Chapter 11:

Rory:

He had snuck out this morning to go for a walk. He was feeling restless and being cooped up in the house was not helping. He had his left ear bud in listening to some old music but the right one was out. It was early. The sun was just beginning to rise, and he could see his breath when he puffed out. The weather man said it was just a cold spell before the heat began to rise.

Rory actually sped up his sped to a jog and soon he was hot even in the chill. He went to coffee shop on the corner and decided to get some coffee before he headed home. He ordered an ice blended coffee and sat at a table. The door tinkled its bell as someone else came in.

He recognized the ivory hair and turquoise eyes. "Hey, Val!" She spun at the sound of her name and waved at him. He watched as she ordered a hot cappuccino and then she came to sit with him.

"Hey, Rory. You never called." It had been a week almost now since they last saw each other.

"Sorry, I have just started dating someone. I guess I am a little preoccupied with her." He couldn't keep the smile off his face as he thought about his love.

"Oh." She seemed unsurprised by the news. "Yeah, I should have known someone who looks like you wouldn't be on the market." She laughed a little and shook her head in disappointment.

"How's your trip so far?" He asked trying to change the subject. He felt bad if he had led her on in anyway but he was not in the right mindset that night. Now his head was clear and he could think straight.

"Good, my uncle is amazing. I used to come stay with him every summer. He used to live in London, too. That was a major reason to stay with him. Now he lives here. I am hoping he decides to go to Asia next. He's mentioned it."

"I have family in China. Well, sort of. Our family is strange and complicated." He was thinking of Aline who was the mother of Magalie. He had talked to his dad about that after they had first arrived confused by not just two men having a kid but one of them being a warlock. Warlocks were infertile, of course.

"Whose family isn't strange and complicated?"

"Good point. I meant to ask you a little more about yourself anyway so I am glad we bumped into one another." He waited for some sort of signal for a go ahead but she just looked at him. "You can just not answer anything that makes you uncomfortable, of course."

She nodded slightly giving him the ok.

"I don't know any Nightshades," he only started the question before she cut him off.

"Oh, it's my mother's name. She was never married to my father. He was a shadowhunter but she was fey. And thus me. A Nightshade shadowhunter."

"Oh, did she raise you"

"She did until I hit about 10. Then I went to train at the institute in my area. I still go visit her, but I am not really accepted by the fey since I am a shadowhunter." It didn't seem to bother her.

"Is that how you got those eyes?" He had said it before he realized it.

"Yeah all of the Nightshades have eyes like this. But I look a lot like my father did. I have his hair and his pale skin. I got mom's ears though." She pushed he locks behind her ear just enough he could see the pointed tip.

"Do you ever see your dad?"

"I saw him only a few times before he died. You know how the life of Nephilim are." She waived it off. "My uncle kind of took over. He is fey but loves me because he loves my mother. He doesn't make a habit of living in the fey world. He fell in love with a human and it kind of ruined him on the fey. It's a sad and lovely tale. Maybe I will tell you one day."

She got up and tossed her empty cup in the trash. "Call me if you want to meet up again sometime." And with that she left. He got up and turned back towards home. Something was really in his brain now and he wanted nothing more than to see his girlfriend.

All Nightshades have eyes like this.

Magalie:

She woke up and stretched out. She had slept hardcore. She didn't even remember Isis getting into the bed. But she was there. Her little kitty cracked open one eye and looked at her. "Don't go anywhere my love, we need to discuss something." She said it playfully but the "we need to talk" message was still ominous to anyone in a relationship. "Give me a few minutes to pry this other eye open."

"Well, I am going to go pee while you work on that." She said getting up. She didn't know what was wrong. Her hands shook when she washed them in the sink. She got back under the blanket. The morning was chilly.

"Do you remember my coming to bed last night?" Isis asked her.

"No. I was out last night. You wore me out all day yesterday." Magi gave her a wink.

"Oh. Well, then you don't remember what you said to me then, huh?"

