A Dream of Eternal Life
Walking the streets of New York at night by himself may not have been Alec's smartest idea but Alec couldn't bring himself to go back to Magnus's, not when the warlock was working, plus Magnus being immortal was still bugging him. He was wandering around a park close to Magnus's when a noise behind him alarmed him. He whirled around and pulled out his witchlight, the light shining brightly around him. He kept turning, the sound of a girl giggling followed him. He gripped his witchlight tighter as he spotted a girl, a small girl that looked no older than thirteen, her clothes tattered and ripped with blood covering them. She smiled largely at Alec.
"Your Alec Lightwood, I've seen you before at one of Simon's concerts." As she spoke Alec saw incisors pop out. He blinked, he didn't remember seeing her, but he knew who she was, everyone was looking for her.
"You're Maureen." He said.
Maureen frowned. "Yes. But you didn't remember me, that's no good, oh no, that's bad." Alec didn't even have time to get a weapon.
Maureen had lunged at him, her hand around his throat gripping tightly, lifting him high in the air.
"Your eyes are really pretty, can I have them?" she asked scratching at his eyes.
Alec let out scream and kicked her causing her to drop him.
"I'm going to kill you, and when I do, I'll take those eyes from you."
Alec ran as fast as he could, his left eye was scratched up as well as his throat, he pulled out his phone and sent a quick text to Magnus looking around frantically for Maureen.
He reached around his belt and grabbed a blade.
"I've heard of those blades, their angel blades, but they don't work if you don't say their name!" Maureen said standing next to him.
In a flash she grabbed his arm and snapped it, reaching for his belt and breaking it, watching as all his weapons fell to the ground around him. Alec swore and kicked her again, Maureen saw it coming and grabbed his leg dropping him to the ground.
"Just die already!" she yelled slicing at his throat.
Blood poured from the wound sending her vampire senses out of control. She lapped up the falling blood and bit him, the taste almost heavenly.
Alec wanted to push her away, but somehow couldn't , no he wanted more, he pulled her closer, the bite numbing his senses.
"You should taste yourself, you are really sweet." Maureen said pulling away from him. Alec was alert again, he panicked looking at the girl straddling him and tried to push her off.
Maureen just smiled and bit her thumb, breaking the skin. "Try this, it's your blood."
Alec turned his head, keeping his mouth closed tightly.
"I said try this!" Maureen grabbed his head and turned it, sticking her bloody thumb in his mouth.
Alec coughed.
"Good right? Maybe you're naturally sweet, or maybe Shadowhunter blood is better than any other blood."
Alec stopped resisting as she bit him again, the pain he had subsiding. He closed his eyes, loving the numbing feeling her bite gave him, but hating he couldn't move.
"Alec!"
Alec could hear a voice, but it sounded so distant that he couldn't be sure.
Maureen ignored who ever had spoken as well, she continued to drink Alec's blood, her eyes occasionally travel up to look at the Alec.
"Oops, I think I drank too much, and I didn't even get those eyes, oh well, got to go!" Maureen said dashing away.
Magnus had appeared, and when he saw Alec on the ground with a vampire on top of him, he called out.
He ran over as Maureen ran away and knelt down next to his boyfriend.
"She gave me some of her blood…" Alec finally said his voice hoarse.
Magnus finally had a good look at Alec, he had bruises, his left eye had deep, bloody scratches running through it, his neck had bite marks and a large slash mark along with minor scratches, and he was even more pale than normal.
Magnus cursed and began tried to heal Alec. "Why isn't it working?" Magnus asked.
"He's dying of course." Magnus looked up glaring at the woman before him, Camille. "But Maureen stupidly gave him some of her own blood, he'll wake up as a vampire." Camille said smiling darkly.
Magnus held up his hand threateningly.
"Oh give him here. Since Maureen is my responsibility and since she turned him I'll take him in." Camille bent down and grabbed Alec. "And don't worry I'll make sure nothing happens to him, you just figure out how you're going to tell that family of his." Camille said waving Magnus off.
