Hey guys, so trying not to kill everyone, like by that I mean Sebastian and his accomplice. Despite the fact I made her, I kinda don't like her in the way she's being painted just now, even if I am the artist :D it'll make sense in the future my faithful followers! And I love you guys too much to keep you waiting :D
Disclaimer: still don't own the characters, not that I wouldn't mind. Even Sebastian is supposed to be a babe even if he is a bit of an asshole :)
Magnus sat staring out across the night through the window, praying for anything to help them. Alec's condition was worsening and Magnus was beginning to fear the worse. Alec can't . . . die can he? The thought cut through him like a knife, causing cold shivers to course through his veins. He watched the sky and saw a figure running across the rooftops. It was difficult for Magnus to look at, and he realised that the figure was a Shadow hunter as they were wearing glamour.
He squinted at the figure and made out a wavy womanly shape with a hood up and a silver mask. He looked at Alec, chewing his lip slightly. Should I go look? It could be the Clave looking for us. But it could be Minions looking for us. Magnus sighed and walked down the stairs to see Alec. He was still feverish, but he was waking up less and less frequently. Magnus knew that he couldn't help him right now; he needed a healing rune and fast.
Magnus sighed, tucked the blanket round his lover a bit tighter and brushed a strand of hair back across his forehead. Oh hold on love, I'll be back soon.
He stood up and after some deciding he picked up Alec's sword too. He stumbled out into the night and set off towards where he'd seen the Shadow hunter heading.
He slunk as stealthily as possible down alleyways and narrow streets always heading towards the distant warehouses. He thought that if one was running as fast as that woman was, they'd spotted something, so regardless of whether the woman was or wasn't Clave, they were most likely pursuing someone on the opposite side.
Finally he reached an open courtyard, which, to his horror, contained the Clave's worst enemy. Sebastian Morgenstern was dancing round the courtyard parrying and lunging at his opponent, Jace. Magnus stared opened mouth as just behind him, Clary ran at her opponent, the woman he'd seen running across the rooftops. Clary took out the woman with a damn good kick and then lunged, stabbing Sebastian in the ribs. Then Jace caught him across the back. The woman scrambled up to protect Sebastian, and Jace began to drag Clary up and away, in the opposite direction to Magnus.
Magnus cursed his luck and burst into the courtyard and ran towards the disappearing forms of Clary and Jace. Sebastian and the woman looked up in surprise- she had knelt down to heal him- but Magnus ran straight passed them.
He burst into the next opening and saw nothing, Jace and Clary had vanished into the labyrinth that was Rome. He yelled out.
"Clary?! . . . JACE!"
There was a faint rustle from behind one of the bins and Magnus raised the sword, fearing the worse. Then Clary and a bleeding Jace emerged from behind the over filled bins.
"Clary! Oh Jace! You have no idea how happy I am to see you guys!" Magnus walked forward laughing slightly and hugged them. He grinned broadly. "Come on, let's get moving before Sebastian is back on his feet. I have a hidey-hole."
Jace gripped his arm. "Alec? Is he ok?"
Magnus shook his head and heard Clary's sharp intake of breath. "He's in bad shape, needs a healing rune bad, and I'm out of magic."
They nodded. "Which way then?" Clary asked.
"This way." Magnus started heading back in a slightly roundabout way to avoid Sebastian in the courtyard.
-Time Jump-
Izzy lay crying into Simon's shoulder.
"We – We should- sh- have- ha- STAYED!" She howled between sobs.
"Love, they stayed to give us a chance to get away. It was their choice." Simon tried to console her.
"But they're our best friends! They're all the family we have left! I've lost everyone! Max . . . Alec . . . Mags . . . and now Jace and Clary!" She burst into a fresh wave of tears. Simon stroked her shoulder and cuddled her closer.
"Clary wanted to be with the man she loved, Jace, no matter the consequences."
