Hey, hello! I bet you didn't expect me to write another addition to this story, right? In fact, me too. But lately I realized that I'm missing writing for this fandom. And while re-writing MWAAF is cool and all, I miss writing something new.

Anyway, this is likely the last addition to this story and hopefully you'll like it.

All characters belongs to Cassandra Clare.

Enjoy reading.

"A light of hope"

Tessa Carstairs sat on the green love seat in the living room of her new house in Los Angeles. Her three year old son - William - was playing outside with his father and aunt Emma, who had visited them lately. In front of her, on the other love seat was sitting her best friend, Magnus Bane, with a worry written all over his face, along with hope painted in his cat eyes.

"I'm not sure I understood you well enough, Magnus? You want to summon Raziel?"

"Yeah. " He admitted, biting down his lower lip.

"May I ask why?"

"It's a long story. " The woman remained silent to give a way to explain the situation. "When I went to Edom to save Alec from Jonathan, I had to summon my father. Jonathan wanted to grasp Asmodeus's power, so father allowed me to use his power to kill Morgenstern. But his power was too much for me, combined with Lilith's power that the nephilim owned. The power was killing me, so I gave all of the powers to my father, along with mine. I was nearly dead, when apparently Alec bargained for my soul and life with Asmodeus."

"He bargained with your demonic father? " Magnus nodded to this with a sad smile.

"He offered his soul for my life." Tessa inhaled the air sharply, clutching her chest. "When I learned about it, I summoned my father so he would release Alec of the deal, but Alexander didn't want to let go of the power. But Tess...I want Alec to go to heaven after death, I want him to still be a shadowhunter. He doesn't know other life, he will hate me, when he'll become a half demon. I know it."

"And you want Raziel to do what?"

"I will bargain with Raziel, I give him something which he could never have." Tessa raised her eyebrows in a silent question. "Power."

"Magnus...summoning Angels is…"

"We summoned Raziel before, Simon faced him when he had the mark of Cain…" Tessa was silent again, closing her eyes for a while. Magnus didn't like when she had this expression, it always meant that she'll say no to his idea. Now he needed just one voice that will agree to his idea, even though it was the most idiotic plan of his in his entire life. "But I cannot do it by myself."

"You think that just because I set Ithuriel free, I have some likes upon the heaven? It isn't as we can call upon them, Magnus. We are the downworlders."

"I can summon him, angel's blood runs through my veins, Tessa, but I need your help. You are a half shadowhunter, you have some angel's blood in you too." She was shaking her head to his words. "Please, I cannot let him prolong the bargain with my father, and I need someone who's skilled in magic and shadowhunting."

"Why won't you ask Clary or Jace? They are unique."

"Jace still is Alec's parabatai, he will tell on me. Clary is his wife, she will tell Alec as well."

"This is a bad idea, Magnus." She criticized him, sighing loudly. Only Magnus could come up with such a terrible thought. Even though the woman knew him for so many years now, he never ceased to shock her.

"You're going to help me, right?" A small nod confirmed his hopes. "Wonderful! I knew there's a reason we're being friends Tessa." Magnus smiled brightly at her, his cat eyes shined with joy. "We will summon Raziel at the Lyn Lake. I have an access to Idris as the member of the Council. I will go under the pretext to talk to the Inquisitor, and no one will suspect anything. Prepare, we're going tomorrow."

Strangely, Alec didn't argue with the sudden want of his husband to talk to Jia Penhallow. In fact, he even believed that Magnus wanted to take the position of an academic teacher, that the Inquisitor proposed to him during the last family dinner. Magnus declined the offer then, since Rafael was very sick, but now, when his son was well, he could consider the job. Of course, it was a small lie, Magnus didn't want to take the position, he didn't want to constantly travel between New York and Idris, or move in there altogether. Despite being the husband of a head of the New York Institute for so many years now, some shadowhunters still looked down on him.

