Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters from Shadowhunters or The Mortal Instruments series they belong to Cassandra Clare. I do own characters that I create. Like all my Shadowhunters stories so far this one is also connected to the "A Love Like No Other."
Light Up The Sky
Agatha Wayland loved the Lightwoods and her baby brother Jace, every time she had to leave them it killed her inside but it was for their own good. She had to do it until she was certain that she had complete control over her power. Agatha spent a lot of time with Magnus Bane, her older brother who was teaching her to have more control over what she was capable of doing. Agatha has returned to the institute once more when was seventeen, she had to see her Alec for his sixteenth birthday. Standing outside the institute she pulled a picture of Alec out of her pocket and waved a hand across it until the paper glowed with a purple light and she sent it flying up to the younger boys window and exploded in a small flash of light.
Alec glanced outside his bedroom window, he had been absent-mindedly playing with the leather band that he always tied around his wrist, when he glanced out the window he saw the flash of purple light which got his attention. Alec looked down at the leather band around his wrist which had originally been black but was now glowing with a purple tinge. This was a new thing, it had never done that before and it confused him. Agatha prayed that Alec would look out the window and see her standing out of everyone's view. Alec walked over to his bedroom window and looked outside, it was the eve of his sixteenth birthday and all he wanted was a piece of himself that he felt was missing.
Agatha stood outside the Institute staring up at Alec's bedroom, smiling when she saw him in the window looking down at her. She flashed a show of purple with click of her fingers and opened a small portal just big enough for him to slip through and end up beside her. Alec looked at her and smiled before slipping through the portal and landing beside her.
"Aggie, you have to stop turning up like this," Alec told her, hugging her tightly.
"I can't help it, you're my best-friend. I couldn't not see you on your sixteenth birthday," Agatha smirked wrapping her arms around him tightly and planting a kiss on his cheek.
"I've missed you," Alec said suddenly as he realised she was what he had been missing. "The leather, that was your way of making sure that you were never really forgotten wasn't it?"
"Of course, and I had help," Agatha laughed, as she produced a present from behind her back for him. "This is for you,"
Alec took what Agatha had for him and opened it carefully, grinning when he saw what it was – a new arrowhead, she knew his love of archery it was her own as well. Agatha grinned producing her own bow and arrow and one for him as well.
"Bring in your birthday with target practice with me?" Agatha asked, handing him the archery gear and running a hand through her hair. "I love you, you know that and I always will,"
"Of course, I want to show you what I can do and tell you about Jace," Alec told her, she was the only person that knew him inside and out – he showed himself around her and guarded himself around everyone else. "And Isabelle of course,"
"I know you will," she replied, pulling out her stele before putting it back in her pocket and instead using a simple spell and rendering them both invisible. "Walk with me, to where we used to go and train," the two of them walked unseen in the dead of night, Nephilim and downworlders a-like oblivious to the two teenagers. "Tell me what's happened in the two years since I saw you last?"
"Isabelle's personality is so much like yours and mother hates that. She misses you but just doesn't know it, we all do," he told her, his eyes sparkling as he spoke of his younger sister. "I wish she could know that you're watching us, like I do,"
"Of course Izzy's personality is like mine, she loves me and it's that love that shows her the other side of the down-worlders. Alec she will only have a stronger love of the world as she gets older," Agatha smirked as they stopped in an old abandoned park that had clearly been used as target practice many times. "Just remember that one ability I have that not many other warlock's have..."
