Alec's eyes skimmed the words on the page in front of him, it was in a tight cursive handwriting, this must have been how Magnus wrote back then, Alec thought.
"Do you want me to read it out loud?"
"No, because I already know what happens, read it to yourself" Magnus told him, pulling a cigar out of his waistcoat pocket, Alec did a double take.
"You smoke?"
"I've always smoked, cigars that is, I would never smoke those horrible cancer sticks Mundanes consume"
"Isn't a cigar the same thing?"
"No because this is a magical cigar" he lights it with his finger, inhales, and puffs a small cloud of purple-greyish mist into Alec's face, causing him to cough.
"Oh Magnus that…smells like candy" Alec sputters, Magnus grins
"What is that?"
"Nothing that will kill me. Why are you so concerned that I smoke?"
"Because it's unhealthy, and unpleasant when I kiss you, and because I love you"
"Thank you for being concerned, I promise you that this wont harm me, but if it makes you feel better, I'll put it away" Magnus snapped his fingers and the cigar disappeared into thin air.
"Thanks" Alec looked back down at the diary
Dear Diary, September 1878
Had a visit from Mr Herondale and Miss Gray this morning, they asked me, well more likely they begged me to make them immortal, I refused and they insisted.
I never do anything for free, so with another generous payment made by Mr Herondale I went through with the ceremony.
Alec looked up from the page to Magnus's face, who was examining his nails.
"What's all this about a payment Will made to you, what payment?"
"It was more like a favour than a payment"
"I have a feeling it wasn't money, what was it?"
"I asked him to kiss me"
"Kiss you? All the payments were a kiss? Every time?" Alec was green with jealously, his voice rose an octave per question.
"Yes. Alec dear, you don't need to be so jealous; Will is no longer with us"
"I'm glad" he muttered under his breath
"Alexander please read the rest of the entry" Magnus was almost losing his patience with Alec, he was so stubborn. Alec moaned and read the rest of it.
I transformed Mr Herondale first. Miss Gray second. Immortality spells are never easy and often very draining for me so I took my time. I asked William to lie on my bed where I bound his wrists and ankles with rope… nothing sexual about this I can assure you.
Anyway, for the ceremony I needed one pint of vampire blood, one of warlock blood, each given to me willingly by the way, I never do anything illegal, and each have to be drunk by the participant while I chant the spell.
The blood of a lover also has to be taken; only a drop needs to be ingested, so William generously offered his blood for Miss Gray (one of the payments by the way was a few drops of his sweet Nephilim blood),and vice versa with Miss Gray, all without being asked, well except maybe William.
Next I burned sage for cleansing after they had ingested all the blood and purified their bodies, and then I put them into a deep sleep.
"Sounds pretty simple, this spell, drinking the blood will be gross though" Alec said, looking up, speaking his thoughts out loud.
"It's not that simple, not for the one performing the spell"
"Well I'll have to make sure you have a lot of power bars beforehand, Is that it?"
"No there's more" Magnus told him, flicking over the page. Alec kept reading, the next part was about Will.
Tessa wanted to stay by William's bed side but I refused, telling her he needed to rest completely so the transformation can take place. She was quite concerned about William's welfare but I told her the spell would work out better on her than on him because of her warlock blood.
And then she begged me to turn her next.