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Chapter V

"Perfect"

"Bon appetite darling" Magnus placed a plate with scrambled eggs in front of me.

"Thank you love"

The atmosphere of love could be sensed in the air still, even after two years of marriage. We still were as much in love as we were at the very beginning. It's actually crazy that someone could love another person that strongly as I loved Magnus. It's like without him I can't function right. It's like he's my air that I breathe everyday with the addition of hairspray. But I wouldn't change it for anything in the world. We were meant to be together, for the rest of our lives.

I was the happiest man in the world. I had a perfect job and I could help people. I was a volunteer in the hospital. And I had the most amazing husband.

"What are you thinking about baby?"

"You" I said bluntly, making him smile at me in his oh so beautiful way. "I always think about you, only you"

"I should hope so. I mean it would be weird if you'd think about other men" the playful smirk on Magnus's lips always made me roll my eyes. "Ah, I got to go to work. Have a nice day sweetie"

"You too! Love you" Magnus was zipping his cherry red coat, and then he blew me a kiss.

"Love you more!"

Yes, my life was perfect.

…

"Alec it's good that you're here" Luke, the new volunteer said, as I stepped into the playing room. "I don't know what to do anymore with them. They get bored at everything"

"You do realize that they're kids?" he nodded "And kids get bored really easily"

"Dude…do something" I sighed, and thought about what I could do.

"Ok, hi kids" at that all, or most of kids looked at me, and smiles crept on their adorable faces. "We…"

"ALEC!" to say that it hurt when I landed on my back on the floor was understatement. It hurt like hell when all of kids laid on top of me, making me breathe with a difficulty.

"Kids…I can't…breathe…" Finally Luke moved all kids from me, and helped me stand up. "Huh…ok…how 'bout we make a competition huh? Who will draw the best picture wins…ah let's say that the person can choose a tale that we'll get into a show in the next month? Deal?"

"DEAL!" That would give us a half hour of peace and quiet.

In no time Luke gave to the kids paper and some pencils and they began to draw. They moved around the whole playing room, taking away colored pencils from each other's, laughing, sometimes even screaming, when something wasn't right. I moved to the behind where in the corner, all alone, far away from other sat a little girl. She couldn't be more than four years old, with brown hair, loosely falling onto her face. She squeezed a grayish old stuffed bunny with her one hand, and with the other she was drawing something.

"Hi there" I tried to sound all mildly and friendly "I'm Alec, and what's your name?"

She didn't say a word to me, only scooted away from me, more into the corner. She was clearly afraid of me. From an experience in my work I know that I have to act warily around the little girl. As well as I know that I had to make some contact with her.

"You have a pretty bunny" still no response "I had one too when I was younger. His name was Mr. Fluffy. He had a cute, soft white ears"

A small giggle escaped her lips, making me smile at her. Finally she moved her hair from a face putting them behind her ears. I could now see her beautiful blue eyes, not so blue as my, more like blue-gray. But still very beautiful. Above her right eyebrow there were two stitches. Across her cheek was a red mark. Her neck, at least the part that I was able to see was covered with purple marks.

She was abused.

"Lola" a silent voice, almost a whisper came to my ears. I dared to look at the girl, who now was petting her toy.

"Your bunny's name?" she nodded once "That's a pretty name. Hello Lola, I'm Alec"

With that we ended the conversation, the little girl turned back to her drawing, still squeezing the toy in her hand.

Before I left the hospital, I found a doctor who was on shift, to talk about this girl.

"Ah, you mean Lily?" the doctor said "She's here for three days. And she haven't said a word to any one yet"

"What happened to her?"

"She was hardly abused by her parents" I sighed loudly. I was familiar with situations like that. I was working with families who were witnessing abuse on daily basis or were victims of the said abuse. "Finally a social worker took her out from her home, brought her here. And when she'll get better she'll be moved to an orphanage. And then hopefully she'll find a new family"

"And her parents?" the doctor looked at her watch, before answering.

"The social worker put an application to the Court to take away their parental rights. And you know that if the family situation is described as poor and there's child abuse the kid is taken away"

She was right. I knew that this kind of cases worked that way. I as the social worker put a bit of application like that by myself. Normally I tried to work out with a family, but when the child abusing was in a family I was doing what's best for kids. As it take them away, make sure that they will get to a normal, lovingly family who will take care of them the way it's needed.

"How badly was she abused?"

"Well we could examine her when we put her into sleep, because she cried and bit us when we tried to touch her. But…bruises all over her back and legs, arms and she had cuts above her eyebrows" the doctor made a small pause, then she grabbed my hand in her "Maybe you could try to make her talk, she's so closed off…"

"Yeah, I try"

For the next a few days I was working with Lily. She no longer scooted over far away when she saw me sitting next to her, but she never spoke to me either. No matter how much I was talking to her. I talked to her about everything. Toys, cartoons, dolls, but she never responded in words. Sometimes she drew something that she wanted to hear about, such as teddy bears, balls, dolls.

