Chapter 4: Welcome To The World

FIVE MONTH TIME JUMP!

Alec really didn't want to go to work today. He knew the mundane would be there following Jace around like a lost dog, the Inquisitor was coming through from Idris to check up on him, and they still couldn't find the six missing Seelie children. He loved his job, but sometimes he really hated it.

Alec had left for the Institute through a portal that Magnus had opened for him. He laughed and thought fondly about what had happened before he left…

FLASHBACK!

"Alexander!" Alec heard his husband call from the bedroom. On instinct, Alec rushed to him, to find his husband laid on his back on the bed, shirtless and jeans only pulled up to his knees. He couldn't help but laugh at the sight of his husband, but soon snapped out of it when Magnus flashed him his cat eyes.

"What's gone on here then?" Alec smirked, watching his husband struggle to pull his skin tight jeans up.

"I'm fat!" Magnus cried, growling in frustration at the sight of his now, very large stomach that was housing his baby.

"You're not fat, Mags. You're just pregnant," Alec chuckled, going to sit on the side of their bed.

"I look like a fabulous whale Alexander! That's is so not a good look for me," Magnus complained, still relentlessly trying to push his jeans up his legs. Alec tried to help him, but to no end, the jeans wouldn't even reach the base of his husband's thighs.

"Those maternity jeans are looking good right about now aren't they?" Alec teased, reminiscing about their shopping trip the previous week when Magnus would not even look at the denim with an elasticated waist.

"Stop teasing me! It's mean! I want a new husband!" Magnus cried in frustration, poking Alec in the stomach. "You don't have to carry a child for seven months!"

"Hey, at least it's not nine like a mundane pregnancy," Alec pointed out. "Come on Mags, you've only got a month and a half left, I'm sure you can survive without your skin tight jeans, baby." Magnus just glared daggers at his husband and let out a huff of surrender.

"Fine. But there is no way I am wearing, eugh, elasticated jeans!" Magnus declared, shoving his jeans down his legs and throwing them in the direction of the wardrobe. Alec just sat on the bed and watched his husband strut around in a pair of Alec's boxers trying to find something to wear. "I swear I was never this big when I had Grace," Magnus argued, bringing out a pair of Alec's jogging bottoms and one of his huge hoodies.

"And who said you could wear my clothes?" Alec asked, wiggling his eyebrows.

"Your pregnant husband who cannot fit into his own clothes, that's who," Magnus answered quickly, smirking at Alec. He quickly threw the joggers on, that only just came up to his now huge hips, and pulled the hoodie over his head, being extra careful that the hood didn't touch his amazing hair.

"Poor baby," Alec laughed, pulling his husband between his legs. Alec pressed his ear to Magnus' stomach so he could hear the baby moving around and kicking, he felt a slight movement and was ecstatic about it. "This baby is going to be an amazing Shadowhunter," Alec said matter of factly.

"Or warlock!" Magnus argued, secretly hoping the baby would be a warlock, having one of each would be just brilliant for both of them. He knew how excited Alec was for when Grace grew older to begin her training, and Magnus could do the same with a warlock baby. He just had to hope.

"Or a warlock," Alec added fondly, bringing Magnus into his lap so he could kiss him. However Magnus had other ideas, so he pushed Alec flat on the bed and crawled on top of him, kissing him eagerly, tongues and teeth everywhere. Alec was all too happy to pull his own shirt off unbuckle his jeans for his husband, enjoying the phase Magnus was going through. When Magnus was pregnant with Grace, he had two months of non-stop horniness and lust, and Alec, being the kind and considerate husband he was, could only comply.

Magnus pulled Alec out of his jeans and began to stroke him gently, hearing his husband's moans only encouraged him more. It always amazed Magnus how he and his husband could keep pleasuring each other after so many years together, and Magnus hoped that would never stop.

Alec began to groan as he was coming to his climax, groaning "Magnus," over and over again. Magnus kissed his husband soundly on the mouth and went down on him, taking Alec into his mouth and began to suck gently, mouthing at the tip then going all the way down, taking all of his husband. "Magnus, fuck!" Alec moaned sinfully, gripping Magnus' head and encouraging him to keep going. Alec let out a warning for Magnus to pull off, but Magnus was determined to stay where we was and eagerly swallowed everything Alec offered him, not missing one drop.

"Fuck, baby," Alec growled, feeling completely blissed out. Magnus came up to kiss him, tongues battling each other, Alec tasting himself on his lover's tongue. With a snap of his fingers, Magnus got Alec dressed again and pushed him off the bed.

"Better get going to work my darling," Magnus smirked, noticing the blush in his husband's face. He loved the fact that only he could see Alexander like that, that he can make him like that.

"You are evil," Alec laughed, kissing him again.

"You know it," Magnus replied, smiling into another kiss. He opened a portal for Alexander and watched him disappear through it.

