Chapter 5

Agatha had given Alec and Clary until the morning, and when she had opened the portal all she heard from Magnus was that Jace had arrived and then Alec had come through the portal. Muttering something about Clary, Jace and Luke going to the police station before dragging Agatha off with him.

"What did you say to Magnus?" Alec questioned as they headed straight to his room, he was hoping to avoid both of their parents.

"To go easy on his...well I may have called you his next prey...in an endearing way," Agatha said quietly causing Alec to stop and look at her. "Oh I'm kidding!"

"Are you really?" Alec questioned, looking Agatha in the eyes as he spoke before they continued to walk.

"Yes Alec, I'm kidding. I told him that you were my best-friend and if he hurt you I would have to hurt him," Agatha stuck her tongue out at him and wrapped an arm around his waist. "You know, one day you are going to have to talk to Izzy and Jace about these things and not just keep it between us,"

"I don't know what you're talking about," Alec hissed as Maryse and Robert walked by them.

"You can always come to me, you know that. But you have to start trusting that they'll be like me," Agatha told him, smiling at Maryse and Robert as they continued to walk by them.

"I know, but you know me..." Alex trailed off as they entered into his room and he shut the door behind him.

"Oh Alec, I do and so do they and that's where the problem lies," Agatha sighed sitting on his bed and watching as he started to pace around the room.

"Why do you always do that?" Alec questioned, still pacing back and forth in his room.

"Do what?" Agatha smirked, looking at him as she reached to grab his arm.

"Tell me one thing and mean something else," Alec laughed, dodging her reach causing her to fall off the bed. "Sorry,"

"I do it because it makes you think," she replied as she pushed herself up off the ground and stood in front of him.

While Agatha and Alec talked in his room Isabella sat at one of the desks in the main entrance filling out all the paper work that Alec was meant to have filled out but hadn't yet. Jace and Clary were at the police station waiting for a signal for Luke that it was safe to enter, but when they saw him being taken off by Internal Affairs they had to use another plan of attack. After Jace had called Alec telling him that they needed a little extra help – Agatha opted to watch over them from a distance, she knew that Isabelle if she was desperate for help would contact her. Once they had done what they needed to do all them headed back to the institute, Jace and Isabelle beating Alec and Clary back. They arrived shortly afterwards with a little help from Luke.

Agatha stood silently watching as her baby brother and Clary kissed, before looking at Alec who was also watching and the look on his face said it all as he walked away. Agatha followed silently behind him as he walked to his room.

"Alec, what's bothering you?" Agatha questioned, pushing the door closed behind them.

"It's nothing," Alec was stubborn, almost as stubborn as her.

"Alec, I know you better than you think – I can tell when something is bothering you and something is bothering you now," Agatha sighed, walking over to Alec and grabbing his hand. "Tell me and I'll drop it,"

"Fine...Our parents want me married..." Alec muttered, looking down at her as he spoke. "And I don't know what to do," Alec told her he wasn't happy about it.

"I can tell you right now, that no matter what happens you can always trust me,"

Less than a day later, Agatha and Alec were walking Max through to the foyer when Lydia Branwell (disguised as Valentine) arrived as envoy from the Clave. Alec had just finished telling Max that he would get the boys stele back for him after he almost burned down the Mumbai Institute, Alec and Agatha both grabbed their bow and arrow – Alec firing first. Aggie grabbed hold of Max with her spare hand while staring at Lydia as she de-runed, although the boy was 9 years old he was quite small for his age. Lydia looked at Agatha and then at Alec questioning what the downworlder was doing in the institute.

"What is a downworlder doing in here?" Lydia questioned, looking directly at Alec as she spoke.

"She belongs here, she's one of us," Alec told her, glancing behind him at Agatha and Max.

"Alec, it's alright. Lydia, you're aware of what I am but not who I am. Contact the Inquistor you'll see," Agatha smiled at her before adding. "I was born both Nephilim and downworlder - check the history books once in a while you'll be surprised,"

"Can you teach me more about the runes?" Max questioned, that was one thing that Alec and Isabelle had told him about her.

"Of course I can, how about we go to your room with Izzy and do it there?" Agatha questioned, looking to Max who nodded and then tore off to his room. "I'll be with Max and Isabelle,"

Hours later and Isabelle and Agatha were still going over the runes with Max, they couldn't help laughing each time he got one wrong on purpose. After a while they had gotten bored of doing the runes.

"Hey Max, do you want to see a magic trick?" Agatha questioned, sure he had seen how the runes worked - he saw them as being a little like magic.

"Can I?" Max replied, he wanted his stele back from their parents and he knew that if he behaved then Alec would get it for him.

"I wouldn't have asked you if I wasn't going to show you something special," she smiled, glancing at Isabelle before she spoke again. "Hey Izzy, you want to see this one too?"

"Is it a different one to what you've shown me before?" Isabelle queried, looking at her parabatai. "Never mind, of course it is,"

"Okay, you know that I always tell you when to use the portal to get to me? Well what I didn't tell you was that I can do this," Agatha said closing her eyes and when she opened them Alec was standing in front of them looking very confused.

"Aggie, what did you just do? Put me back before she notices I'm not there," Alec hissed at her and then looked at Isabelle and Max. "Were you two a part of this?" both of them shook there heads.

"Relax, she won't know. I can send you back to before I brought you here," Agatha laughed, closing her eyes and quietly sending him to moments before she had pulled him in front of them.

"That was cool!" Max exclaimed looking at Isabelle and Agatha as he said it. "Wasn't it Izzy?"

"Yes, that was definitely cool," Isabelle smiled at him and then went to walk out with Agatha. "Don't tell the parents,"

As the two girls walked from Max's room laughing at the reaction that Agatha had garnered from the younger boy. Isabelle had been called away to go to the science lab to meet with Magnus to investigate a body of the forsaken that had turned up at the Jade Wolf. After going over the body Magnus went to deliver his findings to Alec who was in the training room. Agatha had gone off to find Jace and Clary to see if they needed her, she knew where they were just wanted to find them the old fashioned way.

There will be more Jace in the next chapter - wanted to focus a little more on Isabelle, Alec and Agatha in this chapter.