Wow, so I fell off the face of the planet, almost. I honestly had the biggest case of writers block EVER. But I had to get something done, so I threw this together in a few days, so it sucks. SO BAD. I hate it. But it's gonna have to do. I'm going to try to get my chapters up faster, but I can't promise anything. Kay, so enjoy my shitty writing! Don't own the MI series, blah blah blah, REVIEW!

Chapter ten.

Magnus shot back to sit against his bed as if he had been shocked, his eyes wide. He was confused, worried, and a bit scared for the blue eyed boy he had only met three days ago, but he knew he was falling hard for him. But now he was. . . kidnapped? This all made no sense. Who would kidnap the boy who had probably never done a bad thing in his life, and wasn't even comfortable in his own skin? They could have taken anybody else, but it was just Alec. Poor innocent, adorable Alec. Isabelle was the next one to react.

"I am going to KILL that BASTARD!" she spat, snatching the phone from Jace's limp hand. She opened the door to take the phone to the office, to be met by an unexpected sight, even if she should have expected it. "Oh, hey mom, dad, Max" she greeted the rest of her family, trying to keep her voice from cracking. Maryse Lightwood was still for a moment before she stepped forward and embraced her daughter, eyes red. She looked like she'd been crying recently. Max looked confused and worried, and Robert looked angry and worried. The three Lightwoods that had just arrived stepped into the room, looking around, blinking slightly at Magnus, and his half of the room. Robert was the first one to speak.

"Hello. You must be Alec's roommate. I'm Robert Lightwood. Pleased to meet you" he stepped forward and held out his hand almost tentatively, as if he was scared that Magnus's glitter might bite him. Magnus reached his hand up to take the outstretched one, dropping his hand a moment later.

"Nice to meet you too, Mr Lightwood. I'm Magnus Bane. It's unfortunate that we have to meet under these conditions" Magnus said as courteously as possible. He could play the perfect gentleman easily, whether he looked the part or not. Robert looked pleased by the words, but his eyes were still worried.

"I agree. Now, what do you three know about this?" he asked, taking on a more serious tone. Maryse had let go of Isabelle and sat down on the neatly made, boring looking bed, which was obviously Alec's. Especially compared to the other one in the room, which was covered in homey touches, bright colour, and fluffy things. Definitely not her son's. Jace sighed, running a hand through his golden curls.

"Well the fire alarm went off at breakfast, and there was an actual fire so people were panicking and he got separated from us, and once we were allowed back inside, Alec never showed up, and he wouldn't answer our calls. And then we got this" Jace motioned to Isabelle, who held up her phone to her father, and hit a button to make the screen light up, revealing the message. Robert's mouth pressed into a thin line, and the middle Lightwood child showed it to her mother next.

"We need to track this number" Isabelle decided, her voice a bit stronger now that she knew more what they were going to do. Magnus instantly reached for one of his piles of clothes, pulling out a laptop from somewhere in the middle. The Lightwoods and Jace blinked, wondering how the sparkly teen could conjure things from piles of crap like he was plucking them out of mid air. He seemed to know where everything was, like organized chaos. Either that, or his glitter was stranger than they thought. Who said fairy dust had to be in fairytales?

Magnus flipped the device open and booted it up, which didn't take very long. It was his new laptop that his mother had bought him for school. He hit a few keys before heading to Google, tapping his fingers for the search engine to load. "Okay, what's his number?" the sparkly teen asked, glancing up. He had a satellite tracker up, one that he had used a few times in emergencies, when he had lost his phone. Isabelle recited the number, which she had memorized, in case she really needed it. Magnus typed it in and hit the enter key, sitting back to wait. Jace got to his feet and stood over the computer, the Lightwoods all getting up and joining him. Magnus didn't mind he attention, since he was used to being the centre of attention, but he wasn't used to being the shortest out of all of them, sitting on the floor. Even Max was taller than him at the moment. It took a moment, but soon a satellite image had popped up, with a red dot over North America. Magnus rolled his eyes and zoomed in, the dot going then to the United States, then to New York, Brooklyn, and then finally to a street map. The group blinked at the image they were faced with. It was the front of the school. Isabelle spun on her heel instantly, dashing out of the room despite her heels.

Five minutes later, staff were searching the school, along with the Lightwoods, and Magnus. The latter was currently walking down a hallway, opening every door on his way by, searching classrooms and closets, hoping that somebody would find him soon. This was turning out to be a ridiculous prank, unless the 'kidnapper' had actually taken Alec, and left the phone here to throw them off. He was just hoping he was actually here. If Alec was actually gone, he was sure the Lightwoods would fork out the money. Two grand was worth less than six months at this school. To get their son back, anybody would pay up.

