W/M: How has everyone's day been? Mine was a good day because Ylime (name is in code) got me a Mockingjay Badge for Christmas! :D and Ebeohp (again, in code – don't even try and break it) got me a Catching Fire bookmark and a TMI Journal –bless her. And then in Physics *shudder* Wehttam (or Big M, both are coded) he got the right answer twhen I asked 'Who put the 'Glad' in 'Gladiator'?'(it's Hercules and I hope you just sang that) and we started singing Hercules – so, today was good.

Okay, this might spoil The Infernal Devices if you haven't read them…. But I don't think so too much, remember it's an alternate universe – things are different.

This chapter thingy…

'I won't say (I'm in love) – Lillias White'
– Hercules (I know its Hercules, again. But I can see Magnus as Meg – making Alec is Herc, Camille is so Hades, I guess Izzy is Pegasus (maybe Aphrodite) and Jace as Phil – hahahaha!)

Chapter 4

Magnus picked up the phone, simply because he was tired of its incessant ringing. He wasn't in such a bad mood this week. He'd ate with the Shadowhunters every meal, and they were becoming closer friends, his attraction to Alec had grown as he'd got to know the blushing boy better, he sighed to himself – this always happened and then they died.

'Who dare disturbs the fabulous, and glittery, High Warlock of Brooklyn at this ungodly hour and what do you want?' it six in the morning but the warlock hadn't been able to sleep, his thoughts revolving around a certain blue-eyed boy.

'Really, Magnus? You haven't changed at all.'

'I'm so sorry!' Magnus gushed, he immediately knew who it was, 'But still, what do you want?'

'To talk to you. Meet me in the park, you where we used to me-'

'Yes, I know the park, dear. What time?'

'Now.' And with that the line went dead…

About ten minutes later, one very sparkly warlock was taking a portal to London, England. Magnus had left a note for the Shadowhunters to explain why he wouldn't be there for a few days, knowing who he was meeting and the date. Shaking his head and picture that cool park he stepped through the portal he had helped invented.

'Because Magnus is away for a few days, we all have the day off.' Jocelyn smiled at the other Shadowhunters.

'But…'

'No buts Clary. His note says that.' Jocelyn passed the note to her daughter, smiling.

'Yeah! Nice one Mags!' Izzy smiled, punching the air, 'Alec, Jace and Clary hurry up and get ready we're going out!' Alec simply raised his eyebrows, as Jace downed his breakfast and Clary rushed to get to the bathroom before Izzy.

'What are you going to do all day, Jocelyn?' Jace asked as he devoured his bacon.

'I'm going to meet an old friend.' She smiled, 'What are you going to do all day?' she raised an eyebrow.

'We are going to the park, maybe get a picnic, or feed some ducks.'

'No!' Jace yelled, the other three gave him shocked looks, 'Anything, but ducks!' the fear in his eyes made them all laugh.

The blue skinned warlock sat patiently on the freezing park bench waiting for a more sparkly warlock. She bit her lip her eyebrows furrowed, she started to fiddle with the bottom of the just-above-the-knee skirt she was wearing – too short for her taste - but she was old-fashioned. Hurry up, Magnus. You know how much of a risk this is… she kept repeating over and over again in her head. That's when she saw him.

'Magnus!' she jumped up and yelled, practically running to him on the other side of the park.

'Cat?' he whisper-yelled.

'No, Tessa. Catarina did not seem to mind me borrowing her body – The Angel, that sounds… strange.' Tessa finished, she slipped the change just enough so Magnus could see it was her before reinforcing it.

'What did you want Tessa?'

'To talk, if you can spare the time. I-It is our anniversary, I just did not want to be a-aalone and you knew them….' Magnus saw the tears forming in her eyes as she broke off.

'Well, you were all my servants, You, Will, Jem, Charlotte, Henry and Jessamine.' He said smiling at the memories, 'soon followed by Cecily, Gabriel and Gideon when that vampire moved in.' he grimaced at the mention of his former relationship with Camille.

'Yes, and then the world got complicated and those stupid Games.' Tessa hissed, she rarely got angry so this was new for Magnus, 'Anyway, let us not get on to that, how are you?'

