Quest For Love (And Maybe Even Saving the World in Process)

Chapter 7

Magnus' POV

I was still worried from what my father had told me. Okay, I know it's been a week or so, but I'm immortal. I get to worry for the amount of time I want. I was sitting on my bright purple couch, only wearing black, but glittery, jogging pants. I knew I had to go see Tessa, but I just coudn't leave like that. I have to spend every single second I have with Alec, since he's mortal, a Shadowhunter furthermore. And they usually died young. Maybe I've lived over 800 years, but I never really got over the grief of losing a lover. Except maybe Camille. She was a bitch. But I've tried to get over Alec, I really did. But I knew I would never be able to. They say you only really fall in love once and I swear it's true... Wait? How did I get so cheesy? I, the one and only Magnus Bane, High Warlock of Brooklyn, is cheesy? Damn, I guess that's what love does to you. I should go call Alec, take him on a date and then leave a few weeks for the Spiral Labyrinth. Yep, that's what I'm going to do.

But I never had time to get to Alec before he came to me.

*Flashback in Jace's POV*

Clary and I were doing really well in the demon fighting. I mean, I'm the best. We were slaying demons together in perfect harmony, as if we'd done this all our lived. We killed the twenty around us, but then, I felt a breath-taking pain in my neck, a kind of burn that radiated from my parabatai rune. I fell to the ground, clutching my neck, biting back a scream.

"Jace, Jace, JACE!" a voice I recognized as Clary's screamed.

"Clary..." I managed to choke out. "Alec, it­­-it's Alec."

My eyes were closed from bearing the pain, but I felt her head turn around since she was croutched beside me.

"Oh, my God," she whispered as I opened my eyes.

And I wish I hadn't. I say Alec laying in his own pool of blood, dark liquid flowing from his neck. Izzy was beside him, taking his pulse. But I was just frozen there. I could almost see life leaving him, his soul being torn out of his body by the sting of a demon. But suddenly, it's like life came back to me as I bolted up, screaming his name. I ran towards him and sunk to my knees.

"Izzy, is he breathing?" I asked.

"Yes, but it's not steady. We don't have much time left," she answered.

"Clary, make a Portal to Magnus'. Iz, help me pick him up," I ordered the girls.

As Clary drew her portal, Izzy and I piked up an unconscious Alec. As soon as Clary was finished, we ran through, falling on the step in front of Magnus' apartment. Clary rang the doorbell a few times, since she couldn't break the door and I was carrying Alec.

Magnus' POV

I heard the doorbell ring about ten times. Who could possibly disturb me at midnight? Still only wearing my jogging pants, I opened the door, with a monologue ready to be told. I opened the door theatrically and began, "Who dare disturb the great and glittery... Oh my."

I then saw Alec, my Alec, unconscious in his sister's and parabatai's arms. In one snap of fingers, I turned my entire apartment into a hospital room.

"Lay him here," I ordered his siblings. I then turned to Clary, who was just next to me and whispered, "Keep them calm while I cure Alec."

She nodded and took Jace's hand and motionned to Isabelle to follow them. I was left alone with Alec and began to work. I located his injury, which was in the neck and used my mad warlock skills to get the poison out of his veins. It flowed for a long time: I filled buckets of poison, but then I realized the poison was actually his blood. Alec went white due to the blood loss. Instantly, I snapped my fingers and blood began to fill his veins again. I was relieved to see that he was cured and I let a single tear drop. I wondered if it was a trick from my father to exterminate those Shadowhunters, my friends. Or maybe it was bad luck. Who knows? Now, I surely couldn't leave for the Spiral Labyrinth. I'll send a fire message to Tessa and see if she can come to New York. But for now, I'll just sleep. I'm totally exhausted. I lay down beside Alec and let myself fall to sleep.