Sorry for the late update xD Independence day happened and I was busy lol.
Warning. Lots of PoV changes xD
CHAPTER 7
Magnus PoV
Two days. It had been two days sense we were supposed to meet and I still was an emotional mess, a total wreck not having the slightest idea of what to do. Right now I was successfully putting on a diva façade in front of my staff. It was easier to trash and curse over the stupidest thing, throwing fits only to hide my rage towards the blue eyed Adonis that kept me like this. I was fine before he came back –mostly- and content with my life, content with the crappy music, the shallow people around me…damn, now I had no idea what to do with myself. I had performed some minutes ago in front of a packed stadium and I almost puked my guts out at the shit I used to call music…I needed a new album right away…even if I wasn't sure I could add Start Again in there I did want to write a lot more, use this whole drama to inspire myself.
"I said I don't want anyone here!" I yelled when someone knocked on my dressing room door, but the person behind that door seemed persistent and kept knocking and knocking until it got to my nerves making me stomp to the door and open it "I said get the fuck…!" I froze when I saw Alec´s sister at the door. Isabelle had scared wide eyes, bare of any make up, her hair was in a messy bow and her simple clothes warned me that something was not right.
"Please tell me he´s here" she pleaded passing by me looking around the room.
"Who?" I asked dumbly hoping that she wasn't this scared for Alec.
"What do you mean who? Alec!" she stood in the middle of the room "We hadn't known of him sense two days ago…we hoped he was with you but…" she bit her lip looking unsure as my throat began to slowly close in worry for him.
"He didn't come to the park" I spoke in a low voice, but she still heard me, at this I saw her body shake and her mouth slowly open, part of me knew that she was about to crack when the sound of one of my songs cut the silence. I crooked an eyebrow seeing her take a deep breath before answering her phone "He didn't…" she shot her hand to cover her mouth "N-no…Jace…okay I´ll see you there" she ended the call looking at the floor before her big eyes turned to look at me "He was going to see you…Jace told me to get home soon…he knows something…" she said abstinently.
"I´m going with you" I said before I could stop myself, I moved to get my jacket before opening the door, she nodded and walked outside letting me lead the way outside through my safe passage away from the fans, right now I didn't want them around.
I led her to the black car that awaited for me, she gave the driver the address and I had a second to wonder if we were going to their house or Alec´s apartment…then I scolded myself thinking that Alec might be in trouble, that Isabelle looked like she wanted to puke in worry letting that slip through one of the best poker faces I had ever seen, or that what could Jace know…I had yet to meet the guy, Alec had spoken to me about him, his younger golden brother, always in a idolizing tone, like he was the perfect guy and all Alec could do was to stand by and see him shine…I decided I didn't like him for that simple reason. I raised my eyebrow noticing that the place we were heading was fairly close to my house, at this my heart sped a little remembering Isabelle´s words…we might be going to Alec´s home after all.
"He´s fine…he´s probably…" I began speaking thinking that I might need to calm her down, but she started shaking her head.
"He didn't show up with you…he hadn't picked up his phone…he never does that, I bet that even if he was having sex with you he would have picked his phone of one of us called" she passed a hand through her face "The doorman said he watched him get out fifteen minutes before six on Friday, he was on his way" Ok, now I was beginning to really worry…perhaps my aching heart didn't want to believe that because it meant that Alec wanted to see me…or that he was in trouble, in this kind of places everything could happen to him…I had to stop my imagination from going for the worst possible stages, I knew that worrying I wouldn't help…I just hoped all this was for show, and Alec simply didn't want to see me…I rather have my heart broken a thousand times before putting him in any danger.
When we reached the place we walked to the building and I noticed that Isabelle had polished her poker face looking now only slightly worried but not the wreck I had witnessed some minutes ago. After a quick trip to the third floor, she knocked the door. It opened revealing a petite redheaded girl that looked quite scared and mad. Isabelle stomped inside leaving me to follow her in a more passive step, she reached the living room where a blond guy was sitting in a big couch looking at a white envelop, she snatched it away from his hands, opened it as the guy stood up facing her. The next thing that happened left me frozen on my spot with my heart painfully contracting in concern.
