Author's Note: Hellllloooo! Here is another chapter. I can't believe I've actually written this fast. I'm not very good with multi-chaptered stories. But I'm gonna try to do well with this. :D My mood music was "Open Your Eyes (To Love)" it's a great song. And I played it 50 times yesterday. I am pathetic. :( Have you guys read the "original" version of Jace and Alec's "talk" and how Jace kissed Alec on the mouth for 4 seconds? It was hilarious and awkward and I totally do not ship. Lol.
OH AND. Cassandra read the first few pages of COFA! She mentioned Magnus in a Sari...Ohkaaaayyyyy. And Alec in jeans, of course!
Disclaimer: Not mine, Clare still owns them.
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Chapter 3: Moderate
Alec blinked, momentarily taken aback at the question. His weakness? Well, it wasn't a very normal question, was it? He would have understood if Magnus asked something like – 'What did you fear?' – but then, his weakness? Well, he wasn't a tough guy like Jace who would just shrug it off and say, with a smirk of his own, that he had no weakness. He also wasn't like Izzy who could answer out-right and then laugh, as if it didn't really matter.
He was in the in-between, he supposed. Izzy was Izzy, and Jace was Jace, and they had their own ways of dealing with things. But Alec was not that aloof, could not just laugh it off, because the question was serious. And he didn't really have it in him to crack a joke about that, because that would mean he refused to accept the truth, and that would send him a step back.
Magnus, at the end of the red line, tapped a foot, his eyes peering into Alec's own.
Was the question too much? No, they were only in the 'middle' stage, with the moderate questions. Moderately hard, and moderately easy. Just like how Alec was as a person. He wasn't entirely as high and mighty as Jace, or as easy and as, for lack of a better term, diva-sort-of-brat like Isabelle. But Magnus knew there were more to the oldest Lightwood's siblings, but then again, those were what he saw, what was on the surface.
He wasn't expecting Alec to lie, because Alec had learned from previous lies that he would only be delaying his sort-of-going-to-be dramatic reunion with Magnus.
"You."
Alec's voice was barely above a whisper, and Magnus had to cock his head to the side, just to strain his own hearing. "Come again?"
"I said you're my weakness, Magnus." Alec's fingers were clenched, and the playfulness Magnus had in him earlier slowly dwindled away.
"My biggest weakness and my biggest fear. Weakness because when I'm hunting demons, I think about you, even when I shoot an arrow from across a field. A distraction in battle. And fear…A fear of loss, you can say. But the biggest thing right now is. Just you, Magnus."
Magnus didn't say anything about that, instead, he raised two fingers, signalling for two steps, and crooked his finger. Alec did so.
He was close now, but not close enough. Magnus wanted to hug him, a comforting hug that would lead to much petting and more promises that he was safe here, he was a warlock. But he held himself back.
Instead, he smiled, and blew an air kiss towards Alec again.
Alec turned his cheek, the "kiss" hitting it, and smiled.
"Do you like Clary?" Magnus decided to just ask the questions again, though he was going to reward Alec for his honesty. Well, there would be two rewards for honesty know, wouldn't there? From Alec's '0 because the scale can't handle your sexy self' and his 'weakness'. Ah, yes, Magnus spoiled him a little bit too much.
Alec's eyes widened, and before he could stop himself, he laughed, a loud one and he used he placed his hand on his leg, steadying himself as his body shook with laughter.
"Really, Alexander. Was that such a hilarious question?" Magnus rolled his eyes, though at the site of Alec doubling over in laughter, Magnus allowed a short chuckle.
Alec, now recovering, shook his head.
"You're funny." He commented absentmindedly. "And yes, I like Clary. But not in that way. And yes, I did sort of wanted her to get lost when we first met. Yes, she is a liability in the field sometimes, but she's learning. And lastly, yes, I don't think I want her to leave anytime soon."
"Is she really that adorable that people can't help but love her?" Magnus said, a tinge of jealousy in his voice. Alec took a step and then looked at him, his face all serious, remnants of the laughter from earlier nowhere.
