Alec blinked and he couldn't take his eyes off of Jace's chest. He shocked his head and took a step forward. Jace held his hand out and in a low tone said, "No." He didn't want anyone near him, not Alec and especially Clary, who he had hurt so badly.
Alec continued to look at his Parabatia. "Jace...the only way to break a demonic link like that is to kill the demon. Lilith is one of the most-"
"She's dead," Clary spoke all of a sudden. ''The Mark of Cain on Simon killed her." Isabelle turned to face the vampire next to her, her eyes scan his body. Alec stopped looking and turned to face Simon. "Wait. We need to full story, begin explaining.'' said Alec taking charge.

Jace turned back to face the glass doors, he inhaled and it hurt to breath. Alec reached up to his chest without knowing why, his lungs ached. As everyone was speaking Alec sent word to the Clave. Isabelle grew upset with the new information about Sebastian. Jace was leaning against the glass doors with his eyes held tightly closed and his arms crossed. He listen to them all speak and he remain silent. He saw flashes of Clary in his mind, blood on his hands.

Alec turned to face Jace. Everyone was still talking but their voices faded into whispers. His full attention was on Jace, his brother, his parabatia. He could feel a growing pain and anger within Jace. Alec wanted to get closer to Jace, to help him but every time he moved closer Jace shut himself off more. There was something very wrong here, something that wasn't quite right with Jace. Maybe it had something due with being controlled by Lilith but for some odd reason Alec felt like it was more than that. He had never felt more distant from Jace ever. Isabelle's and Clarys voices grew louder and Alec turned back around to listen. Clary told Izzy and Alec that if Sebastian was hurt it could also hurt Jace.
"So what do we do? Just let him live, after...after everything he did! After all he took!?!" yelled Isabelle, her voice cracked and Simon took a step closer towards her and placed his cold hand on her shoulder. She was full of anger and sadness. She quickly brushed a small tear off her check and shock her head, she was so mad.

"Cut him if you want to,'' Jace said. "You have my permission, I don't care."

At this Alec turned around quickly. He was so angry at Jace right now. "Shut up!" Alec screamed and walked closer towards him. Jace backed away quickly, finding his back meeting the cold brick wall. "Stop acting like your life doesn't matter!" Alec took move steps closer. Jace looked up at Alec, his golden eyes met his and he could see the pain held within them. Clary saw his eyes and her heart broke a little bit. Alec continued to move closer until he stood right before him. Alec's eyes scanned Jace's. Jace lowered his head a bit and bit his lip. Alec could feel the numbness growing inside Jace. Alec began to reach his hand out to place on Jace's shoulder when Jace panicked. He couldn't back up any farther, his back was already pressed tightly against the wall. His head shot up and he said in a loud voice that echoed throughout the room, "Don't!"
Alec looked up at him. He was confused, why was Jace being so harsh on himself. "Jace-" Alec began but was cut off by Jace, his voice was weak and it broke when he spoke to Alec.
"Don't...Alec don't, Please." A small tear brushed from his golden eyes and quickly ran down his face. Alec didn't know what was fully going on with Jace but he knew that it was bad, Jace never said please or let anyone see him cry.
"Jace, talk to me. What's wrong?" said Alec as he slowly moved his hand and placed it on Jace's shoulder. Jace jumped when Alec touched him, he was all tense and his body was shaking a little bit. "Let me help you."

Alec had reached down into his belt and pulled his stele out slowly. He was going to help Jace, who needed help so badly. But once Jace's eyes saw the stele in Alec's hand he crumbled to the ground. Alec took a step back and turned to face the others. Jace brought his knees up towards his chest and laid his cut and bruised hands over them. Alec saw them shaking so much and he knelt down to him. Jace turned his face away from Alec, he couldn't face him right now. "Go.'' was all Jace said and Alec felt like he had just been punched. He didn't want to leave Jace alone like this but he also hear his sister upset from being up here by Sebastian. Alec nodded his head in understanding and stood up, laying the stele before Jace and walked slowly towards Isabelle. He placed his arm around her and kissed the top of her head. She leaned into his shoulder, memories of her little brother, Max, were in her mind now. Isabelle pulled away, and took a few steps towards Jace. "Let's go downstairs and wait for the Clave to show up."

"No." It was Jace in a harsh tone. "You go. I'll stay and wait here. This is all my fault. It's all my fault, everything is..." He stopped talking and raised his hands up and placed them over his eyes. The elevator was already on its way up to them. Isabelle placed her hand on Alec's shoulder and softly spoke. "Maybe you should stay with Jace." Alec looked over at his sister.
"I don't need help," Jace said. ''I'm fine!" At this Jace pushed himself off the ground and walked back over to the glass doors. "Fine!" called back Isabelle and pulled Simon with her inside the elevator. Alec stood still for a moment, not wanting to leave him, he didn't like the feelings he were feeling. Jace felt very distant and broken in some way. But he turned and made his way slowly inside to join his sister and Simon. Clary moved towards the doors and glanced back over her shoulder to see Jace. Her heart ached for him but she knew that he wanted to be alone because he was blaming himself for everything that had happened, even though he wasn't in control.
Jace was the only thing on her mind, she wished he turned around and face her but he didn't. The doors began to close and all of a sudden she was pushed forward through the doors.
"Alec, what are you-" Clary heard Isabelle call out. Clary turned around to see Alec staring at her. He gave her a little nodded and the doors clashed shut. Clary turned around to face Jace.
She was all alone with him.