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Come home quickly! Mom and dad just came!
No! Why did they come home? And more importantly: Why did they have to come now? They really do ruin everything. I was torn between feelings of anger, annoyance and fear-as I quickly pulled off the pants I was wearing and grabbed my jeans.
"I love the hasty removal of clothing but what's the occasion?" An incredibly amused looking Magnus asked from where he was sitting on the bed. He was propped up on his elbows and looking at me with hungry and lustful eyes.
"Magnus!" Remembering where I am, I finished pulling on my jeans and turned my back to him as I pulled the shirt up and over my head.
"Izzy says my parents just got home." I explained quickly while putting on my shirt. "I have to go." I turned around after I finished dressing and looked at him. Again, I didn't want to leave.
"We can't catch a break." He complained, flopping back onto the pillows with a sigh.
I laughed despite the fact that I was actually freaking out on the inside.
"I am serious." He said with a sigh, passing a hand through his hair. "The first night I had to go early. Then the second, you had to."
"But at least we were both awake that time." I added but he continued as if I hadn't had said anything.
"And now you have to run again. I have a feeling that the universe doesn't want us to sleep through the night together."
I chuckled at his annoyed expression. "You're exaggerating." I bent down and quickly kissed him on the lips without even thinking about it.
This apparently left a very shell shocked but happy Warlock on my hands as I pulled away.
"Next time no interruptions. I promise." I whispered to him with a slight blush due to the fact that I was practically saying we will sleep in the same bed more often from now on.
He grinned up at me. "I hope so."
I stared at him for a moment before quickly getting back on track.
"Got to go." I said quickly, hurrying to the bedroom door. "I will call you when I get the chance."
"Looking forward to it darling." He called after me as I exited the room.
…
Shit. What is with all the traffic at 3 am? I thought while running into the Institute.
I was out of breath because I couldn't get a freaking cab and had to literally sprint all the way from Brooklyn.
The elevator is too slow. I thought impatiently as it started up.
This isn't good. Not good at all. I started pacing in the confined place. The panic and fear of them finding out were overwhelming.
Slow your breathing. I reminded myself. Get a hold of yourself. I was able to calm down a little just as the elevator came to a stop.
I made myself exit it calmly and start walking towards my room like it was normal for me to come home at this hour. And really lately it kind of was.
My hands were in my pockets to stop them from shaking as I looked around, fearing that I will run into my parents. I have never dreaded them coming home as much as I did at that very moment.
If they see me they will ask questions. If they ask questions I will have to lie. And if I have to lie to them…I am so screwed.
So I just prayed with everything I had inside of me that they don't see me. That they didn't notice I wasn't home. But even as I did that I knew it was a long shot. I knew that they almost definitely saw that I was missing. Even though they were barely ever home, when they are they see everything. Know everything.
Well, not the important things. Not the secrets we keep hidden deep inside us. But what really put me on the edge more than anything, was the fact that they had been able to find out about Izzy. They had found out even though Izzy had tried to hide it. I didn't want that to happen to me. It would be so much worse than it was with Izzy, which is saying a lot.
"Alexander!" I froze at hearing my full name in that harsh voice.
I slowly turned around, my back tense.
I looked directly into the eyes of the woman standing in front of me in the eyes just like she thought me when I was younger. No wavering or faltering, simply keeping eye contact with blue eyes that were just like mine. Except those eyes were as cold as the frozen sea. More closed off and impossible to see past.
"Where were you?" She asked. I almost gulped under her gaze but stopped myself knowing that if I did she would get even more suspicious. So I made myself stay calm, breathe evenly, stand straightly, and stop the shaking. Like one would do while being interrogated by an enemy. Just how I felt at this moment.
"I couldn't sleep so I went for a walk." I lied.
I don't lie as much as my siblings do and I'm usually not very good at it either. I was just hoping that this time would be an exception.
She narrowed her eyes at me. Looking firm and suspicious as she looked me up and down.
"Where are your weapons?" She asked me suddenly.
My hands went to where my weapons belt was supposed to be.
But it wasn't there.
Shit! I thought while desperately trying to stay calm. I left it at Magnus's!