'I-I fine, my newest servants are nice. How are you Tessa dear?' especially the eldest boy he added in his head.

'I am fine mostly but the memories keep resurfacing.' Tessa smiled sadly. 'Nice change of subject but you aren't getting away that easy. Magnus, what aren't you telling me?' she raised Cat's snow white eyebrows.

'Well, there's this boy...' Magnus felt his cheeks heat, 'Called Alexander…' he trailed off feeling silly.

'Carry on, there is no need to feel silly, you know most of my secrets. And I suggest you hurry up a little – we may have all eternity but I'm guessing he does not.' She led them to the nearest bench.

'OH, Tessa! He doesn't, he's a stupid Shadowhunter! But, he's the most adorable thing!'

'Magnus, be careful. You know The Laws.'

'I know and that's part of the problem! But, he's like no one else I've ever been attracted to – we're complete opposites. He's shy and unconfident but strong and has such a passion over protecting his family. He's smart and his emotions are always plastered on that angelic face and in his eyes! His eyes, Tessa, his eyes! Those eyes are bluer than the sea!' he squeezed her hand as she laughed over how this 800 year-old warlock was reduced to a teenage girl just by one boy.

'He sounds incredible.'

'He is and I know, we met, like two weeks ago. But, I feel like I've known him for longer.' They sat in silence for a while but, it wasn't awkward – they were both thinking.

'Magnus, I hate to break it to you but,' she paused and looked him in the eyes, 'You. Are. In. Love.'

'But every time I 'fall in love' I get hurt because it's unrequited or they leave or they die! I have the worst judgement.' He said, thinking of Camille.

'Magnus, I cannot recall the last time I saw you this excited, and how you have described him – he sounds incredibly kind and loyal. You. Are. In. Love. You need to admit it, go on, three little words. Tessa smiled at him warmly as she nudged his arm with Cat's blue one.

'No I won't say it. Saying it makes it final, and I'm almost certain he doesn't feel that way.'

'You will never know, if you do not tell him.' Tessa stated, smiling grimly, thinking of her past loves.

'Hmmm, it's going to be warm today!' Izzy yawned as she stretched in the morning sunshine, she smiled twirling in her red summer dress and sandals along the cracked pavement.

'Where exactly are we going?' Clary frowned, she had her arms crossed in front of her, and her red curls were left unbound by a bobble, freely cascading around her. She was wearing a green dress, as recommended by Izzy, but it was clear she wasn't comfortable.

'Some park, with ducks.' Jace grumbled, he even wore shorts and a thin shirt. Alec on the other hand was still in black trousers and a black t-shirt.

'Ooooh! The big bad ducks!' Alec heard Clary taunt Jace as they walked side-by-side a little behind Izzy and Alec.

Where are we going? Alec signed; he, Izzy and Jace had made up their own sign language when they were little kids just so they could talk to Alec without everyone else knowing, and they still used it.

'This park, it has a Shadowhunter section.' Izzy beamed, 'I thought there might be some cute little Shadowhunters for us two. Since they,' she gestured to Clary and Jace who were laughing, oblivious to the two siblings in front, 'are so besotted with each other.'

No!

'Oh, I forgot about Mr Sparkle-pants The Warlock.'

Alec rolled his eyes but didn't bother to deny his attraction to the warlock – Izzy would never believe him anyway.

'So how are you and Magnus?' Izzy said a little too loudly.

Be quiet! They might hear! Alec signed, And, he's wonderful. Though nothing has happened between us, well not since…

'Carry on!'

Fine, the night you first asked, I thought he was going to kiss me but he didn't.

'Naw, he probably didn't want to scare you off, you had met like a week before.'

True, but I wasn't scared. I actually kind of wanted it to happen. He blushed when he admitted it.

'Aw! Alec! You are so sweet. Do you like him?'

I guess so… I'm definitely attracted to him. Alec's blush deepened.

'Alec's in love!' Isabelle began to sing over and over again.

No, not love. Yet. He signed quickly to get her to shut up.

'It's fine you can admit it to me.'

'Um, I hate to interrupt, but did we just pass the park?' Clary asked, pointing in the opposite direction. Alec blushed as she must have heard some of Izzy's song.

