Magnus stepped out from the portal and arrived at his living room only to find Jem sat by the couch. "I'm not gonna say anything, I'm too tired." He said as he tossed his shoes to the side and unbuttoned his first two buttons. He pour himself a bourbon and take a swift of sip before pouring another.

"I offered you one but I know you declined them." Jem has taken a sobriety once he joined the Silent Brother, alcohol can make his judgment cloudy.

"Where is he?" Jem asked and Magnus sighed before he took a seat in front of him and place the glass by his coffee table. "Back in his room at the institute. Heaven, it was brutal and the look on his face.." Magnus stopped himself and leaned his head back on the couch staring at the ceiling above him.

"You did good stopping them." Jem said and took Magnus by surprised. "How did you know?" He asked.

"When there's a dark magic performed, we can sense it. Like a bad feeling and when the magic is this big, it hurts us." Jem tried to explain. "It's like someone stick a dagger into you stomach and twist them causing agony, cause no one should mess with mother nature." Magnus sighed rubbing his forehead trying to clear out the migraines he has. "Glad we put that all behind us." He states and Jem smiled.

"I better leave you alone then, looks like you need it." Jem said before he stood and disappear into one of the walls. Magnus smiled as he walked around his living room taking the last sip of his bourbon and headed to the bedroom.

He flicked his finger and the light turn brighter as he walked in. He took of his shirt leaving him only in his brief. He could still remember the way Alec stares down at his body gawking at his glory and how they had sex for the first time in this very room.

He smiled at the thought before he grabbed his phone trying to find the courage not to call Alec and said how sorry he was for not kissing him goodnight. Truth is, he wanted to but he knows how Alec is and as soon as their lips crashed, there is no stopping them.

He turned around while sliding through photos of Alec in his phone when he was shocked to see him stood right in front of him in his own room. He accidentally dropped his phone to the ground causing the screen to crash and turned off his phone. "Alexander..."

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As Jem went back to his lair, he saw the book by the table that he left out for Magnus, he traced the line of the book and decides he could forget about this matter for now since Alec is safe and sound in his room as a prisoner.

As he put the book back, there's a sudden gush of wind almost knocking him over and causing him to fell on the ground. The wind smells like Edom's sulphur and brimstone and it's not a good smell. He almost puked no matter how many times he had smelt it.

He turned over only to feel a sudden twisting pain over his chest and abdomen causing him to turn to his side in agony. "Oh Lord in heaven, no, no no, it can't be. It was stopped! The spell didn't work!" He mutters and this time, blood starts spurting out from his mouth and he vomited to his side.

"By the heaven's power! Give me strength! Give my guidance. Protect the innocence soul that was bound to this dark energy." Jem prays and soon he felt the pain subside causing him to pass out in consciousness but before he did, he mutters a silent prayer that he knows only Heaven could hear him, "Gideon, helped him. Helped Alexander's soul." 

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Alec couldn't believe Magnus didn't actually kiss him. He felt ashamed for what he did but more so now Magnus is in between him and his bad judgment. He wishes he could turned back the time to fix everything back but he is too late.

He sat on his floor leaning his body against his bed for quite a while. He finally stood and tried to change so he tried to get some sleep before he saw Iris stood in the middle of his room startle him.

"YOU! You betrayed me! Look at what you have done!" Alec said in anger, he called upon Raziel aiming the sword towards Iris and swung it against her body only to find the sword go through her like a knife through a mist. "What?"

"Now, now Mr Lightwood, we have an agreement and I intent to fulfill it but by your behavior I might been wrong to come back." She said. Alec couldn't understand her and his eyebrow furrowed in confusion.

"Wait, what?" He asked and she snickered into a scheming smile. "You have exactly fifteen minutes to get Max's body out from the grave before he dies again suffocating." She said as she walked through the door and walked passed the barrier Magnus had created and placed her palm on the door channelling her power.

Alec followed through and seconds later, he managed to go out from the door and he is free. He wanted to run but was stopped by Iris, last word.

"Don't forget to say your goodbyes." Alec turned only to found Iris is no longer there and he didn't waste any seconds. He sprinted towards the grave and start digging the remaining of the ground that he half dug himself before he finally reached to the coffin. He could hear him, he could hear his baby brother crying and whimpering. 