The first thing Alec thing Alec noticed was that he was in complete darkness, he looked around and saw sunlight and that he was in a small and gloomy room with expensive furniture.
Alec walked toward the sunlight and held his hand out, falling backward as his hand blistered up.
"Are you trying to burn to death?" came a bored tone from behind him.
Alec turned and saw Camille Belcourt sitting on one of the couches.
"Where are we?" he asked glaring at her.
"My hideout of course, don't you remember anything?" Camille asked running her long fingers through her hair.
"No, why, what happened?" Alec reached in his pocket for his witchlight but found it was no longer with him.
"My little Maureen attacked you, you fought her off but she in the end overpowered you, she even stupidly gave you her own blood, anyway, you died and I brought you here."
Alec's eyes grew as her words hit him. "Magnus would never,"
"Magnus? Why he was the one that wanted you here, he doesn't want you any more." Camille said interrupting Alec.
Alec shook his head, everything she told him made sense, and yet… "He wouldn't do that."
Camille laughed and stood up gracefully walking over to Alec. "Do you not understand? You were a trophy to him, he loved the idea of dating a Shadowhunter, but now that you are no longer one, he despises you." Alec looked down. "And if you still do not believe me, go see for yourself, well at night of course."
Night time seemed to have come slowly for Alec, he was too unnerved, too anxious. As soon as the sun went down he left Camille's hideout, he wanted to see Magnus. He seemed to have made it to Magnus's in record time, a feat he could not have done before and stood by the warlock's front door he could hear Magnus talking and listened in.
"I told you, I don't want him here, having a bloodsucker here is bad for my health."
Alec put a hand over his mouth as he heard Magnus say this.
"No, it's not that, it's just he'll constantly want a drink and it'll be exhausting."
Alec staggered back staring at Magnus's apartment in shock. "Camille was right…" he said his voice barely audible. He gulped and without thinking, ran.
Magnus sighed as he got off the phone, he had been talking with Jordon, the wolf wanted Simon to stay with him while he was gone.
Magnus turned, feeling eyes on him and looked out his window. "Camille?" he asked staring at the beautiful woman.
"I was just in the neighborhood, but tell me, have you seen Alexander?" she asked smiling wickedly at her ex.
"No, why? Wait did something happen?" Magnus asked panicking.
Camille smirked. "Alexander came here to see you, but I guess you didn't know, but now he left."
Magnus growled his fingers sparking at their tips. "You said you'd look out for him. How could you lose him?!" he asked.
"All I did was let him see you, I guess what he saw or heard made him upset, well I'll be on my way, I have places to be, blood to drink, you know how it is." And with that she was gone.
Magnus growled and grabbed his phone, he needed help and fast.
Alec wasn't sure when he had stopped running or even where he was, he just knew he was outside the city. He looked up at the sky, wondering what time it was, and continued walking. When he finally stopped he was in a place he had never heard of with boarded up buildings and not a soul in sight.
"I'm all alone." He said softly.
He found an old abandoned building and walked in, hoping he could stay there forever.
When Magnus called Jace and Isabelle over, he hadn't said anything, now here they were and he still couldn't say anything.
"So what's up?" Isabelle asked sitting down on one of his couches.
Jace moved to sit next to her. "And where's Alec, mom's been asking about him all day saying he missed another council meeting."
Magnus looked out his window, not wanting to see their faces when he told them the news. "Well, that's the problem, see I haven't seen him all day either…" Magnus said and from the corner of his eye he could see concern deep with in Jace and Isabelle's eyes.
"Wait what?! Like he's missing?" Isabelle asked standing up.
"Well, yes and no." Magnus said.
"Just tell us." Jace said sounding annoyed.
Magnus took a deep breath and walked to the other side of the room. "The night before he was attacked by Maureen, apparently she thought her blood was the same as his, anyway, she…turned him and he was staying with Camille, until about an hour or two ago when he left."
