Alec's Point of View

I took a deep breath, peeling my back off the wall. Dad raised an eye brow, silently asking where I was going.

"Just give me a second. I'm going to go get, Magnus." I said only pausing for a second before getting out the name. It felt surreal to be able to say it out loud in casual conversation. My Father nodded and I left on a turn of my heel.

Magnus's Point of View

I had been waiting on the outskirts of the crowd ever since Alec had left, and I was beginning to worry that his mother had actually killed him. She had a face that said she was honestly considering it when she had pulled him out of my arms. I closed my eyes and pinched the bridge of my nose as images of another mother flitted across my closed lids. I pinched harder scrunching up my nose to stop unwanted emotion from showing through traitorous tears.

Instead I focused on the monumental step that had just been taken between Alec and me, one that had gotten him into loads of trouble with his parents, but still showed how much he cared for me. I smiled at the memory of how good his lips had felt moving with my own. His toned body pressed against mine had felt incredible, but before I could get too lost in the ghost of feelings past a hand tugged on my sleeve, at the same time lips lightly brushed against mine. I opened my eyes to see blue enveloping my sight, unfocused and beautiful, like colored glass in the sun.

Alec leaned back and smiled at me. His casual touches made my heart soar, we were in public and he was touching me, kissing me instead of shying away from a mere glance. I looked at him closely, his hair was still a mess from the fighting he had done earlier, his eyes that normally faced the ground were looking up at me, eyes wide and pupils dilated. He had a grin plastered on his face that looked as though it may hurt it was so wide. In all he looked as if he was high on some illicit drug. But, I could also notice the tear stains that tattooed his face in shining trails and the lines around his eyes making him look ten years older, but he was happy so that meant the end all conversation with his parents had gone better then hoped.

"So I guess everything is okay?" It came out more as a question than a statement. Even though I hoped for the best I wouldn't voice it without confirmation from Alec first. He just smiled – if possible – wider and grasped me in a hug, burying his face into the crook of my neck.

He mumbled something into my skin that was unintelligible at best. Not that I minded him in my arms, his mouth close to my pulse point. But it was distracting me from my train of thought even more so than just him in general. I pulled him back before the blood could start to run south of my belt buckle asking him to repeat what he had said. He gave me a look that said to listen this time.

"I was trying to tell you that everything went okay, better than okay actually. It went . . . well I wouldn't say perfect. There was yelling at first, but once that was over Mom calmed down and Dad apparently was okay with it from the beginning. He kind of had an idea of what was going on already though." Alec trailed off at the end leaving his thoughts unfinished and me wanting to know more of what had happened. I looked at him expectantly, waiting to see if he would tell me the rest. He looked up at me through his lashes. "And now I'm going to fulfill my promise." Was all I got out of him, which only left me confused. It must have showed on my face because he kissed me on the cheek, simultaneously sending a pleasant shiver down my spine as he leaned his head on my shoulder.

"I want you to meet my parents." He breathed onto my neck. "That is, if you still want to?" He let the last part hang as a question, letting me decide if I wanted to go through with our deal. He looked up at me again, this time waiting on my answer. I looked down at him raising an eyebrow in question.

"I want you to, if you still want to that is." He looked down a slight pink tinge to the tops of his cheeks and ears. As if he really had to ask, of course I wanted to. This was like a dream. I thought I might wake up any moment and realize none of this had happened. Severely hoping that was not indeed the case. I had wanted to meet Alec's parents the first time he had let me in far enough to at least mentally claim him as my boyfriend, even if I couldn't have said it out loud in fear scaring him off. But, now it was going to be a reality and I could feel a tingling sensation in my fingers as the blood flow was warped as my magic flew out in the form of blue sparks around us.

"Alexander, of course I want to meet your parents. If I recall correctly, I am the one who struck the bargain with you." I said in a teasing tone. He just looked up at me and smiled, but it was short lived as Alec came to his senses, he looked around at all the people looking at us. Well Looking wouldn't be what I considered the right word, gawking would be more appropriate to their blatant and ill-mannered stares.

As if electrocuted Alec quickly pulled out of my hold stepping back to a more conservative distance, his neck and cheeks turning a bright crimson. I glared at the small crowd turned at us flaring a bit of magic around myself in the form of sparks and flames in a clear statement to turn-the-fuck-around and mind-your-own-god-damn-business. A wrapped an arm around Alec's shoulder leading him toward the shadowed corner I had seen him disappear to before. Half way to our destination he let his shoulders fall from there almost painful looking hold, allowing some of the tension to release he sighed loudly.

"I hate people sometime." Alec announced breathlessly to no one in particular. I looked over at him with a smirk playing across my lips.

"I know what you mean." I replied to his rhetorical statement. "Intrusive creatures they are, so nosey and don't let me forget to mention annoying. But, I suppose they can't help themselves when they've been abruptly informed that one on the sexiest shadow hunters around is out of the game and bats for the other team." He elbowed me in the ribs, chuckling and shaking his head.

"I would hardly call this," he said waving an arm at himself. "Sexy."

"Who said I was talking about you." I teased earning another bruised rib. I rubbed at the sore spot under my shirt, for such a slight build, his elbows were like bone daggers sheathed in flesh. "Hey now, cut that out or your parents will think I've been in an abusive relationship with you."

Finally we get to see Magnus's side of the fence. Well anyways, I'm going to finish up Chapter 5 and then I'm off to bed. Reviews are love! (:

With Blind Adoration,
Eli Jones

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