I'm really sorry, I know this is out late. I had a really busy day yesterday and I thought the doc was already made and prepared to post but then it must have been deleted or something. I don't know. Anyway, it's here now, sorry for being late.

Alec walked through the halls of the castle, on his way to his father's office. He knocked at the door before entering. Yes, he was mad at his father, and he didn't think he deserved any respect from him. But he still had manners. Alec entered when he heard a 'yes' from the inside. "Father I have an offer to make, it's a plan and I think you will actually appreciate it," he announced as he walked inside and closed the door behind himself.

"If this plan included that boy leaving the Kingdom, please tell."

"It does, actually. It also includes me leaving the Kingdom. On a diplomatic mission."

"So you can snuggle your servant far away without me to stop you? Not happening. I'm not stupid, Alexander."

"I know you're not, so I am sure that you also want me to go actually. I have to talk to other kings and queens, to explain to them what happened. They must have heard about the wedding, that we did not keep up with the promised wedding between Lydia and me, they have to know why that happened and that we are actually a reliable kingdom. A kingdom people can trust in and have faith in their contracts. That this wedding incident was a one time only thing and that we do, in fact take our relationships with other kingdoms seriously. And who would be better at explaining this, then me? The one who actually broke the contract in the first place?"

"And you would be explaining that to them with that servant by your side. It's better if I send out a letter to all the nearby kingdoms, you won't leave the city."

"And how are you gonna keep me here? I'm not your prisoner."

"No, but you are my son."

"That doesn't mean you can control my life!"

"Careful with your tone, Alexander. You do not yell at a king."

"You're not king to me. You're supposed to be my father!"

"Are you gonna explain the situation to kings and queens with this attitude?"

"You know what? Just wait here for an hour, I'll be back with enough arguments for you to find some stupid response to." Alec stormed out of the office in search for Izzy. He knew she'd mentioned something once, something he could get use for now. After a while of searching, he found her in her room.

"Izzy," He said immediately. "What did you tell me once, about some king that had to come here because they needed to discuss the peace contracts?" Izzy looked startled up at him from where she was painting her nails.

"Don't you know how to knock?" She said.

"Sorry, sorry. Usually I do but this is urgent." Izzy frowned.

"What is it?" She asked.

"That king, from, uh… Duort or something. He had to come here to discuss the peace contract. You told me about it years ago."

"Oh, that. Alec, those are old news, why do you want to know about that?"

"Just tell me, Izzy. Please."

"Okay, well… that was five years ago. The king of Dumort and dad had to discuss the peace between the two kingdoms, and none of them wanted to come visit the other. Eventually the king of Dumort, I think his name was Raphael, had to come here."

"And then they didn't get any peace because they were both unsatisfied." finished Alec.

"Yeah. But seriously, can you tell me what's going on?"

"I found a way. Or, well, Magnus found a way. I just have to leave on a diplomatic mission and he could come with me."

"Alec, that's genius! I wish I could have come up with that."

"Yeah. Anyway, the tricky part is convincing dad. I just had a conversation with him. Anyway, we can use that thing to convince him. I can go to kingdoms, discuss peace and trades and all that kind of stuff, and everyone will be happy."

"Perfect. Let's go talk to dad right now, I have plenty of stories like that stored away in my mind." She linked their arms together and dragged him to their father's office.

Magnus was bored, he didn't want to keep reading about Idris and its history. He wished he could practise his magic a bit but he couldn't risk that Alec finding out. He could, of course, put up wards that would warn him if Alec was coming in, there was just one problem. He had no idea how to do that. So he was stuck to doing nothing as he waited for Alec to come back. Well, he could dream about the future, about his journey with Alec, all the things they would see, the places and the people and of course the time he would spend with Alec, with his boyfriend.

But other than that, he was bored out of his mind. And after almost an hour of imagining that, it became almost too painful. It was great, all the thoughts were happy, but it wasn't a guarantee. So much could happen before Magnus's thoughts become reality.

He tried to get his mind on something else. He paced around the room, spent almost twenty minutes looking at the flickering flames of the fireplace, reorganized the books first by title and then by author, tried to teach himself Latin by reading one of the books in that language, and everything else he could do in that small room.