Jace stood up his hand already reaching for a Seraph blade, while Isabelle glared, her whip snaking down.
"Camille Belcourt?! She's here in the city?! And you let her take our brother with her?!" Jace asked.
"It's not like I had a choice! He was dying and had vampire blood in his system!" Magnus yelled.
Jace sighed and let go of his blade. "Well we have to find him." he said.
"Magnus, is there anything here we can use to track him?" Isabelle asked retracting her whip.
"That's why I need your help, I tried his Lightwood ring but I couldn't get anything." Magnus said.
"Maybe he's near water?" Isabelle suggested.
"If so then it'll be impossible to find him until he wants to be found." Jace said.
"Okay, I'm just throwing this out there, but did you try calling his phone?" Isabelle asked.
Magnus stared blank faced at Isabelle before pulling out his cell phone. 'Were Sorry. The number you are trying to reach is disconnected or no longer in service.' Isabelle sighed and collapsed on the couch.
"What about Simon, or Jordon? Maybe they could track him." Jace asked.
"Jordon has to go out of town for a few days." Magnus said sounding exhausted.
"Well then there's still Simon, and Maia." Isabelle said looking a little more animated.
"Okay I'll text Simon." Magnus said.
'Come over, we need your help tracking some one.'
"Okay it's sent now we wait."
Alec peeked out the window next to him, the sky was beginning to light up, and any minute now the sun would come up. He scooted away from it and curled up wishing he was just having a nightmare.
"I came as soon as I could." Simon said after Magnus had opened the door up and let him in.
"Good, now it's almost morning and we have to find Alec before it's too late." Magnus said.
"Wait Alec, why would- oh, okay." Simon said understanding the situation quickly.
Magnus explained everything though and waited to see Simon's reaction.
"So Alec became a vampire and ran away and we have to hurry before the sun is totally up or he'll turn to ash, okay, I understand, so how can I help?" Simon asked.
"We need you to smell around see if you can pick up his scent." Isabelle responded looking up from her phone. Simon frowned.
"You know I'm a vampire right, and not a werewolf? I can't track people based on their scents, besides why can't you guys do it?" Simon asked looking at Magnus.
"I tried, it's not working, I think he's close to a body of water." Magnus answered crossing his long arms over his chest.
"Well then, let's ask Maia, I know Jordon's away for some Praetor thing, but Maia and Luke are both still here, we could ask them." Simon suggested.
"Luke will end up telling the clave, we'll try Maia." Isabelle said.
Simon nodded and sent a text to Maia.
'Need your help, Magnus will explain when you get over here.' Was the text.
"I hope she helps us, and soon." Isabelle said softly.
Alec glared at the blinding sun peeking in through a crack in a nearby boarded up window, whenever he touched it, it hurt, and when it hurts he's reminded of how he's not having a bad dream but living it.
"My phone broke during my fight with Maureen, I can't go outside now, and now I'm hungry."
He pulled his long legs up to his chest and rested his head on his knees, he wished he was with his family, wished he was back at the Institute, he just wished he was a Shadowhunter again.
"You guys know it's daytime right? And even if we find your new vampire brother we can't do anything about it. But I guess I can help." Maia said after Magnus had explained the situation to her.
Magnus nodded and went into his room coming back out with one of Alec's shirts.
Maia sighed and took off her jacket, bending down she shifted her body morphing into a wolf. She padded over to the shirt and smelled it.
After getting a lock on the scent she headed outside with the others following. They ran a long ways away, wearing themselves out as they made it to an old run down abandoned part of the city, right next to it was a port, and each building was quiet and broken.
Maia stopped and looked around walking to a building closest to the port and stopped, shifting into her human form. "Ah, I hate shifting, but here, he's in here."
Magnus pushed passed everyone and stared at the building. "You guys wait out here, I'll go in." Magnus said heading in.
