Okay. So. I'm very... nervous about putting this up. I'm afraid that it sucks, and that someone will ban me from ever writing, ever again. -shift eyes nervously- Anyway, this is an Alec/Isabelle pairing. Kinda. It's nothing like, hardcore. But there's implications, I suppose. (I don't lie in bed with my brother, anyway). Yes, I'm aware their brother and sister. And yes, I'm aware he's gay. But I've gotten slightly addicted to this ship, thanks to Gema227, who's stories are all immensely better then mine, so go read them.

So, er, anyway. This note is now longer then the actual story, so er... yeah.


The first time Isabelle ever sleeps in his bed, she is eight and he has just turned ten. Tears stream down her face and she tells him about her nightmare and he scoots over and she curls up beside him and he chases the nightmares away.

Now, her legs are too long and her hair is everywhere and she likes to sprawl out so he only has a fraction of the bed to sleep on and he has to wrap an arm around her waist to keep from falling out of bed. Now, she doesn't come in with tears streaming down her face- she's much too strong. But Alec can still see how scared she is, so he scoots aside and she curls up next to him.

It may be true he's never exactly killed a demon- at least not a real living one. But he's killed the demons that haunt her in her sleep, the one's she can't just snap away with her whip, and in his mind, those are the one's that matter most.