He didn't know how much time had passed, but it had to be hours. He was about to just bang his head on the wall till he didn't even know what bored meant anymore when he heard a noise from the direction of the door. His head shot up, if it was a guard, what would he do? The door was opened slowly, and behind it was Alec and Isabelle. Magnus sighed in relief.

"Hey," he smiled and went over to hug Alec. "How did it go? I thought you would never come back."

"Sorry. Dad isn't easy to convince. I brought the blanket and pillow. We're leaving tomorrow morning."

"Oh god. So it worked?" Magnus asked, smiling brightly. "Really? You and I will be together and we will see so much of this world? Will it just be the two of us? Or more people? And if more, who?" Alec smiled.

"It did work. We'll go, just us two, no one else. Me, you, Shadowhunter, and Jem."

"That's wonderful!" exclaimed Magnus and hugged Alec again before he kissed him. "Oh, that's just amazing."

"I know. You'll have to leave before sunrise, you'll take Jem out of the stables and wait for me by the forest, there aren't any guards there." Magnus nodded.

"Okay, I can do that. But that means I am stealing a royal horse"

"Kind of, but that's fine, I'll make it look like he broke out himself. Nobody will care and those who do care… well, I'll take care of them," Isabelle smiled and pulled out the pillow and blanket from where she'd hidden it under her dress and gave it to Magnus.

"Thank you, both for helping with Jem and for the pillow and blanket," smiled Magnus as he took the things and placed them on the chair next to the table. "I also think you helped with the convincing part?" he asked.

"Yeah I did. Sometimes Alec needs my help, when I'm not kicking his ass" Izzy chuckled.

"I'll see you tomorrow!" Alec interrupted. He clearly didn't want to be embarrassed by Izzy, but Magnus already knew that she was ridiculously good at fighting so it wasn't a big surprise to him that she could kick his ass.

"Yeah and I'll see you when you come back," smiled Izzy and stepped forward to hug Magnus. "Don't hurt him, I'll kill you if you hurt him and you know that I can," she whispered into his ear just before they broke apart and Magnus turned back to Alec. He pulled him in by the collar of his shirt and kissed him hard on the lips.

"I'll see you soon," Magnus said when he pulled away

"Yes. I will pack us something so we will have things to sleep in and all that."

"Of course you will. Bring the sword, the Soulsword. In case we need it."

"What could we possibly need it for?"

"I don't know, just bring it."

"Okay, I will. Good night, Magnus."

"Good night, Alexander." With one last kiss, they separated, Alec left the small room with Isabelle behind him, and Magnus moved to make a kinda bed for himself. It didn't take him long to fall asleep, and he had a smile on his lips as he did.

Magnus woke up the next morning to the 5 o'clock bells. He looked around and decided to pack the weird book about Edom, he couldn't explain why but he had the feeling that he needed to pack it. He quickly got dressed then and left the room. Magnus went through the small passage and then quickly rushed through the caste, down to the stables where he got Jem ready. He was surprised to see him awake, but that made it all easier for him. Magnus looked around and decided to pick a few things like a blanket and some carrots and apples. He wrapped them into the blanket then quickly left the stables with Jem.

He didn't encounter any guards on the streets, only the ones guarding the door to leave the city, but they paid him no mind. They were there to make sure no one came into the city, they didn't care about who left it.

He made his way past all the farms, many of the farmers were already awake and working. He also passed the farm where Dot was working, it was difficult to leave her behind, they stayed friends. She understood him and wasn't angry.

Now that he thought about it, Magnus hadn't talked to any of his friends ever since this whole thing had started. For over a week he'd closed off all contact, and now he was running away from the city. After a minute of contemplating, he decided to send them a firemessage. He would just make it appear in their bedroom or something, and they could wonder how the hell it had gotten there.

Magnus stopped Jem by the forest, right by the main path. Now he just had to wait about four hours for Alec to show up. In the meantime he was going to write the firemessages. He didn't have any paper to write on, or anything to write with, so he would have to be creative. He could, in theory, summon it. Except, once again, he'd only read about it, never done it. And what if there was some guards patrolling or something and he just saw something randomly disappear? Magnus wasn't sure how the summoning worked, but it didn't create things out of thin air, it summoned them from somewhere else.