Jace shook his head. "I'm going in to." He said following the warlock.
"And me, he's my brother after all." Isabelle said heading in.
Simon looked around, his hands were in the pockets of his jacket. "I'm coming too, this place gives me the creeps." He headed in with Maia following. "I don't want to be alone here." She said.
Magnus glared at the group behind him but continued to head further inside.
Magnus looked around the place was dark with only a small amount of light shining in from a broken window that got boarded up.
"This place is perfect for bloodsuckers." Maia muttered but amended herself after Isabelle and Simon shot her a pointed look. "Sorry."
Isabelle sighed and continued looking for her brother.
"Maybe he doesn't want to be found, I mean why else would he come all the way out here and stay in this creepy place." Simon said pushing away an old broken chair from his path.
"Yeah but that's not something Alec would do." Isabelle said with a frown.
"Iz, I hate to say it, but I think Simon might be right, but I think it's not us that he's avoiding but…" everyone looked at Magnus.
"Me. I had a feeling, Camille told me he came to my place but left, I think he overheard something and got the wrong idea." Magnus said quietly.
"So what do we do now? We can't find him and even if we did he wouldn't want to see us." Isabelle said, she stopped walking and looked at everyone.
"I can go back to my apartment and get some blood." Simon suggested.
"I'll go with you." Isabelle said.
Maia frowned. "Well I don't want to stay here!" she said, and with that the three left.
"I'm going to continue to look around, who knows maybe I'll scare him out, after all there are an awful lot of spiders here." Jace said looking at the ceiling where spider webs were.
Alec lifted his head up as something began to crawl on his hand, he looked down at it and let out a startled yelp. An innocent, harmless spider was crawling up his arm.
He stood up and shook his hand frantically.
'There's someone here.' He thought after glaring once more at the spider.
Thanks to the years of Shadowhunter training he had, Alec knew to keep quiet, even as spiders came and crawled on him.
He listened as the sound of footprints came by the room he was in, he could a very familiar voice as it grew closer. Magnus.
Magnus was about to leave when he heard another yelp. He hurried into one of the rooms and watched as Alec threw his jacket down.
"Uh, don't take your anger out on the jacket." Magnus said alarming Alec.
"There was a spider…" Alec said obviously trying to explain his actions.
'He really is scared of spiders.' Magnus thought, and despite everything smiled.
"What are you doing here?" Alec asked with a slight pout.
"I could ask you the same thing." Magnus said swatting a falling spider away from Alec's head.
"I'm here because the sun's up and can't leave without burning up." Alec said.
"I came because I have a boyfriend that came to see me without telling me and left after hearing a conversation I was having." Magnus said causing Alec to look away.
"Well that was…you said...this is all your fault."
Magnus blinked. "And tell me Alec, how is this my fault?"
"I got all worked up over how you can't die so I hung around outside, and when Camille took me in, she said you were only dating me because I was a Shadowhunter so I got even more worked up, so I came to see you and heard you say and I quote, "…I don't want him here, having a bloodsucker here is bad for my health.""
Magnus sighed. "I was talking to Jordon, he asked me to take in Simon and I was trying to tell him no but he asked why so I told him that, he still insisted so I told him Simon would always want blood and I would get tired of getting him some, after I said that he gave up and hung up. You aren't bad for my health, even if you do need a really long bath to get the blood and dirt off, Simon on the other hand, ever since I met him I've been very close to death, that guy practically gives me a heart attack every time I see him." Magnus said wrapping his arms around Alec.
Right as they were about to kiss Jace appeared. "Alec, you look like a demon came and mauled you, Maureen seriously did that to you?" he asked ignoring their actions.
Alec looked embarrassed. "You don't have to remind me, my ego's pretty shot by it."
Jace laughed. "Since when do you care about your ego?" he asked.
"Since I became your Parabatai." Alec answered with a shrug.
