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The Answer is “No” (But Baby, It’s Cold Outside) by la_muerta*

Part #1 of the A Game of Pitch and Catch series

Chapters: Chaptered Fic
Genre: Human AU
Length: 5K – 10K
Rating: Mature
Secondary Characters: Aline Penhallow, Camille Belcourt, Helen Blackthorn, Izzy Lightwood, Jace Wayland, Jem Carstairs, Max Lightwood, Raphael Santiago, Simon Lewis, Tessa Gray
Secondary Pairings: Aline Penhallow / Helen Blackthorn,  Jem Carstairs / Tessa Gray
Additional Relationships: Alec Lightwood & Izzy Lightwood, Alec Lightwood & Max Lightwood, Magnus Bane & Izzy Lightwood, Magnus Bane & Raphael Santiago
Themes: Alec POV, Angst, Athlete, Christmas, Enemies to Lovers, First Time, Holidays, Hooking Up, Hurt & Comfort, Magnus POV, One Night Stand, Pretend Relationship, PWP, Relationship Milestones, Sports, Travel, Winter

Summary:


It’s Christmas Eve, but instead of being home with his siblings watching cheesy television and eating pizza, Alec Lightwood is stuck in a small town in the middle of nowhere because of a snow storm. Worse, he’s going to have to share a room at an over-priced B&B with his sister’s annoying boss, Magnus Bane. They’ll be lucky if this Christmas doesn’t end in bloodshed.

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The Chemistry Between Us by astudyinfic

Chapters: Chaptered Fic
Genre: Human AU
Length: 25K – 50K
Rating: Mature
Secondary Characters: Clary Fray, Izzy Lightwood, Jace Wayland, Maia Roberts, Maryse Lightwood, Max Lightwood, Meliorn, Robert Lightwood, Simon Lewis

Secondary Pairings: Clary Fray / Jace Wayland, Izzy Lightwood / Magnus Bane, Izzy Lightwood / Meliorn, Maia Roberts / Simon Lewis, Maryse Lightwood / Robert Lightwood

Additional Relationships: Alec Lightwood & Izzy Lightwood, Alec Lightwood & Jace Wayland, Alec Lightwood & Maryse Lightwood, Magnus Bane & Clary Fray, Magnus Bane & Izzy Lightwood, Magnus Bane and Maryse Lightwood

Themes: Alcohol, Angst, Biochemist, Christmas, Drunk Alec, Drunk Magnus, Family, Fluff, Hazel-Eyed Alec, Holidays, Hurt & Comfort, Magnus POV, Pining, Pretend Relationship, Relationship Milestones, Travel, Winter

Summary:

Izzy’s parents will never accept her new boyfriend, whom they expect her to bring home for the holidays. Enter her best friend and colleague Magnus. Sure, pretending to date is a terrible idea in the movies but as neither of them harbors any secret love for the other, Magnus figures this should be a simple weekend in the Hamptons with his friend.

Until he meets Isabelle’s brother and Magnus knows they have all the elements of a chemical reaction that is about to blow up in his face.

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A Stranger For the Night by Demonic_Activity

Posted for Team Green during Mid-3A Shadowhunters Hiatus Flash Bang

Chapters: One-Shot
Genre: Human AU
Length: 1K to 5K
Rating:

Mature
Secondary Characters:

Izzy Lightwood


Secondary Pairings:

None
Additional Relationships:

None
Themes:

Alcohol,

Alec POV,

Dance,

Established Relationship,

First Meeting,

Hooking Up,

Married Couple,

Pretend Relationship,

PWP

  

Summary:

“I’m so sorry to bother you, but would you be so kind as to kiss me?”

“Excuse me?” Alec turned from the bar – his whiskey glass hovering in the air and frozen halfway to his mouth – only to become immediately trapped in scintillating, deep amber eyes, locking onto him with a force that seemed altogether too intimate already.

—
For a chance meeting with a stranger at a bar, it sure does feel familiar….
Let’s be strangers for the night, darling.

