Storm Warning (Alec Lightwood x Reader)

Part X

You all piled out of the van. "Yeah this place isn't creepy" Simon piped up from beside you. You were just outside the city of bones and you had to agree, 100%, this place was really creepy.

"Don't tell me your afraid" Isabelle chuckled.

He scoffed "Are you kidding me? I was born afraid... which sounded a lot better in my head" you shook in silent laughter. Clary nudged you, what? You mouthed, she rolled her eyes. Keep rolling them Clary maybe you'll find some common sense while your at it.

"Let's check it out" Alec sighed. Izzy and Jace followed him you would have too but from what you could tell the boys would make you stay anyway. That meant Clary, Simon, and you were left to wait by the van.

"Why are we doing this? ..." Simon started. You tuned him out and leaned on the van already seeing where this dull conversation was headed. Instead you just hummed to yourself and mindlessly played with your necklace, lost in thought.

What were you going to find out in the cave? Would you even survive the process? Is what you find out going to change you? Well... it obviously will, but how? And can you really trust these shadowhunters? No matter how cute or brave you didn't know them as well as you would like. And you really wanted to get to know Alec. What, no, bad Y/n. you told yourself don't get distracted by boys. You never were before so don't start now!

Should you really go through with this? You loved your mom, but would she want you to risk your life? And what if you could still call Luke? Maybe he has another way, she did want you to go to him. You knew what you heard but you just couldn't believe it, Luke was like a father to you. Could he really mean those things? Why? Why was all this happening? Why you? You wished this never happened. But if this never happened you wouldn't have met the Lightwoods.

You didn't know it but while you were thinking the others had led you down a path. Everyone else was in the front but Alec stayed in the back with you. He hated to admit it but he didn't want anything to happen to you.

"Hey you alright" Alec asked. You snapped out of your thoughts "yeah, I'm fine. Why?".

"It's just, well, your crying" he said softly. That's when you noticed the warm tear stains on your face. You took a shaky breath and quickly wiped your eyes.

"I'm fine really" you managed a weak smile. He looked like he still didn't believe you.

"You don't have to do this" he said, "I know that, but I need to know. I need to... seize my tomorrow... and learn my yesterday" you said looking him in the eye. Something about your tone must have convinced him.

He sighed "You need to understand the Silent Brothers aren't like us".

"What they lack your charisma and understanding?"

"You'll find that most shadowhunters do. The Brothers communicate without using words, using just their thoughts" He explained. So telepathy? Cool.

"That doesn't sound to bad" You said.

"Don't let their silence fool you. They'll hold the soul-sword to your head, and with it's blade, carve the truth from your mind. If your not strong enough, you will die." that, not as cool. But you hate being wrong so, when in doubt feign confidence.

"Like I said, no reason to worry" you smiled. He looked at you like you had grown another head. He then sighed "Have you been tested for being insane?" he asked.

"I'm not psychotic, have shown no past sociopathic tendencies, and i'm not hearing little voices in my head that aren't mine. Thus you have no reason to suggest I'm crazy unless either you are or you're just an imbecile" you said smirking. His jaw may have unhinged slightly. No one ever talked to him like that especially someone who didn't know him, he was the son of the head of the institute. For him this just made you more mysterious and alluring like the Matterhorn. He got the feeling that like the icy mountains your beauty was also a trap for the storms that lie within.