A/N: This is going to be a fruit salad of lemony limey goodness. So just be warned now! LOL. This is a continuation after COLS… *tear* R&R

Chapter 1:

It had been years since he had been happy. Magnus looked out the window. He sighed and turned away from the view. It was rather hard to stay away from him even in this big city. But there was something keeping him there in the city. It was torture. So call Magnus Bane a masochist.

Alec knew why he chose the apartment he did. He knew the path home would mean his path crossed his every day. Today Isabelle was walking home with him. She was babbling on about something but he couldn't make himself pay attention. They had a party to go to tonight and she was basically coming over to dress him again.

He looked down at the baggy sweater and jeans he wore and shrugged internally. He didn't see anything wrong with it. He wasn't trying to impress anybody. He looked up at the window. He saw a shadow move away from it just at that moment. Magnus.

Jace and Clary were finishing up the decorations. It was hard to believe that it had been this long. It was hard to believe that she was already a year old. And they'd been married for almost two years. They, like many shadow hunters, married as soon as Clary was 18. It was part of the life style. Soon, they had found out they were expecting. And then, Arella was born.

Now she was a year old and they were having her birthday party with all of their friends. Clary heard her laughing and knew she was up from her nap. She smiled. "I'll go get the birthday girl dressed for her party."

Jace put the last of the decorations on the table and went to get the cake.

Izzy and Alec were almost to Jace and Clary's house. They each had a present for the one year old. It was hard to think of what to get a baby like Arella. She was not like other babies. You wouldn't be either if you were mostly angel. Alec smirked at the thought.

Jace met them at the door and brought them in. Arella was doing her thing. She crawled to Alec and reached up to him. She was golden haired with her mother's curls and green eyes. Freckles dotted her face that looked a lot like Jace. She touched Alec's check and he smiled at her. She was communicating with him this way. She could basically implant messages into your thoughts. She could let you know she was hungry or if she wanted to play something with you. She was excited to see them today. "Happy birthday little angel." He whispered to her.

Izzy was talking in the corner with Clary. "Did you invite him?" Izzy asked. Clary nodded to her.

Magnus looked at the present he had wrapped in sparkly rainbow wrapping paper. He said a few words and it disappeared. It would be there now. At least she would get a present from her almost uncle Magnus.

Clary heard a pop and saw a present appear on the table. Covered in rainbows and glitter, she knew who it was from. She nodded towards it making sure Izzy noticed it too. "Well, damn." She said.

Alec locked his door after he entered his apartment. It had been a long day and he was ready to just go to sleep.

Alec woke startled. He was being watched. "Who's there?" He said looking around.

The light flickered on with a blue tint and there he was. "Magnus?"

Without saying anything, Magnus climbed next to Alec in the bed. He threw his arm over him and cuddled him close. Magnus kissed his neck, and Alec shivered. He's been waiting for this for so long. He turned to face his love. He kissed him on his lips. Comfortable, he fell asleep in Magnus's arms.

Alec woke up well rested for the first time in a long time. Since he last slept in Magnus's bed. Then he turned to see the warlock behind him, but the bed was empty. There was no glitter on the pillow or indention to show anyone had slept there beside him.

He snorted. Of course it had been a dream. He had totally lost his mind. Maybe it was time he moved on.

The Lightwood family house in Idris was empty. He could move there to get away from it all. He might be lonely for a while but he would be surrounded by other shadow hunters. He should feel more at home there than in this apartment complex. He didn't know his neighbors here. He might live next door to a humanoid demon and he wouldn't even know it.

He would go talk to Maryse. Maybe, as his mother, she could shed some light on this. He pulled out a sweater from his drawer and a pair of jeans. He headed to the shower. It was time to make some major decisions in his life.

Magnus woke up, in his own bed, from the dream. He had visited Alec and spent the night with his love in his arms. It had felt so real. Maybe it was a sign. No one else was going to make him happy like Alexander Lightwood. Maybe he should just talk to him and see if Alec would ever forgive him for pushing him away.

He got up and went to the window. There he was walking briskly. There was a scarf around his neck. It was the first time he's walked by Magnus's window without looking up. That made Magnus's heart break a little more. Maybe he is over me; Magnus sighed and walked away from the window.

Alec made himself focus his eyes on his feet as he passed the window that he would see Magnus through. He walked faster passed him. He hurried on by so he could get to the institute as fast as possible.

After last night he knew he needed distance or his heart would never heal. He took the stairs down to the subway and boarded the one that headed closest to the institute. He sat, iPod playing loudly in his ears, and looked around him. Everywhere he looked he saw couples acting lovingly. To his right on the other side of the car, a young couple was staring at each other. Alec was wondering if they would just tear each other's' clothes off and go at it in front of the other passengers. He used to get so turned on when he caught that look on Magnus's face.

He quickly averted his eyes. To the other side of his seat he saw a couple that consisted of an Asian girl with a trendy haircut and her girlfriend who was a gorgeous blond. They were holding hands, laughing, and giving each other loving peck kisses. The Asian girl looked up and smiled at Alec. He smiled back and then decided to just look down at the floor.

His stop couldn't have come soon enough. He vaulted out of the suffocating train car and rain until he was above ground again. Fresh air-as fresh as you could get in the city anyway- cleansed his mind as it filled his lungs. He walked, fast paced, the rest of the way to the institute.

"Mom," He called as he walked in. He heard her call from the kitchen so he took off in that direction.

She looked up to see him come in and instantly knew something was wrong. "Alec?"

"Mom, I think I want to move to our house in Idris."

"OK, calm down. " Isabelle waited for Maryse to take a breath. She was spouting on about how Alec wanted to move to Idris. Mom was upset enough when he moved to Brooklyn, she thought. "I will talk to him, ok?" She disconnected the call and dialed another number as soon as she did.

"Jace, we need to do an intervention." She explained what was going on as she left the apartment. She'd text Simon when she was done with Jace so he would know where she went. "Yeah, meet me there." She hung up and sent the text to Simon.

Family emergency. Brother going crazy. Intervention. Be back as soon as I can. XOXO Iz.

She soon got a text back. Let me know if you need me. I will be home after my shift. Si

She smiled and put her phone up. Simon took a shift as a bartender at this new downworlder club called Pandora's. He worked the daylight shift for convenience. Only vamps could be bartenders. Wolves were bouncers and they had faery DJs. So it worked out that Simon could do days. They got to open at 5 instead of seasonally at sunset.

She turned on her heel of her stiletto boots and hit the buzzer. "Let me in, Magnus." Soon the front door was opened and she stormed in.