Deflect by happilyy

Chapters: One-Shot
Genre: Canon AU
Length:

Under 5K

Rating:

Teen & Up

Secondary Characters: Clary Fray, Izzy Lightwood, Jace Wayland,

Raphael Santiago,

Simon Lewis


Secondary Pairings:

Clary Fray / Jace Wayland, Izzy Lightwood / Raphael Santiago / Simon Lewis
Themes: Domesticity, Established Relationship, Family, FluffMagnus POV,

PWP 

Summary:

Magnus had always found runes fascinating, and the power each one provided was amazing to watch in action. The way they contrasted against skin, standing out stark and powerful. The warlock also found the placing of some of them to be quite interesting.

Especially Alec’s.

Or: Five times Magnus agonized over his fixation with Alec’s neck and his deflect rune and one time he did something about it.

Eight Days by Lemur710

Companion to “Force of Nature” But Can Be Read Separately

Chapters: One-Shot
Genre: Canon AU
Length: 5K – 10K
Rating: Mature
Secondary Characters: Izzy Lightwood, Jace Wayland
Secondary Pairings:

None

Themes:

Alec POV,

Angst, Domesticity, Established Relationship, Family, FluffTravel

 

Summary:

Alec suddenly realized this was the longest he and Magnus had been apart for reasons that weren’t life or death. He hadn’t heard Magnus’s voice in eight days. He hadn’t seen him or smelled him or touched him in eight days. He hadn’t kissed him in eight days.

Alec held his gaze and he seemed somehow calmer, unflinching, as he stood face-to-face with Magnus’s otherness, his permanence and power. As calm and steady as he’d been when he walked away from the altar at his own wedding to kiss Magnus before his family, the Clave, and everything he’d ever thought he believed in. Always his steadiest, his most decisive, when the situation most called for uncertainty and fear.

Magnus Bane in Force of Nature by Lemur710

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I believe…I do believe marriage is a partnership—I shouldn’t have mocked you for that, I’m sorry…One built on passion, love, trust. I heard it said once that marriage should be a soft place to fall. That you can be more, strive higher, because you know there’s someone to catch you if you fail, someone who will remind you of everything you are. Who can lend you strength when you’ve lost yours.

Magnus Bane in Force of Nature by Lemur710

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Force of Nature by Lemur710*

Companion to “Eight Days” But Can Be Read Separately

Chapters: One-Shot
Genre: Canon AU
Length:

5K – 10K

Rating:

Mature

Secondary Characters:

Camille Belcourt,

Clary FrayIzzy LightwoodJace Wayland,

Ragnor Fell


Secondary Pairings:

Camille Belcourt / Magnus Bane

Themes:

1×12,
Angst, Cat-Eyed Magnus, Domesticity,

Established Relationship, Family, Fluff,

Hurt & Comfort,

Immortality Issue,

Magnus POV,

Marriage Proposal,

Relationship Milestones,

Warlock Mark Reveal

  

Summary:

A note from the past causes Magnus to contemplate the loves of his long life, and leads to an unexpected turning point in his relationship with Alec.

Or, Why Magnus Never Married

***

“Meaning well is not well enough,” Ragnor said to Magnus in some shabby French café several decades ago. “You remember what Simone said. ‘The danger is not that the soul doubts there’s any bread, but lest, by a lie, it persuades itself that it is not hungry.’ My dear friend, there is no bread. Do not pretend any of these well-meaning ‘acts of love’ feed that starving soul of yours.”

“That’s not exactly how she said it. I do believe you’re paraphrasing.”

“And you’re avoiding the issue, which I’ll allow because I’ve eaten too much and need to concentrate on digestion. But I hope you’re listening too.“

Roof Against the Rain by Penelope_Writes

Chapters: One-Shot
Genre: Canon AU
Length:

Under 5K

Rating: General Audience
Secondary Characters: Izzy Lightwood,

Jace Wayland,

Maryse Lightwood,

Max Lightwood,

Robert Lightwood
Secondary Pairings:

Maryse Lightwood / Robert Lightwood

Themes: Alec POV,

Angst,

Established Relationship,

Family,

Hurt & Comfort,

Protective Magnus

 

Summary:

Alec, reeling from familial turmoil, experiences a panic attack. Magnus helps him through it.

Playing With Fire by Obsessivecompulsivereadr

Chapters: One-Shot
Genre: Canon AU
Length: Under 5K
Rating:

Mature

Secondary Characters: Maia Roberts
Secondary Pairings:

None

Themes:

2×03,

2×06,

Alcohol,

Alec POVEstablished Relationship,

Flirting,

PWP,

Relationship Milestones

 

Summary:

Alec’s breath catches nearly every time he looks at Magnus, and it happens even during times they haven’t been on an official date. But tonight is different. Magnus isn’t his sedate and dignified self right now. He’s back to being flirty and relaxed, and he looks so good that Alec can’t stop thinking about touching him.

Magnus doesn’t know which part of this is making his heart ache more. Is it that Alec, beautiful, innocent Alec, is doing all of this to repair what his parents broke? That he’s carrying such a heavy weight with no one to share it, that he’s expected to throw his life away into a loveless marriage so that the Clave will respect the Lightwood name again? Or is it that Alec has gotten under his skin, that his gentle voice flows through Magnus’ veins where his blood should be, that his heart has come out of hiding for the first time in over a century only to be kicked back into the depths of his chest because Alec won’t ever want Magnus like that?

Magnus Bane in Figure My Heart Out by softlightwood

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Figure My Heart Out by softlightwood

Chapters: One-Shot
Genre: Canon AU
Length:

5K – 10K

Rating: General Audience
Secondary Characters:

Catarina Loss,

Chairman Meow,

Clary Fray,

Izzy Lightwood,
Lydia Branwell,

Maryse LightwoodRobert Lightwood

Secondary Pairings: None
Themes:

1×041×061×081×09, Angst,

Arranged Marriage,

Coming OutFamily, Fluff,

Hazel-Eyed Alec,
Magnus POV, Pining,

Relationship Milestones

 

Summary:

An almost awed expression takes over Alec’s face when he looks down at their hands between them, Magnus’ own looking small and delicate when locked with strong archer’s hands.

“I can have this” Alec muses, “can’t I?”

“You really must stop playing hard to get, Alexander” Magnus tells him, “it makes things difficult”

And how refreshing it is for Alec to meet Magnus’ light-hearted flirting with an embarrassed smile rather than a stoic mask of refusal, how beautiful Alec is when he’s not trying to be otherwise. Magnus brings their hands to his mouth and brushes a soft kiss across Alec’s knuckles. “Will you let me take you out, Alexander? For fear of sounding cryptic, I’ll clarify and say that I do mean a date. Dinner, perhaps?”