A Bond Greater than Love
Chapter 7
So two chapters. HELL YEAH! Though I couldn't do three as the third would be the final one. I repeat, HELL YEAH!
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"Are you sure this is ok?"
"It's fine! don't worry about it. I have a spare bedroom in my apartment. Do you really have all you own in that little suitcase?" Will gestured to the pull along.
"I told you, I don't own much."
Will paused. "Is it alright for you to leave the home?"
"Well as long as I take my medication at the required time I'll be fine. I'm not contagious." Jem reassured him. "Can we sit down for a bit?"
"Sure."
They both plonked down on a doorstep and took in their surroundings. They could spot a few other patients which was easy as they all stuck out like a sore thumb.
One was watching TV in an alley.
Another was trying to conduct a group of cats and was scolding them. "The notes are A, C, E and A. Not D, D, D and D! And you're all out of sync. Terrible! Alright! Disband! We'll regroup tomorrow."
A third one was rocking back and forth on a doorstep.
A final one was staring at a till worker in a café without blinking, causing the worker to squirm uncomfortably.
"They're quite a bunch." Will acknowledged.
"The matron kept us firmly beaten down. I bet most of us, if not all of us, don't know what to do next. I'm lucky because…" He smiled shyly.
"Say it."
"Because I have the Lord of all Sexiness as one of my closest friends."
Will looked away. "Damn right. And don't you forget it" Who is this guy? I'm still asking myself this question. I feel like I've known him forever but in reality it's only been a few days. (Not counting the months I was watching him in the park. God that sounds creepy.) What he just said… made me feel… really happy and I had to turn away so he didn't see me blush. I think I'm still bloody blushing. I blame this on Magnus motherfucking Bane and his unstable hormones.
"Shall we take the bus?"
Will snapped out of his thoughts. That's right. We're supposed to go back to my apartment. "Sure. It'll be quicker."
A clatter came from outside the apartment. Magnus looked up. Alec was asleep on the sofa and Magnus had been doodling on his face with a sharpie.
What's this? I hope it's something juicy! He had been bored out of his mind all day. And by day he meant five and a half hours as it was now 10:30am and he had been awake since 6am. (Though he had napped between 7:45m and 9am.)
Alec was asleep because when he had told Magnus to go to bed at 7:30am the warlock had refused to fall asleep for an entire 15 minutes. Even when he did fall asleep he had wrapped his arms around Alec incredibly tightly and had muttered "Lovely, cuddly Alec. Shadowhunters are so cute and cuddly I just wanna squeeze them (He squeezed Alec) and squeeze them (He squeezed Alec again) and give them a nice big hug. (He gave Alec a signature Magnus Bane bear hug which makes your ribs crack)" He had repeated that so many times Alec didn't get a chance to sleep and was convinced he'd broke at least three ribs.
Now he was dreaming about being chased by a dozen Chairman Meows and Magnus was in a cat suit meowing the cats on. He shuddered in his sleep.
Magnus got off the sofa and tiptoed to the peeky hole on the front door. He gazed through it and gasped dramatically.
Will and Jem… Jem has a suitcase?! Is this what I think it is?!
Alec shot up. In his dream the cats and Magnus had chased him to a park bench where a dark haired young man and a silver haired young man were making out. It was then he woke up and saw Magnus.
"What the hell are you doing?"
Magnus turned to see an angry face with a Mexican moustache, beard, freckles; monobrow, eye patch, whiskers and a cat doodle on its forehead glaring at him.
"Mufufufufu… My little Willy has grown up…"
"What are you on and do you know how wrong that sounds?" Alec was a sucker for innuendo.
After heaving his suitcase (with help from Will) up a hell of a lot of stairs Jem had finally reached Will's apartment.
And it made a much better first impression than Magnus' apartment did.
The floor was tiled except for a rug in the middle of the room. He had a couple of sofas positioned around a flat screen TV and a sparkling modern kitchen complete with marble countertop. There were two windows with black curtains and two doors that presumably lead to the spare room and Will's bedroom. The door by the kitchen probably leads to the bathroom. There were bookshelves in the corner of the room which had some armchairs and a table lamp near it. Jem smiled. He would probably curl up there later. The table lamp meant light would be no problem when reading after dark.
