Hey! Sorry it took me so long to upload, I was at my aunts house in Maine this week and the power went out in the whole city. Good news, I wrote a lot, bad news I couldn't post until now because I just got back! For those of you who asked, my family id doing much better and everyone is going to be alright. Also, I'm going on a week trip to visit my best friend on Monday so I may not post for a week but you can expect one next week! So, Who died watching last weeks episode of shadowhunters? It was so bitter-sweet and I loved all of the flashbacks, its a great episode if you ignore the ending! Here's another chapter than involves Jace singing, some bad people, and lots of Malec fluff! I moved all of my review answers to the bottom because nobody reads AN's anyways!
Magnus walked into his physics classroom with a smile on his face. He radiated confidence, something that Mike Chang hardly did. Magnus was beginning to wonder why he had made his alias the type of person who blends into the background, when he himself loved attention.
"What's got you so smug?" Jace asked snapping Magnus out of his day dream.
"Nothing that concerns you," Magnus replied, trying to stop smiling.
"It's Alec isn't it? Please tell me you two didn't do it in a bathroom somewhere," Jace rolled his eyes looking mildly disgusted.
Magnus scoffed, "I would never reduce to that, do you know how many germs are in public bathrooms? Not to mention high school bathrooms," he got goose bumps just thinking about it.
Jace did not get to reply though because their teacher walked in.
"Open your books to page 94, Jace you can look on with Mike," She said turning to write something on the board.
Alec was contemplating skipping gym again, but decided he wouldn't skip what could very well be his favorite class due to a few mundanes. He saw Jace talking and laughing it up with what teen movies would classify as "The Jocks", one of which was the guy who had bumped him in the hallway earlier. The moment the doors shut behind him the room became considerably quieter, those who didn't cease talking were now whispering and quietly giggling with their friends. Alec took a deep breath and kept walking into the gym, ignoring the pit in his stomach. He was used to being looked at oddly, but more of a 'oh-that-poor-confused-boy' kind of look. This was a new feeling, a worse feeling. The Clave disapproved of his relationship, but it had more to do with the fact that his boyfriend was a downworlder and less to do with the fact that he had a boyfriend. Not that they were fond of gayness, but they didn't let their intolerance blind them to the fact that Alec was a capable shadowhunter. His sexuality didn't undermine his abilities and he was still viewed as a capable warrior. Same goes for his age, he looked like a kid and so here he was treated like a kid even though he had seen things, done things that no kid should have to. He thought this assignment would be fun, a little time off with his parabatai, a relaxing vacation from the responsibilities of being the head of the New York Institute, but now he was deeply regretting letting Jace talk him into this.
"Alec!" Jace called from his position in the middle of the circle of 'Jocks' and motioned for his best friend to join him. Alec wasn't going to let a few stupid mundanes make him feel like this. He took a deep breath and walked over to the oblivious blonde who thought everything was just fine. Alec knew that Jace didn't see the looks of distain and disgust that washed over the other boys faces, but he could see it.
He walked over to Jace quietly and stood next to him with his arms behind his back like he usually does. Jace just smiled at him and continued on with his story like nothing had changed.
"Wait- wait," one of the jocks interrupted, laughing, "are-are we really not going to say anything about the fag? I mean come on guys, this is too easy!"
Alec tensed, he had expected that but it still hit him. In a split second Jace's entire demeanor changed, he went from laughing and smiling and being goofy to dark and controlled and scary.
"What did you say?" Jace said in a voice so calm that nobody but Alec saw exactly how deadly he was right now.
"Jace," Alec said in a warning tone.
"What? I mean he sang that girly song to that glittery faggot and he thinks he can just get away with that?" he responded, not seeing the way it was effecting Jace because he was too focused on watching Alec grit his teeth and ball his hands. They could talk about him, but Magnus was off limits. The other boys chuckled in agreement. Jace's jaw was so tight Alec thought his teeth might snap and his hands were balled into fists.
"Jace," Alec warned again much more sharply.