Izzy stopped sobbing and Simon froze. He ran through what he had just said and closed his eyes in frustration.
"How-"
Simon cut her off. "No Izzy! For the last time I don't want to have this conversation now!" He sighed. "Clary and Jace are missing, quite possibly dead at Sebastian's hands. This is not the right time to be talking about that."
Izzy sighed and grumbled slightly, but nodded slowly into his chest.
"Come here my love. We'll have a good night's sleep, and then tomorrow we'll tell the Clave what happened and we'll go out to find them. Alive and well, they're probably with Magnus and Alec, yeah? Safe and all together." Simon kissed the top of her head and closed his eyes.
Gods, please Clary. Come back. We need you.
-Time Jump-
Clary helped Jace as he slumped against her to get through the doorway of Magnus' temporary home. She looked around slightly puzzled. "Where's Alec?"
Magnus gestured down the stairs. "He's in the basement. Come on then." When Clary didn't move, it was Magnus' turn to be confused. "What's wrong?"
Clary looked at Jace, who was hanging off of Clary's shoulder, barely conscious. "I'd like to heal him up first, if you don't mind. He's half dead now Mags, could you help me?"
Magnus hesitated before nodding and helping her lie Jace down on the floor. Jace groaned slightly and mumbled something. Clary leaned down next to him, gently sweeping hair of his face and whispering sweet things in its ear. She drew Jace's stele from his belt and gently carved the Iratze on his arms and then one on his shoulder where Sebastian's wicked blade had caught Jace earlier. He mumbled something and sighed happily as the pain faded. Magnus watched again with interest as the runes that Clary had drawn flared up brightly as she drew them, much brighter than any other Shadow hunter, and much more potent. Jace's eyes fluttered open and he smiled softly when he saw Clary gently stroking the side of his face.
"Firebug . . . We made it." He grinned and laughed quietly, a beautiful look of utter joy flooding over his face. "I thought I'd lost you forever. I thought we were going to die."
Clary leaned in and pressed her lips to his and whispered, "Well, we didn't. You should have more faith in me."
Jace laughed and sat up drawing Clary into a deeper kiss, holding her close to his body, his fingers beginning to knot into her hair-
There was a cough from behind them. "Err . . . really don't want to break up this beautiful moment . . . but, my love, your brother, is dying downstairs and I kind of thought you were here to save him and all, you know just a hunch I got."
Clary slapped Jace's chest still laughing. She stood up and then frowned as Jace started to stand too.
"No, love. You stay up here for a bit. I'll call you down when he's better, k?"
Jace looked crestfallen and seriously worried now. He turned to Magnus. "Is he that bad?" To his horror, Magnus nodded.
Clary slipped down the stairs heading for Alec, Magnus followed after a short pause. Magnus heard Clary's sharp intake of breath and worried how much worse Alec could have got from last time he'd seen him. Clary knelt down and gasped at the wound in Alec's side. It wasn't bleeding anymore but it was infected, that much was clear. The wound was secreting a putrid green-white liquid that made Clary sick just looking at it. He was breathing slowly and his eyes were restlessly moving behind his eye lids, meaning that he wasn't getting any proper rest.
Clary looked up at Magnus, who sagged and thumped to the floor beside her. "I did everything that I could, but it's not enough. I'm all out of magic and I can't help him, Clary. Please tell me you can?"
Clary nodded. "I can, I just need your help too, in a more mundane way. I'm going to draw a rune on him then I need you to pull out that arrow shaft so I can fully heal him, ok?"
"You can heal him?"
"Of course! I can heal over the wound for now then you can get some good rest and work magic on him, yeah? You won't have to keep stemming the blood or worrying, yeah? We'll get some proper meals into you and then everything will be fine. We'll stay here for a few days and then, when you're ready, we'll portal home. Everything's going to be just fine Mags."
Magnus exhaled in relief. "Ok the, let's get to work with the arrow then.
