Pandemonium: Chapter 8

The main characters depicted herein are the sole property of one Ms. Cassandra Clare; however, some of the minor characters belong to other authors; furthermore, some characters are complete creations of my own imagination. Regardless, this is purely a work of fiction; any resemblance of characters or events from the past or the present (or the future if you're a Time Lord) is entirely coincidental.

A side note about the last chapter: As I was rereading it a little while ago, I realized two interesting things: 1) The Queen with all her cockney old lady-ness resembled Old Nan from The Catherine Tate Show. 2) Valentine's two lines are pretty much exact replicas from The Godfather; I guess that now makes him Don Valentine Corleone. For some reason, I think that suits him better than Baron von Morgenstern. Let me know in reviews!

"Izzy!?" Alec shouted with surprise, "Is that really you? How are you here? When did you get here? What's going on?"

"Oh Alec would you shut up for a minute and hug me?" She asked incredulously.

They embraced for a few more moments, then Alec told her "The servants will be bringing lunch for two, sit down."

As soon as they sat down, Alec attacked her with the questions again. Izzy rolled her blue eyes, and said "Will you just calm down for a minute? Listen, because I'm about to tell you: When you left, mom started crying and dad did absolutely nothing, so while I was there consoling her, dad told Carstairs to go to you and become your Larcena here. Then he stormed back to his room pretty angrily. Mom kept on crying for a few hours, and then dad came back down. He told her he was sorry but she had none of it. She yelled at him for lying to us all and not even letting him say goodbye. Then he told her the worst news: they were going to send me to Soren with Aunt Imogen for the next year to get my education as a 'proper lady.' You know how I despise Aunt Imogen, so I got on a horse last night when everyone was sleeping and came here!"

Alec gave her a dumbfounded look, and then said "So you ran away from home?" Then he began to chide her, telling her "Did you even consider to think of our parents, our mother? How is she going to react to think that one child was dragged away to Alicante, and the other just ran away!? You have to go back. You have to go back now. I'm getting Carstairs and he's going to send you back now."

"NO!" Izzy shouted. I'm not going back there! I'm never going back there. I'll stay here with you. I can get some exposure to the palace and life as the future-King's sister, and you can have someone here to take care of you, because Angel knows you cant do it yourself."

Alec rolled his eyes, and muttered something furiously under his breath that sounded like "you always get what you want." Then, with a resigned look in his eyes, he said "Fine, you can stay, but make sure you keep away from that wretched old Queen and the slithering Baron von Morgenstern."

Izzy jumped with joy and embraced Alec again, though this time he was devoid of the same excitement. Instead he grudgingly decided to check on the food, which to his misfortune came rather soon. Then, Izzy started to blather on about her various escapades, and before he knew it, Alec was laughing with her; he never could stay mad at her for long.

To his surprise, Izzy stopped and then asked, "So what about you? How's life in the Palace?"

He told her the truth, "I spend most of my time surrounded by my advisers and/or my guards." He told her about the day's earlier interactions, including the meeting with the Queen, to which she laughed immensely. "What's so funny about that?" he asked rather dryly.

"I think the blue-eyed, bodacious, bitch they were talking about was me." she told him joyously. She then proceeded to explain how she entered the palace, and how she was seen by the Baron von Morgenstern, sneaking past the guards.

Alec pouted, and thought about how to deal with him next, when Izzy asked him about his advisers. Alec spoke rather tersely about Simon, who Izzy displayed some odd interest in, and then went on about Magnus, even to the point of explaining his scent.

Izzy stared at Alec with wide eyes. Then, nearly whispering she asked, "Are you attracted to him?" Alec turned a frightful shade of magenta and began denying it profusely, he even went so far to deride individuals with that particular predisposition. Izzy scoffed. She looked at him directly and told him, "I saw the way you used to look at the stable boys; I even saw you kiss the cute one, so don't even think about lying to me."

Alec became pale and silent. He was at a loss for words. Izzy then continued, "It's perfectly normal you know, and if you're attracted to him, then it's all the better! Anyways I'm dying to meet him, is there anyone else I should know about?"

Sheepishly, Alec told her all about Jace. By the time he was done, Izzy was beaming with delight. "I just have to meet these two!" she exclaimed. Alec decided that it would probably be best to visit Jace first; he was probably just about done moving the Clarissa-Clary girl in.

They both walked there way down to Clary's new rooms, Izzy bouncing down the steps happily, Alec strolling in measured steps. When they got to the door, it was slightly ajar, so they opened it up. Immediately both of their jaws dropped.

In front of them Jace and Clary were kissing rather passionately. It as evidenced by their closed eyes, locked lips, and wayward hands, cupping each other's faces as if the other would melt away if they ever stopped.

Alec monotonously whispered, "oh."

Immediately Jace's eyes opened, and he pulled back from the kiss. When he realized that it was Alec who caught them, he turned a bright shade of pink; this was nothing compared to Clary, whose face became the color of her hair.

Alec then spoke quietly, his eyes downcast, his feet repetitively making tiny motions on the floor. He said, "I was just going to introduce my sister, Isabelle, but I guess you're-uh-busy. We can come back later."

Then he and Izzy quietly made their way out of the room while. All the while, Alec was shaking and thinking "How could I be so stupid to even imagine for a minute that Jace was...like me?"

Well there you have it! Alec is out to his sister, and we have our first kiss scene. I kind of feel really bad for Alec in this chapter, first he has to deal with his awkward situation and then he finds out that one of his two infatuations is straight. But don't worry there will be some Malec kisses coming up pretty soon! And then the lemons get crazy (like Liz Lemon crazy). I'd love to hear your reviews, especially on how to improve the lemon stuff! Thanks!