"Be careful there, Magnus," Alec kissed him on lips softly, as Bane opened the portal for himself in the Institute. "Are you sure you don't want me to go with you? I can leave the kids with Clary and Jace."

"I'll be fine, Alexander, and besides, Clary is about to pop the baby out, it's not wise to leave two hyperactive boys with her, especially that one of them is learning to control his magic." Alec nodded reluctantly to this. "I'll be back tomorrow. I love you, my blue eyed Angel."

"I love you too, be safe and say hi to Jia, Helen and Aline from me, ok?"

When Bane stepped into Idris, Tessa was already waiting for him with an askew smile. She wore a simple white sweater, which ended by her knees. Her navy blue leggings reached her ankles and hid inside her high white sneakers. Her long, brown hair were made up in a loose ponytail and few strands were hanging loosely around her free of makeup face.

"I approve the outfit dear, sportish."

"Well, if we're going to summon an Angel who could possibly kill us, I'd rather be in my comfortable clothes, Magnus."

Magnus decided to go for one of his best attires, as Alec usually called his sequined red-shirt with long sleeves and black, leather skinny pants. His husband always said that it's a crime to look that hot in leather.

"Let's get this over with, shall we?" The female warlock reached for Magnus's hand, as she used to do in the past. Bane gladly had taken her hand in his and led her towards the Lake Lyn.

Nothing has changed since Magnus stood before the Lake Lyn ten years ago, after coming back from Edom. The air floating above the water was chill, sending shivers all over his body. The morning sun mirrored itself in the dark waters of the lake, brightening it in the middle of its surface.

Magnus placed his black backpack on the sand, and took out the Book of White out of it. Tessa crossed her arms on her chest and looked impatiently at her friend. Magnus took a deep breath and kneeled on the ground before he started to chant the summoning spell.

The air around him turned cold and thick at the same time, yet the coldness wasn't familiar to him. It ate his body alive, ripping it from the inside. Magnus wanted to throw up, he felt that blood is coming up to his throat. Summoning Angels wasn't that easy as he thought at first, it was more difficult than calling on demons. Magnus was about to stop chanting and let himself being consumed by the coldness, when he was blinded by the white glow before him.

"Who dares to summon me?" A deep male voice boomed in his ears. Before Magnus had a chance to respond, the voice spoke again. "Child of Asmodeus, saviour of Ithuriel." He addressed both downworlders with sharp golden eyes. "Do you not fear of me?"

"My father rules the hell," Magnus said casually, getting up from his knees to face the Angels. "Plus I have these."

Magnus snapped his fingers and the Mortal cup and Maellartach appeared in his hands. Tessa's eyes opened wide in a shock, as her friend smiled sheepishly at the Angel.

"You think these instruments will protect you from my wrath, son of Asmodeus?"

"No, these instruments have to help you help me." If Angels could be confused than Raziel's face expressed it now as he lowered his head to look better at Magnus. It was strange to be so small, usually Magnus was the tallest in every group he currently had been.

"You've intrigued me, child, speak." Magnus frowned at the naming, he was far from being a child. But then for an eternal Angel everyone were children, even four hundredth year old warlocks.

"I want to bargain with you for the soul of my husband." Raziel remained silent, so Magnus continued his explanation. "Alexander Lightwood, one of your children, had sold his soul for my life to my father. I need you to break the bond between my father and Alexander, so he wouldn't be dead."

"What makes you think that I would even consider your words, child and not kill you instead?"

"I am offering you what you crave the most, Raziel." Tessa came to stand next to Magnus and grabbed his hand. Even with his whole bravado, she could feel him tremble in a fear before Raziel. She was shaking as well, thinking about her sweet son and husband, to whom she may not come back, if the Angel decided to end their promptly immortal lives. "I am offering you a power to destroy your enemies. If you will grant me your help, I promise to kill every prince of the Hell and offer you their powers."

"You will kill your own father, child?"

