A/N: I am very sorry. I am a bad person and I need to be arrested and tortured and blame Annabeth.
I am not Cassandra Clare, as in not the owner of TMI.
Alec met Jace Wayland for the first time when he was 11. He was lanky, awkward, not muscular enough to fill in his still growing body. But he was funny and he was sweet and even then Alec thought he had a certain charm to him.
Jace, as Alec had quickly discovered, was very rambunctious. One minute he'd be right next to you and the next he was trying to play with knives or climbing very tall and dangerous looking walls. But Alec was still a kid too and Jace looked like he was enjoying himself, so he rarely did anything.
When Alec was 15, he saw Jace sleeping. He was all curled up under a blanket that was too small, his face red and his hair mussed. His face was devoid completely of emotion, it was the most at peace he had ever seen him. Alec thought that in that moment, he'd never seen anything more beautiful. That scared him.
He had trouble sleeping after that, because when he did he dreamt of Jace. Of his face and of his laugh and of everything that made Jace Jace; everything that made Alec love him. Love. He wondered if it was okay to use that word about your brother. He figured that Jace wasn't really his brother. Not technically.
When Alec was 16 he realised that he was definitely different from other boys his age. He thought he should ask someone about what he was feeling. Then he found out homosexuality was a sin, and he decided he should probably never tell anyone. Ever.
He also learned that apparently step-brothers still counted as brothers.
Izzy found out about a year later. Well, she didn't so much find out as Alec did tell her. He had just run into her room one day crying, and she'd just asked him to start from the beginning. He left out the parts about Jace, though. She didn't need to hear those.
The night of Magnus' party, Alec was positive he'd never seen anything so beautiful. Not even Jace.
About a week later, Alec had come home at around 5 am and was in the shower for 2 hours trying to get all the glitter out of his hair. Isabelle had just laughed at him when she saw that he hadn't.