Chapter 6 – How To Get The Guy

Magnus was regretting not getting a jacket when he threw on his outfit. As soon as Alec's call had finished he had changed into tight skinny jeans, a loose green t-shirt with the neck cut and fraying to show the black sparkly tank top underneath, he had checked and revamped his hair and makeup too. But he had forgotten his jacket.

He shuffled to keep warm and ran a hand through his hair, picking out the bits of plant from when he had used the tree to sneak out of the house. It was a simple route - swing from the window, land on the thick tree branch, tightrope walk along it to the old tree house, climb down the ladder, run and climb over the fence before the outside lights came on – and one he had done a lot.

He rubbed his arms to try to warm them up and seriously thought about calling Quinn to throw him down a jacket when Alec's car drove around the corner and he pulled up right in front of Magnus. Alec got out of the car and walked around to Magnus who was smiling.

"Hey." Alec said with a slow grin.

"Hi." Magnus responded, "Fancy seeing you here."

"Fancy that indeed." Alec replied, "Ready to go?"

"I was born ready." Magnus retorted, Alec reached out and took his hand whilst he opened the passenger door for Magnus which made Magnus fall in love even more with Alec.

He strapped himself in as Alec walk around and got in his side, Alec flicked on the music and strapped his seatbelt before pulling away from the curb.

"So did you hide the bodies of Aline and Helen well?" Magnus asked.

Alec laughed, a pleasant musical sounding laugh and then spoke, "Yes, no one will ever find them."

"Let me guess, the Faerie Woods?" Magnus raised an eyebrow.

Idris was a circular shape, the posh houses formed the edge of the town, in the suburbs, and then the closer to the town centre you got, the less money families had and the poorer the area. The Faerie Woods were the woods that ran along one half of Idris, at the end of the big gardens of the rich – both Aline's and Alec's houses had it at the end of their gardens.

It was named the Faerie Woods because there was a story the children were told to keep away from it about Faeries stealing young children away, despite the children growing up and realising it was not true there was still an ominous feel about the woods and they still kept away from it.

"Damn, you got me in one." Alec sighed.

"Next time you need to hide a carcass or two, come to me." Magnus joked, "I know where to hide them."

Alec laughed, "Will do."

"So where are you taking me?" Magnus asked, then he added, "Assuming I'm not to join Aline and Helen's corpses due to being an ear witness to their murders."

"You're not joining them." Alec smiled, "And, it's a secret."

"Really?" Magnus sighed, "Can't you give me some clues?"

"I sincerely doubt you've ever been there." Alec replied.

Magnus frowned, "Not one of the commercial ones then."

"No." Alec agreed.

"Anything else?"

"It's where my siblings and I practically live when my parents are away." Alec offered, "None of us can cook and the food there is amazing."

"Let me think." Magnus narrowed his eyes as he looked out of the window.

"We're almost here, it's on this street." Alec told him, they drove around the corner and Magnus began frantically looking for any café along the street.

They drove past the bookshop, the post office, the butchers and so on. All the shops were closed, but then Magnus saw the neon lights hanging on a brick wall, he squinted as he tried to read it.

"Taki's." Magnus smiled proudly at Alec.

"Cheater." Alec scrunched up his nose but laughed.

"That's not cheating." Magnus protested.

"It so is!"

"It's not!"

"Let's just get inside already, the food is amazing." Alec changed the subject.

"Fine, fine." Magnus smiled, he got out of the car the same time as Alec and they walked into the café. It looked like a traditional American diner and they settled in one of the vinyl booths.

There were a few other customers, but no one recognisable – though they were interesting to look at, a girl had bright blue hair and she winked at Alec who nodded back, she was sat with a boy covered in tattoos, there was a group of women all wearing fairy-wings and a group of three who must have been communicated through their laptops because they said nothing.

They chatted as they looked over the menu, Magnus querying why the food had different sections for different mythological beast and Alec explaining it was the owner taking the micky of equality. Magnus laughed and turned to the human section.

A tall, slim waitress hurried over to them and winked at Alec, she was ghostly pale and her blonde hair had a slight green tinge. She smiled and her blue eyes glinted with mischief.

"Hey Alec, who's your man candy?" She laughed.

"Kaelie, this is my… Magnus." Alec trailed off, unsure what Magnus and he were. Magnus and Kaelie laughed at the explaniation.

