Somebody Like You (Malec)

Chapter 29:The Rescue

Alec's POV

  "Try to track him! There has to be someway to find him!" Magnus has been missing for five days now, and I'm extremely worried.

  "Alec, we've tried tracking long before Magnus even went missing. What makes you think it'll work now?" Catarina was still arguing with me that the tracking spell wont work for many reasons: one, you cant track warlocks. Two, like she said, tracking hasn't worked before. "Cant you try tracking Julie or Luna?"

  "Alec, get it through you mind! It wont work!"

  "YOU CAN TRY ONE MORE TIME! IT CANT CAUSE ANY HARM!"

  "What is going on in here?" Jace barged into the library and yelled louder than us. "Alec, I know you're sad that Magnus is gone and we cant find him, but calling a warlock and yelling at her at eight am is disturbing everyone. We need our sleep, and so do you." Jace was right, I haven't slept much lately. Most of my time was spent look for ways to find him. When he went missing it hit me harder than when Luna went missing. Probably because of that one night.

He might not love me, but I, of course, still do. With Magnus gone and the fear of him being dead constantly on my mind, my time has been spent looking for him. "Just try for crying out loud!"

  "Yeah, Blue! Anything to get him to shut up!" Catarina hadn't taken a liking to the nickname Jace had given her, but all she could do is scowl because we're paying her to be here.

  "Fine!" She screamed in frustration. "I'll try tracking. Again! But later on in the evening. I have a job to do." She stormed out of the institute and I let put a sigh of relief.

  "You happy that we get to find your love?"

  "Stop it, he's not my love, but I care for him so much. Okay, so I love him, who knows if we share these feelings though."

  "I'm sure he loves you back too. Don't lose hope, I'm sure he's okay." Hope is still a broken word. Who knows what condition he'll be in. He might be killed right now. "But we have a problem," Jace said reluctantly.

  "What?"

  "The Clave might not even approve our rescue mission. You might not even be able to go, you're just nineteen-"

  "Exactly, I'm done with my training. I should be allowed to go."

  "No Alec, they might want people with years of experience to cover this. Not you who hasn't even had that much training yet. Jia will hopefully be sympathetic to us and give backup to go on this mission, but who knows. She's still the cousul."

  "What happened to the Jace that I know? That won't let the stupid Clave control him, if we aren't approved, we go anyway."

  "Who is this Alec? The Alec I know isn't reckless at all."

  "Things have changed."

  "They sure have."

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  "This is exactly what I expected their apartment to look like," Jace exclaimed when we got into the Silvercale's apartment. "Plain and then we have Luna's room that is just a splash of color." When we first stepped in, I noticed something odd. Everything is in perfect condition, no signs of Sebastian being here at all. Maybe he drugged them, so they wouldn't make much noise. What also confused me is that the guy up front must have saw something, then again, there's glamour runes.

  First, we went to Luna's room and looked for a shirt or something that had a heavy trace of her. Catarina picked out her katana and put a tracking spell on it. The way warlocks do magic is really beautiful in their own way. Small sparks falling off their fingers, eyes focused on the spell only, and how they close their eyes usually when the spell takes over. Catarina was showing all this as the spell took over. With her eyes still closed, she started to speak. Whenever you use a tracking spell you can see what the person you use sees, so we can only see what Luna sees. "It's in a cave, but it's a man-made cave. She's in a dark room, only one lightbulb hanging from a wire in the ceiling. There's sobbing in the background, and yelling, lots of yelling. It's getting fainter, like Luna is losing consciousness. Wait! Someone is hurt! There was a whip coming down on someone, they're moaning in pain. It's a man's voice. It must be Magnus! He's talking and crying. Wait, ummm, I think I can tell what he's saying. 'I did this for Alec,' that's what he said." Crying, yelling, the crack of a whip. It's all like my dream, but how did I predict that? I even know who it was. Sebastian, Luna, Julie, and Magnus are all there. "God damn it! It all went black, she went to sleep of something, she's not dead, though. Sebastian would keep her alive for hostage purposes. But we still don't know why he wants Magnus. Julie and Luna were hostages already, he could use them again the Clave. They're shadowhunters, of course the Clave will want them back, but why Magnus? The Clave doesn't care for a downworlder, what does he want him for?"