Broken Rose

Chapter Two: Just Quietness

Hey guys, welcome back. I know left on such a devastating line for Jace and I hope to show you how it affected the others. Alec went through what he did and when one member of the family gets hurt in that way they all feel it so I hope to portray it correctly! Since I myself have only been in Alec's shoes and not Jace's or Isabelle's.

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Chapter Two: Just Quietness

The house that Alec had lived in with Magnus before they'd broken up in Brooklyn hadn't changed up at all, really. It was exactly the same as before, like he'd never left. In some ways it was a comfort to know that Magnus couldn't touch anything and change it like he did at random times during the course of them living together. Alec had gotten used to the idea that it could look one way one second and look completely different the next. It amused Alec to no end that Magnus was that indecisive and he had to change the house constantly. It was... cute. You know what wasn't cute?

Rain. Boring, colourless, cold rain. It ran in streams down the windowpane, hitting the roof and making such a beautiful sound. Most people chose to stay in on these murky, dank days. Stay inside with the one they loved the most, the one they cherished, but all Alec had? A quiet house and an absent husband. He was always gone, barely ever there. You'd think Alec would love the quietness of the large, empty house, but no. It drove him mad with its creaking floorboards and the slaps of the tree branches on the multiple windows. Since Magnus owned most of the building, with only the one person under them. They didn't say much and unless you counted the clothes thrown around the first floor with the note "you fucked up" attached to it, it was quite peaceful.

Alec looked out the window. The ground below looked a thousand miles away, making his Depression worsen by the very second. He hated it when Magnus left, he always left, but here he was. Magnus left once again on Clave business. Oh, he most certainly was very proud of his soon to be husband. He knew it didn't sound like such but he was. Magnus deserved it, he really, honestly did. After everything the Clave had done to all the downworlders, they owed him that much, at least. Honestly, they owned him much much more but the Clave was too stuck in their ways to see heroes such as Magnus. Alec hoped one day that maybe he could fix it.

He looked out at the busy streets of New York and, like usual, it was raining. The constant drip drop of the rain pattering on their roof, it was slowly driving him insane. There was no other noise, nothin. Just...rain. Just...quietness. Not even the sound of cars honking on the streets, no chatter of people.

Alec jumped at the ringing of his phone slicing through the silence. He looked over at it, seeing Jace's name across it. He picked it up with a simple, "hello?" Jace didn't sound like his usual chirpy self. He sounded.....sad, unhappy, depressed. Scared... broken, even. Not right, like a mirror of himself and it hit something deep within Alec that sparked a flame of unhappiness like a forest fire within his soul. He couldn't quite put his finger on what it sounded like.

"Alec, we have a problem. Magnus is missing. He went to a meeting with the downworlders and no one came back," Jace sounded worried and Alec felt his heart stop.

"What do you mean he's missing? What happened?!" Alec asked frantically.

"I just told you, he went to a downworlders meeting and now he's gone! They went to the seelie court and now all of them are missing. It looks like the work of dark magic, but what do I know?" Jace sighed, laughing kind of darkly on the other end. If alec had been in a normal state of mind he would have asked what he meant and why he was acting so weird. Yet, he was trying to calm himself down because honestly panicking wouldn't help his fiancé, a calm head and a sound mind would, or so he hoped. If it didn't or if they were too late Alec didn't want to think of what they'd find. He shuddered when he thought such things, it hurt beyond words. He'd rather fight a bloody and long drawn out battle than think that Magnus might be out there... he couldn't even think the word. It refused to make its way past his lips, let alone his thoughts. That word would not be allowed to dance in his mind like the other roaming ideas he had that spun around his mind until he felt dizzy from it all.

Magnus was a strong man. He'd been alive long before Alec and he'd continue to live long after. He was but dust and bones, buried in the city of bones down deep below the cities of the mundane world. Deep down in the dark twisted paths where skulls and skeletons roamed and danced when no one was watching. Where the dead weren't really dead and all the stories were true, or so said the shadowhunter quote. All stories were true...true and very dangerous. So painfully real that just one wrong move in the dark corners of the downworld markets and you'd be eaten alive like a mouse before a starved street cat. Devoured in the depths of hell like so many brave men and women before and after.

Alec stood up, going to put gear on. He planned for a battle. The others might not know it yet but he'd have blood, that much he swore.

"Hold on Jace, I'm coming to Idris. I'll be there soon," he said then hung up. He would find Magnus if it was the last thing he did. He loved him, or so he tried to convince himself every second because until Magnus stood before him and told him their love was but a lie then he shall fight for Magnus. Until his last breath he doth breath, he would stand before the silent brothers and marry Magnus Bane. In sickness and in health he shall be with him and to Alec that meant everything. Even if he had to raise hell and destroy anyone in his path he'd find him because...

If I Cannot Bend Heaven....

I WILL Raise Hell

To his angel he doth swore.....

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Oh..my..angel. That last line omg wow it gave me chills. I'm so proud of that line good Lord wow. (Okay fun fact my laptop died when I finished doing the final cut, the one I gave the amazingly talented Lucifer_Larry ;), and I was super scared I'd have to rewrite it because it didn't show up on my phone's doc so I almost cried at 3:30 AM when I saw it was okay (after I charged it and whatnot) but yeah just wanted to share lol)

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