Hey everyone. A new story from me. Enjoy. Not beta read, all mistakes are mine. The characters are not, they belong to Cassandra Clare.

Chapter 1

It had been a horrible day. Too much work, too much of complaints from his mother, too much of everything really.

And to top it all, Alec had not seen nor heard from Magnus in two days. And this got the young Nephilim worried.

He had tried to give Magnus a call earlier that day but received no answer. Maybe the high warlock was busy. Alec knew that sometimes he had multiple appointments a day so maybe he was just too exhausted to give Alec a call.

Or he had gotten bored of the Shadowhunter.

The second option made Alec's heart squeeze painfully. If no more incidents occurred today, he would visit Magnus this evening just to make sure he was okay.

Alec was just on his way from the training room to the office, when he heard the conversation.

"Did you hear about the attack yesterday? Pretty bad from what I heard."

Alec knew the voice, what was the name of the Shadowhunter? Steven? Stephan? Stephan, yes that was his name. The other voice he recognized immediately.

"Which one are you talking about? We had at least six demon attacks yesterday." Raj.

"The one in Brooklyn with the Circle members. The hunt for the warlocks?"

Alec stopped dead in his tracks. Hunt? Warlocks? In Brooklyn?! Alec felt his blood run cold.

"Seriously? I thought everyone at the institute knew about that one. Especially since Alec Lightwood is well … you know." "What exactly are you going at Stephan? You do know that I do not have time for this, I have reports to write and demon activities to check." Raj interrupted a bit unkindly.

Alec would have done that too, if he would not be too occupied with listening to learn what Stephan knew about this attack.

"I heard there was a warlock-meeting yesterday, in Brooklyn. Turned out this meeting was actually a trap. A lot of warlocks together, the perfect opportunity for the circle members to attack and slaughter them. Must have been like a bloodbath. Let me tell you it was not a nice scene to clear off. A lot of dead bodies, circle members and warlocks alike."

All air left Alec's lungs, if he still had any left the next sentence would punch it right out of him.

"Who knows, maybe there will be a new High warlock of Brooklyn soon."

Without thinking, Alec moved. He had just been around the corner of the corridor where the other two Shadowhunters had been talking. And the next thing he knew, he had griped Stephan on his color and had pushed him against the next wall of the institute.

The audible gasp that was coming from Raj, Alec only registered barely. His eyes were hard and spoke of hate and anger.

"You have 10 seconds to explain why in the angels name this attack was not reported to me?!"

Alec felt his breath come short, anger rushing through his veins and panic clouded his mind.

"Alec … I … it was not me that was in charge of this mission."

Stephan tried to justify himself.

"I do not care who was in charge of this mission! I do not remember a report of it at all! If it would have been reported correctly the whole institute would know with Valentine and the circle rising. I knew nothing, and so did my sister and my parabatei. Because IF they knew they would have informed me immediately!"

Alec increased the pressure he had on Stephan's throat. In the back of his mind he heard Raj trying to calm him down.

"Alec, please let him down! You are overreacting. You …" Raj could not even finish his sentence. The cold furry in Alec's eyes that fell on said Shadowhunter for a second were enough to keep his mouth shut.

"Overreacting? I am overreacting? If I heard you correctly my boyfriend (and yes Alec had absolutely no problem with calling Magnus that) was attacked by circle members! Yesterday! And you assumed that there is the possibility of a new High warlock of Brooklyn! You do not tell me I am overreacting!"

Alec's eyes turned back to Stephan.

"And you will tell me exactly what happened yesterday. Without leaving anything out. And you will tell me right NOW!"

Alec had not realized that he was downright shouting. And that the scene hat attracted visitors.

"Alec? Alec what is wrong? Oh by the angel put him down!" He barely heard Izzy's voice, too absorbed in his furry.

For good measure he closed his eyes a friction, slitting them, giving him an even more dangerous aura.

"I. Am. Listening." The young Shadowhunter said through clenched teeth. He saw Stephen swallowing.

"I … we were called to a Café in Brooklyn. Jackson, Mika, Ari and me. Something about an attack, we did not know that circle members were involved at first. When we arrived at the scene the fight was as good as over. We killed the last two standing circle members. The place was covered by blood and dead bodies. There were at least 12 circle members, I do not know how many dead warlocks exactly. Magnus Bane was there."

Alec growled and Izzy gasped.

"And?" Alec urged him on.

"Some of the warlocks were hurt, I think. Bane was alive when we arrived I swear! It was chaotic, with the remaining warlocks all fuzzing around. He said something about taking care of his kind, I think. We should take care of the dead bodies of the circle members, and report the incident to the institute. The next time I turned around, he and the warlocks that were still alive were gone."

"Was he hurt?" It sounded more like a command than a question. "Was Magnus hurt?!"

Squeezing his eyes shut, Stephen was quick to answer.

"Yes! Yes he was hurt. I do not know the extent but yes. And he looked exhausted."

Alec would not have thought that he could get any angrier, but he could. Without thinking Alec smashed Stephen back against the wall, his head colliding painfully with it.

"Alec!" The next second Alec was away from Stephen, said boy lying half on the floor while holding his head.

"Alec! Alec calm the fuck DOWN! This is not helping anyone!"

Focusing his strength, Alec freed himself from the grip his parabatei had on him. When did Jace arrive at the scene? He did not know. When he turned to Jace, said one was looking at him like he saw him for the very first time. Granted, Alec had never been SO angry in his whole life.

"Alec, brother by the angel you have to dial down a notch. He is not worth it." Jace tried to get Alec to calm down a bit, it did not work one bit.

"Dial down a notch?! Jace this happened yesterday! It was not reported to me, us! Why the fucking hell was it not reported? This is important! And I know as much as you do that the whole institute knows about my relationship with Magnus. So I get the feeling that it was not not reported by accident but purposely!"

He looked back at the Shadowhunter that was still on the ground.

"You know what, you are right. He is not worth it." Looking back to Jace and his sister, recognizing Clary standing right behind them looking worried, he went on.

"Here is what it going to happen. You three will question everyone that was involved in this mission. You will question them about what happened and more importantly why they did not report it. You will find out who was in charge of this mission and keep him locked up somewhere I don't car where until I come back. You will inform our parents of what happened. I will go to Magnus right now and check if he is okay. You and anyone else will only call me if it is an absolute emergency. I expect the report on my desk when I return. And in case it was not clear enough let me make it clear. This. Is. An. Order!"

Looking back one last time before Alec stormed out of the institute he told Stephan "Pray to the angel that Magnus is not dead."

And with this, he was out of the door, running full speed towards Brooklyn.

Sooo that was all for now. I hope you liked it. Let me know what you think.