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Previously: Alec stared at him nervously, his blue eyes wide as his heart was beating rapidly, afraid that he was going to ask him to disappear, and nodded, his voice trembling slightly. "I am listening."
Without another word Magnus got on his feet and offered him his hand to help him up. "First. Come with me."
"W-what?" He muttered, looking up at him not understanding.
The Warlock raised an eyebrow. "I think I was clear enough. Get up and come with me." He repeated, not taking his hand away.
The boy bit his lip and slowly raised his hand taking Magnus'. He expected him to let go once he got on his feet, but Magnus held on tight instead, and started walking. "Magnus? Where are we going?" He called, while being dragged away.
"We are going to get food. I'm starving. And so are you." The older man told him using an authoritative tone which allowed no complains.
Alec complained anyway. "I'm not hungry."
Magnus turned to looks at him, his gold cat-eyes boring into the Shadowhunter's blue ones. "We will talk about that later too. C'mon."
"But!"
"I would think coming with me to eat would be within your power… Am I wrong?"
"No… I mean yes… ugh…" he shook his head. "I mean, okay, I'm coming. But why would you…"
"We'll talk once you eat something."
"Okay…"
They sat at a small café and Magnus ordered various stuff for them to eat, and also some coffee.
"Eat." He ordered the Nephilim, and the boy sighed and grabbed a French fry biting it.
"Happy?" he grumbled annoyed that he was being made to eat.
"I will be once you eat everything."
"Everything? Are you insane? There's food for five people here!"
"When you eat enough then. Go on."
Alec sighed and kept eating, wishing to get it over with, while Magnus watched him in silence, skeptically.
"About my third request…" The Warlock said after a while, sounding nervous.
"Third? You lost me there… What were the two first?"
"I wanted you to come with me, and eat."
"You needn't have gone to such lengths for that…" The Shadowhunter muttered. "What does it matter anyway?"
"It does! Of course it does!" Magnus exclaimed surprising him.
Alec looked at him, his blue eyes wide. "Why?" The question escaped his lips before he could hold it back.
"Why?" Magnus asked back, incredulously.
"Yes. Why would it matter to you? Why would you care if I live or die, if I'm happy or not? Why did you help me?"
Magnus sighed and went for the answer the Nephilim was most likely to believe. "I owed you that much didn't I? I'm the reason you are like that. It's my fault you are suffering."
Alec looked at him, his eyes wide for a moment, and then his face fell. "I see…" he whispered sounding even more heartbroken than before. 'I was stupid to hope…' "I understand you don't want to be here. You don't have to feel obliged to do anything. Nothing is your fault. I said so before. Everything is my fault."
"I don't believe that… but what does it matter now? No matter who was at fault, the outcome is still the same…" Magnus muttered sadly.
"It matters to me… I know that I was probably nothing much to you… But to me, you were everything."
"Alexander! How dare you say that? You were never 'nothing'! As you were never trivial! You… since the beginning, you were…"
"I was what? An important footnote? A post note of value?"
His voice was dripping sarcasm and Magnus would have been angry at him for talking like that, if it wasn't also laced with so much pain it hurt to even listen to it.
"Alexander…" He choked out, feeling his heart constrict. "Please…"
"Please what?" Alec asked lowly, his voice lifeless once more.
"Please don't say that. I told you so many times. You are NOT trivial. Why could you never believe me?"
"Well, why didn't you?" Alec asked back, surprising him.
"What?"
"Why didn't you believe me when I told you I was never going to shorten your life? If I was so important to you, you should have believed me, right?"
Magnus was left just staring at him, speechless.
"Never mind…" The boy said, his blue eyes shining with unshed tears. "You don't have to answer that. Just tell me what's the third thing you want so I can leave you alone as you wished… As I'm sure you still do…" His voice broke and Magnus felt his heart break along with it, for one more time.
"Alexander… Please forgive me."
"What?"
"I want you to forgive me."
"I… I don't understand… I thought…"
"I know what you thought. And I also know, I am asking for too much. I do not deserve your forgiveness after what I did to you. But I need you. Alexander, you were NEVER trivial… And I need you… God, I need you so much… I was wrong, so wrong and I…" he stopped midsentence, looking at the boy, who was staring at him lost. "Alexander? Please say something."
"You… You, need… me?"
"Yes. More than anything."
"But… That doesn't make sense… You… you said…"
"It doesn't change anything…" Magnus quoted, and Alec flinched at the reminder dropping his eyes.
"Yes…"
"I lied." The Warlock announced and Alec raised his head with a sudden motion to look at him, his blue eyes wide.
"You what?"
"I lied. I'm sorry. It was a stupid, horrible lie… I love you. And it changes everything. Please Alexander. Forgive me. Forgive me and return home."
"Home…?" He whispered looking up at him, the longing evident in his eyes.
"Yes… Please come back… Come back and make the loft a "home" again, because that place is just an empty house without you there…"
"I promised… Didn't I?" Alec said.
"What?" Magnus asked confused, forgetting their previous dialogue momentary.
Alec smiled at last and Magnus felt the pieces of his soul healing just by seeing that beautiful smile he had missed so much.
"Your third request is within my power." The Nephilim said. "I…"
But he never got to finish that sentence, because Magnus all but climbed the table to reach him, and kissed him with so much love it took his breath away. "Thank you… Thank you, thank you… My Alec, I love you so much…"
Saying nothing, Alec gently untangled himself from Magnus, who immediately looked at him worried.
"Alexander…?"
Alec left money for the food on the table and took Magnus' hand, dragging him outside. He pushed him against the café wall and kissed him breathlessly, just like the Warlock had done to him once, back when they were first dating.*
Magnus kissed him back eagerly, holding him close, and whispered, when they separated to breathe. "What was that for?"
"I love you too…" Alec whispered back, as they looked into each other's eyes, their foreheads leaning together. "Let's go home."
*TBC reference.
The End! What did you think? Sorry for torturing you~
