Broken Rose

Chapter Four: To Seelie And Back

Chapter 4: To Seelie And Back

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After the house was checked over and then checked again due Alec's request or..demand..they were ordered to go to the guard for a meeting. It was to find the best course of action since they found no useful evidence, or really any at all, as to where they might be. The news was that they were still no closer to finding Magnus than before Alec had come rushing to Idris was... disheartening, to say the least.

Alec walked behind everyone else towards the guard. He felt like he was on the verge of tears but he couldn't let it show. He had to be strong even though he was the one losing someone important, not his siblings. All they would lose was a free magic source but other than that they couldn't care less. Arriving at the guard took a bit of time since Alec was most certainly depressed and he couldn't quite shake it. It gripped him tightly and wouldn't let go. It hurt to breathe or even look at Magnus's council seat, knowing the glittery warlock would not be there.

Once Jia entered the council hall all eyes turned to her. She looked like she'd aged 40 years since he'd last saw her. She began to speak when the doors opened up and a tall man that Alec remembered seeing before came in.

"Matthias Gonzales?" Jia gasped. The man's face remained empty and void of emotion as they started talking. It sounded like he was reading from a script.

"Jonathan has taken your downworlders. If you want to see them alive again he demands to have Jonathan Christopher Herondale and Clarissa Morgenstern. If they are not given to him he will have no choice but to have the downworlders killed. They are to come to Edom at 12:00 pm tomorrow." He stated simply.

"There's no way we're going with you!" Jace growled out. At that, Matthias grabbed a knife and tried stabbing Jace.

A whistle cut through the air as one of Alec's arrows found its mark in the endarkened one's hand. He turned and growled at him before vanishing like he'd never been there to begin with. After he was gone the hall erupted in chaos. Jace, Clary, Isabelle, and Simon found their way to Alec in the very back of the room. Jace looked mad and ready to kill anyone that got in his way.

"So, what now?" he said, looking at his parabatai. Alec shook his head.

"I don't know but we need to go to Edom. Isn't that a different dimension, though?" He asked, slightly - no more than slightly - worried. Isabelle nodded but glared at the ground in thought.

"But doesn't seelie have a tunnel there? We learned about it in class, Alec, remember?" she said, looking up from the ground and staring quizzically at her older, taller brother. Alec nodded.

"Yeah, it does. It's called the pathway to hell or something but we need to find a way there," Alec said, shrugging. He was trying not to show everyone how much he was shaking at the thought of Magnus being somewhere so dangerous. It ate at him till all that was left was worry and distress. Clary nodded like she was having a conversation with herself and knowing her family she probably was.

"You know the seelie house has a portal to and from seelie so that they can easily talk to the queen and be able to attend their fey things they always seem to be having," she said, looking up at Alec for the first time since hearing that Magnus had been kidnapped that morning. He let out a sigh of relief and then nodded.

"Then that's where we'll go," he said. Brushing past his siblings and their partners, he headed off towards the seelies' home to the portal. He was off to save his fiancé and get them home so that he'd be safe and sound.

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The walk to the seelie house was a quiet one. An awkward silence fell over the group in waves. Alec, deep in thought, didn't take notice of the others' distress. Jace more so than the others, for he still blamed himself for what happened with Alec, months before this whole thing. Jace felt that it was his doing for the simple fact that he had not done enough to help his parabatai. He'd failed so greatly that Alec had lost his life for it.

By the time they had walked all the way across Idris to the downworlder houses Jace had worked himself up to the point of no return. Tears shone in his tri-coloured eyes and Alec was a whole different story. He couldn't stop thinking about finding Magnus dead. Torn apart because Alec had not done enough.

The house was like a beacon of death and destruction. It hurt to even gaze upon it. Alec's breath stopped and he felt cold all over, like death had slapped him. Walking through the house that Magnus had been in just a few hours earlier hurt more than he could describe. It bit at his insides until all that was left were the bones and blood inside him. He felt hollow like he didn't do all he could to save him. It did hurt but Alec was grown. He knew how to cope with guilt so he'd cope now.

After making one of the now empty rooms their "base" (until they could collect all they needed to live in Edom before facing Jonathon and freeing the downworlders) Jace, of course, had put himself into the leader position. He claimed he knew the most about the other Jonathon because the demon had been stuck in his head. The plan was that they'd travel to seelie to go find the tunnel of hell. Then after they entered Edom they would scope out the place to see where he could make his castle. Since that's what he wanted to rule with Jace and Clary by his side, it made perfect sense that he'd have a castle or at least something that looked like such.

They quickly found everything they needed as the houses were always fully stocked. With a plan in mind and packs full, they decided to sleep. They needed to get their rest for the battle that most certainly would follow in the other dimension known as Edom. Everyone, feeling tired and weary of what was to come, headed off to bed......

Everyone except Alec.

He looked at the shiny knife glittering dangerously in his hand, winking mockingly at him in the small light that the bathroom, bathed in witch light, gave off. He teared up; he was so weak. He couldn't even stop himself from breaking the promise he'd given to Magnus months ago. He didn't want to hurt himself, he wanted to stop, but the blood that was now dripping down his arm wouldn't stop and the idea that it also washed away Magnus's trust in him burned his heart like a thousand wildfires dancing inside him.

He'd broken Magnus's trust.

That was unforgivable.....

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