You know when you're listening to the radio and it just stutters to a stop, and all that's left is static and the silence? That's what it felt like when Magnus Bane first walked into the concrete cell belonging to the one and only Alec Lightwood. He had been nervous, his heart hammering his chest from the inside out, but that all came to a halt when he set his warm brown eyes on the psychopath. Of course he's beautiful. The crazy ones always are he thought bitterly. Well, when I say thought, I mean the idea registered in the small part of his mind that was still functional. He stared at the man in the straitjacket, then said man opened his eyes. Magnus saw his life fe reflected in those clear blue pools of mad.
"Hello there, my pretty." The mad man muttered, his delirious comments soon drowned out by his own fitful giggling. He rocked back and forth as much as he could in his restraints, shaking the chair under him and worrying Magnus greatly.
"Hello there, Mr Lightwood. I'm Magnus Bane." He clenched his teeth as the blue eyes man's mad cackle resounded throughout the small cell.
"Maggie!" The man almost squealed. "I like it..." he muttered afterwards, almost... shyly? The man's attitude changed so abruptly, Magnus had a hard time keeping up, and was left staring at the man, his jaw open. "Shut your pretty mouth, you'll catch flies!" He ordered sharply, effectively causing Magnus to do just so. "So, Mags, why you here? Come to fix me, have you? Well, I can tell you in advance, that ain't gonna happen." Magnus swallowed, using every ounce of self-restraint he had to look away from Alec's lips as he said his name.
"No, in fact. I'm a psychiatrist. I'm here to help you." Alec threw back his bead at those words, his lips sliding back in a sinister grin. "May I ask why you're laughing?" Magnus asked. He didn't expect an answer, it was rhetorical question, but Alec surprised him.
"It's because I'm mad. That's why you are here, 'tis it not?" Alec's blunt response drew Magnus back to reality. He almost sounded… sane. Save, of course, what he was saying. Magnus simple nodded, the rough gesture causing Alec to giggle and return to his delirious self. Suddenly he sobered up, causing Magnus to glance at his face. His brown eyes caught on the mad man's blue and he gasped. He saw so much… pain. And rejection, but the hurt stood out most of all.
"What happened to? What made you…" he cut himself off. What was he supposed to say? What made you crazy? Though he was talking to a mad man, it still sounded positively rude, and Magnus was not known for that.
"Mad? Crazy? A psychopath? Well, there is in fact a story behind it all. Truly, I wasn't always mad." He mutter sweet nothing afterwards, eyes clenched shut tightly, swaying slightly in his seat. "I guess that's your job. You might want to take a seat then. 'Tis a rather long story. Long… long… 'tis, 'tisn't it? 'tis. It all started, really, that day. The day nine years ago. That day... That day... So long ago. He's still dead, 'tisn't he? Yes. That's how it works. They're all still dead. And I'm sitting here, in a straitjacket. Oh how times change..."