Author's note- Sorry this took so long everyone! Been super busy! Also, I realize that this isn't as much of a Malec, but I'm also making this realistis to the story line as best as I can, and Alec won't be spending every second of every day making out with Magnus, so bear with me!

Please, Please review! This is my first Malec, so I would love to know how I'm doing! thanks, and here ya go!

GO!

"Alec! We were wondering if you'd ever get here!" Isabelle called breathlessly as Alec reached the institute. Jace was standing beside her, and they both looked ready for battle, although Jace looked unusually cold and expressionless.

His voice steady and serious, Alec ignored her greeting, instead getting to the reason of the meeting. "Are you both ready to leave?"

"Yes, yes. Of course! I have a taxi coming to take us to where Mom is… or should be, at least." Isabella explained as the taxi pulled up. The three piled into the back.

The trip was silent until finally they reached the destination. After quickly paying the driver, Isabelle followed the two as they faced a dark forest.

Instead of the forest, Alec was focussing on Jace and his stone cold demeanour. Something was obviously wrong with him. Hanging back, Alec watched Jace walk ahead, and he grabbed Isabelle's shoulder, whispering to her, "Is there something wrong with him?" Alec motioned toward Jace.

Looking at him for a second, Isabelle turned back to Alec and shrugged, shaking her head before catching up with Jace. Sighing, Alec followed. 'There's a reason I'm his Parabati, I suppose,' Alec thought to himself as they entered the forest.

"You'd think mom wouldn't go this down in the dumps," Isabelle noted, her nose wrinkled. The three were standing in the trees, staring at a small, dilapidated, barn-like building with its windows broken in.

Rolling his eyes, Alec walked up to the door, knocking on it and calling loudly, "I am Alec Lightwood, a member of the clave, and I demand interest!" He paused for a second, ignoring Isabelle's snickering.

Turning back to the two, he shrugged before opening the door. "That's weird," he whispered as he walked through the door and into the darkness of the barn.

"You know, this is really weird…I'm getting a bad vibe," Isabelle pointed out, hugging her elbows as she followed the two boys.

"Chicken," Jace muttered, looking meaner than his usual sarcastic self; Alec watched him with narrow eyes. Jace walked up to the door and grabbed the knob, shaking it. When it didn't open, Isabelle muttered, "Well there's a shocker."

Ignoring Isabelle completely, Jace took a step back before kicking the door with blinding speed; Alec always had found it fascinating how smoothly and quickly he moved. However not that the secret had finally been spilled about Jace and Clary's angel blood, it almost relieved Alec to know that he wasn't naturally that good.

Sighing, Alec followed as Jace took a few steps into the dark room, his witchlight burning brightly as he help it up high. Isabelle followed behind, her whip trailing behind her, a serious expression on her face.

The place was silent.

"It makes sense!" Jace shouted as Isabelle glared at him. The two had been going at it for about twenty minutes now. The group had searched the building for about two hours, finding absolutely nothing even in the area around it. Jace had suggested they would make more ground splitting up, while Isabelle argued that that was the quickest way to get everyone killed.

Alec himself had been leaning against a musty cabinet, watching the two with an annoyed expression. His few attempts to interfere were useless and ignored.

Eventually, Jace and Isabelle came to a compromise that Isabelle would go with Alec, and Jace-according to Isabelle-would get to die a horrible death by himself. As Jace stalked off, Alec and Isabelle began searching the outside of the building.

As the two searched, Alec broke the silence by asking, "How have you not noticed something wrong with Jace?"

Isabelle, obviously surprised from the sudden question, paused for a moment. Eventually, she replied, "Actually, Ive started noticing it more and more since you've pointed it out, I was just hoping that he was just having a bad day..." Isabelle trailed off, her expression disturbed.

Alec shook his head. "I don't know what it could have been," he noted as he kicked an old tire over. "The Silent Brothers looked over him after that whole Lilith thing…," he paused for a moment before pointing out, "they said that he was fine."

Isabelle nodded before continuing her search, though she seemed distracted. "I don't know, after Sebastion up and disappearing for the second time, I'm just going to be on my guard."

