Chapter 29

After Izzy, had stormed of, he had ended at the side of her brother. Sitting and looking at him and his golden hair. Imaging what the life her mother had invasion for her would have been. She ran her fingers truth his hair and combed it out where It stuck together in small clots. She recount hat being married to Jace wouldn't have been that bad, he was a great guy with wit to match her own. The partnership in battel was easy to imagen but the having children part was unbearable. They were brother and sister for god's sake.

"Are you okay?" It was Hodge that had stuck his head in the door asking her.

"No." she answered truthfully not having the energy to lie. Hodge seemed to accept her answer and not dig deeper into it.

"You mother asked me to take a deeper look at your fathers injury's to decide what happened to him, I came to ask your expertise in weapon in defecation. If you think you are op for it?"

Izzy slowly nodded and rose from the chair she had been sitting in. She could do this, she would find the person who was responsible and take revenges, not justice. But the dark sweet revenges that already tasted so sweet in her mouth. Before leaving the room, she kissed Jace's brow after that her lips tasted salty with the faintest trace of cobber.

"I'm up for it, I'm gonna figure it out no matter the consequences." Izzy followed Hodge to the lap where her father lay on the metal table. Looking at him like this only feed her flame of rage. The cold distant eyes that use to be so soft and alive when tuned upon her. Isabelle never agreed with Maryse, but now she saw her mother was right in one thing, feelings makes you weak. So, she closed them of and started her work. It wasn't to say that she wouldn't turn them back on again when she was done working, but for now she needed to be professional, the body before her was a corps not her father.

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When Alec saw, Magnus was hanging from the ceiling he jolted out his mother's eyes with a disgusted facial expiration.

"You tortured him? why?!" Alec asked not really expecting to get an answer because he kept going. "How did you even get him here!"

"He came here himself, you brother discovered him standing over the coups of your father. Tell me, doesn't that look a little suspicion to you?"

"What!? Magnus didn't do it. Why would Magnus kill dad, mom?" Alec turned to look at Magnus with a soft look in his eye. It took a second before he jumped into action.

"Will can you please tell Maryse that it wasn't Magnus that supposedly killed you?"

"Well he didn't or I would be standing here, well maybe if Nico brought me along, but not alive." Will kept rambling on about life and death, but Alec was too busy with helping Magnus out of his changes. A single rune was enough to make then unlock.

"why did you come?" he asked as he helped the warlock to his feet.

"Alexander" Magnus sighed and laid a hand on his chick. "I came to say goodbye." The hurt and betrayal shorn of Alec face.
"Oh Dear, it's not like that, I love you. I love you more than you could ever know, but too much can be dangerous. Both for me, for you and the people around us, things gets messy so quickly. Besides you got what you wanted you gonna get a family. We have discussed this all ready, it is too dangerous."

It took long enough for Clary and Nico to come and help, Nico was fascinated by Magnus that was for sure, so he helped Clary get Magnus up to the infirmary were Will join them after trying to help Alec convince Maryse that it hadn't been Magnus on that killing spree. Will had left Alec and Maryse in the study, in favor for helping healing Magnus back. Even if Maryse had been convinced to let Magnus get help she had refused to take the collar of him. Alec had a hard time convincing her but at last after a long while of arguing and shaming her, had she given in and given him the key.

After Magnus' magic had been unlocked he had made a portal to take Will and Nico back to camp. Magnus had been fast to dismiss Alec offer to help him home. Alec had wanted to stay with Magnus to make sure he was okay, even if knew he was okay he still had the overwhelming need to see it with his own eyes. No matter what he needed, Alec knew Magnus had needs too. Needs to, to think things through. To not be pressured to much in one day so Alec would give him his space, for now.

That night he went to bed with his wife, but wished more then everything else that it was someone else then her lying beside him.

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Hodge had helped Izzy in the lap, they had both out of experience though the wound that had taken Roberts life had been of a knife, but testing showed that it had been a seraph-blade that had done the deed. They had checked and double checked the results to make sure that it could be true. After make sure the fourth time, they had parted ways. Hodge and Izzy agreed, that she would go fetch Max and Hodge would report their findings to Maryse.