"It's night. The town is full of Demons and Downworlders. Where are your weapons?" She repeated when I didn't answer.
"I-I already put them in the weapons room." I answered quickly, squirming under her gaze.
Shit! Shit! Shit! Please believe me. I thought desperately. I can't believe I left my weapons. This isn't happening!
My mind was running around like crazy. She will figure it out. I'm done. This isn't good. I'm-
In the middle of freaking out, I yawned.
"Oh, I'm sorry sweetie." She apologized. Her eyes turned a shade softer. "I guess you're tired after your walk. And of course you already put them away. I feel a little foolish for even doubting you. You're not as irresponsible as Jace is." She gave me a small smile. The way her facial muscles contorted made it obvious that she didn't perform the action very often. But of course I already knew that.
I felt a pang of hurt and guilt run through me.
I was irresponsible like Jace today. I left my weapons at Magnus's in my haste to get home. They should have been the first things for me to grab but I forgot them like an idiot! I am an idiot!
"Goodnight now." I said, a little tense before turning around and hurrying to my room.
"Goodnight. Oh, and Alec!" She called after me and I turned back towards her, stopping my escape for a minute. "I missed you. It's good to see you."
After a moment of hesitation I answered her. "Me too." And with that I hurried away. turning the corner.
I leaned back against my door, closing it.
That was close. I thought letting out a sigh of relief and finally being able to relax a little bit.
"I love all the glitter." I heard an amused voice say from my bed.
I looked towards it and saw Izzy lying there with a smile on her face.
I also notice-for the first time-that my lights were already on. Something I should have noticed even before I entered the room.
What is with me today? I thought and then stopped short finally registering her words. Wait! Glitter?
"What glitter? Where?" I looked down towards my clothing and inspected them in a hurry. There was nothing. Thank the Angel, I was sane enough to change before I left. If my mother saw that it wouldn't have ended too well.
"Your cheek and hair." She said walking over to me and passing a hand through a strand of my hair.
She showed me her hand, palm up, and saw a few sparkling specks of glitter.
"Thank The Angel mom didn't see that." I said, ruffling my hair in an attempt to get it out.
"Mom saw you?" She asked me with wide eyes.
"Yes. I got out of it. But barely." I sighed seeing that the glitter was refusing to part with my hair. "I need a shower."
"Fine. I will get out of your glittery hair." She said with a teasing smile to which I grunted.
She paused with her hand on the doorknob and turned back towards me with a serious face. "If you need any help with mom and dad just come to me, ok?"
"I will." I promised. "And Izzy? Thank you." I added as she opened the door. "I would have been in so much more trouble if you hadn't texted me."
"No problem, brother. I'm here to help. Consider me a pimp." She winked at me and we both laughed.
"Goodnight Izzy." I said as she started down the hall, towards her room.
"Goodnight." She called back before I closed my door.
And now to shower. I thought tiredly while walking towards the bathroom.
I was exhausted but I couldn't go to sleep with glitter in my hair. It was a stroke of luck that mom didn't notice it earlier but that luck isn't likely to repeat itself.
As I exited the bathroom after a 40 minute shower-the glitter was really hard to get out-and still with a few-hopefully unnoticeable-glittery specks here and there I saw that my phone was vibrating.
I picked it up absently on my way to bed and saw that it was a message from Magnus.
Still alive there darling? Did you have any problems with them?
I smiled when I read it. Is he worried?
My mom caught me sneaking in but I talked myself out of it. Luckily she didn't see the glitter in my hair, I doubt I would have been able to take myself out of that.
I pressed send and laid under the covers feeling the sleepiness slowly taking over my body.
My phone vibrated again.
What glitter?
My eyes were slowly drooping as I answered him.
My hair was full of it. I guess it brushed off of you.
Oh, sorry about that darling. My room was too dark to be able to see it but I bet you looked absolutely delicious. Were you able to get it all out?
I blushed at his comment as I answered him.
After a long shower I got most of it out.
Well then, no harm done. Goodnight sweetness.
I blushed at the new nickname and after sending a quick 'Goodnight' I fell asleep.
