Magnus was walking along the shore, thinking, a concentrated look on his face. There was a slight storm one day previous, and the water was at war, the waves thrashing and crashing against the bleached coast, the endless grey like a vortex, clouding the water further with its furious temper. The sky was weeping, huge crystalline beads of ice stinging as they hit where cloth met warmth, whipping his golden skin, causing it to shiver and erupt in goose-flesh. Though it was obviously not the ideal atmosphere for contemplating his situation, he needed to stay out of the village, less and body asks him of his problems. His head hung low, his chin against his drenched chest, his eyes unfocused and staring at the beach floor. He was obviously lost in thought, but was broken from it when he heard a noise to the left of him. He looked over to the line of trees, a feeling of déjà vu overtaking him as he remembered a similar experience not even a fortnight ago. There, laying on the wet sand, was a blonde man, his eyes shut and his body lifeless.

"God, its freaking raining Englishmen lately, isn't it." He yelled to no one in particular, kicking sand into the air and watching as it fell with an unsatisfying thud. "Curse you world, why do you do this to me? Why?" with this he sighed, then again, feeling like his life was on a loop, he reached down and picked up the bulky blonde man in his arms before staggering to his home, the whole time cursing the world.

He shoved open the door violently, much startling alexander, who was standing beside it. When he say the blonde in Magnus' arms he immediately set down the book he had been flipping through and rushed over the Magnus' side.

"Jace?" he whispered, taking the limp form from Magnus' arms and caring him to the bed, now the designated sick-person-place. Magnus looked up at Alec in surprise.

"You know him?" he asked. They has all come from the same boat, so really it made sense. But Alec had said it with do much feeling. Surly this man meant something to him, but what?

"Yes, I do know him. He's my-"his explanation was cut off when the blonde man, Jace, quickly sat up, his dense body wracked with unpleasant coughs. Alec looked up again startled. He stood up and looked over blondie, and you could see the golden man relax in Alec's strong grip.

"A-Alec." He muttered, his eyes fluttering in pain. Just then the door flew open.

"What is this? Saint Magnus' home for wayward Englishmen? Are you staring a collection?" Catarina was having a similar reaction to the one Magnus had when he had first found Jace, and was cursing everything in sight.

"Calm down, Cat." This came from Alec, who had recently come to call Caterina by her nickname after spending so much time with her. "This is my brother, Jace Wayland." They both looked up at him at the same time with similar looks on their faces, which he interpreted correctly. "Adopted."

"Alec… Where are you? I… I can't see you…" a whimper came from Jace's prone form on the rough bed.

"I'm here Jace, I'm here." he said reassuring the man.

"Alec, I have to tell you something, it's urgent!" Alec shook his head, disagreeing.

"Jace, quiet." He said in an authoritative tone, his big-brother-mode showing an appearance. "You must have bashed your head when you threw yourself off that boat. Honestly, how foolish?"

"I had to see you. I had to tell you that-"Alec returned to shaking his head, refusing to let Jace say anything else.

"When you feel better, you can tell us what you want to say, otherwise you'll only hurt yourself more. Jace started protesting more, but you could see the fight draining out of him. With one last shake of Alec's head, Jace was snoring lightly, much to everyone's amusement.

"I feel better now, Alec, I promise, I just got a little bashed up from the water. I thought… I thought I could make it to you without harming myself." Much to Alec's protest, Jace had sat himself up and was insisting that he told them what he came there to say in the beginning. "There reason I came here is because of the Captain, Valentine. I overheard him talking with da- I mean, Robert whilst I was walking past his door." At this Alec snorted, because, after knowing Jace for fourteen years, he could guess with almost one hundred percent certainty that Jace had not simply been 'walking past the door' as he so simply put it. Jace could tell what he was thinking and shot him a glare with his golden eyes before continuing. "They said… they said that they were going to…"

"Oh, spit it out already Golden Boy." They had not known each other for long, but it was evident that Magnus Bane was in no way going to get along with Jace, ever. Jace glared at Magnus, showing that the feeling was mutual, before resuming his explanation, much to the relief of everybody else.

"They are going to take everyone back to England…" he stopped, letting it sink in. Cat gasped and a strange look passed over Magnus' face. "And they are going to burn the town. All of it." Surprisingly, it was Alexander that reacted.

"We need to stop them. This will be terrible, we can't let Valentine have that much power. We can't" Obviously Alec had some history with the captain then he was telling them, and his reaction made for a very tense atmosphere in the room.

"I don't know, a vacation kind of sounds nice…" Magnus muttered, trying to break the mood. It didn't work, and all he got in return was three sets of eyes glaring at him, telling him that he was not helping. Magnus raised his hands in mock surrender and the three pairs of eyes all rolled in sink. Though he didn't get along with Jace, perhaps Cat would…

"You don't understand, it wouldn't be a vacation in any way what so ever, you would be slave to the highest bidder. They would treat you terribly. There are not allowed to, but I've seen it myself, it's terrible…" he shuddered and Magnus took his shaking hands into his own.

"Don't worry, we'll stop this, it will be alright. But we're going to have to tell the rest of the village, they deserve to know what's happening, and they are going to need to stop it with us, we will beat this Alec, don't worry." Alec, Jace and Cat were all nodding along with the idea, looking deep in thought.

"How are we supposed to tell them that we have been harboring an explored all this time, the past week? And now we have two. What are we supposed to say? 'Oh you know those scary men that are terrorizing us all, well we met some nice ones, marginally nice ones…'" Cat said, looking at Jace with an annoyed look on her dark face. Maybe they won't get along, it's a shame really, they would have made a good team… All Alec had done up to this point was listed along to what they were all saying, but suddenly he lifted his head.

"You're not going to tell them anything." He looked over to Jace and they silently conversed in a way only known to family. "We are." Jace finished for him, a matching look of confidence on both their faces.

Yes, that's an ending, a terrible one, but it happened… How was it? Should I continue, can you review and tell me what you think?