This was sent out to Cassie's Google Group! I thought I would share!

In honor of our current LGBT characters discussion, here's an outtake
from City of Glass that was rewritten for the final version, starring
Alec and Magnus.

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The roof closest to the square was steeply pitched. Alec skidded down
the side of it, his boots knocking against loose shingles. Poised
precariously at the edge, he stared down.
Cistern Square was below him, his view partly blocked by a massive
metal pole that jutted out midway down the face of the building he was
standing on. A wooden shop sign dangled from it, swaying in the
breeze. The square beneath was full of Iblis demons — human-shaped,
but formed of a substance like coiling black smoke, each with a pair
of burning yellow eyes. They had formed a line and were moving slowly
toward the lone figure of a man in a sweeping gray coat, forcing him
to retreat against a wall. Alec could only stare. Everything about the
man was familiar — the lean curve of his back, the wild tangle of his
dark hair, and the way that blue fire sprang from his fingertips like
darting, cyanotic fireflies.
Magnus, Alec breathed silently. The warlock was hurling spears of blue
fire at the Iblis demons; one spear struck an advancing demon in the
chest. With a sound like a pail of water poured onto flames, it
shuddered and vanished in a burst of ash. The others moved to fill his
place — Iblis demons weren’t very bright — and Magnus hurled another
spate of fiery spears. Several Iblis fell, but Magnus was beginning to
tire, Alec could tell even from this distance — and now another demon,
more cunning than the others, had drifted around Magnus and was
coalescing behind him, ready to strike.
Alec didn’t stop to think. Instead, he jumped, catching the edge of
the roof as he fell, and then dropping straight down to seize the
metal pole and swing himself up and around it, slowing his fall. He
released it and dropped lightly to the ground behind the Iblis demon.
The demon, startled, began to turn, its yellow eyes like flaming
jewels; Alec had only time to reflect that if he were Jace, he would
have had something clever to say, before he snatched the seraph blade
from his belt and ran it through the demon. With a dusty shriek, the
demon vanished, the violence of its exit from this dimension
splattering Alec with a fine rain of ash.
“Alec?” It was Magnus, staring. He had dispatched the remaining Iblis
demons and the square was empty but for the two of them. There was a
scratch running the length of his handsome face, and Alec was vaguely
surprised to see that his blood was red — he had wondered if warlocks
bled red or not, since they were part demon and demon’s blood could be
a variety of colors. “Did you just — did you just save my life?”
Alec nodded. He wondered if he looked wild-eyed. He felt wild-eyed.
“Why?” Magnus asked.
Alec knew he ought to say something like, because I’m a Shadowhunter
and that’s what we do, or because it’s my job. Jace would have said
something like that. Jace always knew the right thing to say. But the
words that actually came out of Alec’s mouth were quite different —
and sounded petulant, even to his own ears. “You never called me
back,” he said. “I called you so many times and you never called me
back.”
Magnus looked at Alec as if he’d lost his mind. “Your city is under
attack,” he said. “The wards have broken, and the streets are full of
demons. And you want to know why I haven’t called you?”
Alec set his jaw in a stubborn line. “I want to know why you haven’t
called me back.”
Magnus threw his hands up in the air in a gesture of utter
exasperation. Alec noted with interest that when he did it, a few
sparks escaped from his fingertips like fireflies escaping from a jar.
“You’re an idiot.”
“Is that why you didn’t call me? Because I’m an idiot?”
“No.” Magnus strode toward him. “I didn’t call you because I’m tired
of you only wanting me around when you need something. I’m tired of
watching you be in love with someone else — someone, incidentally, who
will never love you back. Not the way I do.”
“You love me?” Alec said in wonderment.
“Of course I love you, you stupid Nephilim,” Magnus said. “Why else
would I have spent the past few weeks patching up all your moronic
friends every time they got hurt? And getting you out of every
ridiculous situation you found yourself in? Not to mention helping you
win a battle against Valentine. And all completely free of charge!”
“I hadn’t looked at it that way,” Alec admitted.
“Of course not. You never looked at it in any way. You never looked at
me.” Magnus’ cat’s eyes shone bright gold with anger. “I’m seven
hundred years old, Alexander. I know when something isn’t going to
work. I don’t need to make a fool of myself —”
“You’re seven hundred years old? I thought you said you were three
hundred!”
“Well,” Magnus amended guiltily, “eight hundred, really. But I don’t
look it. Anyway, you’re missing the point. The point is —”
But Alec never actually found out what the point was, because somehow
he’d stepped forward and put his arms around Magnus and pulled him
close, and he was saying something about how he wasn’t in love with
Jace any more, and never had been really. And Magnus was looking at
him incredulously with his green-gold eyes, and since Alec never knew
the right thing to say he gave up on saying anything, and kissed
Magnus instead. And then Magnus’ arms were around him and Magnus was
kissing him back, and Alec thought that maybe there were more
important things, better things, than always knowing the right thing
to say after all.

SQEUEUEUEUUEEUUEUEUEUEUUELLLLL!!! I am STILL grinning like an idiot!

<3 <3 <3 <3 Aleeec <3

lol

Thank you!!

*dies*
*is revived*
OMG xxDDD cuteness ovaloaadd, you're an angel for putting this up here!

I'm so glad to see that you guys appreciate it! And thank you, I AM an angel.

wow, i gotta say i was jus a tad bit dissapointed when the story ended in CoG and alec and magnus's relationship was cut short a bit.

You BTW have just added an entire amount of epicness to thier relationship, i can sleep tonight a changed person

Where the heck did you find that? I must print it out and make a repeating collage of it all over the walls in my room!!

Have you guys heard that Magnus has a girlfriend in the Infernal Devices? I guess he's bi...

Ahhh No way!
i dunno wether to feel like that makes Alec and Him less of a perfect couple. :/ is this a fact or a rumor?

Oh, it's fact. Depressing fact. From Cassandra Clare's livejournal:

Person commenting on a journal entry of Cassandra's:

Quote:

I'm probably going to have a hard time liking magnus' boyfriend, since in my mind I will be going "but he goes with alec!" lol...man readers are hard to please aren't they? You'll get hate mail even though it's hundreds of years before alec was even born.

Cassandra:

Quote:

Actually, I'll get hatemail because it's not a boyfriend, it's a girlfriend.

Check out this page if you doubt the above horrifying statement's truth.

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To love is to destroy, and to be loved is to be the one destroyed.

hahaha lol at Cassie!awww that was cute *-* and hilarious!What was that age discussion?lol

She sent it out to her Google Group. I was shocked. I logged into my old e-mail account and there it was! Sigh.

Oh, and, yeah, she'll have a TON of hate mail. She said on Twitter that Camille (Mag's GF in ID) treats him like shit and is a total bitch! Poor Mag! No wonder he switched to boys...

what a S****
if i was him i'd snap my fingers in a Z formation and blow her ass up!