-Time Jump-
Izzy sat bored at the Clave meeting. She, Simon and Luke had told the Clave everything that had happened, and despite being told that she had indeed done the right thing in running away, it didn't make her feel any better. They could be dead because of me. We turned and ran like cowards, turning our backs on our friends when they needed us the most. I've murdered my best friend. Izzy knew why she had done it, but she was frightened to tell anyone. For anyone to know what had happened, what had made her turn tail and run. She needed Clary more than ever but Clary wasn't there anymore. And it's all your fault. Izzy sobbed once then got up and left the room, much to everyone else's surprise.
She stumbled out into the corridor and turned down one of the Institute corridors. She started blindly running through the maze of underground passages, not concentrating on which way she was going, just wanting to get away. To hide her shame and tears from everyone else. She heard a voice yell out behind her, but she didn't stop. She knew that Simon would try and follow her, but how could he console her, help her, when he was part of the problem? Izzy ran on, turning corners and twists, until, after a few minutes she skidded to a halt. She was stood at a crossroad of two tunnels, but that wasn't what had made her stop.
All the lights had flicked out. She stood in complete darkness, unable to see even her own hand in front of her face. She backed into the wall for security and stayed, flattened against it. She slowed her breathing down, trying to make it as quiet as possible. A tear trickled down her cheek and splashed to the ground.
As it hit one of the lights started flickering nearby. An eerie glow was cast across Izzy as she started to back down the tunnel that she had come down, away from the crossroad, when she thumped into something behind her. She turned round and to her horror saw a solid wall where before there had been a tunnel. She spun again to look for another way out and screamed.
All the tunnels had gone. Walls surrounded her, trapping her deep within the Institute. Izzy screamed again and clawed at the walls with her hands bringing down chunks of the soil on top of her. The flickering light was now above her and gave out a steady light all of a sudden and Izzy looked up.
She regretted it instantly.
There was a huge crack running across the ceiling and as she watched the roof began to cave in on her. She screamed again and crouched down on the ground, earth pouring down on top of her, burying her.
-Time Jump-
Simon heard the scream that ripped through the Institute and he instantly began sprinting through the corridors, heading towards the endless sound. Simon had never heard a more terrifying sound before, and what chilled him to his bones was he recognised the screams. How could anything make Izzy make that noise?! He turned a few corners and stopped. The screaming had stopped, but faintly he could hear some sobbing, echoing softly along the ground.
"IZZY?! WHERE ARE YOU?!" Simon bellowed down the corridors. He heard a distant shout and ran towards it.
Simon skidded round a corner and nearly tripped over Izzy, who was curled up on the floor crying her heart out. He dropped to one knee beside her.
"Izzy! Oh shit! Babies, come here! Tell me what's wrong." Simon reached out and held her close, stroking her hair and kissing the top of her head. Izzy sobbed and snuggled into his chest, her crying slowly stopping.
"Is it really you, Si?"
"Yeah, of course it is babies. Don't worry nothing's going to happen now, I'm not going to let anything hurt you." Simon cuddled her and rubbed her arm. "Iz, tell me what happened."
She chocked back a sob and nodded, sitting up slowly, leaning back against the wall. "I don't really know. One minute . . . I was upset but . . . then the next I was tr-trapped . . . underground and the roof started collapsing in on me. I was being buried alive my dirt." She shook herself and rubbed her arms and legs, as if to brush off imaginary soil. She shuddered and rested her head against Simon's shoulder, sniffing occasionally.
Simon put his hand under her chin and lifted it so he could see into her shimmering eyes. "I would never let that happen." He said as he leaned in and kissed her softly on the mouth. She smiled into the kiss and wrapped her arms around his neck and snuggling her head into the crook of his shoulder. Simon scooped her up into his arms and began walking back the way he'd come.
He walked for a few minutes in comfortable silence, before Izzy spoke up.
"I love you, Si."
Simon smiled and quickened his pace, hurrying back to their room.
