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Demon Marcus, Sunday

Okay, so maybe Sparkle had missed a few shifts over the past little while. Could he really be blamed? He had been taking care of an animal-transformed girl who was prone to shifting into a badger and threatening to claw out his eyes. Plus, you know... holiday season, new semester, and the ever-popular, 'he just couldn't be bothered.' But then this morning he'd fallen out of bed and realized that there were holes in his favourite pair of yellow socks.

His yellow ones. It was a travesty that needed to be remedied as quickly as possible with a pair of replacement socks, which, of course, he could just pick up at work. So okay, maybe there were benefits to showing up to work for reasons other than being worried that his demonic boss was going to eat his spleen or something. And, you know, getting paid or whatever.

So... yellow socks. Maybe ones with stripes...

Or polka dots?

Oh! Or toes!

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"Hey, man, if it makes you happy," Sparkle replied with a grin. "You're good at making people listen, are you?"

Probably better than Sparkle was.

Alec had never thought about whether or not he had that particular skill, but he supposed he did, to some extent. "I guess so," he said. "Not, um, you, but at home, generally. I'll try it."

"Well, all power to you, man. I look forward to seeing you sway the big, bad security guards."

Oh, this was gonna be good.

"I am too," Alec deadpanned. Because this could go a million different ways, really. "So we'll do this some time this week? So you don't miss your socks too badly?"

"This week sometime sounds good," Sparkle decided with a nod. "In the meantime, I guess I'll have to make do with some other pair."

Like that blue one with the ice cream cones!

... He liked that one, too.

Alec held up one finger, and then, keeping his eyes on Sparkle and not the bin of socks, plunged one arm into the sock bin to select a pair at random.

Then he glanced at what he'd picked and made a face. "Okay. Maybe not that."

"Yeah... Those are..."

Flowery?

"Maybe I'll just make do with the yellow and orange ones. You know. Until we get some better ones on the mainland."

"That's a good idea," Alec agreed. "And then we can stock up so this won't happen again."

Alec was a planner.

"Sock stock? For like emergencies?" Sparkle actually looked like he was considering that, so help him. "You know, Alec... That's... not a bad idea?"

Weird.

Alec was mildly surprised that this hadn't occured to Sparkle before. "Well, it's a two-function plan," he explained. "It means you won't have to worry about ruining one pair, and it also means that you'll be able to change your socks."

Really, it was just the only way to go.

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Well, buying a stockpile of socks kind of cost money, which was something that he hadn't had much of... ever.

"Hey, now. I own other pairs of socks," Sparkle protested, wrinkling his nose. "I'm not some kind of animal, you know. I do laundry and everything!"

Occasionally.

"Oh." THAT CHANGED THINGS. Specifically, it changed Alec's willingness to spend extended periods of time with Sparkle in a situation where he might not be wearing shoes. "Well, I don't know, you seemed very distraught over having to wait a few days to get a new pair. I thought you might have worn those socks every day or something."

"Clearly," Sparkle drawled, "you don't spend a lot of time with people who are used to treating stuff like having enough clothing as a luxury."

Sparkle wore jeans with holes in them because they were stylish.

"Colourful socks are a splurge, you know. Like, anyone can go out and buy a bulk pack of like five pairs of black socks. But you know how hard it is to find yellow socks for guys in the first place? And you're buying those like, a pair at a time, and they're not cheap."

"I've never bought colorful socks before," Alec said slowly, taken aback. "But if we find a store where they have a few pairs, how about I get some for you? I didn't get you a present for Christmas, so..."

And now it was Sparkle's turn to look a little taken aback.

"What? It isn't like I got any gifts for anyone either, man," he protested. "I've got a job now, you know. I can afford my own socks these days..."

Stubbornness and pride. Yep.

Color Alec confused, then. "It's fine, really," he said, trying to regain some sense of what was going on in this conversation. "I don't think I've actually ever gotten someone a Christmas present. I'd be glad to start with you."

"Okay... so... get me something for Christmas when it comes around again," Sparkle replied, exasperated. "It's January, now. That's not a Christmas gift, that's charity."

And he was okay getting charity from the government. But from his peers? From a guy that he'd kissed before? No way.

"It's me losing track of time, actually," Alec corrected him. "And forgetting that it's a holiday when people who aren't Shadowhunters exchange gifts."

Note the way that he hadn't even started to say 'mundane' there, Sparks.

"Look, when's the next holiday when gifts are involved?" he tried.

Sparkle raised an eyebrow, looking at Alec kind of critically, there.

"February fourteenth is Valentine's day," he said, kind of extending an olive branch, there. "It's usually cards and flowers and chocolate and stupid looking stuffed bears holding plush hearts that makes them impossible to hug."

"Oh." Oh. That was... not the kind of holiday he'd necessarily been going for. "I... would it be appropriate for me to get you something then?"

It seemed like a good question to ask.

Please, do pardon Sparkle for staring at Alec as though perhaps he grew a second head, there. This was... kind of a moment of dawning realization.

"You really don't know, do you? Like, you don't... celebrate holidays or whatever, where you're from, or what? Valentine's is, you know... all love and naked baby angels or whatever, usually for people who are, you know, serious about one another?"

And he still had no idea what the hell they were.

"Tell you what. We've got... like a month and a day to figure out if it'd be appropriate to get gifts on that day. We'll see? And in the meantime I'll take care of buying my own socks."

Look, Shadowhunters didn't really do holidays. Especially ones that hinged on being in long-term relationships (which none of Alec's siblings ever were).

"I just meant... because we went out, and we kissed that time," he offered, wringing his hands a bit. "I didn't know it was a longer-time type of... never mind."

Sigh. He was never trying to talk about mundane things again.

"I can still go with you? If you want?"

Oh, Alec. You were awkward and adorable, and Sparkle was right back to wanting to wrap you in a blanket and feed you cookies.

"Come with me," he said, softening, just a bit. "Later this week sometime, just you, and me, and ... I dunno, the GAP or something. And we can check out socks and maybe do dinner or something after. Oh my God you deserve at least a dinner if you're going to be putting up with me while I'm shopping. Trust me."

"Okay," Alec said with a firm nod, relieved to at least understand where this conversation was going again. "We'll do that. We can stop at a sporting goods store while we're there, too, maybe, so I can pick up actual gloves that weren't made for werewolf claws or something."

Gloves and socks. What an exciting shopping excursion.

This was a shopping excursion with Sparkle, Alec. It was going to start as gloves and socks, but it was destined to lead to shoes to wear over the socks, and probably new makeup, and maybe some hair dye or something, and...

"That, we can do," he laughed. "It's a date."

There was dinner involved. It totally was.

Demon Marcus, Sunday

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