City of Heavenly Fire

Truth

Jace didn't want to go back to the Institute. Tessa kept looking at him with a look that told him she wanted to talk to him alone. He also wasn't very sure about how she was a half warlock and half shadowhunter. She looked like she didn't want to talk about that. It must be a touchy subject. So Jace walked on, finding himself at Magnus's. 

Not much had changed at Magnus’s since the first time Jace had been there. Jace used an open rune to get through the front door and took the stairs, buzzing Magnus’s apartment bell. It was safer that way because Magnus could be playing video games naked or really anything. Magnus yanked the door open, looking furious. He was wearing a black silk dressing gown, his feet were bare, his dark hair was tangled, “What are you doing here?”

“My,” said Jace, “You’re so unwelcoming.”

“That’s because you’re not welcome.”

“I thought we were friends,” said Jace.

“No, you’re Alec’s friend, Alec was my boyfriend so I had to put up with you. But now he’s not my boyfriend so I don’t have to put up with you.”

“I think you should get back together with Alec,” said Jace.

Magnus looked at him, “And why is that?”

"Because," Jace started. "Alec is miserable. It's staring to get to me." 

Magnus rolled onto his back and put his feet up on the arm of the sofa. “What do you care if Alec’s miserable?”

“What do I care?” Jace said, so loudly that Chairman Meow rolled off the couch and landed on the floor. “Of course I care about Alec; he’s my best friend, my parabatai. And he’s unhappy. And so are you, by the look of things. Takeout containers everywhere, you haven’t done anything to fix up the place, your cat looks dead —“

“He’s not dead.”

"Forget about the stupid cat!" 

"You're the one who brought it up," Magnus pointed out. "Besides, you have no right  to interfere with this! Its personal!

“I think,” Jace said, “that you don’t want to tell your secrets, so you decided to break up with Alec because..”

Magnus snapped his fingers. "That's it. Get out. That is the absolute last time I try to be nice to a Herondale." Jace opened his mouth at the Herondale comment, but Magnus transported him to outside his door. He tried opening it to get back into the apartment but it was locked. Jace set aside his thoughts for once, and headed back to the Institute.