Tell Me A Secret || Alec Lightwood

Chapter XVIII

Life hasn't been great for you once you turned 5 years old.

You couldn't remember the time where your parents celebrated your first birthdays. Where your mother would smile proudly at you when you held up a drawing you made for her. Or even the moment you were riding your bike on your own and your father would clap in pride, watching you with nothing but love. Or simply just having dinner with them?

None of that. No happiness. No memories.

You didn't remember anything before Valentine. Perhaps it was still there. Only pushed away into a dark corner to forget.

Then you turned 12 years old, after 7 long long years, you got that spark of life back.

A bit of light in the darkness and horror. A bandage that got rapped around your wounds.

That bandage was Magnus.

Magnus Bane gave you the childhood back that was stolen from you before you got to even live it.

It was challenging... It really was.

All of a sudden you were free? You didn't have to listen and obey a man that could kill you without a blink of his eye. You didn't have to endure hours of torture and weird experiments. And you did not have to be lonely again.

You saw the real world. You saw birds and cats. You saw girls your age. Girls wore different clothes than others. You felt sunshine on your skin. You simply felt loved.

Loved by Magnus Bane, the high warlock of Brooklyn.

He was your father figure you've lost all that time ago. He was the person that taught you how to be in this normal world, as you haven't been in it of more than 10 years.

He was your guardian angel. The man that was by your side 24/7 to help you keep going. So you won't give up on this second chance in life.

He once told you 'We're family now' and that sentence lingered into your mind throughout the years. That sentence kept you going when you had a hard day or when the thoughts in your mind turned dark. 

Losing him was not an option. Not at all.

But when his life was at stake...

You would give your life for him. Which may not be something Magnus would ever agree with, heck he would been furious, but it's the honest truth. It always will be.

You'd give him your life without a second thought because he gave you back yours.

Meeting him changed everything.

Every single thing.

Flashback

You missed it already. The warmth you felt once the flames took over the whole little shop. It wasn't easy to make the fire without alerting Valentine or his creepy minions, as you called them.

Once you got it started with the flick of your hand, there was no going back.

Fire burst through the room without a warning, people screamed and panicked but your only goal was Valentine losing you out of his eyesight for only 5 seconds. That was all you needed. 5 short seconds to escape..

He ordered you to accompany him while he attended some business in town.

That business? Murding a whole family of werewolves.

'Dangerous' werewolves that owned a little shop in the mundane world.

You knew this was wrong. Valentine's manipulation did it's effects but throughout the years you started to see his wrongdoings. Yet there was nothing you could do. After he was done, killing them discreetly in the back of the bakery, made sure you watched so you would do the next job, you made the fire once his fully attention was on the lifeless werewolves.