A/N: Hello again peoples, so I may be able to post more often now as I have finished work experience *cheers* but I have to go back to school *sobs* I will try peoples but no promises :)
Nothing much to say about this chapter apart from jealous Simon, I don't think of him as a jealous person in the books but oh well ;), and FABULOUS MAGNUS yayy
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Chapter 24: The world is crammed with cruelty!
Simon's POV
The rest of the day was fairly uneventful and even if there were things going on around him, Simon wouldn't have noticed as he was completely embedded in his thoughts. He was confused as to why anyone would've took the only picture with all the girls in it but then most of the things that happened today baffled Simon beyond belief.
When it came to the end of the day, he had already taken all of his possessions out of the broken locker and told Mrs Branwell about it, and now he was exhausted. He made his way through the crowds of chatting people, most of which glared at him as he went past. Simon sighed and sped up so he could get over the stares quicker but he could still feel their glares seeping in to his back like knives piercing his skin (yeah it felt that bad).
He finally manoeuvred his way out of the door and immediately spotted the girls. When he got to them they gave him small, almost sheepish, smiles and Maia said "You're coming with us to see Cris, right?"
Even though to most people this would've sounded like a question but knowing the girls too well, and that all of them looked at him as if there was only one answer acceptable, Simon knew that this was a statement. Even if the girls didn't want Simon to come, which it seemed (and was) unlikely, Simon would've gone anyway. Why would I give up a chance to see Cris?
"Yeah, of course," Simon said as if it were obvious. The small smile he had on his face disappeared as he asked "Are we waiting for anyone?" They all looked to each other at this and their faces fell.
"We're only waiting for one person," Katniss said and Simon became confused. "Who?" he asked as there were two missing. At that Jem came up to them and sadly smiled. Some of the girls looked sympathetically towards Jem who looked like he was trying to hide how distraught he was and Simon had to fight the jealousy coursing inside of him.
"Wait, Jem are you coming with us?" Simon asked, not un-coldly. Jem gave a small smirk, which may have infuriated Simon, and replied "That's why I'm here," The girls gave genuine smiles at Jem and Simon was shocked because Jem just made the girls smile happily with one sentence, Simon wouldn't have been able to do that if he tried.
As much as everyone loved Jem, he often annoyed Simon. It was probably out of jealousy more than anything, even though Simon wouldn't admit it, because Jem was basically everything a girl could want in a guy and it had been quite obvious that Cris felt that way towards Jem. Whenever he thought that Simon would get angry at himself because Jem was nice to everyone and it was almost impossible not to like him.
"Wait, hold up, so…" Simon left the sentence hanging because he didn't want to be right. But it appeared he was right when Izzy said "Tessa and Clary aren't coming and Jace and Will are trying to talk to them,"
"Are you telling me that Clary and Tessa aren't coming because of what some idiot wrote on the board?" Simon asked even though he knew it was true and it pained him to think that. Why would they ever think that Cris would do that to them?
Jem flinched at Simon's words; the board issue was obviously an open wound to Jem and it probably didn't help that Simon was prodding it.
"Yeah, they think that Jace and Will cheated on them with Cris," Hazel said as if not believing it herself. But before Simon could rant about the subject, Tris put her hand up to stop him from saying what was on his tongue. "Stop, I don't want to hear any more about, they just need time to realise it themselves and if we don't get there soon we're going to miss visiting hours"
At that Simon closed his mouth in defeat as they all headed to Izzy's car. Why do we always have to go in Izzy's car? Simon thought especially since Izzy would most likely be the one driving, even though she was too young to have a driver's licence, she did and this meant that they would most likely die in some horrible car accident with Izzy driving.
To Simon's surprise, Jem got in the driver's seat without any arguments from Izzy. At that Simon felt his jaw drop to the floor in surprise. Izzy never let anyone drive, even if it wasn't her car, so why did she let Jem drive with no argument what so ever?!
Simon just stood there as they all piled in to the too small Mercedes and only snapped out of his shock when Izzy shouted "Simon, we know there are five gorgeous girls and one, may I say, hot guy?" She paused then and looked at Jem who chuckled, with a slight blush, and said "You may,"
This made Simon scoff, Jem… hot?! Please! He thought in denial. They all laughed at Simon, as apparently he looked as pissed as he felt and as they would say, jealous. What do I have to be jealous of? Simon, once again, thought in denial.
"And one smoking guy," Izzy continued making Jem's blush intensify and, to try and hide this he hid his head in his hands, to which Izzy hugged his back, laughing.
"So stop staring and get in the car" Izzy once again continued and Simon got into the front because the girls were already squashed in the back, the car having three seats in the back and there being 5 of them. It was lucky that Tris and Katniss were incredibly skinny and Maia, Hazel and Izzy were all slim, otherwise, Simon thought, they would never have fit in there.
"So why is Jem driving?" Simon turned round in his seat to ask Izzy as he was genuinely curious. "Well, he can drive legally," Izzy started but Simon scoffed as he knew Izzy never cared about the law and whether it was legal to drive before as she had many times and she even isn't 18 yet. (A/N: which, by the way, is the legal age to drive in the UK)
"Secondly... well you'll find that one out when Jem actually starts the car," She said pointedly at Jem, who laughed and started the car.
"One word of advice," Jem said with a smirk.
"Stay alive!"
0.o.0
When they got to the hospital Simon realised there were a few reason why Izzy let Jem drive: he drove insanely fast, leaving Simon fear for his life, he did too many drifts and handbrake turns for Simon's liking and he drove exactly like Izzy, dangerously!
All of this left Simon trying not to throw up as they entered the hospital. The girls all giggled at Jem's driving, it was that or something he said, Simon couldn't tell as his ears were ringing.
