Hi!

I know it's been a while since I updated and I'm very, very sorry for that delay :/ You know, the school, the grades... A lot has been happening lately. Fortunately, I'm over it now, the holiday starts very soon so I hope I'll manage to update more frequently.

As always, I don't own anything.

Warnings: mention of drugs and Tessa in sexy outfit ^^

Polaków zapraszam na polską wersję pt. "Skrzydła Anioła" :)

It's not beta-ed so I'll be glad for showing me my mistakes!

Wings of Fun

Tessa had never worn that kind of dress before. It was definitely the shortest thing she had ever put on and the tightest one too. The navy blue colour of the dress matched girl's brown hair and made her skin look paler. The high heels Jessie had chosen for her were quite uncomfortable but what is not done for beauty?

She spent almost an hour on makeup too, trying to figure out how to apply eyeliner without looking like a panda. Tessa liked pandas a lot but just didn't want to look like one herself. It was almost eight when Miss Gray looked at the mirror for the last time, checking her looks.

She almost didn't recognize herself. The shape of the face and body looked familiar but her hair had never been so well-styled and her grey eyes that big. She didn't use to apply much makeup and that sudden change made the girl feel like a new person. She liked the difference though.

"The time has come," she said to herself, looking at the chain watch that she wore around her neck instead of a necklace. It was in a shape of a small angel and had belonged to her mother before she died in a car accident when Tessa and her brother were very young.

Think about it once more! Do you really want to go to that party? You know there will be alcohol, maybe even drugs. Your mum wouldn't want you to go there.

Tessa stopped just before leaving her room. She wanted to go but the sudden thought about her mother made her doubt in that decision again.

You are a wise girl, right? I'm sure you know how to behave. The fact you want to go to the party doesn't mean you will get drunk or something. Just go there, have some fun and chill out. Shall I remind you that Will is going to be there? You've gone so far for him, make the final step!

There was a point. Going to the party didn't mean that she had to drink. She could just dance with Jessie, chat a bit with handsome Englishmen and have fun.

With that thought, she left her room, sneaked out to the door and said loudly, so her aunt could hear:

"I'm going to Jessie, bye!"

"Have fun, girls!" Aunt Harriet called back, in her nice, motherly tone.

"We will," Tessa said back, a little bit quieter. The guilt in her heart reminded itself again.

Tessa, that's your last chance! Don't do that to yourself!

Hey, you don't want Will to wait long for you, right darling? Hurry up before that stupid, mean girls take over him before you.

And Tessa left her house.

Alec was standing near the doorway, looking at his duty leaving home for the party. He felt very bad for this situation. He tried his best to keep Tessa away from trouble but it still wasn't enough. She seemed so polite and responsible when he first saw her and he didn't understand what made her so rebellious all of a sudden.

But going to the party might actually not end in tragedy. There was a chance that Miss Gray knew how to behave and wouldn't do anything stupid. She wasn't alone after all.

Lost in thoughts, Alec didn't even realise when his best friend appeared just next to him.

"Don't think that much unless you want your head to explode," Jace said, sitting on the stairs.

The black haired angel turned around, surprised.

"Jace! What are you doing here?" he asked, eyeing his friend carefully. Even if he tried to look on ease, the tension from their last talk was still visible on his face.

"Can't I randomly visit my brother to say hi?"

"No if you have your own duty," Alec replied but then sat down next to the golden-eyed angel. "What's wrong?" he asked, feeling concerned. Jace would never visit him without an important reason.

"Nothing's wrong," he said silently, his wings falling down a bit.

"It's about that Clary, isn't it?" Alec asked with understanding. "You really do love her?"

Jace looked down at the grass between his bare feet. He never wore shoes, Alec realized.

"I don't want to fall…" The younger angel said silently. His hair fell onto his face, covering most of it.

"You won't," Alec stated, feeling a strange deja vu. His tone was so confident that Jace raised his head, looking at him questioningly.

"How can you know it?"

"Because I know you," the dark haired angel said. "You may act irresponsible or careless but you will never let yourself fall. Being a guardian is your nature, it's something you are amazing at."

"Not as good as you are."

Alec felt guilty, thinking of Tessa and how he wasn't able to wean her away from going to the party. "Don't say that," he shook it off. "What I meant is that you are strong, much stronger than most of us and you will manage to keep your love platonic. You will manage, because you know what the real love means."

