Alec hated the start of a New Year. It always created such a fuss and for what? For drunken party guests, groping specters, loud music, with cheap noisemakers and decorations. Add on to the fact that he was mostly dragged to every fucking New Years Eve's party across the island of Manhattan, courtesy of a demanding sister, just to be stuck in a secluded corner watching Isabelle run off with yet another guy and watch Jace tongue-fuck some girl.
So, yeah Alec hated the holidays. So that's why he was sitting on his Sister's fluffy pink mattress watching said sister float and hustle through her room, prepping for his boyfriend's annual New Years Eve party…pouting. Alec flicked his ebony, messy hair from his face. It was getting to long, but Magnus persuaded him to keep it that way, saying he needed…something to hold on to.
As Alec was so deep in thought, Isabelle who had called her brother's name numerous times, took off her high heel boot and promptly threw it at his head, thus causing him to awake from his stupor and fall off the bed. During this time it also forced, oh let's say a manly squeal from Alec's mouth. Which caused his darling sister decided to laugh at.
"Now Alec," Izzy says cocking her hip still chuckling, "What kind of Shadowhunter can't see a Jeffrey Campbell Suede boot being thrown at your head."
Alec's eyebrows scrunched up, the cute way they do when he's confused, "Campbell, what?"
Izzy sighed and turned back to her closet. "Sometimes I wonder what Magnus sees in you, not that I won't chop off a specific body part if he broke up with you, of course. So what got you oh-so preoccupied?"
Alec blushed, "I was thinking"
"Be like Jace don't think it's bad for you. Besides it gives him a headache."
"Suck it, Izzy!" Jace said while he was passing her room.
"Sorry Jace, but our dear Clarissa did me the favor last month."
"Hey!" Clary shouted from down the hall, "Seriously Jace you have to stop bragging about that."
Izzy rolled her eyes and turned her gaze toward Alec again, "Now tell me what's bothering you."
Alec's eyes widened and stared down at his lap where he was twisting a loose thread from his shirt with his fingers.
"…It's nothing." Alec responded looking up. He was met with a disbelieving gaze from Izzy. "Really!"
"Fine if you won't tell me I have my ways…"
Alec looked at Isabelle suspiciously. Right before Izzy took out her iPhone. Alec watched Izzy with a confused look as she punched in some numbers. As the phone rang She turned her carefree, mischievous gaze toward Alec. When the person on the other line picked up her smirk widened:
"Hello?"
"Why hello, Magnus" Izzy gushed. Alec's eyes widened.
"Izzy, darling, what do I owe the pleasure." Magnus purred from the other line.
"Well, Alec just reminded me that I never told you any of the cutest stories that happened in our childhood and I thought was a shame."
"Oh…like what?"
Alec was frozen in cold horror as he caught on to the purpose of the call.
"Well there was this one time where we went the beach when we were younger and-"
"IZZY!" Alec shouted as he lunged for her phone, but she anticipated the move and leaped out of the way and ran out of the door and into the hallway toward the elevator.
"Umm…Is everything okay?" Magnus asks.
"Yeah," Izzy breathes, "Your boyfriends being an ass that's all"
By this time Alec had gotten up from the floor and was quickly running after her…just to run into Jace.
"Hold him Jace!" Izzy said from down the hall where she was continuing her story.
Jace easily overpowered Alec and put him in a chokehold. Alec struggled, but Jace tightened his grip making him give in to the position.
"OK!" Alec relented, "I give! I'll tell you."
Izzy smiled, "No that's all Magnus…I'm sure he would love to tell you more about that story at your party…oh trust me, he'll be there." She smirks as she promptly ended the call.
Alec, out of the corner of Izzy's eye, pulled at the sleeves of his leather jacket against the harsh winter weather that harbored Brooklyn this time of year wishing with no hope that he could have that bulky snow jacket he usually wore. After the phone fiasco, Alec had become Izzy's personal dress up Barbie, and Damn it if he didn't look good (If she did say so herself). She kept to her style while wearing a short, sparkly dress(with ripped up stockings) that went to her thighs and showed just the amount of cleavage to not look slutty, with knee-high boots that laced all the way up. To put it lightly she looked too sexy to be contained and she couldn't wait to take off her equally sexy trench coat to show off, but she would have to wait. She took another glance at her under confident brother and smiled, remembering what he had on under that coat...
Magnus, she thought, You owe me big time...
Magnus was running late. Plain and simple. Well it should have been if he wasn't running late to his own party. How is that even possible? Easy, he didn't plan for Chairman Meow to get his tongue stuck on his fabulous ice sculpture, or have his DJ get the stomach flu, or run out of his favorite container of glitter, or that his leather pants have a fucking chocolate stain on it! I mean really? Chocolate? Who has luck like that?
Even though he did end up getting Chairman unstuck, got a new DJ, found backup glitter, and got the stain out of his pants the universe just liked to mess with Magnus Bane.
All of a sudden the bell buzzed for his apartment. Thinking it was just an early guest, he thought nothing of it and buzzed them up and continued to spike his hair for the party. Not a minute later, there was a knock at the door. Magnus rolled his eyes and walked toward the door.
"You do realize that you're like twenty minutes early, so you better be a close friend or Adam Lambert because someone's taking a dip in the Hudson. Naked!" Magnus said through the door.
As he opened the door, all breathing stopped when he saw a pair of green eyes in front of him. The same pair he thought he would never see again. Eyes that held mischief and mystery. Eyes that left him wanting more and that left him in a diner. In Brazil. Alone.
"…Daniel?"