And then after a week there was a miracle, you may say.

"Princess should have a crown" a light voice surprised me, as same as the little hand, with a bit colored nails with crayons, on my picture. I looked at the owner of the said hand and saw a small smile on the girls face.

"Oh really? I didn't know. I don't know any princess" she moved a bit closer to me "Beside you Lily"

"I'm not princess"

"Of course you are" her blue eyes were confused now "Every little girl is a princess"

"Re…really?"

"Of course" for the first time she beamed at me. And sweet lord, that was the most beautiful and heartwarming thing in a whole world. "We just need to make a crown for you. Princess"

For the next half of hour we were making a crown with paper and decorating it with drawings of diamonds. Lily was laughing all the time, especially when I put some crayons on my hand or arm. And I swear my heart was filling with warmness when she laughed or smiled at me.

Never before I felt like that with any child in the hospital, yet with Lily it was something different.

"Ah, look at you, you're pretty Princess Lily" once again there was a laugh coming from her mouth, especially when I put the crown on her head. "Now my dear princess, you need a knight in shining armor or prince"

"Will you be my knight?"

"With a pleasure Princess"

For the next whole week I was at the hospital every day, playing with kids and Lily finally joined other kids in games, but always stays close to me. At last I was staying more in the hospital than I was in home. But I just couldn't separate myself from her. I even managed to convince nurses to let me stay with her until she fell asleep. I knew that what I do is wrong, that I shouldn't get so close to her, but somehow I didn't care for it. This little girl found her way to my heart and I couldn't help on it, even if the others told me to not get attached to her. By others I mean my co-workers.

But I couldn't care less.

Lily was too important to me.

And one day I realized how much I care about her, when my heart almost stopped when I couldn't find her in her room nor the playing room.

"Where is she?!" I grabbed David, who was on shift, by an elbow.

"Who?"

"Lily! The little girl with brown hair and blue eyes?! Tell me!"

"Ah, you mean Lily Smith?" I nodded "Then today they took her back to the orphanage"

"Why nobody told me that?!" my voice was too loud, but I was overwhelmed by an anger and nerves.

"Because you are not a family"

…

It took me two days to get the courage to go to the orphanage. But I needed to see her, to make sure she's alright. It was a hard job to convince the director of the orphanage to let me see her. But in the end I succeed.

She was playing with her bunny and a brown teddy bear that I got her last week, in the corner of the room. When I stepped there with the director all kids' eyes were on me, making me slightly uncomfortable. The middle-aged woman got to Lily and brought her to me. When her eyes crossed with mine, she let go of her hand and ran straight to my arms.

"You're here!"

"I'm here Princess. I'm here"

The director gave me three hours with her, and we made most of them.

"Will you come back tomorrow?" her eyes were glassy, when she was sitting on my laps with head pressed to my chest, as I stroked her hair.

"I will Princess"

And I kept my promise.

I came back to the orphanage every day for the next two months, making myself more attached to her, and her to me.

MAGNUS POV:

Alexander was acting strange lately for the past two months. And it gave me suspicions. God knows that I almost wanted to follow him, to find out where he's spending days lately. Not only he gets home almost at night, but goes out the first thing in the morning, way before I had a chance to wake up.

I talked with Isabelle, Ellie, Jace hell even with Maryse and Robert, but none of them seemed to know what's wrong with Alexander, nor where he's going. Either they didn't know or they didn't want to tell me. I assumed that Ellie and Izzy must know it, after all they're the closest with him.

The not knowing what my husband is doing was slowly killing me.

Especially when my friend made me freaking out with his thought.

"Do you think he's cheating on you?"

I refused to believe in Ragnor's words at first, but slowly, day after day I was accepting it. Since I didn't have a tiny idea what Alec was doing.

One night I waited till the night for him to come back home, and when he did it, I decided that it's a perfect time to corner him about his latest actions.

"Jesus! Magnus you almost gave me a heart attack" he said, when he put his coat on the hanger. Not really knowing how to start this conversation I decided to be blunt.

"Are you cheating on me?!"

"What?!" to say that Alec's face was confused and shocked was understatement. He was gaping at me with his mouth opened, eyes wide.

"Are you cheating on me?!"

"Wha…how…what the fuck?! How did…" his voice was lost "How could you think so?! I'm not cheating on you! What the actual fuck Magnus?!"