"To love is to destroy. To be loved is to be the one destroyed," Jace said blankly, reminding Alec of a situation from many many years before.

Alec still couldn't believe that Lucifer had fallen. And a lot of angels had fallen with him.

Samael, Asmodeus, Sariel, Astaroth… They had always been there, since Alexander's birth. They were the bests, always in the first line. The guardians, the warriors.

The traitors. The sinners. That's how they were called after the war. Their wings changed, no longer being white and feathery. Now they were black like the deepest corners of Hell and jagged. No feathers were left.

Alec saw them only once, when they were sent to Hell and he still couldn't get the scary image from his head. What happened to these once beautiful, calm angels was unbelievable.

Everyone was saying the same thing: Lucifer and his companions became evil. They were devils now, demons. And they would never be forgiven. There was no mercy for sinners.

But from what Lucifer had said, they were not going to pity their faith. They had chosen their way.

After the war, Heaven became a different place. A lot of angels had fallen but new ones were born. No one from Lucifer's followers stayed on the good side. No one but him.

When Alec first met Sebastian, they were both very young, looking up to Lucifer and his speeches about love. He was saying how unfair was it for them not to be allowed to love like people, how it was unfair that Father loved people more than them, even if people were sinners, always making mistakes. "To love is to destroy. To be loved is to be the one destroyed," he was saying every time. "That's unfair, don't you think? People can love and that's good. When we love, we are sinners."

In the beginning, no one expected the rebellion. Only when Lucifer started speaking about the uprising, a lot of angels took the wool from their eyes and created a force to fight the sinners. And after the long, bloody war, the sons of Heaven finally won, punishing the traitors and sending them to Hell.

Alec was one of the firsts to open his eyes to Lucifer's speeches but when he tried to get to Sebastian, it was just wasting his breath. They weren't very close then, so he let him be, preparing himself for the fight.

But during the war, Sebastian finally understood his mistake and changed his mind, going back to the good side. That's how he became the only Lucifer's follower to stay in Heaven. And that was how Alec became friends with him.

After the war, when everyone was healing their wounds, Alec was walking alone, thinking about the whole rebellion. Suddenly, he saw somebody curled up, covered by his white, feathery wings. The angel was shaking, from cold or maybe from the blood loss. The dark haired boy stepped closer, sitting down next to the other.

"How do you feel?" he asked, knowing that the question 'what happened?' would make no sense.

"Not so good," the sitting angel murmured. "Alexander?" He raised his head.

"Sebastian. I… didn't expect to see you here," Alec said, feeling guilty that he had straightaway considered him fallen.

"Yeah… I didn't expect myself either," Sebastian said silently.

They just sat for a while without exchanging words. The dark haired angel took that time to look at his companion a bit more.

Sebastian, just like all of their kind, was beautiful. His fair, almost white hair and grass-green eyes gave him kind of an innocent look. But the wrinkles on his face showed his hesitation and worries. His wings stayed white but the tips of feathers were a bit darker – an ineffaceable proof of his doubt.

"I'm scared, Alexander," the angel said after some time. "I'm scared that I won't be able to stay here… That I'll doubt in Father's judgement again."

"Don't be scared. We will help you get through this." Alec put his hand on the latter's shoulder.

"You won't," Sebastian shook his head. "No one trusts me here. They are all scared that Lucifer will come to make me fallen," he said, looking down. "I don't want to fall…"

"You are not going to fall. You are not alone here," The blue-eyed angel said. "I'm here and I won't let them make you feel bad about yourself."

"But Lucifer-"

"Lucifer wasn't right. To love doesn't mean to destroy. To love is to build, to be loved is to be strengthened."

At these words, Sebastian raised his head and looked at Alec with eyes full of hope. The dark haired angel took his hand and smiled.

"I'll stay by your side, Sebastian. I promise."

Just as Alec expected, the party was loud and full of drunk, sweating people. Even so, he couldn't get Jace out of his mind. He wished he could help him but in that case, he had to deal with his feelings alone. Just like Sebastian should have done with Seelie.

Jessie didn't look very surprised but Tessa was staring at everything with wide eyes: from colourful lights, illuminating the room to almost naked people dancing in the middle of the dancefloor.

