War of Hearts (a Malec love story)

A fairy Important Message

Alec's POV

 I wait in the training room with Izzy for about ten minutes before l see the familiar purple shimmer of a portal. Magnus steps out from the violet mist, his arms weighed down with bags and Max strapped to his chest, and immediately walks towards me. "Its a bit unnecessary to portal down the stairs Magnus, don't you think?" he shrugs "its good for Max to get used to portals. Besides, I like to make a grand entrance" Magnus says, wiggling his eyebrows. I laugh,then remember that my mother said that there was an emergency back in New York. "Mags, can you start working on the portal? Apparently mom sounded panicked on the phone and- " He cuts me off, "Ok ok, one portal from London to New York coming right up. Here darling, take max" he says, strapping max to my chest. I blush at the pet name while Izzy "aawwwws" from behind me. "Oh shut up iz" I say, my cheeks now scarlet. "I can't big bro, you two are so sweet!" She squeals. Luckily, Magnus finishes making the portal and i quickly step through to dodge her teasing. I look at the long table in the library where Clary,Jace and my Mom are seated and find it empty,no documents or maps crowd it's surface like they usually do at meetings. I feel an arm wrap around my waist ad look up to see Magnus, his eyes trained on the empty table as well. "So Mayrse, whats the emergency?" He says, clearly intrigued by the casual feel of this meeting, usually meetings involved all of the conclave, not just the family. "We received a very, shall we say, threatening message from the seelie court this morning" Mom says in a pained tone. My eyes widen as I think, could this have something to do with Magnus' nightmares? I look over at him and catch his eye, "Magnus, tell them about the nightmares" He looks at me, clearly embarrassed that I would bring this up now. Clary, Jsce and Izzy look at us with matching concerned expressions, they know that nightmares aren't a good sign. I see Magnus tense up and put my hand in his, hoping he absorbs some strength, enough for him to tell them everything. "Well..." he starts "I've had quite a few sleepless nights because of this same nightmare. In which, my father appears and says that the seelies aren't very pleased with the nephilim, and they will strike. He says that soon, he'll take.." he gets choked up and i squeeze his hand, urging him to go on. "That he'll take my family from me". A collective gasp can be heard throughout the room as they realize the severity of this situation. All I can think about Is how he called me his family. My heart throbs at the way he tears up, his unbelievably sad expression melting me. Magnus had never had a true family, and now that he did, someone was already threatening to take it away. "That won't happen" I urge, my voice threatening to crack "I wont let it. Ever" Magnus gives me a weak smile and a kisses the top of my head, to which i blush profusely. "So what did this message say?" Jace asks, obviously eager to come up with an attack plan. Mom takes out a frisbee sized leaf and begins to read the lettering scratched out on it "We will rise again, watch out nephilim. You have angered all fay, now you'll be our next pray" A shudder runs through me, could this get any worse?