Ok, so it's practically Tuesday, right? You shouldn't be complaining about a two hour early chapter though...

So, despite me posting early, I'm not satisfied with this chapter, and it's a bit shorter (they will get longer eventually, I swear!) so I apologize in advance! And I'm also sorry if my tenses get a tad mixed up because I'm writing another fan fiction and it's in a different tense to this one :3

Anywho... ENJOY! :D

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I was back at the institute, breathing hard from my sprint across the city. My brain was demanding why I had trusted Magnus to help me cure my boredom. Of course, now (when I thought about it reasonably) I could have probably assumed that Magnus passed his time like that. What did I expect?

I slumped on one of the institute walls, right outside of the elevator. Church, who we were minding again for Brother Zachariah, meowed at me curiously from across the hall. I tried to clear the images of the strip club… or whatever it was… from my mind. But every time I closed my eyes, or even blinked, all I could see was Magnus tucking money into the waistband of the other warlock.

What about Alec? A little voice in the back of my brain whispered, gradually becoming more and more insistent until it was a roaring in my mind. I needed to tell Alec.

I was half way through clambering to my feet when I heard a voice sing down the hall. It was unmistakably Clary's. "Jace? Are you over here? Are you bored yet?"

Crap. It sounded like she wasn't far away either. And, just as I had thought that, I saw her shadow round the corner of the hall. I had a matter of mere seconds to entertain myself.

Without thinking much, I sprang across the hall with great agility and tackled church, enveloping him in my arms. The cat hissed and clawed at me, but I held him in my embrace. "Oh, Church! You're so adorable! I just love playing with you! It's the most entertaining, non-boring thing I've done since I was born!"

Clary loomed over me, casting Church and I under her shadow. The both of us looked up at her, trembling from the angry-aura she was giving off. Strangely enough, her expression was blank, apart from an eyebrow being raised. "So you're seriously playing with Church now?"

I plastered on what I hoped was a convincing grin and said, "Yep! I don't understand why we haven't gotten along all these years. We've been having a great time."

"Really now?" Clary said sceptically.

"Yup."

I thanked Raziel that Church actually seemed too stunned to fight back at this point in time.

Clary shook her head in disbelief, but then said, "Ok then. You two have fun with that." She turned her back and walked back the way she had come.

"We will." I said after her, and Church and I waited in fear until he had rounded the corner. As soon as she was gone, the feisty cat hissed ferociously at me, raked his claws down the length of my face, causing me to flinch. As soon as my grip loosened, Church sprang away from me and bolted down the hall, screeching as he went.

"I thought we were friends!" I called after him, not really meaning it.

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Timidly, I knocked on Alec's door three times.

"Come in, Jace." He said from behind the door.

I cracked a gap in the doorframe and poked my head into his room. "How'd you know it was me?"

Alec shrugged. "I just guessed."

I slid my body all the way into his room. He was on his bed, a book in his lap. I awkwardly took a seat at the foot of his bed, feeling his eyes on me as I moved across the room.

"What's wrong?" He said immediately.

I looked at my parabatai in shock. "What makes you think there's something wrong?"

"Seriously Jace," Alec morphed his tone into one that was supposed to sound like me. It took me a moment to realise he was quoting one of my earlier comments. "You're my parabatai. I know things." He tapped the rune.

I rolled my eyes and smiled. "No need to be a prick about it! But, um, I did need to tell you something."

Alec closed his book and sat up, giving me his full attention. "Sure. What's up?"

"It's…" How was I supposed to tell him? He'd be heartbroken. "It's…"

"It's…?" Alec made a gesture for me to continue.

"It's… um… I don't know how to tell you this…" I stutter.

Alec's eyes narrow. "Don't tell me you took another bath in spaghetti."

"What?" I exclaimed, "Of course not! That was when I was like, five!"

Alec shrugged. "You never know with you. Wait, did I accidentally eat some of Isabelle's cooking? Because I found some untouched hamburgers in the fridge and ate one."

"No!" I cried, "And those were the hamburgers that I made, thank-you-very-much."

"Then what is it?" Alec cried desperately.

"Magnus is going to gay strip clubs!" I said quickly.

Alec stared at me in shock for a moment, and my heart felt like it was going to break. I shouldn't have told him. He was going to cry.

He burst into laughter.

"Why are you laughing?" I asked, wondering if he was in denial or something.

"Are you serious, Jace?" Alec said, wiping tears of laughter from his eyes, "I already know that!"

I stared at my best friend and parabatai in absolute shock.

"We actually go together sometimes when we're bored." Alec filled in.

It took a while, but when my mind processed this, I almost fainted. "Y-you mean…?"

"What?" Alec said, looking smug and amused, "You want to know more about what Magnus and I do when we're bored?"

"My Angel!" I cried, "You two are the same person in two bodies! I'm outta here!"

And once again, I found myself running.

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