She deserved a medal for how many things went wrong for her in the last week. First, after successfully acquiring the new target for their second in command with Light, they had found the first ever hybrid. The one that Saf knew they needed to sort out this mess once and for all. The others would not listen to her well, everyone except Light, they would just believe she was making this up because she had a history with their leader. They would believe she was just making all this up. But did Alec listen to her no! Okay, so maybe she had been a little cruel in what she said about his boyfriend, why should she care about who Alec dated and whether that person accepted Alec for being a hybrid or not.
She didn't have the right to make that judgment, but it wasn't like she couldn't just outright ask Alec to come with her and tell him about the situation because they were always monitored when they were out in the field. She wasn't sure how but once Molly tried to tell a shadowhunter about their leader and the following day both the shadowhunter and Molly were dead. She couldn't risk him coming after her, she couldn't risk her position as a leader of Team Alpha. But she needed Alec, Alec is an outsider if he could see what Saf saw then it might persuade the others from their leader and onto their side. If the leader's plan succeeded, then it would destroy the whole shadowworld and Saf doubted the mundanes would remain safe for long, their leader would destroy the entire world for his own gain, and he had brainwashed enough hybrids to believe what he was doing was right, all their humanity and common sense wiped from them. She probably only had one more chance to recruit Alec to their 'side' before it was too late, considering their leader's plan was already in its ultimate stages.
Saf groaned when she heard her phone go off and looked down to see the second in command calling her, great just what she wanted.
"Saffi, the new hybrid has escaped. He's mixed shadowhunter and vampire blood, his survival in the sunlight has shown that this blood union has made him effectively a daylighter. Find him before he hurts anyone, we don't know whether he can turn people but we can't risk it not when our plan is in its final stages, it was risky enough turning another mundane into a hybrid and now some idiot has let it escape," the second in command said when Saf answered the call.
"I'm on it," Saf said and hung up. Great, this was just wanted she needed, a rogue daylighter on the loose.
The scene Alec and Magnus arrived at wasn't something that Alec could first comprehend. Isabelle, Jace, and that red-haired girl were fighting… well Jace was, Isabelle was currently lying on the floor with what looked like a broken leg whilst the red-haired girl just stood there frozen watching what was going on. Jace was fighting a blood-thirsty vampire whilst another person was approaching Issy with a seraph blade out…. Wait a minute, a vampire in broad daylight, that was impossible. The vampire should be dust by now. Oh… it's that boy, the one taken from the party the other day by Saf and the other hybrid. This means somehow that boy was a hybrid or at least a vampire who could walk in daylight, Alec knew there was a term for this type of vampire, but he couldn't for the Angel's sake remember what it was.
Magnus darted over to the vampire using his magic to subdue it whilst Alec shot a ball of magic at the other person (Alec could only assume was a hybrid) blasting him away from Issy giving her enough time to grab her stele from out of her bra and activating her iratze before the hybrid had recovered and charged again, this time Alec summoned his bow and arrows, grabbing a bow from the quiver, aimed for the hybrid's leg and fired hitting its target dead on.
"Alec," Issy said turning to face her saviour. Her eyes widened at the sight of her 'dead' brother standing close to her. Alec let his eyes trail over to his sister but he said nothing, what was there to say – hello, I'm still alive even though our mother forcefully removed Jace and mine's parabatai rune to make it look like I'm dead before throwing me out of my home onto the streets because she believed I'm a monster. Oh, and I'm a hybrid being part-shadowhunter and part-warlock surprise – yeah, that would go down like a lead balloon. For now, it was better to remain quiet and deal with this mess, and once everything was dealt with, then Alec would try to figure out what he was going to say.
"Alec you're alive" this time Jace spoke finally turning away from the unconscious vampire to check on Issy only to see his supposed dead parabatai standing there. Again, Alec didn't respond instead he kept his eyes on the other hybrid who had pulled Alec's arrow out from his leg, pulling his own stele from his jacket pocket and drew an iratze on his arm. Magnus, Jace, Issy, and the red-haired watched in horror as the wound healed and iratze disappeared just like it did whenever Alec used runes. They would never stay permanently on his skin like the other shadowhunters.
"You're a shadowhunter, but that's impossible you have werewolf blood" Jace gasped. When Simon attacked them (after Clary ran over to him) and this other person appeared alongside him. It had been obvious the other person was a werewolf if the green glowing eyes were anything to go on yet this person had angelic blood, he could heal himself using an iratze but that was impossible the only species shadowhunters could breed with and get a half-shadowhunter half-downworlder offspring was seelies. For the other species, the clash between demonic and angelic blood was too powerful and the baby would never survive to term, yet everything Jace had learned about and more growing up was being contradicted by the living proof in front of him.
"Bradly you complete and utter moron! That girl is a shadowhunter she is completely useless to us! It's the vampire we want," Saf said emerging from a portal glaring at the other hybrid.
Bradly smirked, "why does it matter Saffi, they're all going to be dead, eventually. We might as well kill them now,".
"So, you purposefully let a new hybrid escape knowing full well he won't be able to control his urgers just to one up the rest of the world," Saf said. She could already anticipate the answer. Bradly always believed he was better than everyone else, first as a human, then as a hybrid. Now he was letting his ego get the better of him.
"Short answer yeah," Bradly said grinning. Saf said nothing. Instead, she lifted her left hand, conjuring a red ball of magic, and shot it at Bradly. The smirk on Bradly's face disappeared instantly as the hybrid started screaming as they watched before their eyes as Bradly's body exploded in the same red sparks as demons and vampires do when they are killed by a shadowhunter or sunlight. Nothing remained of the hybrid except for a burnt stain on the ground.
