A Bond Greater than Love

Chapter 1

Hey guys! So I wrote this cause I lost a bet and I can't remember much about the characters so it will be a bit OOC. I apologise to any hard core fans out there! This is just the first chapter and I'm planning on making it one of three maybe as that's what I do often. Anyway please leave a review at the end! Especially you person who I list the bet to!

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Infernal Devices!

I should probably mention that the italics are the young mans thoughts.

The italics in bold is Magnus' voice in the young mans head

And the italics that are underlined are the weirdo's thoughts

Hope that helps!

"Oi! Quit slacking and get back to work!"

"I'm on break!"

"Like hell you are! Get back to work!"

The young man sighed and picked up his rake, which he had thrown down in a fit after the wind had scattered the leaves he had carefully piled for the third time. Now he had to start again.

The sunlight was even harsher now and he wiped the sweat off his forehead. Sighing heavily he turned and looked around. It was a beautiful day once again, and a beautiful park.

The park itself consisted of a crescent moon shaped lake, with circular fountains to the right surrounded by the curves/ points of the moon-shaped lake. Around the fountains were walkways aligned with flowers along the edges. Surrounding the lake were pathways also aligned with flowers and had benches every few feet for people to rest on. A kiddie park could be seen in the distance, as could the café. The young man was currently raking leaves around the fountains. (And then re-raking them when the wind decided to blow them all away.)

He was busily scanning the benches looking for a certain randomer.

Where are they? Hmm… Ah ha! There!

Straight ahead of him on the other side of the lake was the randomer he was looking for. This particular randomer had been coming every day to the park for the past month. They always came at 12:00pm and they always sat on the same bench until 4:30pm. They didn't move; they just sat there. Why they did this the young man didn't know. But he intended to do today what had been nagging at him for the past month. He intended to find out.

Right… He's gone for a drink. Better run and make it quick. It's only 1:30pm so that weirdo should still be there.

With that the young man took off, his rake slung over his shoulder. He charged round the lake (avoiding the ducks of course) before arriving a few feet away from the bench where the weirdo was sat.

He raised his eyebrows. All of a sudden he felt… shabby… The weirdo turned out to be a young man.

And quite a handsome one too, honey! Damn it, not now Magnus! He thought quickly, blushing slightly. The weirdo had now turned to look at him. His eyes were wide and his mouth was slightly open in wonder and surprise.

Wow… Dem features… Oh stop it Magnus, do you have to infiltrate me even when you're nowhere near me?!

"Excuse me?" The weirdo said, shocked.

Crap did I say that out loud?

"Yes you did. And you did that time too." The weirdo had started to scoot down the bench away from the young man.

"Oh." Was all the young man said.

He made a note of what the weirdo looked like. He was quite pale with odd silver hair and silver eyes of the same shade. His eyes were curved slightly and he seemed very slender. The Magnus in his head was right, he was handsome. Not to mention how smart he was dressed. He wore a white jacket over a grey v-necked top, white gloves, grey pants and black shoes.

Isn't this guy hot? It's like a 100 degrees or something! And what's with the cane?

The weirdo then took in the young man's appearance. He had deep violet eyes, black fair hair that fell in front of his eyes and at a closer look he had long thick eyelashes as well as high cheekbones. He looked quite muscular with broad shoulders and had obviously been working hard as there were several sweat marks all over his shirt which was tight to his skin in the heat. He was also about 6 foot and was extremely handsome.

Then the weirdo looked at the young man's clothes. He was wearing a brown t-shirt, gardening gloves, brown pants with trainers and was carrying a rake over his shoulder.

That's where he's from! The weirdo thought. But first…

"Pardon me, but who is this Magnus? I am not Magnus." The weirdo spoke.

The young man seemed surprised and then replied, "Never mind that. I'm here because – and I don't want to sound rude but – I wanted to know why you have been coming here every day at 12:00pm, staying until 4:30pm, and always sitting on the same bench in the shade for a month?!"

"So you noticed did you?" The weirdo smiled. "Now you say you didn't mean to be rude but you were. And a true gentleman doesn't barge up on others and interrupt their reading. But you're the one working for the park now aren't you?"

The young man stood there stunned. Who the heck is this guy?

"Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Jem, Jem Carstairs." He tilted his head to the right and smiled. "Honestly where are my manners?" He chuckled.

"Er, I'm Will Herondale?"

"You sure? You sound uncertain." Jem raised an eyebrow.

"Hell yeah I'm sure!"

Jem laughed lightly.

So thanks for reading! What did you think? Please leave a review! :D Thank god I can stop calling them 'young man' and 'weirdo'!