Before my days are gone

Christmas time and afterlife

Hi.
I don't even know if shadow hunters celebrate Xmas like us mundanes but they do now.
If I make you cry during this chapter,feel free to hit me with how much you cried on a scale of one to ten.
I was a ten.
Don't feel bad if you bawl your eyes out,I did.

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∆∆∆Max's POV∆∆∆

A silent tear made it's shiny ,uneven path down my cheek as I looked down on my picture perfect family settling in for Christmas together without me.
I looked around to see Hodge and Imogen walking up to me to watch friends and family with me.
"... Max." Someone said down below and drew my attention back to them. "I wish we could spend one last Christmas with Max." Mom said, her lips trembling. I smiled as my big sister smooths out her knee length skirt (that I got her for her birthday) and stood up with a box of tissues which she offered to mom. Mom smiled her tearstained thanks and, taking the box,left the room.

Izzy ,now on a role of festive help,next made her graceful way over to my older brother who was sobbing into his husband's coat and hugged them both tightly to her chest. She looked around for dad but he'd left the room before mom did. He always found it hard and stressful to accept Magnus but when my name started getting thrown around, it was too stressful.
Izzy then ,turning to leave the family room,told us to "wait right here. I'll be back soon." Before flying off down the institute passages.
When she got back,five minutes later,she was clutching two meager photo frames.

"I forgot that I had these stuffed under my bed!" She exclaimed,clearing the mantelpiece of all the mistletoe and other festive items. Once she had done that,she carefully placed the photos down and equally carefully placed a seraph blade ,a piece of tinsel and astatue of the angel next to them. She stepped back and I got a glimpse. They were photos of me taken months before my death ,reading manga. It was angel sanctuary and magical love gentlemen volume thirteen from what I could make out.

Alec,striding across the room sadly,then came and knelt down next to his sister in front of the mantel.
"Merry Christmas ,Max." He muttered tearfully as Magnus placed one hand on his shoulder.
"I know dear.it's hard to lose someone so close to you. Especially at such a young age. It never gets easier. I would know..." Magnus sympathetically mumbled,the glitter around his eyes making it seem as if he was crying. Or maybe he was.
Kneeling in front of them,I saw the tears in all of their eyes and knew that they cared about me much more than they could ever say.
"Aw. Thank you guys. I just want you all to know that I love you to idris and back and there is no way that I will ever leave you if you believe that I'm here." I whispered as more tears rolled down my face. My words fell on deaf ears.
The last time I saw my family was at my funeral and the scene was bad.
My mothers pained sobs wrenched at my heart strings and my brothers were violently fighting the unavoidable grief tears that I knew were spilling down their thin faces. Even the empty seat where my father should have been hurt.
I took Hodge and Imogen's hands and wevwalked blissfully into the gates of oblivion.