"Dad? What's wrong?" Isabelle asked as soon as she walked into her home. She saw her father grabbing the head of the couch with a phone on his hand. "Dad?" Jace called again shocked with the same expressions. He ran towards his father side supporting him.

"T-They found Alec." He whispered as he looked into his phone. Isabelle and Jace couldn't help but to tear upon the news. "What?" Jace asked unable to accept the news he had been waiting to hear for weeks. "Your brother is coming home. He's alive, Alec's coming home." Robert cries and hugged his children tight in his arm. They all shared tears of happiness but soon ended with lots of questions.

"How is he? Is he-?" Izzy had to stop herself before she thought of the worst. "I don't know yet. Your mother barely say anything, they were getting on the air medic to fly back here. Alec's weak, was all she said." He took a seat on the couch rubbing his forehead with his finger exhaling an exasperating breaths.

He longed for the news of his son's being, he never thought he would heard the news of Alec being alive, but knowing Alec, he know he would never gave up on surviving. "What are we doing here for then? Let's go to the airport and wait for them." Jace said eagerly and was about to head upstairs but Robert caught him before he could.

"No. We'll head to the hospital. They'll be there this evening in about two hours. I have to get Max first." He said hands still trembling trying to find his keys. "Dad stay here, I'll get Max, we'll go together later to the hospital to see Alec." Izzy said gripping his shoulder assuringly. He nodded at Izzy sighing in relief since he had no energy to share with the news he had just received.

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Maryse never been on the air medic before and to her it was one of the most scary thing in her life. With Alec strapped on the bed with a mask on his face, she could see how pale and skinny he got since the last she saw him. She didn't had the chance to hear his voice yet since he was unconscious. Magnus stood beside him all the time, couldn't care less of himself.

They had to pull him away from Alec just so they could treat him. They both were so dehydrated and malnourished, Maryse could sees how drastic they both had changed physically and mentally, perhaps emotionally too.

Magnus had his arm hooked on the fluids while he sat on the side seats next to Alec. Charles sat next to him being the loyal servant he always is. Magnus gaze never escapes from Alec. Sometimes he would reach for his hand just so he could ease the feeling of worry before he sat back to his seat.

They've reached the hospital Maryse had requested which Alec's usual hospitals and Valentine had waited for them hours ago since he heard the news.

As soon as they reached the emergency department, Valentine hugged Maryse sighing a relief after weeks she had been on the island looking for them. "I'm so proud of you." He said and Maryse smiled before he went to Alec. They had transferred him to a bed and Valentine already had his staffs doing things to Alec.

They put him on monitors and fluids running as they received him. Valentine stood next to Alec running a scan across his chest. He kept twiddling with the buttons and switches on the machine but more concerned is his facial expressions.

His eyebrow crooked every time he swerved the wand over Alec's chest and she could see Alec groaned each time he did it. Maryse wanted to be by his side and hold his hand but the nurses had to let her stay away so they could work on Alec.

"Print this, get him to the CT scan as fast as you can please." He commanded before he went out from the room grabbing Maryse by her arm.

"How is he?" She couldn't bear holding her tears from falling, afraid of what the news had become.

"I'm sorry to say but whatever happened on that island had do so much damaged on Alec. The device is broken it seems and I can fix it for the mean time, he may had some organ failing and Maryse-" he held himself before he continued.

"Even though we have a donor, Alec is too weak to survive the operation." Maryse felt her heart twisted like a tight seal feeling her chest is too tight for her too breath. She could barely hold herself after what she heard.

"We have to do something please Val. It's Alec. It's m-my son. Please." She begs but she knew nothing would ever changed the fact that Alec is dying and any minute or any hours he would be taken away from her.

"For better or for worst, you had done a great deal being his mother and I know he knows it well. Spend the last hours you have with him, all of you." Valentine explained leaving Maryse with her jaw gaped apart unable to form any words.

In seconds she could hear her sweet children's voice calling her and when she looked, her husband is already coming towards her in the most concerning expression he could fathom. He didn't say any words but went straight to hug his wife that he hadn't seen in days almost a week. He kissed her longingly knowing how she would need his strength to go on.

"How is he?" He asked and Maryse could only stares at Robert's face with a soft shook from her head, her lips trembled into fretful tears slowly lowered to the ground. Robert couldn't form any words that could ease his wife feelings right now and only could managed a consoling hug followed by their children.

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Knock, knock.

"Hey bud." Asmodeus knocked on the door before he entered his son's room. Magnus was caught staring at the window of his room staring at the dark skylight outside. His head turned when he heard the knock and hide his expression the best he could.

"Hey." He smiled a soft smile towards his father while his finger fiddled with the hospital blanket covering half of his body.

Asmodeus took a seat next to Magnus on his bed with a sigh grabbing his son's legs. "How are you?" He asked him and Magnus shrugged his shoulder, "Feel fine, I feel great." He lied but Asmodeus knows better that Magnus still had some doubts whether or not he could be trusted.

"I'm proud of you." He spoke making Magnus tilted his head back to face his father. "What?" He asked and Asmodeus smirked before he continued.

"Honestly I couldn't imagined how you would survive all this time you were there. Knowing you boys are all alone but somehow you managed to pull through. "

Magnus softly nodded still not able to answer to his father's doubt towards him. "I had helped." He simply said and Asmodeus nodded before he smiled. "I figured." He smiled before his expression changes. "I'm sorry." He whispered but Magnus figured he would say those words when he'd enter the room.

"Your weeks too late." Magnus said with a cold heart and his eyes stares deeply into his father's. "Magnus-" he was about to defend himself but Magnus throw the blanket away from his legs and jumped out from the bed.

