A Malec Alphabet

B- Bashful

B- bashful (Featuring Maia and awkwardness)

~flashback~

Maia knocked on the apartment door labelled 'Bane'.

The door opened a fraction and Alec poked his head around. "Thank Goodness you're here. He's going crazy. Hold on a second." the door shut, and reopened it a few moments later.

Alec stood in the doorway, dressed in his usual ratty sweater and jeans, but holding a huge sofa cushion over the top of his jeans.

"Um, hey?" Maia said, raising an eyebrow. "What's up? You said it was important."

Alec sighed. "It's Magnus. It's June 21st, Midsummer, and he's going insane, along with ninety percent of the faeries."

"Is he not usually?" Maia grinned.

"Hey!" a voice called from the next room, muffled by the door.

"Did you lock him in the kitchen?" Maia asked.

Alec looked embarrassed. "Uh, yeah."

"And what's up with the cushion?"

The Shadowhunter flushed dark red. "Well, back to the whole Magnus-going-crazy thing, every so often he keeps-"

A cloud of blue sparks surrounded him.

When they cleared, Alec was fortunately still clutching the sofa cushion to his midsection, but his clothes were in a neat pile on the floor. He sounded resigned. "He keeps doing that."

Maia flushed. "Why is that a problem? I mean, you guys basically live together."

"That's what I said!" Magnus yelled from the kitchen.

"No!" Alec shouted back. Then, to Maia, he said, "He's painted himself completely orange and striped like a tiger. He wants me to be an antelope. I'm not doing that. And he keeps trying to use magic to make me."

Maia snorted despite herself. "But why do you need me here?"

"I will actually go crazy if I'm here alone with him. I would call Izzy or Jace, but I'd never live it down, and Clary or Simon would tell everyone. You... You're safe." Alec said.

"Don't worry, I won't tell anyone. Besides, Jordan won't mind me spending a day with you, seeing as to him, you're no 'danger' to him. Men and their egos." she perched on the end of the sofa.

Magnus cackled from behind the door. Alec twisted his head around.

"What are you doing?" he asked, a hint of fear in his voice.

"Nothing!" Magnus shrieked in a high voice that made Maia wince.

"By the Angel-" Alec started, but was interrupted by the sofa cushion vanishing. "Crap!" he cursed, trying to hold his hands in a sense of decency. Maia turned away, flushing red. Unfortunately, Magnus burst out of the kitchen she was facing, completely naked, painted as a tiger.

"Alec Antelope!" he called, running past her.

"Oh my Gosh." she cringed.

"Maia, you don't have to stay... Get off me Magnus! Crap, I'm sorry Maia!" Alec said.

She held a thumbs up behind her, and half-ran out of the door.

~Four days later~

Alec blanched as he saw Maia and Jordan walk through the entrance of Taki's where he, Izzy, Jace, Clary and Simon were already sat in a booth.

"You invited them?" he hissed across the table at Izzy.

"Yeah. Got a problem?" Izzy said defiantly.

Alec flushed red and sank back in his seat. He hadn't seen Maia since 'the incident' on Midsummer.

Jace raised an eyebrow. "So where's Magnus?"

"I grounded him." Alec mumbled into his coffee.

Simon snorted. "What for?"

Alec looked up seriously. "Don't ask."

Jordan and Maia slid into the booth.

"Hey!" Izzy leant over and kissed Maia on each cheek. Surprisingly the two girls had become quite good friends after the incident with Simon.

While the others were talking, Alec tried to avoid Maia unsuccessfully. They kept making eye contact, then blushing and looking away quickly.

"Okay, what's up with you two?" Izzy demanded after the sixth time, poking both Maia and her brother.

"Nothing." they both said at the same time, making eye contact and flushing before looking away quickly.

"Bull." Jace said loudly, waving at a grumpy looking vampire.

"You're still gay right?" Jordan asked Alec suspiciously.

Alec rolled his eyes. "No, I accidentally turned straight. Of course I'm still gay."

Jace grinned mischievously. "Really Alec? Because you're acting like you've seen each other naked or something."

Maia made an uncomfortable noise. All eyes turned to her.

"You did?" Jordan asked, sounding incredulous and betrayed.

"No! Well, he didn't see me..."

"Maia!" Alec said shaking his head furiously.

"What?" seemingly everyone asked.

"You saw Alec naked?" Jace asked deviously.

"Well, I, not on purpose." Maia said lamely. Alec put his head in his hands. "I mean, I don't think either of us wanted it to happen."

"You think?" Alec mumbled behind his hands.

"Oh, tell!" Simon said eagerly.

"Nope!" Alec said, sitting up straight. "I'm afraid this is one story you're not going to hear."

Izzy pouted. "You can't start a story ad just leave it like that."

"I didn't start it, I was just explaining myself." Maia said. "Besides, I told Alec I wouldn't tell."

Clary giggled at Alec's red face. "But we all know that SOMETHING happened now, so you might as well say what."

Maia turned to Alec as if asking for permission. He shook his head.

"It's not that bad Alec." She said. "Honestly, it's worse for Magnus than it is for you."

"Why?" Simon asked.

"Because he was painted like a tiger-"

"It was Midsummer!" Alec groaned. "Maia was there to stop him going crazy, but he did anyway. I tried, I mean, I locked him in the kitchen, but he thinks it's funny to make my clothes vanish!" he put his head back in his hands. "Don't laugh." he warned Jace who had started to snicker.

"It's funny!" Jace protested.

"It's embarrassing." Alec groaned. He lifted his head to scowl at Maia who smiled innocently.

"Sorry. Alec Antelope." she grinned devilishly as everyone laughed. Alec put his head back in his hands.

~

Okay, this is one of my favourite chapters. I know I'm not really a funny person, angsty writing is more my thing but I'm trying to keep this fic lighthearted. BTW, I pity Maia in this chapter. Feel her pain.

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