Sasha's A/N: Heyyyy! :D So yeah, it's been over a month—but hey, we DID warn you that updates would suck XD XD XD Anyways, y'all better be happy cause we've been on ooVoo for over 8 hours writing all this for you all!

Matti's A/N: Welp, hai! I'm pretty sure Sash wrost most of this too...

I TAKE NO CREDIT.

I totally forget what this whole chapter was about, and I just read it over. But it's 2:30 in the morning. I think I have an excuse...

Kay, shutting up now. Hope you enjoyed! XD

LAHV YEW!

~Matti

"Urgh… I, for one, am STARVING," Magnus groaned, rolling out of the bed and looking around on the floor for something—presumably a shirt. Yes, Alec had been in bed with a very hot, very half-naked Magnus. Yes, he had just noticed. You can shut up, he had other things on his mind!

"Pancakes ok?" said hot guy asked. He had found a shirt and was now by his mirror, messing with his hair.

"No… I mean, yeah, but I'm sure you have stuff to do. You don't need to stay with me, I really should be heading home. I have a, uh, essay… due soon…" Alec stammered awkwardly.

"Oh, come on—I insist. I'll help you with the essay if you want."

Oh, great, now I have to act like there's actually an essay, Alec thought to himself.

This is what I get for lying...

"Psht, fine...make me pancakes. They'd better be good though, or I'm OUT." Alec said, pushing himself out of Magnus' bed and grinning at the tan, tall boy.

Magnus grinned down at Alec, though they weren't that far apart in height, and said,

"Oh, don't you worry Alec. I'm the best."

Alec blushed and tried not to read too far into that...

"Right, right, I'm sure," Alec said, grinning back at Magnus. What he didn't say, but he was thinking, was, 'So was Jace'.

Magnus watched as hurt flashed quickly across Alec's fragile features. Jeez...that poor thing had been screwed over by life so many times...

They had a long way to go. That was for sure.

"Alright, let's go before my cat eats the pancake mix. ADVENTURE IS OUT THERE!"

"...In your apartment?" Alec asked, stifling a laugh and looking happily up at the older boy.

"Yep! It's like...a jungle out there! It really is! So uh...watch your step and sorry for the mess..."

Alec laughed.

"Okay Mags..."

Mags. I like it...Magnus thought to himself, lips slowly turning up into a grin.

LoveLoveLoveLoveLoveLove

"You get that bloody stuff away from me!" Alec shrieked, dodging the pancake batter Magnus flung his way.

"Oh?" Magnus replied, raising one sexy, provocative eyebrow. He took a step towards Alec with a scary smile. "And what if I don't?"

Alec, hiding a grin himself, cast around for a weapon… and his gaze landed on a bottle of that squirt-y whipped cream stuff. He grabbed it and pointed it straight at Magnus's hair, carefully schooling his features into a deadly serious expression. "Drop the batter or the hair DIES!"

Magnus froze, his eyes wide. "You wouldn't…"

Upon seeing Alec's mischievous grin, though, he carefully stepped away from the pancake batter… and then was attacked by whipped cream. "You traitor!" he laughed, spinning back around to grab the bag of pancake mix still sitting on the counter. A second later, Alec looked like a ghost ,all covered in flour and whatever else is in pancake mix.

Alec shrieked again, shaking his head hysterically trying to get the mix off while enveloped in a cloud of it. Magnus quickly took advantage of that, sneaking around behind Alec… and tackling him to the ground. "Argh! Get off me, you crazy rainbow elephant!"

While said elephant was distracted by the remark, Alec quickly reached up to the counter where the eggs had been sitting, and muffled a cry as sharp pain shot through his arm.

"Alec?" Magnus asked, the playfulness gone.

"I'm fine… it was just my arm."

"Does it hurt? Let me see…"

"Magnus, honestly! I'm fine!"

"Mm-hm, okay. You're fine. Now let me see."

He exasperatedly held out his arm for inspection. It really didn't hurt all that bad, just stung… it was more shock than anything. He'd nearly forgotten about the previous night.

"You're bleeding again," Magnus informed him with a frown. "I think I have some bandages… come on, you should sit down."

"Mags…" Alec replied, trying not to sound annoyed, "I am sitting down,"

Magnus, however, just rolled his eyes and led Alec to the living room. Somewhere along the way he found the bandages, and he made Alec give him his arm. It did look pretty bad, Alec had to admit—blood trickling down his arm, nowhere near as much as the night before, but still a pretty frightening.

"Why don't yours look this bad?" Alec asked as Magnus dabbed antiseptic on the cuts, partly out of curiosity and partly to distract himself.

"Because you did it—" Magnus broke off with a frown, then quickly began speaking again. "Because mine are older. They've had time to heal; your's haven't yet."

Magnus watched his reaction, and sent up a little shout of thanks to whoever was up there listening when Alec ignored his mistake. Before he'd caught himself, he'd been about to say something dangerous—he'd been about to tell Alec that he'd done it wrong.

Magnus had never, ever seen cuts that deep or close to the vein before unless someone had been trying to… kill themselves. Alec wouldn't do that; he'd made that very obvious last night. He hadn't wanted to die. Just to escape. Alec didn't need to know that, though; it was better that he thought it was always this bad. Maybe that would keep him from trying anything again.

A/N: Yep, Sasha it is… so you know how I said that me and Matt have been on ooVoo for 8 hours? Well we have the next 4 or 5 chapters planned out and we're working on writing them—we'll try to have it up soon! :D Love you all 3