Camille smiled beatifically at the man clearing the leaves from her manicured lawn. Valentine had been a thorn in her side, but if all went well she'd be receiving a call from Hodge any moment now that the problem was in fact solved. That was a huge relief because she couldn't wait to be out from under Asmodeus. Soon she thought as she licked her lips when the gardener looked over at her. He would be a nice afternoon distraction.

Her cell lit up with an unknown number and she was giddy that it might be Hodge, so she answered it.

"We have a problem." Came his soft voice.

What the actual fuck she thought, staying silent. Sometimes silence was an incredibly powerful weapon.

"Magnus saw it go down."

"You have got to be fucking kidding me." Camille didn't throw her drink, but it was a very near thing. "What exactly happened?" Hodge was at least efficient, because he broke down the events quickly. "And you're sure he can ID you?"

"No, but he did see it. If he thinks about it or something triggers him, he might figure out what he saw."

"Goddamn it." She said furiously.

"Do I need to take care of it?"

"Do you know who he is?" She asked with venom dropping from every word. "You are talking about taking care of Asmodeus' son, you actual stupid fucking idiot."

She heard Hodge groan. "You seriously didn't know?"

"No why would I know that?" He growled through the phone. "What the fuck do we do?"

Camille wasn't panicking yet, she needed to think. "It's not like anyone is going to miss Valentine. If the body isn't found, we're fine. If it turns up we're fucked. So just sit tight, we need an exit strategy that doesn't involve a bullet between Magnus' eyes, but if that's the choice we have to make, so be it. Meet at mine and we'll work something out." Camille hung up without waiting for a response and immediately went to her computer. She needed to start moving her cash.

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Magnus took a deep breath and stared at the beautiful man beside him and grinned. He stood up and grabbed his hands pulling him towards the bedroom. Alec laughed at him when he tried to pull him into the bathroom, too busy staring to watch where he was going. Magnus kissed him to shut him up.

"It's back here." Alec said with a small grin and a nip at Magnus' lip. Alec turned and Magnus watched the rippling muscle with a kind of obscene delight.

"Lead the way." Magnus slid his hand in the back pocket of Alec's pants and squeezed. Alec laughed and grabbed his hand, spinning around trapping Magnus' hands in his grip.

Magnus leaned up and kissed him again, pushing his hands up to put them on Alec's neck. He just needed to be wrapped around this man forever. He hadn't felt this way, ever. Even as a teenager he'd never been this clumsy and excited with anyone. Alec laughed into the kiss, and Magnus pulled back to kiss Alec on his cute nose.

Alec stopped in the hall and wrapped his arms around Magnus' waist. "We're never going to make it if you don't behave." He ran his lips across Magnus' jaw, and Magnus sighed blissfully his heart beat pounding in his ears.

They stumbled back into the bedroom and Magnus wasted no time stripping off his pants. Alec was backed nearly all the way up to the bed, but he stopped him. He desperately wanted to get his hands on Alec and he didn't want jeans between them. Magnus dropped to his knees and looked up at Alec, "my turn" he said with a salacious wink.

Magnus slipped the button of Alec's pants free and sucked in a breath. "Oh Angel, fuck." Magnus put his mouth on Alec immediately, slipping his tongue under the waistband of the silk panties sliding his fingers into the jeans and slowly pushing them down Alec's legs, desperate to see just how glorious he was going to look when Magnus shifted back.

He looked up and Alec's eyes were a little apprehensive. Magnus was not about to have that. "You are fucking gorgeous." Alec's skin was pale, and the black panties looked wicked against his skin, Magnus was so hard he had to put his cheek on Alec's stomach to catch his breath and calm down. Then he moved his face down and sucked Alec through the silk panties. He ran his tongue back and forth until the black silk had a visible wet spot, Alec's moans above him were stuttered. Like he didn't expect to enjoy the sensation, and he was surprised by every sound he made. That was just tragic, the very first chance Magnus got he would be purchasing the pink ruffles Alec had teased him with.

"Magnus…"Alec whispered as he ran his fingers through Magnus' hair. Magnus put his mouth on his skin and sucked a mark just above the lace band, then he shoved and Alec fell back on the bed with a surprised sound. Magnus couldn't help the feral look that came over his face, Alec was sprawled on the bed his legs slightly parted, defined chest bare, lips slick and eyes glazed over. Magnus crawled up on the bed, "Anything you object to darling?" He asked as he sucked biting kisses up Alec's thighs.

Alec shook his head vigorously. "No, anything you want."

