Alec sat down shakily on the couch.
"Are you okay, Alexander?" Magnus asked, sitting cautiously next to him.
Alec shook his head and laid his head on Magnus's shoulder.
Magnus wrapped his arms around Alec. "You're shaking. Are you okay, love?"
Alec shook his head again.
Magnus rubbed Alec's back gently. "It'll be okay, Alec."
"N-no it won't be!" Alec sobbed into Magnus's shoulder.
Magnus wasn't sure what to say, so he just kept rubbing Alec's back.
Slowly Alec's sobbing subsided. "H-hey," he said. "Y-you actually called me Alec." He lifted his head off Magnus's shoulder.
Magnus looked slightly surprised. "I did, didn't I?"
Alec nodded and snuggled into Magnus's shoulder.
Magnus smiled slightly. "She'll come around, love. I promise. Just give her time to calm down." Magnus said, stroking Alec's hair softly.
Alec looked at Magnus from under his lashes. "You think?"
"I know. You'll see." Magnus smiled. Alec looked up at him and Magnus kissed him gently. "And just remember, whatever happens with your mom, you'll always have me."
Alec smiled and wrapped his arms around Magnus's waist.
They sat there like that, watching the sun slowly set through the window, when suddenly the silence was broken by Alec's cellphone. He fished it out of his pocket and looked at the caller i.d. "Izzy," he said, looking at Magnus.
"Answer it," he prompted.
He picked up the phone. "Hello?"
"Alec, oh thank God. Please, come home." Isabelle begged.
"No. Not until mom realizes how out of line she was. She had no right to hit Magnus with a vase, and no right to throw him out like that. I don't care how mad she was, she had no right. I will come home when, and only when, mom apologizes-and means it." Alec said, his voice harsh.
"Alec, please-" Alec hung up, cutting off the rest of Isabelle's sentence.
Alec's phone rang again. He looked at it and saw Jace's number and hit ignore. His phone kept ringing and Alec finally turned it off out of frustration. Alec
groaned and laid his head on Magnus's lap, stretching out on the couch. Eventually, they both fell asleep on the couch.
BANG BANG BANG! Alec sat up and looked around, confused.
BANG BANG BANG! "The door," Magnus said. Magnus and Alec looked at each other and then Magnus slowly got up and answered the door. Isabelle almost fell inside,
Jace in her arms.
"Oh, thank God! Magnus, I didn't know who else to go to, Jace, he's-he's..." Isabelle's voice trailed off.
Magnus looked down at Jace and started barking orders. "Put him down on the couch. Alec, go and get some hot water." Alec nodded and they both hurried to comply.
Alec sat down next to Isabelle. "What happened?"
"There was a group of demons downtown, and Jace and I went to take care of them-" Isabelle began.
"Why didn't you let me know?" Alec cut her off.
"I tried. You hung up on me." Isabelle said dryly. "Anyway, what we didn't know was there was a Greater demon there. We thought we'd killed them all, when all of a sudden it came up behind Jace and attacked him. I managed to get it off of him, but there's no way I could have defeated it. Luckily, the sun came up just then."
Alec's hands were clenched into fists. "This is all my fault. If I'd just listened to you instead of jumping to conclusions, he probably wouldn't be dying over there." Alec gestured to where Magnus was still working over Jace, blue sparks flying from his fingertips.
"Alec, he'll be fine. Magnus healed you when you got bit by Abaddon, remember?" Isabelle said, resting her hand on his shoulder.
"But if I'd just listened, he might not have been hurt in the first place!" Alec said, walking away.
Isabelle stared after him as he slammed the bedroom door.