Either way, Magnus didn't want to risk something going wrong, he would think of something. He looked around himself to see what he could use. There wasn't much there. Mostly just trees, and a few blueberry bushes. Nothing to write on.

Magnus had no idea where the limit of fire messages was. Could he send things through? Or just paper? If he wrote on a leaf, could he send that? He wished he'd asked these questions earlier, when he actually had ways to get the answer. Maybe I could try? He wondered. Yes, he decided to try and send a firemessage on a leaf. The only problem now was to know if it went through. He supposed he could send a firemessage to himself to check and that was what he started with. He picked up a dead leaf from the ground and poked a hole in it, just to be sure it was the same leaf. With a simple word the leaf burst into flames, but they didn't hurt Magnus. It was weird, to watch his fingers surrounded by fire but only feel it tickling a little.

In a matter of seconds the leaf was gone. Magnus thought for a moment it wouldn't work since nothing appeared in front of him, but then the air caught on fire and the leaf started to materialize in front of him. "It worked!" He exclaimed, picking the leaf out of the air. Now he just had to find out how to write on then. And what to write. He had to keep it short. At first he thought he could cut the words into the leave but that would only ruin it, then he looked around again and saw the blueberry-bush. Could he write with crushed blueberries? If he got a sharp stick he could crush the berries and use the juice inside as ink. That would definitely work. Now he just had to figure out what to write. What do you tell your friends in situations like this one? In the end he decided to just tell them that he was fine and with Alec on a mission. That they didn't have to worry about him and that he loved them. And that if everything followed plans, he would be home again soon. He set fire to the leaves, one by one, and watched them burn away.

That whole thing had taken half an hour. Only three and a half hours till Alec would meet him there! Just three and a half hour alone outside the woods with nothing to do.

Alec woke with the seven o'clock bells, as usual. He'd been pretty restless the night before, but eventually he'd managed to fall asleep. Now he was already out of the bed and half dressed. He had to pack and get Shadowhunter ready so he could start his journey with Magnus.

He'd packed his clothes into a bag and fastened a belt with the soulsword around his waist. As an afterthought, he packed the crown too. He didn't like it, and he would be more than happy to leave it here. But it could be useful, especially if he was meeting up with other kings and queens.

When he was done packing his own stuff he left the bag in his room and went to Luke's house. He had to pack stuff for Magnus too. And if anyone got suspicious he could say he was there to collect some medication for the trip, which he probably should do as well.

He knocked lightly on the door, hoping he wasn't waking Luke. It was pretty early, maybe he should come back later… The door opened and revealed Luke, fully dressed and very awake.

"Alec, I was wondering when you would come by." Luke gestured for him to come in. "Simon explained that you had found a way to not send Magnus away, at least not alone," he explained, the confusion must have been obvious on his face. "I've already packed Magnus some clothes and a few books. I know you can't bring too much, but he wouldn't go anywhere without those books," Luke said.

"What books?" Alec asked, curious about what was so important for Magnus.

"A novel he was halfway through, a book about hell and the demons in it, and his diary."

"His diary?"

"Yes, his diary. Don't read it," Luke warned.

"No, of course not. I would never do that."

"Good," Luke said, handing him the bag. "Also, you should bring this." he handed him a smaller bag. "There are some potions and bandages and salves there, in case anything happens. Magnus should know how to use all of them, since he has worked with them here before." Alec took that bag too and thanked Luke.

"Magnus is really lucky to have you, Luke. And I am, too. I mean you prepared some medication for us and salves so we can treat our possible wounds. You also know what Magnus loves and needs. I mean you packed his diary and the novel he currently reading. It's very obvious that you care a lot about him and I appreciate it. He means a lot to me… No that's wrong. I love him and I am glad that he has you as a part of his family."

"Thank you for saying this Alec. He is like a son to me. And… I like you as well, so I am happy to hear that you love him, but be warned, I'll come after you if you should ever hurt him, are we clear, Prince?" Luke threatened..

