The whole time I’ve been a Shadowhunter I’ve never been afraid of losing someone like I was afraid of losing you.
Alec Lightwood in Our Battles Choose Us by ThePineScentedAir
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The whole time I’ve been a Shadowhunter I’ve never been afraid of losing someone like I was afraid of losing you.
Alec Lightwood in Our Battles Choose Us by ThePineScentedAir
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Chapters: Chaptered Fic
Genre: Canon AU
Length: 25K – 50K
Rating:
Secondary Characters: Camille Belcourt,
Ragnor Fell, Raphael Santiago,
Secondary Pairings:
Alec Lightwood / Jace Wayland,
Clary Fray / Jace Wayland, Izzy Lightwood / Ragnor Fell
Themes: Alec POV, Angst,
Drained Magic,
Enemies to Lovers,
Family, Fluff,
Outside POV, Pretend Relationship,
Summary:
Alec shakes his head and rubs his palm over the white scar of the faded deflect rune permanently inscribed on the left side of his neck. He wishes he had his stele or his bow or even his sword. Anything would be better than facing an unknown foe nearly weaponless and certainly powerless. He wishes a lot of things. “Keep your head and don’t get cocky, Izzy. We stick together, remember?”
Isabelle nods and stares at the door, weapon hanging loosely from her hand at her side. “You and me against the world, Alec.”
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Or, after the Downworlders rise up against the Shadowhunters, the United States is quarantined off. Downworlders capture Shadowhunters and force them to fight in arenas for entertainment. Alec and Isabelle do their best to stay alive in the ring despite everything that has happened in the year since they were captured, but what happens when they try to escape?

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Chapters: One-Shot
Genre:
Other AU
Length:
Secondary Characters:
Raphael Santiago / Simon Lewis
Themes: Alec POV,
Crime, Established Relationship, Family,
Relationship Milestones, Superhero, Unhappy Ending
Summary:
49. Superhero and Villain AU
The city was torn apart by the fight between the mob families and the vigilantes, but Alec and Magnus were far away from all that. They were just two normal guys in a normal relationship.
Number of lies: 3
He’s really, really beautiful. The kind of beautiful that makes Alec’s stomach squirm and his heart stutter. It’s not even really about his looks, though they’re certainly stunning; so much of Magnus’s beauty seems to hang in his eyes, in the personality that shines through his expressions.
Alec Lightwood Anything You Say by milominderbinder
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Chaptered Fic
Genre: Human AU
Length:
50K – 75K
Rating:
Secondary Characters:
Ragnor Fell, Raphael Santiago,
Secondary Pairings:
Camille Belcourt / Magnus Bane,
Izzy Lightwood / Meliorn, Lydia Branwell / John Monteverde
Themes: Alec POV,
PWP,
Summary:
Detective Alec Lightwood likes his job. He likes the order of it, likes helping people, likes that he gets to work with Jace and that Izzy is always right downstairs in the morgue too. He’s wanted to be a cop ever since he was a kid, just like his parents before him, and now he’s living that dream. His life should be perfect.
There’s just one problem. Their precinct has just gotten a new forensic expert – Magnus Bane.
And honestly, he’s so cute that Alec’s kind of losing his mind.
Chapters: One-Shot
Genre: Human AU
Length:
Secondary Characters:
Izzy Lightwood / Simon Lewis
Themes:
Alec POV, Crime, Family, Flirting,
PWP,
Summary:
Love you, leave you, play you like a heart break bandit
Magnus is a well known bandit throughout the south who, following his last big robbery, finds a small town where no one should know him to wait the night out.
Chapters: One-Shot
Genre: Human AU
Length:
Under 5K
Rating:
General Audience
Secondary Characters:
Summary:
Alec is struggling with his project for uni and asks Magnus for help. Alec is also incredibly smitten with his roommate.
prompt: “It’s simple really. Here let me show you.”
Kissing Magnus was like being struck by lightning; igniting a liquid fire that spread through his veins, melting him and setting him aflame all at once.
Alec Lightwood in Heaven Can Wait by sceptical
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Chapters: One-Shot
Genre: Human AU
Length:
5K – 10K
Rating: Teen & Up
Secondary Characters: Clary Fray, Izzy Lightwood, Jace Wayland,
Simon Lewis
Secondary Pairings: Clary Fray / Jace Wayland,
Themes: Alcohol, Alec POV, College, Coming Out, Family, Flirting,
Summary:
In which Magnus and Alec go on their first date.