Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters used in this story
Based off the Forsaken series by Jana Oliver
Alec lightwood was no means a normal person, who would move back to New York and start training to be a demon trapper when they had the perfect writers life in Los Angeles? Well him apparently, he had been writing books about far off worlds were magic was real but used in everyday life. He was good at grounding people so that's what he did with his books, he transported people to a safe place instead of the demon invested place the world had become. It had all started when a coven of black magic witches had opened up a portal and let the demons in, killing themselves in the process. Or at least that's the theory of how demons came to earth that people seemed to like. No one was really sure, even Alec had some theories but they were out there that he didn't share them.
His family had been demon trapping since the hellish bastards had popped up 158 years ago and his family always married into other trapping families so it was in his blood. He had wanted to get away however so at the age of 15, he'd left. Simply packed his bags, moved to Los Angeles, found a job and a place to stay and had been there ever since.
He wasn't sure why he was walking up to his parent's house but he'd come home, he guessed he'd thought it was time to come back into reality? He had no idea but, he was back now and he wanted to be a trapper. Maybe it was the fact that the demon infestation had gotten worse in new york and that's why? Yeah that'd be a good enough reason and it seemed like one he would use. He had barely knocked on the door before he was drawn into a group hug between his siblings. Jace Herondale and Isabelle Lightwood were his siblings and they had kept in contact with him as much as they could, he hugged them both back feeling better about his choice.
He couldn't protect them now and that was something he needed to do, he was the oldest sibling and it was his job. He pulled away and looked his siblings over, they'd grown. Lost their baby fat and had grown up and he'd missed it, he felt a ting of sadness zip through him but he put on a smile. Jace who had always been fit now had abs-clearly visable through his tight shirt- that only came from working out. His face had narrowed slightly but he was still clearly Jace, the same gold eyes that sparkled with a inner mirth he always seemed to have and the same almost blinding hair.
Isabelle however looked a lot like their mother had at her age, same face but while their mother was all angles. Her daughter was softer but Alec still reckoned she could have him pinned in under a minute, she'd filled out in the right places and had let her hair grow.
"You two have. . .grown" he managed to get out and Jace grinned
"What? Did you think we were going to stay the little kids that we were when you left forever?" he teased and Alec shook his head
"No just you have abs" he said poking his brother's stomach and Isabelle laughed
"Really that's what you noticed? His abs?" She said and Alec and Jace both laughed
"No, that's wasn't the first thing Melody" he teased and Isabelle flushed while Jace and Alec continued laughing, She had gone through a 'Melody the mermaid' phase and the whole family had to call her Melody or she wouldn't respond, she's grown out of it and was embarrassed about it so the two were always teasing her about it "But you've grown too, fine young woman and all that fancy bull"
"JACE! Alec said a bad word" Isabelle gasped out and Alec gave her a 'really' look which she smiled sweetly to while Jace just snickered,
"Come on you two, let's get Alec ready for the meeting tonight" Jace said and the three of them walked inside and shut the door behind them, Alec's stuff had gotten there the day before and it was all in his old bedroom. They all walked up the stairs but Alec paused and walked back down the stairs and went to the bookshelf and ran his fingers over the spines of the books there and he slid one out and saw the cover of one of his books staring back at him "Mum and Dad reads them whatever they come out, you know. They are quite proud of you even if they don't say so"
"Yeah I know" Alec said the book in his hands had been loved well, he reconised that much. He slid it back into place and jogged up the stairs and he went into his room where Isabelle was finding something for him to wear "By tonight you meant in ten minutes didn't you?"
"Well it's going to dark soon it technically counts as tonight" Jace argued flopping down onto Alec's bed, Alec was saved a reply when a small boy came racing into the room and he hugged the oldest lightwood yelling 'ALEC!'
"Hey Max" Alec said hugging his baby brother tightly and Max looked up at Alec through his glasses snuffling, he looked different than the six year old Alec had left but he was still clearly Max. He was still wearing a manga shirt, his glasses and still wasn't styling his hair "Nice shirt, Black butler right?"
"You listened to the shows I told you about?!" Max asked excitedly and Alec laughed
"I did, I spent two days watching all the anime you told me to watch and reading the manga you sent me" he told him leaning down till he was his brother's height "I never want to watch Sebastian dying ever again"
"It was the saddest part" Max agreed and then he saw the clothes on the bed "Are you going to the trapper meeting?"
