Alec walked out of the bedroom he and Magnus normally shared.
"Magnus where are you?" He shouted into the warlocks home.
There was no reply. Alec growled. Where could he have gone? Alec thought.
"Magnus?!"
"In here," came a muffled reply from the kitchen.
Alec huffed and started walking towards the kitchen. Once he entered he instantly regretted coming into the room. The blistering white light had blinded Alec. He raised his hands to save himself from the bright light but it soon returned to normal.
As he lowered his arms he felt a slight tremor wave through his body.
"What was that?" Alec asked looking around for the familiar glittery warlock, who also happens to be his boyfriend. "Magnus?"
He finally spotted him standing in the cupboard. "What are you doing?"
"Looking," Magnus stretches up to reach the top of the tall kitchen cupboard, "for some ingredients."
"Okay," Alec raises an eyebrow. Although it wasn't odd for Magnus to be needing ingredients for a potion for one of his clients. It was just odd that he was doing it in the kitchen and this late at night.
"Well while you do that I'll be going back to bed. Trying to sleep," he directed the last part at Magnus.
Alec yawned and stretched. Why did he feel so tired all of a sudden.
It was probably just because he had a long day.
Alec shuffled back into the bedroom, missing the smile that had graced Magnus' features.
Alec found the bedroom's door and opened it back up. He then slammed it behind him and fell onto the bed promptly closing his eyes and letting darkness take him.
Meanwhile Magnus looked down at his bare arms and smiled thinking of how tomorrow will go down.
Alec drearily opened his eyes. He braced his head as a splitting headache, hungover almost, set in. He didn't know why because he was most definitely not drunk last night. In fact he's only ever been drunk once and that was all Magnus' fault.
He slowly sat up and looked over at Magnus. He gasped. Firstly because Magnus was still in bed asleep and secondly, and most importantly, Magnus had runes on his arms!
Alec reached across to Magnus and shook him awake. Magnus bolted up and looked around for any sign of an emergency before seeing Alec and the time.
"Oh shit," Magnus swore, "it's almost midday and no one bothered to wake me up. What if I had an appointment today and it was really important!" Magnus waved his arms around in the air.
"I don't think that's what you should be worrying about," Alec said as calmly as possible.
Magnus looked at him and then stared into his eyes with shock clearly written over his face. He brought his hand up to stroke Alec's face but instead changed his mind and grabbed Alec's arm.
"What is it Magnus?" Alec asked.
"Well," Magnus said, "Ive got runes, you've got runes and there the exact same," Alec nodded clearly seeing this. "I've got cat eyes," Magnus let his glamor that covered his eyes down, "and you've got cat eyes."
Alec leaps off of the bed and races into the bathroom. This can't be right, he thought I can't have cat eyes that's not possible.
He checked the mirror and saw the yellow cat eyes. He didn't believe it. He looked three more times to check that he wasn't seeing things. But he wasn't. He actually had two cat eyes, the exact same as Magnus's.
As he was staring at his reflection, Alec hadn't noticed Magnus sneaking up on him.
"Well I think I know what caused this at least," Magnus says.
Alec turned to face Magnus. "Well what did? Is there a way to reverse it? Because I really don't want cat eyes."
"We can't reverse it," Magnus says as calmly as he can.
It apparently didn't calm Alec down at all as Alec had slammed his fists down on the mirror.
"But I know how it's happened," Magnus continued ignoring Alec's little tantrum, "my father asmodious can control my body when I'm weak,"
"Why didn't you tell me you were feeling weak?" Alec asked turning to face Magnus.
"Because I didn't want to worry you. Now he can control my body, which I'm guessing he did, and he probably did a spell to do this."
"What is this exactly, because it can't be as simple as giving me freaking cat eyes and you marks," Alec said pointing to his eyes and the marks on magnus's arm.
"Right. I think he did a spell to make you half warlock and me," Magnus paused here, "half Shadowhunter."
Right ok so now I'm some half-Downworlder and half-Shadowhunter. The perfect mix. Alec thought.
"Perfect," Alec growls out, "just perfect."
"Calm down before you set the bathroom on fire or something," Magnus says in a soothing tone with a hint of humour in it.
Oh right I can do magic now can't I, Alec thought, maybe I'm also immortal.
"Sorry," Alec mumbles. "Is there anyway to get rid of the eyes."
"You can't get rid of them but you can use a glamour. Just think about how you want your eyes to look and concentrate then they should be back to normal."
He closed his eyes and concentrated on them being brown again. He opened his eyes again.
"Good job."
Alec smiled. He actually got to use magic.
"We should probably tell the others about this," Alec says.
"After we have lunch," Magnus says snapping his fingers and probably making some food appear in the dining room.
Alec rolls his eyes. "Fine."
Alec looked down at his phone to see that he has a lot of messages from one particular Parabatai. He read the most recent one which was from 2 minutes ago.
