How Much the Heart Can Hold by theonetruenorth*

Chapters: One-Shot
Genre: Canon AU
Length: 1K to 5K
Rating: Teen & Up
Secondary Characters: Ragnor Fell
Secondary Pairings: None 
Additional Relationships: Magnus Bane & Ragnor Fell
Themes: Christmas, Dance, Established Relationship, Ghosts, Grief, Hazel-Eyed Alec, Holidays, Hurt & Comfort, Magnus POV, Post-2×20Winter

Summary:


A short story in which you will find weirdly-named cats, handsome tailors, two boys in love, fancy parties and a green-skinned ghost of Christmas past.

This is What Forever Feels Like by magnusbicon

Chapters: One-Shot
Genre: Canon AU
Length: 1K to 5K
Rating: General Audience
Secondary Characters: None
Secondary Pairings: None 
Additional Relationships: None  
Themes: Alec POV, Christmas, Established RelationshipFluff, Holidays, Immortality Issue, Winter

Summary:


It wasn’t the first time that his gratefulness for Magnus overwhelmed him, and it certainly wouldn’t be the last.

Or malec + christmas sappiness

Love is All That I Have by arekiras

Part #1 of Winter Fics series

Chapters: One-Shot
Genre: Canon AU
Length: Under 1K
Rating: General Audience
Secondary Characters: Catarina LossIzzy LightwoodJace WaylandRagnor Fell
Secondary Pairings: Maryse Lightwood / Robert Lightwood
Additional Relationships: Alec Lightwood & Izzy Lightwood, Alec Lightwood & Jace Wayland, Magnus Bane & Catarina Loss, Magnus Bane & Ragnor Fell
Themes: Alec POV, Christmas, Established Relationship, Family, Fluff, Grief, Head of the Institute Alec, HolidaysWinter

Summary:


Even with the world ending, he knew he could count on the routine of the Christmas holiday. Not that he’d be adverse to changing his routine a little this year, now that he has Magnus. Spending Christmas in the loft, just them and the tree and the fire. The muffled quiet of the snow outside.

Souls of Fire by saraubs*

Chapters: Chaptered Fic
Genre: Other AU
Length: 25K – 50K
Rating: Mature
Secondary Characters: Catarina Loss, Jace Wayland, Maryse Lightwood, Robert Lightwood, Valentine Morgenstern
Secondary Pairings: Magnus Bane / Original Character
Additional Relationships: Alec Lightwood & Catarina Loss, Alec Lightwood & Jace Wayland, Magnus Bane & Catarina Loss
Themes: Alec POV, Angst, Blue-Eyed Alec, Cat-Eyed Magnus, Dragons, Established Relationship, Family, First MeetingFirst Time, Historical, Hurt & Comfort, Injured Alec, Injured Magnus, Injury, Magnus POV, Pining, Prince, Protective Alec, Protective Magnus, PWP, Relationship Milestones, Slow Burn, Soul Bond, Soulmates, Telepathy, Travel, Unrequited Feelings, Winter

Summary:


A pacifist raised in a warrior culture, Aleksander has been the subject of his father’s ire since he was old enough to spurn the sword. But after years of scorn and abuse, Alek finally gathers the courage to do what he’s always wanted: leave. Equipped with information that could mean the salvation of an entire culture, Alek sets out to find the dreki – a race of magic-weilding shifters – and warn them of his father’s quest to eradicate their kind.

Magnus Bane, celebrated leader of the dreki, has given up everything in order to help his people. When he accepted the mantle of Drakkson, he did so knowing that life’s ordinary pleasures were forbidden to him. Magnus was happy to make the sacrifice and has never regretted that choice – until he meets Alek. Beautiful, brave, and shockingly innocent, he’s everything that Magnus didn’t know he wanted and the one thing that he can’t have.

Thrown together out of necessity, Magnus and Alek quickly move from open hostility to begrudging respect. But with war looming on the horizon and the dreki council breathing down their necks, forging a way forward together is impossible – unless both men are willing to turn their backs on everything they believe in.

No Surrender by hazelNuts

Chapters: One-Shot
Genre: Canon AU
Length: 1K to 5K
Rating: General Audience
Secondary Characters: None
Secondary Pairings: None 
Additional Relationships: None  
Themes: Competitiveness, Established RelationshipFluff, Magic UseWinter

Summary:


Magnus has brought Alec to the roof for some target practice in the snow. Alec doesn’t realize that he’s not the one practicing until it’s too late.

‘I can’t believe you’ve never done this before,’ Magnus says. He throws the snowball in the air. A purple streak shoots from his hand, giving the snowball a push and sending it flying much faster than any person could throw it. 

Alec pulls his bowstring back, aims, and releases. The snowball bursts when the arrow hits its target. 

‘I was a bit busy with training.’ He pulls a new arrow from his quiver. 

‘And you’re saying this isn’t great target practice?’

Let Your Heart Be Light by milominderbinder

Chapters: One-Shot
Genre: Canon AU
Length: 1K to 5K
Rating: Teen & Up
Secondary Characters: Catarina LossIzzy LightwoodJace WaylandRagnor FellRaphael Santiago 
Secondary Pairings: None 
Additional Relationships: Alec Lightwood & Izzy LightwoodAlec Lightwood & Jace WaylandMagnus Bane & Catarina LossMagnus Bane & Ragnor FellMagnus Bane & Raphael Santiago   
Themes: Alcohol, ChristmasDrunk AlecEstablished RelationshipFamilyFluffHolidaysOutside POV 

Summary:



Magnus throws a festive party. At different points of the night, Raphael, Catarina, Izzy, and Jace all reflect on just how much Magnus and Alec have changed since they got together — and how much happier they seem.

Kiss Me by magnusbicon

Chapters: One-Shot
Genre: Canon AU
Length: 1K to 5K
Rating: General Audience
Secondary Characters: Izzy LightwoodMaia RobertsRaphael SantiagoSimon Lewis
Secondary Pairings: None
Additional Relationships: Alec Lightwood & Izzy Lightwood, Alec Lightwood & Raphael SantiagoMagnus Bane & Raphael Santiago
Themes: Alec POVChristmasEstablished RelationshipFluffHead of the Institute AlecHolidaysWinter

Summary:

malec + mistletoe

It’s the Little Things by katwriting

Chapters: One-Shot
Genre: Canon AU
Length: 1K to 5K
Rating: General Audience
Secondary Characters: Izzy LightwoodJace WaylandLuke GarrowayRagnor FellRaphael SantiagoSeelie Queen
Secondary Pairings: None
Additional Relationships: None
Themes: Alec POVDomesticityEstablished RelationshipFluffHazel-Eyed AlecHead of the Institute AlecHigh Warlock MagnusOutside POVPost-2×20Shadow World PoliticsTravelWinter

Summary:


When Magnus has to go away on a business trip to wintery London, Alec makes sure he won’t get cold.

Growing up in the Institute had taught Alec a lot of things. Most importantly, to always have warm clothes at hand as soon as the weather became chilly. The concrete walls of the Institute may be a perfect shield against the heat during summer, but they absorbed every bit of warm air inside as well. So warm clothing during winter it was. For Alec, that didn’t really pose as a problem, he had long gotten used to low temperatures in the Institute.

Magnus, however, was an entirely different story.