
With 8 days to go until the Season 3 premiere, the Countdown to Season 3 Event continues today with fic recs related to 2×12: You Are Not Your Own.
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Chapters: One-Shot
Genre: Canon AU
Length:
1K to 5K
Rating: General Audience
Secondary Characters: Azazel,
Secondary Pairings: None
Themes: 2×11,
2×12,
Emotional/Psychological Abuse, Established Relationship, Hurt & Comfort,
Summary:
2×11 reaction fic. As the Inquisitor won’t let Magnus go, Alec has to take matters in his own hands.
“Alec, where are we going?”, Magnus whispered, now really getting nervous, although he technically knew that Alec would never hurt him.
“To switch you back, what were you thinking?”, Alec responded, nervously staring at the closing elevator doors and only relaxing a bit when the car began to move upwards.
Chapters: One-Shot
Genre: Canon AU
Length:
Under 1K
Rating: General Audience
Secondary Characters:
Izzy Lightwood
Secondary Pairings: None
Themes:
2×11, Alec POV, Established Relationship,
Summary:
What if the charm was more powerful than we previously assumed?

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Chapters: One-Shot
Genre: Canon AU
Length:
1K to 5K
Rating:
General Audience
Secondary Characters:
None
Secondary Pairings:
Domesticity, Established Relationship, Fluff, Relationship Milestones,
Summary:
Post-S02E10: Closure for Alec and Magnus.
Chapters: One-Shot
Genre: Canon AU
Length:
Under 1K
Rating:
General Audience
Secondary Characters: Izzy Lightwood, Jace Wayland
Secondary Pairings:
Established Relationship, Family, Fluff, Relationship Milestones
Summary:
Anonymous asked: I’d love to read your take on what happened after the soul sword in 2×10. Like, Alec casually (or not, whatever you like) telling Izzy and Jace etc that they exchanged I love you’s.
Chapters: One-Shot
Genre: Canon AU
Length:
1K to 5K
Rating: Teen & Up
Secondary Characters: Jace Wayland,
Established Relationship, Fluff, Hurt & Comfort,
Magnus POV,
Relationship Milestones
Summary:
“But I didn’t know,” Alec insisted, clearly desperate to calm down but he couldn’t stop. “As soon as Jace told me he activated the Sword, my first thought was you. And I tried calling, called more times than I ever have, but you didn’t answer. I couldn’t help but think the worst. Now I know you were with Madzie, that you both got out, but I didn’t think of that. I couldn’t think of that. I could only think of finding you with the others, of having to pull you out and to hope it was a nightmare. I can’t stop seeing it Magnus, seeing you lying there and knowing there would be nothing I could do to bring you back-”
“Alexander,” Magnus interrupted, thumb wiping a tear that slid down his cheek, leaning forward and claiming his lips in another kiss, like how Alec kissed him, so full of need and love and it was enough to get Alec to stop and focus on him. Taking Alec’s hand, he trailed it up to his chest, Alec’s palm pressing right above his heart, feeling it beat steadily. “I’m alive, I’m here with you, I’m not going anywhere.”
Or
Alec and Magnus recover after the attack on the Institute.
Chapters: One-Shot
Genre: Canon AU
Length:
1K to 5K
Rating: Teen & Up
Secondary Characters: Catarina Loss, Clary Fray, Izzy Lightwood, Jace Wayland,
Simon Lewis, Victor Aldertree
Secondary Pairings:
Established Relationship, Family,
Kids,
Summary:
After the attack on the Institute, Alec and Magnus try to keep everything together, including each other.
Chapters: One-Shot
Genre: Canon AU
Length:
1K to 5K
Rating:
Mature
Secondary Characters: Clary Fray, Jace Wayland,
Simon Lewis, Valentine Morgenstern
Secondary Pairings: Clary Fray / Simon Lewis
Themes: 2×10, Angst,
Established Relationship, Hurt & Comfort, Magic Use,
Summary:
But Magnus did not fall.
The burning white light washed over him, but he stood strong in the center of its deadly rays. And then he took a step forward.
Gone were his brown eyes and in their place were golden, slitted eyes filled with a rage that would buoy even Valentine’s. His muscles rippled like those of a tiger as he stormed forward and stalked his prey.
Bathed in the white light, he looked like an angel of death.
God, Alec just wants to not be here any more. He wants to scramble his way over there and grab Magnus’ hand and bury his face in Magnus’ shoulders and hold him close. He wants to tug Magnus by the sleeve of his jacket and head back down those steps and out into the morning, and just be Alec, a man who has not lost all that he has just found, and not be the Head of the Institute, or a Lightwood, or even a Shadowhunter anymore. He wants to feel Magnus’ mouth again, a grounding reminder of promises shared, because the world feels like shrapnel sometimes and it’s cutting him up the longer he stands here, buffeted by the pyroclastic fallout of the night suffered.
Alec Lightwood in Anaphora in the Aftermath (Of Love and Violence) by theprophetlemonade
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