Mikey goes in search for his fathers.
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The Institute. His second home.
He remembers the first time he was here. A terrified boy looking for his father, pushing past ShadowHunters, Master's enemies, to get to the ShadowHunter who he loved.
Now he walks in ready to do battle, once again looking for the ShadowHunter he calls 'Daddy'. But now he is almost as tall as Poppa. He stands eye to eye with his big 'brother' Max and is a foot taller than his 'big' sister Maxine.
He has a tattoo on his right wrist:
Lightwood
Bane
10/08/2014
On his left wrist, he has a deflect/block rune tattoo for Daddy. Above that he has a yellow love rune for Poppa and a blue storge rune for his sister.
His skin is the same shade of brown as his brother and sister. He's bald.
He senses alarms going off as he walks into the War Room. A dozen ShadowHunters surround him, seraph blades in hand. He recognizes a few of them, but their leader he knows only from his siblings' description of him.
Aldertree glares at him, "Warlock, what brings you here?"
Mikey eyes him coldly, "I'm looking for somebody."
"There is nobody here for you."
Mikey continues, "I'm looking for Alec Lightwood."
Aldertree laughs coldly, "You're a few years too late, he died a long time ago. And I doubt he would have anything to do with a warlock. What is your business with him?"
Mikey turns around without answering him.
"I asked you a question, warlock."
Mikey continues to ignore him and walks away until a ShadowHunter holds his seraph blade to Mikey's neck, "You were asked a question."
Mikey's blood goes cold as he glares at the ShadowHunter. He remembers Maxine holding his hands tight as she told him about Raj killing Daddy in cold blood, right here in the Institute on her eleventh birthday. The tears ran down her face as she remembered that horrible day.
When he asked what happened to their father's murderer, she weakly smiled and said that Max killed him.
Now in this world where he woke up in a warlock shelter, he glares at the man, "Get out of my way, Raj."
The ShadowHunter blinks, "How do you know my name?"
"You killed my father."
Raj laughs, "I killed many demons."
Mikey sneers, "I'm not talking about the thing that got my mother pregnant, I'm talking about the man that raised me."
"He probably deserved to die."
Mikey grabs Raj's wrist and flicks his other hand. All the ShadowHunters are thrown across the room. Raj tries to take his hand out of Mikey's grip but can't. Mikey snaps Raj's wrist and throws him to the floor. Raj's blade hits the floor with a loud bang as Raj lands on his ass. Raj grits his teeth as he gets to his feet.
Mikey creates a fireball and throws it at him. Raj bursts into flames and is dead in seconds.
Aldertree and the other ShadowHunters try to get to Mikey but they are trapped behind a barrier.
Aldertree yells, "Warlock, how are you able to do magic inside the Institute?"
Mikey looks at him coldly, "I'm more powerful than the wards protecting this place."
"You killed a ShadowHunter."
Mikey sneers at him, "That ShadowHunter was already dead, as are you."
"Me? I'm the Head of the Institute, you wouldn't dare kill me."
"And yet, my father had a target on his back."
"Your father?"
"Alec Lightwood."
Aldertree laughs, "I doubt that. First of all, no Lightwood would adopt a warlock and second he died as a child. Now remove this barrier."
Mikey shakes his head, "I'm done here." He walks out the War Room. Once outside the Institute, he snaps his fingers and removes the barrier from inside.
Taking a deep breath, he opens a portal and walks into the loft.
He stands there and looks around but there is nothing to see. The loft is empty of people and furniture.
Mikey closes his eyes for a minute or so, then walks into his sister's room. It's empty.
He walks into his room and finds it empty as well.
Finally he walks into his fathers' room and stands where their bed should be. His legs give out and he sinks to the floor as tears run down his face.
He suspected that Daddy was dead but had hoped to find Poppa here in the loft.
Mikey looks around the empty room and sobs, unable to think what his next step should be.
-tbc-
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Just the start of familiar faces in this fanfic.
Storge is a wide-ranging force which can apply between family members, from Wikipedia. For the rune itself, I've posted a link on malec_4ever.
