"So, what's a parabatai?" I asked breaking the ice. Alec exhales before answer.

"There's no human bond that compares to what Jace and I have. We're bound together for life. Bound to fight together, to protect each other. In battle, our hearts beat as one. If one of us were to die... a part of the other would die inside as well."

"Wow, that's deep." And the silence returns.

We finally arrived at the Institute. "Stay here, I'll be right back." He told me and went inside. A good few minutes passed when I finally decided to enter to sse why Alec was taking so long.

"Don't tell me. I don't wanna have to report you." I hear Hodge's voice. I know it's not nice to hear but I'm a curious girl. "It's just that, you know, Clary and Crystal are... That girls are Valentine's..." Hodge's rune sear making him groaning. He exhales. "The monster's daughters. There must be some reason why the roaches are coming out of the woodwork again, right? But I will tell you something, they arrived here and the monster return at the same time... it couldn't be a coincidence. They are probably working for him in secret and we don't know."

"Maybe you're right." Alec said. I feel my eyes getting full of tears. He really think that?

Hodge sighs. "I'll leave you to it." With that I got back outside. Alec really thinks that Clary and I work for Valentine? After everything? Bastard, son of a bitch! The sound of the door behind me brought me back from my thoughts. I turned to look at Alec furious.

"You're okay?" He asked worried seeing my tears.

"Other than discovered that you think that Clary and I work for Valentine, yeah everything's freaking great!" I said sarcastic.

He looked scared, sad and shock. "You heard Hodge."

"You bet your ass that I did. How could you even think that? Clary I can even understand a little, 'cause you don't like her very much, but me? Me, Alec?" At this time, I was yelling.

"No, of course that I don't think you're with Valentine." He told me.

"Oh yeah, and why's that? Uh?"

"Because I like you!" He screamed. "I like you and my heart is telling me that you'd never work for or with him."

I was speechless. Is this really happening or is a dream? Alec Lightwood is right in front of me saying that he likes me. Wow.

"Wow." Was all that I said. "You... you like me? Like, like like?" I'm back at the 4th Grade?

"Yes, I like like you, Crystal. A lot." Wow. An awkward silent stayed between us before he breaks it. "Okay, uh, let me show you how to use this thing." He said pointing to the seraphim blade. Damn it, I should have said something! Alec stayed behind me, grab my right hand and intertwined our fingers again. "Now, it knows you're a Shadowhunter, so it wants to respond." He start to say whispering on my ear making me shiver. "But you have to be firm with it. Let it know who's boss." We starterd to switch the sword slowly together. "There. You make it a part of yourself and it a part of you. Now, the blade never dims. It's saying you belong together."

"How does it know?" I asked him.

"'Cause you're part angel, Crystal... like all Shadowhunters." We did a move that in the end it was emerging some kind of energy. I gasps feeling it. "You understand?"

"Not even a little." I said turning my head a little, making our lips staying dangerously close.

"You'll get there. It's not something you understand in your mind. It's something you know because it's pulsing through your body. It's in your blood." He told me and I did the moves again still felling his presence behind me.

"Could I even do this without you?" I asked Alec.

"You just did." He said. I turned to see him a little away from me. Weird.

"But it... felt like you were still with me." I told him getting close.

"I am. I will be." He gets closer too.

We were so close to each other that I could feel his breathing. I looked from his eyes to his mouth and couldn't take it anymore, so I lead in kissing him furiously.

The kiss was full of urgency, desire and love, the best part? He returned all of this too. His hands was in my waist and my hands was on his hair. At this our weapons were on the floor, but we didn't mind it.

Alec pushed me to the Institute's wall, making me jump rapping my legs on his hips without breaking the kiss. Alec's hands was already under my shirt, touching my skin when his cell phone interrupted. Sighing and growing I get down as he get his phone, as we tried to breath normally again.

"It's a message from Izzy she get it." He told me. "Let's go."

"Yeah."

We get the weapons on the floor.

"Hey, after we save your mundie friend we could finish it later, what do you say... girlfriend?" First he says that he likes me, than we kissed, than make out and now he's asking me to be his girlfriend? IF I'M DREAMING DON'T WAKE ME UP!

"It's a plan... boyfriend." He smiled and kissed me, and we went after Isabelle.