FLASHBACK END!

Alec landed in his office and quickly began to tidy up his desk, he didn't even want to imagine what the Inquisitor would say if she saw the state of his desk. She wasn't happy at first when she gave the Head of the Institute position to Jace, then for Jace to get tired of it after one day and pass it on to Alec. That was five years ago, and she still never seemed fond of the idea, however she never fired him from it so that must have been a good thing. Alec had led the Institute through the war with Valentine the second time around, and would go down in the Shadowhunter history books as the Nephilim that united every single Downworlder together. He was immensely proud of that. He was happy that the one thing he would be remembered for would go on and on for many centuries to come, as long as Magnus was there to keep it going.

Alec left his office and went to fine Isabelle, he knew she was still on the Seelie case and wanted to see if she had found any more leads yet.

"Hey Izzy, found anything yet?" Alec asked, finding his sister on one of the computers.

"A little. We did find a trace of demon blood near the Seelie court entrance in the park, I've run it past analysis and it looks to be Dragonidae demons, I don't know why we haven't had any reports about them or why they haven't registered in our radars but, yeah. That is our strongest lead so far, I have sent a team to ask the Seelie Queen if they have had reports of anything, apart from that, we can't really do much else at the moment," Isabelle explained.

"Dragonidae demons? Why would they come here for Seelie children? They can get them anywhere," Alec wondered, thinking about any possible reason for this.

"I have no idea. I know they hunt in flocks and they burn their kills before eating them, but there were no scorch marks to hint at anything. It's all very peculiar," she answered, going through some files on Dragonidae demons.

Alec left her to it and went into the weapon's room to shoot some arrows, he hadn't done it in a while and felt like tuning himself up a bit. And to his annoyance, he found Jace in there with Clary, showing her how to use a seraph blade. Alec could see that she had been runed up with some basics, a stamina rune, an iratze, a deflect rune and a voyance rune, which was on the back of her right hand. He knew that Jace had taken on the brunt of Clary's training and he had to admit that the girl's movements were exceptional, well that's what happens when you're trained by one of the best Shadowhunters of the generation.

"Hey Alec," Jace said in greeting to his parabatai. He was currently sparring with Clary, obviously far better than her, but she looked determined to prove herself, Alec gave her that. He observed them from the bow stand and watched Clary drop the seraph blade in frustration as Jace bested her again. That was her problem, Alec deduced, short tempered. Not that he couldn't say much, he had the rune to prove he had a short fuse, but he never lost his temper in battle, whether it be against demons or Downworlders or fellow Nephilim, you could not put yourself before others in battle. And that was final.

Alec grabbed a bow and sheath of arrows and began firing them rapidly, one after the other at the target. He didn't realise that Clary and Jace had stopped fighting and just started watching him shoot the target to smithereens.

"Alec-" Clary started, Jace just shushed her. Nobody interrupted Alec when shooting, everybody knew that.

"What?" Alec finished, never taking his eye off the target.

"I was wondering if I could have a go?" Clary asked nervously. Eyeing the compound bow warily, she was determined to show she could shoot as well.

"Do you know how to shoot?" Alec questioned, raising his eyebrows at his brother.

"My best friend and I did archery at summer camp six years running," she said, smiling slightly. Alec looked at her in disbelief as if it was the most ridiculous thing he had ever heard in his life. Jace thought he was going to lose his mind after that, but to his surprise; Alec handed Clary the bow and arrows. Clary took them and notched one up, she certainly didn't have the strength in her arm to pull the string all the way back to her chin, but Alec couldn't see why she couldn't get a decent shot close range. Alec went to take out the dozens of arrows out of the target when Clary let go of the arrow in the bow and it struck Alec right in the back!

Alec fell to the floor in a howl of pain! Clary dropped the bow in shock and Jace staggered to the floor as well, feeling the pain of the arrow through his parabatai rune. Clary didn't know where to look, at Jace or Alec, both were in a lot of pain and she just froze.

"Get. Izzy," Jace grunted, trying to get to his parabatai who was literally crying with pain. He watched Clary run out of the weapon's room, and the pain in his side began to subside as he watched Alec cry out for Magnus and blood spurt from the wound. "Everything will be okay, Alec. Don't worry," Jace said, trying to comfort his parabatai. He reached for the arrow but regretted it immediately as Alec began to cry out even more. The arrow was wedged in deep and Jace refused to touch it now, not wanting to cause Alec more pain.

Clary came back with Isabelle and some of the Institute medics, they got Alec on his side and carried him out of the room on a stretcher, Izzy rushing after them.

"I didn't mean to! Everything I do hurts somebody. I don't belong here!" she cried out, and ran before Jace could catch up with her. Isabelle caught the ordeal and just guided Jace to the Infirmary.

