Alec walked briskly down the down the street to Magnus' apartment in Brooklyn, the rain was pelting down stinging his skin and soaking his black woollen jumper. Hunching his shoulders protectively Alec sped up his pace.
With great relief he reached the building that housed Magnus' apartment withdrawing the key from his old worn jeans he shoved the key in the lock and quickly stepped inside, he jogged steadily up the flight of stairs that led to Magnus' apartment. Alec didn't bother knocking as he shoved the door open to find Magnus draped across the couch with a green comforter draped over him snoring softly.
Alec sighed crouching in front of the couch he reached out with his pale hand to run his fingers through Magnus' glittery hair, causing him to stir. Alec smiled slowly as Magnus opened his captivating cat like eyes, he however was not prepared for the anger simmering in them or the harsh sting as he slapped his hand away.
Alec stumbled back in surprise hurt crashing over him like a tidal wave.
"What…I don't"
Magnus snorted cutting off Alec's confused rambling as he leapt of the couch so they were at eye level.
"Typical you don't even know what you've done." Magnus cut off with a derisive snort, dislodging some fragments of glitter as he roughly ran a hand through his dark locks, Alec desperately sifted through his memories trying to identify what he had done so obviously wrong.
"Where have you been?, you were supposed to meet me for our date three hours ago, but you were out hunting again, you forgot about me again"
Alec sucked in a sharp breath, as he remembered the date he had missed, guilt followed through shortly after. Alec saw that Magnus' anger was just masking the pain he felt about being shoved aside to make room for Alec's demanding Job as a shadow hunter, and Alec couldn't even begin to defend himself he knew Magnus was right that he had not been as attentive to his boyfriend as he should have been. That realisation made Alec crumble.
"Mag's I'm so sorry" Alec stepped forward hand extended to reach for Magnus face but he jerked backwards to avoid his touch, Alec gulped down the sob that was building in his throat, he knew Magnus had the right to lash out and so he stayed quiet and let Magnus vent, hoping this would ease some of his guilt. Suddenly it was quiet as Magnus' yelling paused and he tilted his head to consider Alec for a moment.
"This isn't about Jace is it?, you still don't have feelings for him, because you loved him unrequitedly for so many years those feeling don't just disappear and I'm not willing to play second best to blondie."
Alec sucked in a shocked breath between his teeth, anger building in his veins like a raging fire.
"What? Are you unhappy with me as a boyfriend is that it? Of course I love you, I risked my whole future in the shadow hunting world to show I love you, I risked losing my marks, my family!" Alec yelled back.
Magnus whipped round from where he'd being pacing bringing their faces inches apart, Alec backed up against the wall with nowhere to go. "I wish you would stop throwing that in my face, you think all the downworlders reacted pleasantly to this situation your not the only one who is in a precarious position here. We don't even have time to do normal coupe things any more when you're not at work you're too exhausted to do anything, I've had better fun with Camille"
Alec wanted to flee but Magnus still had his trapped in the corner. "So what now I don't compare to the other conquests you have already had I bet you can't wait till I'm gone so you can move on with your life, to someone more exciting." Alec was caught off guard by the surprising intensity of his hurt, he never thought Magnus' would purposely bring up his past to throw in his face knowing how much it tormented Alec making him feel like an insubstantial blip in his long immortal life.
Alec had tears streaming down his face that he didn't bother to wipe away as Magnus stepped back like he had just slapped him, but Magnus' anger didn't dilapidate on the contrary continued to grow.
" your purposefully misunderstanding me," Magnus rambled as he threw his hand in the air in exasperation, Alec noticed with a brief moment of panic that in his anger he had failed to notice that Magnus's was losing control of his magic and it was building up in his hands and beginning to spark from his fingers.
"Mags..." Alec trailed off as Magnus whirled on him, Alec didn't have time to react as the red sparks no longer contained flew towards him as a rapid rate and hit him in the chest with enough force to send him hurtling backwards.
Alec cried out a sharp agonising pain lanced through his chest and spread like fire across his body, Ale wanted to scream but found his vocal cords would not comply, he welcomed the numbness that came with being unconscious as he slid down the wall and landed in a heap on the ground.