He cracked the coffin open in all of his strength finding his brother, clean as his usual self unlike a rotting corpse crying in tears.

"Max! Oh Max." He cried calling him and helped him out from the coffin. Max hugged his neck tight before Alec climbed out from the six foot graves.

Max still sobbing in tears hiccuping and Alec pulled him to see his brother really in front of him alive and breathing.

"I was calling everyone and no one came to help me! Where were you?!" Max said in tears earning Alec a breaking sobs as well. "I'm so sorry Max, I'm so sorry. I should have been there. I should have come and save you earlier. I'm so sorry." Alec hugged Max and he can't stop kissing his cheek over and over although their faces is wet with tears.

"I want mummy." Max voice croaked and Alec nodded. He took Max hand in his and headed inside the institute trying to find his mother. By this time, the institute is less people only those who work graveyard is around but not many. So he could escaped inside without anyone noticing and headed straight into the chapel.

"Max, I need to tell you something." Alec stopped him and kneeled in front of Max gripping both of his shoulder so he could get his attention. Max nodded and stares at his brother silently.

"Max, I'm gonna be gone for a while now. I need you to do me a favor okay." Max nodded listening to him. "I need you to tell everyone I'm sorry and I had to do what I had just did. I want you to take care of mum for me okay?" Max nodded clueless on what Alec had told him.

"Where are you going?" He asked. Alec smiled pushing his hair behind, rubbing off dirts from his shirt. "Somewhere. You can't come with me Max. This time you need to listen to me okay? You need to listen to mummy and do whatever she asked you to do okay."

Max nodded feeling that this is the last time he get to see Alec. "I want you to make sure Izzy is not sad okay? She might fought you a lot be she loves you as much as I do. Don't give her trouble and listen to her always. She will trained you to be a better Shadowhunter."

Alec's tear running on his cheek as he kissed his brother one last time. "Gotta make sure you look handsome as me before I send you off okay?" He rubbed the dirt off his death shirt and combed his hair neatly before he pull Max towards the chapel door.

As they entered, the chapel is bright with all of the candles lighted by none other than their mother. The white walls are covered with the white cloth still beautiful as Alec remembers.

By the end of the aisle, he could see his mother kneeling, praying and next to her is none other than Izzy. They both are too focused on the prayer not realizing someone stood behind them until Max screamed her name.

"Mummy! Izzy!" He screamed earning them both a shocked glanced and saw Max was running towards them. Maryse couldn't process whether she is dreaming at the moment but as soon as Max wrapped his arm around her neck, she knew that it was her boy came back. The scent, the smile, the shirt he had on. She remembers it well. It was the last shirt she helped him on before he was laid in the coffin.

"What the f-" Isabelle cursed before she was stopped by her mother. "Isabelle, hush, chapel." She said and Izzy had to pressed her lips together before she too was greeted by Max.

"I miss you guys. Why are you crying?" He asked and this time only then Maryse and Izzy stood from the ground eyeing Alec by the other end of the aisle smiling at them. Maryse literally sprinted towards Alec but she wasn't fast enough. She could see her eldest son slowly falling on his side losing his consciousness.

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Alec saw how his mother was hugging Max and Izzy by the end of the aisle, crying in happy tears, how he longed to see his mother smiled and laughed like this.

He could feel his heart slowing down and the sudden tugged on his pit of his stomach causing him hard to breathe. He tried to swallow hard but he couldn't and the last thing he saw was his mother actually running towards him.

His vision became dark and his breath quickened, the last thing he could ever mutter was the one person he wishes he could see, Magnus.

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"Alexander? What the fuck? How did you escape the barrier?" Magnus states in shock as he saw Alec stood in the middle of the room. Alec looks as confused as he is but he too couldn't figure out why and how he managed to get here.

"I know I shouldn't have put the barrier if my magic is depleted. Damn it." He mumbles as he bend down to pick up his phone only to find it broken. He throw the phone over on to the bed sighing rubbing his temple.

"We need to get you back, you can't stay here." Magnus said. "Wait." Alec said. He looks so clueless as if he was trying out the portal for the first time not knowing where he could end up on the other side.

"I know why I'm here." He started and Magnus sighed before he took a seat on his bed, "Go on." He said.