"Of course," Alec said. So this is how it feels to be friendly threatened by your lovers parent, he thought. He and Luke talked for a little bit before he said his goodbyes, and left.

Once back in his room he placed the bags by his own before going to sit on his bed. He looked around himself, at his room. It had been his room ever since he was a child. And now he was going to leave it. It was just temporary, of course, but it still felt odd. To leave something he was so used to. Alec had never actually been out of the kingdom. Not that he could remember, at least.

Alec looked over at the bags. He felt like there was something he was forgetting, something important. He looked at the bags and made a mental checklist. He leant down on his side and felt the hilt of the sword poking at his hip. The sword! Of course, he'd forgotten all about weapons!

He left his room and headed towards the weapons room. He had his own, small shelf there, with his bow, quiver, and arrows, and a few swords. He grabbed the bow and the quiver, which he filled with arrows immediately. He wasn't going anywhere without that. Then he looked at the swords, debating which would be best for Magnus. He couldn't let Magnus go without a weapon. Eventually he settled on a shortsword. It would be easy to weild and easy to travel with as it wasn't very big. As he moved to pick it up, something else caught his eye. A Ruby.

Alec picked up the small dagger, nine inches, with a Ruby glinting on the hilt. He hadn't used this dagger in years. It had been a gift from his father when he turned ten, back in the days his father still cared.

Alec didn't use daggers much, and his relationship with his father wasn't what it used to be. But for some reason he felt like he had to bring it along. Alec fastened the scabbards of the weapons to a belt, fastened his quiver, and took everything with him back up to his room.

Now he had everything, he was sure of it. But he still had two hours before he could leave, which he would probably spend doing nothing. He should probably go eat, he'd been in such a hurry he'd completely forgotten breakfast.

He made his way to the kitchen to get a quick breakfast and packed some food and water for their trip on the way. He was gonna bring his money, but food was always good to have, there weren't always taverns everywhere. Alec ate his breakfast and then went back to his room to waste two hours.

Alec was going to leave soon. Shadowhunter was ready, his bags were packed and loaded, and he had plenty of food and water. All that that was left now were the goodbyes.

Alec turned to Isabelle and pulled her in for a tight hug. "I'll miss you," he said when he pulled back. "I'll miss you a lot."

"I'll miss you too, Alec. Take care of yourself and write home as often as you can."

"I will, Izzy. I will." He hugged her one last time before turning to Jace.

"Don't get into trouble while I'm gone," he said with a grin.

"I'm not making any promises," Jace replied, pulling Alec in for a hug too.

"I'll be back soon," Alec promised. "And I'll miss you every day." He pulled back to look at them, at his wonderful, amazing, annoying siblings. "Both of you."

"We'll miss you too," Jace said.

"Now get on that horse, Magnus is waiting for you," Izzy ordered.

"Yeah, yeah. I'm going," Alec said, getting up on Shadowhunter. "Don't die while I'm gone," he said with a smile and waved before he set Shadowhunter into a trot. He made his way through the streets, some people waved, some glared. Everyone had heard about what happened at the wedding.

Alec kept a steady pace on Shadowhunter till he was outside the city walls, then he broke into a gallop. This was it, he was finally gonna be with Magnus. Freely. Without his father judging them or anyone telling them to stop. Just him and Magnus.

He had to ride for almost ten minutes before he could see the woods. He spotted Magnus after a few more minutes, and made his way to him as quickly as possible.

Magnus was so bored, he had been moving around in the small spot and looked at everything, every plant, every stone, everything ! Just so he had something to do. He was hungry as well. But at least he didn't have a problem about not having a toilet out there. The woods were one huge toilet so that was fine. When he finally saw Alec he smiled and waved at him.

"Hey," he grinned when Alec was close enough.

"Hi," Alec said, stopping in front of him. "Are you okay? You didn't have any difficulties I hope," he said as he dismounted Shadowhunter.

"Other than dying of boredom and starving, no. I'm fine," he said and still smiled at Alec, nothing could cloud his happiness about being with him.

"Starv- oh, you didn't have anything to eat yet, did you?" he asked and moved to the side of shadowhunter to look through one of the bags.

