Chapter 7 - Got It?

Alec crept back into the kitchen as stealthily as a spy, trying to avoid his siblings. It was gone two in the morning, he and Magnus had been kicked out of Taki's at midnight and had spent the rest of the time putting off goodbyes in Alec's car, safe to say his lips had puffed up from the intense kissing. He had come to the conclusion he had been out of the house for over sixteen hours and that his siblings might be worrying he had ended up in a ditch somewhere, and judging by the numerous texts from Isabelle, that was indeed the case.

Alec waited a moment for his eyes to adjust to the dark and he slipped across the room to the fridge. He had just touched the handle to the fridge when a cough split through the darkness like a knife through tofu. Alec turned around as the person clapped and the lights turned on.

Isabelle was stood with her arms crossed and her eyes blazing.

"So nice of you to finally return home." She remarked, her tone harsh and irate.

"I-I… uh, sorry…?" Alec replied, it sounded more like a question.

"Sorry doesn't cut it, Alec." Isabelle replied bitterly.

"Izzy, I just lost time, I was with Helen and Aline…" Alec tried to explain.

"If it had been me, you would have gone mental already!" Izzy exclaimed.

"I'm sorry, we just got talking and it got late."

"Cut the crap, I know you weren't with them." Izzy retorted, "Aline rang four hours ago, she refused to explain where you were and who you were with. You didn't answer my calls or texts! What was I supposed to think? I thought you'd been in an accident! I thought you'd been hurt! I thought you'd…."Izzy's eyes watering, it was obvious she thought he might have died.

"I'm really sorry Izzy, I won't do it again." Alec promised, he moved forward and took her hands in his. She sighed and a tear fell from her eyes, Alec wiped it away without thinking. "I really lost track of time and my phone died hours ago." Not a lie, it had died when he was with Magnus.

"Why didn't you borrow Aline's when you were there?" She asked.

"I wasn't with Aline then."

"Where were you, then?" She crossed her arms, cocked a hip and raised her eyebrows. Her anger had mostly subsided, but she still felt like putting him through hell for scaring her, "It had better be a damn good excuse."

Alec bit his lip and felt his face heat, he tried to fight the smile, "I was on a date."

Izzy's eyes widened, "A date? You? What?" Alec pulled a face at the comment. "I'm sorry, but it's just you never date. Like ever. Who was it with?"

Alec blushed some more, he gestured to the breakfast stools and they sat. "Well…"

"Well? Just spill the beans?"

"Where's Jace?" Alec asked, glancing around in case the blonde was lurking in plain sight.

"Asleep." Izzy reassured him, "I heard him snoring when I came to get a drink."

"Okay, well I was with Magnus. Magnus Bane." Alec replied.

"Magnus?" Izzy repeated, her brown eyes sparkling.

"Yup, we kissed when I took him home the other day and then Aline and Helen convinced me we had to sort out what we were before school started and then I got roped into asking him out for a coffee date tonight and that's where I've been since eight o'clock."

"Wait, you kissed the other day?" Izzy gasped, "And you didn't tell me? I'm so hurt!"

"But, I'm telling you know…"

"It happened Friday and it's Monday now." Izzy pointed out.

"Which reminds me, it's school later and I need more than four hours sleep if I'm not to repeat Friday's nap." Alec answered.

"Well, it worked out well for you last time." Izzy snorted.

"Isabelle!" Alec exclaimed.

Izzy rolled her eyes, "Go to bed, you big baby, but you will tell me everything I want to know. Got it?"

"Got it." Alec nodded, tiredness making his eyes red.

Izzy stared at him a moment before smiling, "I'm glad you seem happy."

"Thank you, Iz." He leaned over and kissed her cheek, "I love you, I couldn't have asked for a better little sister."

"I love you too, even if you are an idiot for making me worry." Izzy grinned back, she had forgiven him.

"I won't do it again." Alec said seriously.

"Good. I felt like you and it was horrible!" Izzy pulled a face.

"Hey." Alec frowned and cuffed her head lightly.

"Well, I'm off to bed." Izzy said, "I'm worried I look like you because quite frankly you look like the walking dead."