"I'm gonna see Alexander." He said rushing towards the door before his father grabbed his arm stopping him. "Not so fast." He said pulling him away from the door and blocked it with his own body.

"What are you doing? Get away, I'm gonna see him." He said before he barged and pushed his father away but Asmodeus won't budge and pushed him back against the bed and pressed the call bell button by his bed.

"This is for the best Magnus. You'll thank me one day." He said and before Magnus could answer there were few of hospital's staffs barged in and hold him down on the bed. "What are you doing? GET OFF ME!!" He screamed at the top of his lungs trying to fight the staffs away from their death grip but failed.

He'd still had not yet regained his full strength and when one of the staff drawn out a syringe with needle, he knew there is no chances to fight them anymore.

A single sting pain felt on his upper arm just below his shoulder and before he knew it, the room spun and his vision blurred with nothing but darkness.

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The Lightwoods were all there by Alec's side waiting for him to wake up soon. Valentine told them that it was a matter of time before his heart would gave up.

As the beeping goes, the sniffs continues on and the look on their faces were unremarkably exhausting. They all sat there by his side waiting patiently when Alec starts to move under the blanket.

He stirs slowly holding his mother's hand a bit tighter than earlier and starts to open his eyes. "Magnus." The word escapes from his mouth before he even woken up and it surprises them greatly.

"Alec?" Maryse called stroking his messy hair away from his forehead. Alec turned and leaned against his mother's touch. Slowly his eyes flutter and he stares at Maryse's face for a whole minute before he gasped and hugged his mother.

"Mama." He called wrapping his arm tightly around Maryse's neck. "I miss you baby, oh I miss you so much." She cried stroking Alec's back happily but not until Alec had a coughing fit on her shoulder.

She released him and let him lay back on the bed but Alec still coughed vigorously causing him to lean forward and grabbed his chest with his fist. Robert passes him the glass of water which he tried to take but accidentally dropped them on the edge of the bed and fell on the floor.

He tried to mutter his sorry but his cough blocking him for doing so and his face had turned red.

"Alec breathe, don't say anything." Isabelle tried to calm her brother down by stroking his shoulder and Alec nodded, leaning back against the bed. He inhaled few deep breaths but each time he coughed only not so terrible as before.

"I miss you guys." He mouthed the words while he smiled looking at each and everyone of his family. They all had tears in their eyes especially his mum and Isabelle. Robert was holding Max in his arm staring at Alec, fear clearly shown in his eyes.

Alec holds up both of his arm for him and he leaned forward towards him. Robert put him on the ground and he climbed up Alec's bed with help of Jace before he climbed on Alec's lap hugging his brother tight in his arm.

"I'm sorry I left you." Alec whispered into his ears and he wiped his tears away with the back of his palm.

"You kept your promise. You came back." Max said hopefully. Alec smiled and nodded before hugged his little brother again. Jace went to his side and hugged them all together not able to hold his feelings anymore, followed by Izzy on his legs and their parents after.

They were all interrupted when Alec suddenly had another violent cough and it was so bad he had to push Max away from him. He cupped his own mouth repeating words sorry over and over again but his cough won't stop and next thing he knew he sees red in his palm.

The blood dripped from his lips towards his palm and more coming later. Soon the cough turned to vomit and next this he knew he was vomiting blood.

He looked up seeing the horror on his mother's face and suddenly his room surged with people working at the hospital including Valentine by their side.

They propped his bed higher and he could see how his family being escorted out from the room with a final glanced towards him on the bed. 

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"It's bad. I'm not gonna lie to you guys. It's the moment of truth. I had to put a tube down his stomach through his nose so he would stop bleeding. It came from his esophagus which is our food pipe going into the stomach. Somehow it bleed and it got worst when he had something going down through it." Valentine explained. The look on their faces haunts his just like the first time he had Alec came to his hospital.

"Is that mean he won't be able to eat anymore?" Isabelle asked and Valentine shook his head. "Just for the mean time, we will give him supplements through his veins and it will keep him nourished but once the bleeding stop we would be able to remove the tube and he can eat again as usual."

"When would that be?" Jace asked concerned clearly plastered on his face. Images of him and Alec on the couch of their home eating popcorn while watching movies and all of them eating dinner altogether made his chest burns.

He wished he could ease some of the pain that his brother had but the only thing he can do is watched.

"I can't really say. He's on some anticoagulants for his heart and if we stopped that his blood would formed clots that could stuck somewhere in his arteries. But if we didn't stop it, his bleedings won't stop like usual people do."

"Bleedings?" Maryse spoke for the first time since hours they had attended Alec. "Yeah, bleedings. This won't be the first to happened and surely it won't be the last." Valentine explained and the whole Lightwood except for Max who too little to understand gasped.

Tears and sniffs were heard among them and Jace couldn't handle it. He took his leave walking out from his family just so they won't see him cry. He felt like a girl for crying in front of his parents but he couldn't help it. He will lose his older brother anytime today or tomorrow.

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Maryse never thought being so defeated fighting this with Alec. It's not like Alec has given up but his body just kept telling him to stop trying. This is enough for both of them. She never knew she would stood by his side having a breakdown trying to tell him how much she loves him.

Alec flutters his eyes open next to her and as soon as he saw her crying his tears fall. They didn't say any words but it was enough for him to understand. Their hand clutched tightly into each other and Maryse kissed it longingly.

She brought her palm towards her son's cheek and Alec leaned towards it. "It's okay baby. I know you're tired. If you want to let go it's okay. I forgave you and I hoped you forgive me too. I love you so so much. I just hope that if God created another life for us, you would still be my son and I would be so proud to be your mum." Alec swallowed his throat feeling the tube stuck in between.

He wished he could say it to her, but the only thing he could was nod.