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Magnus sighed staring at the broken boy before him. He had heard Will's story and was shocked. Of course he knew it wasn't Jem's fault and that if he had a choice he would stop but alas it seemed that wasn't so. Yet no matter how he looked at the situation it puzzled him. They were shadow hunters if anything he thought that they would have found a cure right away. Of course he had only learned about this today and it came as an enormous shock. Jem had always seemed so…well and he would have never thought that the boy was slowly dying with every day he lived, every moment he had and every battle that he had ever fought. Of course he had noticed that the boy's appearance wasn't normal and there were tons of times when he was ill. Yet he never imagined that the boy was seriously ill just by the way that Jem carried himself made him seem like he himself was fine. Yet the thing that had puzzled him the most was his behaviour. Magnus had been alive a long time and he had slowly started to notice many patterns in human behaviour had they had all revolved around the person was feeling. Emotions can affect the fragile human, wether they were good like love or nasty such as jealousy, hate and fear. They were almost always being controlled by their emotions whether they showed it or not and certain people changed depending on the situation they were in. although Jem knew that by taking more of the drug in order to fight he is slowly quickening his death, he refused to stop. Now normally if anyone else was in his place he would have thought them crazy but for some reason Jem made the idea come across as determined. He asked them to quit looking for a cure. Half of the people on deaths door would sell there soul to live longer. They would trade anything to have a moment no matter how short it was. That alone had puzzled him more then he thought was possible considering the amount of years he had lived. Although he must admit that it was also a shock to see calm, cool and collected Will in a wreck inside and out. Magnus knew that will was an introverted person, so of course it would come across as a bog shock to see him in such a manner. And if he were to ever see will in such a state he always thought that it would be because of his past.

"He won't last long without help." finished Will

"How long does Brother Enoch think he'll live at the most?"

"At the most he'll live a month but that's if he doesn't do anything to worsen his case which is hard enough considering Jem. If he strains himself or takes more of the drug then needed his time on earth will shorten rapidly."

"Well what have you tried so far?"

"We tried to stop using the drug but as you can see that his body is dependent on it and will not function properly without it."

"Surely you tried something after that."

"We tried taking out the drug via his blood but that only left him immobilized and craving the drug. Then we attempted to get to stop fighting. That didn't turn out too well considering that to Jem if he could not fight or help that he shouldn't be considered as a shadow hunter. After that we called doctor after doctor, warlock after warlock and yet no one could help. You're our last hope. "

"Well there are some solutions that I can think of but I doubt that you will like many of them."

"If you are suggesting that we leave him be and let him die, I myself will kill you." Will responded momentarily switching to his normal demeanour.

"I was not going to suggest that as a matter of fact I quite like James. I was going to suggest that we have him turn into a vampire. Now I know that you this isn't preferably a choice you want to make but hear me out. There is the fact that he may not make it but if he did his body would not need the drug in fact his body would repel it and on the off chance that he does need the drug…it wouldn't cause much harm to his body.

"I doubt that he will like that idea although he is a reasonable person this is the only life that he has ever known. You must understand that his parents died shadow hunters. Even if he did turn he could not continue to be a shadow hunter. The closest he could ever be to a shadow hunter is having the same position as Camille and we don't even talk or need her much. So what else do you have?"

"Well there are two more options," Magnus said thoughtfully "Both are equally dangerous."

"Isn't it better to takes risks and die trying then to give up all hope?"

"You may think so but does Jem?"

"If he thought that giving up was the right choice we wouldn't be right now."

"Okay well I got this idea from one of you earlier attempts." Magnus said walking towards the enormous book shelf behind him. He glanced quickly at all the titles brushing a hand above each book, stopping at a massive book in the middle. He grabbed the book and started flipping through the book and stopping at a page showing it to will. "You can not simply take out the drug that is causing too much change to his body at once. You must replace it, by using this it will keep some of the same effects but less dangerous then what's already happening; the only downside is that he won't be able to move. The other option is to use this but find a permanent cure by finding someone who knows the cure."

"Who would know the cure?"

"The one that inflicted this pain upon him."

"You mean Yanluo?"

"Yes!"

"He's a demon why would he help us if he did this?"

"You're an idiot. You have no other but Tessa Gray on your side use it."