The tmi gang and Max and Rafe:
Simon opted for a movie night to keep the kids quiet and occupied. There was nothing they could do to ruin a peaceful movie night. right? Oh, how wrong he was! Max started to cry when Mufasa died and refused to watch the rest of the movie (”Make him shut up!” Rafe chucked the TV remote at Simon.) Simon--poor, helpless Simon--tried to change the movie, to Rafe’s utter horror. He let out an agonized wail. He grabbed Simon’s phone from his hand when he’d tried to call Izzy for help, found Magnus’s picture in Simon’s contacts and called him, yelling out an angry rant when it went into voice mail. Max, in the background, unnoticed by Simon because of his struggle to wrench his phone back from Rafe, had waddled his way over to the TV screen, and was reaching out to touch the moving pictures. He climbed the shelf , leaning against the TV, and within seconds, the machine was cracked on the floor, Max had turned into a bat, and Simom, (Simom, get it? Cuz he’s a mom friend?) (I’m funny, ok) and Rafe could do nothing but stare as the television showed a last, sad scene between Lilo and Stitch. Even that winked out, leaving Simon horrified, Rafe shocked, and Max still a bat.
Alec did not trust Jace to be alone with the kids, but he was the only available one on short notice, so Alec gave him a strict set of rules on his way to — wherever he and Magnus were headed. Jace sounded exasperated the whole time, his annoyance evident to Alec throught the phone. When Alec and Magnus returned, aching limbs hurrying as fast as they could, they opened their apartment door to a surprisingly peaceful view. Jace looked exhausted--taking care of a toddler and a moody child alone all day tended to do that to a person--even if said person happened to have angel blood in him--but other than that, nothing else seemed out of place. Max was curled up tight around one of his toys, safely bundled in Jace’s arm, Rafe was staring at a rather beautiful hunting knife with a gleam in his eyes (that look worried Alec and Magnus, but nothing in the house was broken yet, so they just let him keep it.) Jace looked to be in the middle of explaining some kind of strategy to Rafael, slowly rocking Max, soft music surrounding all three of them. There was an empty bottle of baby formula lying on the bedside table, and some of Magnus’s comics open on the bed. Upon seeing Magnus and Alec, Rafe immediately jumped up and started blabbing to Magnus, in hurried, rapid Spanish--”This blond idiot won’t stop talking, please tell him to go away”, but there was no bite in his words. Jace smiled at them wearily (his Speak in Tongues rune flashed once before fading slowly as Rafael finished talking), and gave Max back to Alec, who cooed but didn’t wake. All Malec could do was stare in shock (and not without fondness, even from Magnus) as Jace occupied Rafe again, and told Malec to go to bed, and that he would watch the kids, because he knew they’d had a long, long day.
(Holy shit, this is much longer than i thought it would be-- WAIT FOR PART 2, PEOPLE!)
(PROBABLY)
(MAYBE)
(OKAY, HOPE FOR PART 2, PEOPLE!)