Alec couldn't help but agree.

Eventually, Isabelle and Alec had to admit defeat and they returned to the old building. Jace, who was supposed to have been giving the house another once-over, was nowhere to be seen. Isabelle immediately started assuming the worst. "He's dead! The bloodsuckers have got him! Just like mom!" She had begun to sound frantic.

"He's got to be here somewhere, he probably just went to look for us," Alec replied, attempting to soothe her sister.

Eventually though, as the two continued searching, Alec himself was beginning to worry. He really was gone.

Isabelle, of course, was becoming progressively worse and worse as they continued searching for a familiar face. Her voice was getting higher and her words were less and less audible. She almost screamed at Alec when he suggested them going back to the institute.

"But maybe he's already there, because he gave up a while ago. I mean, we were out there for a long time." Alec pushed past his own worry, not letting it show in his voice.

It took a while to convince Isabelle, but eventually they left the forest, and travelled back to the institute. Alec's pulse was jumping as they rode in the elevator. When they got off, Church was waiting for them. Alec narrowed his eyes at the cat; he had never liked it. "Where's Jace, you silly thing?" he asked, his impatience at an end from Isabelle's frantic worries.

The cat blinked a lazy eye toward him before getting up and walking toward the library. Alec and Isabelle followed with hurried steps, their breaths held.

Alec opened the door and ran in, his eyes opening as he saw not only Jace, but his mother too. Isabelle stopped behind Alec, her eyes equally as wide, and her mouth open.

"What's going on here?" Isabelle asked, her voice rising several octaves.

Flinching, Alec took a step forward, his face a mask of confusion. "Jace, when did you get here? And when did mom get here?" He had absolutely no idea what was happening.

Jace watched him with a mixture of boredom and borderline cruelty. "Well I found mom quite a while ago, I just figured I'd take her home now, since she had to be tired." His voice irked on Alec's nerves as his anger snapped.

"And you didn't think to get us first? Or send a message? Or SOMETHING?"

Alec's mom herself seemed confused. "Jace, you said that Alec and Isabelle were on a separate mission." Her voice was stern, demanding for the truth. Jace, however, seemed bored of the conversation and, without a glance at anyone, left the room with a smirk on his face.

Isabelle, Alec saw, looked murderous. She turned to follow Jace, most likely to scratch his eyes out, but Alec stopped her. He turned to his mom and asked, "What happened to you?" He knew that there were more pressing matters than Jace's bad attitude.

Alec's mom, however, still seemed half confused, half angry form Jace's behaviour, and it took her awhile to concentrate enough to answer Alec. She explained that she had underestimated how many of the vampires there would be. Though she had managed to kill all of the ones in the building, one snuck in from the outside and tied her up. However, she had managed to wound it enough that it wouldn't be able to attack her without regenerating. She explained that she had heard them all arrive and search the building, but that she had been gagged and couldn't yell loud enough for them to hear.

Eventually, however, she was found, but it was only Jace. When she asked where her other children were, Jace had explained that they had been called away on another mission, due to there being no one else in the institute.

"And what about our new institute trainer?" Isabelle had asked; her expression was still darkened with anger from Jace's actions. Alec himself felt the same, though he hid it well.

Alec's mom's expression saddened as she replied, "he died protecting me from one of the bloodsuckers." Alec knew not to pry anymore and he pushed his sister out of the room so that their mother could rest. He also kept Isabelle from tracking Jace down and giving him a piece of her mind. In response to Isabelle's questioning and clearly mutinous expression, he explained, "It would be better if he came to us, instead of us having to beat the answer out of him. And it's not like we'd get the truthful one anyways." Alec knew how Jace acted, perhaps better than anyone else, and he knew that Jace did not do very well when backed into a corner.

Huffing a sigh in defeat, Isabelle receded to her room to clean and get ready for a date with Simon. Alec couldn't believe that she was still dating him after the whole Maia incident, but he also figured that Isabelle had done that same thing to enough men, that perhaps she was more forgiving. The memory made Alec wonder how he would fair if he found out that Magnus wasn't being loyal to him, and he threw the thought away. For one, he knew that it would never happen, and two, it depressed him to think of a life where he had to turn away from the one person he had ever loved.

