Fallen angel – AU. Based lightly on christian religion. I'll get back to 30 lives in not long, sorry about the wait.

It's pretty much always Alec's POV. Amaranth means '' Never fading''.

I do not own anything

Have fun!

And I fell.

Just like the rest of my family.

Just like all those who had defied Him.

Just like the others who followed our leader. He spoke of things that we could never had have if we didn't follow him. He was charismatic, all would listen when he spoke. And when he did speak, it was of duty, knowledge, liberty, and mostly of love.

Jonathan Shadowhunter led us to a rebellion, because, for him, it wasn't right to leave the mundanes to their fate with the demons they were unknowingly summoning. It wasn't right that we couldn't learn more about the surrounding world. Because it wasn't right to answer to only His commend even against our own judgement like mindless soldiers. Because it wasn't right that we couldn't love.

We all agreed. We all followed.

And now we all fell.

New York, 2015

'' Jace, to your left!'' Isabelle shouted as her whip quickly entangled itself around one of the creature's slippery tentacles. The expression on Izzy's face was easy to read: it dared try to retreat from her, no way she was letting it go.

'' I know, no need to tell!'' shouted back Jace, confident smile painted on his face. With a long and single step backward, he half turned himself toward the tentacle. The blonde lifted his left arm, efficiently slashed the limb with his seraph blade and used the momentum to spin and attack the one that was coming on his right side. His steps were calculated, it's almost as if he danced on a well-known choreography.

As long as they didn't touch the tentacles or fell from the rooftop they were fighting on, I could continue my search for it's core. I had a perfect view on their combat from the 60-stories tall building's rooftop I was on. They had to keep the tentacles occupied, because it usually protected it small round body. And as if it wasn't hard enough to get it to uncover it's body, the said limbs were covered by it's paralysing slime.

I don't know why Jace loves them so. Untrue, I knew why: it gave him a challenge, the opportunity to prove himself.

''Foolish thinking'' I sighed, straitening my bow and aiming at the red flash I saw.

Isabelle continued to entangle the tentacles. Sometimes she threw them at Jace playfully, other times she used her own seraph blade to cut it or her high heels to step on the demon. She was quite creative when it came to destroying things. Soon enough, one of the tentacles she pulled with her whip revealed a bright crimson prismatic form. The core. It didn't take time for my arrow to pierce right through it. It took less than a second.

Instantly as the crimson prism shattered in pieces, the tentacles dissolved in fumes. It was finished.

Now that the immediate danger was eliminated, I took out my stele, applied a farsighted rune and looked to see if they seemed injured and in need of my help. Jace was putting his blades away, looking disappointed. And he probably was disappointed that the fight didn't last long. Isabelle was cleaning the slime from her heels than her blade. I rolled my eyes at that. She sure had her priority that dear sister of mine. Sensing my eyes on them, they looked up and gave me a reassuring smile. Only my sister and parabatai knew how much I constantly worried about them. Especially when I was supposed to focus on killing a demon instead of watching their back like usual.

Seeing them safe, I let out a sigh of relief, shoulder getting less tense. I put my bow away and look down from the rooftop. I think the mundane called it the Hearst Tower. It was quite pretty, all those lights the city emanated for the glass towers to reflect in the middle of the night. I stretched my arms and close my eyes, feeling the wind caressing me. For a moment it made me long for my wings.

But I knew I couldn't, and it was only wishful thinking. So I opened my eyes and turned around. We had to return home. Or at least to the closest thing from home we had now.

Izzy, Jace and I were walking toward the abandoned church we Lightwood decided to inhabit. More accurately, I was walking, Jace and Izzy were fervently arguing on who had killed the most tentacles.

'' I threw them at you, because you need more practice! See? I am fundamentally a good person, thinking about your fitness.'' Isabelle huffed, while throwing her hair behind her shoulder.

'' Oh thanks sister dear, and because of that I even won our competition.'' he said nonchalantly.

'' Unfair, I didn't know we were competing.''

'' Stop that, we always are, why would it be any different. And -''

'' And I am hungry so why don't we go to Taki's for a midnight snack? We could invite Clary and Simon.'' Isabelle changed subject.

'' Yeah, I'll call her!'' exclaimed Jace, hastily taking his new cellphone out. I gave a knowing look at my sister. Losing the argument, she changed subject to the only thing that could distract Jace: his girlfriend Clary. I frowned at the perspective of going to Taki's with the mundanes. I didn't like them. They were the reason Isabelle and Jace fell... I shook my head to clear it. It was in the past now, we had to transit and adjust to another life. Of course, being fallen didn't pleased me, but Izzy and Jace didn't look too unhappy...

Correctly guessing my thoughts – according to her, I'm an open book – she took my hand and squeesed it to reassure me. '' Don't worry about us Alec, we are faring well. Take this second chance and find happiness too, okay?'' she quietly said.

'' They're coming! Let's go.'' loudly said Jace, a smile on his face and his pace quickening.

'Maybe you're right.' I thought, looking as Jace and Izzy hurried away. Maybe she did find her salvation in Simon the mundane. Maybe the love which Jace had sacrificed everything for was worth it, just like I didn't regret lying to follow them here.

...Maybe it was all powder in our eyes.