"Then fucking tell me where you're spending your days?! You're barely home! I don't know what you're doing nor where you are. So tell me how I could not think that you're cheating on me!" a silent tear escaped my eyes, when I fisted my hands.

"I'm not cheating on you Magnus" his voice was more calm, and he put his hand on my bare arm "I love you too much to cheat on you"

"Then what…"

"I'll explain it, but let's move to the living room, ok?" I moved behind him with arms folded over my chest, trying to calm myself down. Because god knows I was close to crying. "Sit down"

"Well?" I took a place in the corner of the couch in a distant from Alec. He sighed, when I jerked my hand after he tried to grab it.

"I'm not cheating on you Magnus. I swore faithfulness to you, and I keep it ever since" I made no sound so he could continue "Lately…ok…do you remember Lily? The little girl from the hospital? The abused girl that I told you about?"

"Yes"

"Well…two months ago…she…they took her to the orphanage. And I've been visiting her ever since, every day."

"But why? And why didn't you tell me?" he scooted closer to me, putting his hand on my knee.

"I was afraid that you will be mad and that you will tell me the same as my co-workers" this time I was confused "To not get attached to her"

"Well surely…o fuck…you did get attached to this girl" he nodded "So what now? I bet she got attached to you too"

"I know that we never talked about children…"

"You want to adopt her?!" I interrupted him, getting up from the couch. "Alec!"

"Maggie…look…I don't know how to explain this…but I just love her…I already think about her as…as my child…" he lowered his voice "I want to take care of her…to be her parent"

"And where in this plan of yours is a place for me, huh?" he avoided my gaze "I'm your husband Alexander! Decisions like that you should discuss with me! what if I won't agree, huh…will you divorce me?!"

When there was no response from Alec I was purely shocked.

"You would, wouldn't you?"

"NO! Of course not!" he got up and put his arms around me tightly "I love you so much, I can't live without you…but…Lily…"

"Alexander…"

"Look…can you just meet her first? We don't have to decide yet ok? Just meet her…and then we'll talk? Please?"

"Fine"

So in the next day I finally meet the girl who found her way to my husband's heart.

"Lily this is Magnus, my husband, the one I told you about"

"Hello Lily"

"He…hello"

We started to play together, at first it was awkward since she haven't said a word to me, she only sat with Alec. But my husband said that it's normal, so I believed him.

I was now going with Alec to the orphanage every day, to play with Lily, and day by day I was enjoying it more. And the girl seemed to be more open to me as well. She now was talking with me too, laughing with me, especially when I accidentally spill some glitter all over Alec. It seems that she likes glitter, almost as much as I do.

With every day I found myself thinking more and more about what Alec had told me before, that he'd like to adopt Lily. I was getting attached to her pretty fast. After a month she already had a place in my heart. And I was actually keen on the idea of having a child with Alec.

But there was a one tiny problem.

I didn't know how to be a father.

Would I be a good dad? Would I actually know how to take care of another, little human being? Would I be responsible enough to protect her? To provide a life for her?

Would I be a good dad? It stuck in my mind lately.

"You would be an amazing father Mags" Alec told me one night. "You could dress her up, teach her about make-up stuff. Braid her hair…"

With every next meeting with Lily I was making up my mind. And I was almost absolutely sure that I want her in our family after the day that she fell asleep in my arms, after she spoke four words that fluttered my heart.

"I love you Magnus"

"I love you too Princess"

The whole adopting process took two months, since we had to prove that we're actually able to raise a child together. But finally Lily was with us.

Lily Evelyn Lightwood that's how her new documents says. She was finally our daughter.

After all I didn't regret my decision, nor Alec did. We knew that we can provide a good life for her. That we can take care and love her. That we can be a family to her.

It took a bit for Lily to actually call us some other than 'Alec' and 'Magnus'. And she surprised us with names at one night during a supper.

"Papa can I watch some cartoons?" she turned to Alec. Lily was living with us for three months already and never before she called Alec like that. My husband smiled fondly at her, his eyes watered a bit. He was clearly happy, I could tell.

"Of course you can sweetheart" She jumped off the chair and moved towards me. she grabbed my hand with her, smiling shyly to me.

"Daddy will you braid my hair?"

"I will baby girl"

ALEC POV:

After the three of us settled down on the couch, Lily between us, and started to watch the cartoon, I looked at my family. Magnus started to braid Lily's hair, while she scratched Chairman behind his ears. She quickly found her way to our hearts. Without any difficulty she stole our hearts. But I wouldn't change it even for the most valuable treasure on the Earth.

Because I had already the most valuable treasure.

"I love you daddy. I love you papa" she said, before she drifted off.

"We love you too Princess" we both whispered and kissed the top of her head.

Indeed, my most valuable treasure was my family.

My perfect little family.

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