Hey :) I finally got the second chapter written and at the same time finally found the answer to the question 'what happens to your brain when you watch to many FRIENDS-compilations on youtube?'.

I want to thank the three reviewers very much :) and I simply took every follower as a 'Please continue'-Review, so I continued. And I also would answer the three very nice reviews if my brain wouldn't be mush from typing all day. Sorry.

Disclaimer: Not mine. / Let's get started. / Every typo is mine and mine alone!

Chapter 1

Was there a meal, that said 'You can take a shower, but please leave afterwards'?

Alec didn't know, so he simply wrote the words onto one plate of scrambled eggs with ketchup. But it turned out, that it were too many words for one plate, which led to the fact, that when Magnus got up and reached the kitchen he was greeted with a plate of scrambled eggs with the words 'Go away' written across it. With ketchup.

"You want me to move in?", he asked with a grin on his face while he sat down at the kitchen table in front of the 'Go away'-eggs. Alec, who was sitting across from him, looked up the other plate of scrambled eggs with the noticeable higher amount of ketchup on top.

"What?", he asked with a puzzled expression.

"Never seen 'The vow'?"

"I guess, that's a movie?"

"Nevermind." Magnus sighed and grabbed one of the three forks, that were lying scattered across the table. He started poking around in the eggs and Alec let his own gaze fall to the plate in front of himself.

"We should talk about last night-", Alec began, but was interrupted by the sound of a chair being pushed back. He looked up and watched Magnus walking away towards the sink.

"Sure, let me just get some water." His voice was calm, but Alec could see his shoulders tensing a little bit. It had been almost four years since their last night together and he was still able to see those little details. Or was it just because Magnus didn't wear a shirt? Would everybody else notice it as well?

It wasn't anything special, right?

Magnus watched the cold water as it slowly filled the glass in his hand. His head was still pounding and his throat had quite a lot of things in common with sandpaper, but it wasn't that bad. He hadn't been that drunk last night. He had just needed a little bit of extra courage. The courage to walk to Alec's apartment door. The courage to actually knock on said door. The courage to stay there till he opens and not run away as soon as he heard somebody moving inside.

He knew it was stupid and kind of pathetic, but ... it was him. The cute, emo kid, who wasn't exactly emo and simply looked stunning in black. The one guy, who he wanted to wake up to every single morning. The one guy, he had let get away after college. But, he was determined to make this right this time.

"How about, we just pretend last night didn't happen or at least was a very desperate one-time-thing and we carry on with our lifes?", Alec's voice sounded from the kitchen table.

So much for that.

Magnus hadn't had that much to drink last night before he had gotten of to Alec's apartment, but he still had been drunk enough, that he hadn't managed to make the little voice in his head, that started screaming 'I want you!' the moment Alec had opened the door, to just shut up. One thing had led to another and in the end they had ended up in the bedroom with decidedly less clothing on than in the beginning. It had been really nice and had painfully reminded Magnus of how much he had missed Alec. Maybe last night hadn't been that big of a mistake after all.

Alec watched Magnus' shoulder tense even more, then the taller man took a deep breath and his shoulders were a bit more relaxed again. He almost got lost in the movement of the other man's muscles underneath his smooth skin. Alec's fingers itched to run across his skin again, to feel the shudders his touch could elicit. He wanted to trace every line ... and STOP!

"You know, I figured you'd say something like that", Magnus began and finally turned around again. He leaned back against the sink and took a big gulp from the glass in his hand. After that he placed the glass next to the sink and crossed his arms in from of his chest. Maybe, I should get him a shirt, Alec thought, but that thought was interrupted when Magnus started talking again. "and that is the reason, I already prepared a well-defined answer for it, that portrays the feelings I harbor towards this whole situation quite fittingly."

Alec nodded slowly. "And that answer would be?"

Magnus cleared his throat. Back in college he had been known for his unmatched ability to simply talk whoever was dumb enough to oppose him or his opinion into submission. He had a way with words that Alec had always envied him for, well, only when it was about talking. Alec sucked at talking, but when it came to writing there had been nobody he couldn't bring to tears with his short-stories ... or simply make them run away screaming on the top of their lungs. Magnus included, but the running away part had never quite worked with him.

"No."