"Your room is the door on the right and I'm afraid these aren't noise cancelling walls so we'll hear every bit of Magnus' party. Though I could ask him if to use a spell so we don't. Here I'll take your suitcase. Feel free to take our shoes off and hang your coat up."
Jem hadn't noticed the little hat stand by the door. How classy. Best get ready for the party. I think I'll need some mental preparation too. He followed after Will, flinching when he walked. I really must take my medication.
Later that day...
Jem came out of his room and saw Will upside down on the sofa, the silver spray paint still in streaks down his hair. "What are you doing?"
"Trying a new form of meditation."
"What are you really doing?"
"Exactly what I just told you."
Jem raised his eyebrows.
Will sighed. "I got bored. This is uncomfy and now my head hurts."
Jem laughed and sat next to him.
"Are you ok? You're flinching when you walk."
"I'm fine and how did you – Ah!"
Will had slapped his hand on Jem's forehead. "You have a hot head."
"Owww…"
"You have a high temperature."
"You don't need to worry." Jem was rubbing his forehead. "I've just had a few fevers lately. Nice shirt."
Will frowned. "Thanks." His t-shirt had a picture of a hunter going after his own shadow with a knife. (A/N: Shadowhunter. Ba-dum crash) "Shall we go?"
"Alright then." Jem smiled and they headed downstairs.
Nothing could have prepared Jem for this. Not even Wills talk on Downworlders and how not to piss them off.
"Magnus has really outdone himself." Will whistled.
And he had.
The room was no longer Magnus' apartment. It was like some sort of extravagant night club. He had completely changed the layout. There was a huge bar with a variety of drinks; a huge dance floor; a DJ with six arms (Jem gawped at this a bit); and a stage for bands and singers. The whole room would be pitch black if it wasn't for the huge disco ball, the lasers shooting around the room, the dance floor which was lit up in some places and lights the DJ kept spinning round the room and changing colour. Not to forget the fish tank that took up the whole of the back wall and was full of luminous (yes luminous) glow-in-the-dark fish. But even with all that you still wouldn't be able see that far in front of you.
"I think I'll go for a wander." Jem turned to Will.
"Ok. I'll be with Magnus. Be careful and piss anyone or anything off." Will strolled off into the crowd.
Or anything!? No. Come on. I can do this.
Following Will's orders were surprisingly hard. Several things had already gone weirdly wrong for Jem:
He accidentally bumped into a pale man who turned around and hissed at him, revealing two rather large fangs.
A woman with blue skin and pointed ears tried to flirt with him until her furry boyfriend came over.
Jem was forced to make a quick escape.
A group of drunken witches saw his cane and thought he was some sort of playboy as they kept yelling innuendo at him and tried to make him sit in their laps.
When he had finally reached the luminous fish tank and sat down, another woman (This one extremely furry) tried to chat him up.
He thought he might be some sort of womanizer.
The cat he had been stroking had turned into yet another woman who winked at him and strode off.
He was now sure he was some sort of womanizer and should take up drinking to make up for it.
The drinks tasted weird.
His vision had been randomly zooming in and out of focus all night.
He had also been having some dizzy spells.
Sod it. I need to find Will. He scanned the crowd until he found Magnus, Will, Alec and a few others at the opposite end of the bar. He decided not to disturb them and turned back to drinking. Bleh, this is disgusting stuff.
He looked up to see Will had sat down next to him.
Will smiled at him."You alright? You look a little off."
Jem told him all that had happened. (Except for numbers 10 and 11.)
Will laughed his head off at it all. Magnus, Alec and their friends decided to come over.
"Jem! Fabulous that you made it!" Magnus gave him a bone crushing hug.
"This is Jem. We've known him for a while now." Will introduced him.
"Huh. Will was just telling us about you." A blonde young man looked him up and down. Jem thought he looked like a mix of a prostitute and a playboy.
"This is Clary, Simon, Isabelle and –" Alec began.
"Jace Wayland." The blond interrupted.
"Ah, Jace Wayland. I've heard much about you." Jem mused, remembering both Will's and Magnus' descriptions of him.
"It's nice to meet you." Clary smiled. She was clinging on to Jace's arm like some sort of limpet.
