Prologue:

Octavia was working on a potion for a customer when there was a knock on her door. Curious on who it could be this late, she went to answer the door. When she opened the door she saw another warlock, one that she hadn't seen before. She wasn't sure what he wanted but knowing that he was a fellow warlock decided let him in.

"Hello sir, what can I do for you this evening?" Octavia asked, opening the door wider.

"Well I was wondering if you could help me with a problem that I have been having. I have been to see other warlocks and none of them seem to be able to help me," the warlock explained, entering the apartment.

"What is your problem?" Octavia inquired following the warlock into her living room.

"Well my problem is that there seem to be way too many high warlocks and they seem unwilling to share their powers with those less powerful," he responded.

"It isn't possible for a warlock to share their powers, if we were to share our powers it would weaken us to the point that we would be powerless."

"Exactly, that's what I'm looking for. Would you be willing to share you powers with me?"

"You speak madness, no warlock in their right mind is going share powers with someone that they don't know."

"Then I guess I'll have to give you time to get to know me my dear."

The warlock approached Octavia, unaware of what was happening behind her. As she backed away from the strange warlock she drew closer a portal. By the time she realized what was going on it was too late for her to get away. The portal encircled her and took her to a place where she wouldn't have access to her magic, but it would allow the strange warlock to access it. The stranger took a look around the apartment before putting the wards back up and entering the portal himself. He smiled to himself knowing that the next part of his plan would be crucial if he were to manage to gain access of some sort to the high warlock of Brooklyn. He already had in his grasp the high warlocks from Paris, Barcelona, and just now Los Angeles.

Chapter One:

Magnus looked upon his boyfriend and knew that he would do anything to keep him safe. He was worried that high warlocks were going missing, the most powerful in each city they should be able to keep themselves safe. Any high warlock could be next and he didn't want his Alexander to worry that it could be him. He was concerned because with the two who had already gone missing were each powerful in their own right. The strangest thing about it was that they were taken from their homes, but their wards were still up. That told him that it was someone that they at least felt comfortable enough to let their wards down for.

Magnus took one last look at Alec before leaving their bedroom. He entered his workshop to see if there was anything in his books that would give him an idea on what he could do to find the missing warlocks before any more went missing. He had examined the apartments of the two warlocks but didn't really find anything strange besides the mystery of the wards. He had tried tracking them through their belongings but it was as if they had ceased to exist which made no sense, he could sense that they were alive, but not where they were. The only thing he could figure is that they were not in this world, but he wasn't a hundred percent sure that was true.

This had to have been done by someone powerful enough to cover up the unique magical signature of each warlock. That was the only thing that made sense, but even that didn't make sense. If they were powerful enough to take on a high warlock then they would have been more powerful, but the signature he got from the replaced wards told him that the warlock who put them up wasn't powerful. Magnus shook his head because none of this really made any sense.

Magnus was lost in his thoughts and did not hear the approach of his lover. The knock on the door frame got him by surprise causing him to jump.

"I'm beginning to think that I will continue to wake to an empty bed," Alec said as he got attention of his boyfriend.

"I'm sorry Alexander, I can't stop thinking about the missing warlocks," Magnus explained looking up as Alec entered the room.

"I know you are concerned especially if this continues. I also know that you worry that you could be targeted. I'm not going to let anything happen to you if I can help it," Alec assured Magnus coming up next to him.

Leaning into his boyfriend, Magnus said, "You might not be able to keep me safe. If we are separated then you won't be there. What concerns me is they are strong warlocks and they should have been able to keep themselves safe."

"True but you have one thing that they didn't have. You have me and I will do everything in my power to keep you safe. Promise me that if this happens again that you will take me with you."

"I promise, something tells me that it will happen again. Whatever the person is looking for they haven't been able to find it yet and that means they are going to keep looking for it until they do."

"True, but stay on your game and don't let your doubts keep you down. I know you will figure it out, but remember you don't have to do it alone. I will be with you if you will let me."

"Of course I will let you. Enough talk for now, I think it is time for coffee and a little bit of breakfast."

"Are you offering to cook breakfast or are you 'shopping' from a local business?"

"Alexander you wound me, I guess I will be 'shopping' as you say from a local diner. Though I will make the coffee."

"How about I cook and you make the coffee, that way you don't have to go 'shopping' somewhere local."

"You and your code. I'll go with it. I'll let you cook and I'll make the coffee if you insist that I can't go 'shopping'."

Alec looked down at his boyfriend and smiled to himself. It had taken him a while to break Magnus of his habit of taking from local businesses without paying. He knew that it was still hard for Magnus, but that he stopped mainly because he had a hard time with it. Alec reached down and took Magnus' hand so they could walk into the kitchen. As the two went to leave the room, they heard Alec's phone ringing in the other room.

"Go and I will start the coffee my love," Magnus said.

Alec let go of his hand to go find his phone. He had a feeling that the call was not going to be good news. He was supposed to be heading over to the institute later to help Izzy with Simon's training. The plan was to start training him on the bow and arrow since had shown some aptitude with it earlier.

"Jace, what can I do for you?" Alec asked as he answered his phone.

"Good morning to you to Alec," Jace said.

"Sorry, I figure getting a call from you first thing in the morning could only mean one thing," Alec explained to his parabatai.

"I guess that is true, and you are right this isn't good news. I need you and Magnus to get to the institute as soon as possible. I need your assistance with an issue that was brought to my attention."

"I'll let Magnus know and we will get there as soon as we can."

"Thank you Alec and sorry for bothering you so early."