"What?"

Magnus knit his eyebrows and pressed his lips into a thin line. Looking like this he was the incarnation of the word 'determination'. Alec gulped.

"No, I don't want to pretend nothing has happened because, well, it has. I want it to mean something, to be the start of something. And no, I don't want to just walk away the next morning. I want to stay." With the last word he had reached the table and was now staring Alec dead in the eye, who currently felt like a deer caught in the headlights. He finally managed to clear his throat and ask with only a slightly high-pitched voice.

"Do-do I get an elaboration of that answer?"

Magnus raised one eyebrow. Elaborate? Why? He had spent hours to come up with those lines until he was finally convinced that they would convey the very core of his feeling for the man in front of him. But obviously he was wrong ... or planning on dating a writer just turned out to be more difficult than he had expected.

"That was my elaboration."

Alec tilted his head a look of utter confusion on his face. He was so cute, when he was confused.

"Of what?"

"Of the 'No'."

Alec took a deep breath and ran his fingers through his hair. A few seconds of very uncomfortable silence passed.

"Magnus", he looked up at the taller man whose eyebrow was still raised. "Why is this suddenly such a big deal for you? We had plenty of these nights during college and you never had a problem with getting up the next morning and returning to your girlfriend."

The girlfriend, that had actually only been there on very rare occasions whenever she had managed to get back from another guy's bed before him. How did that relationship ever work? Maybe it had been more of a 'mutual understanding' that had kept Camille and Magnus together. At least Magnus' ego refused to think that he had ever been really in love with that ... quite mean person.

"That's right, but things are different now."

Now it was Alec's turn to raise an eyebrow in disbelief.

"What?", he asked dryly, "did she dump you?"

That hurt ... a little bit ... very much. Magnus cleared his throat and tried not to flinch under the angry glare of those two blue orbs he had been dreaming about the past few months. They had kind of hunted him from hotel to motel and through day and night. And now they were staring him down despite the fact, that he was the one standing and Alec was the one sitting. How quickly things could change.

"Well, if you are asking if we are still dating, then the answer is 'no' -"

"So, she did dump you?"

Damn, he was good.

"Yes, okay, she dumped me, but she dumped me about a year and a half ago and-"

"And you finally got bored enough to remember your stupid fling from college?" Alec angrily jumped up from the chair. "Did you really think-"

"I didn't think back then, okay? That is my whole dilemma, Alec, I didn't think about what an amazing person you are and how happy I am whenever I am with you and-"

"We only had sex, there was nothing more", Alec hissed. he clenched his fists and crossed his arms in front of his chest, but it seemed more to be some kind of precaution, so he wouldn't throw something at Magnus or try to strangle him. "You didn't know me back then and you still don't know anything about me. So why don't you just get lost like you always did."

Calm down, Magnus thought. Don't hit him. Don't hit him. Don't. Throw. The. Fork. His right hand twitched. Not the glass either.

The silence that followed these words was thick, cold and heavy. The worst part of the whole situation was, that Alec actually was kind of right. Well, right now Magnus knew a lot about him - birthday, middle name, favorite color, current profession, favorite restaurant, name of last boyfriend and many more - but the truth was that he hadn't acquired that knowledge from talking to Alec. Magnus was good with computers and had actually earned the money for his trip to New York as a hacker. A very good one and everything he knew right now, did he know because he hadn't respected Alec's privacy. Once again, that wasn't the way to start a relationship or even the talk about a possible relationship, but he had been going crazy about this guy. That and he had wanted to make sure he was single, then one thing let to another and by the end of the day Magnus had done a complete background check.

Yeah, he definitely wouldn't tell Alec that right now. Maybe tomorrow, or next week, if he was still alive by then. Magnus took another deep breath.

"Listen", he said with the calmest voice he could manage, "I made mistakes in the past, but I really like you-" Alec opened his mouth to interject. "-don't question my feelings, it took me long enough to figure them out myself-" Alec closed his mouth again, but he kept glaring daggers at Magnus nonetheless. "And all I am asking of you is to give me a chance to prove them to you."

Another while of highly uncomfortable silence passed. Alec pursed his lips and Magnus wanted to kiss them, but he successfully restrained himself from jumping over the table.

"Prove them?"