Jace:Alec! Where are you!? We are going to go looking for you if you don't answer in the next 5 minutes.
Alec started to furiously type out his reply to jace's message.
Sorry I just slept in. I'm coming to the institute now. Got something really important to tell you.
He finished typing and sent it.
"Magnus! Where are you!?" Alec shouted.
I wonder why he's taking so long? Alec thought.
Magnus appeared in his glittery fashion.
"Sorry had to make sure nobody could see the marks. It's literally impossible to cover them. How do you possibly do it?"
"A magical thing called sleeves," Alec said in a voice of wonder. Magnus rolled his eyes.
"How about we portal there?" Magnus asked.
Alec nodded his head and Magnus stared to twirl his arms in the air to create a portal to the institute.
Once made they stepped into. Feeling the familiar pull of the portal they let it whisk them away to their new location.
They appeared on the other side of it and were greeted by the smiling faces of the Shadowhunter crew. This group consisted of Isabelle Lightwood, Clary fray, Jace Herondale and Simon Lewis.
The first one to speak was jace. "Where have you been? We've been so worried that you were kidnapped by a demon or something," he grumbled.
"Asleep I already told you," Alec replied, "but that doesn't matter because we've got something important to tell you." Alec looked over at Magnus saying the last part.
"What are you two finally getting married?" Isabelle asked.
"No. It's more important then that," Magnus says pulling up his sleeve to show them the runes.
Silence fell over the group of shadowhunters and vampire.
"But…how?" Clary begins to ask.
"We should probably go somewhere else to talk. Because we're being watched," jace says looking around at the rest of the institute.
Magnus pulled down his sleeve again as the group made their way out of the institute. They continue to walk the streets of New York trying to find a place to talk.
"Why don't we just go to my apartment? It's not to far from here," Magnus asks.
They all decide then that they would go to his apartment instead of wondering around the streets of New York for a couple of hours.
Once they arrived everyone started to bombard Magnus with questions.
"Stop." Alec said.
They all looked at Alec, who had taken down the glamour from his eyes, and gasped.
"I really don't understand what's going on here," Simon says.
Isabelle glared at him and simon closed his mouth.
"I'm guessing this happened last night?" Jace asks.
Alec and Magnus nodded their heads.
"I think we should sit down then while you two explain," jace says looking between his Parabatai and the warlock.
They walk towards the couch and sit down with Magnus and Alec left standing as they walked behind the group.
Jace leaned forward and placed his elbows onto his knees and rested his chin on his hands. "Explain."
Alec looked at Magnus and said "I think it's better if you explain because I still don't really understand."
Magnus started to explain everything that had happened the night before and then in the morning, taking away his glamour to show them his eyes.
By the end of the long explanation everyone's mouths were hanging open in shock.
"Alec do you know what this means?" Isabelle asked.
Alec shook his head not understanding what she meant.
"Our parents hate Downworlders, they will freak out when they find out that their son is half warlock."
I didn't think about that at all. They'll disown me even more then they already have.
Alec was aware that everyone was staring at him expectingly waiting for a response of any kind.
"They already hated me for being gay, so at least now they have got another reason to hate me," Alec said.
"Wait does Magnus have all of the same runes as you Alec?" Simon asks.
Alec frowned. Why would he ask that.
"I'm pretty sure he does," Alec says.
"Well you and jace are Parabatai so…?"
Oh no. Magnus raised his shirt to check that he didn't have the Parabatai rune and sighed with relief when it wasn't there.
"Ok that's good," jace says, "because I did not want to be Parabatai with Mr glittery over there."
Everyone glared at jace and he put his arms up. "What it's already bad enough being his Parabatai," he points to alec.
As everyone laughed clary got up and sneaked over to Magnus with her stele in hand. Before the stele hit his skin, Magnus had whirled around and grabbed clary's stele hand stopping her from drawing. But clary had more training and she whipped her other hand from beside her taking the stele and drawing an itatze on his skin.
"Ow what was that for?!" Magnus shouted holding the area that she had drawn on.
"Seeing if we could draw on you with a stele."
"Well it worked are you happy?" Magnus said. Alec looked at him and could see the flames dancing behind Magnus' eyes.
"I think it's a good idea that you all go home now," Alec said looking around at the group sitting on the couches.
"But…" clary started. Alec shot her a glare in which it told her to shut up before she got into anymore trouble.
Everyone got up and briskly walked out of the apartment leaving magnus and Alec alone together (we can be alone together yeah, I'm not sorry).
Alec turned to Magnus and opened his mouth to talk but Magnus cut him off.
"It's not your fault Alec. You can't control what your friends do."
"I know but they shouldn't have done that."
Magnus walked over to Alec ,who was now sitting on the couch, and brushed his lips across his forehead. He then walked towards the bedroom and entered leaving Alec alone with his thoughts.