"I apologise on Bradly's half; he didn't know where the line was. I hope he hadn't caused too many problems for you" Saf said, stepping over the mark and quickly bowed to the two shadowhunters. Then she turned to look at Simon. The daylighter was still unconscious, Saf pulled her phone from her pocket and shot off a quick text message to Light containing where she was and requesting, he arrives immediately to help take the vampire back home.
"You killed him," the red-haired said horrified.
"You haven't been in this world exceedingly long have you, Miss Fray, you haven't worked out that sometimes it's kill or be killed. Bradly was out of control, when a wild dog is out of control and a danger to others it's best to put him down or in this context wolf. Now, if you excuse me, I need him," Saf shrugged, pointing at Simon whilst another portal opened and out stepped Light.
"You're not taking him! Simon's my best friend" Clary shouted, running over to Simon and throwing her body over his as if to protect him from the others.
"That's cute," Saf said summoning her magic and threw it at Clary throwing the girl backward hitting the nearest wall, and knocked her out unconscious, "you thought I was giving you a choice".
"What do you need him for?" Magnus asked summoning his own magic preparing himself to fight for the vampire.
"Simon Lewis is a hybrid and the responsibility of our kind. You have no right to keep him from us," Saf said as Alec watched Light walk over to Simon, picking him up and heading towards the portal before anyone else even realised what happened. Alec felt his eyes widen, the only person who could do something like that was a Seelie, some power which lets them go unnoticeable unless someone was directly staring at them when they started using this power, "Now that wasn't so hard. Again, I apologise if Bradly caused any problems, I would say we would reimburse you, but the heads of the New York Institute doesn't need help from some lowly hybrid now, do they? Isabelle Lightwood and Jace Wayland, or is it Herondale now?".
"Who are you and how do you know so much about us?" Issy asked, "And Alec why haven't you said anything? You're meant to be dead. Mom said you died during that mission, Jace's parabatai rune disappeared, yet here you are alive,".
Alec kept quiet.
"Say something Alec, we're brothers aren't we, we had each other's backs yet you abandoned us when we need you the most. They have forced us to take charge of the institute something that Maryse and Robert were training you to do," Jace said, "ANSWER ME!".
"Ask your mother about what happened on September 4th," Alec snapped finally letting all the pent-up frustration and anger he held inside him for over a year now maybe even longer, "Ask her why she forcefully removed my parabatai rune. Ask her why she calls me a monster. Ask her whose fault it was that I am like this. Ask her why she let some crazy person experiment on me, and Raziel knows how many other innocent children to gain his perfect soldiers. Because I bet you she won't tell you anything, it will be all Isabelle, you're exaggerating or Jace, Alexander is dead, who you saw was just a look alike. You want to know why I left you, I didn't have a fucking choice, I got thrown out. So, if you're so desperate for your of so desired answers then ASK YOUR MOTHER,".
"What are you talking about?" Issy said confused and a little hurt Alec would outright shout at her, "I know you and our mother never had the best relationship but Alec… you know she would do nothing like that,".
"Oh, really Issy, then explain this" Alec snapped pulling up his t-shirt revealing a scar version of his parabatai rune on his chest (which he kept glamoured), a constant remained of everything he lost that day. He could heal it, he had the magic to do so, but he refused to. He kept it as a reminder that he should never trust a shadowhunter again.
"Well, as enlightening as this has been, I really need to be off so, goodbye strange people. Oh, and Alec last chance, you want answers about our kind, about the experiment then you need to come with me… now," Saf said looking at Alec with pleading eyes, she hoped that somehow Alec would notice how desperate she was and reconsider, she needed at to realise that maybe something else was going on.
Alec knew he should refuse, after everything she had said about Magnus but she had been right Magnus didn't accept him for who he was and maybe living with those who are like him would be better, he couldn't explain what he was to Issy or Jace not without them freaking out but it wasn't like he had anywhere else to go. However, it wasn't the destruction of his relationship or now the reveal of him being alive to Jace and Issy that made him what to go, the look in Saf's eyes she was silently begging him to say yes, he had seen the concerned look she gave Issy when she first arrived, maybe there was something else going on that he had been ignorant to, he had said no to Saf multiple times; she seemed to accept that, but she was still asking. Unless Saf wasn't trying to be rude towards him. Alec looked at Saf, properly looked at her, her shoulders were tensed, and her eyes were constantly searching around their surrounding as if she were looking for someone who wasn't there. It was like she was being watched… oh. That would make sense. If Saf was being watched whenever they had met it would explain why she couldn't say anything to him other than incessantly asking him to join the other hybrids.
It would also make sense why she would give him some answers to hybrids but kept insisting that if he wanted to find out more, he would have to leave with her. Whoever was watching her was dangerous, and Saf couldn't risk saying something which could alert the watcher to… deviance. Alec wasn't sure, but now he thought about it, he knew something was up. And why should he stay here, he was angry, so angry at his siblings, at his 'mother' and at Magnus, he just needed a break from it all. He felt Jace, Magnus, and Issy's eyes burning into the back of his skull as he took a step forward and nodded his head, "Okay, I'll come with you".
"Alexander!" Magnus shouted, but Alec ignored him. He couldn't stay here, not after everything had happened, not when he now knew someone might need his help. He kept his warlock abilities hidden from the shadowhunters when he was with them because he wanted to help those who needed it, he wanted to protect the human world from the demon one. All he ever wanted to do was help and no matter how he tried, he was always in the wrong. He was tired of pleasing people; he was tired of acting like someone he's not. He tired of everything.
Saf's shoulders relaxed as if it had taken a weight off them before she opened a portal and reached out her hand to Alec. Alec looked at it for a moment before taking it in his and they stepped through the portal together, leaving the two parts of his entire life behind him.