His eyes pried apart, staring at the darkness encasing him. There were sounds of movement to his left and he reached for his weapons belt. It wasn't there. Startled, Alec shot up before he body screamed in protest making him fall back onto the bed. A light flickered into its existence before its full brilliance lit up the room. Alec looked away from the source blinking to let his eyes adjust.
Standing there were two girls he didn't know by any means. Doing his best not to let their attention fall to him, he put his hands on the bed forcing himself up easing into the pain. His vision blurred as one of the girls looked at him. He vaguely saw her shake her head before he was pressed back down in the bed with strong but careful hands. "Bloody idiot. Don't get up. Alright?"
The girl left and Alec tried to remember everything he could that lead up to this moment. He had been with Magnus. But his phone had gone off while they were watching a Project Runway rerun. There were demons in Central Park. So he had kissed his sparkly boyfriend and left. Once at the park, he had fought. But…
But how had he ended up here? Where was here? Struggling back up, he heard one of the girls sigh deeply. They shared a few words as he put his feet on the floor. Standing up straight, he met one of the girls face to face. She was his height even with dark violet eyes. Her hair resembled black but wasn't quite there. Truth be told, she looked a bit like him, with her pale skin and lithe body. "Alright Alexander, why can't you sit down?"
He stopped his answer. "How do you know who I am?" the girl pinched the bridge of her nose before looking to the ceiling muttering about warlocks and glitter. Alec could only assume she was talking about Magnus.
"Magnus told me. He also told me that you're stubborn." The girl pushed on his shoulder and his knees gave out making him sit back down. "But not an abrasive fighter. You're a protector."
"Where is Magnus? Where is here? Why am I here?" the girl looked back to the other one who came up. "Who are you two?"
"My name's Seraphic." The girl he had been speaking with answered. "This here," she gestured to a tall skinny girl with wild black hair and emerald green eyes behind her glasses. "Would be Jules Princeton." The girl made peace fingers and stuck out her tongue in an anime style pose. The girl moved her hand off of his bare shoulder with a grim smile. "Magnus is back home I presume."
Seraphic shrugged before Jules answered, "He's on a walk back home. He just talked to a warlock buddy. That was not me. The blue one…" Jules looked to the sky thinking but Seraphic ignored this.
"Catrina Loss." She answered. "Here is…well…here technically doesn't exist. Don't ask, I don't' want to tell."
Alec felt his heart pumping in his chest. Magnus wasn't here, wherever here was. No doubt his family was worried sick about him. Then there were two girls in front of him, one apparently a warlock the other he didn't have a clue who knew about both him and Magnus. He had to find a way home, soon too.
"You didn't answer my last question." Alec pointed out as Seraphic ran a hand through her hair. "Why am I here?"
"You're healing among other things." Judging by her voice, what he was doing was not very good. "Really, all of this is just a misunderstanding. I thought Magnus would have told you by now…" Seraphic gnawed on her lower lip looking to Jules who was cleaning her glasses on her shirt. "Should we tell him?"
"Only if you have your knife on you. I'm not using magic. Magnus would come after me then I would have to stay in the school and I couldn't hang out with you and I don't feel like doing all of that."
"You act like I don't have my knife." Seraphic shook her head before looking at Alec. "You're mortal." Alec blinked not understanding where this was going. "But, you and Magnus love each other. Magnus will never die. At least not of natural causes. Magnus has considered riding himself of his immortality-"
"NO!" Alec shouted before he could hold it back. "You didn't do that to him!" Alec felt his heart breaking.
"No, we didn't." Jules insisted. "I don't want to lose Magnus, he's like my little brother. But he also toyed with the idea of giving someone else immortality. You. Magnus didn't want to lose you. So he called the two of us."
"What could you two do?" Alec rubbed his hands against his jeans. "A warlock and a… whatever you are."
"Nephilim." Seraphic answered. "Not a Shadowhunter, a Nephilim child. There is a difference."
Alec blinked before getting back on subject. "What could you two do?"
"Grant immortality. Well more like draw it." Jules elaborated slipping her glasses on her face. "I have the power, Seraphic, the skill." Seraphic gave a short nod crossing her arms. "Magnus approached us with the idea of redoing an old procedure that Seraphic went through once years ago."
