Magnus reaches up a hand and holds Alec’s wrist, breaths steady and long, fingers pressed to the veins in his wrist. Alec stills, cupping Magnus’ neck and feeling the pulse thud there. He thinks about twin hearts and eternity, the way that some souls must be drawn together by fate or the hand of some God or possibly their own determination.
When Magnus Bane walks into Alec’s third grade classroom, a scowl printed on his face and a permanent chip on his shoulder, Alec has no idea that, one day, this scrawny smart-ass will mean the world to him.
He has even less idea that he’ll mean just as much to Magnus.
In which Magnus and Alec are destined for each other, everyone around them can see it, and sometimes, love is found in the most unexpected places.
(Childhood best friends to lovers AU, set over fifteen years.)
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“When fic authors receive comments, they know, clearly, that someone enjoyed their writing. And while leaving kudos on a fanfic also allows you to say that you enjoy what you’ve read, as a fanfic author, I can tell you that there’s nothing sweeter than getting comments on my fics. I love reading them, and knowing that people enjoy my writing when I do.”
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For the prompt: “ollie and alec meeting for the first time through luke, and ollie is just excited to meet an openly gay shadowhunter and has too many questions while alec just wants her gone so he can go home and have dinner with magnus”
I have a whole list of malec fic recs over here, and here are some accounts where you can find some recs as well: @malecficlibrary and UnitedSHFandom on Twitter (they share fics and other creations by the fandom).
For centuries, Magnus being awake at 3am usually meant one too many shots of vodka and the strong possibility of ending up in bed with a stranger. Even after he had met Alec it was much of the same. Alec wasn’t a stranger, he was the love of his life, and there was less alcohol involved sure, but still a gorgeous man in his bed. Or his couch. Or his shower. Magnus wasn’t picky.
Now being up at 3am meant something drastically different.
He wanted to spend a lifetime’s worth of mornings waking up beside Alec, just like this, wherever life took them, because Alec was home. Magnus had spent a lifetime searching, and in Alec he had found where his life and his heart belonged.
As a firefighter for the FDNY, Alec Lightwood and his battalion respond to an emergency call for an apartment fire. After rushing a young, soon-to-be mother out of the burning building and to safety, Alec must deliver her newborn baby.
He never expected the little girl to spark an inexplicable bond between them. After a prior adoption fell through in a devastating way, should he and Magnus even hope they might be able to adopt her?
Malec Fic Library 