V1S2- Fashion Police, It's An Emergency!- Psych! It's Magnus Verse

Chapter 3: There's just something about the guy....

Summary:

Raphael's account of his first meeting with Simon

Chapter Text

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"... at, Can you believe that, Raphael?"

"Raphael?"

"Raphaaell?"

"Hello!" Magnus tried waiving his hand in front of Raphaels face, startling him,

"Hmm, oh, yeah, what a Jerk" Raphael tried

Magnus stared at him, confused

"Raph, darling? I was talking about this article interviewing a guy who thinks he saw a mermaid at Heavens Way Beach?"

Well, it was worth a shot...

He was really trying to focus on what Magnus was saying, he was; but he just couldn't seem to concentrate. His mind kept drifting off to the day before; to meeting Simon.

There was just something about the guy...

Raphael had been happy to have the excuse to get away from the, whatever the hell it was, between Magnus and Detective Lightwood, heading towards the file room to locate the other detective. He'd entered the room and, first hadn't seen anyone. Wandering further into the room he turned and stopped short when he saw a guy climbing up on a shelf.

What the hell?

This was a police station, right?

The guy was in a uniform, so he must belong here; unless he was some crazy guy that snuck into the police station for some weird, bizarre reason. That didn't really seem very likely; well, unless you factored in the randomly climbing on shelves thing that was going on right now. That kind of added a bit more to the 'Crazy Guy' theory. He debated going back out and finding someone to ask, just in case...

Then everything just seemed to happen at once. The guy was reaching for a folder on a high shelf, standing on the lowest shelf, about a foot in the air, now balanced pretty much just on his toes. Then something just seemed to shift and the guy was falling backwards, unable to reclaim his stability. Raphael moved without even thinking, catching him, breaking his fall. The guy just seemed to freeze, waiting for the impact with the ground.

"Woah, careful there, are you okay?" Raphael asked, concerned

The guy had turned, with his eyes still closed tightly. He looked to be around Raphaels age, maybe a bit younger, with light brown hair and glasses. When he'd turned his arms had seemed to come up and fit around Raphael's shoulders; as if to steady himself. Then he had opened his eyes...

Wow..

He had really warm, impossibly wide, light golden brown eyes, and somewhat soft, bordering on pretty, features. He also had a look of total, complete shock on his face, eyes wide, mouth slightly open.

He was, simply, absolutely, completely, adorable.

Increible, eres lo más lindo que he visto"

God, he didn't mean to say that, it just slipped out! What the hell was wrong with him? He never got flustered around people; he didn't stutter or stammer or randomly blurt out things without thinking. People just didn't get to him like that: one of the benefits of being asexual. He was always in control, of his words, his actions, regardless of who he was talking to.

Or at least he was...

He came back to himself, distancing himself from the other guy, being sure he had his balance again, of course. Then he stepped back a bit more, just for good measure.

The guy seemed to just stare, still in shock, looking at Raphael. But the way he was looking, it was different. It wasn't appraising or even appreciative, really; he just looked totally, utterly, amazed.

It really threw Raphael; he didn't know how to even begin to respond to that.

"Uh, he-, hey, man. Sorry about that, thanks for the save though" he stammered, sheepishly

"It is not a problem, lindo"

Damnit! There he went again; he'd called the guy cute, again!

What the hell?!

Crap, now the guy was blushing

That was SO not helping matters!

God, I hope he doesn't speak Spanish.. Raphael thought, desperately

Then the guy had started talking..

"Oh, uh, I'm Simon. Um, Lewis. O-,Officer Simon Lewis. Well, actually, starting Monday it will be Detective Simon Lewis. See, this really cool psychic guy came in today, and at first some of the other detectives thought that he was a criminal or like, like in on it or something. But then! Then we had this big interrogation, and he proved he was psychic and he called out Detective Ramsey, who, I know you don't know, well, I don't think you know him, I guess you could of known him. But, anyway, he got really freaked out when Magnus, that's the psychic's name, by the way, when Magnus totally called him out on all of his worst traits and that he was like, with Alec, like with with, you know? Which, dude, I still can't believe that one! And he totally freaked and ran out of the room when Magnus and Alec had this weird, kind of hot, argument/confrontation/flirting kinda thing, and then he totally quit! And I took the Detectives exam a few months ago, but, like, there were no openings, so now I'm gonna be a Detective, well, junior Detective, but I am! I get my shield and everything! Can you believe it?"

The guy paused, eyes wide, breathless

Raphael had no idea what to do with all that; couldn't even begin to decipher all of it, much less really respond.

He did get one important part of it though

Detective Simon Lewis

"Eso es realmente maravilloso, I'm Raphael, by the way" he introduced himself

"Oh, uh, yeah, umm, Hi, Raphael, it's nice to meet you"

He sounded so shy, and, god help him, the guy was blushing even more

Raphael was at a loss, but he could hide that well

"It is nice to meet you, as well, Detective Simon Lewis." Raphael replied, smoothly

Reaching out to shake his hand

Simon's whole face just kind of lit up

"Hi, again"

"Hi"

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Notes:

Increible, eres lo más lindo que he visto- Amazing, you are the cutest thing I've ever seen

Lindo- Cute ( I wanted cutie, but couldn't find a translation

Eso es realmente maravilloso- That is really wonderful

Okay so,
I know a lot of this is kind of recycled from my Simon/Raphael chapter of the first story but I really wanted to have Raphael's side of things. Plus, if by chance someone doesn't/has yet to read it, it would make a lot more since.

***Last thing, I'm kinda playing with the idea that Raphael just kind of slips into Spanish when he is really flustered, which will only happen with Simon, and not too much (mainly because I don't speak it and I don't entirely trust the translator on my writing program, if some of the translations I got from stories I've read before is any indicator- to keep from having any too major screw ups with this, I'm kinda just going with a less is more deal)