"To make me immortal? Are you saying I can't die now?" Alec felt a swell of joy in his chest. If these girls had made him immortal, then he and Magnus would have forever together. The two of them, no more of the fear that weighed against him and Magnus whenever they were together. Of the inevitable. Alec made a choking laugh that he rarely used putting a hand in his hair.
"Almost. We needed you to accept-" Jules began.
"Do it." Jules' lip curled as she looked to Seraphic. Seraphic uncrossed her arms with a shake of the head muttering under her breath light heartedly about excited angel children and the moment of realization.
"Lay down on your stomach. What I'm going to do is give you a sort of mark. It will never fade away or stop. It hurts initially. After this, you'll be exhausted and hardly able to move for a few days. After that, you can go run off in the sunset like a happy little Shadowhunter child or whatever you people do."
Alec obeyed crossing his arms over a pillow. A pain went through him but it did nothing to his joy. There was a way to give him immortality. His fears were put to rest. Closing his eyes, he waited for the pain to subside.
Waking up, Alec wasn't sure if this was real. No part of his body seemed to obey him. His arms refused to move. Suddenly he worried he didn't have arms anymore. Then he remembered Seraphic telling him that he would be weak for a few days. Nonetheless, he was an immortal now. Smiling blissfully, Alec listened to the soft sounds around him. A few people could be heard not too far off and there was some kind of music. A soft lullaby like tune that told him to sleep.
And sleep he did. Alec dreamed of his warlock Magnus. Of spending eternity with him. The ways they would spend their time. Next his dream wandered to his family. Of the golden Jace, the kind artist Clary, the nerdy Simon, his fierce younger sister Isabelle. The way they would all be gone but now Alec would still be here.
Alec woke up in a cold sweat, a cloth on his fevered forehead. "Poor kid, I think he had his moment of realization." Seraphic's soft voice said. Alec looked to her and her face was impassive and grim.
"What about my family?" he asked. "I'll outlive them all." He felt hot tears of anger at his rashness. The way he was so willing to throw away his life without even knowing it. "What have I done?"
"Found a reason to thank me. You're not immortal. I lied." She propped her feet up on the bedside table. "You see, I never got a choice when I turned immortal. When the boy who knew the mark found me, I was dead. No pulse, no heartbeat. He couldn't accept it and did the immortality mark. I was shocked back to life." She blew hair from her face. "I had to accept it. But you can think about your actions. I gave you a weakness mark."
"That exists?"
"Nope." She smiled warmly. "I made it up."
"You knew I would have this moment." Seraphic moved her head from side to side. "Would you keep your immortality given the choice?"
"I never wanted it to start with. I loved a mortal." Her smile wasn't sad, it was full of life and memories.
"What did you do?"
"Nothing. Aleta fixed it for me. She forfeited her immortality of her own accord for my brother. The ever graceful and romantic one." Seraphic chuckled. "But this isn't my situation. Choose quickly. You have a visitor or two on their way in." Seraphic left him with one more soft smile before vanishing into a different room.
Visitor? But who knew he was here? Except,
His breath hitched as the door opened again to revel an ever sparkly warlock dressed in a much more subdued manner, he wore tight leather red pants and an artfully worn out leather jacket with a black t-shirt underneath. His hair was only half done with a streak of blue by his face and the rest of it loose around his near makeup-less face. All his makeup was eyeliner that enunciated cat-like qualities of his eyes.
Magnus' eyes brightened seeing Alec as he sat up in bed. Magnus sat on the edge of his bed staring at Alec. One of Magnus' ring filled fingers cupped Alec's cheek as tears welled in Magnus' eyes. Alec smiled at his boyfriend before kissing the palm of his hand softly. "You're okay."
"Yeah." Alec answered looking down at himself.
Magnus pulled Alec into his lap stroking his raven hair carefully. "I missed you darling." Magnus murmured into Alec's ruined hair. Alec leaned into the contact loving the feeling of Magnus holding him.
"I missed you too Mags." Alec admitted before he looked up to Magnus with a smile before kissing his boyfriend slow and sweet on the mouth. Magnus smiled against Alec's lips tightening his grip on the younger boy. Alec's arms wrapped around Magnus' neck pulling him closer before resting his forehead on Magnus'.