The Jocks finally realized that Jace was in a fighting stance and his look was threatening, "Ha, what are you defending that thing?" he pointed to Alec, "Do you seriously think you can take us on?" he asked, all of his comrades standing up and murmuring agreements.
"I don't know are you going to be a wuss and fight one on eight?" Jace sneered.
"Jace that's enough," Alec said grabbing his upper arm. Jace fought him for a second but then he went with him willingly, being pulled away from the potentially confrontational environment.
"Yeah! Thats right queers always run away from fights, I guess its because there too much of a-" But he didn't get to finish his no doubt insulting sentence because of a certain blonde socking him in his face. It happened too quick for Alec to know what was happening, let alone stop it.
"Got anymore smart-ass comments?" Jace asked from his position on top of the now bleeding guy.
"Get him," he said towards the other seven dudes who were just waiting for the question to pounce. Two of them grabbed Jace and Jace sent one of them flying across the room. The other five of them started to Jace. Alec gritted his teeth, he was going to kill Jace for this later, but he would not let his parabatai fight on his behalf alone. Alec grabbed two of the guys and chucked them against the wall, making them let out yelps of surprise. Jace had successfully taken down three of the eight guys and Alec had gotten two which only left three. Two of them looked scared and one of the two ran away, leaving just the scaredy cat and the leader. Jace moved forward to take them out but Alec grabbed his arm.
"Jace stop, you've gotten us into enough trouble over this meaningless fight," Alec pleaded with him.
"Meaningless?! They were calling you names, insulting you and not to mention every other person in this school who's different! I'm preventing a bully from bullying, that is not meaningless. You are not meaningless, Alec," Jace finished and Alec loosened his grip. Alec smiled at him until he understood what Jace was doing, he did mean what he said, but thats not why he said it. He was trying to distract Alec so that he could wriggle out of his grip. And he had because Jace was now advancing on the two boys with a dark look. Before Alec could even take three steps towards Jace to prevent the impending fight, the two boys were scrambling away from Jace on the floor where Jace had placed them.
"What the hell going on here!?" Coach, who had finally come out of the locker room with her football players, yelled at them. When nobody made a move to tell her she added, "That was a question, I expect an answer!"
"He- They just came at us and beat the shit out of us, we would have kicked their asses but we didn't want to break to schools policy on fighting!" The head asshole, as Jace was now calling him, said.
"Wha- Thats not even a little bit true?!" Jace said exasperatedly.
"You two," Coach pointed at Alec and Jace, "My office, now!" She started walking back to the locker room, expecting the boys to follow, which they did. Alec was walking slowly behind Jace passed the footballers, noticing a few from glee including-
"Magnus," Alec breathed so quiet he was sure that only the warlock could hear him. He had know he was on this football team or whatever, but seeing him in that uniform, with the skin-tight pants, not like Magnus hasn't worn them before but still... And then there was the minimal makeup and barley any glitter which always made Alec stare at him, at his beautiful, natural features.
"Good luck Alexander," Magnus said to him and he remembered that he was supposed to be going into coach's office. He smiled again at Magnus and took one last glance at his gorgeous warlock, and then proceeded to walk into the office.
"So, what happened?" She asked the two boys sitting across the desk from her.
"Those jack-asses were-" Jace started.
"Language," Coach warned, but not in a mean tone.
"Sorry, those buttheads were bullying Alec, so I-" Jace tried to continue before getting cut off again.
"How were they bullying him?" She asked Jace but quickly turned her head to look at Alec who just looked embarrassed and uncomfortable.
"It wasn't that big of a deal," Alec said quietly. Just as Jace thought, Alec would do anything to protect someone else, especially someone he cared about, but he wouldn't defend himself unless it was to someone he cared about. Alec's motto "Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter" at least, thats how Jace saw it.
"Yes it was Alec, they were calling him rude names, insinuating that he wasn't a real person, and threatening him," Jace told her.
"Is this true Alec?" She asked him and Alec couldn't say no because he had to back up Jace.