"I brought, well stole actually, some apples and carrots. But Jem needed them more than me so I gave them to him instead." Magnus acceptedit gladly when Alec handed him a loaf of bread and a bottle of water.

"Are you ready to start this journey?" Alec asked. "It might be a while before we come back."

"If you let me finish this first, then yes, I'll be ready," Magnus nodded and started to eat.

"Good. I have something for you." Alec turned and rummaged through one of the bags, taking out the belt with the sword and the dagger. "I thought you could use some weapons too. You're excellent with the sword, and the dagger… it was mine when I was a child, I felt like I had to bring it." Alec handed Magnus the belt, and Magnus strapped it around his waist after he looked at it closely. The weapons looked beautiful, very well made as well, but that was to be expected from royal weapons.

"Thank you. It's a beautiful dagger, thank you for allowing me to use it," Magnus smiled and then quickly finished eating before he sat up on Jem again and waited for Alec. "Let's get going"

"Yeah, let's go," Alec said with a smile. This was the start of their adventure, their relationship.

Alec was leading the way through the woods, showing Magnus where to go. "Oh, I also stopped by Luke and he gave me some clothes for you and three books. Well, two book and your diary. I'll give it to you when we're having out first break, or this evening if you prefer, when we are preparing the tent and stuff."

"My diary?" Magnus asked. He didn't have a diary, he had a journal. But he could do just fine without it, and Luke wouldn't send unnecessary stuff.

"Yes. Don't worry, I didn't read it. Luke was very warning on that, but I wouldn't do it anyway. I won't invade your privacy like that."

"Oh. Thank you, Alec." Luke wouldn't send unnecessary stuff, so this diary had to be necessary. And what would be necessary and helpful? His book about Magic! Luke had probably rebound it and told Alec it was his diary. Luke always had some great solutions to things, and the book would be really helpful.

"And yes, I'd like to have it when we are preparing our place for the night. Did you bring something to make a tent?"

"Yes, of course. A tent, sleeping bags, lots of clean water, and something to start a fire with. We'll try to avoid sleeping out in the woods though, we'll stay mostly at taverns. But it takes more than a day to cross this, so we'll have to sleep out at least tonight," Alec explained. They moved through the woods together, and Magnus was happy. Despite having to leave what he considered his home now, he was happy. Because he was with Alec.

"Oh and by the way, Luke told me to be good to you and not hurt you," Alec said with a wide grin.

"Yeah? Why would he do that?"

"Because he's like your father… a real and good father in his case, he cares about you"

"Yeah, I understand that, I mean why would he think you could hurt me?" Magnus grinned. He was actually very touched by Luke's concern about his happiness. It showed him again how much Luke cared about him and that the feeling of being a family was mutual. It made Magnus feel really good.

"I don't know. Maybe because Jace is my brother?" Alec suggested. "But honestly, I think that's just something parents do and I am happy that you have a father figure like him. It makes your life easier, especially since Luke is a great role model as well."

"Yes he is. I do look up to him. And I learned a lot from him in the short time I lived in Idris."

They rode for a few hours, till they started getting hungry. They found a nice place to stop and have a small picnic. Alec had brought more than enough food for them, and they enjoyed a lunch together under the shadow of a big tree.

"Alec, about the taverns… I didn't bring or don't have money, and I... You can't pay for both of us all the time, so maybe it's easier and definitely cheaper to sleep in a tent most of the time. I mean if you, as the prince, would prefer to sleep in a tavern I'd understand but… I can't take so much money for sleeping in a tavern when it's fine to sleep in a tent."

"Don't be ridiculous, Magnus. I have plenty of money, and if I just pay for one room we can sleep on the same bed. You won't be taking money, you'll be doing me a favor by sleeping by my side. I always sleep better when you're there with me."

"It still feels like I'm taking your money," Magnus said.

"I know how you can pay me back for it if you absolutely want to."

"How?" Magnus asked.

"You can kiss me," Alec said with a cheeky grin.

"Oh I want to kiss you all the time, Alec." he chuckled and leaned over to press his lips against Alec's.

"See? Now you've paid me for the first tavern we sleep in." Alec kissed him again. "And now you've paid me for two."

