Hey there! So this is a mini chapter, sorry but I'm really busy! The next one will be longer and have the long-promised makeup sex :P Hopefully this answers any burning questions.

Thank you for sticking with me this long, I love you! And I just figured out how to make a line, look!

When Alec came to, strange, clouded sounds swam across the black of his consciousness like he was underwater. What had happened? Magnus…he'd been arguing with Magnus, and- with a jolt, Alec opened his eyes, remembering his boyfriend's apology and the bolt of magic that had struck him.

He was laid out on the couch, in the same room he'd been when he and Magnus had argued, the cold fabric of rumpled clothes clinging to his skin. Magnus was slumped in the chair opposite, head in his hands.

"Magnus?" His head shot up, body unfurling fluidly and kneeling down beside Alec. "What just happened?"

"We talked."

"No, we didn't! You magicked me, what did you do, and why? I've had enough of people just doing what they want to me." Alec spat the words bitterly, Magnus' eyes widening in horror.

"Alec, I'm so sorry, that's not what I meant to do at all, I swear I'm nothing like him. Nothing like Raphael."

"You're not like him; I don't love him, I don't even like him, I love you. So tell me what you did, and why, right now."

"What I did, with the magic, was basically hack into your mind and see what happened. I didn't want to, but you wouldn't talk to me. Why didn't you just tell me what you were feeling?"

"I just felt like I couldn't, couldn't say anything to anyone, I didn't even want to think about it. Because it was my fault, I didn't try hard enough to stop it; I was just so confused, I didn't know what to do and I didn't know if Simon was safe and I thought that-"

"If he was, I'd come and get you." Something cracked in Magnus' voice. "But I just cut off the psychic link without even thinking."

"No, no, this is NOT your fault, not in any way!"

"It's not yours either. It's that stupid leech in the Dumont. He might never have done this if I hadn't been such an idiot…you see, we had a little disagreement, about forty years ago, and I won. I humiliated him in front of the clan, and he never got over it. That note was his way of telling me he'd gotten his own back."

"I'm so sorry Magnus." Alec slid a finger up the warlock's throat, tilting up his chin so that their eyes could meet. He smiled briefly at the touch, eyelashes fluttering like little black butterflies, as Alec's other hand joined in to gently cup his face. "I love you and only you. I will never, ever cheat on you again, I swear on the Angel."

"I know," Magnus grinned into his fingers, nudging their faces closer together "I saw it in your mind. And I will never, ever let anyone use you that way again, I swear on…the moon."

"Swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circled orb, lest that thy love prove likewise variable." Alec recited, the twinkle returned to his eyes. Magnus smiled radiantly, knotting his long fingers into Alec's hair.

"Baby, I will swear on anything you want; my life, my happiness, my future, it's all yours. When it comes to me, you already have everything. You are the only one who has or ever will make me feel like this, and if I lost you I would lose the only thing of any meaning in my 800 years of life."

"I don't deserve this, Magnus."

"That's where you're wrong. You do. And I don't care if that's what you believe, because I know the truth and as long as we're together I'll make sure you know it." Alec seized Magnus by the shoulders, crushing their bodies together in an embrace so close, so binding, he felt as though they could melt into each other at any time. "So there, I've told you what I've wanted to since you kissed me in the Accords Hall. You can tell me anything Alexander, because I'm not just anyone, and neither are you."

"Magnus, I thought I was going to lose you, and instead you go make me even more in love with you, if that's possible. Everything you said is perfect. You're perfect. I'm not so good with words as you, but I just know that you're it for me, no-one else could ever come close. I'm yours."

Magnus sat back so that his eyes could drink in every inch of his boyfriend. His shadowhunter. The sight made his mind buzz, his ribs tingle, his pulse drum out the rhythm of his heart. It didn't matter that Alec didn't know his real age, his real name, who his parents were, he knew that they loved each other more than anyone else.

He'd told Alec that he wasn't trivial, and it was the truth.

Their kiss was a simple, sweet one, but it still blew Alec's mind.

Until next time.

Love China x