Alec woke up before sunrise three days after his encounter with a particularly nasty demon, in a whole load of pain.
He could feel his body still recovering from the poison that had only just vanished from his veins. He was of course used to pain; he'd been aching and in pain since he began his training as a Shadowhunter at age six. He could remember a time when he didn't feel pain somewhere in his body.
"Morning Alexander," A soft voice called out from across the room where Magnus was sitting at his desk; a scroll of paper in front of him, books scattered on the table around him.
"Morning Magnus," Alec yawned, stretching his arms in vain to remove the pain.
"How are you feeling?" Magnus asked, putting his pen down.
"No worse than usual," Alec shrugged, wincing at the pain in his shoulder.
Magnus stood up and crossed the room sitting at the end of the bed.
"Come here," Magnus motioned for Alec to move over to him. Alec climbed out of the bed and crawled over towards his boyfriend.
Magnus began massaging Alec's back gently, his hands finding all the most painful spots and relieving the pain.
"I appreciate this so much," Alec said, allowing Magnus' slender fingers to move all over his back.
"That's what I'm here for," Magnus smiled, lightly kissing Alec's cheek.
"I'm grateful for you," Alec said, his voice soft and still filled with tiredness.
"You need to go back to sleep," Magnus mumbled as he buried his face into Alec's shoulder.
"I can't, it'll hurt even more if I do," Alec replied, leaning his head back so he was resting on Magnus' shoulder.
At that moment, Chairman Meow decided to make an appearance and leap onto Magnus' lap.
"Oh you stupid cat!" Magnus yelled, as the cat put his claws into his leg.
The cat yowled loudly before leaping with agility to the floor and slinking out of the room.
Magnus swore at the retreating back before closing the bedroom door with a flick of his hand.
"Go back to bed," Magnus whispered to Alec who reluctantly crawled back towards the headboard and pulled the blankets back over him.
Magnus strode back to the desk, closing his book and sliding his paper back into the drawer of the desk, before crossing back to the bed and climbing in next to his boyfriend.
Alec immediately rolled over and wrapped his arms around Magnus.
"I love you," Alec mumbled, his eyes already closed and his voice filling with sleep again.
"Love you too Alexander," Magnus replied, as he watched Alec slowly fall back to sleep. And he really did.
This story actually started out as a Wolfstar one shot (a ship that I have only recently just gotten into), and I thought reading back on it, that it suited Malec as well, and since I haven't posted any Wolfstar yet, and I'm not entirely ready to do that, and I really liked the story, I decided that Malec was a suitable alternative.
Just a random story but I hope you enjoyed this one because I really enjoyed writing it!
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