V7S1- A Story Not Meant To Be Told- 40's Noir with a Twist

Chapter 9: Drinks, Dates And Demon Deals

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Damnit...How the hell did he miss this?

They get found out and Alec is screwed. I mean yeah there's been some distracting drama on this case...like a LOT of drama. Okay so there's more drama on this one single case than in the entirety of the freaking graduating class of Yale Drama.

There's the regular 'cover-up-the-gay-case' drama, and the homophobic jackasses drama, and the 'working-a-case-without-letting-on-you're-working-the-case' drama, and the political drama, and the standard demon drama, and the Min-Devotees (never making that mistake again) drama, and the 'Head-Detective's-sister-is-a-demon' drama, and the 'multiple-random-colleagues-are-devotees' drama, and Simon's personal 'why-is-the-stupid-demon-so-annoyingly-appealing-please-let-it-just-be-a-spell-wait-no-I-don't-actually-want-to-be-spelled-by-the-stupidly-gorgeous-demon' drama and all of the OTHER random drama but even so; how the hell did he miss just how much Alec had to lose here?

His job, his family, the respect, admiration and standing he's been painstakingly cultivating for more than a decade- every last bit of it could be gone in a blink.

And it's Alec! The guys like a Boyscout mixed with freaking Captain America only somehow even MORE moral. The thought of letting something lie simply to save his own skin wouldn't even register to him. Simon may not know Alec super well but he knew within the first twenty minutes of meeting the guy he wouldn't hesitate to put everything on the line to protect others.

They get caught no way in hell he's even trying to distance himself- he will protect the others, take the brunt of the fallout without a second thought.

Crap...

Okay, you know what? Screw it. All the other drama can just wait, damnit. Forget the demon crap and his own personal flailing insanity and melodramas; right now he just doesn't care about any of that. He can deal with that later, after they've dealt with this hornets' nest of a case, when the best detective and easily one of the best people he's ever met ISN'T a hairsbreadth away from throwing his entire life away just to protect the 'helpless civilians' -Otherwise known as a Warlock, The most feared/stupidly powerful Demon known to exist/equally as feared Crime boss, and a streetwise reporter who's very much under said stupidly powerful demon's protection.

He's a warlock and a detective. All he wants out of life is to make this world a safer place...to protect people-protect humans. And right now Alec needs all the protection he can get.

They need to get this done, find the evidence, get it solved and to where it can be brought to light before Alec has a chance to do anything stupidly self-sacrificing. Thankfully Magnus was able to talk him into dropping it for the evening and Alec has the Family-Dinner-From-Hell to occupy him for the time being but tomorrow they were jumping right back into it first thing.

He has a very small window of opportunity to make some progress and head off the fallout as best he can. Their best lead is Albert Dawson...that's where every road seems to lead back to-it's where he has to start. He did a spell to find out where the man would be tonight- some kind of event over at the Beaumont-a fundraiser or something. He doesn't know what but as it's being held in the great hall odds are it'll be pretty crowded.