Magnus POV

It seems that I have lost Alec again; damn I thought I was getting good as tying him up to the chair. Why didn't I go to knot tying school like my mother wanted? Now he was out somewhere, probably lost and alone, the only time he was safe was when he was safely gagged and unconscious. With me. The love of his life.

"Alec! I know you're around here! You can't run forever! I'll find you!" No reply. So he was playing hard to get eh? Well, two could play at that game. Three even or maybe four. Actually it depended on how many friends that you had. Get enough and bam! You can play with 19.

"ALEC! COME BACK TO ME MY LOVE!" This time I got lucky and Alec yelled back at me. He was so stupid, but that's what made him so adorable.

"I'm not your anything you jerk!"

Ah. He has a pet name for me I see, well now I would have to make one up for him as well, I could do that when we were together again. Right now though I knew exactly where he was. Alec's beautiful voice was coming from in the closet, why do they always hide in the closet?

I opened the door slowly and found Alec hunched up in a ball on the floor of it, his arms where wrapped around his knees and they were covered in blood.

I gasped at the horror of it. What monster would hurt such a sweet, innocent boy?

"Who did this to you?"

Alec let out a humourless chuckle.

"I will murder them at once!"

"It was you." He muttered.

"Well, then I will murder myself at once!"

He snorted. "Please."

I tutted. "Now, now darling. What would be the fun in that? No, I'm going to take you back to my house where you will be safe and protected." Why couldn't he just see how perfect that I was for him?

Alec shook his head and tried to edge away from me. Why did he make things so complicated?

"Now, what good will that do you?" I asked him. "Everyone thinks that we are away at Disney Land and that we won't be back for a week and even if you did get out you would have no way to get back to them. You have no phone, no clue where we are and no clue how to get back. So just relax and enjoy your week with me okay, honey?"

He sighed, knowing that I had outsmarted him made me happy and it was so that I forgave him for his little prison break and took him back to my house in good spirits.

Now here we were, I was reading him a very interesting book about shadow hunters and he was ignoring me, while tied to a chair of course. This for the record was not very nice, the ignoring part that is. I mean, I loved him and all that he could do was be horrible to me? It seems to me that someone needs to be punished.

"You are not getting any dinner." I announced grandly to him, pausing in my reading and setting the book down with my favourite bookmark set in it. The bookmark was a picture of Alec that I had taken when we first met, I had laminated and stuck it on some rectangle of paper and now I could see his beautiful face smiling at me every time I read a book.

"What? So you're going to starve me?" he sounded truly caught off guard. Well if I was to be serious in this relationship (which I was) then I was going to have to be tough with him and not tolerate and nonsense.

"Yes I am, until you apologize and promise to not ever be mean to me again!"

"No way! There is no way that I'm ever going to do that!" Alec yelled at me. Oh. I see. This was the way that he was going to play this game then. Well I can play better. I haven't told anyone but I am the master of the game! (AN you lose the game by the way.) And I have no intention of letting my little snuggle pie win. No matter how cute he may be. Which is so damn cute!

"Fine." That was how it would be then.

"Fine to you too."

"Fine."

"Fine."

"Fine."

"Fine."

I would just have to prove to my little snuggle pie that I was the winner here, and that he did love me as much as I loved him, which was a lot! Well, we would just have to let the games begin...

Which I would be winning of course, since he was tied to a chair with nothing to eat until I gave it to him and I was an all powerful warlock with the ability to cast spells and do magic.

Now the games will begin for real...

I will be winning those ones as well though.

"What the hell are you thinking about so hard for?" Alec hissed at me. Ooh. Someone has a bit of a temper.

"Don't worry my snuggle pie, I will be winning." I smiled at him sweetly, then lent over and ruffled his hair softly. He looked so adorable all tied up and angry. And we had a whole week of being together.