May 6, Alec

[seveninches]

They're planning a June wedding, which is starting to become very real, and very soon. Isabelle isn't the one getting married but she's still starting to feel the stress of it, hoping that everything is done in time to pull the day off perfectly. She's helped out as much as she can but she doesn't want to be overbearing, and she knows Alec will get easily overwhelmed. Which is why she's decided that today is shopping day.

It's not in Alec's nature to ask for gifts from anyone, so Isabelle is assuming that he hasn't done anything about a gift registry yet. She knows technically Magnus could just conjure anything they might ever need, but that takes all the fun out of wedding presents. She's seen it in mundane movies and read about it, and she's decided that Magnus and Alec will have a gift registry, even if she has to force one on them. There are heaps of people in Darrow who are going to want to shower them with love and affection and presents, and Isabelle wants to make sure they don't end up with anything terrible or seven of the same toaster or something ridiculous.

She's dragged Alec to the mall under protest, and with a scan gun in her hand Isabelle feels in her element. She's already scanned a dozen things that she thinks would make excellent gifts, moving determinedly through the aisles.

"Magnus would love that," she calls out, pointing to a throw rug with a silver trim that sparkles against the light. It's opulent and probably expensive but Isabelle scans it with a flourish anyway, glancing over at Alec with red lips curved into a grin. "Just don't let the cats shed all over it."

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[deflectere]

Alec is not a fan of shopping. When he went, he was in and out within minutes and typically grabbed the first thing he saw that was what he needed. He didn't tend to window shop or compare prices or anything like that.

Yet, here he was, watching his sister flit from item to item and following along dutifully. He listened to her talk about the various pieces she checked with her weird scan gun and nodded when it seemed like the right time.

"I don't know if the cats would listen to me," Alec told her, tilting his head and eyeing the rug up and down. "Do we need another rug? There's carpeting."