Birth

'"You know what it's like when your parents are good churchgoing folk and you happen to be born with the devil's mark?" He pointed at his eyes, fingers splayed.'
Magnus Bane
City of Bones, Pg 215

Magnus Bane was born unusually quietly. Unnaturally quietly. Well, dangerously quietly, really, because in the 13th Century you couldn't be unusual. Not if you want to live. His parents are prepared to overlook the unnatural quietness though. They've wanted a child for so long they thought it might be too late. Surely a healthy baby boy at their age - and with an easy birth, too - must be a blessing, a gift from God?

His father holds him for the first time, a delicate newborn only seconds old. The hand supporting the child's head sinks into a thick layer of dark fuzzy hair - he frowns. The hair is more like that of a two moth old, not a two minute old. But it's not too strange - the child will grow into it in time. No, not the child. Magnus. Magnus Bane. His son. The chi- Magnus stirs in his arms, felxing his fingers gently.

Both parents lean forwards to watch as their child opens his eyes for the first time. They are not a sentimental couple, but this is their firstborn, a new and exciting experience. Magnus' eyes snap open without hesitations, eager to see and learn and savour this new world he's been born into.

The reaction he gets is neither welcoming nor expected.

His mother screams and recoils, horrified. His father places him quickly in the cot and backs away, revulsion written plainly on his face. This is no blessing, they think, but a curse. A changling, straight ffrom the Devils arms. Magnus looks curiously around with luminous eyes a shade of green rarely seen in humans. His parents stare at him in loathing, and he stares innocently back with slit-pupiled cats eyes.

In the 13th century, where a birthmark i the wrong place can have you killed, Magnus Bane has been born a demon. He has been born with the mark of the Devil.


This will eventually have Malec, so if you don't like, don't read. :D Please review?