I KNOW! It's a shortie, but the second is longer . sorry I just wanted to break it up :D R&R PLEASE! I'm a young one, and this is my first, so be honest :)
Alec hastily looked around for Magnus, trying to find him before another Shadowhunter could Mark him as his partner for the battle. He finally found him, standing dangerously close to his parents. Oh what the hell, he thought. It will have to come out sometime or another, might as well be now when they have other things to worry about. He marched over to Magnus, with the intent of being curt and just Marking him, without any explaination at all; but all that changed when he saw the raw look in Magnus's eyes, and he realized how much he hated what was going to take place in less than an hour. He felt a sudden wave of emotion crash over him. I love him, he thought. I don't want him to fight, to get hurt. But he knew his fears were needless, Magnus was quite capable of getting out of this alive, but he worried anyway. Alec's face softened, and he finally found his voice.
"Magnus, have you been Marked yet?" he asked. He sounded childish, even to his own ears, and regretted the way the how raw his emotions came across in his words.
"No, I haven't, I was busy talking to Clary," Magnus replied. He didn't sound harsh, his voice was flat and unemotional, as if he was stating boring facts from a book. Alec could tell that he was still upset that he still hadn't acknowledged their relationship in front of anyone, except maybe his sister and Clary.
"Would you... would you like to be my partner?" he stammered. He hated himself then, for his voice cracked, and more than once.
Magnus raised his eyebrows. "Are you sure you want to do that Alec? You haven't even acknowledged me as anything but a Downworlder before, so why now?"
For a moment Alec was speechless. Steeling himself, he said, "Magnus! I love you. There I said it. Are you happy? Because I am. All I think about is you, making you happy, and how happy I am when I'm with you. And if coming out to my parents and everyone else will make you happy, I'll do it. Right now. I want to Mark you as my partner, on the battlefield and off. I can't stand the thought of anyone else Marking you. All I want is you. Now, and forever." He paused to take a breath, and added, "And if you don't feel the same way I... I understand."
Magnus stood there, dumbfounded. Alec looked so helpless and vunerable, the look of pure love and longing on his face, waiting for him to say something, anything, back. Finally, "I love you too, Alec. With everything I have."
Alec's face lit up brighter than all of the witchlight's in the Hall, and he gave a small delighted gasp, before surging froward and wrapping Magnus in a furiously tight embrace, as if they would never see each other again. Magnus just stood there, in a state of shock. Alec was never in arm's length of him whenever people were around, and here they were, in a Hall full of a couple hundred Shadowhunters and Downworlders and Alec was pressed so close to him it could be counted as obscene. I don't care, Magnus realized. I love him, and he loves me, and that's all that matters. Just as Magnus was starting to relax, melting in Alec's arms, he saw someone in the corner of his eye that made him stop cold. It was Maryse and Robert Lightwood, along with Isabelle, heading straight for them. Robert's face was gaurded, tight, Maryse's a look of disbelief, and Isabelle had a look of "I knew it" written all over her pretty features. Magnus pulled back a bit and said, "Alec, your parents!", trying to get him to look over at them, and maybe let him go and take a step or two back. Alec glanced over at them, and with a determined smile he declared, "I don't care about them. Let them see. This is who I am, and who I love." And with as much force as he could muster, and with an equal amount of love, kissed Magnus, full on the mouth, holding nothing back, right there in the middle of the Accords Hall.