City of Secrets

Chapter 14

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Alec couldn't stop the tears streaming down his face, he never knew his father would be capable of allowing his own son to go through this terrible pain. Raj wiped Alec's tears away harshly and rolled on top of him again. They were in Raj's room and Raj had Alec tied to the bed making escape impossible.

"Don't cry my love-" Raj was interrupted by Robert coming into the room.

"All right you have had your fun now go Raj, I need to talk to Alec alone".

"But I wanted to-"

"Now!"

Raj kissed Alec ignoring his struggles and reluctantly got off him, "See you later my love".

When Raj left the room Robert sat on the bed next to Alec making him flinch, "How could you let Raj do that to me?" Alec said brokenly.

"To teach you a lesson".

"What lesson?" Alec said incredulously.

Furious Robert backhanded Alec again, "Don't talk back to me like that! The lesson is that even though you're my son I won't hesitate to hurt you or use you to gain allies".

Alec's eyes widened in horror, "You used me to get Raj on your side?"

Robert laughed, "Of course, the Clave is so stupid. They had no idea Raj was a traitor or how many others are, all thanks to you".

"Please don't let them do this to me", Alec said desperately and tugged harder on his restraints even though it was no use.

Robert just laughed again, "Come, we need to go now and pay the warlock a visit". Alec feared for Simon, he had been so afraid of what his father's followers were doing to him he had to save Simon. Robert untied Alec and he used the opportunity to kick Robert hard in the stomach. Robert let go in pain and surprise, Alec kicked him again making Robert fall to the floor.

Alec ran but Robert grabbed his leg and pulled him to the floor, "Let go of me!" Alec shouted trying to kick Robert again but Robert grabbed his other leg too and tied his legs together. Robert then quickly took Alec's wrists and tied them too.

"Try that again and I'll give you to Raj", Robert snarled.

Alec froze paralyzed with fear and Robert used that to his advantage, he pulled Alec to his feet and forced him to walk out of the room. "How long has Jonathan been my mom?" Alec asked.

"Only long enough to trick and kidnap you, why do you ask?"

Alec avoided Robert's gaze not wanting to answer but that just made Robert angry, Robert slammed Alec against the wall making him cry out in pain and held his seraph blade against his throat. "Lesson number 2, you will answer me when I ask you something or you will suffer the consequences".

Alec's heart hammered painfully in his chest, "My mom has been treating Simon terribly and she cared more about following orders than me", Alec said his heart hurting when he remembered how his mom had berated everyone for rescuing him and trying to rescue Simon and completely ignored him. "I was hoping that it was Jonathan acting that way not my mom".

"I'm going to kill Maryse for treating you like that!" Robert shouted angrily.

"No don't please-"

"And you shouldn't care about Simon, you know he took away a memory of someone you loved. I overheard Simon and your mother talking about one of your boyfriends, Jason Ross was his name you were together for years and you loved him so much. But Maryse hated Jason so she had Simon take away your memories of him".

"You're lying!"

"I'm not and I can prove it", Robert was about to continue but suddenly froze and fell to the floor. Relief flooded Alec when he saw Magnus who had knocked Robert out.

"Magnus!" Alec said and threw himself at Magnus who hugged him back tightly.

"Um guys I hate to interrupt but we need to go", Alec and Magnus jumped at the sound of Clary's voice.

"Right, come on Alexander", Magnus said and offered Alec's hand which he gladly took and they ran.

"What about Simon?" Alec asked anxiously, but part of him was starting to wonder if Robert had been telling the truth about Simon taking his memories of Jason, he said he had proof.

"Jace, Izzy and Raphael are saving Simon", Magnus said.

Jonathan had a warlock heal Simon but he was in shock from the terrible torture he had gone through at the hands of Robert's followers. Jonathan had forced Simon to the grounds of the mansion to have a picnic, he wanted Simon to be in a relationship with him again and was forcing him to. Simon would have loved this picnic with Jace but certainly not with Jonathan. Simon was terrified of what Jonathan was going to do to him. Jonathan made Simon sit down on the blanket and handed him some food.

After they had eaten Jonathan suddenly pushed Simon to the ground and straddled him, Simon tried to get away but he was pinned to the ground. "All mine", Jonathan whispered and tried to kiss Simon but he was kicked off him.

"Simon doesn't belong to you!" Jace shouted furiously.

Jonathan growled and kicked Jace back, "Yes he does he will always belong to me!"

While Jace and Jonathan were fighting, Raphael used his vampire speed to steal the key for the magic suppressing handcuffs while Izzy helped Simon up and joined Jace in fighting Jonathan. Raphael unlocked the handcuffs and Simon felt a surge of relief as he felt his power and energy coming back to him.

"Simon are you okay?" Simon just hugged Raphael to shaken up to speak, Raphael hugged tightly back and did his best to comfort Simon.

Jonathan jumped high and kicked Izzy and Jace in the stomach at the same time causing them to double over in pain. Jonathan advanced on Simon and Raphael, Raphael put Simon behind him, "I won't let you take him".

Jonathan laughed and lunged at Raphael with his seraph blade, Raphael used Jonathan's arrogance to his advantage and moved so fast that he was able to knock the seraph blade out of Jonathan's hands and hit him hard enough to knock him out. Raphael made to kill Jonathan but Simon stopped him by grabbing his arm tightly.

"Please don't".

"Simon he hurt you so much and you're in danger as long as he's alive".

"I know but I don't want there to be anymore blood shed I have seen too much".

Jace gave Simon a sympathetic look and put a hand on his shoulder, "Simon we're in the middle of a war, there is going to be a lot more blood shed".

"He's right Simon", Izzy said sadly.

"Jonathan is unconscious he can't hurt us, please don't kill him".

Raphael narrowed his eyes suspiciously at Simon, "Do you have feelings for him?"

"What? After everything he's done to me how can you ask that?"

"After everything he's done how can you still want him alive?"

Simon was going to argue but was interrupted by a furious scream, "How dare you hurt my son!"