"Yes," He said, leaving it with that.
"So when I confronted them about what they said, this one guy just took a swing at me and when I stopped him he told the rest of the guys to attack me," Jace explained.
"But you fought back?" She asked, already knowing the answer.
"What was I supposed to do let them pummel me? I used minimal force and was on defense!" Jace explained.
"Jace is right, they were attacking him- us. I tried to help get them off of him, but you can't punish him, he was just defending me. It was my fault, if your going to discipline someone, it should be me," Alec said, sticking up for Jace in a heartbeat.
"And why would I punish you? Either of you, you didn't do anything wrong. though this school does have a policy against fighting so I'm afraid I will have to give you both a detention after school today, but thats no where near the amount of trouble they are in," Coach Beiste said. She always had a soft spot for the underdog, especially after what she had seen Kurt and Blaine go through, "Your free to go," Jace and Alec got up to leave, "But you might consider joining the football team?" She directed to Jace.
"We won't be here that long," Jace smiled at her, she was nice.
"Well what do you want to do?" Alec asked Jace. They still had 20 minutes left in class and since the coach was yelling at the boys, there was no one to give them instructions so the whole class was just sitting and talking on the bleachers.
"Your not going to yell at me?" Jace asked, surprise and caution in his voice.
Alec sighed, he had thought about yelling at Jace, but he knew he couldn't, "No, I can't because I would have done the same thing if it were you. But don't expect a thank you either," Alec said light-heartedly.
"Don't need one, I'm your parabatai, it's my job," Jace smiled and clapped his hand on Alec's shoulder.
"I say we go watch football practice," Alec suggested.
Jace snorted, "You just want to stare a Magnus while he stretches,"
Alec blushed slightly, but he didn't blush as much around his parabatai as he did around others, "Can't blame me," He smiled.
Jace just chuckled and followed Alec outside to the bleachers where they watched the scrimmage take place, Alec's eyes not leaving Magnus the whole time.
After another unspeakably awkward heath class, Jace and Alec walked into the cafeteria and headed towards the table where all of the glee kids sat at. As soon as they sat down the conversations stopped and all of the occupants of the table starred at them.
"So, did you get in trouble?" Puck asked, breaking the silence.
"Just one detention," Jace smirked proudly.
"I think it was amazing what you did, they had it coming," Blaine told them wrapping an arm around Kurt who was nodding his head.
"Hell yeah, we've been wanting to do that for ages, but with our spots on the football team..." Finn said.
"It wasn't that big of a deal..." Alec mumbled, rubbing the back of his neck. He didn't like getting attention, especially not when he didn't deserve it.
"Oh I totally disagree," said a velvety voice behind Alec. He could feel a hand being placed on his shoulder then moving down to his chest. Magnus then proceeded to kiss his cheek and sit down in the empty seat next to him, letting his hands fall back on to the table. Alec could feel everyone at the table stare at them, everyone but Jace for which Alec was thankful for. He was blushing but he managed a smile towards his love.
"So..." Tina said, breaking everyone out of the curious stares.
"What's the deal with you two?" Santana asked, being blunt as always.
Alec looked like a deer caught in headlights, or a shadowhunter caught off guard by a personal question about his love life. Lucky for him he had the best boyfriend in the world who knew when he didn't want to talk, "I could ask you the same thing," He nodded to Brittany.
"None of us want to be intrusive, but Mike you've been different this week and he-" Rachel pointed to Alec, "isn't someone any of us have seen before so we are all just curious what is going on with you."
"Yeah," Tina added, "I used to think I knew you pretty well, as I'm sure they did, now its like the you we knew was just, like, 10% of the real you, its pretty hard to just act like nothing's happened."
Magnus sighed, though he was always happy to have Alexander by his side, part of him wished that his shadowhunter was still in New York. But he did have to admit to himself that it was better this way, everything out in the open. Besides, Alec was way more important to him than any of these people. Plus if he truly considered all of these mundanes friends, which he did for the most part, than he couldn't keep this part of his life hidden for forever, "Alright, how about you all come over to my place tonight? We can have a small party and you all can ask whatever you want to know, not that I can promise to answer all of them," Magnus said to the glee kids he had grown fond of the past year.
