Ch. 7
Alec's body moved before his mind.
"Magnus! Jace!"
Alec rushed forward, determined to get to his parabatai and boyfriend.
Clave members rushed for Alec, catching his arms and securing them behind his back and stopping him from pursuing forward.
"No please! Let me see them! Please!"Alec screamed, trying to push them off him.
Inquisitor Imogen Herondale smirked. Fucking smirked. It only angered Alec more. He growled in his throat, struggling, more.
A choking sound filled the room and Imogen turned around, eyes wide.
Magnus' eyes were open, except they were white. White as the marble walls in the Infirmary. His back was arched off the bed, knuckles white from clutching the streets beneath him.
But the thing that scared Alec the most was the blood seeping out of Magnus' mouth, and dripping down his chest and neck.
"Magnus...MAGNUS!" Alec yells.
Alec tried to move forward, but the firm grip on his arms kept him back, and he had had enough.
"Out of my way." he growled at the Clave envoy's.
Magnus' choking intensified and the blood increased.
"Oh, you motherfuckers!" Alec yelled.
Alec stomped hard on the foot of the Clave member next to him, who yelled in pain and release Alec. He kicked out knocking his fellow shadowhunter to the ground and twisted the other guy's arm to let him go. The two shadowhunters lay at Alec's feet. He turned to face the Inquisitor.
Cracking his knuckles he growled, "Get out of my way."
The Inquisitor threw back her head and laughed, "You have some nerve, Alexander-"
"Don't call me that!"
Imogen smirked, "I can call you whatever I want and if you dare lay a finger on me, I swear both your parabatai and you're 'love' will suffer for it!"
Alec stopped in his tracks and his eyes traveled to Jace and Magnus. Jace was restrained to the bed with chains and his hair covered his forehead and some of his eyes. Magnus had stopped choking and spasming, but blood still leaked from a large wound on his knuckle.
Alec wouldn't live with himself if he saw them suffer.
"Love is not something us shadowhunters possess, Alexander." Imogen said, "We are breed only for one thing. To protect the mundanes from the demons and to fulfill the law."
Alec clenched his fists, "Where does it say in the law that I can't love a downworlder."
Imogen walked towards Alec her eyes gleaming, "It doesn't, but it's wrong! Especially with one of the sam sex! Think of the dishonor it will bring to your family dating a guy like him and having the son of Valentine as a parabatai!"
Imogen stood right in front of Alec. Her head tilted up to look him straight in the face.
Alec smirked, which caused Imogen to frown, "It's been considered."
Alec jumped, flipping over the Inquisitor and landing right in between Magnus and Jace. He checked on his parabatai first.
Jace was ore paler than usual and a bunch of iratzes decorated his skin slowly healing all the deep cuts on his body. Alec realized his own skin felt tingly and the knot in his stomach seemed to unwind, slowly.
Alec booked away from Jace and his gaze landed fully on Magnus. Magnus Bane. The guy Alec had gone on one date with but was head over heels for. Magnus' bed was covered in fresh blood, some dripping onto the floor and his mouth gaped open with a trail of blood running from it. Alec clutched Magnus' hand not caring if the blood got on him. He intertwined their fingers and Alec felt his eyes begin to sting.
"Magnus...I'm so sorry." Alec choked out, "I'm so sorry you had to go through this. I'm sorry I wasn't there to protect you."
Alec looked up at the Inquisitor, half expecting her to yell at him to get away , but she just watched him carefully with her cold brown eyes. Her arms crossed around her body and her foot beginning to tap impatiently.
Alec looked back down at Magnus and he carefully moved his hair away from his eyes. He couldn't help himself from staring at Magnus' bare chest. DAMN.
Alec felt his cheeks begin to burn and the stinging behind his eyes increasing. If only Alec had stayed with Magnus that night and not have been a selfish bitch to find out where Jace was.
Alec gasped as he felt pressure around his hand and realized that Magnus was squeezing his hand back. Alec smiled, maybe a little to early.
Magnus' eyes opened. They were white again and his back arched again as his body spasmed. He was choking again and the flow of blood resumed.
"Magnus?" Alec whimpered.
Magnus' eyes closed and the choking stopped white his back fell back onto the mattress. Alec had to bite his lip from yelling out a curse again.
Alec squeezed Magnus' hand, cautiously. Magnus made no response and his hand slipped from Aec's and back onto the bed.
"Magnus?"Alec sid, his voice coming out in a whisper.
Magnus please don't die on me! I don't think I can live without you!
"Alexander?"
Alec's ears perked up, but the voice was so quiet that he probably imagined it.
"Alexander?"
Alec felt a hand in his and squeezed it. He looked up to see Magnus slowly opening his eyes and his fingers intertwined with Alec's.
"Magnus!"
Alec was about to walk closer to Magnus, when he felt hands pulled him back and ripping his hand from MAgnus!
"H-Hey, let me fucking go, goddamnit!" Alec said, struggling.
Magnus' eyes were slowly opening and his hand searching for Alec. Alec struggled even more against the hands pulling him away.
Imogen stepped in front of Alec and closer to Magnus. Fear seized inside of Alec.
"No-No don't hurt him! Leave him alone!" Alec yelled.
Imogen snapped her fingers and Alec felt something sharp against his neck, a knife. He stopped struggling as he felt a sharp prick, and the warmness of blood trickling down his throat.
"Now, now Mr. Lightwood. THis man has valuable information and is in custody of the Clave. So please, show yourself out." Imogen said, waving her hand towards the exit.
The arms around Alec loosened a little and the knife against his throat was lowered, not against his neck but firmly on his chest.
"And you will not speak about this to anyone. Am I understood?" she said.
Alec bit his lower lip. How could one of the official of the Clave ask his to do that.
Imogen raised her eyebrow, "Unless you want me to hurt everyone you love. You will leave."
Before Alec could answer, something made him stop.
"Alexander, please just go. Don't stay because of me."
Alec's head turned.
Magus was sitting up, holding his chest, in his bed. Blood staining parts of his bare chest and bandages all over his arms.
"That's an order." Magnus said, his eyes turning to his warlock mark, beaming down at the young shadowhunter.
"Leave, I'm not worth your life."
