SHAPESHIFTED (✓)

26. Confessions of a Shadowhunter.

"Maaaooowww!" Magnus called out to his boyfriend, pawing his front legs in the air, struggling to sit up but falling on Alec's bed again and again. "Maaw!" He called again, softly this time, his voice was completely raspy and he wasn't able to get hold of his powers. To hide the uncontrolled powers, he was shedding his fur all over Alec's room and making his body temperature rise, so that it would look like he was sick.

"Alec! Come here and take care of your cat!" Jace yelled. "This little dude here seems to like just your touch!" He tried rubbing Marius' belly but got scratched again. "Oww! ALEC!"

"Jeez, Jace! You know he's sick. If you remember, Church had scratched me thousands of times when he was sick. So, stop complaining."

Alec walked towards his bed with freshly cooked food in Marius' bowl and warm water in another one. He kept the water bowl on the side table and the food bowl in front of Marius.

Magnus pawed at him again with a soft meow, Alec held his leg and helped him to get up. "Hey, buddy." He cooed. "Come on, eat something. You haven't eaten anything in 24 hours." He put the bowl down in front of him and let him sniff it. After some minutes of sniffing the warm food, it seemed like he liked it as he started taking small bites of it.

Alec softly patted his head and noticed that his body temperature was still high. He sighed then looked at the destroyed cat bed, remembering the events which led to Marius getting sick.

"Is that stupid Dearborn deruned?" Jace asked, reading Alec's eyes, making his Parabatai come back to reality.

"Those Dearborns are making it hard to get him deruned, but, at least Jia understands that animal cruelty is a crime too, and what he did was beyond cruelty. His mind is fucked up. All those Dearborns minds are fucked up. Why are they shadowhunters again!?" Alec sighed while stroking Marius' side body as gently as possible. He finally seemed to eat something solid in the last two days without puking.

"Calm down, Alec! You did tell her that Steven broke into your room when we all were in a meeting and almost killed this little buddy here, right? If you and Simon hadn't heard his loud meowing and that weird barking, we don't know what would've happened. If that's not a crime, I don't know what is!"

'What would've happened!?' Magnus thought. 'What would've happened was, that son of a bitch would be in ashes right now, being my father's new pet, enjoying his stay in hell with him, if my dear boyfriend wouldn't have interrupted me when I was about to use my powers on him. My powers are out of control because of that fucking disgusting Nephilim.' he thought bitterly while chewing the warm herbs-tossed fish, which was actually delicious if he thought about it.

"Yes, I did Jace, and Jia understands. But those Dearborns are giving her a hard time as well. They... they're being an absolute ass."

"Meaning?" Jace asked with a frown.

"They are saying that..." He sighed then looked at his Parabatai. "That animal should never be allowed in a shadowhunter's sanctuary, they corrupt its purity. And not just that, they 'requested' her to remove me from the post and derune me instead because I demoted him for no reason, that what he did was right. They are also saying that a sinner like me shouldn't run an institute. I'm not fit for running an institute because I'm not straight, and people like me shouldn't exist."

Jace's mouth was hung open at that. "Those idiots do realise that Jia is the Consul, and Aline and Helen are married. They are testing their own luck, digging their own grave."

Alec chuckled at that then looked at Marius who was happily eating his food. He sighed with satisfaction then looked at the destroyed cat bed.

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