Jalec, requested by @morgandeeyue: In which Alec drinks water from Lake Lyn causing him to hallucinate things about Jace.
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“You’re a monster!” Alec growled as he brought the seraph dagger up to Jace’s throat. He was crouched over his parabatai dangerously. “You demon blooded monster.”
“Alec, you’re hallucinating,” Jace managed to say through his teeth as the blade dug into his skin. “It was the water from Lake Lyn. This isn’t you. Please.”
Alec’s eyes were blazing with fury and pain and hatred. It scared Jace right to the core, to have Alec looking at him this way. They’d both made their way to Lake Lyn upon Sebastian’s instructions, but Alec had ended up in the water for some reason and now he was hallucinating.
“I’m not hallucinating!” Alec yelled, pressing the dagger harder. A thin line of blood appeared under the edge and Jace struggled to breathe. “You’re a demon. You deserve to die.”
“I’m your parabatai,” Jace whispered. “Your brother.”
“You’re nothing to me,” Alec hissed, and Jace swore something broke inside of him at his parabatai’s words.
Truly thinking Alec was about to kill him, Jace brought a knee up into his back. Alec grunted in surprise and Jace was able to shove him off. Alec went sprawling and Jace tried quickly to rake in as much air as he could. He ignored the tingling of the cut on his throat and kept an eye on Alec.
“Alec, please, it’s me. It’s Jace,” he said lowly.
Alec made another lunge for Jace, but Jace managed to dodge him at the last second. Alec lunged again and this time, he wasn’t quick enough. The two went to ground with a gross thud. Alec punched Jace, once, twice, and then a third time. Jace felt his eyebrow split in the impact.
“Alec,” he whispered desperately, lifting his head up as the blood dripped down his face.
“Demon!” Alec growled, pulling out his dagger once again. “Abomination!”
Jace’s eyes fluttered in defeat and his head fell back to the ground, deflated. “Kill me then,” he croaked. “I don’t want to be alive if we’re on different sides, Alec.”
Alec put the tip of the dagger to Jace’s heart. He pushed it in and blood appeared around the edges. Jace drew in a sharp breath. “I’m going to kill you,” Alec seethed.
And Jace didn’t care anymore. Jace had thought he once had demon blood, and he wasn’t surprised when he found out. Because he was broken. And he wasn’t capable of loving. He wasn’t capable of emotion. But then he discovered he had pure angel blood, and it didn’t make sense, because how could he have something so pure and be so damaged?
“Do it then,” Jace said quietly. “You’d all be better off without me.”
If this is what made Alec snap out of his hallucination, then so be it, because Jace could deal with that. Could deal with dying if it meant Alec lived. Because the only way he’d be able to stop Alec was by killing him, and he could never do that. Alec was twice the man Jace could ever be, so he was okay with this. He just wanted Alec to be okay, no matter what.
Alec dug the blade in deeper, testing Jace.
“Do it,” Jace said, his voice rising. He lifted his head and looked directly at his parabatai. “DO IT!”
And then all of a sudden Jace’s eyes were glowing gold, and that pure angel blood coursing through him was set alight. And he felt his iratze rune burning and he felt the cut on his throat heal over. And he felt the power travel to his parabatai bond. And all of a sudden, Alec’s eyes were a bright gold, and the dagger slipped from his hands. And the wound that Alec had caused healed over too.
Just as Jace’s eyes faded back to normal, Alec’s did too, and all of a sudden there was no pain there, no fury, and no hatred. His parabatai looked like himself again.
“Alec?” Jace said, his voice coarse.
“Jace?” Alec’s breathing was heavy. “Wh-What happened? I was going to kill you. I couldn’t stop myself. I... I wanted to kill you.”
A tear slipped from Jace’s eye. Relief. Disappointment. Happiness. Fear. A whole range of emotions washed over him and he couldn’t make sense of any of it. “I know,” Jace breathed. “I know.”
“How did you... I felt some kind of energy through our bond. I think... I think it healed me,” Alec whispered, as if he thought he was being crazy.
Jace nodded slightly. “I activated my iratze rune, and I think you got some of its power through our parabatai bond. You were hallucinating, and it healed you.”
Then all of a sudden Alec was grabbing at Jace, pulling him into a bone crushing hug. “I didn’t mean what I said. It’s hazy, but I remember. You’re not a demon. I need you, Jace. I would never,” Alec hiccuped, “I would never want you dead.”
Jace hugged his parabatai back tightly. “I know, Alec.”
“I’m so sorry,” Alec said.
“I’m just glad you’re okay,” Jace replied, meaning every word. “We’re okay.”
And even though Jace had been so close to dying, he would’ve let Alec do it. But he would never tell Alec that, so he kept his mouth shut and hugged his parabatai, glad he was finally okay.
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Something quick I whipped up, sorry if it’s not that good! I wanted to answer the request though because it had been sitting in my inbox and I felt bad. Hopefully I can come back to it soon and give it a good edit. x