Despite the whole of the shadowhunter community not accepting his relationship-or sexuality- and his own parent's trouble of being supportive, he knew that a life without Magnus, was a life he didn't want to live.

All of these thoughts made Alec miss the flamboyant Warlock and he left the institute, leaving worries of Jace and his sister's relationship behind.

It took Alec awhile to get to Magnus's; he'd decided to stop by downtown and toured for a while, checking in shops. He had the urge to get Magnus something nice, though he found it difficult to get anything meaningful when he could just magic it into his hand.

Eventually, he found himself in a small jewellery shop run by an old Chinese woman. She was sweet, her expression not changing the slightest when Alec explained that he wanted a gift for his boyfriend, except to brighten into a warm smile.

The woman flipped through catalogues with him and Alec was becoming increasingly frustrated. As one who disliked shopping almost more than that time Magnus had put makeup on him, he was becoming more and more agitated as the minutes turned to hours.

As he was about ready to give up, however, Alec 's gaze stopped on a necklace. The band was a thick black string, simple and strong. Hanging from it was a coiling sphere of silver. The woman noticed Alec's interest and explained that the sphere could hold a stone of his choice. He was directed to a shelf filled with stones and little captions that explained what they were for.

Alec's eyes passed over purple stones of fertility, orange stones of strength, and red stones of love. His eyes seemed to pass over most without much interest until they stopped on a dark blue stone with sky blue markings. The caption read that it magnified a person's inner magic and would protect them when they were in harm. Smiling, Alec grabbed the stone and pushed it through the silver coils until it fit inside. The sphere was just big enough to hold it, without being too big that it rattled when shook. Alec smiled as he held the necklace up to the woman.

The woman quickly made the transaction before handing it back to Alec. When she smiled at him before he left, it held a sense of knowledge beyond that of most mundanes, and Alec frowned slightly as he left the store.; however he shrugged it off as he stared at the necklace, marveling as the stone's edges spread the sun's light in sparkling rays.

Eventually Alec reached Magnus's flat (or their flat, but it was still weird to think of that), and he unlocked the door, walking in and pulling his boots off.

"Magnus," Alec called.

The house was silent.

"Magnus! I know your upset, but I was worried about my mom. She's ok, in case you were wondering." Alec felt ridiculous shouting through the flat. He walked slowly through the hallway before reaching the living room. From it, Alec could see an empty kitchen, and equally empty office-type room. Sighing, Alec walked toward the bedroom, unable to think of anywhere else.

When Alec reached the bedroom, he was relieved to see Magnus sitting on the bed, book in hand, and eyes down. He walked up to the bed, and smiled at him.

He was ignored.

Sighing, Alec cleared his throat. This seemed to catch Magnus's attention and he looked up, "Alec dear! You're back! And you're mom's ok!" He set the book down and stood up, catching Alec in a tight hug. "You had me worried," he pouted as he pulled away.

Alec sighed, "I know, I'm sorry. But I was really worried, and I kind get in a mood when it's time to actually be a shadowhunter." He shrugged before adding, "Part of the job."

Magnus nodded. "Yes, well I've accepted that a while ago. Of course," His face brightened, his eyes glinting mischievously. "It's a lot easier to accept when I'm being showered with gifts." Alec looked down and only just noticed that his hand was empty. Looking up, he saw the black cord wrapped around Magnus's neck, the stone resting above his chest, sending shards of light around. Magnus dropped a glittering wink at Alec before leaning in closer. "Thank you, by the way, it's gorgeous. Reminds me of your eyes."

Before Alec even had a chance to blush, Magnus had closed the gap between them, and the blush arrived about four times as bad. He gripped Magnus's waist and Magnus wrapped his arms around him, smiling against his lips.

Alec pulled away slightly to breath and Magnus trailed kisses down his neck. He reached Alec's sensitive area and bit down gently, causing Alec's legs to go weak. "Remind me to bring you more gifts," Alec joked breathlessly as Magnus rose to meet his eyes.

"Honey, you get me rain or shine."