Magnus frowned a little at the statement, they'd be talking about that later, Alec should be more careful with how he phrased that. Not that Magnus wanted anything too kinky, but the last thing he wanted was for Alexander to be uncomfortable. "Can you turn over for me?" Alec nodded eagerly, and rolled over between Magnus' arms.

Magnus groaned. The fucking panties only covered the upper half of his cheeks. Gorgeous, he was so damn gorgeous. "Spread your legs for me." Magnus put his knees between Alec's legs and slid down. Placing his right arm across Alec's lower back, he used his other hand to slide just under the line of the panties. Alec moaned under him and Magnus grinned, slipping his finger a little further in he stroked down Alec's crease. He twisted under him.

"Magnus…" He said desperately. Magnus leaned down and licked the line of his panties across his cheeks. "Stop teasing me."

"Oh darling I've only just got started." Magnus said firmly. He regretfully pulled the panties down, and ran his hands over Alec's exposed cheeks. He shifted until he was comfortable, and then with hardly any warning opened Alec up and licked his exposed hole. Alec shouted under him and jerked.

"Fuck Magnus." Magnus smiled and just continued eating him out, god he'd imagined this so many times. He squeezed Alec's cheeks and pushed until Alec lifted himself up on his knees. Magnus jerked the panties the rest of the way off, and sucked a mark on Alec's left cheek. Teasing the mark with his tongue he gently stroked Alec's thighs and then shifted until he could get Alec's length into his mouth. Alec fell forward on a moan, raising his arms over his head and spreading his legs wider trying to get more.

Magnus took his time, he had every intention of basking in the taste and feel of Alexander against him. Alec was like warm honey, smooth sensuous and addictive. Magnus could feel him getting close, but he didn't want him to come just yet, so he backed off and slapped Alec's thigh.

Alec twisted up until he was looking back at Magnus, pulling his leg up and exposing himself to Magnus. Magnus ran a hand over his thigh and stared up into heavy lidded beautiful eyes, watching him as he bit down on Alec's cheek. Alec groaned and his head fell back down as he pushed back into Magnus. He ran a hand down Alec's leg, marveling at their length and lean hard muscle. Magnus wanted them wrapped around him. Now.

"Turn over for me darling." Alec moaned and very slowly rolled over on the bed. Magnus settled between his thighs and leaned down to capture his mouth in another drugging kiss. "Is this okay? Would you rather not…"

Alec cut him off by pulling him back into another hard kiss, "Like this Magnus, it's perfect like this." He'd always heard that making love to someone was different than just regular sex, and he'd always thought that was asinine. Sex was sex and love was love, but looking into Alexander's eyes Magnus genuinely felt something shift inside of him, open up like nothing he'd ever felt. Taking care of this man had just become priority number one, and he didn't ever want to do anything else.

He'd never felt such a strong desire to protect anyone in his life. Not even Camille. He had loved her, but it was nothing compared to what was ripping through him right now. And it terrified him. He dropped his head until it rested on Alec's chest, and breathed in the warm scent of him while trying to come to terms with just how fundamentally his life was about to be altered.

Alec ran a soothing hand across his head, almost as if he could feel what Magnus was feeling and needed the comforting soothing touch to ground him. Magnus pressed a kiss to his chest and pulled back. He wasn't stopping, not for hell, not for anything. "Lube," he rasped out.

Alec pulled it from under the pillow and pushed it into Magnus' hands, he also very quickly put a condom on Magnus and rolled the one he had on off tossing it somewhere. Magnus probably over did it, but he desperately needed Alec to feel good. So he poured lube on Alec and some on himself and used his fingers to stretch and prepare Alec.

He had no way of knowing how long he spent using his fingers to drive Alec crazy, but he'd apparently had enough because he wrapped his legs around Magnus and jerked him forward with a snarl he all but shouted, "Magnus I swear to god if you don't.."

"So impatient." Magnus said with a wicked grin and when he felt Alec was ready he slowly entered him.

There were no fireworks. No chorus of angels. But nevertheless, Magnus was rocked down to his soul. Alec was perfect, he was warm tight and his body just fit in all the right places. Magnus slowly pulled out and pushed back in, Alec's eyes slipped closed as he let out a breathy moan. Magnus needed that sound like he needed to breathe, so he very quickly found the rhythm that would ensure he could hear that sound over and over.

Grasping Alec's legs he draped them over his shoulders and looking down into his beautiful eyes, Magnus let himself go. Alec was trembling, his body was on fire, and Magnus could feel the heat of their bodies dampening their skin. Then it was like something came over him, because he surged up and grabbed Magnus around the neck…."need you." He gasped out between thrusts.