"Should I feel like a prostitute now? I mean you are paying me to kiss you?" Magnus teased.

"What?! No, no Magnus. You.. no," Alec chuckled and shook his head.

"I know how you meant it, I was just joking," Magnus grinned and kissed Alec again. "That's three," he whispered against his lips, smirking. They joked around for a while, as the ate and talked a bit more about where they had to go.

"Are you scared? Because I am, a bit. I mean I'm also excited and happy but… we're alone and we are preparing you for your fight with Lilith and all those things," Magnus said after a few minutes of silence.

"I am. There's all this responsibility, all these expectations. I mean, people are waiting for me to kill the queen of hell! It's a lot, and it's terrifying. I'm glad I have you," Alec said, pulling Magnus closer to him.

"I will always be there and have your back. Tomorrow we will start training again, but today, tonight, we'll just be together and enjoy the time, enjoy that there is no one threatening us in this moment."

"Yeah. I'm sure soon enough there'll be something or someone trying to kill me again. But when that happens, we'll find a way out of it." Magnus nodded.

"We will," he agreed.

They rode for a few more hours, keeping up a slow canter as to not exhaust the horses, they had a long way to go after all. They stopped every few hours to give the horses some food and water, and to eat some themselves, but other than that they kept a steady pace. When the sun began to set, they decided to prepare their place for the night. Alec collected some wood for the fire while Magnus build the tent for them. He had done that rather often on his way to Idris so he was done rather quickly and then helped Alec with the fire.

If Alec hadn't been around he would just have said a word and gotten the wood burning, but Alec was there so they had to do it the normal way.

"Would you mind giving me my diary, now?" he asked once the fire was burning and the horses were fed and bound to a tree.

"Yes, of course. Luke packed you an entire bag, clothes too. I'll give it to you."Alec moved to where they had placed the bags and picked up two bags. Magnus wondered what the other one might be. Alec handed both to Magnus. "The other one is full of potions and salves and stuff. Luke gave it to me in case something happens, but you know how to use that stuff better than me, so you take it," Alec said. Magnus accepted both the bags and looked inside the biggest one. It was full of clothes, and three books. The novel he was reading, he was very glad Luke had put that in there, he had to find out what was going to happen. A book about Edom, it was just the myths he'd read thousands of times, but it could come in handy. And what appeared to be a small book bound in boring leather. Magnus picked it out of the bag and opened it on a random page. He was right, it was the magic book.

It was kinda sad that Luke had to take off the beautiful bind it'd had before, but maybe they could put it back on one day, if Luke didn't burn it to make sure no one would find it. He hoped he hadn't, but he would understand if he had. Magnus flicked through the pages and looked for a ward, he'd have to stay awake and wait for Alec to fall asleep but he wanted to protect them. The queen of hell wanted to kill Alec, but there were also wild animals and thieves in the just had to go the extra mile to protect them.

He found the page about wards, marked it with a leaf because people who bend pages in books are monsters, and put it away for when Alec was asleep.

"Did you bring anything that we have to cook? Or are we going to eat bread again?" he asked and looked at Alec who was standing next to the fire.

"I brought some smoked pork, it should last for about a week so we don't have to eat it today. Unless you're tired of bread."

"I wouldn't mind some pork, but maybe we can save it for later. How much is it?"

"It's enough for one dinner," Alec said.

"We could eat half of it and save the rest for another day" suggested Magnus.

"Okay, let's do that," Alec agreed, moving to get the meat.

They prepared it together, almost let it catch on fire because they got distracted with looking at each other, but in the end it turned out perfect. They ate it along with some bread and drank water around the fire, shoulders touching and enjoying each other's company. It was really nice and Magnus wished he could tell Alec the truth about his magic, maybe he could even show him something one day. If Alec knew he would use his magic to make patterns and forms with the flickering flames. He'd done that back home, when Luke was out or in another room he would sit down in front of the fireplace and turn the flames into all kind of things. Flowers, animals, people, everything. Luke always told him to stop when he saw him doing that, he never knew when anyone could come bursting in and see him.