"Well, nice to meet you Magnus." Kaelie smiled. "Do you know what you're ordering yet?"

"The usual please Kaelie." Alec responded.

"What's the usual?" Magnus asked.

"Diet coke, sweet potato fries and ketchup." Kaelie answered with a smile.

"I'll have the same, please." Magnus replied.

"Great." Kaelie smiled, she took the menus, the sleeve of her blouse hitching up to show the green of her veins, she winked at them again, her blue eyes sparkling and then hurried to the window to tell the cook the order.

"So…" Magnus said, he stretched his fingers and placed his hands on the table.

"So…" Alec agreed.

"What do you want from this… thing between us?" Magnus asked, hesitant to use the word relationship.

"A relationship." Alec said quickly, his face going pink.

"Snap." Magnus smiled.

"But, I'm not out." Alec rushed, "Well, I am, but I'm not. I sort of have a foot and possibly a lower leg to mid-thigh out of the closet, though I'm working on the rest of it, the rest of me…" As Alec spoke he got redder and redder and then Magnus stopped his by placing a hand on his own pale one.

"Who knows about you?" Magnus asked.

"Isabelle, Aline, Helen and you." Alec admitted.

"Who do you want to know?" Magnus carried on.

"Right now?" Alec asked, "Well, just those, but I'm working on telling Jace and my parents, I think your Aunt already knows and I think Quinn does too."

"Yeah, they probably worked it out." Magnus agreed.

"It's not going to be a problem, is it? That I'm not fully out?" Alec asked, "Because I really like you and Aline told me to leave if you did have a problem with it."

"I don't have a problem with it." Magnus replied, "We can take this as slowly as you want, though I would like to tell my family and possibly Catarina. They won't say anything mean about it to you, I promise you that."

"Okay." Alec nodded, "I'm fine with that. I just… I'm not sure how to tell Jace, I mean, when we first adopted him I had a huge crush on him, but I realised it would never be and then I met you and it transferred to you… Angels, what am I saying?" Alec flushed crimson and Magnus thought he might pass out.

"It's quite cute actually." Magnus smiled, "But, you definitely should tell Jace. From what I can see he'll accept you regardless, he values you way too much too ever lose you. Though he'll probably be mad you didn't tell him beforehand."

"Aline said the same thing." Alec commented, "I was also going to tell Clary and Simon too, seeing as they're my friends too."

"If you need me there, I'll be there." Magus said, he stroked Alec's hand with his thumb.

"Thank you." Alec smiled.

Kaelie walked over with their drinks and then disappeared with another wink to them this time accompanied by a thumbs up. They sat for a while just looking into each other's eyes, enjoying the calm.

"So, are we… together?" Magnus asked.

"Yes." Alec nodded, sipping his drink.

Magnus could not contain his grin. "I'm sorry, it just seems slightly surreal… I've had this crush on you since the day I met you and it's actually real, we're really sat here right now, we're really together."

"You had a crush on me?" Alec asked quietly.

Magnus felt his cheeks heat, which never happened to him, Magnus Bane. "Yeah, I wasn't exactly subtle about it, either."

"You were flirting?"

"Yes!" Magnus exclaimed a little too loudly. "I mean, how can I not? You're beautiful, Alec."

Alec blushed and looked into his drink, Magnus barely heard his reply of "You too."

Magnus grinned and then laughed softly, Kaelie brought over their chips and they looked at each other. "We're both idiots, aren't we?"

Alec sighed and nodded, a smile on his face, "It seems we are."

W/M: I just realised I never what Magnus' ringtone was last chapter, so I'll say it here. The song is called 'He Likes Boys' by Simone Battle – the reason it's Magnus' ringtone for Alec is pretty self-explanatory and it's a great song.

Anyway, I really hoped you liked this chapter, it's our favourite dorks settling their relationship… I'm sorry for taking a while with the update, but I have lots of mock exams at the minute and this is like three years of knowledge I need to remember so I've had lots of revision. Anyway, long story short, I won't be able to update for a while whilst these mocks are on and then I'm not sure how frequent it will be after that because I'll have to revise for my real exams in May and June (after that though, I have three months of nothing planned so there's that to look forward too) so… this is a pre-warning/apology.

Okay, so what did you think of this chapter?