Will and Jem hadn't showed up yet but the girls weren't very surprised of that. With so many guests at home it was impossible to chat with everyone. Even so, Tessa hoped that she would be able to have at least a small conversation with handsome, dark-haired Englishman.

And just when she started thinking that maybe Will had already found himself a girl for the party, the boy appeared just next to her, taking her hand and kissing it like a gentleman.

"Welcome, welcome. I'm glad you came, Tess," he said loudly over the music. "How do you like the party?"

"It's… great," she answered, hesitating for a moment. It wasn't really her way of spending free time. Even so, she couldn't regret having Will's attention all to her.

"Would you like a drink?" Will suggested, taking her hand. She felt it as if electricity flew through her veins. She only nodded, not bothering to shout over Madonna's song.

The boy led her to the provisional drink bar, where a tall girl was pouring the drinks into tall, curvy glasses. Will pointed to some bottles, probably containing alcohol. Tessa shook her head and asked only for water with mint and lemon.

"Are you sure you don't want anything spiked?" The Englishman looked a bit surprised.

"Yeah, I'm sure. I… don't drink too much," Tessa answered.

"You don't drink at all!" All of a sudden, Jessie appeared between them. She had a pink crown in her hair and a wide smile on her face. "Sorry, lovebirds, but I'd like to steal Tessa for a while. That's my favourite song!" she said and Tessa could already smell alcohol from her. That girl was very fast. The blonde sent Will a short gaze. "You okay with that?"

"Sure, but better bring her back to me after this one song," he grinned and took the non-finished drink from Tessa's hand. "I'll watch over your drink, don't worry."

"Th-thanks," she smiled and let Jessie take her to the dancefloor. She didn't notice the smirk that appeared on the Englishman's face when they left.

Even if angels didn't feel the temperature, Alec could sense the heat in the small room and the smell of sweating people. He was glad his duty wasn't short so he could at least see her between the dancing people. The mundane song Jessie had called her favourite had an easy, catchy beat so everyone were humming it and swinging their bodies to the rhythm.

The girls were talking about Will and how handsome he looked so Alec was only partially listening, keeping his attention to the tall dark-haired boy with Tessa's drink in his hand. He had a strange feeling about this as if something bad was going to happen. You never leave your drinks off sight on parties. Especially with possible drug addicts.

Some people on the dancefloor moved, blocking out his view on Will. Alec glanced at Tessa who was happily dancing with her best friend and decided to change his position a bit so he could still observe the Englishman.

Although, when he was trying to see from above the people, someone caught his wrist and pulled him from the crowd to another room. Alec jerked away, shoving the person off. He immediately regretted his action when he realised he was standing in front of no one else but Magnus, the saint guy he had met the day before.

"I-I'm sorry!" he said, the music around them lowering its volume as they entered the other room which was, as it appeared, some kind of a spare bedroom. "I didn't expect anyone to touch me…"

"Don't apologize," Magnus said. "I probably shouldn't grab you at first. But you know, I really wanted to meet you again and the music was too loud for you to hear me calling you…"

"That's okay. Nothing happened, right?" Alec smiled and Magnus answered him with just the same. And, by the Angel, his smile was as breath-taking as he remembered. "So… How are you? Feeling better?" Alec asked, referring to their previous conversation.

"Yeah, all thanks to you." At this moment, the angel's cheeks flushed a bit. "What are you doing here anyway? I didn't think your kind goes to the parties."

"We all follow our duty's choices. Sometimes it leads us to strange places. I remember the time I…" Alec cut himself off. He couldn't just go and talk about his missions to almost strangers. Even if they were very nice and stunningly handsome. "Sorry, I can't really say that. The rules."

"I understand. I'm surprised you're still talking to me after how I almost kidnapped you," Magnus laughed.

"It's only to the different room," Alec said, gesturing to the open door leading to the main room with dancefloor. "And it's not like you are going to hurt me, right?" He laughed but this time, Magnus didn't join him.

The taller boy looked at his watch instead and his eyes widened.

"Oh, sorry but I gotta go now. My parents only allowed me to stay until nine," he said quickly and made his way back though the door. In the last moment he turned around and winked. "See you again, Alexander."

