Summary: 5 + 1 Five times Alec realizes that he's immortal now and one time he tells someone.

I know that Warlocks are only immune to dying of old age but due to Caelen being the first of his kind or due to his father (I have another head canon that Demon parents choose what their child's demon mark is (I head canon the First's father as Lucifer and that his love of a Mortal was part of the reason for his fall)) the only way that he could die was by passing his immortality to someone else, so Alec can't die like normal Warlock's do since he has the immortality from the First.

Towards the end there is a bit of DarkAlec in regards to Robert Lightwood getting a well deserved punishment. Alec has no remorse for what he did thus the DarkAlec warning.

Alec arrived home from the field of flowers with the single potted bloom in hand. Smiling at the music playing from Magnus' workroom Alec went to the balcony and set the bloom where the wind would not knock it down but it would get plenty of sunlight.

"Alexander, is that you?" Magnus called.

"Yeah."

"How was your visit?" Magnus asked as he stood at the door that led to the balcony.

"It was..." Alec wasn't sure what to say.

Alec sat on one of the lounge chairs, what could he say, 'Oh, I was called to see the First Warlock, he told me that I was descended from Johnathan Shadowhunter, oh, and now he's dust.'

"Alexander?" Magnus asked, sitting next to him, "You know you can say anything, or nothing."

Alec smiled, in the last few months of Alec living with Magnus they had established that the Loft was a kind of safe space for Alec, baring a huge betrayal of trust or breach of safety, Magnus would not hold anything against Alec. If they were in the middle of something and Alec needed to retreat to his nest, he could do so without a word, Magnus preferred to talk about it later when the thing Alec had needed away from was over or gone but Magnus had also established that that was only necessary to prevent it from happening again.

Magnus had been really proud that when his friends had been over Alec had allowed him to hold him on his lap, that he'd even fallen asleep in their presence, yes, one of those friends had been Ragnor but Alec sometimes retreated away from him too.

"It was sad." Alec finally said.

"Oh, sweetheart, I'm sorry." Magnus said as he drew Alec into his arms.

Alec let Magnus hold him for a moment before drawing away.

"It was sad for me but... I ... I think it was good for him." Alec explained softly as he looked at the flower he had brought home, the silver stains almost twinkling in the bright sunlight, "Yeah, I'm sure it was good for him."

Alec followed Isabelle discreetly knowing that if she knew he was acting as back up on what was just a scouting mission she'd be pissed but Alec had noticed that she was leaving without her whip, which meant that Robert Lightwood hadn't given it back yet and Alec was going to deal with the stupid man he owed part of his existance to, but later, his first priority was making sure his little sister was safe.

They made their way through the streets silently, invisibly and Alec almost missed wandering through the city without having to report to anyone. But, Alec supposed, if Magnus was his reward for reporting to the Clave more regularly he could live with that.

Isabelle stopped and drew her weapon and Alec looked around, trying to find what had alerted her to danger and almost cursed, Why, why did it have to be a Greater Demon?

Alec drew his own weapon and lighted it, drawing the Demon's interest, Alec always wondered why Demon's seemed drawn to Lighted Seraph blades, was it only because they were once theirs?

Izzy frowned as the Demon passed her and charged away and down a nearby alley, worried that it was a Mundane she raced after it and stared in shock and slight awe as she watched James fight the Demon, she'd known that fighting Greater Demons was his specialty, that that was one of the main reasons that the Clave allowed him so much freedom before they learned who he really was but it was one thing to see it in his file and another thing to see it first hand as he leapt and slashed at the Demon.

She wondered why his blade was lighted, she knew from the reports James had written that a Lighted Blade drew Greater Demons like nothing they had ever found.

The Demon slammed James into a wall and Izzy could not help the scream she gave, "JAMES!"

The Demon turned to her and Izzy let her instincts take over and just when she was pinned to the ground, sure that her end was near...

The Demon burst into Ichor and Alec coughed a little as the Demon dust entered his lungs. He stared down at his sister, she looked suprised and terrified, then again she had almost died, so, Alec was going to let her be for a moment.

Isabelle pushed herself up shakily and then looked at Alec, "James, are you okay, I saw you hit the wall."

Alec stared at her and hoped that she just saw him hit the wall, that she hadn't seen the way his blade had been thrown into his chest. Alec had been expecting to die, die choking on his own blood as he gasped for breath, only death hadn't come, the darkness, the cold, the heavy limbs that Alec always associated with near death and thus was how it would likely feel to die, hadn't come.

So, Alec had tugged his blade out of his chest and felt the wound knit itself together, he'd zipped up his jacket to hide the hole in his shirt and the blood before Isabelle could see, he didn't want to worry her or have her ask too many questions, questions even Alec didn't have the answers to.

