"I just don't see why I can't meet him! You met my mother, and that wasn't exactly a success, now was it? So why can't I meet him?"

Magnus was standing by the kitchen counter, pouring boiling water into two cups with a tea leaf in each. Once he'd poured the water in, he put a teaspoon honey in each and walked over to the kitchen table where Alec was sitting. He sighed and sat down across from Alec.

"You wouldn't want to meet him, Alexander! He's not a good man, not only in the way he's not accepting homosexuality. I mean it, Alec."

"Why don't you ever talk about your past? I don't know anything about you from before we met! About your family! Your friends!"

"You have no use of my past."

"Oh, so I can't know? We're dating now, aren't you supposed to trust me?!"

"I do trust you!"

Alec got up and starting pacing back and forth in the room. His whole body was tense and he was looking anywhere else but Magnus.

"You sure have a fun way of showing it!"

"Well, what do you want to know then?"

"How do you know Scott? You never told me that."

Magnus paused and hesitated shortly. He hadn't expected that question. He looked down into his cup of tea. "Do you really want to know that?"

Alec nodded.

"I met him about 8 years ago. He was the first person I fell in love with. Eventually we… got together. I was so happy with him. But I wasn't enough for him, that much was obvious. He wasn't happy with me. And after a while, I… I ended up cheating on him, with his best friend and ex boyfriend. I broke the guy's heart. And my own." Magnus glanced up at him. "Are you happy now? Is that what you wanted to hear? God, Alec, sometimes you can be so … insensitive. So mean, you know that?" Magnus wiped away a tear that had run down his cheek and got up. "Leave it." He walked out the room and into the bedroom. Jem had left the day before, but the guest room was still Jem's to Magnus.

Just as Alec was about to go after him and sort it out, the lights in his flat went out. He sighed heavily, made his way to the bedroom and looked at the silhouette on the bed. "I'm going to check it out. The cupboard with the fuses and stuff is out by the stairs, by the top flat. It won't be long, I guess." Then he left the bedroom and out to the stairs, walking up to the cupboard. Only, when he got there, there was already someone standing there.

"How's it looking? Nothing too serious, I hope?"

The guy looked at Alec. They couldn't see much of each other – just the silhouette. Alec didn't recognize him by that, so he had no idea who he was talking to. The guy turned and looked back into the cupboard.

"Nah, it should be pretty easy to fix. Just flip this switch, push this button, and back to the switch, and …. Voila!" he said as the lights switched back on and finally Alec could get a good look at him. He had green hair and he was kind of pale. He wasn't exactly tall, but not short either. And the lop-sided grin seemed to be in a permanent state on his face. It fell a bit when he looked at Alec and saw his tears, though.

"I don't think I've seen you before... What flat are you?"

"Oh, I don't live here. I was on my way to see someone when the lights went out, and I figured I'd take a look. But what's wrong with you? You don't look too happy."

Alec forced a small smile on his face. "It's nothing. I had a fight with my boyfriend. He's in my flat right now, but I had to go check this out so… here I am."

"Here you are. What flat is that?"

"D5, why?"

"So your boyfriend is Magnus Bane, I take it? And that must mean you're Alec Lightwood?"

"How do you know that?"

"I'm sorry, let me introduce myself. My name is Ragnor Fell; I'm one of Magnus' friends."

"His friend? Well, maybe you can talk him into some sense, then."

"What'd he do now? What's he gotten himself into?"

Alec started explaining things while they walked down the stairs. "Well… Years ago, my parents threw me out of the house, because I'm gay. I just told them, and the first thing they told me was to get out of their house. I've only seen them once or twice since then. A few days ago, my mother asked my brother about me and asked if he thought I'd be up for dinner with her, my brother, my sister and partners, and Magnus too. So we went today, and it was just… a disaster. I didn't want him meeting my mother the first time to be like that. But that's beside the point. When we got back, we starting talking, and I asked if I could meet his parents… He said no to me meeting his dad, and his mom is dead, so… And I started nagging him about never talking about the past. And I found out that he used to date the boyfriend I left to be with him, and he called me mean, and…"

"Wait; hold on, he actually told you that?"

"Yeah, why?"

Ragnor opened the door to Alec's flat and they stepped inside as he answered. "He must be damn crazy about you," he said with a grin. The next thing Alec knew, Magnus stepped out of the bedroom and had crossed the space between them and captured Alec's lips in a kiss. It was like he hadn't even seen Ragnor. He just pulled Alec closer against him, wrapping his arms around him. Eventually he broke off the kiss, but his lips still just touching Alec's. Another moment and he pulled farther back and looked Alec in the eyes.

"Please don't hate me, I'm so sorry, darling, please, please, don't hate me-"

"What are you going on about? Of course I don't hate you, Magnus, I'm just… upset. Now, why didn't you tell me Ragnor was coming?"

Magnus looked at Ragnor and smiled. Then he looked back at Alec and let his arms fall back to his sides. "He just comes around whenever he feels like it. He has an amazing ability to track down people, home or not."

Alec nodded and sighed. He looked at Ragnor. "Well, if you want you can have the guest room. I don't' care," he said and walked into the bedroom. He sat by his desk, resting his elbows on the desk and hiding his face in his hands. He sighed. After a minute or two, Magnus came in and sat on the bed.

"You know how much I care about you, right?"

"Don't be silly, Magnus. You don't care about me that much. We've been together for two days."

"I've been crazy about you since the first day we met, Alec. And God, your eyes… I could stare into those eyes for hours. I could kiss every centimeter of your gorgeous body. Listen to every little sound you make. Listen to you talk for hours. Watch you sit and read or write for hours. Alexander, it's everything you do. Every teeny tiny little thing about you drives me crazy, because all I want to do is stare at you, listen to you, hold you, touch you. I want to do anything I can to make you happy, to see you smile. I'm falling for you, so fast, and it scares the shit out of me, Alexander. I'm not used to feeling like this! I'm not used to being willing to do anything for someone I've only known a few months. I think I might l-"

"Don't say it, Magnus. Don't say you love me. That's too much, it's been too days, and Magnus, I… oh God. No one's ever talked about me like that before."

"People should tell you things like this on a daily basis."

"People don't care about me enough to tell me things like that daily."

"Alec, I told you, I don't just care about you, I love you!"

Alec closed his eyes when he said the word 'love'. He didn't know if he could take it that far yet. He knew he loved Magnus. He'd known for a while now. But he couldn't say it. Not yet. He was still trying to cope without Scott. Instead, he said, "I'm so lucky to have you, Mags." There was a short silence as Magnus worked out what to say. He hadn't expected Alec to say I love you back, but it still stung a bit. He got up and walked over to him, resting a hand on Alec's shoulder.

"Not even half as lucky as I am to have you, lover. Come in to the living room if you want to, yeah? I'll go talk to Ragnor."

He got up and left the bedroom, leaving Alec alone with his thoughts.

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