Isabelle PoV
"Bastard!" I screamed before punching Jace´s face hard. He just took a step backwards not raising his gaze "He told you a thousand times to STOP! And now…" I pushed him, my hits losing strength as my eyes shot with tears of rage towards my stupid brother. I stopped and glared at him until he met my gaze "Fix it…take him back alive and fine…or I swear I will…"
"Kill me?" said Jace raising his eyebrow with that horrible smug face of his…and I wanted to punch him all over again because he knew I wouldn't do anything to him "I know Izz, I know that I screwed up and that…" his voice trailed seeing behind my back where Magnus was standing "Why are you here?"
"He's here for Alec, he could help us" I spoke before Magnus, then I looked at the photo on my hands feeling anger and pain build up inside me, there was a photo of my unconscious big brother, completely beat up along with a simple note Pay Or He Dies. I took a deep breath before handing it to the singer, he took it and the moment his eyes laid on the photo the darkened hiding almost all of the yellow gleam covering them with a fierce green, he shot his head up glaring at Jace.
"Did you have anything to do with this?" his voice was far from the play or gentle tone I had heard him use before, now it was cold, proper and demanding; it was like he aged in seconds showing us his mature self.
"I owe money" was Jace' way to say yes, I had to make an effort to not roll my eyes.
"I take it that you're Jace" spoke the singer crossing his arms and standing straight looking quite intimidating with his height, he was even taller than Alec, and that was saying a lot. Jace simply nodded and Magnus narrowed his eyes "Just know this Jace" he said his name with so much dislikeness that kind of surprised me "If anything happens to Alexander…I will kill you and those sons of bitches that captured him" I swallowed because that seemed like a death serious treat.
"If it comes to that, please do it" Jace lowered his head obviously thinking that Alec was a goner…well, not on my watch.
"Stop this depressing testosterone menace parade!" I yelled "How much do they want? We have to call the police! Our parents!"
"200,000dls" I had to close my eyes and inhale deeply because that was a big shit of money that none of us had, what had he been thinking?
"Call the police" said Clary standing next to Jace.
"If we call the police, they will kill Alec" growled the blond glaring at her.
"If we don't call them they might as well…we don't have the money…"
"I will give the money" we turned to look at Magnus "I have it, but call the police we need them if those people try to trick us"
"We have to tell mom and dad too" I passed a hand through my hair "Let's hope they care enough to help us" at this even Magnus made a bitter expression, I couldn't understand how my parents could turn they back at my brother like that.
After that we decided to go to the police station, Magnus and I glaring at Jace, while Clary tried to make him less angry…yeah good luck with that. When we arrived Magnus, being the only legal walked to the officer and started telling him the situation as we sat on the waiting area hoping that he was okay.
Alec PoV
I felt dizzy, tired and sick, my head felt like it was going to explode. I was on the floor with my hands tied behind my back and my throbbing head on the cold floor as they only possible way to make it better. I didn't think that they guys would give me a pill if I asked them, nah the beat down I had just been though was enough to make me understand what kind of people had kidnapped me…the ones Jace owned money, because I was like this thanks to the two monkeys that had spoken to my brother some days ago. I groaned moving to a sitting position when I started feeling my arms numb, when I did I looked around the small room I was in, it seemed a simple empty room from a normal house…great that could be any fucking place around the city. Just as I was thinking of trying to lose the grip on my wrists the door opened revealing three men, the blond that had captured me –that they called Jonathan, and that I was not really sure if that was his real name-, a creepy old man and a middle age man that looked confident enough to be the leader.
