A/N: Oooo-kay...so, schools starting soon for me, so I probably will be updating less often. Sorry, I'm taking an advanced math (that I didn't want to take) so that will probably preoccupy most of my time for a while. Oh, and in this story I use some words from the book differently. You'll know soon, and in future chapters, but I wanted to give you the heads up.

I own nothing, and let's begin.

Alec's POV

"I love you, too, Alec." Magnus said, the sincerity in his words enough to make my heart explode. Magnus' eyes started to look different. The gold and green seemed to swirl and mix together, and his pupil started to slowly consume the colors.

I stared into his eyes as I started to feel dizzy. The room behind him was getting fuzzy, and I could see confusion in Magnus' face, so he must have felt it too.

Wind stared to blow on our faces and stir our hair. Everywhere our bodies touched, my fingers in his hair, his hands on my hips, began to glow blue. I let go of his hair and made a sound of surprise.

The black of Magnus' pupils had eaten up every trace of the swirling colors, and the dark abyss was unfamiliar to me.

"Magnus?" I asked breathlessly, still confused at what was happening. But he only shook his head, looking at my arms in wonder, and horror. Probably how I was looking at his eyes.

I felt it then. The mild burning on my skin. I felt it burning shapes into my arms and legs and abdomen. I looked down, and the marks were black, looking like swirling black tattoos. They were everywhere, and some disappeared as soon as they were drawn, while others remained until finished, then dissolved.

Each new pattern was a word, or represented one, and I could read every one of them. Healing, Sight, Balance, and Swiftness. Other marks had a more primitive look to them, as if old and unused. They meant more than what could be said in words, but held great power.

A more painful burning in my palm made me gasp in surprise. I heard Magnus hiss and look down. We held out our hands together and saw the same shape etched into each of our palms. One word popped into my head, and apparently Magnus' too, because we both whispered,

"Alliance"

when we whispered that word, everything stopped. The wind, the trippy blue lights and the burning. Magnus and I were back in the school hallways, embracing like we were five minutes ago.

I let go of him, and heard the disappointed cries of our onlookers. I saw that Magnus' eyes were back to normal, and scared. I was definitely feeling the same way. Creepy wind and that stuff only happened in movies, not my life. Although, things have been going differently since Magnus arrived.

Magnus started looking around, searching. I saw him mouth something to Clary, who was standing at the edge of the crowed. Her eyes were wide in fear, but also a little mocking as if saying "I told you so."

Magnus shook his head once, and Clary pushed off from the crowed and walked over to them, all the while Magnus protesting with low "no"s.

"Clary, um, hi" I said, with my usual blush. Even with all the weird things happening, the red stain decided to make an appearance. I grabbed Magnus' hand to hide our mark, and he looked at me with a raised eyebrow.

"Don't worry, Alec, I saw everything." Clary said, whose worried and fearful eyes were starting to scare me. The disappointment in the shape of her mouth confused me. I gasped at her words.

"You did?" I exclaimed. Everyone else seemed completely normal, on there way to class, on there way out of class. If they had seen, at least someone would be freaking out. I know I would be.

"Yes, I did." she paused "But they didn't." she gestured to everyone else in the hallway.

A thousand and one questions popped into my head at the thought that someone had answers. And it seemed Clary did by the way she was looking at us. Well the way she was looking at me. She was just glaring at Magnus.

I shook my head. "Wait, Clary, what's going on?" I looked at Magnus and whispered "I'm scared."

"Don't worry, Alec," Clary whispered, "We have some answers, well some things we need to tell you."

A/N: OOOOOOO, mysterious. Review if you want to find out! Oh, and I won't post another chapter until I have 30 (!) reviews, sooo get to it.