Pandemonium: Chapter 7
The same spiel as before: none of the characters belong to me, blah blah blah. You get the point. Credits to Cassandra Clare.
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The door swung open and in walked-no sauntered-in sauntered Magnus. He casually slid into the seat opposite Alec with the litheness of a cat. He seemed to be sparkling even more, and the green of his eyes popped out like emeralds in a field of caramel. At the same time Alec was hit with the scent of sandalwood; it was sensory overload. It was like Magnus was trying to make his mind explode or something.

This time, it turned out that Magnus knew Alec was staring; "it's called glitter by the way," he casually mentioned, "the sparkly stuff everywhere, yeah glitter."

Alec was immediately caught off guard; he hadn't expected Magnus to notice him staring, or worse say anything about it. He quickly improvised and said, "It looks good on you, makes your eyes pop." He gave Magnus a sheepish grin.

Smiling, Magnus told him, "we should try some on you; I think it would go extremely well with those pretty blue eyes of yours."

Alec was taken aback. He hadn't expected Magnus to be so forward with him. "What did this mean?" he thought. "Was Magnus attracted to him too?" Alec must have been staring again when he was contemplating these thoughts, because Magnus took the liberty of pointing it out.

"You know Alec, you spend a lot of time staring at people. It's a little awkward, but very cute." Then, to his complete surprise, Magnus winked at him.

Alec pinched himself. "I must be dreaming" he thought.

Unsure of what to do next, he asked Magnus what he had come here to talk about originally. Magnus sighed, and with a disappointed look in his eyes, started talking about planning his ascension ball and other important meeting he would have. Even with Magnus' luscious voice, the topic was such a bore that Alec started wondering what it would feel like to be covered in that glitter stuff.

Thankfully, Magnus didn't notice him space out this time, and left soon after he finished talking, claiming he had some other things to do.

At that point, Alec realized how hungry he was, and how long the day had gone; hoping for some brief respite from his arduous schedule, he peeked his head out the doorway, and was immediately met by Carstairs, who promptly told him that the Queen was expecting him.

"Not that again," he thought angrily. The distasteful woman was probably going to spend the next few minutes insulting him and making his life her particular brand of miserable. Regardless, a dutiful Alec plastered a smile on his face, straightened out his clothes, and proceeded to enter the throne room.

The Queen seemed deeply engrossed in a conversation with the Baron von Morgenstern. They were whispering quietly to each other, saying things that Alec could hardly comprehend. At some point Queen Charlotte intoned about the "blue-eyed, bodacious, bitch" joining the royal retinue soon. She even took the time to call some woman a prostitute. The Baron von Morgenstern was about to reply when he realized that Alec was standing there; unwilling to continue the conversation, he gave the Queen a wry smile and told her "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse, otherwise, he'll be sleeping with the fishes!"

With that he quickly left the room, leaving Alec all alone with the Queen, who gave him a broad smile, displaying her decaying teeth. She started to laugh in a way that resembled a cough, then she loudly proclaimed, "'Ere you are, you fuckin' bastard!"

Alec was taken by surprise. He hadn't expected the Queen to take on a cockney accent for today's round of insults, but with the Queen it was best to expect the unexpected. In response, he mumbled, "Yes Your Majesty."

She did that awkward cough/laugh again. Then she said to no one, "Innit nice when them young ones 'ave a little respect." Then, motioning to Alec she said, "Come on, come closer to your old Queen, let me 'ave a good look at ya."

With little choice, Alec approached the throne until he was close enough to smell the mothballs in her clothes. He crinkled his nose in disgust.

"Oy!", the Queen shouted "what you doin' 'at for!? Not like you smell so nice, you fuckin' bastard. You smell like that fuckin' Pikey, Bane. So special with his fuckin' sandalwood, thinkin' he's so nice. Let me tell you somethin' boy, I don't care if I smell like shit; I ain't even bovvered!"

Extremely baffled, Alec simply bowed further, and mumbled some poor attempt at an apology. He had never faced a more strange or awkward interaction in his life.

Then the Queen decided that she had enough of him, and angrily told him, "Get your arse out of my room. Go fuck around with the Pikey, for all I care. I've 'ad enough of your lot for the day. Beat it boy!"

Entirely unsure of what just happened, Alec quickly departed the room and found his way back to his chambers. He was quickly informed that he had a visitor, a lady. When he asked who she was, the servants had no idea. He asked them to prepare lunch for two just in case. As he walked into the antechamber he noticed a woman with long black hair tied in a bun. "Could that be...no it's no possible" he thought quickly.

Upon hearing his entrance to the room, the girl turned around and embraced him tightly; it turned out that Alec was right.

It was his sister, Isabelle.

Guess whose back. Back again. Izzy's back. Tell a friend. Guess whose back, guess whose back, guess whose back (starts awkwardly rapping?) Well she's here so prepare for some lovely interactions between Alec and Izzy, Izzy and Magnus, and there will be some Sizzy! If you enjoyed that lovely part with the batty old Queen, please leave a review! Thanks!