Poor Magnus...I'm glad he finally revealed a bit of his past to Alec and Alec deserves the Best Boyfriend Award for hearing his boyfriend's tragic past.
What I wanted for this chapter is to combine both Malec scenes and place them by time of day according to the episode but add my own twist.
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Magnus' loft 7:00 am
The light shone through the blinds revealing a body entangled in red Egyptian sheets. The soft ivory skin, the dark runes etched onto his strong physique. His hair the color of midnight looked a bit disheveled from the night before, his hazel eyes slowly fluttered open as he turned slowly.
His hand reaching out to touch the body that was beside him but found cold empty sheets.
Alec sat up gently, the bed sheet lowered exposing the lower half of his body despite feeling a bit naked underneath.
He looked around the room to find the man he spent the last four nights with, but he was nowhere to be found.
He gently called out his name "Magnus?"
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He quickly found his clothing from the night before. A pair of dark pants and a maroon shirt he was putting on while walking barefoot into the living room and here he was.
"There you are", Alec said gently
Magnus turned his body around to see his Alexander coming out of the bedroom while hiding away his gorgeous figure underneath the soft maroon shirt. "Good morning"
"I wish I could say the same. It looks like you haven't slept"
"Should I be insulted by that?" Magnus asked with a bit of humor to his voice pretending to be hurt.
Alec shook his head gently with a soft smile upon his face.
"No I love that face. This is, like, the fourth morning in a row that I've woken up to an empty bed," Alec tells him, eyes full of concern, and his voice light and careful as he looks at Magnus more closely.
"Is something bothering you?"
Magnus steps closer to him and dials up the smile he put on his face. He knows he's slipping— knows Alec is bound to notice the way he can't keep the cracks from showing when they spend as much time together as they do—but if he can just keep it together a few more days, then maybe the worst will pass, and Alec never has to see just how deep and ugly the darker parts of him go.
"Nothing's bothering me," he replies, moving a little closer still, congratulating himself on his choice of wardrobe when Alec's eyes momentarily drop down to his chest.
"I've even gotten used to your adorable little snores."
"Hey. I don't snore," Alec protests, and Magnus congratulates himself on a diversion well executed.
Magnus replicated the way Alec snored in his sleep and couldn't help but laughed gently at Alec's defense saying that he doesn't which was the most cutest thing he'd ever heard.
"Look I know you well enough to know something's bother you"
Magnus ignored the thoughts form his mind and he said "Alexander I'm fine"
He leaned and placed a soft kiss upon his hunter's lips, his right hand placed on his neck.
After he asked Alec what he was going to report to the Clave, Magnus's mind began to wander off ignoring Alexander's words about if the Clave were to found out about him letting Luke go after he threatened Valentine's life, he would be dismissed from the position of Head of the Institute.
Magnus slowly came back to reality putting off whatever was bothering him and told Alec "Whatever you decide I'll stand by you" placing a hand on his shoulder.
Alec replicated Magnus' movements and asked "Are you sure you're okay ?"
"Positive" Magnus responded and he walked away, possibly getting ready to start the day.
Alec was well enough to know something was bothering him and he was about to find out what it is.
5 :00 pm
After transporting Valentine to Idris which eventually backfired with no clue to where Valentine is, Alec knew that there were more important things on his mind at the moment.
He knew something was off with Magnus this morning, how he kept saying that he was fine when really he wasn't, it was a clue to something that the warlock has hidden something from Alec about his past.
Earlier today Izzy told Alec that Magnus shouldn't push him away because something was interfering with the warlock's mind, but Alec thanked his little sister for her advice and told her he could handle it. Alec walked out of the Institute, into the cool dark night and headed towards Brooklyn.
8 pm
All Magnus could feel was grief.
The memory of his mother's suicide and the death of his stepfather at his own hands simply would not leave his mind, clanging around until it was the only thing he could think about at all times, asleep or awake.
Still immersed in the vividness of the memory, Magnus could vaguely hear someone calling his name, and startled as he found Alec standing in front of him, brows raised in question.
"Oh, hello," Magnus chirped in a falsely cheery voice that was decidedly not his, "I was just about to make myself a drink. You want one?"
Though he knew his pretense was up, there was no way he would tell Alec about the memories that haunted his mind. Ever. All he knew how to do was pretend, pretend, pretend, stuff the deepest, darkest parts inside of him just so the people he cared about wouldn't leave.
