Magnus Chase Oneshots!

Truth Or Dare?

Alex Fierro's POV

A bunch of us from floor nineteen and some other einherjar are going to the lounge to play a game of truth or dare. I haven't played it in years, and I am excited to see how it goes with a bunch of people that are very willing to slaughter you. I walk into the lounge, the place where everyone who wanted to play was told to go and sit down in a circle near the corner of the room. Already in the circle are T.J., Halfborn, and Magnus. I sit down between Magnus and Halfborn and join the conversation. 

"Hey Alex, guess what? We play truth or dare a little differently in Valhalla," T.J. says to me with a tight grin on his face, "We play it a little more seriously........"

Then Mallory comes running into the room with a wild grin on her face and plops herself down next to Halfborn (The side of Halfborn that I am not sitting next to). She is smiling wildly like I said before, and her curly red hair is a mess.

"You guys have better not have started without me," She says. 

I roll my eyes, "We didn't, but now that you're here and I don't feel like waiting for all the others that said we are coming, can we start?" I ask incredulously.

"Sure," Halfborn says, "I got the bottle to pick whoever gets to pick a person to say truth or dare to"

Halfborn then takes out a bottle (From where I have no idea, it just appeared) and puts it down in the middle of our circle. He then sends it spinning round and round in a circle. We all wait anxiously to see who gets to go first. I know what I would ask Magnus to do if I went first, I would tell him to keep Jack out of pendent form for more than twenty-four hours. It would annoy him greatly, and seeing the face he gets when he is annoyed is fun because he looks so weird. The bottle starts to slow down. Then just as it slowed it went right past me and to Halfborn. Gosh darn it!

"Well then, Alex, since you are new and haven't seen the extremes of our truth or dare, I will ask you, truth or dare?" He asks me. 

Now, this has always been a hard question for me to answer. Whenever I played this game, I would always stumble on this question and take a solid ten minutes to choose. Instead, I decide that because I am dead now, I need to take chances.

"Truth," I say. 

Mallory whispers something into Halfborn's ear and he rolls his eyes.

"Ugg fine Mallory I will do your stupid truth, even though it's not dangerous enough" Halfborn growls are Mallory, which she returns with a light-hearted smile, "Now Alex, Mallory wanted me to get the truth out of you of who you like and their name, though Mallory wasn't thinking because Alex literally only got here a couple months ago how could she already have a crush!?"

I blush and roll my eyes. Everyone is looking at me expectantly. Magnus's eyes fall on my own...... there as gray as a storm at dusk by a lampost yet somehow they shine brightly. 

"I do have a crush, I am just not willing to say who it is!" I say firmly.

"Come on Alex! Just tell us! This is Valhalla, you're a dead soldier now! Just tell us who it is!" Mallory says excitedly. 

I cannot tell them because my crush is sitting right next to me and I will be mortified for the rest of my life if anyone finds out. (It's Magnus, not Halfborn, ew, Mallory you can have Halfborn). Magnus has been the only one to truly get to know me because he is the only one I have opened up to in Valhalla. I mean sure some of my hallmates know about me, but not some of the stuff I have shared with Magnus. I have told him secrets (Like how my father is an alcoholic) and I have told him my dreams (To one day be as great at making pottery as Vincent van Gogh is at art). Magnus knows me and understands me better than anyone else does and I really like him for that, yet I can't tell them. I stand up and run quickly away from the game of truth or dare, down the hallways, to the elevator, and up to floor nineteen. I couldn't tell them. The stress of not being able to tell him is enough, but now everyone else is going to be pestering me about it. Great, I haven't even been in Valhalla for over a year yet and I am already a wreck.

Magnus Chase's POV

The first thing that was said after Alex ran away was Halfborn saying she was weak and unfit to be here. I got mad real fast. There are so many things that happened to Alex that they have no idea about. They have no idea what it's like to sleep on the streets and be homeless like Alex and I do. 

"She is as strong and brave as any of you!" I burst out, "Have you undergone endless years of torment by you mother who is a shape-shifting god able of the most awful things! You have no idea what it feels like alright! No idea!"

I stand up quickly and walk away from them. I left there faces confused and disgruntled as I walk out of the room. They have no right to say that about her, she is brave, beautiful, strong, tough, courageous, bold, dauntless, erudite, candor, (I might be listing out factions of a book I was reading but whatever) hot, fiery,  and vigorous. She deserves to be in Valhalla as much as anyone here does. She is truly amazing. I walk down the hallway then speed up my pace and run towards the elevator. Knowing Alex would most likely be in her room, I went to floor nineteen to find her. I needed to know if she was okay or not, because she looked sad yet furious as she ran away from the game of truth or dare. As soon as I stepped off the elevator I ran to Alex's room and softly knocked on the door.

"Alex?" I ask. 

"Who is it?" I hear a frail-yet-trying-to-be-strong voice coming from her room.

"Magnus, I came because I wanted to see if you were okay, Halfborn said that you weren't meant to be in Valhalla after you left and that you weren't brave so I told him off and came up here," I begin, "I know that you deserve to be here as much as everyone else does and I know you are brave, I mean you really are brave because of your years before Valhalla,"

"I am not brave," She says through the door, "At all, I couldn't even tell my crush that I like him,"

"Yes you are Alex, you are one of the bravest people here, I think 99% of people here would try to rid themselves of the lives they are living if they stepped into your shoes of your past, your horrible past, I know you did have some good times, but that doesn't mean you aren't brave, And Alex," I say and take a deep breath, "You are not just brave but valiant, courageous, bold, daring, strong, tough, beautiful and almost all synonyms of those words"

Then the door opens to Alex's room and I see her. She is wiping tears from her face, yet smiling, and still looks as beautiful as ever. She takes two steps forward and hugs me. I hug her back as her tears start to pour out again. She is shorter than me by a couple of inches, so her soft green hair is in my face as we hug. Then she pulls away from the hug and wipes her tears away with her hand. She is smiling a tight smile, one of genuine trust and gratitude. 

"Thank you, Maggie," She says to me. 

"Your welcome," I say and smile at her. 

Then she does something every unexpected and kisses me on the cheek. 

"Maggie you where my crush," She says softly and looks to the ground.

She blushes a deep red. I smile wider and am probably blushing as well. 

"Good, because I to have a crush on you," I say. 

She looks up at me, her face flushed, and smileing. For a couple of seconds, we just stare into each other's eyes. Her pretty miss-matched eyes glisten with leftover tears. This time I make the first move..........and pull her in for a nice long kiss.