"I will do everything to save Alec." He stated firmly, squeezing Tessa's hand. She didn't expect Magnus to offer this kind of power. She thought that he may offer his immortality or his own power at most, but killing princes of Hell? It was surprising at least. "I can retrieve their powers and put them in one container which will immediately make them weak and easy to kill with the mortal sword."

"Your father used to be a very powerful Angel, until he followed Lucifer in his falling." Raziel closed his eyes as he spoke. "He wields a great power, yet I am not yearning for it."

"I thought that it will be better for you if Greater Demons will be dead…"

"The world needs a balance of good and evil, my brother Samael used to phrase, so did my brother Michael." Both warlocks were silence, letting the Angel express his words. "Your father was my best teacher in the fights, for I am a soldier of the God himself, Magnus Bane."

"I can give you everything you want, Raziel, just please, help me." He dropped down to his knees again and lifted his hands to pray. "I beg you, Raziel…"

"If only your father had so much bravery to beg for forgiveness… I will grant you my help, son of Asmodeus, but not for the power, but for I cannot let Asmodeus taint the blood of my children." Magnus was singing salves of hallelujah in his mind, when the angel agreed to help him, yet he felt deep down that it couldn't be that easy. "But for the punishment for summoning me, I shall take your immortality, Magnus Bane."

"Deal. I can be a mortal even, as long as Alec will be safe." The angel gave a simple nod, before he turned to the warlocks again.

"Summon your shadowhunter, child." Magnus did as asked. He opened a portal straight to the Institute and ordered Tessa to drag Alec here as fast as she could. When she disappeared by the blue surface of a portal, the Angel spoke up again. "A demon's child have fallen in love with an Angel's child. You remind me of Adam, he came to beg our Lord to spare the life of the poisonous woman, when she committed a sin. Our Lord is merciful to those who can beg for forgiveness, Magnus Bane, and so are we, his messengers."

He spoke no more, as two people stepped out of the portal created by the warlock. Alec's blue eyes were filled with confusion, when he spotted Raziel and kneeling Magnus.

"By the Angel…" He moved his eyes towards his husband. "Magnus...what is…"

"I promised you that I will set you free of the deal with my father, Alec. You will no longer be his servant, my love." Magnus looked at Raziel and stepped back, letting the Angel do his job. "Bear through the pain, Alec, everything will be fine. I love you."

Raziel shot his bright light straight on Alexander, and the world around them went blind. Magnus kept blinking to see something, but it was pointless. The angelic light was too much for his demon's eyes. But he had heard Alec's painful screams, as the Angel was curing him of the demon's bonding. Magnus's heart ached along with his hunter husband.

"Alec! " He found himself shouting, with his eyes closed. "Alec!"

"Give my greetings to your cursed father, Magnus Bane." He heard Raziel's voice, following the sound of rustling wings. The earth quaked underneath them, sounds of splashing water were heard somewhere close to the warlock. A sound of loud gasping made him open his eyes.

White smoke was surrounding the fragile body of his beloved hunter. Magnus could hear his struggling to inhale the air. Immediately, the warlock got up and ran towards his husband. He dropped to his knees and turned his lover to look at his pale face.

Alec's eyes were closed, his heart was hammering, which was easily heard as silence surrounded the Lake Lyn.

"Alec, darling? " Magnus whispered, lightly shaking the man's shoulders. "Sweetheart?"

"Maybe we should cast some spell on him, Magnus? " Tessa kneeled next to him and put her thin hand over the man's heart. "His heart is erratic. Magnus we have to do something, before he'll have a heart attack!"

It snapped him out of the sudden shock, and he nodded silently. Tessa offered her hand to Magnus, to give him some of her power. She knew that summoning Raziel had to drain lots of his power.

Magnus started to chant healing spells, hoping that his actions hadn't left a terrible impact on his husband. He felt Alec's heart calming under his magic, which gave him hope for a success.

Suddenly Alec sharply inhaled the air and opened his beautiful blue eyes. Magnus's face brightened with a wide smile, his eyes sparkled with joy.