"I wanted to say thank you for everything. Literally everything that you have done and there is nothing in this world that could ever repay what you did to me and my family. I never knew love till I found you and I know I love you since the day I met you." Magnus could see how a single drop of tears fall on Alec's cheek, he wanted to wipe it off but he held himself letting Alec continue whatever he had to say.

"I wanna tell you that it's okay if we didn't make it in this life. I know fate couldn't be any kinder and I know I'm fooling myself thinking I could have you for eternity. But Magnus, I'm glad I met you. I'm glad I'm the one you chose in this life."

Magnus couldn't understand what Alec is trying to tell him but he wonder if this a break up.

"I am so sorry for what I did and I know you are angry at me. But Magnus, love is inevitable, it's unspoken bond and a mystery. You would never know how much you love someone until you try to get to know them. And love this passionate can only come once in a lifetime and I don't want you to waste your lifetime on me."

"Alexander stop, you're talking in riddles and I can't understand you." Magnus stopped him as he stood and stand before him.

"I forgive you and I love you but this is not the end." Magnus said and leaned in closer to kiss his lips. As their lips touched Magnus felt different. He pulled back and tried to comprehend the detail of this kiss.

For anyone who doesn't know Magnus Bane, son of the Prince of Edom, Asmodeus, he has many gifts that was bestowed onto him by his father and one of them was actually seeing dead people that was in between.

"Why can't I feel you Alexander?" He mutters and Alec smiled before he placed his palm on his cheek. "I love you Magnus Bane but my time has come, the spell worked."

Magnus gasped as he took another stepped back, "No, you're not. Tell me you're not." Magnus raised his palm towards Alec after he took few steps back. Alec could only gaze down on his feet not able to fulfill his wish.

"Tell me you're not dead Alexander, please." Magnus eyes started to flood with tears and as he blinks it fell on his cheek. Alec stepped closer as he wiped away the tears but Magnus felt nothing but coldness. "I have to go now, don't wait another century for me okay?" He smiled as he leaned his forehead against Magnus.

Magnus sobs as he tried to put his arm around Alec's waist but failed and when he opened his eyes, he was gone leaving him alone in his room.

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Jace woken up by feeling pain searing underneath his skin. When he looked down, his rune is burning his skin and he noticed the rune was actually his parabatai one. "Alec." He whispered his name and jumped off the bed waking Clary in process before putting on his clothes and grabbing his sword together.

"What's going on?" She asked rubbing her eyes together. "Something's wrong with Alec." Jace said and before he could walked out from the room, he double on the ground groaning in pain. "ARGH!!" He screamed clutching his abdomen in agony before he fell on his side.

Clary jumped upon seeing him stumbled and screaming in pain and grabbed him by his head. "What, what is it?" She asked. "It's Alec, something- something is happening. He- he's hurt." Jace mumbles. Clary helped him up trying to run towards Alec's room and finally with stumbles and leaning against the wall, they managed.

But they only found an empty room and Alec is no where to be found. They running again and this time Clary suggested just heading towards the chapel looking for Maryse there. She should know since it his son and now he is disappeared.

"ARGHH!!!" Jace screamed and this time it costs him to fell on his knees and grabbed his rune harder. "Jace!" Clary grabbed him and helped him up but she was not strong enough, Jace is in agony. But slowly after, he stopped screaming and pants in his breath muttering, "He's gone, he's gone." He cries as he clutched on his previously marked rune only to find it disappear.

He felt it, he felt the bond is like a string of violin. Like someone tightened that string as he fight in pain and agony but then the chord broke. He felt the string is being held by both parties and he held on his end while the other being Alec has gone. He couldn't feel his connection anymore, Alec is dead.

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As they arrived at the chapel they could hear crying and whimpering. As he opened the door, they could see Maryse held Alec's lifeless body in her and Izzy was holding Alec's cold hand but the one caught his attention was the boy stood by Alec's feet.

"I'll be damned, the spell works." He said and kneeled before them and opened his both arms wide before he was welcomed by Max.

"Are you okay? Are you hurt?" He asked as he rubbed Max's hair into a wild mess trying to see whether he actually got any injuries on him. But he could find nothing, no scar nothing that indicate Max was actually killed few days ago, he is as fresh as he was before.

But the one that broke him was seeing Alec hugged by his own mother, the hug that he longed before and wanted so desperately. But it was too late, everything is done and it was all too late.