A Malec Story

Chapter 28: Firemessage

Firemessage

The front door shut, leaving Alec sitting in the half-lit garden alone. He closed his eyes for a moment, the image of a face hovering behind his lids. Not Jace's face, for a change. The eyes set in the face were green, slit-pupiled. Cat eyes.

Opening his eyes, he reached into his satchel and drew out a pen and a piece of paper, torn from the spiral notebook he used as a journal. He wrote a few words on it and then, with his stele, traced the rune for fire at the bottom of the page.

- City of Glass, ch.5 Daylighter, p.92

Magnus

Shadowhunters were crazy, Magnus was absolutely sure about it. Hours after the Portal was closed, Clary had turned up with Luke. And instead of accepting defeat, the crazy redheaded scrap had created a Portal of herself and dropped into Idris, Luke following her instantly. Magnus had shaken his head. Crazy people, those Nephilim. Why had he ever let himself get involved in their business. He had promised to himself that he was going to stay away from them, but he bitterly failed at that.

He went back to his loft, went to sleep, and woke up to another day at the office. He had dreamt about Alec last night. His blue eyes shining with laughter. His face lighting up with it. Magnus had sighed deep when he awoke. He missed him profoundly.

It was already evening when the fire message came. No phones in Idris, Magnus thought, so instead of calling, Alec had turned to fire messages to ask Magnus to call him back. At least, that's what he thought would be in the message. But he turned out to be wrong, because when he opened the message, the writing on it was formal and impersonal.

Warlock Bane, has the vampire Simon Lewis been brought back to New York via Portal this evening? Alec Lightwood.

Pfff, he wasn't even going to answer that. Warlock Bane. As far as Magnus was concerned, Alec could stick it somewhere else from now on.

But when he went to bed that night he couldn't stop tossing and turning and thinking of blue-eyed gorgeous Alexander, even if he had called him Warlock Bane as if he didn't know him. And truth be told, he really didn't want Alec to stick it somewhere else. If there was anything he didn't want it was that.

After a fitful night he send a message back.

Alexander, there has been no Portal activity in New York since Clary decided to create one of her own to follow you all to Idris. Yours sincerely, Magnus.

He thought he handled that better than Alec had handled his own fire message. And he told himself very sternly that from now on, fire message or not, he would go back to ignoring Alec completely.