Worlds Collide 3/?

[missthingsplace]

  missthingsplace
Parings/characters: Magnus/Alec, Jack/Ianto, Jace/Clary, Gwen
Disclaimer:I don't own Torchwood or Shadowhunters or any of the characters ... unfortunately, just borrowing them for a while.
Summary:What Torchwood doesn't know about Shadowhunters and Shadwohunters don't know about Torchwood until one day there worlds collide by accident.
Warnings: Angst, fluff, violence
Spoilers:Anything is fair game
Rating:G - 15

“Sure,” Ianto replied with a small shrug.

 

“You and Jack, have you been together long?” Alec enquired.

 

“Officially a while, unofficial, longer,” Ianto answered truthfully. “It took a while for it to transition from casual into a relationship.”

 

“Have you always know about his immortality?” Alec questioned.

 

“No, he kept that a secret from us for a long time,” Ianto told him.

 

“Does it bother you, that he can't die and that … if the job doesn't kill you, you will age and he will look the same?” Alec asked, “that you might become a burden to him?”

 

“If I'm honest, I try not to think about it,” Ianto admitted. “I have always known that my job was dangerous and that most employees are lucky to make it into their 30s or 40s. I worked for Torchwood One in London before coming here to Cardiff, which is Torchwood Three. I was there for the battle, between the Cybermen and Daleks. Two very dangerous species of aliens. I was lucky to get away with my like. Lisa, my girlfriend … well, she didn't survive.”

 

“You had a girlfriend? So you're Bi?” Alec asked.

 

“No … i've never been attracted to men until I met Jack and … it's just Jack,” Ianto told him, “I played on his reputation to get into Torchwood Three, I needed a job there … a story for another day … and well, I found myself attracted very to him.”

 

Alec nodded thoughtfully.

 

“So, you never think about growing old?” He asked. “Ever?”

 

“Now and then,” Ianto admitted, “when we've had a good day with no alien threats, laying in bed and finding my mind wandering to how it could be. Jack … well, he's been alive for so long and I'm not even sure how many relationships he has been in, let alone the countless one night stands. I sometimes wonder if he able to be monogamous and if he will grow tired of me too … but, I contend myself with living in the here and now where I am happy to be with the man I love.”

 

Alec sat quietly as they pulled to a stop near the pizza takeaway, obviously deep in thought.

 

“Why do you ask?” Ianto asked him.

 

“It's Magnus, being a Warlock makes him immortal,” Alec responded. “He could die, unlike Jack but he doesn't age at all. We had a falling out once, over this very subject. I still worry that I will get old and feeble, become a burden to him or that he will seek out someone younger and able when I get old, even though he reassured me it would never happen. I keep those thoughts to myself now, as you say, living in the here and now.”

 

“What sparked it? Had you always felt this way?” Ianto asked.

 

“Not at first, but he has this box, with mementoes in of people he has loved and lost,” Alec replied, “It made me think, that one day I would be gone, something of mine would be added to the box and he would just live his life without me.”

 

“He can't help being immortal,” Ianto said softly. “did he tell you why he had the box?”

 

“So he wouldn't forget them,” Alec sighed.

 

“If those people were just a passing fancy then he wouldn't have save something to remember them by,” Ianto said, “the very fact that he has them means he loved them, that they were important to him. And when he does lose you, you should feel privileged that something of yours is added to that box. Do you know how long it is between his last relationship and yours?”

 

“Over a century,” Alec told him, “he told me that I had unlocked something in him, opened his heart up to love again.”

 

“Then I would say you have nothing to worry about,” Ianto smiled, “it sounds like he needed to meet someone very special for that to happen.”

 

“I guess so,” Alec said, allowing a small smile to form on his lips. “if I lost him, I think I would be lost, we, Shadowhunters, we only fall in love once and fiercely…”

 

“Very romantic,” Ianto grinned.

 

“Yeah, I guess so.” Alec admitted.

 

“Right, lets go and get the pizzas before the rest of them wonder where we have got to,” Ianto told him. “and I'm starving!”

 

“Me too,” Alec told him and they climbed out the SUV.

 

****

 

“So, you're a Warlock then?” Jack asked Magnus, curious. “What exactly does that entail, you said that you can do magic?”

 

“My mother was human and my dad was a Demon,” Magnus explained. “being part Demon means I can do magic, yes.”

 

“Doesn't being half demon make you evil?” Gwen put in.

 

“It could have done,” Magnus admitted, “I was brought up by my Demon father, my mother died when I was small but I knew that wasn't how I wanted to live my life.”

 

Jack nodded. “Any other useful traits?”

 

“I am an immortal, like you,” Magnus replied. “I don't age, but I did have a bit of a scare a while back when I lost my magic.”

 

“In what way?” Jack asked.

 

“I found a grey hair, it was the thing that made me suddenly realise that I would grow old and die like a mundane and it scared me,” Magnus admitted. “I got very drunk and almost lost Alexander completely.”

 

“We should go and start those checks on the system,” Clary suggested to Jace, feeling a little uncomfortable at Magnus's revelation, “see if we can find out why we were never alerted when Abaddon found his way here?”

 

“Yeah, sure,” Jace agreed readily.

 

“Mind if I tag along?” Gwen asked hopefully, “I might be able to help?”

 

“Okay with me,” Clary told her and Jace shrugged in agreement.

 

With that they hurried from the room, leaving Jack and Magnus to their talk.

 

“How did you lose your magic?” Jack asked,

 

“We had a Demon threat, Lilith and she had a hold over Jace, He was possessed and doing her bidding. My magic wasn't strong enough to release her hold on Jace.” Magnus explained. “I knew how to get the extra power I needed, but it meant going to Edom and asking my father for help.”