"I am, I came back to train to be one and so I could spend time with my favorite siblings of course" he said joking towards the end and Isabelle and Jace pouted at their brothers which caused the oldest and youngest lightwood brothers to laugh "Hey I said siblings not sibling, you two need to get your ears checked"
"Ass" Jace said with a grin and Max gasped
"JACE SAID A BAD WORD!" he yelled pointing to Jace and Alec gasped
"Jace how could you!" he exclaimed and Jace made a 'not funny' face which just pushed his siblings to laugh at him
"JACE LIGHTWOOD HERONDALE WHAT SWEAR WORD DID YOU SA-" Maryse broke off as she walked into the room when she saw Alec there and Alec straightened up
"Mother" he greeted and Maryse walked over and much to Alec's surprise, hugged Alec tightly and he hugged her back
"Hello Alec, I'm glad to see your home safe" she said and he smiled softly
"You couldn't keep me away forever" he joked and she pulled away and he was relived to see a small smile on her face "I missed you mum"
"I missed you too dear now! Get ready for the meeting!" she said clapped her hands and she got all of his siblings out of the room and shut the door behind her and Alec quickly got changed. Isabelle had gotten a black shirt out with black loose fitting pants and his boots out, he was thankful she hadn't told him to wear anything else so he quickly got changed and walked out of his bedroom door shutting it behind him. He walked down the stairs and Robert Lightwood walked over to his son who looked him in the eye, something he was once too scared to do.
"Alec" he greeted and he hesitantly patted his son's shoulder "Good job on the books, they are how did you describe it Maryse?"
"A interesting way to put life and a grounding experience" Maryse said and Robert nodded
"What your mother said, good job" he said again and Alec nodded
"Thank you Dad" he said and Robert smiled slightly before he cleared his throat
"Now Max and I have food to cook, Jace, Isabelle your on washing up duty. We'll have dinner ready for when you both come home" he said and Alec and Maryse both nodded and the two of them went to the car parked in the driveway and Alec waved goodbye from the window before Maryse drove off
"Tell me how these work" Alec said and his mother started explaining, the members of the trapper guild that were going to the meeting were the masters only as well as Alec. The rest of the trappers would be trapping or at home, tonight's meeting was clearly for testing Alec and assigning a master to him.
"Quick tell me what a Master is" Maryse said
"A Master is a senior Trapper and they are the only ones can they apprentice new trappers and even then they can only have five new trappers in training at a time" Alec said and she nodded
"Correct, how many Masters are in this city?" she questioned
"There's you, Dad, Luke, Jocelyn although she's on leave with a baby, Sebastian Verlac my cousin and Magnus Bane" he said and Maryse nodded
"Correct now do you remember Helen?" Maryse asked and he nodded "Good she and Aline are going to be the council's people there tonight so that's why they are there"
He nodded, that made sense. Aline and Helen had joined the trapper council in LA after trapping three fives at once showing their skill together as a team and a couple. Whenever a new trapper was being put in front of the council, they called in council members to record it all.
"We're here" Maryse said parking and the two of them got out of the car and walked up to the city hall, they held the meetings in here since they needed a big space. They walked inside, stepping over the circle of holy water. Alec heard chatter and his mother opened the inner hall doors and walked inside and he followed only to be enveloped in a hug
"ALEC YOUR BACK!" Aline cheered and he hugged her back
"Hey there Aline and yeah I'm here for good now" he said and she pulled away grinning
"That's awesome! So much has happened!" she said and she looped her arms through his and as they walked towards the chairs that were in a large circle in the middle of the hall Aline told him everything that had happened. Clary and Jace were a couple-which he then responded with a 'I know' smile since Jace had told him the day it had happened, that had also been the day Alec had started getting over his crush on Jace- she told him about Jocelyn and Luke, told him about Jonathan and how much of a nice guy he had turned into once he'd come back from his trip from Vegas, he then learned that Aline and Helen had gotten married.
"That's great! I'm so happy for you!" he said and she laughed as Helen walked over
"Thank you Alec" Helen said having overheard the last part of what Aline had been saying
"Welcome to the family cousin" he said and Aline laughed, the Penhallows, Ther Verlacs and the Lightwoods weren't really cousins but they had some family relations much like the Herondale and Lightwood families did. Aline, Alec and Sebastian however had started calling each other cousin and everyone just got used to it so to the Lightwood, Penhallow and Verlac children. The three families were cousins.
"Okay so hottie alert, you know Magnus Bane? You haven't met him yet but from the gossip at the council he is serious hot, Maybe he swings your way" Aline said grinning, Alec had told her about sexuality after he'd told Isabelle. He'd then told Jace the year before he left and he had let his parents find out from a interview he did, not the best way to come out ever but the emails from Jace and Izzy had told him that his parents had been pissed off but only because he hadn't told them face to face.
"Maybe but the meeting is about to start so I doubt I'll find out" he said and everyone took their seats, he got nods and small smiles of greeting from the Masters that he knew that were there and before Aline called the meeting to order the door opened and Magnus Bane stepped through and Alec swore he heart had stopped beating.
Magnus Bane had tanned skin, black hair and-as he got closer Alec saw- bright yellow-green slited cat eyes. He could have swore they were contacts but all the things he'd heard about the other said otherwise, those were his real eyes. He was wearing neon red pants, a fishnet shirt and a rainbow jacket that he left unzipped. Alec was stunned, that was the best way to describe how he was feeling. Magnus seeing Alec staring winked before he sat down and he almost chuckled when Alec's face exploded into a blush and he grinned watching the other look down at the drink bottle on the table.