Alec looked at him like he was insane, inviting all of these mundanes to their home. Alec reminded himself that it was Magnus' house, and not their true home in New York, but it was still a place that he felt safe in, a place he thought of as theirs. Magnus had said time and time again that what was his was Alec's and Alec was just starting to feel comfortable with that. He no longer felt awkward in the apartment when Magnus was not home, and he felt comfortable inviting Jace or Izzy over without checking with Magnus first, not to mention he didn't feel weird being in Magnus work space or reading his papers or being their when Magnus had clients over any more. It was his job as the High Warlock of Brooklyn and Alec was accepting the odd hours, suspicious people, and questionable activities that came with it just as much as Magnus had about his shadowhunter duties. Alec felt safe saying that it was their home and not just Magnus' house, he did live there after all. Magnus just smiled at him innocently.
There were murmurs of agreement throughout the table and everyone went back to talking until the bell rang.
"So, Jace, have you come up with a song?" Mr. Schue asked the golden haired boy.
"Yep!" Jace said, masking his emotions with confidence and goofiness, though Alec could feel the nervousness from him though their parabatai bond.
Jace stood up and walked to the front of the class. He glance at Alec who gave him a reassuring smile and nod. He nodded to the band whom he had given the music to and took a deep breath before starting to sing.
Hey, brother, there's an endless road to re-discover.
Hey, sister, know the water's sweet but blood is thicker.
Oh, if the sky comes falling down for you,
There's nothing in this world I wouldn't do.
Hey, brother, do you still believe in one another?
Hey, sister, do you still believe in love, I wonder?
Oh, if the sky comes falling down for you,
There's nothing in this world I wouldn't do.
What if I'm far from home?
Oh, brother, I will hear you call.
What if I lose it all?
Oh, sister, I will help you out!
Oh, if the sky comes falling down for you,
There's nothing in this world I wouldn't do.
Hey, brother, there's an endless road to re-discover.
Hey, sister, do you still believe in love, I wonder?
Oh, if the sky comes falling down for you,
There's nothing in this world I wouldn't do.
What if I'm far from home?
Oh, brother, I will hear you call.
What if I lose it all?
Oh, sister, I will help you out!
Oh, if the sky comes falling down for you,
There's nothing in this world I wouldn't do.
When the instrumental part kicked in, Jace danced pretty ok which surprised Alec, he must have gotten help. Alec thought over the lyrics and smiled at their family dynamic. He was very happy he recorded it because he would have to show Isabelle this later. And Clary. And maybe he would just put it on the big screen for all the institute to see.
Everyone clapped and cheered but Alec just smiled at Jace who was smiling back. The words never needed to be said but sometimes it was nice to hear them.
Please review giving me ideas for what they should do, such as truths, dares, never have I Evers, or just questions that the glee club might have! And I hope you liked the song, "Hey Brother" by Avicii. I thought it was perfect because the sister part matches Izzy perfect with all that about love and how she feels about her dad, and the brother part is perfect for Alec and their parabatai bond. Plus I feel like not enough people shine a light on Jace as a Lightwood even though he's a Herondale.
Megan,buehler777 I post whenever I can, usually every few days, at most a week (this week had special circumstances), I'm glad your enjoying! Arkytior03 I totally agree, though I feel like Alec wouldn't defend himself, he would do it for Magnus or literally anyone else but not himself, I feel like Jace would be the one to murder someone for saying ANYTHING about his parabatai. Shirsim, me to hence this chapter, hope it was as good as you thought, there may be more in the future depending... LightsaberSnake, you don't have to apologize though I am glad to know that the story didn't turn horrible and thats why you haven't been reviewing. Also, I agree on the demon killing, it was so hard for me to write any of the bullying/bad things that happen to Alec because I love him and he deserves none of it, and yet...