabbed his phone and called Catarina. By the time she answered, he was already breathing hard from over exerting himself with the healing spell, but he managed to get the gist of it out.
"Alec... Next stage... Not breathing... Need help."
"I'll be right over." Catarina promised quickly and hung up. Magnus then had the ability to use both of his hands to try to restart Alec's heart. The magic wasn't working, so Magnus tried to remember mundane CPR. Something like thirty pumps to the chest and two breaths? It couldn't hurt to try, and Magnus was anxious and working fast. On the second set of breaths, Magnus felt like he couldn't even move any more. Luckily, he felt a gasp of breath against his mouth.
"Best way to come back to life. You kissing me." Alec gasped for breath. Magnus, on an impulse, pushed him onto his side. Alec threw up. "You know, this apartment smells disgusting with everyone barfing in it."
"Oh." Magnus said, forgetting his tiredness as he realized the same thing. He waved his hand, cleaning up the throw up and making the place smell like springtime. "I probably shouldn't have done that." He said before passing out in Alec's arms.
Magnus woke up in a room that was completely white. He wrinkled his nose in disgust. He hated the color white. It was so bland. Why have white when there's blue and purple? The next thing he realized about the room is that his hands were cuffed to a bed. He remembered Catarina had saying that the warlock who had gone into 'Stage Two' first was tied up. It was for the best, he didn't want to hurt anyone, especially Alec, again.
"I'm not a warlock! I'll even wear one of those mask thingies, just let me see him!" Magnus heard Alec shouting outside the door.
"Only when he wakes up." Catarina.
"I'm awake." Magnus said, or tried to say. His mouth felt weird, like someone had dumped a bag of flour in it. And Magnus knew how that felt. He had thrown some strange parties. He licked his lips and tried again. "I'm awake." This time the words came out. He could almost hear Alec raising his eyebrows at Catarina. He did hear her sigh and a key being slid into to lock. The door swung open, and Alec stood in the doorway, wearing a white surgical mask, his eyes wide.
"Magnus! Are you okay?" Magnus nodded. "Thank the Angel. When you passed out, I was so worried. Then Catarina and some other people opened the door and came and took us to the basement of some hospital and tied you to the bed and made me wait in some weird room for three hours. Eventually, I found my way up here and had to convince Catarina to let me in." Magnus smiled. Whenever Alec was worried, he talked really fast and his face flushed.
"You know, with me chained to the bed, something pretty kinky could go on right now." Magnus smirked. Alec turned a shade of crimson and started to stutter. "I'm just kidding." Alec breathed out.
"You're sick and you're still making dirty jokes. I'm not surprised, Magnus." He leaned over and kissed Magnus on the forehead. When he came back up, Magnus saw the look of surprise on his face. "You're burning up!" He put his hand to Magnus' forehead. "What's your temperature?"
"I don't know. I just woke up. Ask Catarina."
"He's in the third stage." Catarina walked into the room, her voice muffled by a surgical mask like Alec's. "Fever. Soon he'll start the hallucinations." She turned her attention to Magnus. "Tessa is still working on the cure. She thinks the disease has something to do with a demon trying to rid the world of warlocks, but we'd need a pretty powerful demon for that, and it couldn't be Lilith after what that vampire boy did a few years ago."
"Asmodeus." Magnus spoke up.
"No..." Alec said. "You can't be serious."
"Yes, I am, Alexander." Magnus turned to Catarina. "My father. I believe I told you before about how the young vampire became mortal and lost his memories to free us?"
"Yes, you did."
"Well, I may have helped the boy, Sylvester, was it?"
"Simon." Alec supplied.
"Yes, Simon, get his memories back. A few days ago, I heard Asmodeus' voice in my head, saying something to the extent of that I cheated him by helping Simon get his memories back and that he wanted to wipe warlocks out of the universe."
"And why did you not give this information to Tessa?" Catarina asked sternly.
"I didn't think that it was true. Also, I didn't really believe that it was an actual disease. Sorry."
Catarina huffed quietly.
"I have to go call Tessa." She directed her attention to Alec. "If anything happens, just call out. Someone will come to help." Alec nodded as Catarina left the room, pulling her phone out of her pocket.
"You seriously think this is Asmodeus' doing?" Alec asked. Magnus nodded weakly. After he had finished his talk with Catarina, his head had started to pound as if someone was inside hitting it with a giant mallet. He winced. "Are you okay?" Alec asked, concerned.
"Yes. My head..." Magnus felt his eyes roll up in his head. "Damn it." He said before he passed out.
Alec's POV
Alec had pulled up a chair next to Magnus' bed after he had passed out and was stroking his hand. Magnus needed a nightmare-less sleep, and last time he was holding his hand while he slept, Magnus was fine. Magnus was breathing softy, despite just passing out. His phone made a dinging sound, so he pulled it out.
Clary: Magnus won't answer our calls. R u ok?
You: Magnus had to be taken to the hospital. He's better now and sleeping. We'll be here awhile, so if the kids want to call, have them call me.
Clary: oh ok. Hope Magnus gets better. Max wants to call you guys tomorrow, does that work?
You: sure, if Magnus is awake
Clary: ok ttyl
You: what?
Clary: it means talk to you later
You: oh ok bye
Clary: bye
In all of the stress over Magnus, Alec had nearly forgotten that the kids were staying with Clary and Jace. Honestly, he thought they rather enjoyed it, especially Jace, wanting to propose to Clary and everything. Suddenly, Magnus' fingers closed around Alec's hand. His eyes had opened.
"Thank you, Alexander. For giving me your strength." That's what he'd been doing when he held his hand. That's why he felt so tired afterward.
"Always."
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