Jace growled lightly as he walked past Sebastian, merely glancing at him, before doing a double take. "You ASS!" he snarled, whirling around. There, sticking out of his roommate's pocket, was unmistakably Alec's phone, million scratches and all. "You FUCKING ASSHAT!" he stomped towards the black-haired boy, grabbing hold of the front of his shirt. Sebastian didn't look very worried. If anything, he looked amused. "You TOOK ALEC!" he shouted, shoving the other teen against the wall furiously.

"I didn't 'take' anybody" Sebastian denied, shaking his head and smirking.

"Then explain why his phone is in your pocket" Jace's voice was low and dangerous, not that his roommate seemed to care. They had already figured out that they could match each other's strength easily. Sebastian glanced down at the beaten up, boring black phone. Alec himself had picked it out, that was evident. Black, plain, and the simplest model he could get.

"What, this little thing? I picked it up off the ground and I was just about to go bring it to the office"

"Wrong way, dumbass" Jace forced him harder against the wall, bringing his fist back before slamming it into his roommate's stomach, just as Mr Morgenstern walked around the corner.

Magnus was becoming discouraged, near the end of the hallway he was supposed to be searching. He opened a door on one side, eyes widening at the sight that met him. The missing Lightwood, sitting on an upturned bucket, leaning against the back of the janitor's closet, between some mops. What made it even more strange was that he appeared to be sleeping, and he had duct tape around his wrists, which were in front of him, and also a strip across his mouth. The sparkly teen whipped his phone out, texting Isabelle, who's number he had gotten in case he found Alec. It was a good thing he had then. Magnus didn't want to pull the duct tape off, since he knew it would hurt, but he didn't know what to do then. He reached out and lightly brushed Alec's cheek, letting out a sigh of relief. A moment later, pounding footsteps were heard, and Robert and Isabelle turned the corner, both of them looking relieved.

"Alec! Oh thank god!" Isabelle gasped, stepping into the small closet and embracing her unconscious brother.

"Leave the duct tape on. It'll come off with water. He looks fine. Excuse me Isabelle, I'll carry him" Robert had obvious relief in his voice, and his daughter let go and backed up, waiting for Mr Lightwood to pick Alec up. Magnus stood out of the way, and a moment later, Isabelle was hugging him, hard.

"Thank you, so much Magnus" she muttered in his ear before letting him go, smiling brightly. She knew he cared, after seeing him making out with her brother in the front hall, so he was obviously relieved as well, even for only knowing Alec for a short time. The two of them turned to the oldest one there, who had picked Alec up and started to walk down the hall, back in the direction of his eldest son's dorm room.

"Now to find the asshole who 'kidnapped' him" Magnus muttered, adding air quotes around the word kidnapped. As if in response to that, Isabelle's phone went off. She flipped it open automatically and sighed loudly, rolling her eyes. She flipped the phone around so that the older teen could read it, getting the same reaction. "Why is it I've known him for three days, and he's gotten himself in some kind of trouble three times? This is starting to seem like a daily thing."

"For Jace, getting in trouble IS a daily thing" Isabelle muttered, turning to walk down the hall, heading for the office, where they were to meet the blonde adopted Lightwood.

"What did you DO?" Maryse Lightwood sounded exasperated, crossing her arms as she stood in the office.

"He stole Alec!" Jace exclaimed, hoping that would fix everything, but to his adoptive mother, it meant little right now, because they still didn't have him back. She would deal with this Sebastian person after. "What did you expect me to do, just sit there?"

"Yes, I did. You can't go fighting everybody who crosses you Jace! Do I need to sign you up for Tai Kwon Do or something?"

"I'm joining the wrestling team, but that's not the point! I'm not going to sit back and let the asshole who kidnapped my brother walk away" his tone was angry now, but despite that he saw Maryse visibly soften.

"I know Jace, but really? Beating him up? You can do so much better. Really try to stay in line. I'm serious. I don't want to deal with you getting expelled or something" Maryse sighed, raking her hair back from her face. There was a knock on the office door and Robert opened it, looking much happier than he had when Jace had last seen him.

"Magnus found him" was all he needed to say before Jace was following his adoptive parents out the door, despite the fact that he was in trouble. He was relieved that they had found Alec, even if he was an ass to him sometimes, and acted like he didn't care. Alec was his best friend, and his brother. Nobody messed with him.

Alec let out a soft groan, his eyes squeezing shut more tightly than they had been. He felt like dead weight. His body was tired, and his wrists and face was sore, just around his mouth. He was aware after a moment of the dull sounds of talking, but it sounded as if they were on the other side of a wall. He wanted to roll over and go to sleep, but he didn't think he had the strength to move that much. He sighed and decided to open his eyes, even that being a huge effort. He almost pried them open, his vision blurry for a moment before it came into focus, Magnus's face the first he saw, hovering a few feet above his with an anxious look on his face. If he wasn't too tired to blush, he would have. His face was paler than it normally was, which was saying something. The blue eyed teen groaned and closed his eyes again, the light being too bright for him right now.

