Chapter 13 Just a game
Alec POV

There was a moment of mutual shocked silence between my sister and I, our eyes went from staring at each other to staring at the door. The door which had remained silent after those first words and the door that I was seriously thinking about opening. Finally I got up off of the couch and started walking towards the door, I could feel my sisters eyes on me silently asking me what in the hell I was doing. I brought my eye up to the peep-hole that I had put into the door and looked out just to make sure that it really was Magnus standing out there and that he was alone. It wasn't like I thought that Magnus would show up at my house with a mob of paparazzi but he might have been followed, and that was all I needed now, more pictures of us surfacing on the news.

I gasped, Magnus was alone but that wasn't what had shocked me, it was Magnus himself. The man looked like he'd been through hell and back in the past few hours; dark streaks of makeup ran in rivulets down his cheeks and his hair was hanging in his eyes in wet tangles from the rain. His usually perfect clothes were wrinkled and dripping wet. Forgetting my earlier hesitation to open the door I swung it open and pulled Magnus in before he even really realized what happened.

Magnus basically fell into my arms, he was shaking and his wet skin was ice-cold from the rain. Hot violent anger rose up inside of me at whoever had caused this, at whoever had made him walk here in the rain; they shouldn't live to see tomorrow.

"Magnus what happened to you!" Izzy shrieked running over and helping me get Magnus on the couch before he fell in the floor.

"Paparazzi," he said "surrounded my apartment. No way through and I didn't know where else to go, they swamped my car when I got out. So I ran. Ragnor wasn't at home so I came here."

I didn't bother asking how he got my address, he was Magnus Bane, he got it the same way he got my practice schedule, connections. He was still shaking from the cold and his wet clothes weren't helping, between Izzy and me we managed to get his jacket off him. The clothes underneath were relatively dry and he seemed to relax and little more after that.

"I'm so sorry Alec, I never thought about the paparazzi following us." He started trying to explain. I wanted to tell him that it wasn't his fault about the paparazzi, and it really wasn't, but somehow it didn't seem like the most appropriate conversation to have with my little sister in the room. A little too intimate for me to share with her, although she was the reason that we had even met in the first place.

"Alec I'm gonna go, I'll see you in the morning." Izzy said getting up off of the couch and grabbing her coat, "it looks like you have everything under control here."

"I'll walk you out."

We walked to the door, Isabelle was smiling to herself like something was exceptionally funny and I wondered what she was thinking about. Although based on the looks she kept shooting me out of the corner of her eye I had a pretty good idea. I opened the door for her and she hugged me goodbye, whispering something in my ear that made me turn bright red and wish for the thousandth time that she was a little more innocent and a little less perverted.

When I had closed the door and locked it behind her I turned back to where I had left Magnus on the couch only to find that he'd fallen asleep. I couldn't help but think how adorable he looked when he was asleep, hopefully this would end up better than the last time we had slept in the same house. I hated to disturb him, he looked exhausted, but I knew from experience how uncomfortable sleeping on that damn couch was. Or maybe I was just looking for an excuse to touch him, either way I walked over and poked him awake. He barely opened his eyes looking at me through his eyelashes in a way that was completely adorable.

"Magnus you really don't want to sleep here, come on you can sleep in my bed tonight." I said and tried to pull him to his feet. He wasn't about to move and simply went limp almost pulling me down on top of him, and then laughing at the accusing look on my face.

"Can't you just carry me blue eyes?"

I rolled my eyes at how lazy the designer was but it was obvious that the only way Magnus was getting off of this couch was if I did carry him. Somehow I had a feeling that this was going to end badly for me but I ignored it. I bent down and looped one of his arms around my neck and put one of my arms under his legs so that I wouldn't drop him, somehow I didn't think that he would appreciate being dropped on the floor. Magnus was surprisingly light and even though he wasn't fat by any means I had just expected him to weigh more.

He was asleep again as I carried him bridal style through the door to my room and laid him down on the unmade bed. I almost walked back out of the room to sleep on the couch but decided against it, he was asleep; it wasn't like he was going to rape me in my sleep or something. So I stripped down to my boxers and climbed in the bed with him, pulling the covers up around both of us and hoping that this didn't backfire horribly on me tomorrow.

I was almost asleep drifting on the edge of consciousness when I felt the bed shift, a few seconds later Magnus was snuggled up against me, winding his arms around my waist and pulling me closer to him. I glanced down to see if he was still asleep and sighed in relief when I saw that his eyes were still closed, I didn't bother moving. Magnus was comfortable and I really didn't mind the feeling of his arms around me as much as I thought that I would have.

Isabelle's POV

Jace had called early the next morning shouting something about Alec down the phone line frantically. It had taken me a full thirty minutes for me to calm him down enough to explain what happened, leaving out the parts about the man Alec had been caught with being Magnus Bane. Something told me that based on the fact that Jace hated him this information would just send him into a total freak-out again. He was still arguing with me about not being able to go and see Alec, I was trying to keep him away from the apartment knowing that Magnus was still there and based on what I'd seen last night I was pretty sure our innocent big brother wasn't so innocent now.

I smirked at the thought of my completely innocent big brother who blushed at everything even remotely suggestive fucking one of the most sexual people in New York City. Magnus Bane was famous for his never-ending string of lovers, he had probably bedded most of the celebrities that lived here and a few that didn't. I once again found myself wondering what Magnus would be like in bed; it wasn't that I wanted to fuck him it was just one of the questions that everyone wondered about. Why is the sky blue, why do the seasons change, what is Magnus Bane like in bed. The normal kind of stuff.

"Isabelle I'm going over there, you can either go with me and open the door with your key or I can pick the lock again," Jace said and I laughed. Alec had taken his key to the apartment a few months ago when he came back to find Jace and Clary going at it on the couch. Let's just say the downstairs tenants probably knew more about Jace after that day than they knew about themselves.

"Fine I'll unlock the apartment for you," I said giving up. I sent a quick text to Alec telling him that Jace was on his way and that hoped that he would be smart enough to check his phone and get Magnus out of the apartment.

Two hours later we were standing in front of Alec's apartment door, Jace was jumping from one foot to another the way he always did when he was concerned about something. It was sweet that Jace was concerned about Alec but I had a feeling that this time Alec would not appreciate it.

"Would you hurry Izzy," Jace said and I purposely went slower. Taking more time than necessary to get the key out of my purse and put it in the lock.

As soon as the door clicked saying that it was unlocked Jace was rushing in through the door, leaving me standing there to curse and hurry after him hoping to stop him before he saw something that he might never unsee for as long as he lived.

"WHAT THE HELL!" I heard him scream and knew that I was too late; I just hoped that whatever he had seen could be explained.

When I found him he was standing in the doorway to Alec's bedroom with a look of horror mixed with disbelief on his face. I hurried to go and stand next to him to try to figure out what he had seen that was so awful. They were just sleeping; Magnus had his arms around Alec's waist in a way that was adorable to look at, I wanted to take a picture but before I could Jace had screamed again making Magnus jump and sit straight up in bed. He was looking from Alec to me and then to Jace with something like amusement sparkling in his green eyes.

"Oh god it's you," he said directing his attention at Jace "and here I thought it might be someone interesting."

Alec who, up until now had remained asleep sat up and rubbed at his eyes. "Magnus what's going on, why is everyone screaming," his eyes widened when he saw Jace "Oh fuck"

I really don't have an excuse for why this chapter is go freaking late. I just got busy and forgot I guess, but it's summer and I'm busy. I just hope that none of you are to pissed at me for making you wait this long. Sorry once again.
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