The Aftermath Chronicles: A TMI FanFic

Part 13

Alec had moved to lean against a wall, praying for someone to come home soon.

"Alexander?" someone called from upstairs.

"I'm, uh, downstairs!" he called. He watched as Magnus appeared at the top of the stairs and saw Alec.

He appeared in front of Alec, crouched, awkwardly hugging him.

"Oh, Alexander," Magnus sighed. Alec closed his eyes in content. They were both safe again.

When he opened his eyes, they were back in Alec's room, on the middle of the comfortable bed.

Magnus was playing with Alec's hair.

"You're beautiful, Alexander," Magnus said. 

"What happened?" Alec asked, trying to resist Magnus' charm.

"You don't want to know," Magnus said. Magnus' cat eyes looked sad. He knew that look.

"Who's dead?" Alec asked. 

Magnus shook his head as if he couldn't find the words.

"Magnus!" Alec grabbed the front of Magnus' blue suit. It was sparkling slightly in the witchlight. 

Tears were filling both of their eyes.

Alec's head hit Magnus' chest, shaking back and forth against the suit.

"Don't say Jace," Alec said. "Or Izzy, please, please, Magnus."

"Jace is fine," Magnus said. He wrapped his arms around Alec.

It was Izzy.

That was all that gesture could mean.

The tears that had formed began falling.

"She's not gone yet, Alec, but I don't know," Magnus stuttered.

"Where was I?" Alec mumbled. His words were choked. "Magnus, I failed her. Oh God, we were fighting. It was stupid and--"

"There was absolutely nothing you could have done," Magnus said. "It wasn't in battle."

"What was it?" Alec's voice was still muffled against Magnus' suit.

"It's complicated. And you need to rest. I need to help Isabelle. However I can," Magnus said.

"You can't go," Alec said, grabbing onto Magnus again. "You guys can't leave again."

"Jace should be back soon-- Alec, you have to let me try and help Isabelle."

"I don't want to lose you too," Alec said. His world was falling to little, bitty pieces.

Max.

His parent's divorce.

Losing Jace's attention to Clary.

Now Isabelle?

Magnus let Alec cry in his arms for a few minutes.

Alec could feel a few of Magnus' own tears fall into his hair, seeping through his thick, black, messy hair. 

There was a knock at the door and Magnus disappeared in an instantly, causing Alec to fall back on the pillows.

He stared up at the ceiling, alone.

...........

Magnus appeared outside Alec's room just after Clary knocked. 

His eyes were an unusual red. 

"She's downstairs?"

Clary nodded. Isabelle was still in the back of the van but she didn't have much of a choice.