Finally got round to writing a second chapter, which includes Jace and Alec very awkwardly discussing their sex lives. Yuh-huh. I totally went there.

Anyways, the usual applies; the more reviews, the faster the next chapter.(which you might be interested to know will contain Magnus)

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x PencilDamage

Chapter 2

Isabelle knocked, but didn't bother waiting to fling the door open.

"So what's up with you and Alec?"

Jace's head snapped up immediately from the book he had been reading.

"What?"

Isabelle sighed and leaned against the doorframe.

"I'm not stupid. I know you've been avoiding each other. What did you fight about?"

Jace's heart, whose rhythm had doubled at Isabelle's words, began to slow to its normal pace. He looked back down into the pages of his book.

"Nothing. We just don't feel like hanging out together at the moment."

"No shit. But why?"

Isabelle stepped inside, shut the door, and plonked herself uninvited onto his bed. He ignored her and tried to continue reading, while she picked at a loose thread on his duvet. She knew she couldn't make Jace tell her if he didn't want to. She also hoped that of she irritated him enough, he would want to tell her, just to get rid of her.

Jace was silent as he turned a page.

Isabelle was considering flouncing out of the room in a huff, when another knock came on the door.

"Oh for the love of mu shu pork, who is it this time?"

there was a pause, before an awkward voice came through the door.

"Alec."

Jace sighed and put his book down, but said nothing.

"Jace, we need to talk." Came Alec's voice through the door.

"Sure, come in. Isabelle is in here already," Jace said, and Isabelle couldn't help but notice the tone of warning in his voice, alerting Alec to the fact that they weren't free to talk.

The door opened and Alec came into the room, glancing at Isabelle uncomfortably. She threw up her hands in exasperation, jumped to her feet and strode out of the door.

"I'll find out what this is about!" she called back, just as Alec was closing the door behind her. he came and sat awkwardly on the end of Jace's bed.

"So," he said.

"Not your best display of your extensive vocabulary Alec," Jace commented, eyes trained on his book. "Is Izzy outside?" he nodded towards the door, where he knew his adoptive sister would be attempting to eavesdrop.

"Probably, but the soundproofing runes I did for you the other day should hold," Alec said.

"How do you know?"

"I did the same on my bedroom, and they worked fine."

"When did you make noise in your- oh. Right." Jace tried not to let his thoughts go in the direction of Alec and Magnus' bedroom antics, partly because it made him uncomfortable, and partly because his imagination came up with hilarious ideas of the kinds of things Magnus would wear to bed for the purposes of foreplay.

"You mean you and Clary haven't …?" Alec wanted to know. "I mean, that is why I did your soundproofing for you,"

"Well, we have, sort of…" Jace felt very strange talking to Alec about him and Clary's intimate moments, but he was curious about Alec and Magnus, and he knew that in a conversation like this, he would have to reveal details if he were to receive them.

"Sort of?" Alec raised his eyebrow. "Jace, you either went in there or you didn't,"

"Well have you been there?" Jace demanded defensively.

"I asked first, but for your information, yeah, I've gone all the way." Alec said, surprised at how confidently he spoke, and then immediately felt embarrassed. Jace saw the expression change on his face. Alec had changed a lot, become more confident, more sure of himself, but he was still by no means an extrovert. He respected the trust and courage Alec must have to be able to speak to him about this, and chose to swallow his question about who was giving and receiving.

"Oh, okay. Well, Clary and I, we've done it a couple of times," Jace told him.

"And what's the sort of bit about?"

"Well," Jace chewed his lip, wondering if he was about to make a total fool of himself with the question he was about to ask. "it depends. What exactly would you constitute as all the way?"

Alec's eyes widened in disbelief.

"Jace, you have surely got to be the last person I need explain the birds and the bees too!"

"No, no, no! That's definitely not what I meant!" Jace was quick to correct him. "It's just that… does it still count as all the way if I don't… you know, finish?"

Alec was speechless for a moment. Jace looked at him imploringly, as if he was waiting for Alec to say it was ok. He had never expected to be the one giving Jace advice on these kinds of things.

"okay, well, what do you mean you can't finish? You can't stay hard or you can't… you know…"

"I always have to finish myself off," Jace said, looking down at the duvet. "Clary hates it. She thinks its because of her."

"Is it?" Alec asked without thinking, and Jace's gaze snapped up to meet his.

"I've been with plenty of girls and this has never happened to me," he said slowly, as if thinking about his choice of words. "And I love Clary more than I ever thought possible. Of course I've been dying to get her into bed for ages. And now when I finally did…" he took a deep breath, still holding Alec's gaze.

"Then there's some emotional baggage that's holding you back Jace," he said. "And you have a habit of carrying an abnormally large amount of emotional baggage."

Jace nodded. "So what am I supposed to do?"

Alec was again shocked at the fact that he was the one giving Jace Wayland, of all people, sex advice.

"Think about whatever issues you have with Clary. Are you still scared of losing her? Whatever it is Jace, you need to talk to her about it. She'll understand, and she'll try her best to reassure you." Alec told him, a strange feeling, almost like fear, in his stomach. He had never heard Jace sound this vulnerable in all the years he'd known him.

"Other than that, experiment in the bedroom," Alec grinned wickedly all of a sudden, trying to lighten the mood and drag Jace's thoughts away from darker things. Broody and miserable were not emotions that Alec was good at dealing with in other people.

"Uh-oh," Jace groaned. "I don't think I can handle hearing details of you and Magnus in the bedroom," he shook his head, back to his normal self, all traces of their previous conversation erased.

"Yeah, well luckily for you I didn't come here to give you details," Alec grinned, but it faded quickly as he remembered what he had come here for in the first place. "We need to talk."

"About what?" Jace asked innocently, and Alec groaned inwardly. Jace was going to play the denial card.

"About the other night. After Pandemonium."

"What about it?"

"You know. What happened between us."

"What happened between us?" Jace's voice had taken on a dangerous tone, warning Alec not to go there. But Alec had spent too many years of his life pretending, and he has every intention of going there.

"This happened," he said, and leaned in, pressing his lips lightly against Jace's. He expected the other boy to push him off. To pull away. But Jace did no such thing. At first he was just letting Alec kiss him. But then he responded, moving his mouth, parting his lips, the tip of his tongue running along Alec's bottom lip. It sent shivers through his body. Jace pressed his lips harder against Alec's, and without realising what he was doing, slid his left hand round the back of Alec's neck, pushing his fingers through the soft dark hair and pulling the other boys heads towards him.

There was a knock on the door, and they sprang apart.

"Seriously, out of all the rooms in the institute, why has mine become the designated meeting place?" he complained loudly as Isabelle pushed the door open, again without invitation. "I could be having sex in here!"

Alec's eye's widened for a fraction of a second before returning to normal, but Isabelle caught it. There was definitely something going on here.

"Spill the beans guys. What's going on?"

Jace put his hands up in defeat.

"Ok, you got me Izzy. Me, Clary, Alec and Magnus are planning to double elope."
"double elope?" Isabelle repeated.

"Yeah, it's like a double date, but eloping instead of dating. Were considering going somewhere like Hawaii."

Isabelle gritted her teeth in frustration, and for the second time in less than an hour, strode out of Jace's room vowing to find out what they were keeping from her.