A/N Wow! I can't believe the amazing response to this story. I will continue to try and add at least a chapter each day though I've got finals coming up so no promises. I'd like to thank everyone who left a review, I enjoy reading your guy's comments and opinions about the story. Thanks!

Alec left the loft late that afternoon after receiving an urgent call from the Institute, or a t least from Isabelle which probably meant it wasn't really urgent, but he went anyway. This left Magnus by himself to contemplate the events of the previous night and this morning. He had never imagined Alec's secret to be something like that. It didn't bother him at all but it left him with some questions to be sure. Did both sets of genitals work? Were they complete? How exactly would sex work? Obviously Magnus knew how it worked with women and how it worked with men but how did it work when physically you were both? Magnus shook his head. He would just have to have a very awkward conversation with his boyfriend about it later.

The phone rang and Magnus jumped in surprise. He rushed to answer it and was met with a very disgruntled Catarina on the other end.

"You promised you'd be here for the blood draw six minutes ago!" She hissed before he even said hello.

"Six? What an oddly specific number six have you been watching your clock anticipating my arrival?" He replied in his most charming tone as he rushed to his closet and began to dress.

"Yes you dumb ass! I have." Catarina retorted. "Magnus you promised me that you would take this seriously and not do anything idiotic so I swear to God if you are hung over, strung out, or anything like it I'm going to kick your…." Catarina continued to rant as Magnus hung up the phone and pulled on a pair of dark black jeans. He paired it with a turquoise t-shirt adorned with many metal studs in the shape of a Harley and various writings on the front in fonts to small or swirly to read. He added black converse before rushing out the door to the hospital.

He arrived only ten minutes later to find Catarina standing on the front steps to the building, arms folded across her chest, tapping her foot on the stone floor.

"Sixteen minutes late Mr. Bane." She complained as they walked inside and she led him to an exam room.

"I sort of had a lot going on this morning Ms. Loss." He retorted. "It's all your fault too, your stupid injection tried to kill me!"

"What?!" Catarina croaked looking at him in shock.

"Yes. I get home last night and lay down on my couch for a nice nap all innocent and unsuspecting and when I wake up a few hours later. Boom!" He clapped his hand together loudly for effect. "The worst headache I've ever had in my life, so I'm lying there in agony and finally it subsides. My poor self thinks the worst is over so I get up to go to my room when out of nowhere my entire body feels like it's on fire and next thing I know Alec is peeling me off the floor." He finished shooting his friend an accusatorial glance.

"Damn, I hadn't anticipated side effects so severe as that." She said scribbling furiously on her clipboard.

"Ha! You hadn't anticipated them how do you think I felt!" Magnus cried. Catarina just shook her head and produced a needle and syringe with which to take more blood. Magnus continued to complain while she drew the blood although she never answered him. After she was finished she instructed Magnus to lie back on the table.

"Fine." He muttered. "But don't think just because I'm listening to you means you're forgiven. No I just want you to make sure I'm not dying from that wretched potion of yours." He whined. Catarina poked his lower stomach with three fingers and he sat up with a gasp.

"Ow!" He protested.

"Sensitive?" Catarina asked, once again taking notes on that clipboard. God Magnus was really starting to hate that clipboard.

"Only slightly." He ground out in a voice dripping with sarcasm.

"Lay back." She told him as she pushed on one of his shoulders. Warily Magnus did so. Catarina lifted his shirt up to his waist. Placing three fingers just below his sternum she tapped him so lightly he could barely feel it. She moved down a few centimeters and repeated the process, this continued happening until she reached right below where a human's navel should be. This time the light tap was jarring and Magnus let out a small gasp.

"Pain?" She asked.

"Just discomfort." Was the reply. She nodded and continued down until she reached the waistband of his jeans. Every one of the small taps had received a similar noise of discomfort.

"Hmm, how odd." Catarina mumbled as she marked the area on a diagram of the human body. "Let me try something to gauge the sensitivity?" She asked. Magnus nodded and she placed her whole hand on his chest, pressing down Catarina looked at him. "Pain on a scale of one to ten?" She inquired.

"One." Magnus answered. She noted it down and moved her hand to his upper arm, applying the same amount of force she asked again and the answer was one here as well. Finally she moved to his lower abdomen and pushed down. Subconsciously Magnus knew she was applying no more pressure than she had elsewhere but the pain claimed otherwise. The pressure produced a pain so horrible it brought tears to his eyes.

"Ten!" He cried. "Ten! Stop, stop, stop!" He was practically sobbing now. Catarina lifted his hand and Magnus breathed a sigh of relief.

"What the hell, Catarina?!" He said once he had recovered enough to speak. "What did your potion do to me?"

"I've got no idea." She said removing the gloves she had worn for the exam. "It may fade, the pain I mean."

"It had better fade! That was just God awful and you're telling me it might be permanent?" He asked.

"Well I doubt it would be permanent but it could last as long as the potion stays in your system." She said in a matter of fact tone the Magnus thought was just a little to calm for the situation at hand.

"How long is it going to be in my system?" He inquired despite being unsure he wanted to know the answer.

"I designed the potion to have an effect lasting three months but for obvious reasons it's unclear if it will last that amount of time, less, or longer." Catarina said. "I wish I knew what to tell you Magnus but I really don't. I'll come by the loft tomorrow to see how you are. In the meantime go home and rest." She ordered him.

"Alright Cat." Magnus agreed with a sigh. After all what else was he supposed to do? She was the one with medical knowledge and the one who had created the potion in the first place. He wasn't about to disobey her, particularly since he had no idea how bad the consequences of not following her rules could be if this was how bad doing things the way she asked was.