Magnus and Izzy explored the store, clearly enjoying themselves. Alec reluctantly followed and tried to blend in with the clothes. Unfortunately, they were too brightly colored.

"Ooooh!" Izzy exclaimed. She pressed a black dress to her and wiggled her eyebrows.

"Ah." Magnus nodded. "The classic little black dress."

Alec confiscated the dress after he recovered from his horror and flung it across the store.

Izzy raised an eyebrow. "I think you went extreme big brother there."

Alec crossed his arms. "Someone had to do it."

Izzy patted his shoulder. "You might want to go use it as a security blanket, because I think that's the only dark color here."

Indeed it did seem to be true. Alec warily eyed a rack of clothes that were mainly pink and yellow. It was in their path of travel. His dread increased. "The men's section will be different." I hope. He looked to Magnus for confirmation.

"A little more toned down." Magnus reassured. Except that wasn't reassuring at all.

Jace chuckled to himself as the printer whirred. "Just wait Magnus."

Simon rolled his eyes. "You look absolutely ridiculous doing your evil laugh while the printers spitting that out."

"You're just jealous that your evil chuckle will never get to my level."

"There's levels?"

Jace held his hand level with his thigh. "Simon's evil laugh." He raised it to his hip. "Minnie Mouse's evil laugh." He raised it to his stomach. "Clary's adorable evil laugh."

"Hey. Adorable?" Clary protested.

"You're cute when you're evil." Jace joked. He raised his hand above his head. "My evil laugh."

Simon was distracted by something else. "How do you know about Minnie Mouse?"

Clary waved her hand. "I introduced him to Minne Mouse."

Simon frowned. "Why?" Out of all the mundane things to teach Jace about.

She shrugged. "We had a Disney marathon."

"Don't throw off my groove Simon." Jace said, using his Disney lingo.

Magnus and Izzy had divided Alec's acceptance of the clothes into four categories. The highest intolerance was a look of open mouthed horror. A level below was him warily eyeing the clothes and looking like was considering running. Closer to acceptance was him holding the clothes at arms lengths with a questioning expression. Accepting was hesitantly holding it and say something along the lines of "It's okay. I guess."

Not many clothes have made it to that stage though. Only a lonely blue shirt and jeans that were on the skinny side.

Magnus hunted through a section of clothes. He was going to get Alec a full outfit, dammit.

Izzy had evil intentions. She-on occasion-offered Alec an exceptionally outlandish piece of clothing to freak him out. She smiled when she happened to find bottoms of the genie pant variety. "Alec." She purred. "How abut this?"

Oh, how Alec hated that question. He pulled himself up from the dejected cross-legged position to see what Izzy had found. When she held up the pants they discovered a whole new level of nonacceptance. Complete and utter disbelief.

Alec held up the pants by the one leg. "What are these?"

"Genie pants." Izzy said casually.

He waved them around. "They don't look like pants."

Hehehehehe. "Why don't you try them on?"

Magnus perked up at that phrase. He peeked around to see what Izzy had suggested and made a face. "No."

Izzy pouted. "No genie pants?"

"No genie pants." Magnus walked toward them. "Infact, I'm going to take a leaf out of Alec's book." He snapped his fingers and the pants vanished.

Clary, Simon, and Jace stood outside the door to Magus's loft.

"You think we can just walk in again?" Clary asked.

"He probably has the place booby trapped." Simon said.

"I vote Simon goes first." Jace suggested.

"Of course you do."

Jace clapped Simon on the back. "He tends to pick on me the most. And you the least. You have the best chance."

Simon looked at the door. "I don't think booby traps have a preference."

"By the Angel." Clary pushed them both ahead of her and they fell into the apartment.

Simon and Jace clambered to their feet and stood frozen. "I think we're okay." Simon said.

Jace tilted his head. "Do you hear...quacking?"

A single fluffy duckling waddled into the room. "Quack?"

"Oh no. No No." Jace leaped onto a couch.

"It's so cute!" Clary approached the duck with the universal "you are too cute let me love you forever" face.

"Clary, no! They're evil! Evil creatures!"

Simon snorted. "You're acting like it's a rat or something."

Jace shifted nervously when another duckling appeared. "They're worse."

"I can't believe you're afraid of something that waddles."

Jace fled to higher ground when three more entered. "Okay, this is unnatural. And I like penguins. Let's just get this done." He leaped from chairs to couches like the floor was lava. The ducklings happily followed him.

Magnus entered the apartment and held the door open for Alec and Izzy. "I think we can call this day a success."

Or torture. Alec grumbled.

Magnus waved the clothes into his room and collapsed onto a couch. Shopping takes a toll.

Look at this photograph

Everytime I do it makes me laugh

Magnus's head snapped up. "Where is that coming from?"

He stalked to the source with Alec and Izzy trailing curiously behind him. He flung his door open and paused.

Everywhere. On the walls. On the ceiling. In the lamp shade. Sticking out of the closet door. Was pictures of Nicholas Cage.

Alec stared. "Who is this?"

Every memory of looking out the back door

I had the photo album spread out on my bedroom floor

Magnus flicked his fingers and there was a small fzzzzing sound and smoke. "Nicholas Cage. They Nicholas Cage'd me. Atleast I got the Nickelback to stop."

Every memory of walking out the front door
I found the photo of the friend that I was looking for
It's hard to say it, time to say it
Goodbye, goodbye.

"There's more then one thing playing it." Izzy realized. She plucked a device from behind the door and crushed it. The song continued to play in another part of the room. "How many are there?"

Officially the longest chapter I wrote. And I updated quickish. You guys better feel special :) I hope everything makes sense, because I'm kinda half-asleep. But inspiration struck. I kind of put the shopping thing in here, but I might still do a separate one shot. I'll let you guys know. (And I actually like Nickelback(Bottoms up is my favorite). Just the first band I thought of). Thanks for all the favorites and reviews!

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