"Exactly." Magnus nodded with - as he hoped - the most sincere look on his face that he ever had. "And if you say no, then we will just write this off as drunk sex, that didn't mean anything." With a pointed look at Alec he added. "But still happened."

Alec chewed on his lower lip. "Just drunk sex?", he asked to make sure, he had gotten it right. Magnus nodded once again and Alec was pretty sure that he hadn't seen him look so absolutely sincere since the day somebody had asked him, if he would really go out for the kill if anybody ever would take his glitter from him again.

"Just two ... friends-" That word actually seemed to bring him physical pain. "-being drunk and fooling around." And after that Alec was sure, that the other man was indeed enduring physical pain just from saying those words out loud. He could see him practically squirming. But what scared him most was the fact that he liked it.

Magnus Bane had been his (seemingly) unobtainable college-crush. He was funny, self-confident and despite the fact that he was very open and obvious about his sexuality he had managed it that people respected or at least ignored him. Something Alec had never gotten quite done. No matter how hard he had tried to fuse with his surroundings there had always been that one person who noticed him and thought 'hey, let's go, make fun of the loner over there.' Not, that he couldn't hold himself in a fight, but it was still very annoying. Then that one night the fight behind the history-building had happened and Alec was just frustrated and almost done with the while world. He just wanted to quit college and try something else. It was that moment, that Magnus had found him, had kissed him and now that exact same man was standing in front of him and ... begging for a second chance? Should he risk it?

"Yeah and I have to say, that for someone who is hungover you're actually looking good. What did you have last night? I had, uhm, Long Island Ice Tea aaaand judging by the look you are giving me, you don't really want to talk about it." He closed his mouth and pressed his lips into a thin line. Alec didn't really know, what kind of look he was giving him because he didn't intend to give him a certain look. All he wanted was to be somewhere else, even his sister's birthday party had been a more pleasant experience. (He was sure, Isabelle had had fun like, but he as the responsible older brother had had one hell of a night; with a sprained wrist the next morning.) When it came to the point of being drunk in that drunk-sex-story Magnus was offering Alec found himself confronted with his guilty conscience. He hadn't been drunk.

"I had a beer."

Magnus looked like a deer in the headlights. This morning was just full of surprises.

"What?"

While Alec's mind screamed 'LIE! LIE! LIE! LIE!', his mouth decided to completely mess up his life.

"I only had a beer last night", he said and it wasn't much more than a whisper, but as there was no other sound in the room Magnus could still clearly hear him.

"WHAT?" It didn't stop him from screaming out loud. "A BEER?! ONE BEER?!"

Magnus couldn't believe it and he couldn't believe it even more as the whole range of that little fact dawned on him. Alec hadn't been drunk last night and it still had happened.

"Oh my god, I am so definitely staying."

"What? Why?"

"Well, if you don't happen to sleep with ever drunk man that appears on your doorstep - which I very much hope you don't - then you canT deny that there is still at least physical attraction and with that given, one can build up a relationship."

He felt his determination to make this work reach a whole new level.

"Oh yeah?", Alec challenged. "What tells me that you aren't here just because of your physical attraction to me? Once you get bored with me and my somehow attracting looks, you're going to leave anyway." He leaned onto his hands on top of the table and looked Magnus dead in the eye. The other man copied his gesture and suddenly their faces were very close to each other.

"I am here because I want you and by that I don't mean only your body." Magnus' eyes trailed from Alec's eyes to his lips, following the line of his throat till reaching the collar of his shirt, which due to the current posture allowed quite a look at his naked chest beneath the fabric. "Though I have to say, that I don't understand how you still can be so insecure about your looks."

As he bit his lower lip Alec was reminded of the sensation of Magnus' lips brushing against the skin of his chest, leaving open-mouthed kisses there on the away down - Alec almost had to slam his head against something very concrete to get rid of those thoughts. The fact, that they were actual memories and not some lunatic fantasies didn't make it much easier. He sighed heavily and Magnus started grinning like a child on Christmas eve.

"Fine", he muttered and made sure to look straight at the table as he continued, "I'll give you the chance to prove your ... feelings." That word just sounded wrong in the current situation. Alec raised his gaze again and was directly confronted with a pair of shining green eyes. How could eyes be so green?