"I love you too, my little Isabelle."
-Time Jump-
Alec grumbled in his sleep and happily sighed, rolling over onto his side, dragging the covers with him. When doing so he revealed his side, which was healed over, though still slightly red. Magnus watched him sleep, happily dozing himself. He'd been watching Alec's arm a lot recently, before he was healed by Clary and now after. He was so relieved to find that despite Alec waking up and saying he'd been having a nightmare, the rune had never shown up on his arm again. Magnus was trying to keep a close watch, but he was fairly sure it was gone for good. He smiled again and scooting himself over to where his boyfriend lay. Magnus wrapped his arm around Alec's waist and pressed a kiss to the back of his neck sighing happily. Everything was going to be fine.
-Time Jump-
Jace sat contently looking out over the Rome skyline. He sighed contently and took a bite out of the apple he was holding, crunching on it as the sun set in the background. He smiled slightly as he thought about how stressful the last few weeks had been and how it would now soon be over. He had his beautiful wife beside him- well not physically, she was away getting food at this point in time- his brother was healing at a remarkable rate and was currently sat down stairs in the basement, having food and a game of cards, laughing merrily.
As Jace watched the shadows grow longer he didn't notice the one shadow that shifted irregularly and took off, slinking behind Jace a few rooftops away to go and report what they had seen.
-Time Jump-
Clary crouched in the shadows, waiting for an opportunity. She didn't know why she was being so cautious, they were only mundanes and she had glamour on anyway. They couldn't see her, but she felt like there was something watching her. She could only hope that it wasn't anything more than a human with the Sight or an odd cat.
She slowly walked out, still crouching and began taking fruit from a nearby vendors stall and stowing them in her bag when he wasn't looking. She then shuffled back into the shadows and climbed nimbly up the side of the building she had been crouched next to, and leaped over to the other side of the square, dropping down into another alley. She then slunk up to a meat vendor and carefully took scraps and any other bits of meat she could lay her hands on that the vendor wouldn't notice.
She then started to straighten up and head back to Jace and the others, when she saw something that made her heart freeze.
Sebastian was stood in the middle of the square eating a mango and smiling at the fruit vendor he'd just bought it from. He looked up from saying something to the obviously smitten girl and locked eyes with Clary. He smiled cunningly and spat something to the now confused girl before beginning to slalom his way across the cobbles towards his sister.
Clary turned and fled down the nearest alley way, diving through the narrow lanes and one way roads, desperately trying to lose him in the maze of Rome. As she dropped down a level and flew up another street before running down a flight of stairs leading her further and further away from Magnus' hidey-hole, she heard a roar of frustration.
Sebastian had lost her on the longwinded route round Rome's backstreets. He howled again and Clary took off towards the hidey-hole moving as silently as possible.
-Time Jump-
Jace felt the knife pressed against the back of his neck and stiffened, a mechanical voice sounded in his ear.
"Don't move." It stated. It sounded like a computer talking, robotic in its sounds.
Jace tried to turn slowly to see its face, but he was roughly shoved back round, a gash appearing in his neck where they had dragged the knife across the skin.
"Don't move."
Jace huffed in frustration. "What do you want?" There was no response. He filled his lungs ready to yell for Magnus or Alec, when the knife was drawn back and the pommel struck him on the back of his head, dizzying him. He slumped to his knees, the painful grip on his shoulders was all that kept him upright. He looked up as a boot appeared in his line of vision. The blood drained out of his face as he looked up at the face of his brother-in-law.
Sebastian grinned. "Hello, Jace."
Hehehe you have no idea how much I enjoy writing this story, it's actually what keeps me going these days :) a huge thank you to you all again for your wonderful suggestions over my odd boyfriend issues and I hope you guys are right and either way it turns out ok :) (right now we're "dating"? it's kinda fun but also boring but it is working :D) should be updating soon so hopefully you won't have to wait too long :) love you guys!
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