Losing Love • Malec

Chapter 12

Jace rolled over in his bed. He had wanted to be out looking for Alec, who had been missing for a couple days, but Robert and Maryse had made him get some sleep. They didn't even seem worried.

Jace sat up in his bed and grabbed his phone, he looked at the texts he had sent Alec, one or two every hour. They said things like Alec where are you? and Are you okay?

He also had no replies. The only text he had replied to was the one Izzy sent him on the night he left.

I'm never going to fall to sleep, he thought. He stood up and walked over to the door, cracking it open and looking down the hall. Maybe Izzy couldn't sleep either.

Jace stepped out into the hall, and softly closed the door behind him. He walked down the hall and paused in front of Izzy's door. Knocking would make too much noise, so he cracked it open and looked inside.

"Izzy?" He whispered. She was sitting on the bed, phone in hand. Her hair was up in a messy bun, and she was wearing her pajamas.

"Jace!" She said suprised as she looked up from her phone. Jace stepped into the room and the door clicked shut behind him.

"You couldn't sleep either?" Isabelle asked. Jace shook his head.

"I'm just so worried." He said.

"Well, at least we know he's alive." Izzy said, glancing at Jace's parabatai rune that peeked out from the edge of his shirt.

He nodded, then sat down next to her on the bed. He glanced over at her phone. "Looking at the messages again?" Jace asked.

Izzy nodded. "The last one he sent was from the night he left."

"What does it say again?" Jace asked, leaning over and trying to read the message.

"'I'm fine, Iz. I might go talk to Magnus, I'm not sure.'" She recited. "Ugh, it's so short. Aleeeec...why do you leave us with so little?" She sighed in frustration.

"You know," Jace said nervously, shifting on the bed. "We could...uh...get someone to track him."

"With what?" Izzy asked, although she already knew the answer.

"A spell." Jace winced. "We'd have to talk to Magnus."

Izzy sighed. "The thing that upsets me is that I can't be angry at Magnus...wait...nevermind. I can." She smiled.

"Yeah." Jace agreed. "But...do you think he would do this for Alec even though he broke up with him?"

Izzy shrugged and ran her hands through her hair. "I don't know. I have no idea whether Magnus is over him...or not." The words dropped off and she sighed again. "I hate this."

"Couldn't Alec be at Magnus'?" Jace thought out load.

"Well, yeah, he would have called us though-"

All of a sudden Izzy's phone started blaring music. She reached over and grabbed it. She looked at the caller ID. Odd, she thought, answering the call.

"Who is it?" Jace asked.

"Magnus." She whispered, noticing Jace's eyebrows rise in surprise.

"Is this Isabelle?" Magnus asked. Izzy thought his voice sounded scratchy...like he'd been crying.

"Uh...yeah," she said, not sure why Magnus was calling her.

"I need you to come over. It's about Alec." He said briskly.

"Okay, we'll be over soon." She agreed, suddenly panicked and happy. Did he know where Alec was? Was Alec staying over his house? Was Alec in trouble?

"Hurry." He said, and the phone beeped as the call ended.

"What?" Jace asked as soon as Izzy pulled the phone away from her ear.

"Magnus know something about Alec. We need to go over there."

She saw a thousand emotions fly across Jace's face at once. Pain, anger, worry, excitedness, the I'm-going-to-kill-someone-look. His hand flew parabatai rune, and he masked his emotions.

"Well let's go." He said.

So they grabbed their gear, and without telling their parents where they were going, flew off into the night.