A/N: Hey everyone! Thanks for the reviews again. Love you all!

Disclaimer: I own ZERO of these characters or races or anything. Yeah, I'm lame.

Alec hopped out of the cab and raced through the rain to Magnus's apartment complex. He rang the buzzer insistently, grimacing as the rain droplets soaked his sweater. Finally, Magnus's annoyed voice sounded from the speaker.

"You had better have a goddamn fabulous reason for disturbing me," he growled. Alec grinned to himself.

"It's me, Magnus," he said lightly. "Can I come up?" It was as if Alec's voice had thrown a switch in Magnus's head.

"It's a mess up here," he said sheepishly. "I was hoping we could go out." Alec shrugged, momentarily forgetting Magnus couldn't see him.

"We can, but it's raining right now, so let me up until we leave? Please?" he wheedled, wishing he had worn his hoodie or brought an umbrella. There came a surprised silence on the other end before Magnus replied.

"It's raining?" he asked, sounding worried.

"Yeah, I just said that, didn't I?" Alec snapped, starting to get irritated. He prided himself on having more patience than his brother and sister combined, but nothing pushed it like getting soaked by a surprise rain shower. Magnus made a tutting noise, and clicked the door open.

"Come up, but try not to get my furniture wet," he sighed, hanging up. Alec trudged up the stairs, shucking his sodden jacket and draping it across his arm. Magnus had left the door cracked open just enough so that Alec could nudge it open, but not wide enough to allow Chairman Meow's escape. Alec scuttled in, eager to be covered by a roof, and let the door close softly behind him. He hung his coat on Magnus's wrought iron coatrack, and peered around the flat curiously.

"Magnus?" he called, mulling around thoughtfully.

"Give me a second, Alec!" he replied from somewhere in the back room. Alec continued to stroll about the apartment, and began to notice tiny details. Magnus only had pictures of himself scattered around the apartment, for instance; there were a few bedazzled frames highlighting the Chairman, but other than that, Alec saw no family pictures of any sort. He also saw that none of Magnus's furniture really matched—it was all either exotic or neon, and looked as though he were running a fashionable thrift store. Alec heard a door creaking open, and turned to see Chairman Meow skittering out of the bedroom, leaving the door slightly ajar. Through the small crack in the door, Alec caught sight of Magnus, stark naked and bent over as if to retrieve something. He let out a squeak and turned away, fighting the urge to peek again.

"Alec, are you okay out there?" Magnus snickered. "I heard a rather girlish squeal." Alec gulped and focused intently on his plain sneakers before replying.

"I'm fine…I tripped over your cat," he lied. There was a huge clamor as Magnus rushed out of his bedroom, shirtless.

"My baby!" he cried, scooping up the cat. "Are you hurt?!" Alec snorted and scooted away from Magnus.

"He's scared because he's pressed against your naked chest," he grumbled. "Anyways, I thought we could just hang out here and avoid the torrent of water outside." Magnus's face fell.

"But I spent such a long time getting fabulous," he whined. "Can't we go out and hit up a club?" Alec frowned.

"I'll take you to a pizza place outside of town…as my date," he said firmly. Magnus stared at him, for once at a loss for words.

"Are you being serious? I thought I told you I didn't want to date anyone who couldn't come to terms with who they were," he said, watching as Chairman Meow leapt nimbly from his arms and into Alec's lap. Alec shuffled his feet awkwardly.

"Well, I thought if I started out small and just kind of…came out in a little town just outside of the city where I didn't know anyone, I could eventually come to terms with being who I was in my hometown," Alec said, his voice quaking more than he would have liked. "And I leave town tomorrow, so I figured if it didn't go well we'd never have to see each other again, and you could just forget about it and everything…." Magnus's expression softened and he reached out to pet his cat, who was still curled up in Alec's lap.

"I'm not sure, Alec. It would be one date, in the closet, in a place we've never been, and you're leaving tomorrow anyways," he trailed off. Alec looked up at him with huge baby blue eyes, silently pleading.

"Well, I just thought, I mean…what do we really have to lose?"

Alec and Magnus were seated in the back of a cab, whizzing through the streets of New York. Magnus snaked his hand over to touch Alec's, simply to gauge his reaction. Alec recoiled slightly, before returning his hand and resting it beside Magnus's, who grinned down at him.

"So, where's this place again?" he asked, stroking his thumb across the back of Alec's hand idly. Alec grinned.

"A little pizza place a ways out of town…I usually go there on my way to the city from the airport." Magnus let out a sigh as the cab took them farther and farther from the smoggy embrace of New York City.

A/N: So anyways yeah. Sorry I know it's short and I missed last week, but that's high school I suppose. I hope you enjoyed this chapter!