Keep her safe
Chapter 1: Prologue
Fortunately the sound of heavy rain drumming on the asphalt and the cars in the bakground, didn't wake the sleeping four ear old in the arms of the lonely mother Jocelyn Fairchild.
Jocelyn walked in to the apartemnt building and walked up to the the door that were too the warlock. Knocking carefully too not wake the babygirl.
When no one came too open the door, she knocked harder in case he was asleep or didn't hear her.
The door open too show a young man in the early twenty with tousled hair and cat-like eyes. " Jocelyn?" said the man.
"I... I need your help" she said, when suddenly the girl in her arms stirred and big bright green eyes stared at the two adults.
"Mommy, where are we?" asked the little girl that Jocelyn loved the most in the world. "Where at a friends home who is going to help us, Clary" Jocelyn answered back, then looking at the warlock with pleading eyes. Please Magnus, her eyes said. When the warlock saw it, felt sympathy, then he turned his head too look closer on the girl in Jocelyn´s arms. Red curls and vibrant green eyes - just like her mother, with freckles covering her whole face. Hi felt suddenly an urge to protect the girl - Clary.
"Come in" The man - Magnus - said, opening the door even further too let the girls inside. When they got inside, they settled in on the big couch in the living room, Clary was on Jocelyn's lap.
"Can I get you something Jocelyn, or Clary?" Magnus asked looking at Clary the whole time. "Mommie could I please get a juice bag?" Clary looked up at her mother hopeful.
With a snap off Magnus fingers and a juice bag was placed on the coffee table. Clary´s eyes grew larger and took it eagerly the drink in her hands and started drinking.
"So" the warlock started, "what's the problem?"
Jocelyn looked straight into Magnus green-yellow cat eyes with tears in her eyes and said "I need you to take care of Clary for me... and to make her forget me." At the last part the unshed tears started too run down her cheeks. Magnus looked her astonished."Jocelyn you know I can't do that..." he started but got interrupted."Please! I...I have a f...feeling that he will soon co...come and take m...me and even worse too Cla...Clary." Her voice quivered so much it was hard too hear what she was saying and the tears were streaming down. Soon after heart aching sobs came out off the tought of Clary killed or tortured by him. She tightened her grip on her only daughter.
Clary was confused. Her mother held so tight it felt like she almost squeezed lunges out. The most thing that was confusing part was that her mommie didn't want to be her mommie. What had she done for her too try to leave her?
"Please! Please! He can't find her. I can't let him take her and hurt her!" Jocelyn sobbed out. It hurt Magnus heart too see the poor woman pleading so much. He suddenly felt that protective feeling for Clary who sat there looking confused.
He had to pick. Help Jocelyn by taking care off Clary like his own daughter, or forget the name Jocelyn Fairchild and go back too normal.
But there was no going back, he realised. And normal didn't exist, not in the world he lived in.
"Okay" Magnus said," I'll do it, but does that mean that you will visit from time to time?"
"No" Jocelyn started too try to wipe away the tear who just resurfaced all the time. "I can't take the chance that... he will find her through me. B...But you can send me a...a yearly letter, on how she's doing, a...and please me a picture with the letter." She smiled down at her still confused daughter while talking.
"Well we should get started, shall we?" said Magnus while standing up and starting to search for the right spell book. Finding the right one, he started to place candles around them while chanting a bonding spell.
Taking Clary from Jocelyn - still chanting - Mangus took her little hand and sliced a little knife-wound on both Clary's and himself's palm and intertwined there bleading hands.
When everything was done, started Jocelyn's tears stream again. She stood up from the couch and started too walk to the door who would lead her out while Magnus started a powerful mind block on Clary, so she wouldn't remember her mother. Just that the mother left her and that she could trust the warlock.
Clary had had her eyes closed under the chanting but now she opened her forest green eyes to focus them on Magnus cat eyes. They both heard the sobbings from a woman disappear in the distance. "Magnus, I'm tired. Can we go to sleep?" she asked the one person in the world she trusted the most.
Magnus didn't realize that he had a few tears running down his cheeks when Clary reached out a - now freshed scared - hand to wipe them away.
"Of course sweetie, let's get you to bed" he said with new found love in his voice. When they walked hand in hand to one off the spear rooms, Magnus only tought of one thing...
That he would do anything for that little girl, and he would keep her safe.