Oh, angel, what had she confessed to. Had she told her she needed dick in her life? She would have been blunt with it in her sleepy state she was sure. And that had been the last thing on her mind when she fell asleep. The male sex dreams eluded to that fact. She shook her head and looked at her hands, ashamedly.

"You told me you love me." Isis said. "I didn't sleep much after that confession."

It was worse somehow than a blunt confession of needed the male member in bed.

"Did you mean it, Magi?"

"Isis, I don't know." She was just going to have to be truthful with her. "I am sixteen. I like guys. I like girls. I love being with you. You make me feel amazing. I love your personality, but I have never been in love. I might be now, with you." She got these amazing skills with words from her father. Dammit, Alec, why weren't you suave so you could pass me some amazing talents! She thought to herself.

Isis surprised her by bringing her into her arms. "You don't have to know." She kissed her. "This is all I need now, just us, uncomplicated. If you love me, it's ok. If you don't, that's fine too." So she was saying this wasn't over and that was the best news to come from a "we need to talk" conversation.

Maxine:

She woke up alone. She just went to her room and showered and brushed her teeth and did all the morning things she needed to do. She got ready for the day. She was brushing out her hair when her door opened.

Magi threw herself onto her bed wearing her PJs still and she had bed head. "Max, I almost screwed up big and didn't even know it."

"What happened?"

"I apparently confessed my love to Isis last night when I was asleep, kind of."

"Really? Do you?"

"I have no idea!" She replayed the scene from this morning. "Then I got up and left. I couldn't just stay there. I needed to talk to you. Now that I have, it makes me feel better even though I still have no idea if I mean it or not."

"Well, she seemed to take it well enough." Max shrugged.

"Yeah, I guess." Magi changed the subject. "Are you still all virginal then"

"Yeah, she is." The answer came from the doorjamb. He leaned there like he belonged there.

"Eavesdropping is not a very flattering occupation." Max said waving him into the room.

"I just got here." He held up the bag in his hand and the cups in the other hand. "I got us breakfast. Muffins and coffee from the coffee shop a couple of blocks down."

Magi grabbed a cup of the hot black coffee and took a blueberry muffin. Max too the banana nut muffing and the other black coffee. That left Rory with the mocha and the chocolate muffin. A very girly breakfast but it was all good.

"What's the deal then?" Magi asked with her mouth full of muffin. "I thought you both would be doing the horizontal polka as soon as you could. By the angel, Max, are you still being all moral about it." Magi had always thought Max was insane for not living life. As a shadowhunter, you never know when you will leave and never come back. Magi lived life a lot like Isabelle had and Max was more like Alec on that front. It was the opposite of what you would expect from them, really. But they shared the genes.

"No, I told her we could take it slow." Rory was sticking up for her and it was cute.

She kissed him and sat on his lap as he sat in the chair across from her bed, near the closet. "My little white knight, saving my virtue, as it were." She chimed in.

"Little?" Magi and Rory both said. Rory said it with a pout, Magi with a laugh.

Max turned red. "Well, that came out all wrong. You aren't little. He isn't little."

"What do you have to compare it to?" Magi asked.

"Those movies we watched." Her cheeks flamed now. Magi almost choked on her muffin, laughing.

"Well, anyone is little compared to porn stars."

"You watched porn?" Came from Rory.

The both ignored him. "Well, he's not little. He's quite bigger than I expected." How had they even gotten here?

"I am just going to say, I have had no complaints in my life." Rory put in.

"That doesn't make me feel good." Max crossed her arms over her chest.

"Well, I will let you two love birds figure this out. I need some sleep. Some that is free of confessions of love." Rory looked confused at Magi but she just left.

"Now do you want to do something about that virginal burden?" He had a mischievous look on his face.

Oh no.

A/N: well, that is another chappy done. Anyone have any ideas what is going to happen. If anyone wants to guess I can send you a PM with a spoiler if you want…. I have a few chapters planned up so, ya know…