'Yeah, Izzy. What a great navigator you are.' Jace joined in sarcastically.

'Shut up Jace!' Izzy yelled as they turned around and head back to the park they had walked passed, Clary watching Alec out of the corner of her eye…

'Oh the angel! Shut up!' Clary exclaimed as she tried to find a nice place to sit, 'Simon!' Clary rushed forward to a brown haired boy, he was tall but very thin and pale. The three siblings reluctantly went over to this Simon.

'Clary? How have you been?' Simon asked. The two conversed for a little before Jace coughed.

'Oh, this is Jace, Izzy and Alec, my fellow servants. Guys, this is Simon, my best friend since birth.' Clary smiled.

'He's a vampire.' Jace stated bluntly, the jealousy was clear in his voice, 'Why isn't he dead yet?'

'He's different, a Daylighter.'

'I'm just special.' Simon shrugged.

Jace bit back a thousand insults, as Izzy interrupted him, 'Well, it certainly is lovely to meet you, but we best be going. We have ducks to terrorise Jace with.' She smiled at him. Before walking away followed by Alec and Jace who glared at Simon before he started walking away, he heard Clary say goodbye then her voice was next to him

'You didn't like him did you?' Clary seemed really sad and it pained Jace to see that he had inflicted that.

'It's nothing personal, I just don't really like his personality.'

'How is that not personal?' Clary asked. Jace shrugged.

'I'm sorry Clary, to make up for it, I will feed the ducks with you.'

'You better!' Clary laughed

'Here! The perfect spot.' Izzy exclaimed as she put the picnic blanket on the floor and positioned herself in the maximum tanning spot, Alec sat on the part that was in the shade of the nearby tree, Clary sat near him and Jace sat in the remaining space.

'Let's eat!' he shouted as they began tucking into the food…

It was a little later in the afternoon, Clary and Jace were feeing those 'damn ducks' as Jace put it, Alec was reading and Izzy was thirsty.

'I'm getting a drink, want anything?' she asked Alec who shook his head and went back to reading, she rolled her eyes, 'I'll be back in a few minutes.'

She started to walk to the drinks stand at the edge of the tree line, looking at the Shadowhunters as she went, she saw a white-haired boy with black eyes, talking seriously with a white-haired man and a dark haired boy with a large nose and crooked grin, a dark haired girl with dark eyes laughing with a blonde girl with slightly pointed ears. None of the others really stood out.

'Isabelle, right?' She heard a voice behind her, stopping and turning she saw the Daylighter – Simon.

'Yes.' She curtseyed as was expected.

'Can I accompany you to where you are going?'

'The drink stand? Sure.' They carried on the walk through the shaded trees, 'What do you want?'

'Just to ask how Clary is?'

'Oh, Clary is fine.' Izzy's voice was monotone. Simon seemed to not notice.

'You good friends.'

'Yeah she's nice. Though has a pretty bad sense of fashion.' Simon muffled a laugh at this. But the sound was kind of like someone having a fit, Izzy turned her head to look at him and check he was okay, missing the root, Izzy tripped. She saw the ground coming at her at an alarming speed and felt pain as her face hit the ground. She vaguely heard louder laughing as she pushed herself out of the mud, her expression stormy as she glared at Simon. His amusement increased as he bobbed down and held his hand out to her, offering to help her up. Completely ignoring it she got up herself. In her fury she pushed Simon over so he landed in the mud too, then she couldn't keep her angry façade up and started laughing too, offering her hand to help Simon, who took it only to pull her down into the mud. They laid next to each other for a while, laughing, at how funny they both looked, covered in mud.

'I think I hate you, Simon.' She laughed.

'I think I hate you too, Isabelle.' Simon smiled back

'Please call me Izzy.' She said before they both fell back into a fit of giggles.

W/M: How'd you like it? This is by far the longest chapter I've written. Ever.

I was thinking about adding Jocelyn's day, but I might start a story with little extra bits from this story (like I could add Camille and Magnus' argument and maybe what happened when Izzy went back to Alec and possibly Jace and Clary's experience with the ducks) what do you think to that idea?

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