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Alec dreamt of drowning in water. There was all the water pressure surrounding him and it was freezing cold to the bone. He couldn’t breathe. He couldn’t move or struggle.. His head was pounding as if he was continuously hit by a hammer. Everything was pitch black and he wanted to puke. Every second he tried to struggle was every second he felt closer to death. Then, with a gasp, he bolted up and opened his eyes. It was a bad mistake because he was greeted by eye-blinding white light and his stomach rolled up, making him vomit to empty out the contents which was non- existent so he just threw up air instead. He rolled and fell back to the bed, supposedly, and closed his eyes back as he tried to catch his breath. His head was still pounding.
“Alec? Alec!!! You are awake!!!” Someone yelled out in joy.. That person sounded awfully familiar.
Alec grimaced in pain because of the loud noise which was painful to his ear and to his head. He squeezed out one eye to take a peek at the person. A tall blonde man was looking down at him, his gold eyes widened in worries and shining in tears.
“Alec… Oh my god… You are really awake…” He smiled. “I am so glad. Oh god.. Alec… Wait a minute. I gonna go get Izzy and Mom. They are here. And they are worried sick!”
“Jace…” He groaned. “Where am I?”
“Alec, you remember. The doctors said you might be in amnesia since the damage was so serious so we were so worried you won’t recognize us.. Or you will have a brain damage. You are in Hospital, Alec. You were hit by a car.”
Alec tried to process. He gripped on his brother’s hands and he didn’t let him go. Jace gripped on it back, patiently and tightly as much. His brother’s hand felt warm in his own.
“What about my car? Did they get it out of the water?” Alec asked.
A strange confused expression appeared on Jace’s face. “What car? You weren’t in a car when the accident happened.”
“My car was crashed into the water…We both fell.” Alec closed his eyes. Geeze, He would rather not think about the accident and Jace could be so dense at times. “By the way, Is mom still angry at me?”
Jace answered with a frown. “Why should mom be angry? She is worried sick.”
“We had a fight before I took off. How long has it even been? Three days? A week? How long was I out?” Alec hissed from the headache as he was trying to think. He lay back down on the hospital bed and held his head in one hand. “... hurts..” He winced from the pain.
“Alec.. Stay here and don’t move, okay? I will go get a doctor. Just.. just.. relax.” Jace got up from the seat. Alec agreed internally but he didn’t move. The pain was too much to move around or just nod. So he just leaned back, with his eyes closed.
A few minutes later, the first thing he heard is rushed footsteps. He looked up to see a tall grey-haired male in a white coat towering over him.
“Hi, I am Jem, great friends with Maryse and Robert. I am the doctor in charge of you. It has been a week since you were in that accident.” He politely and calmly said with his hand stretched out to him.
A week? Alec wondered. He took the hand of the doctor to shake confusedly. The doctor began to check him. While he was under examination, the door opened again and Isabelle rushed out to hug him tightly. The doctor was shocked but Alec took it with a “Oof!” His bruised wounds couldn’t take the rush.
“Izzy…” Alec whined..
“You Idiot. You fucking Idiot. Don’t do it again.” His sister yelled with teary shiny eyes and cried on his shoulder. She let go of him for the continuation of medical checkup after a short while. Thank god she did, because due to the movements she had caused, he was close to vomiting again.
“He is responding to light and sound.. physically, he seems fine from the look of it. How are you feeling?” The Doctor asked.
“Ten times worse than hangover..” Alec replied and Jace snorted. Alec wanted to laugh but suddenly felt exhausted.
“Alec..” Jace called out, seemingly remember something. “You said you and your car fell into the water?”
“Yes.. what about it?”
“Do you know which year is it now?” Jace asked and Alec was getting more annoyed. His head hurt terribly thinking and he would not do that.
“2013..?” He asked. All the people in the room went silent after a gasp from someone.
“okay.. Spill. What aren’t you telling me?” Alec winced, looking at them one by one.
“It is 2016 December now, Mr.Lightwood.” The doctor helped. Alec’s mouth went open. H- how could it be? Was he asleep for 3 years?
“It was 2013 when you had a fight with mom, Alec.. You took off, your car fell into the water and you went missing. Everyone thought you were dead.”
Alec was at a loss of words. He didn’t know what to think anymore. His head was getting hammered harder each and every seconds.
The door opened and he looked up, hopefully... There was his mother, always so beautiful and elegant, yet strict-looking and stunning.. But now, her hair was just tied into a ponytail with little to no makeup left on her face but darkened eyebags.. in casual comfort dress, looking extremely sleepless and exhausted. He looked at her, eye-widened, desperate and longing.. as if he hadn’t got her love for a long time… or as if he hadn’t seen her for a long time….
“Mom..” He whispered. She rushed towards him to hold him, ever so gently and kindly than he had remembered. She felt nice and warm. She smelled great. She smelled like home.
“Alec…” She sobbed on his shoulder. “I have missed you.. I have missed you so much.” She said, cradling his face in the cup of her hand, as if he was so priceless.. “I am sorry.. I am sorry, baby. I was angry at that time. I didn’t mean to start a fight there.. I am so sorry…”
“I missed you too, mom. But it only felt like yesterday.” He replied, gently placing his hand on her shoulder. His mother sniffled, gently shaking her head as it wasn’t just it. “I am sorry tooo..” Alec whispered and at his words, his mother cried harder in his arms.
“Oh, Alec.. There is something we need to ask you.” She said after she had calmed down, held him enough to feel that her eldest son was alive and safe in her arms and looked at the door. Alec followed her sight. There was his father, Robert, holding a curly brown hair toddler baby boy in his hand. Alec frowned wondering whose child he was. He was chubby, cute and nicely dressed, aside from his pouty face with streaks of dry tears.. He was sniffling as his father tried to coax him. Did Jace or Izzy has a child while he was gone-?
“Daddy?!!!!!!!” The child yelled, forgotten that he was crying earlier, rather happily aiming at him. He tried to launch himself from the arms of his father to the hospital bed towards him, arms stretching out as a gesture to take him. His eyes widened at the sight of it. He was not sure how to react to it and his head hurt thinking or seeing the kid. His hands clinched onto the bedsheets until his knuckles turned white. And Alec felt his world span around, felt a terrible nausea creeping up and he fell into darkness.
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