"Not a talker like your brother, are you?" spoke the man as the old guy settled his back against the wall staring at me with so much force that made me really uncomfortable. I kept my mouth shut, I had no idea what did they want but I was not making the mistake of telling on my brother or begging for mercy. I had enough self appreciation for that "Now tell me, what's your name?" using my crazy brain that kept thinking that thanks to these idiots I had left Magnus standing at the park I glared at him not opening my mouth "Jonathan, I thought you told me he already had his dose" and I was not going to ask what that dose was…I just hoped it was the hits and kicks and not a real dose of…something.
"I did" answered Jonathan frowning at me.
"I believe" spoke the old man not taking his eyes from me "That given the built of the boy, the usual dose wasn't enough"
"Well okay then, we need him cooperating, we already sent the letter, if they don't show up in due time we might as well take the boy…he'll be worth of something, we might even sell him as a whore for our European clients. I flinched at this feeling my neck close, I had seen a movie about this and now I was part of it…fuck, Jace what had you been doing around this people?
"I will give him the dose sir" smiled Hodge "Might have some fun while I'm at it" I had no idea why his words sent a shiver down my back.
Magnus PoV
At 9:00am we were supposed to go to the decided address, hand the bag filled with money, get Alec and then run the hell away from that place before the police got in action against the bastards that took him…genius plan.
Now it was around six and I was at Alec's home along with his siblings, the read head had gone back home leaving the three of us in an uncomfortable silence. Jace was standing with his back resting on the wall looking miserable with black circles around his eyes; Isabelle had fallen asleep curled up in the couch and I was sitting at the table with my head on my hands praying for him to be alright, yeah I was probably looking like shit. I let my eyes wonder around the room, it was so Alec, efficient, clean but messy, and practical…and of course, being the big geek he was, he had a huge TV in which I could be sure he had never seen anything related to pop culture. This brought a small smile to my lips before my phone started ringing making me jump, I rolled my eyes and answered it.
"Where are you? You ran off after the concert…"
"Alec was kidnapped" I interrupted Camille's words shivering at my own "I'm at his house with Isabelle and his brother" I massaged my forehead with my hand feeling utterly exhausted, and I had just been here about five hours!
"Oh my God" she said after a moment, probably not finding anything else to say "Want me to go there and bring you breakfast?"
"Nah I'm not hungry…wait, what are you doing up at six?"
"I hadn't gone to bed" she spoke rather sheepishly "Anyway, you need help or something…?"
"I'm fine, just don't freak if you see a lot of money missing from my account"
"I won't…but how did you know? I mean you were supposed to be mad at him for not showing up at the park"
"I was, but then we found out that he was going to the park…and now he's been missing for almost three days…besides, even if he had stood me up on purpose, I would be here…I care about him too much" my voice was low not wanting to wake Isabelle knowing how emotionally tired she was, after all she was nineteen and probably never used to this kinds of drama…sadly I was, and only for that I hadn't broken yet.
"Okay, want to keep talking or…"
"Go to sleep" I said softly wanting to be alone with my thoughts for this time "I talk to you later"
"Take care, and don't worry, he will be fine" I hung up letting out a deep breath…I hoped so. Thinking that I needed to do something I stood up and walked to the bathroom to take off my makeup and fix my hair, not that I wanted to look amazing but I didn't want to look like a mess either. When I did I glared at myself from the mirror, my yellow-green eyes looking at me tiredly and truly lacking much hope…did I forgot to mention that we had gotten a different picture of Alec every hour for the past four? Yeah, every beating seemed worse, those soulless assholes wanted their money bad…and I wanted to use Jace as my punching bag for it, not even caring if I ruined my polished nails.
The next two hours passed in a blur, none of us had any breakfast and after that we were inside the car and being the only one collected enough I drove to the place where we should meet the kidnappers. I frowned seeing the neighborhood it was nice, colorful, probably had dozens of families around, not even thinking that in one of those houses someone had an innocent guy completely beat down. I parked the car and Jace pulled out the bag that contained the cash, Isabelle and I followed him at a safe distance knowing that it wouldn't be right to show three people like that. I remembered the officer telling me that they would be planted around the area way sooner than nine, I hoped he was right.
