SORRY ITS BEEN SO LONG GUYS, I WILL UPLOAD MUCH QUICKER NOW I PROMISE! HOPE YOU LIKE IT
Magnus stumbled in through the door of the apartment, followed by Isabelle and Jace Lightwood, both of whom looked confused. Jem tripped in the room last with a cup of coffee in his hand. He initial look of surprise at the appearance of the group was gone from his face. After everything that had happened, with Jem being freed from the lifetime of being a silent brother and the war with Sebastian, nothing seemed to surprise him for long anymore.
"Magnus, care to tell us what the hell is going on?" said Jace, his irritation clear in his voice. Tessa had to take a deep breath to remind herself that this was not Will. Although Will had been night with his dark hair and pale pallor and Jace was day with his golden hair the similarities between the two Herondales were undeniable.
"Magnus, I found a picture of you and Alec but I don't think it is linked strongly enough with him to be able to trace him" Tessa explained as the distressed warlock paced in circles around the hallway of the apartment. "Do any of you have anything of Alec's with you that could have a stronger connection to him, something that can be traced by magic?" Tessa appealed to the group cluttered in her hallway but all she was met with were blank faced and a sound of panic as Magnus ran his hands through his hair. Tessa was worried. Magnus was usually so calm and collected, she had never seen him panic like this before. In that moment she realised that she would have to be the brains behind this expedition; Magnus was too terrified about Alec to form a coherent thought and the two shadowhunters were still staring blankly at her.
"I don't mean to be rude..." Jace began in a tone clearly indicating that he did, in fact, mean to be rude, "But Izzy and I, and your fiancé by the looks of it too, still have no bloody idea what the two of you are on about!"
"Magnus!" Tessa exclaimed loudly. The warlock stopped pacing in circles and looked at Tessa, bemused. "You didn't tell them what happened?" she implored.
"Shit" said Magnus looking at his large feet which were currently covered by sequinned shoes. "That May have slipped my mind"
"Yes it bloody well did!" yelled Jace. "You can't just turn up at the institute and drag two shadowhunters away with you! If you weren't my best friends boyfriend I would have kicked your ass!"
At the word 'boyfriend' Magnus paled once more. Isabelle put two and two together and clenched her fists.
"Magnus, where is Alec?" she asked. Tessa could tell she was trying to keep her voice calm although there was an undercurrent running through it, an electric of unconcealed anger and fear.
Magnus looked at his shoes again, wanting to avoid the eyes of the two young shadowhunters and Jem, all of whom were staring at him. "They took him" said Magnus, his voice breaking although it was barely above a whisper anyway. "You know that part of the clave that went AWOL after everything that happened with Sebastian? Well they took Alec. They were all concerned about the reduced numbers of shadowhunters after the war, and not only was Alec dating a downworlder who can't have kids, he was dating another guy. I heard rumours, that they tried to take people, teach them how to be straight, I never believed them. But today Alec was at my apartment. And they came."
Isabelle took a sharp intake of breath and Jace looked like he wanted to punch something. Magnus continued, "they barged down the door, we weren't expecting it and they just took me by surprise. It's my fault, all my fault..." cried Magnus, tears beginning to stream down his face. Jem stepped forward to console him but Magnus stiffened at the touch.
"Don't" he croaked. "Don't tell me it's not my fault because it is. I'm a fucking warlock, magic is all I can do, it's my job to protect Alec if I need to! But they must have a warlock too. They managed to freeze me in my spot, no matter how hard I tried I couldn't move. They must have had a warlock working for them too. They took Alec right in front of me. Shoved a black bag over his head, kicked him and dragged him out of the door. I couldn't do anything." Tears slid silently down his cheeks. "It took me ten minutes to break the freezing charm because I couldn't move! I had to do it with my mind. After that I had exhausted myself of magic, I tried to track Alec but I couldn't, I was too shocked. So I called tessa, she called me to get you. So here we are." Magnus fell quiet.
"Were they..." Isabelle said in a shaky voice, "Were they definitely shadowhunters?"
Magnus nodded. "I could see their marks. They weren't those Endarkened warriors either, or a messed up form of shadow hunter. From what I saw they were the same as you or Jace."
"Shit" swore Jace. "We need to find him. And quickly. If he had been hurt I would have felt it" he touched his parabatai rune absentmindedly, "but that doesn't mean they won't hurt him soon."
"What do we do?" asked Jem
"Magic" replied Tessa
