Okay I have other stories I have to work on so just know that this will probably be updated slowly; I'm trying to work on once every two weeks.
Summary: 'One, two, three then four, nowhere to run not even a door,' Alec is your average High School 'emo'. Manus is not your average warlock, not even close, so why is he so interested in a boring old human.
Pairings: Magnus/Alec, Jace/Clary, Izzy/Simon there are also minor OC parings.
In each chapter there will be a bit in Alec's POV and a bit in Magnus's.
The Alec POV at the start is just an introduction, the Magnus bit won't be nearly as short.
Chapter 1; Eyeliner and Earrings
Every morning it was the same; wake up, spend half an hour trying to get out of bed, have a shower, get dressed, pack bag and then run down the stairs an through the kitchen stealing some of your brothers toast on the way, because you really should have gotten up that half an hour earlier. At least that was how Alec spent his mornings; other things happened too, things like having no clean clothes or being unable to locate your school bag.
Apart from those annoying things, every morning was the same, and Alec was fine with that, it was the one thing in his life he could rely on as being, well reliable. On Tuesday the 23rd March 2012, he ran down the stairs as usual, grabbing some toast of the counter as he ran through the kitchen calling good bye over his shoulder. He ran down the drive, munching on his piece of toast, rummaging around in his pocket for the car keys.
"Oi, what took you so long?"Alec's brother Jace called, they only had five minutes till school started and though Alec was late almost every day, his brother and his sister, Izzy, hardly ever came with him therefore weren't used to his lateness.
"Couldn't find my eyeliner," he explained, gesturing to the dark makeup around his eyes, and somehow flinging his half eaten piece of toast into Izzy's hair.
"Good work mate," Jace sniggered as he hoped into the car, catching the piece of toast that his sister now threw at him, swallowing it in one bite.
Alec rolled his eyes, and got into the car, expecting a perfectly normal day, horrible, but normal.
If one was to say that Magnus Bane was your average Warlock then they could be classified as stupid, or if they said it to his face, a pile of dust. He had worn his official warlock robes once though purple was his colour, he spent more time worrying about his hair then about potions and spells and owned more pots of glitter than spell books, and he owned a lot of spell books. But the thing that really separated him from other of his kind was the face that he liked humans, hell he loved humans.
They held a connection with life, unlike vampires. They shone, unlike faeries who stood surrounded by shadows, they different from werewolves even, because they were ignorant. Too caught up in their own inane, everyday problems to notice the cruel outside world. Their life was like a candle, beautiful and bright, though sadly short lived. If there really were angels on earth, it was the humans.
As you can see, Magnus was not your average warlock, which was why he took up the job of looking after young Clarissa Fray when the job was offered to him. He probably would have taken up the job even if it didn't mean he got to spend more time with humans, he like Clary she as one of the few shadowhunters who didn't hate him or his species. Looking after her, well that might be a bit harder. She was, undoubtedly, the feistiest shadowhunter he knew, and there was no way that she would agree to being babysat, though it was for a good cause.
Clary was reckless, and just a month ago it had gotten her in trouble, heaps of trouble. And it had nearly caused her death. When she had fully recovered, her mother, Jocelyn, and her step father, Luke, had looked all over New York for the right warlock, then when they heard of Magnus's powers, and strangeness they had hired him to look after their daughter, which meant going on all her missions, going shopping with her, living at the institute with her, even going to school with her. The last one was the main reason Magnus had even agreed to this.
Going to a human school seemed like the perfect way to find new 'friends'. Of course if he did find someone he liked, it would be one of those short relationships that lasted about 3 days. There was always the problem of a warlock dating someone who didn't even know what a warlock was, okay they probably knew what a warlock was but they defiantly couldn't know he was one or even that they existed. He knew that most of the students would hate his gut, that was what they did to people who were different, but he knew it wouldn't affect him. He knew that he could just set them on fire, though it would probably result in his death.
But he was nervous, which baffled him. He had been nervous all morning, he thought it would go away when he arrived at school and saw how much none of these students actually posed a threat to him, but now standing in office, while one of the receptionists printed out a map and timetable for him, he felt more nervous than ever. He was pretty sure that no one could tell he was good at hiding his emotions, but he wanted everyone to know that Magnus Bane wasn't easily intimidated.
Suddenly, a group of three ran through the doors, laughing loudly and waving at the receptionists, only one of them even noticing Magnus, a boy with gold hair and blonde hair, good looking enough, but not Magnus's type.
"Those Lightwoods," the receptionist sighed, tolling her eyes and handing over a few sheets of paper. "Have a good day," she called as Magnus walked away, nodding in response.
Magnus quickly decided that high school was just as boring as he remembered, and to make things worse he couldn't find young Clary anywhere. She had promised to meet him at lunch, 15 minutes of lunch had already passed and it wasn't as if he was easy to miss. He sighed and had one last look around the cafeteria before walking off to find a bathroom, one of his contacts was falling out and if he didn't want to cast a quick glamour, which would be very annoying, he was going to have to replace it.
He located the bathroom easily enough. Receiving quite a few stares as he went, but his earlier nerves had passed and he hardly noticed. He looked in the mirror and saw that not only was one of his contacts falling out, but he had lost an earring and his makeup needed fixing.
He did a quick make over, not as extensive as usual but he didn't have much time. He was just fishing around in his bag for a new set of earrings when someone was pushed in to him. He caught this someone easily enough, they were thin and Magnus was a lot stronger than he looked. He looked towards the door and saw a pair of stupid looking jocks.
He glared at them ferociously; they had disturbed his makeover session what else could he do? They were humans and their instincts were screaming at them to run, and being the annoying the cowards they were then backed away slowly and then ran. Magnus sighed, a little annoyed that he had made a bad impression on his first day. He let the person in his arms down and they staggered a little before properly regaining balance.
They turned to Magnus and he noticed that they were a very good looking someone, nearly as tall as Magnus, which didn't happen often, thin, with delicate pale skin and dark blue eyes surrounded by dark lashes. They also had a bleeding nose which made Magnus wince a little; he hated to see injuries no matter how small they were.
"You need a tissue?" Magnus asked as he continued to rummage around in his bag and successfully locating his packet of tissues and at the same time his spare earrings.
He handed over the packet and inserted his new earrings.
"Oh my god! Alec what happened!" cried a female voice as two newcomers entered.
"Izzy, you do realise this is a boys bathroom?" Alec said, sounding stern though his voice was rather muffled.
Izzy glared and stormed out of the room, though she didn't get father than the doorway. Almost instantly another figure stepped forward; it was the boy from the office, the one with golden eyes. Magnus then realised that the, Izzy and Alec were the Lightwoods; he would have to remember to ask Clary about them later.
"You okay mate?" the boy with gold eyes, okay from 'now on Magnus was going to refer to him as 'Blondie'.
"Yeah, I'm fine," Alec replied, reaching for another tissue. Blondie smiled back, though he didn't look completely reassured. Then he turned to Magnus with a look on his face that resembled the look Magnus had given those jocks, but it didn't scare Magnus.
"Come on, let's get you cleaned up," Blondie said still glaring at Magnus as he and Alec left the room. Just as Magnus was about to turn away and pack up he saw Alec turn around and look him, Magnus winked causing the boy to blush a deep red. Magnus turned around and smiled, he really would have to find out more about these Lightwoods. Especially his blue eyed friend.
Alec Lightwood he liked the sound of that.
I hope you like it, sorry if it is ooc, I will try to fix that up.
Love Sparkly