"Need what darling?" Magnus asked in his ear.

"Just need you, need you so much, please…" He begged so prettily in Magnus' ear that Magnus lost any sense of control he may have had and began to pound into Alexander. He was so tight, and with every sound that came out of him Magnus got closer.

"I'm close Alexander." Magnus gasped on a hard thrust.

Alec's body began to shake and then he went taught, cum dribbled down his length and fell across his stomach. "Now Magnus, now…."

Magnus slammed into Alec one final time and felt the burn of release pour from him. He pulled out then collapsed on top of Alec panting burrowing their bodies closer. Alec shifted Magnus to his side, and Magnus panicked for a moment that he was going to get up, but Alec only removed the condom and tossed it in the trash while jerking the sheet up around them.

Alec kissed his forehead and Magnus grinned, looking up at him in the warm afternoon light. "I have no idea why Lydia was encouraging you to buy panties, but truly...you are a gift."

Alec snuggled down closer until Magnus could feel his breath on his face. "Well I guess her plan worked. In a way. It got me in your pants."

Magnus kissed Alec's chin, "what plan?"

"She's a matchmaker." Alec said in a very snarky way. "I mean why did you think I was talking to her?"

Magnus furrowed his brow. "What are you talking about?"

"Her job Magnus, she's a certified Matchmaker."

"No she's a vice cop." He said as he stroked a hand down Alec's chest, just needing to touch him as much as he could.

"What are you talking about, of course she is, she told Jace and everyone really." Alec said confused.

"If it's the same Lydia we've known since college then no, she is very much an officer of the law and she is very much an officer that sics her colleagues on me over prostitution in my club. I cannot for the life of me get her to understand that prostitutes like to have fun too, and no one buys sex on my dance floors." Magnus frowned as Alec's face went through a litany of funny expressions.

"She has business cards, why would she pretend..." Alec said and Magnus could tell he was deep in his thoughts and barely paying attention.

"Maybe she's undercover." Magnus shrugged.

Alec made a dismissive tone, "I guess it doesn't matter, it's just weird. Why wouldn't she just tell me? Why hide it from me? And why the hell don't Jace and Clary know she's vice. They all work for the NYPD." Magnus could tell as much as he wanted to let it go, Alec was having trouble processing. And well, Magnus didn't want him feeling anything but relaxed, so he pulled Alec down into a hard kiss.

"You're just trying to distract me."

"Is it working."

"Yeah, yeah it really is." Magnus laughed when Alec rolled over on top of him and continued his intoxicating kisses. Magnus pulled a condom from the table beside the bed and Alec grinned at him nodding, "my turn." Magnus chuckled and they surged together fiercely, demanding everything from one another.

Afterward, exhausted, Magnus dozed cuddled into Alec's side and Alec stared at the ceiling of his new place and wondered what the ever loving hell Lydia was up to. There was something scratching under his skin that made him feel anxious and he didn't like it worth a damn. Especially because it was all centered around Magnus. That woman at Pandemonium the other night, he didn't personally know her, but she was a cop. Lydia pushing him at Pandemonium. Camille's embezzlement. Hell he didn't know that it was connected, but it was suspicious as hell.

Magnus snuffled beside him and he gazed at him fondly. Magnus wasn't what he thought he wanted. in fact he was the furthest thing from it, but just the thought of letting Magnus go was putting a burning knot in his stomach. In fact, the thought of him showing this side of himself to anyone, him finding someone else, sent a wave of pure possessiveness through Alec. Shocking him because he'd never felt this way about anyone before. He wanted Magnus to belong to him, for them to belong to each other. But how could he, boring ass Alec Lightwood, hope to keep Magnus interested. Once the initial attraction and passion subsided, would Magnus actually stay?

He knew he was in deep trouble when the thought of Magnus walking away made him ache. He stroked Magnus' bare back and hoped like hell he could figure out what the hell he was doing, because all signs were pointing to him being invested, and Alec couldn't tell if Magnus felt the same. And hell even if he did, if that would be enough to get him to stay.

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The 13 year old boy looked up from his switch and peered at the old junky car. His grandpa had made him come fishing, but he'd nearly thrown up when they started cutting the fish open so he'd told him to take a walk. Jordan knew his grandpa knew he didn't really like all the hunting and animal killing stuff, but he did like hanging out with him so he didn't mind so much that Jordan got queasy at the sight of blood and guts stuff.