"I don't love her, Magnus. She's just…Okay. Not too much like Izzy, and she tames Jace. Well, sort of." Magnus nodded.
"Well, what about Jace?"
What was up with these questions? The direction they were going…But Alec had nothing anymore but brotherly love for Jace. That was where it all ended.
"Jace is my Parabatai. And I do love Jace. But only as a brother. He's family." Alec took a step, and Magnus nodded again.
"Are we evaluating the strength of my feelings for each individual we both know?" Alec asked, with a hint of teasing, and Magnus let out that short chuckle again.
"If you want, but we're not playing that game."
"Then get on with the questions."
"Like I said, don't be too hot Shadowhunter."
"Okay, so Monopoly or Snakes and Ladders?"
"That's not a 'moderate question'."
"One step back!" Magnus shooed Alec back.
"But I didn't even lie." Alec pouted, but he took a step, anyway.
"New rule: Challenge a question and you take a step back." Magnus grinned, and Alec shot him a distasteful look. This was going to be a long game.
"Have you ever…" Alec groaned out loud. So they were on this field now?
"…Thought about going around the world with me?" There was a casualness to the warlock's tone, and Alec just shrugged.
"Sounds fun." Alec said.
"Really? Okay, we're going to Japan on Thursday." Magnus snapped his fingers, and a calendar rolled down behind him, an 'x' marked on the 12th.
"But that's two days from now." Alec protested. "I can't just—"
"So it's a no?"
"Are you seriously asking me out in your own game?" Alec countered.
"Yes and no. I've wanted to go to Japan for a while. I hear they have the best kimonos." He winked at Alec. "And no because…Okay, yes."
"The date is set! On to the next question!" This put Magnus in a whole different level of happy. Sure, it was a strange move on his behalf, but was it really unexpected? He liked Brooklyn, but he wanted to go see Japan. It's been a while. It's probably been five decades since he last set foot on Tokyo.
"You like it when I wear black. Real or not?" Magnus leaned forward, and he twirled a lock of dark hair around his finger.
"Real."
"Elaborate."
"It looks…Sexy, I guess. I'm so used to all your glitter and loud clothes. Black is good on you."
"Thank you, darling. Though you need to get rid of the black sometime soon."
Step.
"PDA?"
"Sure?"
Step.
"Fountain of Youth?"
What?
"What?" Alec's head snapped up towards Magnus. Fountain of what?
Magnus made a motion to brush at the non-existent dust that clung to his pants. "Nothing."
"Did it hurt?" The warlock drawled, and Alec saw Chairman Meow dart between his legs and scratch at the door behind the Shadowhunter. Magnus snapped his fingers, and a little crack opened, allowing the too-tiny cat to slip out. It shut with another snap.
"What?" Again, it didn't surprise Magnus that Alec always liked to ask 'What?, How?, Huh?,' and then 'Wait.'
"When you fell from Heaven."
Alec's face was flushed and he tried to think of that as another one of Magnus's many corny pick up lines, ones he did not need to use on Alec.
"Seriously?"
"One step back, Lightwood."
"Oh come on."
"That's two steps.
Alec protested, already having made the two steps back. "But-"
Magnus tilted his head.
"Very good. Now…If we were in High School would you hold my hand when we walk down the halls?"
"Technically, I never even went to-"
"One step back, Alexander."
Alec sighed.
"Where did we first meet?" Magnus had shifted, and was now leaning against the door frame as Alec surpassed the previous line that said he'd passed the 'Easy' round. He should learn to bite his tongue.
"During your party." Alec took a confident step forward, a fond smile at the memory. But Magnus had raised his hand, palm to him, and asked him to stop.
"I'm not lying."
Any guesses on where they might have met? I like the idea that they have met, well, in the sense that one of them saw each other before the party and was hit by a sort of love bug. Or crush-bug. I'm just a giddy fangirl, okay?
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...Oh and I've written Chapter 5 already.
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