Sorry it took me so long to post this :/

Chapter 3

I rang the doorbell for the third time, glad that Alec wasn't here to stop me like he had the first time we'd come here. I'd half expected him to follow me but he didn't. I guess he didn't have enough faith in me to know that my plan would work. Not that it was much of a plan. I was just going to tell Magnus the truth.

After a few more moments, the door slowly opened to reveal the warlock in his usual fabulousness. A black sleeveless vest over a fishnet shirt and tight, black leather pants. Well the fishnet and leather were expected, but black? Since when did Magnus where so much black?

"Hello, Miss Isabelle. I'm sorry to tell you that whichever of your fellow Shadowhunters needs my help, I'm not in the mood so you might as well-" He started closing the door and I had to stick my foot out to keep it open.

"Magnus, I'm pretty sure that once I tell you which Shadowhunter I'm here for, you will reconsider." I couldn't help the coldness that slid into my voice. I was pretty pissed at him for hurting my brother.

He let out a sigh and opened the door for me to walk through. "Look, Isabelle. Alec and I are over. There's nothing more to be said."

I ignored him and walked past him farther into the apartment. When I got to the living room, I went over to the pink couch and sat down. Magnus stood in the doorway and watched while I started to examine my nails. They were so hard to take care of with all the fighting I had to do but still I tried.

"So what is it going to take to get you leave?" he asked, walking to stand in front of me.

"What's it going to take to get you and Alec back over here?" I countered, still looking at my nails.

"I already told you that we're over. I doubt Alec wants anything else to do with me," he said.

"How would you know what Alec wants?" I started to tell him about Alec's moping but I didn't want him to know it was that bad just yet.

Magnus sighed again and walked out of the room. I was afraid he was going to avoid me so I followed him. He went to the kitchen, straight to the refrigerator and got out some liquid with a reddish brown twinge. After he poured himself a glass, he turned around and saw me eyeing it which disgust.

"This is my happy drink. I don't think you'd want any. I'm not sure your system would like it too much," he grinned and started to look more like the Magnus I first met.

"What is it?" I couldn't help but ask when he took a sip.

"Doesn't matter. You're not getting any." He leaned back against the counter. "So why are you still here?"

"What are you talking about? I'm here for my brother, of course," I said heatedly. How could he sit here and talk so casually about this? I was sure that he'd be just as broken up about this as Alec.

"I already told you that there's nothing more to say." I felt like screaming at him, but I couldn't do that just yet. I had to get him talking.

"Magnus, I just have one question. I came all this way and I'm not leaving without you giving me a serious answer," I said firmly. He raised an eyebrow at me but didn't say anything. "I want to know why."

"Why what?" he asked, too innocently. I never understood how Alec put up with his attitude.

"You know exactly what I'm talking about." I took a deep breath to calm myself. "I want to know why you broke up with Alec."

"How do you know I broke up with him? Maybe he broke up with me."

"Please, Magnus. Alec showed up at the Institute crying that morning. He told me that you told him to leave," I said, studying his face for the slightest reaction but there wasn't one.

"Well I thought it was time both of us had a little break," he said.

"A break?" I asked. This was what I told my boyfriends when I was tired of them and wanted someone new. Surely this wasn't the case with Alec and Magnus. The two had been through hell for each other. That kind of bond wasn't something a person ever just got tired of.

I realized that Magnus wasn't the type of person to just give someone exactly what they wanted so I decided to attack him the way that I thought would work best.

"You know Alec is devastated," I told him and waited for some of that carelessness to be wiped from his face. I knew how Magnus felt for my brother, even if he didn't want to admit it. "He cried most of the day when he came back to the Institute. He's barely speaks to anyone. He doesn't eat and he hasn't set foot outside the Institute since he came back." By the time I was finished I was pretty upset again. I was trying to take deep breaths to calm myself but it wasn't working. The only thing that could have made me feel better would have been seeing Magnus's face fall and him crying like my brother but it didn't happen. He just straightened himself from the counter he was leaning on and walked over to where I was standing.

"Miss Isabelle, I think it's time you left."

"No."

"Yes.""No," I said more forcefully. "I'm not going anywhere."

"I let you into my house, Little Miss Shadowhunter, because I like you. You're about to wear out your welcome," he said tightly.

"Are you threatening me, warlock?" There was no way he was going to throw me out of there, even if it is his place. "I'm sure the Clave wouldn't want to hear about something like that."

"I don't give a damn what your Clave says. Besides, I doubt they would do anything since you're only here as a favor to your gay brother." He smiled smugly, knowing that he was probably right. Of course the Clave didn't exactly disapprove of Alec's sexuality, but they weren't too excited to find out about it.

"I'm not here as a favor to Alec. I'm here on my own accord. He didn't even want me to interfere, but since when do I listen to my brother?" I asked jokingly, trying to lighten the mood. When I looked up at Magnus his eyes were staring directly at mine and his mouth was slightly open.

"Magnus?"

"What did you just say?" He still looked dumbstruck.

"I said I came here on my own. Alec didn't want me to do anything."

"So he didn't send you? He didn't tell you to come?" he asked.

"No. Magnus, what's the big deal?" I asked. "Why do you look so freaked out?"

"I thought Alec sent you here," he said more to himself than to me. "This isn't going the way it's supposed to."

"The way it's supposed to? Magnus, what are you talking about?"

He looked up at me like he'd just remembered I was there.

"You have to go. Now."

"Magnus, we've already been through this. I'm not going anywhere until you-"

"I'm serious this time. You need to leave." He grabbed my arm and started pulling me towards the door. I started to dig my heels into the floor or snatch my arm away but the look on his face made me decide against it. He seemed to be concentrating so hard on something that he was getting crinkles between his eyebrows.

"Magnus, are you alright?" I asked when he got me to the door."Yeah, I just realized that things aren't going the way I planned. You have to go so I can fix it." He still didn't seem to be talking to me. The frantic look in his eyes, told me that he wasn't going to be making much more sense today so I just opened the front door and walked out.

I walked slowly on the way home, trying to think of what to tell Alec. I'd told him that I was going to fix this but I couldn't figure out how. Magnus seemed to be doing just fine, but I still wasn't sure if I believed it. I knew Magnus loved my brother and to just throw him away, for any reason, would be completely unlikely.

But what about that episode at the end of our little meeting? He'd freaked out and said something about some plans that went wrong. Huh….maybe he was losing his mind being without Alec.

Well there it is! How'd you like it?

From what I'm planning right now, there will only be one more chapter left. Aren't you guys excited to know how it's going to end? Don't you want to know what's wrong with Magnus? Well review so I can post the next part!! :)