Basket of Eggs
Chapter 1: A Strange Dream
Alec Lightwood was lying on the black leather couch with Chairman Meow asleep on his stomach when Magnus Bane opened the door to enter his loft. "Alec? Are you awake?" The warlock asked quietly.
The beautiful Shadowhunter was asleep on his couch. Magnus smiled faintly and bent over Alec to press a kiss again his lips. The sleeping boy stirred, his eyes fluttered open and locked his dreamy gaze on the very tired warlock and smiled. "Did you just get home?" Alec asked sleepily.
"Yes I did" Magnus said. "I'm sorry if I woke you, my darling, but you have eternity to sleep on my couch. You know, you can use the bed" Chairman Meow, if sensing Alec wanted to get up, woke up, stretched and jumped off Alec's stomach to the floor then walked to the kitchen.
The memory of the day Alec become immortal was so familiar, even though it was only a week ago, it felt like yesterday. Magnus had been working late on a project that he wouldn't tell Alec about, going through every one of his spell books.
The next morning, Alec had gotten up to find the warlock, sitting at a table covered in old and new velvet bound spell books stacked, not neatly, and Magnus with a giant cup of coffee. "Magnus? Are you ok?" He had asked but Magnus did not answer, he just kept flipping through the pages of a spell book covered in red velvet with thin, spidery writing printed in the book.
About twenty minutes later, while Alec was watching TV in a green overstuffed chair, he had heard Magnus gasp in surprise. Alec looked up to see Magnus closing the red velvet bound spell book quickly and grabbing another bound in black leather and flipping the pages of the book quickly but gently. "Alec! My darling! Get over here please" He had heard him say and went over to Magnus, who was leaning over the book.
"Yes, Magnus" Alec had said. "What is it?" Alec had sat in the seat next to the warlock, on the table Alec had noticed that Magnus had scrawled notes on some paper; the only word Alec could read was 'immortal'. "Magnus?" Alec had asked nervously. "What are you doing?"
The warlock had sighed and looked up from the leather bound spell book, setting his gaze on his boyfriend's beautiful face and luminous blue eyes. "I think" Magnus had said. "I have found a way to make you immortal, like me, without the use of dark magic or vampirism.
Alec had stared wide eyed with his mouth hanging open, a bit of black hair had fallen in front of his face and was too surprised to move it back in place. "Immortal? Like, like you?" Alec had been so surprised, he could barely stutter out the words.
Magnus had just waited patiently while the Shadowhunter took in all the information. "Yes Alec, immortal, just like me" Magnus has said smiling. "We could be together forever"
The young Shadowhunter had known that he loved Magnus very much and wanted to spend eternity together, it was all very exciting and without vampirism or the use of dark magic, made Alec want to become immortal straight away. "Would you be able to do it?" Alec had wondered. "Make me immortal like you?"
His boyfriend's gaze was pleading and hopeful. Magnus ran a hand through his dark hair and nodded. "Yes Alec, I can do it" Magnus had said as Alec stood up and pulled the warlock in his arms and had wrapped him in a tight embrace.
"Then yes" Alec had said rather quickly. "I want to become immortal and be with you for eternity" He had kissed Magnus with such passion and joy he almost passed out.
Later that day, Magnus had performed the ritual to make Alec immortal, it had taken over an hour but they completed it. Creating the first immortal Shadowhunter.
"Alec? Are you listening to me?" Magnus asked with a little worry in his voice.
"Sorry" Alec said sweetly. "I was just remembering the day I became immortal" Alec noticed he was still lying on the couch with Magnus hovering over him.
"Come on" Magnus said, grabbing Alec's hands and pulling him off the couch. "I'm tired and I want to go to bed" Magnus started up the hallway with Alec in tow.
That night Magnus had the strangest dream.
He was in his loft; it looked the same as it did before he went to sleep. Dark wooden floorboards with a black and white checked mat near the entryway, pale yellow walls, the black leather couch, where he'd found Alec asleep when he got home, two overstuffed chairs, one green and one blue, the polished dark brown round table with a few white wooden chairs around it, the TV was on, it was on the play menu for an anime Ouran High School Host Club. The TV was muted, what Magnus hadn't noticed was a blue and green blanket on the couch, DVDs on the coffee table and a bowl of popcorn. The warlock frowned; he found this scene a little strange, so he headed up the hallway where the bedrooms were.
As Magnus figured out, there was no one else in the loft. He went to his room first and that was normal. He moved to the room close to his, there was a sign on the door it, it said: 'Lexi's Room! Keep out!' Magnus ignored the sign and opened the door and entered the room.
This room had turquoise walls and lavender carpet, in the middle of the room was a dark chestnut four poster bed with white lace curtains all tied back showing a scarlet red bedspread with four pillows, two black and two scarlet, on either side of the king-sized bed were two green bedside tables with a lamp on each, next to the window on the left side of the room was a silver dressing table with black swirls and a mirror, in the corner of the room was a white bookshelf with CDs, DVDs and books, on the right side of the room was a walk-in wardrobe, next to that was a TV, Magnus also noticed a blue and purple laptop on the bed and a photo frame on the right bedside table of: himself, Alec and two girls standing in front of the Eiffel Tower. The girl on the left had green eyes and waist-length black hair with dark purple streaks, the girl on the right had blue eyes and black hair with red streaks which ended just below her ears, there were also more photos on the walls.
Magnus left the room and headed down the hallway to another door, it also had a sign on the door, it said: 'Lana's Room! Keep out!' below the sign was a warning: 'Enter without permission if you wish to be turned into small mouse and fed to the cat' Magnus entered the room.
This room had red walls and cream carpet, in the middle of the room was a king-sized light brown polished bed with a purple bedspread with gold spirals and lots of stuffed teddy bears, next to the window on the right side of the room was a white dressing table and a mirror, in the corner of the room was a light brown polished bookshelf with CDs, DVDs and books, on the left side of the room was a walk-in wardrobe, next to that was a TV, Magnus noticed a red laptop on the bed and two black and white bedside tables with a lamp on each were on either side of the bed. Around the room were photos on the walls. It took Magnus a second to realise that Lana's room was the opposite of Lexi's room.