They'd never been to his area of New York before, it was about an hour outside the city and had a nice field with woods lining it. He saw a junky old car just over a hill and decided to go take a look. Jordan stepped over brambles and broken branches that were growing up around the car. He kept an eye out for snakes, he might not like outdoors stuff, but he wasn't stupid.

As he reached out to open the car door, the smell caught his attention and he knew without even looking that something inside was dead. He didn't want to look, he didn't want to see, but what if he could help? What if it was still a little bit alive?

Jordan put his hoodie sleeve over his mouth and tried not to breath too deeply, as he leaned closer to the car and looked in. The dust was hard to see through, so it took a minute for his eyes to focus, when they did he stumbled backwards in horror. Then he screamed and screamed and screamed.

His grandpa found him minutes later, "Jordan, buddy what's wrong?"

"His eyes…" He gasped between sobs. "The blood….his eyes."

"Come on Jordan just breath for me." Jordan turned away on the ground. His grandfather stood and looked in the car, and then said a word Jordan had never heard him say. He pulled his phone from his pocket and dialed 911.

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"Who dares disturb the great Magnus Bane!" Alec laughed over the phone and Magnus smiled.

"Hey Magnus, how are you feeling?"

"Fine darling," Magnus twirled his desk chair around and looked out over the empty club. "And you?"

"Tired but good, wanted to ask if you could give me your personal accountant's name so I could go ahead and get started on some of the files." They'd decided the night before that Magnus would meet him at the office at 10, and in the meantime Alec would prepare the documents.

"Of course, I'll email you his contact info." Magnus turned back to his computer and emailed Alec what he needed.

"I heard through the grapevine."

"Meaning your sister."

Alec laughed, "It's like you know us."

"I should hope so darling." Magnus said warmly.

"Anyway, Izzy said Jace and Clary weren't going to be at lunch this week, and Izzy has super important job things to do, so it's just me and you."

"Well, that certainly is news."

Alec rolled his eyes, "I was wondering if you wanted to get lunch somewhere else."

"And miss the adorable faces that you make at the smell of the Mediterranean place. Hmmm….that's a tough one."

"Magnuuuuss." Alec whined and Magnus laughter overrode him.

"Of course Alexander, where did you have in mind?"

"How's Thai?"

"That one place?"

"Yeah, hey what time are you going to be home tonight? I'll come by if I can."

"More than likely around midnight, weeknights at the club wrap up a little earlier for me. But darling you don't.."

"I'll call if I can't make it."

"Well okay, but you don't have to…"

"Yes," Alec said pointedly, "I do."

He didn't have to sound so put out over it thought Magnus as he hung up. Magnus wasn't clinging to him or demanding his time. In fact he'd been very careful of Alexander that morning when he'd left, not pushing or demanding his time. Certainly a man didn't spend an entire day in the bed of someone he had no intention of seeing again, but Magnus knew Alec. He knew he'd never really had a relationship, and for some reason it wasn't until this exact second that he decided to freak out over why that was.

He grabbed his phone and hit #2 and Izzy answered after 3 rings. "I'm freaking out." he said panicky.

"About what?" she chirped.

"I slept with your brother." Magnus said bluntly, knowing it was better to get it out of the way.

"What?" she screamed in his ear, "OH MY GOD! CONGRATULATIONS! WHEN WHERE...OMG nevermind I don't want to know, but Yesssss!" He could hear her dancing around her office.

"Isabelle, calm down, I said I was freaking out!" Magnus hissed.

"Oh yeah you did say that. So what's up buttercup?" Magnus could still hear the grin in her voice.

Magnus put his head down on his desk peering between his knees, "I might be stupidly in love with him, but he's been single forever and there's a fucking reason for it, but I don't….Izzy I don't know what I'm doing."

"Magnus. None of us do. I can't tell you what to say or do, but I can tell you that if you're honest, he'll be honest in return." Izzy said gently.

"What if his honesty is telling me to get lost?" Magnus all but wailed over the phone, knowing he was being dramatic, but the flutters in his belly were crawling out of him and he wanted the anxiety to just stop.

"That's his choice, but don't make that decision for him. Don't be stupid Magnus. What if he wants you just as much as you want him, and you leave before you can build something together. Just talk to him." Izzy commanded.

She was the best. The literal best. "Love you."

"Love you too. Come see me."

Magnus promised to come see her later that week. It was almost time to head to the FBI offices, so he took a look around to make sure he wasn't missing anything before heading out the door to meet his…..maybe boyfriend.