Magnus wished he could do that, put up a show for Alec. He could use his own magic too, he'd started to get even better control of the balls he made, and he could mold and shape them as he wished. Sometimes at night, when he couldn't sleep, he would let sparks fly through his room, make star constellations on the ceiling, play out a scene from a book with small, human formed shapes, or anything else to make him sleepy.

He couldn't do that now. He didn't think Alec would turn him in for using magic, he knew Alec wouldn't do that. But it could make Alec lose trust in him. And he'd just gotten him, he didn't want to lose him.

"Magnus? Where are you with your thoughts?" Alec's voice came through.

"Hm?"

"Where are you with your thoughts, love?" Magnus was about to answer, but then Alec said that.

"Did you just call me…Love?"

"Um, yeah. Do you not like it? I can just call you Magnus if you want, I just thought it would be nice…"

"I love it, Alexander."

"Good, because it felt nice to call you that. It was easy to say it," Alec smiled and leaned over to kiss Magnus. "Now tell me what you were thinking about."

"I was just thinking about how happy I am, with you here." Alec smiled.

"It's incredible, isn't it? Just two days ago I was ready to marry a girl I would never love, and now I'm here. With the love of my life." Alec leant down to kiss him, and Magnus smiled into the kiss.

"You owe me about twenty taverns now." Alec kissed him again.

"Make that twenty one."

"By the end of this trip you'll owe me more nights in a taverne then there are nights in our lifetime," Magnus chuckled.

"I wouldn't mind that. I could buy you something else."

"If you buy me something for every time we kiss I'll be spoiled rotten and you will be broke."

"As long as you're happy, I don't care."

"How about this, for every time I kiss you, you have to kiss me," Magnus suggested, he knew it was terribly cheesy but he wanted to be cheesy with Alec, he wanted them to have these moments.

"We'll never stop kissing."

"I wouldn't mind." Magnus kissed him again, letting a hand travel up to Alec's hair to hold him in place. "Now you have to kiss me," he said when he pulled back. Alec complied immediately.

"Hey erm… do we need to talk about this?" Alec asked when they broke apart again. "About what we are doing and not doing or about the things we might do in the future?"

"Things like what?" Magnus asked.

"Well, Izzy told me a lot about what to do with a woman, what to do with Lydia once we were married… So- so I've been thinking, no, wondering if we would do something like that?"

"Oh… Well, I would want to, I mean not right now, that would be too rushed but… as a general idea I would like to have sex with you, if you want that?"

"Yeah...Yeah I do… I mean, yes I want that, too but I agree. We should wait a bit and maybe talk more? I mean… It's not that easy between two men, is it?"

"I don't know… I'm sure we'll figure out how… but until then, this is more than enough," Magnus smiled, kissing Alec again.

"Yes it is," Alec agreed and kissed him. "Hey, what do you say we go to sleep?" He suggested. Magnus nodded.

"Yeah, let's sleep." He would have to stay awake till Alec fell asleep so he could set up the wards, but that wouldn't be a problem. "Come on," he said, taking Alec's hand and leading him into the tent.

"We could combine our sleeping bags" suggested Magnus. "That way we can cuddle." Alec smiled softly.

"Excellent idea," he said. They spent five minutes doing that before stripping out of their clothes and cuddling against each other for warmth.

"Sleep Alexander, I am here, now sleep" he whispered and caressed Alecs back as he held him close against himself. "Close your eyes and dream of something nice, dream of us, how you are going to win over Lilith and how you and I will live together"

"That is very nice. I hope you will be in my dreams," Alec mumbled, his eyes already dropping shut. It didn't take long for him to fall asleep, and as soon as Magnus was sure he wouldn't wake up he untangled himself from him, missing the warmth after just a few seconds.

He moved silently through the tent to where he'd left the book and opened it on the marked page. He read through it quickly before putting the book aside and preparing to cast the spell. He could feel the glamour disappear from his eyes, as it always did when he used magic. Small sparks flew around his hands as he started mumbling the words to the spell lowly so he didn't wake Alec up. It didn't him very long till the spell was finished and he could feel something appear around them, like an invisible shield. Magnus smiled, he was proud of himself for being able to do that. After that he went back to their sleeping bags and cuddled against Alec before sleep took him away.