"Alec!" The Lightwoods were at his side in an instant when they heard Magnus speak. Robert and Jace had gotten the duct tape off of him once they got him back to his room, and then the family held a little meeting to talk about what had happened, while Magnus had watched over the unconscious boy, hoping he would wake up soon.

"Nnn, what the hell happened?" the blue-eyed teen asked groggily, not opening his eyes this time. He was afraid that if he did, somebody would notice the fact that he blushed almost every time he looked at Magnus. His parents didn't even know he was gay, and this wasn't the time for that.

"Well. . . we're not exactly. . . sure" Isabelle said slowly, looking thoughtful. They all knew that Sebastian had gotten in a truckload of trouble for it, being scolded by the principal, which they knew now was his father. Jace had gotten a laugh out of that, along with a few jibes, and glares.

Alec sighed, furrowing his eyebrows as he tried to remember what had happened. The fire alarm had gone, he had gotten separated from Magnus, then found Sebastian. He remembered asking the black-haired teen if he had seen Jace, but apparently he hadn't seen him. He remembered turning around to go look for his family or Magnus, and then nothing. Had it been Sebastian? "We found you taped up in a janitor's closet" his sister explained, tossing her long black hair back. Well that explained why his mouth and wrists hurt.

"And we know that douche bag Sebastian did it" Jace almost growled, a scowl on his face. It was obvious that the blonde wanted to rip his dick off, but that probably wasn't going to happen, unless he was awake while the other was sleeping. That was not a good room to be near in the night, he assumed. Probably neither of the two roommates would be sleeping that night.

"I was just about to ask that" Alec smiled slightly, not surprised that his adopted brother sounded pissed. He hated his roommate already, he was sure this hadn't helped. It was nice to hear the anger in his voice, proving that he really did care. "Did you beat him up for me?" he asked, opening his eyes a crack and looking to where Jace's voice had come from, meeting the golden eyes that looked back at him, a proud look contained within.

"Of course. He never saw it coming" he grinned, pushing back some of his golden curls. Sure, the last bit was a bit of a lie, the kid had seen it coming a mile away, but he had done it anyways.

"Thanks Jace" Alec smiled and closed his eyes again, sighing. "My head hurts. Can I go to sleep?" he asked, opening his eyes again to look around at the faces of his family, and his roommate, who seemed a bit happy with that suggestion. They were already nodding, all of them, the ones who didn't belong there already rising, aka everybody except for Magnus.

"Of course sweetie. Your father and I are going to leave soon, but we're so glad you're okay, and you can call us if you need us, alright?" Maryse Lightwood smiled at her son, who smiled back and nodded, thanking them all repeatedly as they left. Soon enough, Alec was alone with Magnus, who hadn't said anything for a while. He was now hyperaware of how close the sparkly teen was, and it was rather unnerving.

"Magnus. . . who found me?" he asked, meeting the teen's green-gold eyes. There was something about them that were almost surreal, but he couldn't place exactly what it was.

"I did" came the simple reply, and Magnus held the bright blue gaze. Alec swallowed thickly, wishing for some water at the moment. He wouldn't have minded some food either, but he wasn't going to ask Magnus for something when he had found him duct taped to a janitors closet. Well, in one.

"Thank you. I really appreciate it" he gave a small smile, trying not to let his grimace of pain show through, from the way his head pounded.

"Any time. Honestly, I think I was more worried than your family" Magnus sighed, leaning closer to the younger male and placing his lips on Alec's, holding them there for a moment. "I'm just glad you're okay. Now I'll let you sleep" he started to get to his feet, as much as he didn't want to, until he felt the hand grab his arm, holding him back. He looked back into those captivating blue eyes, waiting for him to say the words he wanted to hear.

"Magnus, can you. . . um, stay with me?"

"Of course" the smile tugged at his lips as he sat back down, running his fingers through the hair of his blushing roommate before lying down beside him. He slipped his long arms around Alec, holding him close, scared that he might get stolen away from him again if he slept. Sure, that was a rather childish thing to think, but it was possible, if it had happened before.

"Goodnight Magnus" said teen looked to Alec just as he noticed his breathing slowing, the whispered words the last thing said before he fell asleep. It was rather adorable, and he enjoyed the fact that his name was the last thing on Alec's lips before he fell asleep.

Jace had spent the entire day looking for his brother, and now he was stuck in detention with the exact piece of scum who had 'kidnapped' him in the first place. He was a bit selfishly grateful to Alec that he had gotten the day off, but he mentally kicked himself for thinking that.

"Okay boys, I'm going to do some work, I'll be back in a few minutes to check on you" Aldertree gave them what he thought was a stern look, but to the two teenagers, it just seemed creepy. "Behave" was the last word uttered before the door was closed an the room was silent, leaving the two enemies alone. Jace instantly turned his glare on Sebastian before they spoke in unison.

"You're dead."

Kay, so my halloween costume didn't pull through cuz the stupid cosplay company didn't deliver the wig T_T but once it comes, Imma put a link up.