Summary: Jace wakes up
Alec isn't dead -got to save him from Valentine...
Summary: Jace wakes up
Alec isn't dead -got to save him from Valentine...
Jace woke disoriented and in pain, every nerve in his body was on fire but it wasn't his pain, no the pain belonged to Alec, his Parabatai.
For the last week Jace had been keeping his Parabatai company while Valentine tortured him for, in Valentine's eyes, betraying his people but even Jace could see that Alec was weakening. Alec hadn't wanted Jace to stay with him after the fight where Valentine's people had taken him and left Jace behind, for reasons Jace didn't know or really care, all that mattered was Alec, and the pain he was going through.
Finally Alec had begged Jace to wake up, to go to Magnus, to find him. Jace, however shared his soul with Alec, and with their bond came a certain knowledge of the other man; Alec didn't think he was gong to last long enough for them to find him, oh, Jace knew that Alec was clinging on to life, by mere threads though it was, the knowledge of how it would break Magnus should he die, how Jace would feel empty and the pain his death would cause Isabelle and even Clary, and the damage his death would do to their attempts at Shadow World equality, these things were what Alec was clinging on to as Valentine slowly tore him apart.
Jace pushed himself up slowly and felt the world spin for a moment before it settled, his ribs ached and he knew Alec was having trouble breathing, that the dull ache in his femur, in three different places, came from where Valentine had allowed one of his recruits to smash a metal bar into Alec's, and the twinging in his back muscles was from the whipping that the man had done himself, telling Alec that everything would stop if Alec only joined his Circle.
Alec had still been fully aware of his surroundings then, he'd spit on Valentine and had growled out a simple 'Never.'
Now, now Alec was hardly aware of the passing time, sometimes he was conscious during his beatings and others he passed out at the first hit, it didn't seem to matter to Valentine if Alec was awake or not. And Alec, Jace knew that Alec was losing his battle to survive, that his body was failing, his soul, his soul was full of strength o want to stay alive, but Jace was realizing that such will was useless if the body was not strong enough and Valentine hadn't bother with feeding Alec or healing him even a little bit.
Some of Alec's fellow prisoners had watched with little hope that Alec would remain strong against Valentine but as the days passed they realized that Alec cared for them like they were no different than he was and a few had managed to sneak Alec some of their portions of food and water when Alec had still been returned to a cage next to them, but it had been three days since Valentine had strung Alec up by his chained wrists and begun what he had called the final beating.
Alec had hung there, in agony with Valentine's people taking shifts in hurting Alec, if Jace was really being honest with himself he was surprised that Alec was still breathing at all and knew that they had a small window of time left to find him if they wanted to rescue him alive.
"Jace!" Isabelle cried as she came into the room and rushed to help him, pushing him back to the bed.
"No, I have to, I have to get up, Alec."
"Alec is dead." Isabelle said softly.
"Not yet, he's hanging in there, we... we have to save him." Jace said as he started to get up again.
Isabelle stared at him and then began helping him stand, "We have to get to Magnus, he'll be able to help us find Alec."
Jace nodded and they stumbled out of the Institute, Isabelle calling Clary to have her meet them at Magnus'.
"And you're sure? It's not just wishful thinking?" Catarina Loss asked.
Magnus had been silent the entire time, watching Jace as he spoke.
"I would know, he's not doing so great but he's alive... at the moment." Jace whispered.
"So, how do we find him?" Clary asked, "And why did the Clave seem so sure that Alec was dead?"
"We can deal with the Clave later," Isabelle began, "Right now let's focus on getting Alec back alive."
Magnus seemed to wake up and walked away from them towards his bedroom, he returned with Alec's bow.
"We should be able to use that to track him, no ward will be able to hide Alexander from me." Magnus said, and they all shivered, there was such power in those words and Jace wondered how they always seemed to forget how powerful Magnus was, perhaps it was the indifferent way he acted all the time unless he was being lovey to Alec.
As Magnus began the spell Catarina wandered away and began making calls, first to Lucian Graymark, then to Raphael Santiago, to the Seelie Queen and even to a woman named Tessa Gray.
Soon, every person she had called was in the Loft and several she hadn't, people that Alec had helped or had been on the Downworlder council, they had all insisted on helping bring Alec home and Jace only just realized how important Alec had become to these people, to the Downworld and he hoped that what ever happened, that if they couldn't save Alec that that would not damage what Alec had been trying to do, would not destroy this alliance that had formed to bring Their Shadowhunter home, and Alec was theirs, the Downworld's Shadowhunter, their Champion and Jace knew that one way or another, they were going to bring his Parabatai home.
Alive or dead, Alec was coming home.