Alec sent her a half-hearted glare, his tiredness taking the meanness out of it. Izzy laughed and hit him playfully, together they walked to their respective bedrooms and promised to talk in the morning.

"Guess what?" Was Magnus' way of greeting as he pushed Catarina into a crook between two lockers.

The blonde was stunned for a moment before she saw the ecstatic look on her best friend's face. His eyes were lit up and shining like the stars in the night sky, his lips were quivering as he tried to contain the smile bursting to make an appearance, he was tapping his leg quickly, needing someway to burn off his euphoria. She felt herself smile along, it was nice to see Magnus happy for once.

"Lady Gaga pulled up in her ultra-chic, but strange car and asked you personally to design her clothes?" Cat asked, this was a reasonable guess, since Magnus loved both Lady G and designing intricate and outrageous clothes – she knew these things well, she could no longer count the times she had had to model his designs whilst Lady Gaga's album played (though she loved all the clothes he had made for her and she cherished them with her whole heart).

"No, but that would be amazing!" Magnus smiled. "Guess again."

"Umm… you rubbed a lamp and a genie granted you three wishes?" Cat tried again, she scrunched her face up slightly in thought and ran a hand through her long hair, the blue ends catching the hallway lights.

"A little farfetched." Magnus replied.

"And Lady G visiting Idris, isn't?"

"Fair point." Magnus agreed, "But, no, that wasn't it."

"Just tell me, I'm not going to guess correctly and you look like you're about to burst." Cat smiled.

Magnus let out a small squeal, though he would deny it when she brought it up later, he looked around furtively and then leaned forward to whisper: "I'm dating the Alexander Gideon Lightwood."

Cat's mouth dropped, her lips turned up and her eyes widened. She tried to cool her face with her hands whilst making incoherent noise and tearing up, her hand covered her mouth as she let out a loud squawk (loud even through her hand) that made others look over to their alcove.

"She's fine," Magnus told the younger teens walking past with concerned expressions, Cat was still having her moment, he reassured them, "She just forgot her medication this morning, but it's under control." The kids nodded and hurried on, the others in the corridor dismissed the weird outburst and carried on with their conversations.

Cat took a moment to calm down, even so tears were falling down her face and she was grinning so much her cheeks hurt. She threw herself at Magnus, in an un-Catarina-like hug.

"I'm so happy for you!" she whispered.

"I guessed." Magnus laughed. "I think you've converted into the Dark Land of Fangirl."

"It's your fault." Cat hit his arm playfully.

"The only thing is you can't tell anyone." Magnus told her.

"Why?"

"Alec isn't fully out yet, I believe he said he had 'up to his knee or mid-thigh out of the closet' so, we're being hush-hush until he's comfortable." Magnus explained.

"And you're okay with that?" Cat asked, "I know you like to flaunt your relationships."

"And look how long they lasted." Magnus snorted, "This relationship has already lasted longer than half of them. Besides, I think this will be good for me, it might teach me how to be subtle."

"I don't think anyone can teach you that, honey." Cat laughed.

"You never know." Magnus argued. "But, really, he was so sweet and awkward about it, it was the cutest and sexiest thing I had ever seen and I never knew the things cohered, but in Alec they do. He's just so… amazing! He's better than what I always dreamed."

"I really am happy for you both." Cat repeated, smiling again.

"I'm happy too." Magnus agreed.

Cat laughed before her blue eyes took on their trademark mischievous look, "You are coming over to my house tonight, I won't take no for an answer, and you are going to tell me everything, and I mean everything, about it, got it?"

"Got it." Magnus saluted her. They walked to English class, but Magnus couldn't focus, his mind was already on the conversation he was to have with his best friend, later.

W/M: Okay, so here's an update. Sorry, it is clearly a filler, but Isabelle had to find out and I doubt Magnus would keep it from Cat.

Also if any of you are reading my TMI Superhero Au – Project I.D.R.I.S – then I'm sorry, I'm finding it hard to find good superhero names, though the suggests are wonderful and I have used quite a few.

Anyway, back to this fic: what do you think?