"Yeah, I guess being around my level of awesome for that long would have that affect, anyway, Alec, you okay?" Jace asked his tone serious.
"I don't know, I lost my marks and everything, it just feels weird." Alec admitted.
"Yeah, for me too, and Izzy." Alec stared at Jace in horror.
"She knows?! W-who else does?!" Alec asked.
"Well there's me, and Isabelle, oh and Simon, and Maia too." Jace said, each name said caused Alec to cringe.
"Simon?! You guys told him?" he asked his eyes darting from his boyfriend to Jace.
"Magnus called us up first and told us hoping we had something that belonged to you that we could use to track you with, then after that when it didn't work we called up Simon because we thought he could smell you out, only apparently he couldn't, so we called up Maia, the only one that was able to track you. But when we went in to look for you Simon left to go to his apartment and Izzy and Maia going with him." Jace explained walking over to Alec concern showing in his gold eyes.
"Don't hate me, but Camille, did she force you to…drink mundanes?" Jace asked awkwardly.
"What?! What brought this on?!" Alec asked.
"Well she has been known to drink from mundanes and everything else, and since you're a… you know… I thought she influenced you like she did Maureen." Alec glared and stepped back, looking offended. "You think I'm easily influenced? And if your asking if I've drank any blood then no, I haven't."
Magnus looked at Alec with concern as well before noticing that Jace had taken off his jacket and tilted his head to the side.
"What are you doing?" Alec asked.
"Drink you idiot." Jace said pulling Alec closer.
"I…" Jace shushed him and closed his eyes. "Like I said, drink you moron."
Alec looked at Magnus for back up but the warlock had already turned away.
Alec groaned and closed his eyes as well, he couldn't believe he was actually about to drink Jace's blood or that Jace was offering it so willingly but, his instinct was kicking in. he looked once more at Magnus before gingerly biting into Jace's neck.
'Is this why Camille drank those Shadowhunters?' Alec thought as Jace's blood traveled through his body. He pulled away after a few minutes, wiping his mouth and looking nervously at Jace.
Jace was panting looking like he just ran a marathon. "Vampire bites are addicting after a point." Jace said after he had finished drawing a healing rune on himself.
"I think you're just addicted to the danger." Magnus said looking at Alec.
Alec looked less pale than before, and his eyes seemed to glow with life.
Simon had hurried back carrying two bottles of blood with him, Maia had decided she'd rather stay back at his apartment, and Isabelle wanted to go with him. It was dark when they got back to the abandoned building Alec was in.
Isabelle used a witchlight and dropped it as Jace walked by. "Have you been here all day?" she asked picking her witchlight up. "
Yeah, and Alec's over in there if you want to see him." Jace said pointing to one of the rooms to her left. Isabelle nodded and walked through the first one finding Alec's jacket discarded and he and Magnus talking.
"We brought blood and have you guys been doing naughty things, big brother?" she asked winking at Alec.
Alec blushed lightly. "No. there was a spider…" Alec said.
"So spiders are your kryptonite?" Simon asked.
"Yes. Now can we stop talking about spiders I already feel like their crawling on me." Alec said looking around.
"Sorry, anyway as I said we brought you some blood, they're still cold believe it or not." Isabelle said. Simon handed Alec the bottles.
"Thanks." Alec said not wanting to tell his sister that he just drank from Jace.
"Great, then we'll be going." Isabelle said grabbing Simon's hand lacing their fingers together as the two walked out of the one story building.
"Shall we go as well? I can portal us home." Magnus asked. Alec frowned. "Why didn't you do that earlier?" he asked wondering why they had to wait until night time.
"I left the curtains open, anyway, let us go." Magnus said grabbing Alec's hand and opening a portal, the two went through wordlessly.
Aaaaaaaaaaannnnnddd Done! Haha! My first Mortal Instruments story! Review, I mean come on, it's Alec as a vampire! And if you like this I might add a second chapter