Malec AU

Chapter 7

POV Alec

“Fuck” I mumble to myself, “we should go down” i didn’t know what i had in mind but that desire to protect came up before i could think.

He wipes his eyes and agrees, letting go of his bag to grip my hand.

H..his hands are really rough...why would they be that rough.

Making a mental note to ask i put it to the back of my mind. Okay. family time.

We walk downstairs together, he releases my hand before sitting at the dining table. My mum lays out the plates as the rest of the family finds the way to their seats.

Izzy sits across from me, and Jace across from Magnus, mom sits on her usual end of the table leaving dad’s normal seat empty.

“Dig in!” mum says, even though Jace has already started. After a moment of silent eating, Jace turns, looks Magnus over, then whispers something into Izzy's ear. She hits his arm in annoyance while Jace just laughs and claims “it’s” true”

“So.” mum interrupts the little show. “What brings you to our home, Magnus?”

“Oh, well..” he looks at his plate.

“I promised to help him with a project for photo” I respond for him. “Izzy was nice enough to pick him up for me while she was out.”

Izzy looks at me like I'm crazy, but quickly catches on and agrees with my statement,  “Yea I was out of the house anyway.”

“Oh okay” mum shrugs it off but doesn't look too convinced. Jace is about to say something when the door opens. Shit, Dads home.

We all go silent as we hear him drop his stuff on the floor in the front room, his footsteps get closer as he finally rounds the corner, then slumps into his chair at the head of the table. He looks up at mum, and she goes into the kitchen to grab him a plate of food. As he waits his eyes scan over us, finally landing on Magnus. “What's your name, son?”

“This is ma-”

“I asked him. He has a voice, No?” He shot me with a spell of silence

“My name is Magnus Bane, sir. I go to school with your son.”

“Your Alexander’s friend?”

“Yes, sir.” magnus replies while having a good nerve to look him in the eye

My mum gives him his food then sits back in her own seat.

“Glad to see he does something other than stare through that camera all day.”

“Actually alec is going to-”

“He can speak for himself Maryse.”

….

My family eats in silence. I was barely eating and I noticed Magnus wasn’t either, and I could feel my dad’s eyes drilling into his skull. I decided to break the slowly growing tension. “Um… dad?”

“Yes, Alexander.”

“Magnus and I need to work on our uh, project.. May we leave?”

“ Yes, you’re dismissed.”

Magnus and i quickly wash off our dishes and headed upstairs. He looked at the floor the whole way up

“I’m sorry about that he’s like that sometimes”

“Hay at least you have a dad.” magnus put his hands in his pockets

“What?”

“My dad left when I was two and just before ralphie was born. And he stopped paying his debt to us when I turned twelve. We have no idea where he is now.”

“Oh, I’m sorry…”

“It’s fine, from what little I’ve heard about him I’m glad ralphie never meet the bastard.”

“Oh. what about your mom…”

“She…” he sits on the end of my bed. He whips his eyes and takes a deep breath. “She didn’t take it well.” Finally he looks at me but his eyes just looked mixed with worry and anger. He  wipes his eyes again. “What’s the story with your dad? Seem a little… yikes”

“Oh, he’s in politics and stuff. Sometimes he gets upset at work and takes it out at home. Nothing we aren’t used to..”

“That’s not something you should to get used to”

It’s quiet for a moment. Magnus continues to stare at his lap. I see a tear fall onto his folded hands. “Magnus?...what's really going on?... please I... I want to help.”

“Really we just met Alexander! Let me process things before you ask! This morning you hated me! Then you saved my brother! And now you care about me! What do you want me t-”

I kissed him.

I wasn’t thinking I just did it. God he looked so cute i couldn’t help it

What surprised me was that he kissed back…in fact he pulled me closer.

His hands were around my neck now. I didn’t want this to end.

“Wow” he says after we separate, “That was nice.”

“What?”

“I said nice, normally guys that look like you are straight. Lucky me.”

“What’s that supposed to- what?”

“Trust, I'm not one for stereotypes, but in my experience, strong-willed boys with bright blue eyes and dark black hair tend to be straight. Especially, sexy Herondales.”

“What? You mean Jace? I’m a lightwood.”

“Lightworm?” he looks at me like i just grew a mushroom.

“Wood.”

“Huh? Sorry, did you say Jace is a herondale? Oh, of fucking course he is..”

“What does that mean…” i was starting to get uncomfortable with him as the topic.

“Oh I just knew a relative of his”

“Wait really?” I’m wondering what kind of knew

“Yeah at my old school, Will. My relationship with him was… problematic.”

“Oh… an ex of yours?”

“God no. He was too busy denying the fact he loved Tessa. And trying to keep Jem happy even though he loved her too. And tons of drama I did not need. Anyway… what were we talking about”

“Um… Sexuality…”

“Ah, yes. Well I consider myself to be Freewheeling bisexual” He starts intertwining his fingers with mine

“Don’t ever say that in front of my dad”

“Ah, homophobic much is he?” he makes a move to get closer

“... yea”

“Oh so do you want to work on our project?” his face gets so close i can feel his breath

“Magnus there was nev-”

This time he kissed me. And this time we weren’t just messing around

“Hay Alec… oh shit sorry sorry”