Chapter six.
Magnus was dealing with the body. It was a slow and painful process and already he was becoming exhuasted very quickly. Quicker than he had anticipated he would. If he carried on at the pace he was going, he'd be dead in an hour.
Alec was sat inside Saphie's kitchen, at her dining table, drinking coffee. Saphie was sat across from him, staring at him.
Alec looked up and said, "Stop. It's disturbing."
"He looks at you like you're the best thing in the world, how does that feel?" Saphie replied.
"What?" Alec asked, a little more edgily than he had intended.
"How does it feel to be loved?" Sapie asked. Alec blushed. "He does, y'know. Love you I mean. I haven't seen him this in love. Ever."
"What's saphie short for?" Alec asked, changing the subject as quickly as possible.
"Saphire. Alec?"
"Alexander."
Then silence. The awkward sort of suffocating silence that spreads everywhere. It was only broken by an exhausted looking Magnus collapsing through the door.
"MAGNUS!" Alec shouted pushing his chair back and hurrying over the the Warlock.
"I'm...too tired." Magnus stuttered.
"What happens if you don't do all the incantations?" Saphie asked worried.
Magnus shrugged, "He comes back. He's pretty angry. Very dangerous. He could murder all the Mundies in this damn state."
"Shit." Saphie muttered under her breath.
Alec felt a huge weight on his chest. He knew what he had to do, he just didn't know what would happen if he did it. "Take some of my energy." He said finally. "I know you can. I read it somwhere!"
"Alec, I can't. I can't do that to you it's beacause of me you're even here." Magnus said softly.
"No. I have to. I'm a Shadowhunter. I have to do this!" Alec pressed, "It's my responsibility! I have to protect the Mundies. I have to do this!"
"If I do this, we're connected for life!" Magnus implored. "We can't be apart."
"Do it." Alec said.
"Do even know what I'm saying?" Magnus said incredilously, "You will have to be with me every single time I use magic, you will have to be there. Every single time you fight I will have to be there. Neither of us can even leave the country without the other! For the rest of our lives we'll be stuck with each other.. For the rest of our lives!"
Alec hesitated. Of course Magnus didn't want to have to put up with Alec for the rest of his life. But Alec had Mundanes to protect. "Do it." He repeated.
Magnus raised his eyebrows but nodded. He had expected Alec to say no. Say that he couldn't possibly spend his entire life stuck with him. Say that it would be the worst possible outcome to be always tied to Magnus. He didn't expect Alec to seem so sure about it, but he certainly was.
"Okay." Magnus said. Let's do this.