"Maybe if you told we where he was I'd know!" Raphael yelled at me.

  "Well sorry I don't have so magical tracking spell. Can't you figure it out?"

  "No! He took Jace while no one was  looking, and no one knows where Sebastian is!" He was right, though. No one knows where Sebastian could've taken Jace. It was like he just disappeared off the face of the earth. Dammit! Why did he have to make it so difficult?

  "Unless Sebastian some how gives a clue to his location, I can't find him." He left the map room and left me alone.

  "Dammit!" I slammed my fist down on the table. I didn't notice there was an ink bottle there and it shattered under my fist. "Dammit!" My fist was bleeding with pieces of glass in them. The only thing in the room was a stay coat, so I took it and wrapped it around my hand.

  "Magnus? What happened?" Alec asked. He must've walked in when I wasn't paying attention.

  "I smashed a ink bottle."

  "Do you want me to go get Catarina?"

  "No. She's asleep, and you don't want to wake her up."

  "Why?"

  "You just don't." I shivered, remembering last time I woke her up in the middle of the night. I was washing glue out of my hair for a week. 

  "I can't just leave you like this. C'mon." He held my arm and we walked together to the infirmary. Alec lit a candle and starting looking for supplies. "Where does she keep her tweezers and stuff?"

  "Over there in those cabinets should be everything you need. As to which cabinet contains which items, I don't know." He laughed and started rummaging through the cabinets. He soon came back with more than a couple of items with him. "This is going to hurt. Sorry. It'd be better if you sat down." I sat down on a nearby chair, and he keeled down in kneeled down in front of me. He held tweezers in his hands and a bowl. One by one, he took out each small piece of glass. It hurt, but not as bad as I thought it would. As he was picking them out, I decided to admire my boyfriend again.

  "You're so beautiful." He used the bangs to hide his face, but I could see his ears turn pink.

  "Shut up and let me do my work."

  "You'll work all right." I smirked.

  "You do know that I can hurt you right now?"

  "But you won't. You don't have the heart to do it. You love me, cupcake."

  "Don't call me cupcake."

  "What ever you say, dumpling."

  "You're never going to run out of stupid pet names for me are you?"

  "Nope, Angel eyes." He jabbed my thigh with the tweezers.

  "Stop it and let me take care of your hand." I didn't want to brother him  anymore because he could easily do something wrong on purpose.

  He got all of the glass out and put some running alcohol on a cotton ball. "This is probably going to hurt more than the glass. I'm so sorry. It's necessary though." He firmly pressed the cotton ball to my raw hand. It stung a lot, and I winced a couple of times, and Alec kept apologizing. Even though I told him not to. Afterwards he wrapped my hand in bandages and told me he was finished. "Amazing. Almost as good as Catarina's work."

  "It's not that good."

  "Oh it is. Where did you learn to do this?"

  "When you live on the streets full of rapists and murders, you learn a few things." He looked sad. He was probably remembering the months he lived as a street rat.

  "It's okay baby. You're with me now, and I'll never let you go." He leaned up and kissed me.

  "I love you."

  "I love you too."

  "I know I'm intruding on a private moment, but I have news." Raphael did intrude on our moment. 

  "What's happening Raphael? It better be important."

  "Oh. I'm sure it's plenty important. A latter arrived from none other than assassin Sebastian Morgenstern." Alec jumped to his feet to see the letter.

  "What does it say?"

  "It says If you want him come and get him.Well that's no help at all."

  "Was there anything else? Anything that could lead us to him?"

  "There's this map with random spots marked."

  "Have you tried to figure what they mean? Maybe it's a code."

  "It just arrived, and I only saw it for a few seconds. Of course I know what it means, Bane."

  "All right. I'll give you time, but tell me as you figure it out."

  "Well so far it looks like it marks everywhere where he's attacked. There's Idris marked and Edom..."

  "Well don't just stand there! This is important. Go figure it out."

  "Okay okay. I'll leave and go work. To think, I thought I was your friend, Magnus, and here you are. Kicking me out." I scoffed. Sure, I guess you can say we're friends. His mother sent me to help when he was young from a gang. He was too far gone though, they're already claimed him and marked him as a member. Ragnor and I barely got him out alive.

  "Just go work on that. Please."

  "Only because you said please." He left the room. He feet shuffling on the marble.

  "This is great Alec. We might actually be able to find Jace. Clary must be worried sick."

  "Yeah it's great." He smiled a smile that could cure diseases. "He's been my friend for so long. That's all. He helped when we lived on the streets. He and Isabelle defended us, and I handled food and shelter." I pressed another kiss to his lips. Making it deeper than the last.

  "Let's go to bed. That's enough of Jace I can handle talking about. It's actually been peaceful without him."

~o~

  Late at night, Alec is asleep but I'm awake. Just thinking about everything that's going on. Jace, Alec, Sebastian even. It's all so much, but we'll get through this.

Okay so I'm going on a schedule because I work much better on a schedule. Fridays is when I update this fanfic and Wendsdays are when I update Tiny Warrior Hands.