 

“And that caused you to lose your magic?” Jack frowned.

 

“No, he agreed to help, to give me the power to save Jace but things always come with a price where my father is concerned,” Magus told him, “and that price was to give him my magic once the deed was done.”

 

“Harsh!” Jack exclaimed.

 

“But if I hadn't agreed to it, Jace would have been lost forever and the world … it would have been a haven for Demons,” Magnus told him.

 

Jack nodded.

 

“It worked and I saved him from the possession,” Magnus continued, “I lost my magic at that point and it was thanks to a vampire called Simon that Lilith was banished back to Edom … a long story for another day.”

 

“But you obviously got your magic back?” Jack said.

 

“Thanks to Alexander, without my knowledge he made a deal with my father,” Magnus replied, “he agreed to never see me again if my father returned my magic. When he broke up with me he broke my heart … until I found out what my father had done … he can never meddle in my life again.”

 

“You killed him?” Jack asked, shocked.

 

“No, I banished him, while unconscious through a portal and into limbo where he can never escape,” Magnus replied, “which I think most would claim as worse.”

 

“You don't want to be without your immortality then?” Jack asked. “I have lived thousands of years, died more times than I can count and … sometimes it seems far too long, but I am resigned to it now.”

 

“Without my magic I didn't like how I felt,” Magnus replied, “I didn't feel whole. Useless. I couldn't get used to being a mundane and finding that grey hair was the last straw.”

 

“But what about Alec, you could have grown old together?” Jack enquired.

 

“I have been alive for 800 or so years, to suddenly become immortal was hard,” Magnus admitted, “don't get me wrong, I love Alexander and I have no intention of leaving him but … I needed my magic back.”

 

“How does Alec feel, about you not wanting to stay mundane?” Jack asked.

 

“I know he worries about getting old and that I will still look the same,” Magnus admitted, “it caused some problems when he first let himself think about it, but no matter how old he gets, I will be there with him. I hadn't let anyone into my heart for over a century until he came along, he is special.”

 

“He's okay with it now?” Jack asked.

 

“I think he is, he doesn't say anything.” Magnus said with a smile, “I hope he is, now we are married!”

 

“Oh, I never noticed the ring until now,” Jack grinned, “congratulations.”

 

“What about you and Ianto?” Magnus enquired.

 

“Who know, maybe we will tie the knot,” Jack replied. “something I've never even considered before I met Ianto.”

 

“I had never married anyone either in my long life, until I found Alexander,” Magnus smiled. “something else we seem to have in common.”

 

“Yeah, it would seem so.” Jack grinned, “I still can't believe that I've never come across your world before now.”

 

“We are very good at hiding ourselves among Mundanes,.” Magnus told him, “We rarely get seen, people like Gwen are rare.”

 

“I for one and very glad she can see you,” Jack told him, “life has taken an interesting turn.”

 

“It has indeed,” Magnus agreed.

 

“So, these Shadowhunters,” Jack asked, “How did you get tangled up with them, was it through meeting Alec or some other way?”

 

“Clary,” Magnus replied. “Her mother didn't want her to be part of the shadow world, she pretended to be a mundane and whenever Clary experience anything out of the ordinary she would bring her so see me, so I could remover her memories. Which worked for a long time, but one evening on her 18^th birthday she found herself caught up in the shadow world by accident, meeting Jace, Alec and their sister Isabel.”

 

Jace and Alec are brothers? They look nothing alike,” Jack asked.

 

“Alec's family took Jace in when he was young,” Magnus replied, “he needed a family, they became his.”

 

Jack nodded.

 

“Clary could see the Shadowhunters, Jace found her after their first meeting in a nightclub, my nightclub and saved her from a demon. He took a chance that she was part of their world and put a healing rune on her and she recovered. If he was wrong she could have died.”

 

“And how did this lead to you?” Jack asked.

 

“She found out I had taken her memories,” Magnus replied. “I first met Alec when they came to me for help, to retrieve her memories but I didn't have them anymore, I had fed them to a memory demon for safe keeping … I tried to get them back but it went wrong. Lets just say she was taken in by the shadowhunters, to train to become one of them and find a way to save her mother.”

 

“Save her mother?” Jack frowned.

 

“Oh, did I miss that out?” Magnus smiled. “There were people looking for her mother, they were after an artefact that belonged to the Shadowhunters and they thought she had it. She took a potion made by another Warlock and they found and took her. We need to get her back and find an antidote. Another long story but we did find her and we did wake her up and after being betrayed and losing the artefact we finally got it back. And during this time, Alec and I got to know each other, but we never actually got together until the day of his wedding!”

 

“What!” Jack almost shouted, “He married someone else?”

 

Magnus smiled widely.

 

“He had agreed to marry a woman to please his family,” Magnus explained. “Neither of them loved the other, it was a marriage of convenience, I had tried to convince him not to do it, that he would ruin both their lives, living a lie but he wouldn't listen. I arrived at the wedding ceremony, just as they were about to mark each other with wedding runes … and … well, his mother wasn't happy I was there … but his bride to be knew even before she agreed to marry him that he had feelings for me, that he wouldn't admit. We had so much to thank her for, she told Alexander he deserved to be happy and let him go.”

 

“And?” Jack asked.

 

“He walked up the aisle to me and kissed me, in front of the whole institute,” Magnus explained. “of course there were some who already knew he was gay, but he came out to everyone that day. His mother strode off with a face like thunder and his dad followed.”

 

“His mother was upset he was gay?” Jack asked.

 

“She was more upset that he had ditched his wedding for a combination of my being a downworlder and a Warlock to boot.”

 

“Oh boy! Jack stated.

 

“It didn't start well, but before we were even married she started treating me like one of the family,” Magnus smiled.

TBC