Story: "Just Alec, now."

Chapter: 07 – The other side

Rating Story: NC-17

Rating Chapter: R

Warning(s): AU/AH, mature content, swearing, language

Pairings: Malec, Will/Jem (TID)

Disclaimer: Cassandra Clare thought of the wonderful world of the mortal instruments and infernal devices. I just play with the characters and change a bit of their life.

AN: Dear readers, followers & favers: thank you.

"So what are you really mad about? That you found them sleeping on the same bed? Because that had happened before. Or that they were cuddling on said bed? I really don't know what your problem is, William."

Jem sighed and leaned back against the head rest of his seat. After four nights at the hospital he was more than ready to go home and get well there. He didn't know why the nurses and doctors were telling their patients to rest and "get well soon" with all the illness around. He made sure that all his patients were released soon so they could go home and get well were their family was and no cold, of antiseptics smelling corridors and death just waiting around the corner. Will was starring at the street driving them home slowly - for Will's standards at least. The dark haired man was bitting his lips.

"I don't know. Alec is still so new to all this and Magnus... You know Magnus. I don't know if he's over all the shit that had happened in his life."

"Alec may be new to a loving and accepting family but he is clearly not new to being gay. And Magnus needs someone as Alec in his life. You can't be sure that there is more than friendship between them."

Will snorted at Jem's last words. "You know as well as I that there is more to their feelings. You have seen them looking at each other. Those secret glances you were giving me when you thought I wasn't watching? That's how they are looking at one another."

"And that is so bad? That Magnus may has found the person he was waiting for? That Alec feels comfortable in his own skin, comfortable enough to fall in love and not feel guilty about?"

"No... Yes. I don't know. Of course I want them to be happy. But they are so young and what happens when one of them doesn't feel what the other feels? Where does that leave them or us? We can't take sides and we very well can't send one of them away. We are a family - as confusing as that may be."

Will turned left and took the gate way to the basement garage. He parked the car in the assigned spot and stopped fully. The dark-haired man got Jem's suitcase out of the boot while the gray-haired man made his way out of the car carefully not to hit his head on the roof of the car.

"It's your turn by the way." Will closed the door behind Jem and locked the car.

"My turn for what exactly?"

"The talk. I had it with Magnus and I'm not going through that again."

"Oh just because Magnus showed you that he could deep-throat that purple fake phallus, doesn't mean that Alec is going to do something similar or that Magnus would do something like that in front of Alec. William you are so irrational."

Huffing Jem snatched his suitcase from his partner walking faster to the elevator. He pushed the button and waited for the polished doors to open. Will was slowly making his way over to him. He took the suitcase from the gray-haired man rubbing his partner's neck affectionately.

"They are two teenagers, William. I think that could warrant two adults being present while they get the talk."

The dark-haired man pecked Jem on his cheek.

"Thank you."

James just rolled his eyes and entered the elevator, pushing the button to their floor.

When the doors opened again both men were greeted with the open door to their loft and the school bags lying on the floor with the boots and coats the teenagers had put on this morning.

"Why do I have a bad feeling about the clothing strewn around our entrance and the open door?"

James boxed Will on his arm earning a satisfying 'Ouch!' from his partner.

"Alexander? Magnus?"

"Bedroom!" came the muffled reply from the teenagers' room down the hall. The older men walked over and Jem - being the polite person he was - knocked twice before trying the handle. The door was locked and they could hear frantic scrambling from the inside. Will - being not as polite as Jem - hammered against the door and yelled at the teens to open up and that they "should better be clothed or else!". Moments later a flushed Alec opened the door smiling meekly at his guardians. His hair was ruffled and the buttons on the shirt he was wearing were buttoned the wrong way. The blue-eyed teen was bitting his lip looking unsure of himself and - for lack of a better word - throughly fucked. Will's eyes turned to ice.

"Get dressed and meet us in the living room. Jem and I have to talk to you - both of you."

The dark-haired man stormed away and took the suitcase to his and Jem's bedroom. The gray-haired man looked after him and sighed. Alec was still standing next to James looking at the empty place where Will had been standing just seconds before.

"Did we do something wrong?" The older man turned to look at his blue-eyed charge. He stroked a finger over Alec's cheek that had a fresh scratch mark on it.

"Not as that. He would have been happier if you had waited a little longer. We would have been happier."

Confused the teen furrowed his brows.

"Waited with what?"

"Being intimate."

"I... We didn't. I swear. I wouldn't do that. Not yet." Alec's cheeks flushed a very bright red as he nibbled on his bottom lip. "Why would you think that?"

"Well for starters your shirt is not buttoned the right way, your cheek has a scratch mark and you look like you have just rolled out of bed."

"Oh. Well there is an explanation to that."

The older man sighed and patted the teen's hair. "There better is. Tell Magnus to get dressed and come with you. I'm making some tea. Heaven knows I may need it."

With those words the older man walked into the kitchen leaving the blue-eyed teen frowning at the entrance to his bedroom. Alec walked inside closing the door behind him. Minutes later as the tea was steeping in the teapot, the older men were waiting for their charges to emerge from their bedroom.

