In the days when he was living with Magnus, Jace had started to think of the warlock as his friend. He had started respecting the much older man and his admiration for him had only increased during the fiasco at Max's party. But then again, he would forever be in the man's debt for making his parabatai happy and saving Alec from himself. So, yes Jace had stopped thinking of Magnus as just a downworlder ally and had started seeing him as a friend, a good friend even.

The days in spend in the loft were fun. The bar was always fully stocked, Magnus had a abundance of books and without the pressure of following the strict rules of the Institute Jace was allowed to come and go as he pleased. Jace was not proud to inform that he had taken gross advantage of this lack of rules, coming home with a different girl most nights.

So as Jace stood in front of the door of the warlock's loft, he felt guilty. Guilty of running away without explaining, guilty of leaving him to deal with Alec's breakdown alone, guilty of having taken advantage of his hospitality and then leaving without even a thank you. Magnus deserved the truth. Oh sure Alec had already told him about Jace's true parentage, but the least Jace could do was to show some gratitude to the kind hearted warlock.

Jace knew that Alec was at the Institute at the moment and he had already checked with his older brother to make sure he wouldn't be interrupting any important meeting. Taking a deep breath, Jace finally raised his fist and knocked on the door.

"I am coming!" came Magnus' voice from inside.

The door opened a few seconds later. Jace was used to Magnus having different colored streaks in his hair every day. So he wasn't even surprised to see that today that color was apparently gold. Other than that, he was wearing what was his normal attire. But from the expression on his face Jace could see he was surprised to see him there.

"You knocked?" Magnus finally said sounding like he still could not believe it.

"What?" Jace asked.

"I am sorry. But my dear shadowhunter I am so used to you just walking inside like you own the place, that I found it hard to believe that you actually knocked. But by all means do come in." And with Magnus went inside. Jace couldn't keep the smile off his face as he followed the High Warlock inside.

Jace followed Magnus straight to his favorite spot in the balcony. Where Jace was promptly attacked by atleast half a dozen cats.

"They missed you." Magnus said softly behind him.

"Yeah well I missed them too." Jace said looking at Magnus. Then he turned to the cats "I promise not to leave for so long again. I will visit I promise.

And yes he talked to cats, but they were cute so sue him.

"Would you like something to drink..." Magnus finally asked "...you know a cocktail or something."

Jace shook his head "No I don't drink."

"I am sorry. It was you who finished half of my bar within the short period of time he was here. Or was I mistaken?"

Jace grimaced at the reminder of his behaviour while he lived her. "I am sorry about that. But normally I don't drink. The time I lived here, it was horrible. I was feeling horrible."

"So instead of talking about it you decided to chase your grief by drinking yourself into oblivion?" Magnus asked although he sounded as if he knew the answer already.

"I am not proud of it. But since then I have been reprimanded by both Alec and Izzy and even Maryse to never do that again."

"And did it help? Are you okay now?" Magnus asked.

"Yes, I know everything is not right. I still have a lot of apologizing to do. But at the moment? Yes, I am okay." Jace said.

Magnus just smiled and sat down next to Jace.

"So Herondale? Tessa must be ecstatic. Afterall she thought her family line was over. You did meet Tessa right?" Magnus asked.

"Yes. I did meet Tessa. Although she hadn't met Stephen himself, she did tell me about my other ancestors."

"Tessa told you her story." Magnus stated.

"Yes. Till the end I thought it was definitely a happy ending atleast for Will and Jem. But no. I was mistaken. I am not even ashamed to say I ugly cried."

"And I am guessing missed your own parabatai?"

"That was probably the moment when I missed Alec the most. From Alec I remember, Tessa told me you had a crush on Will Herondale?" Jace smirked.

"Wha..? No..I mean yes..I mean..Will? I don't know what you are talking about." Magnus finally managed to stammer out.

"And Alec looks just like Will? Is that true." Jace never knew Magnus was capable of being this red.

"I...yes..yes Alexander does look a lot like Will. But that's not why I love him." Magnus said.

Jace just winked Magnus and went to playing with the cat which sat purring in his lap.

"Oh. Before I forget. I came here to collect my stuff. Can I?" Jace aked after a few minutes.

"Sure thing. You know the way Blondie."

As Jace went into Magnus' spare room, he was surprised to see nothing had been touched. It was the same as he had left it. But when he started packing he couldn't find his leather jacket anywhere. Okay, so maybe something had been touched.

"Magnus.." he shouted coming back to the balcony "...have you seen my jacket? The leather one."

Magnus looked at him with a guilty expression.

"What did you do, Bane?" Jace asked.

"So, I may have stolen that jacket. Come on Jace, I wanted to look Badass, and the jacket was hot." Magnus said looking like a repentant teenager.

Jace had to smile. "Its okay. You can keep it. But you owe me one."

Magnus nodded solemnly.

Jace bend down one last time to say goodbye to his cats. And promised them that he will visit them soon. and then picked up his duffel to go.

"Jace? Can I ask you something?" Magnus said.

Jace turned to look at the warlock.

"Please talk to biscuit. I am worried about her. Alexander's words hit too close to home. And even the baby vampire can't help. Maybe you can?"

"I promise Magnus I will talk to her. I just need to do one last thing first." Then he remembered why he came there in the first place.

"Also Magnus, sorry for, you know, drinking half your bar and bringing random girls here without your permission."

This time it was Magnus' turn to smile. "No problem little shadowhunter. You were going through a rough time."

Before going Jace couldn't help adding one last thing "Also sprry for cockblocking you and Alec again and again. My apologies." With that he ran out of the apartment.

Magnus' familiar chuckle was the last thing he heard as he went down.

Later that night Magnus tagged Jace in a picture in which he was sitting on the sofa surronded by cats and the caption "Happy Place". Alec and Izzy burst out laughing. Jace just saved the picture and started using it was his wallpaper.