They all walked up to the desk and Izzy said to the blonde nurse behind the desk "Can we see Dr Bane?" The nurse looked up at her sceptically, narrowing her eyes. Izzy matched the nurse's, quite uncalled for, glare.
After a few seconds of this death glare match, the nurse picked up the phone. "Magnus, there's someone here to see you," she said in a nasally, annoying voice. A few moments passed and the nurse put the phone to her chest.
"Unfortunately, Dr Bane is quite busy right now," She started but Izzy cut her off saying, "Tell him it's Alec Lightwood," Simon stared at Izzy in surprise, why would she do that?
The nurse, once again, narrowed her eyes but did what Izzy said and after about 10 seconds the nurse said to Simon's surprise "He'll be here as soon as possible,"
Finally it clicked when Magnus came running round the corner wearing leopard print leather trousers, a vest that pictured the sun in glitter and a white lab coat which was totally un-Magnus but was probably a necessity for the job.
Magnus' cat-like eyes scanned the room in excitement and, what Simon thought to be, love. And when he spotted Izzy his eyes filled with disappointment and his posture slumped.
"Come on guys, you're here to see spit-fire, right?" Magnus said trying to keep the disappointment and annoyance out of his voice, it looked that way to Simon anyway.
"Of course," Izzy replied and Magnus smirked saying, "I'm sorry there is only an Alec here to see me" He then gives a fake cough, smiling and continues "Sorry, I mean to see Annie," Simon scowled at the use of his nickname and Magnus laughed.
"Izzy, you have got to stop getting my hopes up by saying you're your brother, it is most cruel," Magnus said placing a hand over his heart and arching his back slightly as if in pain. "You wouldn't see us otherwise and then I'd have to deal with some other idiot doctor," Izzy defended.
Magnus just laughed and said "True true, anyway you can actually see Cris today," Simon's mouth turned into a smile. "So she hasn't had any relapses?" Katniss asked smiling but still had some concern on her features.
"Nope, not since Friday, although it does seem really quite since she can't talk," Magnus said jokingly, considering what he was actually talking about they couldn't help but crack a smile.
Magnus led them down an endlessly white corridor and Simon wondered how Magnus could know where to go as all the corridors they walked through looked the same. It might have been that Simon's mind was also on other things.
When they got to the room, Magnus swung the door open and Simon rushed to sit in one of the chairs next to her bed. He stared at her face, angelic in sleep and sighed. He'd remember the time when Cris fell asleep in his arms, he had spent most of that just looking at her not falling back to sleep. As creepy as that may sound, that's all that he wanted to do, just hold her and watch her breathing steady as she fell asleep.
That's what he wanted now.
Simon swept a wisp of her hair from out of her face, as Magnus said "I hope you don't mind but I have to stay here while you're here, just in case you know," Simon gave a small nod and Simon could sense Jem sitting down on the chair next to him.
Simon spares him a glance and he watches Jem, lightly tracing Cris palm with his finger. Simon has to clench his right fist in order not to punch Jem square in the face for touching her, when did I become the jealous type? He thought while twirling Cris' hair in-between his fingers.
"'Course that's fine, Magnus," Hazel said looking grave. Hazel was never good around hospitals, it was probably because when she was young she had a bad spell and they thought it was cancer. Luckily, it wasn't and whatever it was, was then cured. But Simon still felt bad as hospitals probably didn't bring her any good memories.
"Oh I forgot to ask you, does Cris have any brothers or male relations that I don't know of?" Magnus asked and Simon looked up at him with a weird expression on his face. He looked up from Cris to look at Izzy who had the same confusion and slight worry written clearly on her face.
"Magnus, what are you talking about?" Tris asks keeping her voice a scary calm.
"She doesn't have any family apart from us and her mum," Katniss said keeping her voice low and slow-paced. Magnus looked at them like he was right but didn't want to be.
"If she did have any family, she didn't tell us," Hazel said with sadness lacing her words. That couldn't have been true; Cris told Simon everything and Simon did the same – mostly. Simon couldn't even conceive the thought of Cris not telling him something: he didn't want to not know every perfect little detail about the girl he…
"Well a guy came in asking if he could see Cris," Magnus said interrupting his thoughts. And they all looked at each other then as if thinking the same thoughts. Jem being the one to voice those thoughts asked, "What did he look like?"
"Ummm" Magnus thought as if thinking of an acceptable answer. "Magnus, I swear on the Angel, if you can only describe him as hot, I'll tell Alec," Izzy stared down Magnus who blanched and held his hands up mumbling something under his breath that sounded like 'The guy wasn't hotter than Alec though so it's fine'
"Magnus please describe him," Maia said sounding exasperated. Magnus' eyes glazed over in memory as he reminisced, "Okay, so he had this gorgeous brown-black hair and his eyes were this beautiful shade of dark blue with a hint of green in the centre"
"Magnus!" Izzy screeched, appalled at his description. "Girl, he's hot but Alec is the man on fire," Magnus said dreamily with ten ton of sass that heavily coated his voice. What he said vaguely reminded Simon of Caesar Flickerman which made Simon shudder.
"Magnus, do continue and try not to make us throw up," Jem said with a slight smirk. Magnus pouted but continued, "Fine silver surfer, umm he had broad shoulders, a tight set of abs, uhh really tall like 6 something, square jaw line. He looked like he worked out a lot; huge biceps, six pack, probably even had a v-line!"
The girls almost gagged at this "Ewww, Magnus, we don't want to know," Izzy screeched covering her ears with her arms. Simon was pretty sure his face was contorted with disgust and even Jem looked faintly disgusted.
"What don't pretend you haven't talked about this stuff, I've heard you" Magnus stated and Izzy's face contorted.
Tris then blurts out, "Magnus, he was the guy who tried to kidnap Cris!"
