Here it is! Bane and the City! I know that in my other story Sex with Mom and Dad I said that this story would be like Sex and the City but over time that has completely changed. :) But still I hope that you all get interested and like it.

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Chapter One:

I'm not an idiot.

I know that my family wants me to talk to them, tell them what's wrong and how they can fix it. But for what? Four years of lying to them and pretending to be straight and pretending that I didn't hate myself sometimes when I was younger makes it hard for me to just forget all my fears and let go.

It's not like they could fix it anyways. Magnus made his decision and after Magnus Bane makes up his mind, it takes an awful lot to change it.

My family and I were in Idris for the day, checking in on Aline and the others, and now it was finally time to go back home.

Our parents stood a foot away while Jace and Izzy were on either side next to me on the lawn. They always flanked my sides in the last couple of days, more so than usual at least; they gave each other worried glances periodically that came back to me, like I might breakdown and go crazy this very second.

I was stronger than that.

At least I hoped I was.

It was times like these when I wished I could be more like Jace. I wished that I could be utterly fearless and emotionally strong and act like everything was right with the world when nothing really was.

I looked up to Jace and Izzy more than I would ever like to admit. I didn't want them to look after me, save me from my stupidness time and time again and fight my battles. It was supposed to be the other way around.

I'm the eldest for angel's sake.

I sighed out aloud.

Then cursed myself for doing so because my siblings looked at me with concern again, probably knowing that I was arguing with myself. They knew me well.

My parents were saying their farewells and thanks you's as the portal's gaping opening swirled in front of us. It was supposed to lead us back home, inside the Institute's library.

Honestly, going through portals wasn't my favorite idea of transportation. It's a spiraling rush. Your heads spins when you step into it and your body jerks forward. You feel weightless for a moment like at the very top of one of those roller coasters at the Coney Island place Max dragged us to a few years back before we lost him. My eyes close and all thought leaves your mind. Then it's all over in a second.

I looked down to see Jace's scarred palm on my shoulder, breaking me out of my thoughts and making me realize my parents had already gone through and were probably waiting for us to return safely to the other side.

"Ready Alec?" he asked me, scanning over my face. I just nodded, my dark hair slightly sweeping over my eyes. Izzy went first, stepping in with the elegance and grace of a shadowhunter. Then I stepped forward with Jace right behind me.

I felt the spinning, the weightlessness, the jerking. I braced myself as usual for the landing, but something was wrong.

My stomach was heaving; the portal was getting claustrophobic almost. It was taking much longer than usual to take me back home. My body was spinning wildly and being pulled in different directions.

This has never happened before. This shouldn't happen at all.

I felt my body finally landing, which was more like falling hard, face down on my stomach. My cheek was lying flat on a cold marble stone floor. I couldn't even make out my surroundings in the dimly candle lit area with my vision blurring in and out of focus.

I was most definitely not at the Institute. I couldn't even be sure if I was in New York.

Thinking that I hated portals was the last thing I remember before everything went black.