A/N: Ok, so I realize that this is ridiculously late and most of you probably don't even care how the story ends anymore but I must finish this. I have almost finished chapter 5 which will be the last chapter. I also have another story I want to do that revolves around Alec and Magnus but I'm not allowing myself to write it until I finish this one :) So here you go. I know it's short but I felt it would be better if I seperated it from the very end.

Oh yeah...I almost forgot. I'm also working on Alec's Family Reunion but I admit that I'm not trying as hard to finish it. Please don't hate me for it but I ran out of inspiration for that a long time ago. I do promise to finish it eventually, but I can't yet tell you when to expect it.

Chapter 4

I lay across my bed staring at the bare wall thinking how life couldn't get any worse when Isabelle burst through my door.

"Your boyfriend is impossible," she said with her hands on her hips.

I just rolled over moaning that I didn't have a boyfriend. She didn't seem to hear me though.

"What are you still doing in bed? It's almost noon."

"Isabelle, could you please leave me alone?" I asked. I hated being rude to my sister after all the support she'd shown me but I really didn't feel like hearing to her voice.

"No, Alec! I'm tired of you moping around. You're going down there to talk to Magnus." Judging from the way Isabelle had been talking to me these past few days, you'd think she was the older sibling.

"But I thought you already tried talking to him." She never really told me what she'd said to him. The only thing she'd tell me about their conversation was that Magnus had started acting crazy right before he told her to leave. I had no idea what she meant and she wouldn't fully explain so I just forgot about it."I did, but you know how Magnus is. You're the only person he really listens to."

Not anymore, I thought.

Rolling over, I saw Isabelle opening the curtains at the only window in my room.

"Alec, your room is such a dungeon. How can you even sit in here?" She asked absently.

"Why won't you go away?" I cried. I knew I sounded like a child whining but I didn't care. I only wanted to be as alone as I felt.

"I'm not leaving until you agree to go to Magnus's place with me," she said sternly. I'd thought that after the first ten times of demanding that I go see Magnus that she would leave me alone. What was I thinking?

Suddenly though, as I stared at her while she looked out the window, I got an idea.

"Ok, Isabelle. I'll go with you," I said.

"Really, Alec?" she gasped, turning away from the window to look at me with eyes so big you'd think I just said I was giving her an early birthday present.

"Yeah," I told her. "Just give me a minute to take a shower and get dressed."

"Oh, thank you Alec. I know this will work. You'll see." She put her arms around me in a hug that almost made me feel bad about what I was about to do. Almost.

When she pulled back from the hug, I just smiled and nodded at her.

"Well, I'll get out now," she said with a smile.

Thank the Angel, I couldn't help but think.

I got off the bed and followed her to the door. When she'd gone all the way through, I slammed it behind her and locked it. I dashed across the room as fast as I could for my stele so I could put the rune on the door so she couldn't unlock it with her own.

"Alec Lightwood!" she screamed from the other side of the door. "Open this door now!"

"No, Isabelle," I told her. "I really appreciate you wanting to help me so much but there's nothing either one of us can do."

"Ugh…fine!" she screeched. "But don't ever ask for my help with anything again."

I knew I should feel worse about her being so upset but as I listened to her receding footsteps, all I could feel was relief that I would finally get some peace and quiet. I let out a sigh and laid back down on my bed.

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I hadn't realized I'd fallen asleep until I felt myself being pulled from a dream by the sound of the doorbell. It wasn't the type of doorbell most people had. This one sounded more to me like a dying bird. No one bothered to replace it though because we hardly ever heard it. Anyone who came to the Institute was a Shadowhunter and didn't need anyone else to open the door for them.

When I heard the doorbell again, I grabbed a pillow to put over my head and prayed to the Angel that someone would hurry and get the door before the person waiting had the chance to press the button again.

But of course since nothing ever works the way I want it to, whoever was out there was getting impatient and rang the doorbell again. This time though, the noise was drawn out, as if the person was holding the button down.

I threw the blanket off myself and stumbled out the room, grumbling about how Isabelle or Mom could have gotten the door. In the time that it took me to ride the elevator downstairs, I didn't think about who it might have been at the door so when I finally got there and swung it open I was completely unprepared to see who it was.

"Magnus, what are you doing here?" I asked quietly.