AN. Sorry I have taken so long with this... that you for all the reviews much appreciated. A huge thank you to SherryBane for her ideas which is this chapter (with a few adjustments from me) and for help with the plot You literally helped save this XD. Check out her story Worlds Apart IT IS AWESOME!

Random bit of info for you guys I listened to Adam Lambert while writing this chapter. This is weird because it isn't what I normally listen to... At all. It's not even classed as Rock.

Disclaimer: I don't even need to do this it's obvious I am not Cassie and therefore own Zilch.

Chapter 3:

Magnus POV

I'm going to die, and my Alec is going to be the one to kill me, was the only rational thought that echoed through my panic induced mind as the blade pressed against my throat dug deeper into my neck. It felt like a crazy dream, really, like I was going to wake up and laugh it off as one of my many bizarre dreams where I met my darling Alexander again. Only thing is, this isn't a dream. It's real.

I should have screamed for help, I should have remembered that Ragnor had been just behind me. But I just couldn't. Even if I had fought back I would have been painfully obliterated. He is a Shadowhunter for Gods sake, trained from birth to put down those who are under their 'superior' status. What I did next was definitely not what I would later remember as one of my proudest moments.

I didn't give out a manly cry for help or participate in a heroic struggle to the death, no I screamed. And not just any type of scream but a high pitched banshee scream. The scream snapped me back into reality, and with that so did my hearing, which I hadn't even noticed was missing.

Alec wasn't alone; I knew that because who ever had accompanied him was beating the life out of Ragnor who lay curled in a ball on the ground, making the most heart breaking sounds of pain, as a figure stood kicking him into oblivion.

"Jace in the name of Raziel and the Gods, kill him or let him go. Stop taunting him." Alec says behind me, and the warm air that escapes his mouth along with his words sent a shiver down my spine. Alexander ever the one to care even though authority screams not to. My mind side tracked to the name he mentioned. Jace. Jace was the one who stole my Alexander away from me all those years ago. The reason they took me away. I heard a cackle, just before Blondie responded to Alec. "Oh, Alec this is what fun looks like. You should try it sometime." He said. Arrogant prat.

I should have said something then. Maybe if Alec had know it was me, he might have released me. But I didn't; I still couldn't find my voice. Alec tightened his grip on me the blade digging into my skin drawing blood. He tilted my head back to get better acsess. I didn't stop him, I didn't dare move.

Out of nowhere a voice shouted "LET THEM GO!" just before Jace let out a loud scream of pain. Even in these circumstances I just couldn't help the smile that made its way across my features.

Next I heard the sound of weapon on flesh and Alec hold on me fell away. Slowly I turned to see Alec lying on the ground unconscious. The sight made my heart stop for a moment until I saw his chest rise and fall with a steady rhythm.

"Are you okay?" Someone, a girl this time, said. It was too dark to make out her features, but her green eyes seemed to glow in the night's darkness, her wavy red hair glowed around her in a way which reminded me of fire.

"Yeah I'm fine" I said in reply, my mind still spinning from the events that had just happened. Ragnor. I began to panic, I couldn't see Ragnor."My... my friend" I choked out.

"Don't worry, he's unconscious but alive." The red headed girl answered softly.

I breathed a sigh of relief, Ragnor wasn't badly hurt thank the Gods he's alri... A small pool of blood had formed around Alec's head and he wasn't moving. I couldn't breath. "Did... did you kill him?" I ask, and I swear in that moment all I saw was red. I didn't care that these people- whoever they were- had just saved my life. They killed Alec, and that is NOT okay.

"Don't worry. It's just a scratch" The masculine voice from before said. "But if his people don't find him fast then he'll bleed out. This one as well." He kicks Jace's limp body. He's not dead, but he could still die if nobody finds him soon.

"Okay come with us." A third voice I hadn't heard yet said. I can't see much of her, but her light brown eyes looked me with the look most Downworlders have in their eyes, a look that shows the hardships of life.

I was about to respond, when I heard a crunch alerting us that others were near. None of us had much time to prepare before three more figures leapt out of the bushes brandishing sharp weaponry. Damn, we're so dead, I thought, just before hell explodes around me. I tried to slip away, but out of the corner of my eye I saw Alec stir from his place on the floor. I couldn't leave him. Never again, I couldn't. I knelt beside him while tearing a piece of my already tattered top, tying it around his head wound stopping the blood from flowing out. Out of nowhere a girl punches me in the face. I would be lying if I said my face didn't feel like I had run into a wall and then got hit in the face by a brick.

"Don't even think about touching him again." She says savagely. Then more loudly she ordered "Chain them all together! These little shits have a lot to answer for!"

Well at least I wasn't going to die. Yet.

Alec's POV

Ugh... I felt like I had run three marathons while carrying the statue of Raziel from the accords hall and Ares, the God of war on my back. I tried to pry my eyes open just to find that it was near impossible, but I persevered and managed to open my eyes ever so slightly. I found myself looking at the sky, very few stars were visible as if they'd been snuffed out, just to restricted sight. Just as I was trying to work out what had happened a pair of gold green eyes appeared in my line of sight.

I know those eyes. I mean how could I ever forget them, there unique. Just, like the person there attached to. Magnus. I tried my hardest to move, to say something but it felt like a huge weight was pushing down on my chest stopping me from moving and from saying all the things I wanted to in that moment.

I felt hands on my head, which I guess was Magnus'. I start to feel a little better as if his hands have magic healing powers. Maybe they do I thought with a mental giggle. Then it hit me.

If Magnus is here then does that mean he was the Downworlder I had nearly murdered in cold blood? And with that horrifying thought I passed out.

The second time I came too wasn't to Magnus' beautiful gold green eyes but to the concerned brown eyes of Izzy.

"Oh, good you're awake. And don't worry those... things that dared touch you, have been taken care of." Izzy said beaming.

"Wha... What?" I stammered throat hoarse.

"They have been sent to the Silent City for questioning." Izzy said a self satisfied smirk making its way across her face.

Questioning was only one part of it. That word had a double meaning to it, there are no rules in Sparta against hurting a Downworlder. They could be tortured as much as their captor wants. The ones taken to the Silent City are always the ones that never come out the same, which is if they ever make it out alive or dead for that matter. The Silent Brothers had been given an extra blessing by the Angel when the Spartan race had been created; they had the power of knowledge and therefore could invade anyone's mind and do unspeakable things to those they didn't like. No matter how strong you are physically the mind can always be broken... no that isn't the right word bones can be broken but the mind can be destroyed so there is no evidence of what was there before, like that persons soul has been dragged kicking and screaming out of its hosts body leaving dents and rips in their mind. That's what the Silent Brothers do best. They destroy your soul and then patch it together deliberately different to how they found it.

And they had Magnus.

AN. Please Review and I hope you enjoyed this chapter the next one should be up quicker. As always any ideas or characters you want included just say. Simon and Clary will feature more in future chapters along with Maia, Jordan and Raphael too most likely because he is amazing XD.