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Alec watched carefully as Isabelle drew blood into the cup, granting them access inside and walking slowly down the long marble corridors, Alec couldn't help but think about when Jace had been locked down here, before they had rescued him. "They know we're coming, don't they?" He asked his sister, his blue eyes steady but with flickers of nerves and fear every so often.

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As they arrived, Alec climbed out and joined Isabelle and Magnus as they began to walk through the graveyard, where a stone statue of an angel needed the blood of a shadow hunter in the cup it carried before they could enter. Normally, Alec would have done it, but this time he had to look towards his sister.

(Me neither! Silent City is it? I can't remember, I might have just made that up ) Alec chuckled at his boyfriend's words, it was nice to see him looking happy again, and he let him swing their hands between them as they walked outside. "I'll come with you. We'll find away, you know..." He agreed gently, giving a reassuring squeeze of Magnus' hand before they both climbed inside and they began to make their journey.

Alec's cheeks went a light shade of pink at Magnus' words and he gave a small, playful roll of his eyes. "No sequins... Well, you can wear sequins." He chuckled quietly, because Magnus wouldn't be Magnus without his sequins. It felt a little odd talking about marriage, but why shouldn't they be thinking about it? Alec got up, his hand still in magnus' as they went outside.

"Thanks, Iz." Alec replied again and as she headed out, his attention turned to Magnus' smiling, hopeful face, and Alec just hoped he would be able to keep his boyfriends smile fixed there instead of having to watch it disappear again. "I know..." He murmured and leant forwards to cheek his cheek softly. "Just, don't give up if the Silent Brother's can't help. We'll find a way." He murmured, but Alec remembered he was talking to an over 800 year old warlock here, and out of all of them he would probably know their options better than them.

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Alec was a little shocked himself, but Magnus had to be his priority, he knew that now. Because wasn’t that what you did when you were in love? Alec hadn’t had any experience in this dating area before, or of being in love with anyone outside of your family, but he could feel it, the love between them and he couldn’t lose Magnus, he would fall apart without him. Besides, why should he care about The Clave now anyway? However hard it was to get used to. “Actually… I probably won’t, not anymore.” Alec interjected quietly and somewhat distantly, lifting his hand to touch the space on his collarbone where his parabatai rune had once been, before he dropped it back into Magnus’. “I think we should concentrate on this… I… I want to find Jace, you know I do, but we have no leads, no nothing. There’s nothing for us to even try and do. We could try the Silent Brothers... for both.”

Alec frowned a little at that. "Iz, I'm doing this to get Magnus' powers back." He said rather bluntly, his eyes still and sure, because of course he cared about finding Jace and Clary and of course finding Sebastian so that everyone could feel at least a little safe, but he wanted to do this for Magnus, because he couldn't stand seeing him so un-happy. "I know we still need to find Sebastian, but this has been a dead end search for months, and... and... I need to do this first." He swallowed, because really, what use was he going to be in the search for Sebastian anyway?

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"I don't know... another warlock? Someone who could summon something that would know?" Alec replied, nibbling at his lower lip, because he could see just how hopeless Magnus felt, and Alec had no idea how to help him. Magnus wasn't used to feeling weak or helpless, and he needed to show him that he wasn't, even like this. "Do you think they would...?" Alec asked as he lifted his eyes to Isabelle, sliding his hand into Magnus' beneath the table and squeezing gently. "They don't usually concern themselves with this sort of thing." He said. There was just so much going on, so much pain, and Alec could feel his head practically throbbing from the pressure of it all. "I... If we could find Jace again... I could talk to him." Alec said, desperate hope in his voice.

"Happy...?" Alec said quietly, as if he couldn't quite believe Jace could ever be happy around Sebastian, not after everything he had done to them, not after he had killed max. What had he done to him? Alec swallowed hard, but as Isabelle presented the vial, Alec glanced towards Magnus. "thank you," Alec told her gratefully as he took it carefully into his grasp. "We need to find someone who can tell us what do to with this." he said, sitting down beside his boyfriend.

“Apparently so.” Alec said quietly, staring at the kitchen door, but as Isabelle appeared the boy exhaled a small breath. Alec didn’t know who he had been expecting, but he knew he was relieved to see his sister there. The blue-eyed boy couldn’t help but to smile a little at Magnus’ words but he folded his arms across his chest as she spoke. “What?” Alec’s eyes widened a little and his arms dropped to his sides. “You saw Jace? They have Clary? How the hell did they get away so easily?” He asked in a rare panic, but even Alec knew they would have been able to get away with ease, Sebastian and Jace together were the most powerful two imaginable. “Did you find anything out?”

“It’s okay, I don’t mind coming with you.” Alec replied, because in all honesty he was used to dealing with pain, even if he wasn’t a Shadowhunter anymore. Besides, he would rather go with Magnus instead of pacing around the Institute having to look at all the things that used to be his, all of the things in the home that used to be his and now wasn’t, all the while worrying that Sebastian might come back and reek more havoc on Magnus’ life, putting him in even more danger that Alec just could not allow. “Good.” Alec chuckled in response, almost surprised himself, but the sound of elevator clattering draw his chuckle short and a small frown dented his snowy features as he glanced in the direction of the door. “But there shouldn’t be anyone back yet.” He said anxiously, glancing down to Magnus.

"I'm glad you trust that I haven't inherited the same bad cooking skills..." Alec chuckled quietly and rummaging through the cupboards, Alec added some chocolate chips - which Isabelle had probably brought to try and sweeten up some of her concoctions at some stage - and then made another with syrup, before putting them on the plate for Magnus. He felt oddly domestic at that moment as he put it on the table in-front of his boyfriend, but he shook the feeling away and put everything in the sink of bubbly water before going to sit down opposite him. "Yeah... I guess you should." Alec replied, biting down on his lower lip as he noticed just how dis-heartened Magnus' tone was. "I could come with you?"

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Watching Magnus survey the box of pancake mix, Alec got out a pan and some oil. “It’s okay,” He said after putting the pan down, approaching Magnus, “I can make it if you want? I promise I’m not as bad as Isabelle.” Alec promised. “Go and sit down.” He said with a small smile and gently took the box from him, because he wanted to be the one to take care of Magnus for once, because he could tell how scared he was because of all of this. Beginning to make the pancakes, he glanced over his shoulder. “What do you want on them?” He smiled.