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In retrospect, Alex should have been proud of her brother.

Her dorky, goody-two-shoe, could-never-do-wrong brother who couldn’t even pull off a decent prank without it backfiring.

(She’d spent a good portion of her life showing him the power of the Dark Side. Hey, it has cookies!)

And now he managed to pull it off! Someone break...

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Justin is seriously not sure how he gets himself into these situations.



Like all of the great disasters in his life, this one started with an awesome but not particularly well-thought-out plan to win over a girl. He'd gotten the idea from an old episode of Boy Meets World, which probably should have clued him in to its guaranteed...

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Alex looked down at the paint-splattered carpet, and winced. "Oops. Well, I can fix that later."

And maybe her parents would take it a little easier on her if they knew it was for school?

Okay, so, maybe not.

"Who are you talking to?"

She turned around, even though she didn't really need to; it wasn't like she didn't know Justin's...

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Alex checked herself in the mirror, admiring the delicate, smoky dark kohl she rimmed around her eyes as she brushed her hair in front of her shoulders. Walking to the full length mirror, she once more admired her outfit- a loose grey dress that ended high on her thigh, fishnet stockings with wide holes, and an arrayed chain...

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Everything is different after the vacation’s over. Sure, their family was saved, the Russo children still exist, but now it’s like there’s this weight that wasn’t there before. The competition to keep their magic had always seemed like this far off thing, something that was going to happen, but not to her, maybe, and...

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preschool

This is what Max knows:

They're bigger than him. And they have secrets. He knows what secrets are. They're made of chocolate and magic and he thinks they're Alex's favorite thing in the whole wide world.

"C'mon, Max," she commands, dragging him across the attic floor. "It's time."

Max's feet thump against the floorboards as...

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There's a weird buzzing in Justin's brain for the rest of vacation, like even though Alex fixed everything, something's still not quite right. He worries that Alex put them back wrong -- like, maybe everything is exactly the same, except this version of him doesn't understand calculus or can't spell appoggiatura or won't be able...

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Hellfire and eternal damnation were not usually concepts that Alex Russo gave much thought to.


To be honest, it wasn't really her style.
She had always lived by her own warped code of conduct in which she did as she pleased in order to satisfy her needs at the moment and never paid mind to things as trivial as consequences; not...

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Alex’s fingers are slender and soft and pulling down his zipper and Justin couldn’t tell you how this all got started. He vaguely remembers something about Alex wanting to do something illegal involving the carpet and magic and desperately needing his help. He may or may not have said something sarcastic about getting on...

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"Okay," Justin says. "That was bad."

"Yeah," Alex says flatly, her eyes still fixed on the staircase. "No duh."

He gives her a level look, shifting uncomfortably on the couch. "I mean, really bad. I've never seen them fight like that before."

Neither has she. Sure, their parents fight sometimes, but this was bad. Like, family game...

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It’s the Friday before Christmas when Alex realizes she’s in love with her brother.

It hits her when he’s helping decorate the tree, reaching up up up up with his arm to hang a paper snowflake on the highest branch (their mother has outlawed using magic to decorate for years), his shirt riding up a bit and displaying a strip...

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It’s not like Alex is worried. Not really. This is just what Justin does, or says he’s going to do. This is his thing, and he never actually does any of it, so, whatever. Alex is sure it’s not a big deal. It’s like how Justin is always saying he’s not going to help her get out of trouble, or that he’s going make her...

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This kind of messed up crazy stuff only happens to Justin.

Usually because of her, but this time, seriously, she's done nothing. ...that they can prove.

They're in the basement, trying to find cool stuff for his hypothetical dorm room, and it's dark and smelly and Alex is cranky so she busies herself with texting Justin. Even though...

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They end up getting two pizzas - one thick crust, one thin, and they bring home a doggy bag for Max. Alex would like to say that it's their way of making things up to him, that they felt guilty about sabotaging his wand quiz and chasing off Tutor, but really, they just had leftovers.

"We saved these for you," she says as she hands...

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"So," Alex says, and slides onto the seat across the table from Justin, like it's no big deal. Which it maybe isn't, and it definitely shouldn't be, but -

They've had classes together since then. Two and a half days' worth, in fact. But this is the first time they've actually, directly spoken to one another since ...

Sincehehadsexwithhissisterinacloset....

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When Alex comes down to dinner, Justin's there, looking infuriatingly smug.

Which, of course he is. The box labelled 'Justin's favourite things from his room' is still in her bedroom; on her bed, in fact.

There's just nothing in it, any more.

"You look upset," he says, and she glares at him.

"I'm not upset."

"Really," he says, like...

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fifteen months

He wanted a book.

He's pretty sure this isn't a book.

"You have to be a good big brother," his father says, hovering over the thing in his mother's arms.

"Book."

"No, Justin," his mother corrects, "Alex."

He can say Alex. He's a big boy. And he's smart. He can say a lot of things. "Book."

His parents ignore him, bent over...

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Okay, look, Alex had always secretly suspected she'd be sent off to boarding school, or military school, or possibly prison, but this? This was just wrong.

"Daddy," she fussed. "You can't do this. Do you know what kind of conditions I'll be subjugageted to? I'll have to wear... well. That."

Harper beamed, decked out in full peasant...

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They were all running late for school, which was a surprise. For sure, Alex was consistently late, prided herself on it in fact, and would actually throw herself on the subway tracks before being early. Max tended to be late as well, but his was always accidental and generally due to some random wrong turn or the inability to put...

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Alex blankly stared at the ceiling of her room and let out a sigh of anger. She just had to have gotten a fever this week. She knew she was supposed to be sleeping – her mother forced her to as well as the medicine and the fever itself but she didn’t want to go to sleep. She had planned for tonight for ages – a week –...