"Don't worry about her now. Worry about Alec and what Magnus is going to do when he finds out what she did," Isabelle told him, checking him over briefly before returning her focus onto Alec.

BREAK

Magnus and Grace were eating ice-cream in Central Park when it happened. He was watching Grace play around a fountain when he felt a niggling pain in his wrist. He looked down and saw his love rune to Alec was burning, something was definitely wrong. He was about to call Grace when he felt a huge cramp run up his back, around his hips and into his stomach.

"Grace!" he called, finding a bench to sit on and wait for his daughter.

"What is it Daddy?" she asked, running back, looking concerned.

"We need to go to the Institute sweet-pea… now," he told her, trying to summon up the strength to keep the glamour going and to open a portal.

"Are you okay Daddy? You look like you're hurting," Grace asked, watching Magnus hunch over in pain. There was definitely something wrong.

BREAK

Alec was in a state of drifting in and out of consciousness, muttering nothings when asleep and muttering nothings when awake. The medics decided to leave the arrow in, and wait for a warlock to come to the Institute. Izzy had hoped they sent for Magnus, he would know what to do.

BREAK

Magnus managed to get a portal open to the Institute, but only just, and landed in a heap of limbs, with his daughter landing elegantly on her feet next to her. Shadowhunters were watching them both curiously.

"Where's my Papa?" Grace asked the Shadowhunter named Duncan. He explained that Alec was in the Infirmary after an accident and helped Magnus onto his feet. Magnus was staggering to the Infirmary when he felt another portal open. He heard the words "Madam Inquisitor" and started to panic. If she found Magnus in here, Alec would be demoted for sure. Grace helped her father into the Infirmary and soon picked out her Auntie Isabelle.

"Auntie Isabelle!" Grace called out to the dark-haired lady. Isabelle's head shot up at the sound of her niece's voice and found her standing with her arms wrapped around Magnus. "Daddy's hurt!" Izzy ran to Magnus and quickly moved him to a bed, pulling a curtain around the hospital bed.

"What happened angel?" Izzy asked, quickly getting a heart pressure monitor for the warlock.

"Daddy kinda like crumpled over and held his tummy. Is it the baby?" Grace asked, worried about her little brother or sister. Izzy nodded and moved Magnus onto his back and stripped him of his shirt, quickly checking the baby's heartbeat. To her utter surprise, she didn't hear one heartbeat… she heard two…

"I think there is more than one baby in there," she informed Magnus. She saw Magnus' face turn into ultimate shock and proceeded her check-up; in all honesty she didn't know what was wrong with the warlock… unless…

Isabelle grabbed hold of Magnus' left wrist and saw his rune was burning, he obviously didn't know that Alec was hurt so badly and that must have triggered the pain he was feeling.

"Where's Papa?" Grace asked Isabelle. "Do you think I should get him?"

"No angel. Papa is dealing with something," Izzy told her, Magnus looked at her curiously, he knew his Alexander would never be to busy to see his family. "Magnus, Alec got injured okay? He got shot with an arrow," she explained. Magnus' face grew wide with anger and sadness, he was extremely annoyed that nobody had told him that his beloved was hurt.

"Where is he?" Magnus asked, trying to sit up from the bed. His pain was still there but it was masked by Magnus' need to help Alec. He struggled from the bed and limped through the Infirmary, searching for his husband.

BREAK

Grace found her Papa and Uncle Jace and quickly brought her Daddy to them. Her Papa looked really poorly and was quite scared for him.

"Move out of my way, Herondale," Magnus demanded, pushing his way to his husband's bedside. He saw that nobody had bothered to remove the arrow out of his back, so he began to mutter some incantations whilst pulling the arrow out. The spell would make the wound numb so Alec wouldn't feel so much pain.

Magnus had managed to remove the arrow successfully, he proceeded to check him over thoroughly, then snapped his fingers for a drought from the loft which would help ease the pain and hopefully help him wake up. That was when everything went sideways… Grace saw it first, she saw the clear liquid pool at her Daddy's feet and tugged on his sleeve.

"Daddy… I think you had an accident," Grace whispered, not wanting to make her Daddy embarrassed. Izzy glanced down to the floor and saw the liquid. Magnus' waters had broken!

"Magnus! We gotta get you away from here, now!" she cried, pulling the warlock away from his husband. She knew he would want to stay there, but she didn't give him much choice; besides he knew it would be silly to go through labour at his injured lover's bedside.

Izzy had called for a trolley and some medics to transport him to a ward around the back of the Institute, they had no time to move Magnus to the supernatural ward at Catarina's hospital so they would have to deliver the babies there and then. Izzy knew that Downworlder pregnancies were extremely fast and knew they wouldn't have much time to get her brother-in-law comfortable before the babies made themselves known.

"Arrrrgghh!" Magnus cried, clutching his stomach in pain. "Get them out!"

