Love Potion 69

Chapter 7

Disclaim or not to disclaim, there is no choice, I dis everything. Ms. Clare, your work is safe with me.

Magnus was silent, but his voice was projecting into Clary's mind.

"Your not talking aloud Clary, so I thought I would come in here and join you. Is this alright?" asked Magnus' voice. Clary felt a slight vibration in her skull as she heard his voice. Her body was tranquil to the state of being obviously drugged, but her mind was fully awake.

"Magnus?" she thought back.

"Yes, Clary." said Magnus.

"I can hear you or I'm hearing voices and losing my mind." said Clary internally.

"Yes, it is a simple trick I can perform. You seem a bit out of it, are you alright?" asked Magnus.

"Yes, I feel fine, just like separated." said Clary.

"That is a good way to put it." said Magnus. The he continued. "Now, what do you want to tell Jace?"

"Oh that. " said Clary with a sad voice.

"He is away, in Idris." said Clary

If he was back here what would you say to him right now?" said Magnus.

"Why does it matter, he is not here." said Clary.

"If you tell me now, I can catch it and save it. When he returns I can give it to him in a dream." said Magnus.

"You know he won't let you mess with his mind." said Clary.

"I won't ask darling." said Magnus, his voice getting deeper, more sultry.

"Have you read many of my memories?" asked Clary.

"You are a clever girl, Clary. Yes, if I can plant a thought, I can certainly retrieve one." said Magnus.

He continued, "As for you, I have read some of your memories."

"Anything embarrassing?" asked Clary.

"No, you could not embarrass yourself to me, my dear." said Magnus.

"Because you are hundreds of years old?" asked Clary.

"No, but trying hard to do something fast, to learn quickly is no substitute for experience." said Magnus.

"What do you mean?" asked Clary.

"You have learned so much about being a Shadowhunter. You will become one in time, but you need to live the life of a Shadowhunter for a while. I haven't just been sitting in a rocking chair all this time, I've been experiencing people's lives." said Magnus.

"Do you think I am not good enough for Jace?" said Clary.

"NO!" thought Magnus. "You and Jace are together because you feel something for each other. He is attracted to you. It is love and it is a magic all to itself. When you first met, I thought he would never see you on the radar. But there was so much I did not know about the both of you. Now, it seems inevitable."

"Then I want to tell you my hearts desire now." said Clary.

"I'm right here." said Magnus.

"Do you know of my memory of my birthday? The one where Jace brought me up to the green house in the Institute?" asked Clary.

"Not the one where he showed you the midnight blooming of a flower, then the heart skipping kiss on the steps when you both fumbled and bumped on the steps? No, never read anything like that in your archived storage." said Magnus.

"Magnus." chastised Clary. "If I..."

"Careful now, missy." said Magnus.

"Well, I know we have gone through many bumps in the road." said Clary.

"Yes, yes, the road to true love is..."started Magnus.

"I know. But I want Jace to know that from the first moment that I saw him kill that demon and thought he was murdering a human like a vigilante. The times we each faced tests of our love together and separately. Well, I wouldn't trade them in for anything, not for less painful memories with another person. I cherish our memories, they are my story books when I go to sleep at night. Our travels through broken hearts. They way we have both grown into the people we are today. It is because our paths crossed. And it is our love that broke the spell you covered me with to protect me. But I don't need your protection any more, or the protection of my mother. I can protect myself and Jace if need be. I'm a better person for having had him in my life." Clary ended her speech.

"Alright, if that is all you want to say to him." said Magnus.

"Why, do you think I missed something?" asked Clary.

"Yes, how about how you feel so hot for him some nights, you wake up in a sweat, your mind racing with lewd thoughts. Your mouth quivering, the drool escaping as you wipe your face on your pillow. Your eyes cannot focus in the dark, so you shut them tightly and you imagine him wrapping his arms around you and pulling you close. You can inhale his scent, from you memory. Your body twitches as you think of him touching your body. Oh, how he instinctively knows where you NEED to be touched and he does not withhold anything. You feel alright that he has a past, a string of girls who's faces blur and become a body out of a cult classic, like Amazon Women from Mars. It is alright, because he is now able to give you want you want. Or maybe hundreds of years could never prepare you for the first time he truly loves someone. When he learns about giving and caring on a new plateau. How the sight of his body can make... nothing else, whatever. Pfft." thought Magnus.

"Getting a little carried away there Magnus?" asked Clary

Magnus smiles...Alec is all that is on his mind right now.

The End