Alec met Magnus on the front stairs of the library, the later greeting the former with a deep kiss that left them both breathless. Even glamored, they received several dirty looks for their very public display. Magnus grinned, looking at Alec mischievously, the Shadowhunter knowing that something bad wasn't too far off. Expecting to be dragged away to parts unknown, Alec was surprised when the door to the library opened before them, a slender girl with moss-green skin and flaming red hair darting over, offering to help the warlock.
"What can I help you with today, Mr. Bane?" Alec begrudgingly had to admit that she was pretty, but if you looked the right way, all fairies were pretty, and she was clearly flirting with Magnus, so that didn't improve Alec's opinion of her.
He completely ignored her, eyes lingering on Alec, and only on him, "A recorded history of Fey trials."
She looked startled by his request and flustered that he had looked away from his companion only to appear courteous, "Right away."
Alec looked at Magnus in amusement, "Mr. Bane?"
The warlock shrugged, "I don't see anything wrong a little formality every now and again."
Say what he will, Alec knew that Magnus did it for him,"You big softie."
"Maybe in public, but never in the bedroom." He pointed out, smiling in a very unangelic way.
Alec rolled his eyes, "I wonder if Izzy's having as much fun as we are?"
XxX You Think You Love Me XxX
Isabelle, in fact, was not having fun at all. Simon was sitting next to her, discretely squeezing her hand under the table, but the children left in her care were all sitting in moody silence, which was only slightly lifted when Patrick and his parents showed up and joined them. Max, the only teen not directly affected by the love triangle, immediately struck up a conversation with him, but that only caused Nexus to "go to the bathroom". Ben mysteriously chose that time to go as well, leaving Ash sulking in the corner by herself. Maia and Jordan clearly sympathized with Isabelle, telling her how they were at the age when they had to start to work their own problems out. Simon put in that he wouldn't know, getting tossed a few dirty looks.
Nexus had really stormed out of the restaurant and was pacing unglamored in the parking lot, "Why did he have to show up?"
"My parents wanted me to get outside the house," Patrick answered her rhetorical question, not unkindly.
She jumped, looking at him in shock, "But I thought that you were talking with Max. How did you end up out here?"
He smiled slyly, standing next to her, "I have my ways. Actually, when Ben came back from the bathroom, I slipped away from the table."
"Oh," She sighed, reluctantly wishing that Ben had followed her.
He chuckled, "Sorry I wasn't the right guy."
"No, that's not it!" Nexus sat on the edge of one of the lampposts that lit the parking lot, looking at him in horror, "I'm glad that you're here, its just that... Never mind."
"You like Ben, it's alright... We all know." He was smart enough to leave out the betting part. "What is it?"
She had started to shake ferociously when he said that she liked Ben, "I don't like Ben. I was only upset because we got into it after he said something about you."
Either psychic waves had told him, or she was just that predictable, but Patrick wasn't wrong, "You two had sex, but I don't see how I fit into the picture."
Too upset to filter herself, she just let it out, "I saw a Changling at the club, and it looked like you, so Ben must have realized that I liked you, and he was upset with me for an earlier fight, so he said that you had just broken up with your girl, so now was my chance, unless I wanted to wait until you had your eyes on someone else so then I could act and hurt you. He's such a prick!"
"You like me?" Patrick brushed his hair from his face, so this time she knew it was the genuine article.
"It doesn't matter." Nexus was suddenly very aware of Patrick - and that her shirt was completely visible from the ribcage down. Nervously, guiltily, no, she had no reason to be guilty, she admired the way his tee-shirt fluttered ever so slightly in the breeze, his thick muscles roping together underneath the thin, white fabric.
"Nexus..." He put his hand on her arm, "We shouldn't..."
She looked at him, the indent on his lower lips getting larger and larger as he drew closer, "Shouldn't what?"
"This." He gently kissed her, savoring the feeling of her lips on his, "I just got out - "
His words were cut off as the kiss deepened, the force bringing him to stand in front of her, hand grasping at the frail hem of her shirt. They were pulled apart by an irate male voice, "And what do we have here?"
They sprang apart, red and panting, "Hey man, this isn't - "
"I suddenly find myself right, and yet I can take no satisfaction from it... I have to admit, you really had me fooled, but I wasn't wrong when I called you a monster, was I?" Ben spoke as if Patrick wasn't right there, "I thought that you were different than this... Better. But you're not, you're not even worth the pain..."
"Ben!" Ash chased after him, shooting Nexus a look that could cut glass, "Hypocrite."
Looking at Patrick with tears in her eyes, Nexus ran off in a completely different direction, "I'm sorry!"
Running as fast and as far as she could, which thanks to her training with Jace was awfully far, Nexus finally collapsed on all fours in Central Park, just near the secret entrance to the Seelie Court. What had she just done? She really was a hypocrite, no, she was much worse than that... Ben was right to call her a monster, becuase that's exactly what she felt like. How could she have done that to Ben? Why, why did everything have to be so complicated? It wasn't like they were dating, but they weren't not dating either.
A/N:
So, here's another twist in the melodrama that is Nexus' life! Mawhaha! Ok, so that was an exaggeration, but still, it was kinda funny... In a very lame way. Going to the Seelie Court, good decision or not? You be the judge! (Sorry, total Chris Pontius moment ((From Jackass)) Been watching too much of that for my own good). Oh, well.
