"We are," Alec said. "We'd know if we weren't. There just might be a few differences." Like this Jace being less than straight, unless he was just ... talking.
Alec went stiff, expression shutting down into the kind of stony disapproval he tended to default to when he was feeling too much and didn't know how to shut it down well enough. It wasn't a face he made often here anymore, but Jace didn't know that. It was one he'd seen a lot around Clary, in the early days of meeting her, in Jace's timeline. "I didn't say that."
He wanted to ask why Jace was so surprised or dismayed that Alec slept with Magnus here, if he was dating him, had turned down ... Lydia Branwell for him? (He couldn't add on thinking about how his mother reacted right now. That was for later anxiety.) But Alec didn't.
He just shrugged. "That's what most people say to do. You can take your chances, you might get lucky. The upside is that no one here really cares. They've all seen what gets said. Mostly they just say the people who write it are dicks and are ... nice to you about it."
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Alec went stiff, expression shutting down into the kind of stony disapproval he tended to default to when he was feeling too much and didn't know how to shut it down well enough. It wasn't a face he made often here anymore, but Jace didn't know that. It was one he'd seen a lot around Clary, in the early days of meeting her, in Jace's timeline. "I didn't say that."
He wanted to ask why Jace was so surprised or dismayed that Alec slept with Magnus here, if he was dating him, had turned down ... Lydia Branwell for him? (He couldn't add on thinking about how his mother reacted right now. That was for later anxiety.) But Alec didn't.
He just shrugged. "That's what most people say to do. You can take your chances, you might get lucky. The upside is that no one here really cares. They've all seen what gets said. Mostly they just say the people who write it are dicks and are ... nice to you about it."