Meltdown(4)
Izzy had spent the last 7 hours sitting next to Alec trying to comfort him. She knew that after 7 hours she could do nothing to make him stop crying. When the loud wailing finally came to an end Alec drifted off to a restless sleep. Izzy slided her legs slowly out from under his head. She looked down to see that her bare thighs were covered in tear stains. I don't understand how someone can cry so much she thought to herself as she headed to the kitchen. With a dreadful start she realized that Alec mimicked the exact state she would be in if Simon was dea- missing. If Simon was missing.
She moved swiftly and silently across the light floor, trying not to wake Alec and start up the hopeless cries again. With a tense cringe Izzy stepped on a creaky part of the light wood floor. A hissing sound came from beneath the wood and a hot steam rose up; burning her skin.
She jumped back in horror as a roon on her leg started to sizzle away. She stifled a scream and feeling hopeless she poured water on it and watched in awe as it died down. She glanced over at Alec to see that he was still laying there turning and crying in his sleep. Izzy bent down and carefully pulled up the floor board, using a kitchen towel to protect her roons.
Under the floorboards was something magical. Something that even though she wished with all of her being, she could never tell Alec. A ring. With a note that said "To the Lightwood who finds this. Since you are reading this I am either dead or have lost all hope of ever returning. Please give this to Alec and tell him that I will always love him and that this is what I would have used to ask him to marry me even though we will never see eachother again. Your love Magnus Lightwood. ( he would totally take my name though). There was another sentence after that but it looked like it was smudged out by tears.
Izzy could feel the stillness in the air as she put the letter down and looked at the ring. Everything felt different like the apartment had been connected in some way to Magnus and now it was over. Just an ordinary apartment now with no more warlock.
She looked down at the ring and stared in awe at it's beauty. Then with a little laugh she thought of Alec wearing this golden jeweled thing. It was beautiful though. Magnus certainly had a knack for being over the top.
It was decorated with small red jewels in the center that made a spiral pattern and the bar that wrapped around his finger looked like a stem of a rose but plated in gold, with little thorns and prickles.
Izzy then heard a sharp intake of breath behind her and swung her knife around to meet whoever had snuck up on her.
Alec didn't even move to defend himself even as the blade of her knife came down on him. He didn't cringe when the knife pierced his skin and blood came rushing out of his shoulder. All he did was stare at the the place where the floor board was and the ring that was now in his hands.
Izzy screamed in terror realizing that she had just hit her brother and quickly tried to move her knife away but before she could put it back in her jacket Alec took hold of it and lunged it into his stomach. It all went a little blurry after that. Izzy let out a cry of terror and caught Alec on his way down to the floor.
The thing that scared Izzy the most was not the fact that her brother was bleeding out on the floor but the words he had screamed as the knife plunged onto him "KILL ME PLEASE. I DON'T WANT TO LIVE IN A WORLD WITHOUT HIM."