Evil Magnus is in the house, or loft as the case may be.

Enjoy.

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AU!Magnus chuckles to himself as he refills the glass.

Max continues to stare at his father as Magnus slowly opens his eyes. He glares at his double, "You had your fun, now leave."

AU!Magnus smiles, "Oh, I'm just getting started. Where's hubby?"

Magnus' cat eyes flare, "I won't let you hurt Alexander." Out the corner of his eye, he sees Max quickly get to his feet.

AU!Magnus looks from Magnus to Max, "I said nothing about harming him, but your reaction is interesting." He empties the glass.

Magnus takes a deep breath, regains control of his glamour and faces his son, "Max, Asmodeus is the demon that impregnated my mother."

Max glances at AU!Magnus then slowly sits down. He taps on the keyboard, "I remember from my classes in the Institute, he's a Greater Demon."

AU!Magnus laughs, "Classes in the Institute? Are you saying that a warlock child was taught in a ShadowHunter Institute?"

Magnus nods, "Yes, when he was younger. Then he went to a mundane school."

"This just gets better and better."

Magnus rolls his eyes then looks at his son, "Yes, Max. My father is a Prince of Hell."

Max nods, "Why doesn't Daddy know?"

AU!Magnus smiles, "Yes, Magnus, why have you kept your lineage from hubby?"

Magnus glares at his double, then faces his son, "At first I was scared of his reaction so I never told him. Over the years, it didn't seem important."

AU!Magnus smiles, "Didn't seem important? Oh Magnus, Father would be so disappointed to hear that he wasn't important to you. He's the reason why you are the 'High Warlock of Brooklyn' in the first place." He laughs.

Max glares at him, "You love to hear yourself talk, don't you."

"Definitely my son."

Max sniffs, "No I'm not. I'm his son." He looks at his father, "I'm sure Daddy wouldn't care."

Magnus nods, "I'm sure you're right."

AU!Magnus rolls his eyes as he refills his glass, "Boring."

"Then leave." AU!Magnus walks to the sofa and sits down. Magnus' eyes narrow, "Don't get comfy, leave."

AU!Magnus smiles, "I want to meet hubby."

"No."

"Magnus, let's be civil here. I just want to meet the man that tamed the demon within me, I mean you."

"I'm not tamed. In fact, I'll send your ass back to Edom."

"In front of your son?"

"Max has seen me kill. Max has killed. Do not fuck with us, especially when it comes to Alexander." Max nods.

AU!Magnus sighs, "How many times do I have to say it, I'm not here to harm him. Let's talk about something else. I know, when was the last time you saw Father?"

Magnus pulls out a chair from the table and sits down, "Almost two centuries ago. I suppose you see him every day."

AU!Magnus finishes his drink. He snaps his fingers and the bottle is on the coffee table. He refills the glass, "Actually I killed him a month ago."

Magnus sighs, "Do I want to know why you killed him?"

AU!Magnus shrugs, "Let's say we had a difference of opinion. He gave me an ultimatum and I gave him death."

"And Lilith?"

Max looks up from typing, "She's a Greater Demon too."

Magnus nods, "Yes, she and Father are neighbors of sorts."

AU!Magnus smiles, "Father and I destroyed her a couple of months ago."

"No wonder you were bored."

AU!Magnus shrugs, "It was only the three of us in Edom, now there is only me."

"Demons?"

AU!Magnus sniffs, "ShadowHunters and do-gooders like yourself wiped them out a long time ago."

Max smiles, "Sucks to be you."

"Indeed it would seem to be so."

Magnus nods, "The ShadowHunters must be bored as well?"

AU!Magnus smiles, "Oh no, my friend, the ShadowHunters no longer exist. Once they finished off all the demons and they finally banished Father and Lilith to Edom for good, they gave up their runes and became mundanes."

"When?"

"Some twenty years ago."

"And the Institutes?"

AU!Magnus coldly smiles, "Most of them we destroyed."

Max's eyes narrow, "With ShadowHunters inside?"

"Yes, those foolish enough to think their wards would protect them from us, were deadly mistaken. The wards didn't protect the buildings themselves."

Magnus' cat eyes flare, "The New York Institute?"

"I destroyed that one myself."

Max grits his teeth as he types. Magnus coldly stares at his double, "Were there Lightwoods inside?"

AU!Magnus shrugs, "I don't know or care who was inside. The only good ShadowHunter was a dead one."

Max takes a deep breath, "What year is it in your world?"

AU!Magnus smiles, "Why?"

Magnus screams, "Just answer the damn question."

AU!Magnus takes a drink, "Fine. It's 2017." Max nods as he continues to type.

Magnus leans forward, "Wait, you said Asmodeus and Lilith were banished back to Edom, what about you?"

"What about me?"

"Don't be obtuse, you know what I'm talking about."

"Fine. After all the evil was taken care of by your precious Shadowhunters, I stayed in the mundane world to see how they would celebrate their victory."

"And?"

"They took their dead to Idris, recovered what they could from the ruins of the Institutes. Some returned to the mundane world to live out their lives, but most stayed."

"And you gloated."

AU!Magnus shrugs, "I drifted from city to city then returned to Edom once I saw that they had retired from the demon killing business."

"There were no more demons, so of course they 'retired'."

"I wanted to make sure."

Magnus takes a deep breath as his eyes return to brown, "Why did you kill Lilith after all that?"

AU!Magnus finishes his drink, "She wanted to get out of Edom and destroy the mundane world."

"And?"

"Father thought it was a wonderful idea."

"And you?"

AU!Magnus refills his glass, "I thought she was a fool."

"Why?"

"After the mundanes are dead, what then? Instead of being in Edom alone, we would be in the mundane world, just as alone."

Magnus nods, "And you convinced Asmodeus."

AU!Magnus takes a drink then nods, "Father never really liked her, so it didn't take much convincing."

"Why kill Asmodeus?"

AU!Magnus finishes his drink, "He decided that Lilith was kind of on to something. He thought it would be a good idea to visit the mundane world and create new demons."

"Without ShadowHunters the mundanes would be easy prey."

"Yes they would."

Max taps on the keyboard, "What was the ultimatum?"

AU!Magnus refills his glass, "Either assist him in opening a portal to the mundane world or he would drain me of my magic and do it himself."

Magnus leans back in the chair, "Not much of a choice."

"Exactly. I agreed to help him and just as we were combining our powers, I turned the magic on him. He was disintegrated."

"Why?"

"What do you mean, why?"

"Why not let Asmodeus loose on the mundane world, why did you stop him?"

AU!Magnus shrugs, "After the Great Battle, I visited the mundane world, secretly of course, I didn't want Father or Lilith to know that I could. Anyway, it seemed to have moved on and I didn't want to mess things up."

"You felt guilty."

"I most certainly did not feel guilty."

Max nods at his father, "He felt guilty."

AU!Magnus glares at Max, "My blue son, you know nothing about me."

"Whatever." Max returns to typing.

Magnus nods, "So back to my original question, why are you here?"

AU!Magnus rolls his eyes, "I told you..." The front door opens and Alec walks into the loft. He smiles at his son and husband then looks at his husband's double. AU!Magnus puts the glass on the coffee table as he stands up, "Hello hubby."

-tbc-

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I know you are cursing me out right now, but I still love you. xoxo