"Do you think we should put Alec's cot into the office?"

Jem thought over William's words. Of course that may be a solution but not for too long.

"They would just sneak in the other's room. Better to let them have their privacy and let them know that we trust them enough to let them stay together."

The door to the teen's bedroom opened and the teenagers walked towards their guardians sitting down on the sofa opposite the armchairs the older men were sitting in. Alec was still as flushed but he had applied a band aid to his scratch mark and buttoned his shirt the right way. Magnus was watching his guardians with narrowed eyes pressing a bundle of towels to his chest. The younger teen was bitting his lip looking from the older men to Magnus and the bundle in his arms.

"So. Alec told me what you told him and what you think may have happened here. And I have to say that I'm hurt." Will was gripping the armrest of his armchair hard. "I didn't know that you trust me so little. Even you, Jem."

"You are too young to have sex!"

Alec was blushing furiously, but Magnus kept his cool.

"And here I thought we had already established that it is already too late, William."

"Oh don't give me that shit, Magnus. After all what has happened with your mother, after all what has happened to you, living with him after he found out that you were no longer a virgin, do you really think I would let that slip? I'm your guardian and I think I have a right to know what goes on in here. And I think I have the right to forbid you two to be intimate."

"I will be 17 at the end of November. Alec is 15. In New York there are lots of kids younger than us in relationships whose parents don't give a fuck about what they do and with whom they are doing it."

"I'm not those people, Magnus, and I will never be." Will's voice was strained as if he was still sitting by pure stubbornness alone and not slapping Magnus like he wished he would.

"Then trust me. Trust me enough to do the right thing for Alec and me." The older teen placed the bundle of towels onto Alec's lap and walked over to Will who was refusing to meet the golden eyes. "Trust me enough to ask the question you wanted to ask when you hammered against our door and trust me enough to believe that I would tell you the truth." He placed his hand over one of Will's which was griping the material of the armrest so tight that it could burst any moment. "Ask me, Will."

The older man cleared his throat looking Magnus directly in his eyes. "Did you and Alec have sex?"

"No. We didn't and don't plan to in the near future."

Relief rushed through the dark-haired man and he closed his eyes resting his head on the back of his armchair.

"Then why was your door locked and why was Alec not dressed properly and where does his scratch mark come from?" Jem who was pouring tea into the mugs standing on the coffee table was looking at the younger teen and the bundle on his lap that was - fidgeting?

The blue-eyed teen was disentangling the bundle on his lap while Magnus sat down beside him.

"First of all I want you two to promise us not to get too angry, okay?"

Will was rubbing a hand over his face. "I promise." James just nodded waiting for Alec to be done.

From the bundle of towels emerged a small fluffy white cat with blue eyes and a small black dot on its back. It was looking around rubbing his head against Alec's chest and walking over to Magnus trying to nibble at the older teen's fingers.

"Isn't he the cutest?"

The kitten jumped on the coffee table knocking Magnus' tea mug over onto the carpet staining it with the herbal blend. Jem gathered the small cat into his arms looking it over.

"It's a boy. Where did you find him?"

The teenagers who were trying to rescue the carpet and moping the floor and table with paper rolls, looked up at the gray-haired man who was petting the kitten on his lap.

"Behind the school. Alec was waiting for me to go home. We heard some noises behind the school building. Some kids had just dropped something on the ground and when we looked we found a small cardboard box with him inside. He was dirty and we had to give him a bath and that is why we had to lock the door as the little devil tried to escape. In the end we were soaked and Chairman Meow had scratched Alec and then you came home before we had a chance to clear the chaos."

"Chairman Meow?" Three pairs of eyes were trained on Magnus.

"Well, he does need a name and I thought it was fitting."

"Who says we are keeping him?"

Magnus looked at Will with big innocent eyes and a pout on his lips. The older man sighed heavily.

"We will make some posters and if nobody wants him back within the next two weeks we will keep him."

"And you're not saying that because you feel guilty for screaming at me and Alec?"

"When did I ever feel guilty about that? Normally you earned that yourself."

With that the older man stood up and took the sodden paper rolls from Alec to throw them away in the kitchen.

"Now come and help me cook dinner."

"All this fuss about a tiny cat."

Will and Jem were lying in bed. The dark-haired man was looking at the ceiling his hands folded behind his head, James was reading a novel next to him.

"A cute tiny cat that makes them happy."

Will turned to his partner. The gray-haired man had closed his book and pulled the blanket up to his shoulders.

"Do you think I overreacted?"

"Hmm... I don't know. Seeing the coats on the floor I was at first worried that they had been kidnapped. Then when Alec opened the door all ruffled and flushed, I thought as well that they had been intimate. I just think that's the other side of being a guardian. Not only the fun with having kids but also acting like a parent with the best interest in your mind."

Jem closed his eyes slipping closer to Will, lying with his head on his partner's chest.

"Fun part? I'm still looking for any fun coming from that guardianship."

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