Hodge didn't knock when he went into the study, it was hard to believe that under a few hours ago, it bad been a murder scene, he saw draining the last of a glass of spirits.

"Here" he handed her the official report, not judging her drinking on the job. He would properly drained the whole bottle that was standing on top of the desk. Gone to bed and not wanting to deal with what had happened, he admired her strength. Even if she seemed cold, Hodge knew better. He had lived with the couple in many years, and at a few occasions seen her tenderly look at her husband or children when she thought no one else around was looking. She did care deep down under all that discipline.
She poured herself another drink and sipping it while reading the report. She but the report down and stood before she pulled a knife to Hodges throat. Sipping her spirits again before asking a of guard and confused Hodge.

"Did you do it?" she said with dead eyes.

"What?!... why would I kill your husband?"

"You are the only one that I don't know where was at the time."

"I did not kill Robert. that is hypocritical of you Maryse, why would I? We both know you of all that lives in this house is able to do such a thing beside me, so, where were you?" He angrily pushed her hand aside. "Just so you know I was in the liberty reading and resting after that ass kicking you gave me this morning."

"You do understand I had to ask" she offered in something that from her was an apology.

"I know, but did you have to threaten me?"

"No, but as I remember you tell the truth when you are hurt enough."

Hodge was about to leave the room before he stopped and said over his shoulder "Maryse you have changed more than can be good for you, something is wrong with you. Seriously wrong, you have to stop whatever obsession that is going through your head before you lose whatever you have left of you family." She took another swing at the glass and snorted a laugh.

"Get out." She said flat out and Hodge was glad to. He went to his room and send a fire message to the one he had been spying for, explaining the situation. Reporting everything new since he had last reported.

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When Isabell found, the station empty with the people she was looking for she panicked. She asked is someone knew were Luke was, she was told that he had gone home to take care of a family emergency. She had stormed out of the station trying to reach Luke by phone, but she couldn't get a hold of him. this was when she really started to freak out, she needed to find her little brother. When she was ready to treir down every building on Manhattan to find Max, she got a text.

From Simon:

Fuck! I totally forgot everything about texting you, Alec and Clary (if I had Alec´ number). Max is okay, his at our place.

From Izzy:

If I wasn't so glad to find out Max is safe I would properly have killed you. So remember to texts me in the future.

Isabell took a deep breath before taking the shortest route to Hotel du'Mort. When she reached the inner door, she was met by a grumpy Raphael. If vampires could look more dead, Raphael would properly be a zombie.

"I another Shadowhunter sets a foot in this building for the rest of the week in the middle of the day, there will be blood to pay." He bit at her as she walked by him truing to ignore his grumpiness.

"What do people think this place is? A dirty motel…" he grumped under his voice, following Izzy to Raphael's privet rooms. "Now take this brat and go, so I can go back to bed." Raphael gave Max an Simon a dirty steer as they lay in the big comfortable double bed reading. Izzy couldn't help but smile at the two boys.

"Come on Max, we have to go home now." He made a jump of surprise, then he smiled and ran to izzy showing what they had been reading. Was hardly out of the door to the room before it had been slamed behind them.

"What's whit him?" Izzy asked Max.

"He is just pissed I got more attention from Simon than he did." Max said absent minded nose buried in the book. As thy came out on the street Izzy flagged down a cab. The trip home felt like an eternity with her hand running her hand thru her brother hair, looking at the passing city with blurry eyes.

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His irritation was getting the best of him as he with right hand showed the glass on the table to it smashed in to tiny pieces at it hit the wall. Why couldn't they just have played into his hand? It would have been so much easier to take them down if they already were taking each other apart from the inside. By framing the warlock, it should have made a bigger mess. It didn't matter much in the long end he would get the power. When he had planned getting it, he knew it wasn't going to be easy, that was why he had more than one approach in play to get close enough to take what was rightfully his. He threw the paper into the flames watching the fire message burn away. Rage and hatred growing in his heart.