"I'm..." Alec paused, wondering what to say exactly, "I'm not hurt." He decided.

"Good, we'd better get back, we need to report a Greater Demon in the area." Isabelle said, "Hey, were you following me?"

Alec smiled a little, when he got back to the Institute he'd let Isabelle go see Lydia while he went to see Robert and they were going to have a nice long talk about taking his daughter's weapon of choice, if the man was smart he'd go to Idris and stay there.

"What do you mean Valentine and his son escaped?!" Clary shouted as they were entering the Institute.

"Shit!" Isabelle cried as she rushed forward, "How did this happen?"

Lydia looked at them, "We were transporting them for De-Runing when the Shadowhunters escorting them were killed, one escaped and warned us but Valentine and Sebastian are gone."

"Who escaped?" Alec asked.

Lydia frowned, "Robert Lightwood."

Alec's lips thinned, it was too much of a coincidence, Alec had realized that while his mother may have had some sort of epiphany his father had not, he was still entrenched in Valentine's ideals and no one else seemed to realize it, Alec had made sure to limit the man's interactions with the Downworld as much as possible while he covered for Lydia and Isabelle but there had still been too much Robert Lightwood around.

"And you don't find that suspicious at all?" Alec asked.

"Why should we?" Herondale asked as she looked at Alec with barely concealed contempt, as if being gay was not enough for her to hate him the fact that he chose to love a Warlock was, apparently, seen as a betrayal in her eyes.

Alec could list five reasons off the top of his head but knew that nothing he said would convince her of Robert Lightwood's guilt. Alec could probably record the man talking to Valentine and she'd still call him a liar.

Alec shrugged and walked to the room he was assigned, there he changed his shirt and burned the ruined one, no one would think much of a bit of ash in his room and he doubted his trash concerned any one but Magnus on occasion and Magnus always asked first.

Then Alec went to the Infirmary, thankfully he'd taken just long enough that, but for the nurse that was exiting and the patient laying in the bed, it was empty.

Alec sat in a nearby chair and waited.

"What do you want?" The man snarled.

"I know what you did." Alec said.

The man looked startled.

"I know you want Isabelle dead, just like you want me dead." Alec explained, "I told you that if you did anything to hurt her you'd regret it."

The man in the bed sneered, "What are you going to do about it, boy? Going to kill me, in the middle of the Institute? You'd be the first one they'd look at."

Alec smirked at the man, "I'm not going to hurt you."

Alec pulled a simple chain from around his neck, on it hung something resembling a human finger, except it was twisted and clawed, "Do you know what this is?" Alec asked as he held it up between them.

"No."

"It's a... well, something of a good luck charm I've carried with me for a few years." Alec looked at the necklace he'd asked Ragnor to charm so only he could remove it.

Ragnor had of course been disgusted when, as Alec was recovering from his fight with Asmodeus in the Mortal Realms, he'd taken the hand The First had jarred for him and taken the pointer finger from it and asked Ragnor if he could put it on a chain. But Ragnor had done it and while he wondered who Alec was taunting he didn't ask.

"I'd like you to have it." Alec handed it to the man in the bed.

"Why?" The man asked, not quite suspiciously.

"Let's just say if you accept you'll get the reward you deserve." Alec told him.

Alec knew that Asmodeus wanted his hand back, he'd managed to appear before Alec, following the feeling from his finger and each time Alec had returned him to his Realm, it was only a matter of time before the Demon came after his finger again, he knew Alec was loath to part with it and he would surly think that he'd only give it to someone he cared for, Alec was counting on that.

Robert Lightwood would get what he deserved, no doubt about it, a lifetime of torture was not enough in Alec's opinion for nearly killing his sister, for letting Valentine and his son loose, and, as much as he could not forgive his mother for what she had done to him as a child, for cheating on her and making her cry when she thought no one could see.

The man smiled, before turning it to a scowl as he remembered who he was talking to, "This doesn't change how I think about you."

The man lifted it over his head and it settled against his chest.

Alec smiled, "Of course not, sleep well."

Alec left the Infirmary, now all that was left was for Robert Lightwood to leave the Institute, and then Asmodeus would take him away.

Alec would have to get Ragnor to make him a new charm, he was thinking the Middle finger this time, a double fuck you to the Greater Demon, and he was certainly never going to tell Magnus that the charm he wore was basically a beacon for his father to find him and definately not going to tell him that it was Asmodeus' finger, or a real finger for that matter.

Days later Isabelle came to him shocked and shaken, she'd seen a Greater Demon drag her father away screaming and their tracking spells told them only that he was in Edom, and there was no way to rescue him, not that anybody volunteered.

Alec had held her as she cried but all Alec could feel was pleased that Robert Lightwood could no longer harm his family.