An Evil Kidnapping

Chapter Two: Looking

WARNINGS: None

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"Where is he?!" Jace slammed his fist onto a table.

"That's what I'm working on, you stupid Nephilim," Magnus hissed.

"Stop fighting you two and concentrate, I do want my brother back," Isabelle shut them up, her voice cracking at the word brother.

Magnus, Jace, Isabelle, and Clary were all huddled around a table where Magnus was doing the tracking spell.

"And you think I don't?" Jace and Magnus said at the same time, causing them to glare at each other.

Clary broke in, "Quit acting like children and get along for once! We all want to find Alec, so you two need to be civil to each other, you understand me?"

She looked and sounded angry that the boys didn't even hesitate to say, "Understood."

Everyone was quiet for a moment, Magnus still trying the spell, before the warlock cried out, "This isn't working! The tracking spell didn't work."

Everyone groaned. "Now what?" Izzy sounded and looked so lost.

Magnus sighed, "I don't know. I honestly don't know."

"Well we can't give up!" Surprisingly, it was Clary who spoke.

"But what can we do?" Magnus sounded dejected.

"I... I can try the rune. Maybe with my talent I can make it work." Clary stumbled over the word 'talent'.

Magnus snorted, "Good luck biscuit."

Clary closed her eyes, hands lightly holding the stele, and started tracing the rune she knew by heart by that point. The female Lightwood and Herondale watched her closely. The High Warlock of Brooklyn watched her, not believing anything would happen.

But he was proven wrong. Clary gasped as images flashed through her eyes. But they were blurry, like she was looking through a waterfall. She saw a boy with dark hair in a large cage, Alec, she recognized. She saw another boy, this time with white hair, kneeling in front of the same cage. Sebastian, Clary could recognize that white hair anywhere.

Clary could hear their voices, just barely. It sounded like it was underwater. The only thing Clary could make out was Sebastian answering Alec's questions. Like, why Sebastian didn't take Jace or Izzy. Clary wondered that herself. It was nothing against Alec, but certainly Jace or Izzy would've been better to take. Although, Clary didn't want any of them to be taken. Sebastian answered with something like, 'I already had Jace and Izzy didn't interest me. And besides, I wanted to see how my old playmate was'.

She could hear Alec telling Sebastian to not call him Alexander, Sebastian yelling he'll call him whatever he wants. Clary, after a moment of silence, watched as Sebastian almost left, Alec stopping with a question she also wanted to know the answer to, what was Sebastian going to do with Alec? Sebastian looked truly honest, saying he didn't know himself.

Clary opened her eyes with a gasp, Jace caught her before she could hit the floor. When she was steady, she looked at Magnus and said "Alec's fine, as far as I could see. Although he was definitely with Sebastian."

Magnus put his face into his hands, saying nothing. When no one else said anything, just kept looking at her, she awkwardly cleared her throat and said, "There were two things that were definitely wrong," she went on, ignoring everyone's suddenly scared looks, "First, he was in a cage. It seemed big enough, but it was still small.

"The other thing was, Sebastian was completely honest with Alec. It was weird, I know his 'I'm lying' face and his 'I'm honest' face and he was wearing his 'I'm honest' face."

Everyone looked confused. "But," Isabelle said, "why? I mean, they don't know each other. They've never talked unless you count the time where Sebastian told Alec the Clave shouldn't allow gays to be alive, or whatever he said."

Clary remembered something Sebastian said, "That's the thing. Sebastian said something about them being 'playmates' or something."

"As far as I know, Alec and Sebastian have never met until the day Max-" Izzy stopped for a moment before continuing, "The days we spent in Allicante."

Magnus picked at his sleeve, a habit he learned from Alec, "Well, before any of you were born, Alec and Sebastian used to play as children. This was when both of your parents were still in the Circle. And while your parents were in Circle meetings, they would have someone watch Sebastian and Alec as they played until the meeting was over. Bear in mind, Alec was only a year or two old and Sebastian was only about a year old."

"So.... They have met before?" It was Jace who said that.

"I'm pretty sure that's what I just said, Blondie," Magnus curtly said.

Ignoring them, Clary said to no one particularly, "That's what Sebastian meant by playmates... That makes more sense."

Izzy nodded in agreement before quietly asking, "Did you- Do you know where they are?"

Clary shook her head, "All I could tell was that it was underground and it had a lot of graffiti on the walls. It kinda seemed like they were in a basement."

Jace groaned in frustration, "That could be anywhere!"

"Well, we better start looking," Magnus said gravely.

They all left to their own house to get ready to find Alec and bring him home.