"Alexander," Magnus swallowed unsure of how to word this. "Have you talked to Seraphic and Jules?" Alec nodded kissing the edge of Magnus' mouth. "I'm sorry if you didn't want that. The um…immortality." Alec put his head under Magnus' chin as Magnus stroked his cheek. "You were dying darling. I wanted to keep you longer. They can reverse it if it's not what you want-"
"Magnus," Alec interrupted. "It's okay. I'm not immortal yet. Seraphic…she let me choose." Magnus seemed startled and Alec laughed at how un-Magnus like that was. "Shocked into silence?" he teased. "She said she would let me think about my actions. After she tricked me and said she had done it, I thought about my family."
"And reconsidered." Magnus concluded closing his eyes and turning his head away from Alec.
"No, I took a second to think. And I want you Magnus. I want to be with you forever. I love my family but…" he shrugged helplessly. "I love you more." Magnus smiled before his lips crashed against Alec's dragging their bodies closer. Alec drew back breathless and smiling up at his boyfriend. "I have to tell Seraphic my choice."
"No need." A voice answered. Both of them looked to see Seraphic leaning in the doorframe with a boy behind her his arms wrapped around her shoulders, his head on top of her shoulder. Alec blushed deeply hiding in Magnus' chest embarrassed by how much they might have seen. "Magnus, out. I have to finish up the mark. Tobias, take him to the door please." The boy holding her nodded before kissing her cheek.
Magnus gave Alec one more hard kiss on the mouth before getting up and following Tobias out the door. "That was the boy who became immortal for you?" Alec as he laid down on his stomach.
"Yeah, Tobias. And of course I know your Magnus." Alec felt the pain hit and it made him gasp in pain and grip the pillow dangerously tight. "Relax, it'll all be a memory soon enough Alec. Just breathe." But the pain was scorching and Alec let out a strangled cry. "I know, just a few more seconds…"
The source of pain quit tracing his skin and Alec released his body collapsing. Drifting off to sleep, he imagined the future. A future with the immortal sparkly Magnus Bane.
Days passed before Alec was on his feet again. Once he felt well enough, he asked Seraphic and Jules if he could leave and go home to Magnus. On the first day both refused him unwaveringly strong. Eventually they told him that he was finally healed and free to go home, Alec was ready when they were. But there was one more thing he asked for before he left.
And then he was up standing in front of Magnus' door with a blinding smile and in new clothes. Easing the door open, he was met with a neon lime green living room detailed in black and silver. Alec smiled at the indecisive warlock's decorations before walking to Magnus' room to find him laying in bed reading a book.
Magnus looked up as the door opened and smiled at Alec. "You're home." Magnus said before getting out of the bed and kissing his lovely little Nephilim hard on the mouth. Alec smiled into the kiss as he was pressed against a wall, his hands tugging at strands of Magnus' hair while Magnus' went up his shirt slightly.
Magnus nipped at Alec's lower lip as he pinned his boyfriend against the wall having missed him so much. Magnus traced kisses up and down Alec's neck while Alec gave a breathy laugh. "What's so funny?" Magnus asked between kisses.
"Nothing, just a thought." Alec answered before he caught Magnus' lips with his. Magnus kissed him back for a minute before drawing back.
"Tell me what's funny."
"We could do this forever." Alec answered. "We could honestly do this forever." Magnus and Alec shared a chuckle before Alec swallowed.
Magnus stroked his cheek. "What is it?"
"Magnus…I've already made one choice. To stay alive with you forever. But I have one I need you to answer. Will you stay with me forever?" Alec swallowed pulling the specially designed ring out of his pocket. "I guess I'm asking if…you'll marry me?" he finished shyly holding up the ring. It was a gold and silver twist embedded with two jewels, one gold green and the other an impossible blue. Magnus stared before he nodded mutely. Blinking he looked at Alec and smiled.
"Of course I will." He answered breathily. Alec laughed putting the ring of Magnus' hand and putting his arms around his new fiancée. The two shared another kiss and neither of them ever wanted to break away.