…
The annoyingly loud knocking on my door woke me up.
"Alec, wake up! It's training time!" Jace yelled from outside my room.
"Let me sleep!" I grumbled, burying my head under the pillow.
"No can do. Maryse said to get you now."
"Fine. At least let me change first." I called out, getting up from the bed. I shivered when the cold air hit my skin.
"Hurry up!"
I quickly put on the first clothes I could find and quickly exited the room, barely avoiding colliding with Jace.
"Finally." He exhaled and started walking away at a quick pace, leaving me to follow.
As I came into step with him he glanced sideways at me. "What's that?" He asked me looking curious.
"What's what?" I asked confused. Did he notice the glitter?
"That. On your neck." He said pointing towards it.
My eyes turned wide and my cheeks red as I hurried my pace, attempting to get some distance between us.
Shit! I forgot to heal it yesterday. I thought, my heart beating rapidly.
"It's nothing." I said quickly.
He managed to catch up with me but since I had longer legs he was almost running to keep up. He narrowed his eyes, looking at me suspiciously. "Alec…"
"It's nothing Jace. I fell. Let it go."
"On your neck?"
"Yes. Now come on we need to train, right? We're here." I said avoiding his eyes.
"Fine. If you say it's nothing, it's nothing." He said entering the training room before me. "But I will still kick your sorry ass in a few minutes."
I laughed at how easily he can change the subject and let something go as I followed him.
…
It has been a week since the last time I saw Magnus and it was killing me.
We talked a little on the phone before going to sleep every night but it wasn't enough.
I was lucky I had free time to talk to him and I was grateful for it, I really was. But it wasn't the same as seeing him in the flesh. As feeling his skin under my fingertips. As feeling his lips against mine.
I shook my head. I need to stop thinking about it.
It all started the day after my parents arrived. They found out we were slacking with our training. Jace due to making out with Clary for most of the training time and me due to finding it better to see Magnus than watch them make out for who knows how many hours.
So for the past week, mom doubled our training hours. Which basically means that the only thing we do all day is train, train and then train some more. Which in extent means no boyfriend time for me. I blushed at thinking about it like that but it was true.
Other than that, it was all back to the way it was before. Like it is every time they come home.
Mom cooks, we all eat together and that is basically the only time we see our parents other than when we pass each other in the hallways. Everything is back to normal except this growing ache in my chest that continues to grow as the days pass. Grows more every day I don't see Magnus. And I don't like it one bit.
To make matters worse, I can't sleep either.
I toss and turn, not being able to get the, oh so needed sleep. The bed feels way too cold and I spend the whole night trying to find that missing warmth.
It didn't take me long to figure out what was missing. After only three nights of sleeping together my body got used to his warmth and steady, even heartbeat. Without him, it was almost impossible to fall asleep.
Especially considering the fact that even before all of this I had had a problem with the cold. I was never get warm enough. Never able to chase the cold away. But when I slept in Magnus's embrace, it went away.
And without him, it also made it painfully obvious how addicted to him I have grown in such a short amount of time. In body and mind.
Every night, after a few hours of tossing and turning, when the tiredness and the soreness of my body eventually took over I fell asleep and dreamed of golden green cat eyes.
But right now wasn't the time for that. Right now it was the middle of the day and I was sitting in the library with my parents. It was silent. None of us have spoken a word since they called me in and I was still confused as to why I was there in the first place.
Suddenly there came a knock on the door, startling me.
My mother looked at me seriously before finally speaking. "We called you here because you are eighteen now and it's time for you to learn the unpleasant part of our job."
I nodded at her words but couldn't help but ask myself, what the hell can be more unpleasant than killing demons?
Mother looked at me for a moment more before turning towards the door. "Come in." She called.
The door opened to reveal the tall figure of a man. A very familiar glittery man.
I sat up straighter in my chair. Eyes wide.
Magnus!?
I don't know if I like this chapter or not but it is necessary for the next one. To which I don't know if I should laugh, cry or just plainly stare at the pages. Anyway, you will get it tomorrow if you review and tell me what you think about this one.