"I like your cane." Simon grinned. "For some reason I've always fancied one myself."
"Nerd. But hey I still love ya." Isabelle smirked and snogged him. She seemed slightly drunk.
"Let's dance." Jace dragged Clary away.
Simon and Isabelle followed.
"I like that one." Jem pointed to Simon. "I also think your description of Jace was accurate Will." He grinned at him. "And yours too Magnus." Who looked a bit dejected.
"What descriptions?"
"Never mind that Alec. Let's go DANCE!" Magnus dragged Alec off.
"I can't believe this is real." Jem shook his head sadly.
"Eh? Still? Hang on. How did you ignore this world before we told you about it?"
"I… I kind of… was always convinced seeing these things was a side effect of whatever drug I was on at the time. To be honest like I said before, I still can't believe things like this are real and the people here are real too."
Will's expression softened. "Jem…"
"Just forget it. Real or not I'll enjoy it while I can."
Will looked down and he was silent for a moment. But then he looked Jem straight in the eye and said, "Jem. Listen to me. Everything here is real. The people are here are real. All of them from my dick of a relative Jace Wayland to the fantastic Magnus Bane. They are real. I am real. And so are my feelings towards you!" He widened his eyes in disbelief at what he just said.
Jem sat there in stunned silence.
Hesitantly Will leaned towards him. Jem leaned forward too.
On the other side of the room two pairs of eyes were watching eagerly. The cat-like pair was staring without blinking.
They were inches away from each other. Suddenly Jem pulled back.
(A fabulous aura suddenly turned to a maleficent one in seeing this.)
Will looked down to hide his upset at Jem's reaction. I had been sure… Why didn't it work? Why am I doing this even?
Jem had his head down, thoroughly embarrassed and blushing.
On the other side of the room Alec was glancing worriedly at Magnus whose maleficent aura was making the area around him people-free.
"Mufufufufu. Time for my secret plan. I was prepared for something like this." He was smirking evilly and his cat-like eyes made him look like the Cheshire cat.
"Magnus…" Alec looked slightly panicked.
"Oh Alec there is no need to worry. It is time for my little chat with the DJ."
"Oh hell."
Jem didn't know what to say. At times like this 'I'm sorry' wouldn't cut it. So instead he went for something that was equally cliché and he knew it.
"It's not you, it's me."
Will just looked even more rejected at this.
"I'm serious."
"And so was I."
Oh the awkward factor of this moment. It was about to increase.
"Yo out there. 'Sup party people. This is the DJ saying that a couple's dance will now start and here's the catch. EVERYBODY is required to take part."
A few couples moved to the dance floor but 80% of the people there stayed where they were.
"Those who try to hide and/ or avoid this dance will face a Magnus Bane Party Game!"
Chaos ensued. Everyone scrambled madly to find a partner.
Jem turned to Will. "How about I make it up to you?" He held out his hand.
They strode onto the dance floor. They were the last ones to reach it. The music turned from rock'n'roll to a slow dance. They both stood there looking anywhere but each other.
"Mufufufufu…" Someone knocked into Jem, pushing him into Will's chest. Will looked startled but didn't push him away. Instead he wrapped his arms around Jem's waist.
Slowly, very slowly, they assumed the slow dance position. And slowly, but not as slowly, they both started to enjoy it.
Smiling, laughing, and pulling the other closer. What could possibly break up two people, who finally have the chance to be together?
Jem started to feel dizzy. His vision was moving in and out of focus.
It might just be another dizzy spell. I'll be fine right? WRONG. This one was much worse than the others. It didn't seem able to stop.
Jem staggered and Will pulled him closer. "Jem?! What's wrong?"
Jem never heard him. Too much blood was rushing to his head. He couldn't hear himself think. His vision spun out of focus before turning black at the edges. Will was now shaking him, shouting for help.
Finally, his whole body shuddered and his vision turned black.
Dun dun DUUUUUUUUNNNNN. So evil :)
Anyway I'm still drafting up the final chappie and it will probably be in two parts. I hope you guys don't mind that I'm gonna take my time writing the final chappie as I really don't wanna end this with a crappy chappie.
Two chapters in one night. So proud. XD
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