"I know," Alec told her, he wanted to tell her that he remembered about Magnus Bane being related to her but he didn't think that he should. "Jace is fast becoming one of the strongest Shadowhunters, mother believes he's one of the best she has seen,"
"Didn't think it was possible for my baby brother to be strong," Agatha laughed before she started to talk again. "Alec, I'm kidding. You know he puts in more training than most nephilim as for some strange reason he thinks he has something to prove to the world,"
"You know he's saved my butt more times than I can count since we became parabatai and it's starting to get annoying," Alec told her, as much as he loved Jace he could become annoying to a degree. "Aggie, I love him...and he can never know,"
Agatha and Alec fired their arrows simultaneously at the same tree hitting it at the same time. Alec's arrow going slightly higher than Agatha's. Alec grinned at Agatha, she was one of the reasons that he was good at what he did. Agatha laughed and quickly fired another arrow landing it straight in top of Alec's causing it to shatter. Looking at Agatha in disbelief, how could she have done that to his arrow, he couldn't even do that.
"One day you'll be able to do this, Alexander I know you will," Agatha told him, she had seen it in one of her little journey's through time. While Agatha and Alec had been firing their arrows they had been followed by Isabelle and Jace who had gone to Alec's room to find him for his birthday to be the first to wish him a happy birthday. When he wasn't there they had looked out his window and seen him vanish with Agatha who they didn't remember. "Isabelle, Jace, I know you're there,"
"How do you know?" Isabelle questioned, as she and Jace stepped out from where they had been hiding.
"Izzy, Jace you'll get in trouble for being out of the Institute at this hour!" Alec exclaimed, staring at both Jace and Isabelle as he spoke before looking at Agatha. "How long did you know they were there?"
"Only since we started to fire," Agatha replied, Isabelle stared at her watching as a small spark emitted from her fingers and the chain around Jace's neck started to glow as did a ring that Isabelle wore all the time.
"Aggie!" Jace wrapped his arms around his sister as the memory of who she was came clearly to him. "You're here for his birthday,"
"I am, and then I have to go...I only came for a few hours – no one can know that I was here," Agatha answered, returning his hug and kissing his forehead. "Izzy, come here," she held her arm out for the younger girl and pulling her swiftly into a hug.
"Don't go!" Alec said, he hadn't realised that Agatha had only returned for him.
"Alec, I have to. I can't stay you know that my powers aren't all that stable yet," Agatha replied, he had to have realised that she only had a limited control over what she was able to do.
Agatha and Alec stood fighting in the park with Isabelle's arms wrapped firmly around her parabatai. Isabelle didn't want her to go, just as much as Alec and Jace. Jace stared at Agatha playing with the chain that she had given him the last time he had seen him. Alec loved Agatha, it was the main reason that he didn't want her to leave again.
"You can't go, we can help you!" Alec exclaimed looking Agatha in her eyes as he did so.
"Alec, you can't and you know it. The only one that can help is Magnus Bane," Agatha said his name quietly as she didn't want Jace and Isabelle to hear her.
"Magnus Bane! Are you crazy?" Alec questioned, he was almost shouting at her at this point.
"I'm not crazy! And keep your voice down!" Isabelle looked at Agatha and then at Alec before her eyes landed on Jace. "Isabelle, Jace can you go over there for a moment?" Agatha questioned, motioning towards an old swing set.
"Agatha..." Alec trailed off as Agatha glared at him.
"Alexander, I love you but you know that Magnus can help me and you know why," Agatha huffed staring at him as she spoke and glancing at Jace as she spoke.
"I love you too, but you can't keep running to Magnus!" Alec told her, with that Agatha raced over to Jace and Isabelle wrapping them in her arms and whispering in their ears that she had to go and that she was sorry for what she was about to do.
"Happy Birthday Alexander," Agatha said in an almost angry tone before opening a portal back to the Institute and doing the same spell that she had done two years earlier. "Go, it will take you straight back to the institute. And Alexander promise me that you'll make sure they don't do anything stupid,"
After Alec, Isabelle and Jace were through the portal Agatha closed it and then opened another one straight to Magnus' lair where she curled up in his arm chair and cried. Magnus walked from his room and saw her, sighing he walked over sat on the arm of the chair and pulled the blanket up over her and wrapped an arm around the young warlock. "You'll be okay. I don't know what happened, but you will be okay,"