"We will Mags, don't worry everything will be just fine. I'm gonna help and we're going to get the babies safely delivered okay?" Izzy comforted, she saw Grace was following them and knew she should tell her to go and sit with her Papa, but she really didn't have time. It was now or never. "Right Magnus, we're here okay? Now I am going to take your pants off and we will deliver these babies," Isabelle informed the warlock as they pulled into a private room.

"I want Alexander!" Magnus yelled, struggling against the four pairs of hands on him. He knew one of the owners was Isabelle and he really didn't want his babies being delivered by strangers, but he knew he didn't have a choice. He just wanted his Shadowhunter to be there.

Without Izzy knowing, Grace had run off to find her Papa, she knew her Daddy wanted him so she would go and get him. Simple as. She followed her footsteps back to the bed to see her Papa sat up on the bed chatting to her Uncle Jace, the drought vial fully empty.

"Papa! Daddy wants you with him!" Grace told him loudly, taking his hand and practically dragging him out of bed.

"What is it sweetie? Is Daddy okay?" Alec asked his daughter, worried about his husband. Apparently nobody had thought to tell him that his husband had gone into labour.

"Alec! You can't be running around like this, you just got shot!" Jace pleaded with his parabatai, feeling guilty about not telling him about Magnus.

"Yeah! By your girlfriend, so the least you can do is let me go and see Magnus. What's wrong with him anyway?" he questioned the blond Shadowhunter, still being pulled along by his daughter with immense strength.

"He maybe, kinda went into labour while you were unconscious," Jace replied, rubbing his neck like he always did when he was nervous. Alec was outraged! How dare his own brother to not tell him his husband was giving birth! He wanted to punch Jace straight in the face, but knew Magnus needed him more, so decided a frustrated growl would suffice for now.

Alec let Grace lead him to the room where his beloved was in, and walked in on quite a scene, Isabelle and three Nephilim medics were currently surrounding his screaming husband, trying to deliver his child.

"Magnus! I'm here baby, I'm here," he said, limping to his lover's bedside and gripping his hand tightly, as if he would never let it go.

"Alexander. You're okay," Magnus sighed happily, reaching out to stroke his pale cheek. Alec leaned down and kissed his husband. Unfortunately the reunion kiss was cut short because Magnus pulled away with a howl of pain that made Alec want to cry. He could feel Magnus' pain through their love rune and could feel everything he felt. Alec was just glad he was giving birth naturally, especially after what happened with Grace…

FLASHBACK!

"Magnus, you need to stop adhering to the Clave's every will. They're taking advantage of your magic!" Alec told him, he knew this much stress was not good for his husband or their baby. Especially since Magnus was so close to his due date.

"Alexander, I will be just fine, it's just a little rift-" Magnus started, before yelling in pain. Alec quickly looked over his husband before noticing the wetness collecting on the floor. "Alec..." And that was before Magnus passed out in his husband's arms. Alec laid him on the sofa and instantly called Catarina, needing a portal to the supernatural ward immediately. Catarina had sent a portal and Alec carried Magnus through it, landing in a private room with Cat and two midwives ready for them…

FLASHBACK END!

Alec remembered that Magnus had to be taken into surgery almost immediately after they discovered that he could not push the baby. The midwives took him away and later told him it was because of the amount of stress Magnus was under that he couldn't deliver naturally. They had to cut down most of Magnus' stomach to deliver Grace, and he had to be left in hospital for two weeks as he and Grace had not been well after the birth. Alec had no intention of watching his soul mate go through that again, and wanted this labour to be as smooth as possible. Obviously that hadn't gone to plan as he had gotten shot and Magnus used up a lot of his energy trying to heal him, according to Jace.

"Alec, we have one!" Isabelle called, holding a small human being in her arms. "A little boy." she told him. Alec looked like he would cry, a baby boy just what he had hoped for, one of each was perfect for him! Alec took a hold of the tiny boy and cradled him to his chest. He was torn between getting lost in staring at his new baby and wondering why Magnus was still crying with pain.

"Izzy, why is he still?-" Alec started, when he heard an infant's cry from his sister's arms. She was holding another baby, Alec deduced, but that meant-

"There were two. Believe me, we found out like an hour ago," his sister told him, handing off the other baby to Magnus. He moved to his husband's bedside, Grace following suit, and they just stared down at their perfect new children.

"Look," Magnus whispered, holding the baby in his arms at a different angle, Alec could tell she was a girl, and she had wings! Bright white wings were folded in on her back.

"By the Angel," he heard Izzy gasp, looking at the tiny girl in Magnus' arms. Alec kissed his husband passionately and began to tear up at the beautiful babies. They were more perfect than they could have ever imagined.

"Welcome to the world," Alec said gently, smiling down at his son and daughter. All of his children were beautiful, and they were all theirs...

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