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Chapter Four – Searching
He was frozen in shock for a few moments and then, "ALEC!" He shouted towards the empty hallway where the boy disappeared and took off chasing him but it was too late… By the time he got out on the street the Shadowhunter was already long gone. Magnus stepped out in the rain not caring about his hair or clothes that got ruined. In his hurry he didn't even think of using a tracking spell at first, just ran aimlessly on the streets calling for him. After running around for ten minutes frantically calling his name in vain, he collapsed on a bench deciding to stop and gather his thoughts, and only then it occurred to him that he could use a tracking spell to find him.
He took off a necklace that Alec had given to him as a gift and tried tracking him with it but it didn't work. He looked down at his hands in despair and realised there was something else on him that used to belong to Alec. It was a faded black bracelet. He had crafted it tearing some strings out of the hem of one of the Nephilim's sweaters.
'It's already torn anyway…' he had thought back then, wishing more than anything to always have on him something belonging to Alec. It was sentimental, he knew, but he couldn't help himself. He never told him, and Alec never noticed the missing strings from his already tattered sweater. Magnus looked at it, smiling fondly for a moment, before snapping back to reality and using the spell.
To no avail though. It was on him too long and couldn't track Alec's essence anymore. He sighed, dropping his face in his hands. 'Going back home will take too long…' he thought gloomily. He looked up, wondering where he was and saw that he was sitting in a park five minutes away from the institute. 'Maybe he's there…' he thought not really believing it and got up. Even if Alec wasn't there though, something he owned, would be. So he ran again, and knocked breathless on the Institute's door praying that Isabelle would answer. She was the only one who would understand…
And he was in luck. Isabelle was indeed the one answering the door. Once she saw the Warlock she froze. She'd never seen him like that. He was drenched; his hair and clothes ruined, and doing nothing to fix either of them. That could only mean one thing. "By the Angel, Magnus, what happened? Is my brother alright?" She asked going pale.
He looked at her miserably, scaring her further. "I don't know… I…" he muttered and finally broke down sobbing. Isabelle looked at him, horrified and pulled him inside dragging him to her room and rubbing his hair with a towel as he sobbed.
"Magnus, please calm down and tell what happened, you're scaring me to death!" she shouted but he didn't hear her. "Ugh! Men!" She exclaimed and slapped him. "PULL IT TOGETHER!" He looked at her stunned, the shock from the slap pulling him out of the sobbing fit. "I'm sorry…" she said softly, "But you were scaring me… Is Alec ok?"
"Ale…xander…" he started hyperventilating again and stopped talking, trying to regain his composure. Izzy waited impatiently to hear what happened as he stuttered, crying but not sobbing now; "He… we… had a fight…" at that, Izzy relaxed realising Alec wasn't hurt physically. Magnus went on. "And I… I…" he broke down into sobs again "I didn't mean it! It wasn't… it wasn't what I wanted to say…"
'Those two will be the death of me, I swear…' Izzy thought rubbing his back to comfort him, as she would have done if it was her brother in his place. "Calm down Magnus, it's going to be okay…"
"No… he thinks… He must… Raziel, it's all my fault…"
"Angel, will you shut up already and tell me what the Hell happened!?" Izzy exploded unable to take it anymore and Magnus froze once more, shocked.
He closed his eyes and breathed slowly reminding himself why he was there in the first place 'I have to find him… No time for hysterics… He might be in danger…' He took another deep breath and started explaining. "We had a fight… It was totally stupid… Stupid, stupid, stupid. He got angry, I got angry and we were shouting at each other, and then I told him that maybe… maybe… Raziel…" he buried his face into his hands breathing deeply to calm down, chanting, "Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid…"
"Magnus…" Isabelle warned.
"Right…" he said getting back on track "I told him that maybe he should go…"
Isabelle's compassionate look turned to one of total fury and she seethed "YOU DID WHAT?!"
Magnus hastily raised his arms in surrender "Wait! I only meant he should go clear his head, but he misunderstood and ran away and I didn't get a chance to explain!"
"YOU STUPID WARLOCK!" Isabelle roared. "If anything happens to my brother I am going to slaughter you!"
"If anything happens to him, I will gladly let you torture me to death…" he whispered dropping his head.
She softened at that, remembering how much they both love each other. "It's okay… We will find him…"
He shook his head and when he looked at her there was a look of determination on his face. "Right. No more time to waste…" He got up and went straight to Alec's room with Izzy on his heels.
"Magnus? What the Heck? Where are you going?"
He ignored her and headed to Alec's closet taking out one of his sweater's and explaining "I needed something of his to cast the tracking spell and I was already on the street. The institute was closer…" He sat down and closed his eyes casting the tracking spell and succeeding this time. "Wha-?" He shot up. "What are you doing there?" he said to himself, forgetting about Izzy momentary.
"What is it Magnus? Where is he?" she demanded and he looked at her remembering her presence.
"At the subway, where…" he didn't finish his sentence, but he didn't have to, she realised what he wanted to say.
"What? Why?"
"No idea. I have to go!" he ran outside and she followed him.
"I'm coming too!"
"No, Isabelle… I should go alone…"
She looked at him for a moment, then sighed and nodded. "Okay… But be sure to keep me informed! And you'd better fix this!"
"I will…" he only said and ran outside.
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Note: Did you like it? Next chapter tomorrow! (I'm sorry my chapter titles are supid...)