"Do you have a place to stay right now?"

If he recalled correctly Magnus had moved to France after graduating from college.

"I've been staying at a hotel for the past couple of nights."

"Okay, you can stay here, but-" Alec raised one hand to interject Magnus' happy squealing right from the start. "- only under two conditions."

Magnus stood up straight again and nodded slowly. Alec took a deep breath. The other man wanted to prove himself, very well, but this time, they would play the game according to Alec's rules. He held up his index finger. "First one: The deadline for my next book is on August 26th. Till then, no sex."

Magnus' eyebrows almost disappeared into his hairline, but he didn't say anything though Alec could clearly see that he was dying to complain. Okay, so far so good.

"Second one", Alec held up a second finger and with the next condition he felt a bit selfish, but it was too late to turn back now. "For the same amount of time, no makeup."

"What? Come on, now you are just trying to cripple me", Magnus exclaimed and threw his hands up in the air. Alec smirked.

"Already giving up?"

Magnus looked at Alec for a long time. He took in his gleaming blue eyes, his disheveled ink-black hair, his soft pink lips which were currently stretched into the most adorable crooked smile he had ever seen. He reminisced about how it felt to have his body pressed flush against his own, to hear Alec's chuckle against his lips, to have his breath tickling his own skin, how much fun it was to playfully tease the younger man. At that a grin appeared on Magnus' lips ad even without looking in a mirror, he knew that his expression had a slight craziness mixed within.

Alec's eyes followed him, confusion showing in those deep blue orbs, as he rounded the table and finally stopped right in front of the writer. Magnus thoughtfully rubbed his chin with one finger before softly tracing the line of Alec's jaw like he had done that night five years ago.

"Okay, sweetheart, I accept your conditions", he whispered. Alec for a second seemed honestly surprised about that. Magnus' grin grew even wider. He lifted Alec's chin a little bit and pinned him between him and the table. Only a few inches were left between their faces and Magnus took great pleasure in the fact that Alec's breath hitched a bit. He closed the last gap between them.

Suddenly he was back in the night behind the history-building, drenched by the rain and burning up from the inside at the same time. Alec's lips were moving against his. He drowned in the feeling as he had back then. People always talked about tasting something while kissing, but Magnus could only think of describing that sensation as feeling. When he kissed Alec he felt warmth, he felt rain against his skin, that washed his burdens away and he felt the need to make this boy who was now a grown man his own.

Slowly he ran his tongue across Alec's lower lip and sighed as he felt the other's lips part slightly. The temperature was rising between them. Alec moaned softly as Magnus' tongue brushed against his. Magnus opened his eyes a bit and could't help but smile against the younger man's lips. Alec's cheeks were flushed a delicious scarlet red. It was obvious to Magnus who had already shared numerous kisses with him, that his brain was fighting against his body's desires. He really hoped the latter would win.

Magnus decided to press his luck. He let his arms slide down from Alec's shoulders, tracing the sides of his chest and when he finally reached the hem of his shirt he let his hands wander under the fabric to tease the heated skin beneath. But as soon as he tried to lift the shirt a little, he felt a firm grip around both wrists. Magnus smirked into the kiss. He lightly bit Alec's lower lip and elicited a soft whimper. The grip around his wrists loosened slightly, but got form again as soon as Alec finally broke the kiss. Magnus still didn't see a reason to remove his hands from underneath his shirt.

"Stop it", came Alec's breathless command which due to the breathlessness kind of lost a bit of its impact. "I said-"

"I know, what you said", Magnus mumbled. He let his lips brush against the side of Alec's neck. "I accepted your conditions." He placed light kisses on the soft skin and made his way up to his earlobe. "But I will make you regret them."

With that he took a step back and let his gaze wander across the room. It was big and at the same time a kitchen and a living room.

"I guess, I'll be sleeping on the couch?"

That is my first kissing scene and I pretty much hope, that it didn't suck that much. :) If it did, please don't kill me.
Please leave a review, tell me what you liked and what not.

The story will mainly focus on Magnus and Alec living together and maybe later on, there will be also bits with Helen and Aline. But I don't know about that yet. :3

Bye Pumpkin

P.S.: There will be no lemon, because I can't write them.