Okay. This is going to be the second-to-last chapter. I feel like the storylines of the day-to-day actions are coming to a close, and this chapter is the closest I will step into the territory of ClaryXJace, so please forgive me, those who ship them.

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Witnessing your brother kissing another girl is weird enough, not considering the fact that it is often even worse when you yourself don't even happen to like girls.

[Clary = redhead, freckles, green eyes]

And so, Alec wished that he hadn't decided to choose this path down to the weaponry. That reminded him of something. If Jace was, well, sort of going out with Clary, which meant that Simon must have broken up with Clary. Being an exceptional older brother with an exceptional talent for reading facial expressions, Alec realised that while Isabelle tried to hide it, she actually liked Simon, and for a very long time.

He frowned, getting irritated at Clary for hurting three people at the same time, and still acting like the victim. To be blunt, Clary was one of those people that he could probably never warm to in his entire life, but, if it was for Jace's sake, and that his brother would get back to his usual self, he'd gladly live with it.

Through Isabelle's view:

Oddly enough, the next day saw Jace and Clary acting civilised. Isabelle sorely hoped that either Jace was over her, or that Clary would stop being a b*tch, and that her brother would quickly go back to his original self.

She had just been pondering this when she was just unlucky enough to see Jace and Clary sucking each other's face off, making her gag, and to quickly stumble to the nearest empty room. While she didn't like Clary, if she made her brother happy, she'd swallow every nasty insult and just let them be. Although, she'd prefer if they'd just go and get a room, coz, seriously, watching your own brother kissing some other girl is really awkward.

Giving a quick shake of her head, she proceeded to continue walking, until realising that Alec was standing there, trying to smother a strangled sound. She was pretty sure that Alec had just seen what she did, and a smirk found its way onto her face.

Not realising though, that Alec was looking at her the exact same way that she was at him. Well, after all, they were siblings.

"Izzy. You happy now?"

"I – wait what? I don't get what you – don't tell me you knew all this time?" Isabelle said, voice rising into an embarrassed shriek. Dragging Alec's arm into the next available free room, one without Jace and Clary, she attempted to glare at him. "Let's bring this inside."


Magnus was realising that Isabelle was giving Alec half-hearted dirty looks all day, and so he dragged his Shadowhunter aside to ask. They both sat in Magnus' room, having the occasional thing being taken from his actual apartment.

Magnus nuzzled Alec's nose with his own.

"You're so cute. Why's Isabelle giving you dirty looks all day?"

"I asked her about Simon, and now she hates me for it, as she says, that she can't focus on her life now."

"Simon? So, are they like officially going out? I mean, no offense, it's not like I don't like Clary, but she did just make everyone's life harder, so, I'm kinda waiting for Clary to just get together with Jace, and so we can all just relax."

Alec groaned, punching Magnus lightly. "You won't believe what I saw today. Jace and Clary were sucking each other's faces off in a room, with a door that they did not close. I just don't get Clary! She just – she's hurting three people at the same time, and still acts like the victim, just, urgh."

Magnus decided Alec was too cute for his own good, and quickly cupped his face and kissed him on the lips. Alec responded with the same enthusiasm, pulling Magnus down, running his hands into Magnus' hair. Magnus saw fireworks exploding behind his eyes, feeling the deep love he had for this beautiful blue-eyed boy.

They broke apart, gasping for air, Alec looking mildly embarrassed, and Magnus still in the moment. They really needed to do this more often.


Jace really was living a totally average day. And now it was a totally average evening. Well, it didn't count the fact that Clary had just broken up with Simon, and had dragged him in a room, and had kissed him, and well, had decided to go out with him, and had –

He needed to chill out. So here he was, cleaning weapons in the weaponry, checking out supplies in the infirmary, cleaning out old cupboards, and generally trying to steer Isabelle away from the kitchen.

And then Simon came rushing in, panting, and holding his hands on his knees.

"Have you seen Alec?"

"Alec? No? Why?"

"He's not answering his phone. And Isabelle's gone off, trying to find him. She…kinda stalked out. Alec's gonna be in a huge trouble when he gets back."

Jace was more worried than he would usually be. Were there any side effects that they didn't know of yet since his last injury? And, he remembered telling Alec about not going hunting on his own. Well, not that his ever-stubborn brother would listen, but, hey, he really needed to know where Alec was.

Jace was scrabbling around for gear, ready to go and find Alec himself. Didn't one aspect of Agnosia include forgetting places and roads? Simon was just standing there, knowing that this could be serious.

"Simon. Just stay here, and if Mom or Magnus comes back, tell them that we're out trying to find Alec." Simon nodded.

And that was the moment that the doorbell rang.

Both of them sprinted down the bare corridor, Jace out front. They stopped in front of the door, not sure what to do. Simon shrugged, and pulled the door open, then releasing the door handle in shock.

Isabelle was standing there, practically in tears, holding her mobile in one hand and her stele in the other. She stood there, face scrunched up, as a teardrop rolled down the curves of her cheeks, and fell onto the cold marble of the Institute.

Simon was first to speak. "Did – did you find him?"

Isabelle nodded, willing herself not to start crying her heart out.

"Then, uh, why isn't he here yet?"

Her lower lip trembled. "He wouldn't come back. He didn't know who I was!"

Just then, both Simon and Jace saw Alec running up the grass to the Institute.

"I – Alec!"

Isabelle's eyes widened, and she turned her head to confirm that. Alec, seeing how much panic he had caused the others, and seeing his sister cry for the first time in years, slowed to a dead stop. He felt a stab in his heart, feeling the pain he had caused her fluctuate in himself.

"I'm so sorry." He whispered, voice cracking, feeling another tear and cut inside him, this time of guilt, knowing that he could have prevented all this by not being so defensive.

Isabelle flung herself in his arms, crying freely. "I'm so sorry." He said again, desperation and pain lacing his words. He tucked her close to himself, wrapping his arms around her.

He could feel her fear, the fear of being forgotten by the ones you love, knowing them, but only to have them staring at back at you with blank eyes, not recalling you in the tangled web of their memories. He sees all of that, and he hates himself for it. He can feel that by the way she's trembling, the way that she's clutching at him, the way that she's now sobbing openly, rawly onto his chest. His heart cracks, his blood, his tears pooling in the ravine of his eyes, as they finally flow over, onto his cheeks, travelling down, dripping off at the end of his nose.

He tightens his hold on her, keening, lamenting, their tears collecting together in a mix of sorrow and blinding pain. "I'm so sorry!" The ends of his words break off, as he takes his sister's face between his palms, eyes searching her face frantically. His eyes are full of remorse, full of the love to that lost identity that was, and still is, in a twisted way, his sister.

"Can you forgive me?" He whispers to her. "Can you forgive me?"

She smiles back through her tears, feeling her heart ache for him the way it does when she can see him slipping, back through the lattice of his remembrance, down into the lonely and lost world below.

She breathes lightly. "I can."


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