Magnus looked up at Alec suddenly as he trust his arm out to stop him, almost causing the Shadowhunter to slip and fall down the winding underground staircase, "I sense a disturbance in the force."
Not understanding the Star Wars reference, nor aware of what Star Wars even was, Alec looked at Magnus questioningly, "What?"
"Nexus has done something stupid." The warlock wasn't sure what she had done, but he knew that the teen had done something that someone was going to regret.
Watching the two worried parents, the Seelie Queen smiled sweetly, "Why don't you go to her? Dae-Jung is not going anywhere tonight."
Suspicious of the fairy, but more concerned about their daughter, they agreed that it was in her best interest that they return home now, "We already have a lot to tell her."
"Go to her," The Seelie Queen gestured toward the exit, glad to see them from her sight.
XxX You Think You Love Me XxX
Nexus sent Stacy back to his mother, going back to Ash's room with Ben. If anything happened to inconvenience Ash, that was just too bad, because as far as everyone was concerned, Ash owed Nexus for her stupidity. Standing alone in the room with Ben, Nexus looked at him uncertainly, wondering how to act and where to sit. If she sat on the bed, it looked like she wanted to have sex, but if she sat on the floor, it looked like she was refusing to have sex. Unless if he sat down opposite her, then that should be alright, right? But what if he sat next to her? Crap, if only she could read his mind... Wait, Ben was a teenage boy, right? So that meant that there was only one thing on his mind anyways.
Sitting on the bed that wasn't Ash's, Nexus looked at Ben, impatiently waiting for him to finish the dilemma she was just having, "Take a seat already."
Taking a seat next to her, he chose to lay down and look at the ceiling, arms crossed under his head, "Some day, huh?"
She wrapped her arms around her knee, "You said it. Ben... Do you think that things are going to change? I mean, now that we're together..."
He snorted, clearly doubtful that much would change, "What do you expect to change? Our friends have probably been waiting for this almost as long as we have, and you know that my family adores you, for some reason..." He smiled at her, a wolfish grin on his handsome face, "But they'd be crazy not to. Speaking of crazy..." He trailed off, distracted by a nearby sound.
Nexus looked at him in concern, still probably on edge about things, "What?"
"Daddy has come back for his little girl a bit earlier than planned. If we hurry, and our friends are kind enough to make a distraction we can still - "
Not even hearing him anymore, she sprang from the bed, hand inches from accidentally colliding with Ben's face, "My parents are back?"
Sprinting from the room without another word, she flew through the hallways and down the front steps to the the entrance of the Institute. Walking up to the old building, they smiled as they saw their little girl running toward them ecstatically.
Magnus reached her first, so Alec had no choice but to give them an awkwardly angled side-hug, "Maybe we should leave you here more often."
She cleared her throat, collecting herself and backing away from them, "I guess I could handle that... So, what did you find?"
Unable to look her directly in the eye, they had hoped to ease into it, but seeing the expectant look on her face, they felt that it was better to just put it out there. Well, after they got inside, away from praying eyes and unfriendly ears. Ignoring the question for the time being, they walked into the Institute, Alec's arm around her shoulders, Magnus leading the way to the kitchen, so they could get a bite to eat while they talked.
Unexpectedly, nearly everyone was already in there, doing various things. Izzy was boiling water for tea, Clary was making a warm glass of milk while Jace held their son, Ash and Max where grabbing a midnight snack, and Ben was just lingering around. It was fairly obvious that he was waiting for Nexus, though he was too busy screwing with Max to make it too obvious to Alec and Magnus.
"Should we just go to the library?" Alec inquired in an offhand voice, clearly trying to sound casual, thinking that it was best that they did this alone.
Magnus shook his head firmly, "We're all family here, some of us more than others."
Ben didn't like the look that the warlock was giving him, so he quickly turned around and pretended to be busy rummaging in the cupboard. Nexus rolled her eyes at Ben's behavior, hoping that when the time came, he would face her parents like a man. Then again, judging from their work in the field, she could easily understand why anyone would be afraid of them. But sill, that was no excuse to chicken out!
But there were much more pressing matters at hand, so she snapped her focus back on Magnus as Alec called everyone else to attention, "So, what did you find?"
"Cupcake, you remember when I told you that your mother wasn't really a warlock, right?" Magnus had mentioned it in passing before, but he had danced around it so carefully, she had completely missed it.
Looking as if she had been slapped, Nexus wondered about her identity, and with sinking recollection of recent events, her fertility, "Are you serious?"
Alec rolled his eyes, knowing that she would rely too heavily on the fact that warlocks were infertile, "I wonder who could have foreseen that?"
Ignoring the Shadow Hunter's sarcasm, Magnus continued, noting the subtly green hue to Ben's face, "Your parents are fairies. Well, your mother was one. Cherb, we think that we found your birth father."
"Where?" She was dazed by this new information, but no less curious by her fathers' findings.
Taking a deep breath, Alec looked at his 'sexy, sexy warlock', "The Seelie Court."
A/N:
Sorry, sorry, sorry! I never meant for it to take so long! I'm such a bad llama! Well, here is the next chapter to things, and hopefully, it won't be such a long time until the next chapter...
