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Magnus closed the portal and kept Clary’s portal piece with him. Then he went back to the party but he forgot to clean the mess that Jace and Clary made, so he went back to the subbasement, the only small problem that he had was: everyone was in the party so it would be awkward to go back and there was Alec and Raj. Raj because of obvious reasons, he was still thinking that Magnus was crashing the party and he didn’t understand why Alec did that… And Alec... Well Alec because he was being cryptic to Magnus and he found that really weird. Why someone hot like Alec would be interested in someone that reads tarot cards like Magnus. Well Alec was interested and everyone saw that, but Magnus didn’t.
But Magnus wanted to go home but he needed to clean all the mess so he went back and used some magic to clean the mess and get rid of the dead demon. He did all of that in less of 30 minutes. He knew he could be faster but his magic had been dormant for years so it was quite hard to clean everything at the beginning, but a voice in his mind kept saying that he could do it and so he did!
Then Magnus went back to the anniversary party and saw Alec looking at him and he knew that he had to give him some explanations, but he left the place before Alec could do or say something to him.
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Izzy and Simon were dancing really happily but something wasn’t right in the party. Alec came really quickly and asked them:
- Where’s Jace!? Where’s Clary!?
- I saw Clary with a guy, but I never saw him before. – said Izzy.
- Are you kidding me!? He is the tarot card and psychic reader… - they didn’t understand what Simon was talking about – his commercial is playing all the time on the tv… “I'm Magnus Bane. Come in today for a tarot card and psychic reading. I'll help you find your way.” – Simon tried to make it sound like Magnus’s voice and all he could hear was Izzy laughing and Alec doing a weird face that he never saw before since they met.
- Oh… I heard of him before! A friend of mine went to his house once and his cat… Church, and I think Church bit her because she was chewing some gum or something and Magnus doesn’t like that so, Church was warning her and bit her leg! – Izzy said laughing. – I was kidding, Church didn’t do that, but yes a friend of mine went to his house and he was really nice to her and some things that he said to her happened in her life after she went there!
- I don’t believe in those things… - said Alec. But now that he knew more of Magnus, he was triggered and curious to know more about him. – There you are!
- I’m sorry guys, we got lost in the Institute… - said Jace.
- We don’t know what happened, we were dancing and suddenly, we were outside. – said Clary, thoughtful.
- Maybe you were drunk and you didn’t notice that you left. – said Izzy laughing. She wasn’t laughing because of what happened with them, but because of the story that she told before to his brother and his boyfriend.
They continued having fun at the party but something in Clary’s mind wasn’t right. What did happened? She noticed that her arm had some blood, Jace too, and their hair wasn’t really good. But she ignored the thoughts that she was having, maybe she was drunk and Jace as well, so she decided to have fun with her friends.
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While he was going home, Magnus decided to call Ragnor, his best-friend. They talked for a couple of minutes about Ragnor’s work and what happened with his boss Lydia Branwell. She was a nice person but when she was working her personality was quite different and Ragnor, once again, didn’t understood why she keep doing that, and Magnus, once again, needed to explain why she does that, but then Magnus decided to talk about Alec.
- I went to a party and there was a guy that kept staring at me…
- Why? Maybe he fell for you – said Ragnor laughing. He knew Magnus wasn’t really comfortable with people that he didn’t knew before.
- Fell for me!? Hahaha… He was too handsome to fall for a guy like me. I don’t know why, he just said “I’ll be responsible for this one.” to other guy and he offered me a drink and said “To us!” that was even strange… We didn’t knew each other at all, why he did and said that?
- That’s true! But nothing more exciting happened during the party?
- No. – something happened but Magnus didn’t wanted to tell to Ragnor. He didn’t knew why, he always trusted in his best-friend but instead, he decided to keep to himself the rest.
- Oh… But don’t worry maybe you will find that guy... By the way, what’s his name? You didn't said it yet! You asked him right!?
- No, we introduced ourselves to each other, anyways... His name is Alec Lightwood.
- Alec Lightwood!? I know him!
- Do you? – Magnus tried to say that in a casual way but that didn’t worked.
- Yes. His sister works with me in the tech company. Once we went to a dinner and his sister came with him. Isabelle… Don’t you remember of me talking about her in the other day?
- No, sorry… You know I was quite busy in that day but her name I remember. It’s a beautiful name. But you said Izzy a couple of times, why? It’s her nickname?
- Yes, for her friends of course!
- Hmm, I will keep that in my mind! I have to go, we talk more later, Ragnor! Good night!
Magnus arrived home and took a long bath because he was exhausted! After he feed his cats, and then he feel asleep on the couch while he was watching Game of Thrones with Chairman Meow on his lap.
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Meanwhile, the party ended at 2 am and Clary went home with Izzy and Jace because she was going to sleep in their house tonight. Simon went home alone on his bike and Alec went home with his boyfriend. They had some stuff to “discuss”, because his boyfriend wasn’t really happy during the party.
Alec and his boyfriend arrived his boyfriend home, and while Alec was preparing something for them to eat, the other guy asked:
- Why you did that with that guy? I know we were working but you could at least respect me, Alec…
- I’m sorry, but I was just… Raj we aren’t boyfriends in the eyes of the world… You don’t even want to go out with me, or introduce me as your boyfriend to your family… - In part Alec knew that Raj was right but then he asked himself why he flirted with Magnus...
- You know that’s hard for me… Your family always accepted you being gay, but mine, wouldn’t accept me being with a man! – said Raj with a sad look on his face. Alec felt sad because they were discussing again about this, but he knew how important this matter was to him!
- And it was hard for me too… - Alec had some issues at the beginning, but he knew that if he didn’t said the truth about his sexuality to his family he wouldn’t be happy. - C’mon we are in a relationship for 1 year, if I can say that we are in a relationship…
- What!? If you can say!? So what are we!?
- We have a relationship but I don’t think this is working anymore… I think we should give a time. I understand you but you had time to come out… Once I talked with your mother about my story and she was really supportive and kind to me! I told you that you could talk with her about it, but again you don’t tell her the truth because you’re scared and I get it but this is hard for me too… - Alec almost cried, he was broken but he needed to say this. He understand Raj’s position but Raj had opportunities before, to talk with his mother, he just kept forgetting or ignore that he and his mother need to have this conversation and Alec was tired of that.
- Yes, I agree. I need time to think and so do you, like you said!
- Yeah… maybe I should go then… - he turned and some tears fell of his eyes, the same was happening with Raj. Then he opened the door and when he was leaving Raj said…
- You can stay here, you can sleep in the bed and I sleep in the couch.
- It's late maybe it's better I stay...
Alec closed the door, walked into their bedroom and while he was closing the door he heard Raj wishing him a goodnight but he didn't answered him back.
After he entered in the room he saw that Raj hadn't make the bed, a thing that Alec hated and Raj knew, but in that moment Alec forgot that detail, dressed his pajamas and laid in the bed. Then he turned on the tv and cleaned the tears, but none movie of his interest was playing, so he decided to turn off the tv and sleep or at least try to sleep.
The same happened with Raj in the living room. Raj was heartbroken but he understood Alec, he wait too long and he had always had the feeling that he could talk with his mother but he had trust issues. It was hard but he decided to sleep because right now he couldn’t do anything to solve their situation.