"I have a sister, Clary…" Alec paused, but the man was fairly invested in the plate of fries, so he continued…"she's, uh, she's a little younger. She's an artist...she's really really talented. It's actually her birthday today…." He paused again but his date now seemed to be studying the food. "We're really close, she's one of my best friends...She was the first person I came out to..How about you ?"

"Huh?" the other man didn't even look up. Really?

"Do you have any brothers or sisters?"

"Oh, yeah. I do."

Alec waited expectantly, even put down the tofu strip he had been working on, but nothing came. He was done. He felt completely done with this guy. In complete contrast to the verbal flirt- sparing when they had met this evening had been a cycle of Alec talking to monosyllabic answers. He looked out the window they were seated next to, starting to plan his escape. Well, at least he could tell his sister he hadn't been leading on Biscotti Boy after all, though if he were being entirely honest, he suspected that would go very much like this date. He was about to try to catch the waiter when he saw two guys on the other side of the street come from...well, he wasn't completely sure where they had appeared from, around the corner he supposed, but he recognized them instantly from earlier that day. They stopped at a door wedged between two shops, and the wider built man stood at the bottom while the other disappeared behind the door.

He wasn't sure what exactly sparked his interest, thought he must have believed anything had to better than staying on the date. It took a matter of seconds to grab a large enough bill to cover the food, fought for a quick second to get the person behind him to realized they ha pulled their chair too far out. By the time he made it out of the diner, the blond was beginning to walk away the other man who had apparently come back down seemed to be waiting. Alec's breath caught as for a second the man looked over at him and smiled. No, that wasn't possible, Alec turned down the street leaving those mysterious eyes behind. The blond got caught at a stoplight which allowed for his wheeled follower to catch up. He spent three blocks trying to explain why he was doing this: Dot's raised voice...if she felt threatened, the look on Clary's face...was this someone who scared her? The blond wasn't that tall, maybe three/four inches taller than Clary, but no where near Alec if he was able to stand to full height.

As they approached block number four, the guy rolled up his sleeve, and pulled something out of his all black outfit, he turned making a point to look at Alec. Instant eye contact from strangers wasn't a sensation Alec had enough experiences to feel used to it. Most people just keep looking straight ahead before adjusting, even if they had been looking for him. What threw him off further was this man not only looked at him, but looked confused as if he had found something he hadn't expected. Suddenly the man actually began to approach him, instinctively Alec pivoted around propelling himself down the sidewalk as fast as he could. Nearly back to the diner and the awful date, he finally looked behind him, but saw nothing. He took a moment to catch his breath.

His phone began to ring, Clary to the rescue, he thought hearing her voice in his head birthmark power.

"Hey, Clary, I was just about to call...I bailed, he was so boring...where are you guys?...Yeah, I'm on my way."

From the shadow of his hiding spot above he watched the boy push himself to a bus stop before disappearing on public transit. The boy who had seen him. Yes, when he had been the look out at Dot's earlier that after noon they had meant to be seen, but the instant he had left Magnus' he had activated the rune on his forearm so he could enjoy a walk back to the Institute invisible to the Mundanes teeming the street. But this boy had seen him, and that through him off, Mundanes with the Sight were rare and usually locked away considered crazy, but the only other option was he was a member of the Shadowworld, but Jonathan Gideon Lightwood had never seen a Downworlder who used a wheelchair.

He decided to forgo his casual walk home in the hopes that one of his parents would be back from their trips already and would have some answer. The first person however to greet him as he walked into what appeared to be an abandoned church was his younger brother, Jace.

"Gid, You took your time getting home. How was the last your last day with Magnus'?"

When he was ten years old, his parents brought home eight year old Jonathan Herondale after some old Circle members had killed Jace's parents. It was also around the time Max was born and he started go by his middle name. The pair had hit it off fairly easy, training together with easy, most outside of the family were surprised that they looked similar, and that they were not parabatai. True they both had a parabatai mark, but Gideon's was solid and sealed. Not that he knew who it was; no one he met had a matching mark. Jace's was fading and only had a few more months before it would disappear all together if his parabatai didn't show up.

"Gid? Earth to Gideon, are you okay?"

"Yeah, sorry...thinking of something from early."

"Okay, if you're sure...then take a few minutes then there's a shape-shifting demon you, Izzy, and I have to take care of tonight."

He just nodded and made his way back to his room.

As Simon packed up his guitar, he looked at Clary and then over to where Alec Galloway was talking a couple of people who had been watching the band, "Sometimes I'm afraid he is the only reason people come to our gigs."

"Not the only reason, you guys sounded great."

"Until Alec goes back to school...his program doesn't let him play in gigs during the semester unless they're authorized, and bands aren't authorized….Its not like you are gonna being around anymore either….you'll be too busy at your fancy art school."

"Simon, that's never going to happen. It's the three of us for life. All set for the van?" She asked as Maureen joined them with a nod. She hollered across the room, "Alexander Garroway, we only have two and half hours to thoroughly celebrate my birthday, your groupies are going to have to wait."

All his eye roll and "I'll be there in a minute," got in return was a laugh.

By the time he had put away his gear Simon's van had been decorated in his sister's art including the tag he had seen in the elevator today, maybe she had seen it before. He intended to ask , but she seemed preoccupied with a blonde man. He looked similar to the guy from earlier but it clearly wasn't…

"Clary, is he bothering you?" Alec hollered ignoring the odd look from his band mates.