"He will be okay" mumbled Isabelle fixing her hair and putting on her poker face again "He's a tough guy, he can get over a simple beating" I wish I was as sure as she was but, then again, I didn't know him like she did.
We stopped walking seeing that the address was really from an alley, Isabelle and I stopped at the beginning and Jace kept walking until he was around the middle. I kept my gaze up front wanting to see any kind of movement on the other side, nothing seemed likely to happen until a couple of black trucks stopped at the other end and five guys emerged from them, I couldn't make up their faces from this far, but I knew that none of them was Alec. Then one of the big ones walked to the back of one of the trucks and opened the door before pulling someone out of it.
"Alexander" I breathed seeing him hardly walk resting most of his weight on the man even with his hands tied behind his back. I fisted my hands wanting to run and hold him, tell him that he was safe, but I knew better than to move from my spot. I had to settle for squirm my eyes in an attempt to take a better look at him, he had his eyes covered, probably because they didn't want him to know their hide out, his clothes were ripped in certain places but other than that and the light limping he looked fairly ok, awfully weak but okay at the end.
I saw a blond man walking until he was about three feet from Jace, next to him was a blond guy, an old man and the guy that had Alec. Jace and the man began talking, Jace clearly tense from what I could see of his back, but still managed to put on a relaxed posture, the other man looked smug and filled of himself…I wanted to kill him too. Then Jace pointed his finger at Alec and after a sharp nod from the blond the other guy released Alec's hands and pushed him in Jace's direction a little too hard making him trip and fall. At this I had to use all my will power to not go there and help him, besides apparently Jace didn't like it either because he threw the bag to that same guy with so much power that made the man stumble backwards at its weight as Jace knelt down to help his brother up.
"COPS!" yelled one guy just as I was about to let out a breath. After this, all became a battle field, cops running out of buildings shooting at the bad guys, the others defending themselves and yelling at each other. I had to remind myself that this wasn't a movie, and that Alec was still pretty much unconscious in the middle of everything.
"Go get the car!" I ordered Isabelle throwing her the keys before storming to Jace who was having trouble keeping the men from taking him hostage and keeping Alec behind him trying to protect him, because he appear to be somewhere else entirely. I Had to duck and cover my face with my hands as a couple of shots passed right by me, being there I saw the old man walking to be right beside Alec using Jace's distraction with the other men. I stopped breathing seeing how he knelt right next to blue eyes and whispered something in his ear, I widen my eyes seeing how Alec flinched away from the man and attempting to get up showing a desperation that only made my worry grow. No longer caring about the guns I ran to him successfully punching the old man unconscious and taking Alec from the arm and pulling him away.
"No! No! Leave me!" he shouted moving to get out of my grip, I turned taking away the bandage that kept his blue orbs covered making him look at me.
"Alec! It's me!" he stopped moving finally focusing his gaze in me, my heart contracted at the fear I saw in his sapphire eyes, it was like those six years had never happened and the one I was holding in my arms was the frighten sixteen year old.
"Magnus wake up!" screamed Jace running to meet us helping me put Alec's arm behind my neck and running outside the alley, happily I saw more cops coming effectively distracting the others letting us near the car unharmed, Jace flopped inside the front seat next to Isabelle leaving Alec and me to the back seat. Only when we were a good five blocks from that whole shooting drama I let myself breathe again.
"Hospital…" whispered Alec making me jump to look at him, he had his hands hugging his sides.
"Izzy Hospital NOW!" I yelled seeing Alec's hands stained with blood and his eyes going backwards before he went limp beside me.
I'm not completely sure about this chapter…but it's done I guess…yeah I know what I said the last one but don't worry, we'll see that later on.
So…is it a crappy chapter? Like it? Hate it? Review?
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