Bitten Once, Twice Shy 2/? E [Malec/Sterek]
Beta-reading by @novemberhush
Summary: Alec was bitten once but learned to control it. When he got back to his family in New York, though, he forgets to mention that fact. Or is he just doing his best to hide it from his family? After all, he can’t be a shadowhunter and a werewolf. Or can he?
Disclaimer: I do not own the Mortal Instrument or the Teen Wolf, just the plot.
After five days give or take, they finally arrived in New York. Alec walked toward the institute while Derek and Stiles looked for a place that they could live in while they were there.
Alec was not welcomed with open arms as he passed through the door of the institute. He could see the glare his parents gave him, wondering where he was and why he did not stay in contact with them or the Los Angeles Institute.
“Go to your room. Your father and I will deal with your attitude with the consul at Idris. Tomorrow you will join the patrols and act as you should. We will not tolerate another act of disappearance. You should do your duty, not hide like a coward from it. We taught you far better than that,” Maryse told him with a glare.
Alec walked toward his room, ignoring his siblings, and used the lock rune to seal it. He needed to be alone, but he missed his pack.
Maybe coming back to New York was a mistake, but he could do nothing about it now. He needed to face his demons. He did not know how his parents were going to take it, but for now he would sleep, dreaming of his pack who gave him his life back and taught him how to control his wolf.
His pack was more family to him than his family was.
Maybe he’d been too quick in wishing to return. He felt so alone in this institute, no matter how big his family was. He felt alone, so alone, and he missed his pack.
He heard his phone vibrating and the screen lit up as he found that he had a new message from a pack group chat that he didn’t remember joining, but then he remembered that he lent his phone to Stiles more than once during the road trip. He must have added Alec to the group chat.
Alec opened his phone and read the messages. It made him smile. The pack was truly his family. They knew how to ease his pain, even though he was alone in the institute.
Stiles: “So, how was it?”
Derek: “Stiles, let him be, he is with his family.”
Derek: “Wait, why did I message you? I’m right next to you.”
Stiles: “You just did it twice!” Joy emoji added.
Scott: “GUYS, shut up!”
Scott: “So, how was your day?”
Alec: “Not so good.” Sad face emoji added.
Stiles: “Why? Do you want to come over and sleep here with us?”
Derek: “Sorry about him, he didn’t take his Adderall today.”
Alec: “I might take you up on that once my parents go to other place.”
Lydia: “I’m sorry to hear your day didn’t go well, Alec.”
Alec: “It’s okay. I hope tomorrow will be better, and I had the best first road trip ever. Thanks for that, Derek and Stiles.”
Stiles: “Anytime. When do you want us to meet again?”
Alec: “I’ll keep you updated.”
Scott: “We will be there soon. And Stiles? Don’t get arrested.”
Stiles: “Hey! I’m not the one that will get arrested. But you did give me an idea.”
Derek: “SCOTT, why me?”
Alec: “What am I missing?”
Lydia: “Boys will be boys, you’re not missing anything, Alec. Take care of yourself, hopefully we will meet soon.”
Scott: “No problem, Alec.”
Alec rested in bed, feeling happy that his rest of the pack will arrive soon, and he won’t feel alone.
The next day, Alec left his room to eat breakfast and then walked over to the ops room where his parents were.
While his mother spoke, he noticed that she was only watching him, and he could feel eyes on him from the other shadowhunters.
“Thank you for finally joining us, Alec.” Maryse glared at him as she spoke.
“As you all know, Alec was missing for several days. He was seen once in the Los Angeles Institute and then vanished, only reappearing yesterday. He will join you to patrol. Give him an update,” Maryse spoke.
His parents left the ops room, while he went to gear up.
Alec controlled himself as he left the institute, his siblings behind him. He activated the tracking rune to find any demon trails. He soon found some and left his siblings behind, running into danger with no fear in his eyes.
“Alec, wait,” Izzy called as she and Jace hurried after their brother.
Alec heard his sister as he hurried and hid the claws that had popped out, his yellow eyes flashing to their own color as he moved the bow back behind his shoulder, “I’ve got it guys. I still have it in me.”
Then he turned away and left, not noticing the surprised look on their faces as they could see the two demons he’d taken down had other marks on them besides arrow wounds.
“Jace, I don’t know what our parents said to him that made him unable to look at us, but I think we should catch up with him. I don’t want to see him hurt, but I do want to know what happened,” Izzy said.
“Izzy, he never came to the parabatai ceremony, and I had no parabatai, I don’t know why he is ignoring me,” Jace replied.
“He’s ignoring me too, but I’m sure that he has enough to deal with from mom and dad for now,” Izzy told him.
“Do you think your mom and dad will agree that we can have the parabatai ceremony as Alec is home now?” Jace asked her.
“You can try, but now we need to catch up with our brother,” Izzy responded.
“Where did he go?” Jace asked as he ran, trying to find his brother, but his brother was nowhere in sight.
“I’ll call him,” Izzy suggested.
“Isabelle, why are you calling me?” Alec asked as he heard his sister’s voice and saw her name on the caller ID.
“Brother, you disappeared on us! Don’t you remember us going to battle, three going in, three coming out?” Izzy asked him.
“Oh, right, well, I’m around,” Alec replied and hung up the phone.
Izzy looked at her phone and then turned to look at Jace, telling him what Alec told her.
“He changed. I can’t pinpoint how he changed, but for now we need to find him.” Izzy told him as she came to a conclusion about her brother.
“Let’s go find him before he gets hurt and maybe when we finish patrolling and have some free time we will take him to the Pandemonium. We might have more luck there,” Jace suggested.
“Maybe it will help us, some sibling bonding time together,” Izzy replied with a smile.
They stopped in their tracks as they saw something strange. Even with all the shadows they could tell it was a werewolf. They were wondering why a werewolf was even there in the first place when something began to happen. The werewolf seemed to change right in front of their eyes. It became a man. As he moved out of the shadows they could see it was their brother.
Jace and Izzy were certain their minds were playing tricks on them. Alec couldn’t be the werewolf! It was more likely Alec had just seen the werewolf like they had and was just as confused.