"Alec? Sweetie? " Magnus was stroking his face lovingly, as the younger man blinked a few times. "Darling?"

"Who are you?"

It was then, when Magnus's world ended, in the most painful way. He couldn't breathe, his heart froze, a lump formed in his throat. Alec's blue eyes were boring into his cat eyes with a slightly confused expression, before they softened for a moment.

"Alexander...sweetheart...it's me, Magnus, your…"

"My husband, who's a pain in my ass too!" Alec sat up on the ground and pushed Magnus's and Tessa's hands from his his chest. "What in the Angel's name, Magnus?! What have you done to me?!"

"I saved you from the curse my father placed upon you!" he shouted back at Alec. "I summoned Raziel to break your bond with Asmodeus, for your own good, Alexander."

"I wanted to keep this bond so I could stay with you and Max, you idiot! I don't want to watch you cry, when I'll be dying! I wanted to be with you forever and to keep you safe and you messed it up!"

"You would become a demon…"

"I'd rather be a demon than for you and our children watch me die!" Alec was touching his wrist, pressing on his pulse and whispering something, which Magnus couldn't hear. "Fuck!"

"Alec…"

"No!" He turned his back to the warlock and walked away from him, shaking his head. "I cannot leave them, I need your power, come on!"

"Alec…"

"Summon your father, Magnus! " Alec requested, looking sharply at his husband. "I need to fix your mess."

"No. You won't become his servant, not now, not ever! I rather mourn you till my last breath, than for you to bond with Asmodeus." Magnus got up from the sand and walked to his husband. Alec flinched when the older man tried to touch his shoulder, which hurt Magnus immensely. "My love, you truly don't understand what deals with my father means. He will break your bond with Jace…"

"Jace will understand," Alec responded. "I love my parabatai, but you and our boys are more important to me. I want to be able to see our sons grow up, to watch my future grandchildren. I want to be able to protect you from any danger…"

"And you can do it, while still being a shadowhunter, baby. You can protect me and our boys just fine…"

"I don't want to do just fine, Mags!" he cut him off. "I want to be the best in protecting all of you. And I can do it with your father's power." Magnus shook his head to this statement. "As long as I'll be with you…"

"I'm mortal now, Alec." The blue eyed man opened his mouth in shock, his whole body stiffed. "Raziel took my immortality away, for help. Somehow he let me keep my powers, but I'm as much mortal as you are now."

"Why?"

"I couldn't let my father order us around," Magnus gave him a sad smile. "My immortality is a small price for your safety, Alexander. I never had a chance to grow old with someone, and since we're together...I...I looked up for a way to do it, because I love you and I cannot imagine morun you and Rafael for years. My heart would die with both of you."

"Max…"

"I'll try my best to stay with our blueberry as long as I can, but Alec...I lived for so many years already...and I want my time with you and our boys to be my last one." Alec sighed loudly. "I want to grow old with you, Alexander. I know, that once we'll die, we won't be together in the afterlife, but now I'll be sure that you'll end up in heaven, along with other angels."

"You're sentimental, Magnus."

"Maybe, but Alexander...you're an Angel and you belong with heaven, not with the hell, like I do." For a moment, they were consumed in a silence. Love and passion expressed in their soft looks. Magnus placed his hand upon Alec's right, pale cheek now brushed with rosy color and stroked i slowly. "You're an angel, Alexander dear."

"What are we going to do now? " he asked, looking up at Magnus.

"We will hope for the better day tomorrow, my love. We will hope to stay alive as long as we can, for our boys. We will hope to be able to protect them and ourselves from everything what fate holds for us in the future." Magnus was saying, interlocking his other hand with Alec's one. "We will hope for a life full of love and happiness, my blue eyed Angel."

"You're my angel too, Magnus. And you're wrong, we will both end up in a heaven or hell. I vowed to you forever, and I be damned to keep my promise, love."

A/N: Did you like it?

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