A/N: Oh my god, I am such a bad person! Bad Sasha! Bad! God, I feel so terrible about this… you guys probably hate me… I am so sorry; I know that I told a bunch of you that this would be up in a few days, and that was like months ago… it was just like the universe was against me updating this! First, right as soon as I was about ot finish it, my computer totally crashed. It was dead for abput two weeks, then Irene hit… I wasn't hurt or anything, but we lost power for another 10 days. When we got power back my computer had miraculously fixed itself, but my flashdrive had disappeared and everything was all chaotic trying to get ready for school… then it was the first week of school so I couldn't just re-write it… and yeah. But anyways, I have found my flashdrive and I have my new laptop and I have no homework, so this is getting updated! Like, now! So yeah… chapter 2!

"Magnus!" Alec called as he pushed his way through the massive crowd of shadowhunters and downworlders, trying to reach the warlock. He was easily visible because of his height but was talking to a short girl with dull brown hair and didn't seem to hear Alec.

As the shadowhunter drew closer he called Magnus's name again, and this time both Magnus and the girl looked up. The girl, who Alec could now see had pleasant but sad gray eyes and was wearing a simple white dress, opened her mouth (presumably to ask who he was) but then caught the look that passed between the two boys. She quickly murmured something to Magnus, to which he nodded, and then disappeared into the crowd.

"Hello, Alec." he said as the boy drew closer, almost formally, but with an accompanying smile made it clear that he wasn't angry anymore. Quite the opposite- he seemed thrilled that Alec had sought him out.

"Hey," Alec replied, returning the smile shyly. "I wanted to ask you something…" he paused and Magnus kept looking at him, waiting for the question. "Would you like to be my partner? For the battle, I mean?" he asked softly, biting his lip nervously and looking up to meet Magnus's eyes.

"I'd love to, Alexander," he replied, still formal, although his eyes had lit up at Alec's words. The boy didn't speak, but smiled as he carefully drew the intricate knot design on the back of his own hand, and then took Magnus's hand in his own to draw the matching mark there. His rune-scarred hand looked even paler than normal against the warlock's flawless caramel skin, he noticed.

"I got your message," he murmured quietly as he carefully traced the rune, eyes fixed on the design.

"Did you? May I ask what you thought?" Magnus responded politely as Alec finished drawing. He straightened up, but kept a light hold on his boyfriend's hand. Magnus gave him an odd glance before gently drawing his hand away. There was that damn formality again! Alec knew that Magnus was just acting like that for his sake, knowing that Alec wasn't ready to tell his family, but no one would notice the slight contact or a few unguarded words! He'd spent the past few months arguing with Magnus, and now that the fights seemed to be over he longed for the closeness that they had shared in the first months of their relationship.

He lifted his gaze so that his sapphire blue eyes met Magnus's emerald, gold-flecked, catlike ones. Those beautiful cat eyes had been the first thing that he had noticed about Magnus on the night they had first met. He felt himself getting lost in their gold-green depths, just as he had that night that they had first met and again on the day of their first kiss, lost in those eyes that he loved so dearly, those eyes that belonged to the man whom he cared about so much. Magnus was saying something but Alec didn't hear, wasn't paying attention, and then his arms were around Magnus's neck, and his lips were on Magnus's lips and he was kissing Magnus, who was just frozen. Somewhere some part of him registered that silence had overtaken the people around them, other than hushed whispers of shock, but a little voice, that little, love-stricken voice in his heart told it to just shut the hell up, because at that moment the only things that were real were Magnus and Alec, but then Magnus pulled away and it was over.

All of Alec's cool common sense returned within moments, and his eyes grew wide as he realized what had just happened: he had just kissed Magnus! And almost the whole Clave, plus about a gazillion Downworlders, had seen it! He lifted his eyes to meet Magnus's again, but this time his were slightly panicked and Magnus's eyes were bewildered.

"Um… Darling? I think you just exited closet-territory. In a very, very epic way."

A/N: Okay, the next part IS typed and I just need to read over it and I'll upload it within the next 3 days! And this time I PROMISE, I really mean three days. I'm sorry for the tiny chapter, but I hadn't edited any of this before the world decided to hate on me and this fic, and I figured that I should probably update and let everyone know that this fic hadn't been adandoned, and see if I have any readers left… so yeah, please please please review and tell me what you think! And don't hate me… please?