And just after that, he disappeared in the crowd, leaving confused Alec all alone in the room. Magnus didn't look like someone quitting the party at such an early hour. However, never judge the book by it cover. Behind all these glitter Magnus could be a very polite, sensible guy.

When he thought about the sensibility, his wings suddenly raised a bit, stiffening. The encounter with Magnus almost made Alec forget about his own duty. When he realised he left Tessa alone, he stormed back to the room, only to see her taking the drink from Will's hand and taking a sip of it.

"Don't do that, Tessa!" he shouted, getting to the girl as fast as he could but it was already too late. She drank her water to the last drop and immediately put the empty glass on the bar, taking Will's hand and leading him to the dancefloor. Jessamine stayed, looking at the dancing couple with a small smile.

Alec could see Jessie's expression changing, from happiness that her friend found herself a handsome guy, to worry when she realized the difference in the way Tessa moved after a while. It was only a few minutes since she had her drink and her behaviour had already changed. She definitely became more straightforward, dancing with Will in a way nobody would ever expect her to do.

The angel could feel the haze in his duty's mind. She wasn't thinking straight. Will must have added something to her water.

"By the Angel, what have I done?!" Alec shouted, gripping his hair with both hands in frustration. He approached the dancing couple and tried to get to the girl.

"Tessa, listen to me! Tessa! You have to leave the party, now! Do you hear me?! Stop dancing with him and run away before something bad happens!"

But she didn't listen to him, occupied with the handsome guy she was almost making out with in the middle of the dancefloor.

Jessamine didn't move from her place but she also didn't take her eyes off the couple. Alec could feel her concern clearly. Even if she was slightly drunk, she was still sober enough to care about her best friend's well-being.

Suddenly, Tessa stopped dancing and said something to Will who nodded and took her to the drink bar again. Jessie approached them, grabbing her friend's shoulders and shaking her, trying to get to her.

"Tessa, what is it all about? I thought you didn't drink anything!"

The girl didn't answer but she started laughing and turned to the bartender, asking for a shot. She didn't listen to Alec's warnings and because of the amount of people here, he couldn't do anything to stop her.

"Tessa, why-" Jessie tried to get the small glass from her friend's hand but just then Will appeared between them with a cocky smile.

"Why so tense? Getting a shot is nothing bad, right?" he said loosely. "Not to mention that's exactly what you've done just after you got there."

Jessamine seemed outraged.

"That's what I do every time I'm on a party. But Tessa is just-"

"Just as capable of taking care of herself as you are," Will said, taking one step forward and looking down at the blonde. The girl looked scared but she didn't back away. The two were looking at each other, waging an eye war when suddenly Tessa appeared between them and leaned on Jessie, not capable of standing on her own anymore.

"Jess… I feel bad…" She stammered, her body shaking.

Alec felt a huge pang of guilt when he saw his duty's face. How could he let her go to the party? How could he leave her? Why didn't she listen to him?

"I'm calling the ambulance," Jessie said and let Tessa lean on her while getting her away from the crowd. She ignored Will on purpose but the guy didn't let her get rid of him that easily.

"It's nothing serious! We can lay her down in the bedroom upstairs-"

"Are you insane?!" Jessie shouted and Tessa whined, her head dizzy. "I'm not letting her near you ever again! You've drugged her!"

To say Will looked furious would be an understatement.

"You little-!" he started but then somebody put their hand on the tall guy's shoulder. Will turned around, just to see Jem standing only a foot away from him.

"Will, that's enough," Jem said with surprising coldness in his voice. For the first time this evening, the Herondale boy looked hesitant. "Call the ambulance," he told Jessie and then pulled Will with him somewhere. "We need to talk, William," they heard him say before the crowd blocked the view of them.

Jessie didn't bother with them and took half-conscious Tessa outside, dialling the 911. After a couple of minutes, the ambulance came and the doctors took the girls to the hospital.

Alec could only follow them, feeling useless and incredibly guilty.

"I'm so sorry, Tessa," he whispered, caressing her heated cheek. The girl opened her eyes a bit, murmured something that sounded like "Will" and fell into unconsciousness again.

And that's all.

I'm so sorry for making Will a bad guy in this! I love Wessa a lot but it just had to happen... Sorry.

The next chapter's title is "The Wings of Hestitation"

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The High Warlock of Glitter