Family Life

Such a Blue Week

Hello! I'm sorry for the delay, I swear to you that I've had this story finished for more than two weeks, but school and life had prevented me of publishing.

Okay, this plainly revolves around a bad, a very bad pun, and my friend -that one I'm always talking to you about- and I decided to keep away from this collection of one-shots, but while we read The Magnus Bane Chronicles I decided that, hey, Cassie made fun of Ragnor's skin color so (and although I know she owns the series and I do not) I decided that well, maybe this wasn't such a bad idea after all.

By the way, although this one-shots are not really related to each other and have no actual order I'd like to pin-poin that in this one Max is older than in the previous one, around twelve, thirteen years old.

I really hope you enjoy it!

Such a Blue Week

If there was one thing that Maxwell Lightwood hated, that was going to Idris. It wasn't that the Clave insisted in treating his family as inferior, it wasn't that he disliked the other shadowhunters, it was plainly and simply that he had better things to do than to go to Alicante and spend his time staring at the wall during endless meetings.

But, having the parents he had more often than not he ended up in Idris.

As a child, it been easier for Alec and Magnus to convince him to 'go visit his grandfather' by offering him an ice cream or a new toy, but they were talking about a teenager now, and they had to throw arguments about something. And oh, how had they fight about their coming trip to Alicante.

Currently, they were sitting to the table, eating and enjoying a little break on the matter thanks to the fact that Catarina had come over for supper.

That until Max oh, so timely and appropriate opened his mouth.

"Dad, do we seriously, seriously, have to go to Idris?" he asked suddenly, putting his spoon down, to what Alec could only sigh softly.

"Max, we've been through this before. You know we have to do it" the shadowhunter muttered, praying to the Angel that Max didn't make a scene right in Catarina's presence.

"Dad, but the place always makes me feel so blue!" Max retorted with a mischievous grin placed across his lips.

It took Magnus almost thirty seconds to understand Max's inner joke; when he did, he almost fell off his chair with laughter. Alec was simply at a loss of words.

"I can't believe you just said that" Alec muttered, sighing as he hid his face behind his hands.

"C'mon, dad, it-"

"This is your fault" Alec accused, pointing straight at Magnus' chest with his index, still debating about whether if he was mad or only surprised. "Instead of nagging him you are just encouraging him!" he cried.

"C'mon, Alec, it was a good one!" Magnus corroborated, parting his son's back in approval.

"I can't believe it. I can't believe you both!" Alec continued in a sigh, which also caused Catarina to giggle.

"Oh, dad, I know you want to laugh too!" Max urged, faking innocence.

"I want to kick you both out" Alec replied, still covering his face. "Now, say you're sorry to your aunt" he ordered, pointing to the female warlock.

"Dad..."

"Do as I say, c'mon" Alec cut him, although he didn't seem so serious when Magnus and Catarina herslef were openly laughing next to him.

"Aunt Cat" Max started. "I'm very, very sorry that I just ridiculed and made fun of our physical appearance because it was convenient for me to do it. I'm sorry if I offended you, my ultimate objective was plainly to avoid going to Idris and not anything else. Which apparently I didn't achieve" he continued, which only caused the remaining two warlocks to laugh harder.

"Well, at least now I know what to say when I don't want to go to work but I'm not sick either" Catarina offered, still giggling.

"It has to be a warlock thing" Alec let out in disbelief, finally letting a smile climb to his lips.

"Oh, you love us" Magnus chanted playfully.

"Mom said 'Don't marry a warlock, they are unpredictable', 'Don't raise a warlock child with Magnus Bane, something will go wrong and you know it', but did I listen? No, of course I didn't" he continued to complain, though the fond smile in his lips said otherwise.

"You still love us" Magnus corroborated, sending him a kiss. Alec couldn't even think of denying that part. It was simply true.

And with that statement, the four of them finally burst into laughter.

"You know you are still going to Idris nevertheless, right?" Alec inquired once the silence came back. "And because of this now you'll be staying the whole week with your grandfather".

"Was worth it" Max replied, grimacing a little.

"We'll see if you see that at the end of the week" Magnus pointed out, deciding to finally support his husband in something. For a change only.

When a week later Magnus and Max were still laughing at the incident Alec decided that there really was no point in arguing anymore.

Well, how did that go?

About Max not wanting to go to Idris and before you say anything about whether or not the otehr Shadowhunters are mean to him I want to say that I do believe that maybe things will have changed and although I'm aware that such a gigantic difference won't become a reality as soon as we'd want, I did not want to go all the way there with this story. What I meant is plainly that: when you are young and rebel you do not want to go to your parents' compromises, let's face it.

On other news, I just want to share something with you. This month it makes exactly three years (from February 2013) since I wrote my first story, a fanfic called "Campanas" (Bells, in English) for the show Death Note.

At the moment I had no idea of how big this would be and neither did I know that this was my first step to a whole new chapter of my life.

I decided that I had to do something special to commemorate this date and I thought that nothing would be better than becoming closer to you, the readers, who in the end are the ones who have supported me, who ask me to continue doing this (I wouldn't be able to stop even if you asked me to, so it's my honor that at least you like my work), and who are the ones who make this worth it.

Wanting to make my communication with you readers better I decided to open a Facebook account dedicated to fanfiction (wunder the name of Karen Hikari too) in which you will be able to see what story I plan to update soon, my plans for the month and a lot more of things!

As always, thank you, thank you to all those followers, to the ones who have read, commented, added to favorites. I do this thanks to and for you and, in all honesty, I owe myself to you, so this is just another way to extend my gratitude to you lovely people.

I'm telling you from this moment, that this page will be madness, because as I have written stories both in English and Spanish, I have followers that speak both languages, so you'll see me translating each and every note I write. Let's hope this doesn't crash and burn too bad!

And, as always, read you soon!