"Simon, you know you're my best friend right?"
Simon looked at Clary warily. She was using the puppy dog eyes. Never a good sign. "..Yes?"
"We need you to distract Alec and Magnus." She clasped her hands together hopefully and narrowly missed hitting herself in the face with the stele.
"Oh no. You are not dragging me into this." Simon backed away from the sheer horror of the situation. "The best friend card is a low blow. And the puppy dog eyes have no power here."
Jace apparently decided Clary needed assistance as he appeared from behind her with a similar pleading look.
"That definitely won't work." Simon deadpanned.
"I'll buy you that game you want." Clary said, wiggling her eyebrows. "And I'm not just your best friend. I'm your best friend in the whole wide world."
"Ah man." Stay strong Lewis, stay strong."Fine." Dammit.
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Simon was sitting across from Magnus and Alec at Taki's with images of being turned into a rat again running through his mind. "So, you guys are probably wondering why I asked you to come here."
Alec and Magnus raised an eyebrow at the same time. The effect was pretty intimidating.
"Um, yes. A little bit. Unless you were planning to just stare at us." Alec said.
"Right." Simon scrambled for something to say. "With the memory loss thing, I wanted to get some blanks filled in."
Alec frowned. "Why not Izzy? Or Clary?"
"Only you two can answer these."
Alec gave him a weird look and Magnus's face was expressionless. "Okay?"
Simon didn't think he would get this far. Mostly that they would catch on right away and he'd be doomed. He blurted out the first thing he thought of. "When's your birthday Magnus?"
Magnus blinked. "I don't remember."
"He usually just says whatever age is convenient." Alec said happy to use the knowledge. He had reached that part in the book Magnus had written for him.
"Makes sense. Um, are stripes in or out?"
While Magnus's eyes lit up and he educated Simon about the current fashion, Simon thought that Clary and Jace better be done soon.
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Clary chuckled. She was on a gluing rampage. She had glued all the eggs into the carton. She had glued cups onto the counter top. She had even glued coins onto the floor just for the Hell of it. She might have gotten a bit carried away because she even glued one of the tables to the wall. And she certainly had made sure Magnus wouldn't be able to get them off.
Peeking into the hallway she saw that Jace had entered Magnus's bedroom. Clary frowned. They had snuck into his apartment but she wouldn't go as far as that. "Jace, what are you doing?"
"I'm taking all his left shoes!" Jace called out gleefully. "Do you have any paper?"
"There are some napkins. Why?"
Jace bounded out of the room with a bag full of what Clary assumed to be shoes. "I am going to leave a ransom note."
Clary snorted. "You're an idiot."
"You mean a brilliant genius." Jace corrected.
Clary was about to retort when her phone buzzed. She glanced at the message and gestured to Jace. "It's time to go."
Jace signed the note with a flourish. "Let's get out of here."
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