"Magnus so good of you to join us" Maryse said and he flashed her a grin
"Looking this good takes time" was all he said then he gestured for Aline to begin which she did, they all talked and discussed various points before the subject of Alec came up
"Now as you all know, Alec Lightwood would like to become a trapper. The council is fine with granting him permission but only two masters in this room have room for young Alec here, Maryse you are his mother and I'm afraid we can't let you train your son" Helen said with a apologetic look in the older woman's direction and Maryse just shook her head with a 'it's okay' smile back "Now the only other person here is-"
"I'll do it" Magnus said and the hall was shocked into silence and Alec glanced at his mother confused but she didn't offer a explanation
"Magnus? Are you sure? You haven't taken a apprentice on, why now?" Aline asked
"Luke is too busy with his other three and as you said Maryse can't so I'm the only one who can" he said with a careless shrug and she nodded
"Alright, Alec? Are you alright with this?" Aline asked and Alec looked up at her and he bit his lip before he nodded slightly, he didn't mind who trained him as long as they did it well.
"Alright then, meeting adorned" she said and the chatter started as people started to get up to leave and Alec hurried over to Magnus as the other was already halfway across the hill
"Magnus wait" he said and Magnus paused waiting for Alec to catch up and the two of them started walking side by side "I have two questions"
"I bet one of them is why me?" the other male guessed and Alec nodded "Easy, Luke has too many to worry about. Plus your cute"
Magnus grinned as his words had the wanted effect as Alec blushed and he chuckled
"Your second question?" he prompted and Alec hurried
"Where should I meet you for training?" he asked and Magnus got a marker out of somewhere-he had tight pants and Alec had no idea where he could store things- and he wrote a number, a time and a address on Alec's hand
"Meet me there tomorrow at that time, that's my number should you be late" he said simply before he walked over to his car and drove off leaving Alec to stare at his hand that was now covered in purple sharpie. He quickly got out his phone and copied the information before he went and got into his car, Maryse was already there and she started driving them home.
"So? Do you think you'll be able to handle Magnus for training?" Maryse asked and he nodded
"He seems like a good guy so I think I'll be able to get along with him and train" he said and Maryse nodded, the bond between Teacher and student was always important in this line of work and she hoped Alec and Magnus got along well plus Magnus was the only other man she knew that liked men. Hopefully he would be able to give her son tips on that as well, God knew she knew nothing about that kind of thing.
"I'm glad" she said and the rest of the trip home was in silence, the two of them then walked inside and Alec relaxed knowing what the rest of him family had cooked for Dinner. Robert was serving up when Alec walked into the kitchen to get a drink and he nodded at his father's 'how did it go?' look, meaning to went well.
"I'm glad" he said and Alec looked at the food
"Isabelle didn't cook this did she?" He asked loudly
"ALEC YOU ASS!" She yelled and Alec could hear laughter from his brothers and he smiled softly
"COME ON EVERYONE IT'S READY" Robert bellowed and soon everyone was sitting at the table eating and listening to Maryse recount the meeting to them. Alec caught Isabelle's 'lucky' look when Maryse mentioned who Alec's Master would be and he poked his tongue out at her and Isabelle pretended to gasp and the two of them laughed softly. After Dinner, the siblings went into Max's room and watched movies until Max fell asleep. They then said goodnight to one another and they all went to bed, Alec shut his bedroom door behind him and he got his alarm clock out of his box labeled 'bedroom' and he set it for 10, a hour before Magnus had told him to meet him at his home-he assumed-he then got changed into what he was going to wear for bed and he got under the covers.
He would have to remember to ask his mother who made his bed up for him and then thank them, he closed his eyes and fell asleep. Feeling strangely at home for the first time in a little while.
The alarm woke him up at exactly 10am and he got up, got changed into a sweater than was once black but now looked faded and grey, he put on a pair of black pants and his black sneakers. He went downstairs, made himself some toast and he ate while figuring out the fastest way to walk to Magnus's meeting place. Just as he was about to leave, Robert walked over to Alec, put car keys in his hand and pointed towards the garage.
Alec went to the garage curious and there was his old car, it was a sedan and oh how he had missed it. He got in after unlocking the door and he turned on the car and it turned on perfectly, he opened the garage, drove out, shut the garage and drove off. The patrol was full and it looked like it had been serviced recently, everything worked perfectly and all of the stuff he had left there was still there. The paperwork, Max's drawings everything. While he shouldn't have had a car at 15, his parents had given it to him anyway. He was responsible enough and he didn't get pulled over once so that was a good sign. He got to the meeting place with time to spare and he parked outside the house and he went and knocked on the door.
It opened and Magnus grinned at him before he gestured for him to come in and Alec wandered inside, it was a pretty standard sized house but it had a strange homely feel to it and Alec relaxed right away. Magnus made a follow me motion and Alec followed him as they walked down a hallway, the older man was wearing something in a similar style to what he'd worn to the meeting but Magnus was wearing a lot of glitter to make up for that. They walked into a large room and Alec span looking at everything, it was obviously where Magnus stored all of his trapping gear and Magnus chuckled watching Alec's face and the pale skinned male looked over at him
"So ready to get started?"