Instead of an answer the stranger just looked at him, "You can see me too?"

Who was this guy? "Uh, yeah...I can see you bothering my sister…"

"Alec, its fine...he just needs to watch where he's going."

"Jace!" A voice from near the club distracted the stranger making him run off.

Alec looked over his sister, and what he saw was that maybe she hadn't been so bothered by the strange blond. So that was his sister's type. But as the siblings turned back to their friends they were met by a pair of odd looks.

"Why didn't you guys say anything?" Alec asked, surprised that Simon hadn't taken the first opportunity to defend Clary.

"To who? About what?"

Clary looked confused, "They guy I was talking to…he ran right into me."

"Okay…" Simon forced a laugh, "If this is one of your Galloway sibling Jedi tricks you can cut it off."

This sparked his sister to take off towards the club. The other three followed as well right into the club. Their IDs were a problem but the crowd was so thick he could barely get around, let alone spot his sister. While Simon and Maureen took off towards the bar Alec pushed through the perimeter of the club and caught his sister slipping through a pair of closing curtains.

There was no point arguing though it wasn't for a lack of trying the curtain guarders weren't going to let him through. He didn't have to wait long she shot out of there and right towards him.

"Alec, we gotta go."

She seemed so panicked, "Okay, Clary its fine…but you gotta push me, we'll be quicker that way." She nodded, and did as asked. He was right, her intensity got them out of there quickly and to a taxi, she was uncharacteristically impatient for him to get into. He'd call Simon later expalain. His sister was his priority.

"Clary, Clary…sis. Breathe, tell me what happened."

She shook her head rather fervently, "I don't think you would believe me."

"That would never happen. Just tell me, you're scaring me."

She nodded, and leaned against him to whisper. "That guy, there was another guy and a girl. And they were about to stab this women with glowing sword...and when they stabbed people they burst, disappearing into thin air."

He wanted to think she was crazy, but there was something that felt like it should believe her. He just let her whisper on trying to calm her the entire route back to the apartment. She seemed have slowly caught her breath as driver helped get his chair out of the trunk and he transferred out of the car. The made it to the tunnel an spotted the door to the shop busted off its hinge.

"Alec...what if they followed us..."

He shook his head, "No they wouldn't have had enough time. Lets go straight to the elevator."

But that proved a bad idea as the elevator also appeared broken.

"We should call the cops..." Clary suggested.

"No...if Mom and Dad need us..."

She nodded and they made it into the show. Lots of the display cases had been knocked over. Shards of glass were scattered across the floor.

"Wait here." Clary whispered, "I'll be right back."

"See if the elevator is opened, send it down."

She nodded and slowly took a step at a time. He genuinely hated this, he had spent his whole life being independent, being raised to rely on himself. But moments like this he hated. He listened to the sound of footsteps tread across the floor. Suddenly there seemed to be another pair, and he could hear Clary's voice, "Dad?...Wait, Dot…"

He couldn't make out the rest the conversation before he heard the scream, "Alec!"

Instinctively, he rushed to the stairs, he had only ever had to do this once or twice before when the elevator had broken and he'd been home alone. He grabbed he bar, pulled himself out of the chair and on to the stairs, silently grateful his dad had dragged him to the gym all the time. He tried to move as fast as he could, pushing himself with his arms and the bar, but without the help from his legs it was a challenge. His arms were burning as he reached the second floor.

His eyes grew as he saw his dad unconscious on the floor and in the living room, he panicked as he saw Clary on the floor against the beam. There was a creature looming over her, something gray and frankly terrifying. His eyes scanned for anything he could hurl and saw his dad's gun on the floor.

Just like archery team, calm your breath.

His shot caused a scream from Clary, but its only actual effect was to make the creature head towards him. He was sure he was a goner when he heard footsteps, someone stood over it and pressed something glowing through the monster's chest. Alec watched in horrific fascination as the thing screamed and curled on itself before it vanished with what could only be described as a flash of fire.

"My sister, is she okay? Clary?!" Alec shouted. His brain began to process who had come to the rescue. Three bodies, two blond…the one who had been bothering Clary and the one who he had followed. The last was a girl he hadn't seen before.

"She's been scratched we have to take her to the Institute."

The other blonde seemed to disagree. "Jace, come one, she's a mundane…"

"I don't think…"

"This one is a downworlder…werewolf…"

The first one spoke again, "Gid, you saw how she made blade glow…"

Alec was becoming more and more pissed off, with each second he couldn't take the two of them "If I could walk right now, you two wouldn't be and my sister would be getting help."

Jace, the taller blonde by his sister seemed to have been effected by his shouting, but what happened after that became a blur as the world turned black.

This and the next chapter will stick pretty close to the TV show, but then it goes off on its own path.
I was a little nervous to add Johnathan Christopher/Sebastian as I only have internet info, but as I outlined he became fairly important. I just changed his middle name for the moment for reason that will e explained.

Things I can tell
Alec and Clary are not parabatai, but their blocking run connects them, and it will become interesting once Parabatais are revealed...in the next chapter.

My second chapter are consistently clunking but they always lay a lot of ground work.

I hope you enjoyed, let me know what you think... It's not beta'd yet.
And I don't know how often I'll be on updating, but I'm definitely one of those who are motivated by response.