Disclaimer: And once again, I own no one :(
Authors Note: Does this count as a story or an essay? It's a very fine line I find.
Jealous
People always talk about whether or not someone is the 'jealous type', as if there are some people who get jealous just because that's the type of person they are and others who never get jealous because, again, it's in their nature, but Magnus has been around a long time, and he knows that everyone is capable of Jealousy, he'd seen it in so many of the men and women he'd dated, he had seen it in Alec and he knows Alec had seen it in him.
Magnus had shown off his jealousy long before he and Alec had even made their relationship official, right from the start Magnus had seen the way Alec looked at Jace, the way he loved him in a way that he, at that stage, had not loved Magnus and Magnus Bane was jealous, very jealous. But he got over it, he realised probably at the same time as Alec, that what Alec 'felt' for Jace wasn't real and that had ended that.
Then there was Alec who was jealous of Camille, jealous that she knew more of Magnus than he did, jealous that she would live forever, like Magnus, unlike him, and he became touchy whenever the subject of Magnus past was approached at all, but he too moved on, realised that Magnus past was his past, and that Alec was his present and his foreseeable future.
Now the jealousy came from mostly came from Magnus, and it wasn't strong hatred of a particular person, like it was with Jace, it was a bubbling anger that rose up whenever he saw someone so much as look at Alec, and a lot of the time Alec was thankful Magnus could be so jealous, because the attention he occasionally got from some of the characters that showed up at Magnus' parties was definitely unwanted. Like the time that Warlock from Argentina had been visiting and was very interested in talking to Alec, apparently about Shadowhunter and Downworlder politics, but was really just talking rubbish and leaning way too far into Alec personal space and speaking with a far too sultry tone of voice. Magnus had politely, yet irritably told him to back the fudge off the first time he noticed it and Alec had escaped to go chat with Catarina Loss, a warlock he got along with much better than most, but it wasn't long before he was accosted again. This time Magnus was really not having it because he stopped the music, flung open the door and screamed for every too get out and if they ever so much as looked at his Shadowhunter for too long from then on, he would personally see to it that they died the most painful death imaginable, and then politely thanked everyone for coming and told them they would receive word of his next party in the usual way. Needless to say, Alec has had a lot less unwanted attention since and the raging jealous monster inside Magnus Bane had been purring contently rather than roaring aggressively.
Authors Note: What do you think?
