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"Yeah, Clary, it's great, but I gotta-"
"Jace, you're not listening!" Clary shouted.
"I told you, congratulations, but-"
"I can extract Heavenly Fire out of you!"
Jace fell silent. He was so excited to finally find out where his parabatai is, he completely forgot about the serious problem named Sebastian.
"How..?"
"The rune. The one I kept seeing.. Jace-" Clary started.
"Do it." Jace interrupted."Do it, and then I shall go and find my parabatai."
You could see it from the distance, how bright the light shone from the Institute.
Brother Zachariah was used to surprises. His parabatai, William, was one hell of a surprise.
But when Tessa Gray, showed up in the Bone City, saying that the history is repeating itself, he was more than surprised.
It's happening again.
Time to visit home.
Alec and Sebastian were stuck in a smelly garage, following the plan. Mercer and Fall were outside, waiting for someone to show up. Kiera and Nora were in position, watching from a distance. Caroline and Sean were in a car, away from sight.
"Do you hear anything?" Sebastian whispered.
Alec shook his head. He couldn't help but watch Sebastian's pale complexion.
That's what will happen to me.
Mercer saw a portal form in front of him and Fall. It wasn't Warlock's magic - it was Faerie's.
The first person to arrive from the portal was Faye. She was dragging someone little behind her.
Maggie.
Her blond hair was messy, she had a cut on her lower lip, but her bright blue eyes didn't show fear.
She was literally the strongest mundane Mercer has ever seen.
Maggie was struggling, but when she saw Mercer, her eyes lit up.
"Uncle Mercer! I saw Auntie Beth!"
Faye hushed her by putting a long, sharp blade near her throat.
"Faye, what are you doing?" Fall asked with confused expression.
She ignored him.
"I see you decided to give yourself up." Faye told Mercer.
"Nah. We're trading, remember?" Mercer said, tightening his grip on Fall. "I give you your brother, you give me Maggie. It's only fair."
"No. You will come with me." Faye said.
"Fall will be enough." Mercer shot back.
"What's going on in there?" Alec whispered.
"I'm hitting the roof." Sebastian said, nearing to some rusty ladder.
"No!" Alec whispered-yelled. "They'll see you!"
"We need to know what's going on!" Sebastian climbed and was out of sight.
"I don't think you understand me, warlock." Faye spat dangerously. "If you want the child to live, you will come with me."
Maggie started struggling again, and Faye had drawn blood.
"Faye!" Fall shouted, his voice stern. "Let the girl go!"
It all happened so fast.
Fall launched forward, towards Faye, and Mercer didn't see what's happening.
Sean ran out of the car, yelling for his daughter, and Maggie yelled out 'Daddy!'
The next thing Mercer knew, Fall was wrestling Faye and Maggie has dropped on the floor.
She was getting drenched in a pool of blood.
"Now we don't have a leverage." Faye hissed at Fall.
"You hurt a child!" Fall looked with an unreadable expression at his sister.
Faye pressed her tattooed wrist to Fall's.
"Remember who the real enemy is."
Then she dragged him into the portal.
Sean and Mercer were kneeling near Maggie, while the rest of Doppelgangers and Kiera showed up.
Mercer's hands flashed blue and he touched Maggie, and then Nora noticed someone on the roof.
"Sebastian?"
He looked like he was about to puke. He stumbled to the edge of the roof. Alec noticed he was spasming.
The second later he was falling, and Nora ran forward in order to catch him.
Maggie was better, but she didn't wake up.
Nora set Sebastian on the ground. The blood tickled at the side of his mouth.
Alec watched with dread how the only dark on his face - his eyelashes turned silver white.
"The last stage." Mercer said quietly. "He's dying."
Sean refused to leave Maggie alone, and Mercer came with him in order to continue healing her.
"What are we supposed to do with Sebastian?" Care shouted. "We can't just bring him to the hospital!"
"The lab! Go to the Institution!" Nora shouted and left with Sean and Mercer.
"My car is just a few block away." Kiera said.
Alec just nodded solemnly.
This will be a horribly long night.
Sebastian woke up hearing a strange beeping. He tried to open his eyes, but they refused to cooperate.
"You've been out for several hours, silver boy. Time to wake up."
He recognized Kiera's voice.
Sebastian opened his eyes and saw that he was in some white room that looked terribly like a hospital.
"Huh?" he grasped his face and felt something long and plastic. "What is this?"
"Some sexy tubes. The mundane girl said it should help to keep the blood out of your lungs."
Sebastian smirked slightly.
"And what exactly are you doing here?"
Just as she was about to answer, Alec opened the doors.
"Well, you have enough babysitters." Kiera said, standing up. "I'll see you later."
When the door closed, Sebastian gave Alec an irritated look.
"You're such a cockblocker, you know that?"
"I don't think you're in shape.." Alec made a face. "For that. You have to rest and save your strength."
Sebastian looked plainly annoyed.
"We're both dying. If I want to mope around like you, looking for a cure that doesn't exist, I'll do that. But right now, I have a thing with Kiera going, so if I wish to sleep with her, I will definitely do that. Stop telling me what to do.
Alec was about to say something, when the door opened and Caroline was seen in the doorway.
"He's here."
She said it, as if the king arrived.
Alec turned to Sebastian once again.
"Don't. Move."
Caroline led Alec to her lab where Alec saw a figure with parchment-colored robes.
"James Carstairs." Alec said.
I haven't used that name for over hundred years, Mr. Lightwood. he answered in Alec's head. I prefer Brother Zachariah.
"We've met before." Alec said, taking one step forward. "Why you never told me anything about the Doppelgangers?"
It was not my place to tell. It would've been better if you never found out.
"And so you would've let me die?"
Once you're a Marked Shadowhunter, there's no way in stopping the dying process. The only way to be free of it is if you get your Marks Stripped. Other then that you could just slow it down. That's why I'm here.
Alec couldn't believe it. Get his Marks stripped? Shadowhunters would rather die.
"How-How do you slow it down?" Alec's voice shook.
If Silent Brothers could sigh, that's exactly what Zachariah did.
It's wrong. But it's possible. A demon drug. Yin Fen.
"Never heard of it."
Because it hasn't been sold for over a century. But I have some, for Mr. Verlac. He will be slightly stronger and it may extend his lifespan, a little bit.
Zachariah disappeared into Sebastian's room.
"You okay?" Caroline asked gently.
"I would never agree to get my Marks stripped." Alec choked out
"Yeah." she hugged him. "I know."
"This is it." said Magnus. "This is where the wolfy told us Alec called from."
"This place is a mess." Izzy said.
They were standing in a middle of some living room - if you could call it that.
"You think he is staying here?" Clary asked, looking around.
Jace came from the hallway.
"This... house thingy is clear. Alec's not here."
The front door opened and a man stepped in.
He was dressed, terribly like Magnus, his dark hair having blue streaks in it, and he wore several pendants and had many piercings in his ears.
The man tilted his head, and everyone looked at him with wide eyes.
Mercer examined the scene before him with one eyebrow raised, and his hands flashing blue.
"Who are you, and what the heck are you doing in my house?"
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