Square: fake dating

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I Get to Love You by milominderbinder*

Chapters: One-Shot
Genre: Human AU / 

Other AU

Length:

25K – 50K
Rating:

Teen & Up
Secondary Characters:

Catarina Loss,

Dot Rollins,

Izzy Lightwood,

Lydia Branwell,

Ragnor Fell, Raphael Santiago, Robert Lightwood, Underhill,


Secondary Pairings:

None
Additional Relationships:

Alec Lightwood & Izzy Lightwood,

Alec Lightwood & Underhill,

Magnus Bane & Catarina Loss, Magnus Bane & Dot Rollins,

Magnus Bane & Ragnor Fell, Magnus Bane & Raphael Santiago

 
Themes:

Alcohol,

Alec POV, Angst,

College,

Domesticity,

Drunk Alec, Drunk Magnus, Family,

First Meeting,

Flirting, Fluff,

Hazel-Eyed Alec,

Hurt & Comfort,

Magnus POV,

Pining,

Pretend Relationship,

Relationship Milestones,

Soulmates

Summary:

It’s his senior year of college, and Alec Lightwood needs money. Pretending to have a live-in boyfriend so they can take part in a psych study at their college seems like a great idea, and Magnus Bane is the perfect candidate – a casual acquaintance who also happens to be the most gorgeous and charismatic man alive. There’s just one problem.

As the study goes on and they grow closer, Alec might be starting to fall for him for real.

But it can’t happen. Because Magnus isn’t his soulmate.

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Unsteady by thepoeticflower

Part #1 of the It All Started With a Fake Date series

Chapters: One-Shot
Genre:

Human AU
Length: 1K to 5K
Rating:

Not Rated
Secondary Characters:

Jace Wayland,

Raj
Secondary Pairings:

Alec Lightwood / Raj
Additional Relationships:

Alec Lightwood & Jace Wayland


Themes: Alec POV,

Angst,

Break Up,

First Meeting,

Hurt & Comfort,

Pretend Relationship,

Protective Magnus

 

Summary:

Another fake dating au! Alec is alone at a bar, waiting for Jace, when his ex walks in. Who will be there for Alec when Raj finally spots him?

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So Bright by lemonoclefox*

Chapters: 

One-Shot
Genre:

Canon AU
Length:

10K – 25K
Rating:

General Audience
Secondary Characters:

Clary Fray,

Izzy Lightwood, Jace Wayland, Lydia Branwell,

Maryse Lightwood,

Robert Lightwood,

Simon Lewis

Secondary Pairings: None
Themes: Alec POV,

Battle Couple,

Coming Out,

Drained Magic,

Family,

Flirting,

Fluff,

Friends to Lovers,

Hurt & Comfort,

Injury,

Magnus POV,

Pining,

Pretend Relationship,

Relationship Milestones,

Unrequited Feelings

 

Summary:

“You want me,” Magnus says, “to pretend to be your boyfriend.” He sounds wholly unimpressed, and Alec has a moment of panic when he hears it out loud.

“Yes,” he says. “Temporarily.”

“You want me to fake date you,” Magnus says flatly. It’s not even a question, but more a way of really driving the point home about how dumb the idea is.

“Pretty much." 

Magnus narrows his eyes.

"You do realize that this never works out well in movies, right?” he says. “Ever.” Alec feels a distinct sense of embarrassment creep up now.

“Look, I―”

“Ever.”

Alec has come out, but that doesn’t stop his parents from their continuous attempts to set him up with a nice shadowhunter girl. So, what better way to finally get them off his back, than to say he has a boyfriend? Problem solved. Except they now apparently want to meet this guy, who doesn’t exist. Thankfully, Magnus Bane – who encouraged Alec to come out in the first place, and whose silent crush on Alec is just as bad as Alec’s crush on him – is more than happy to help. Even if the night doesn’t end up going entirely as planned.

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Show Me What I Can’t See by ariquitecontrary

Chapters:

One-Shot
Genre:

Human AU
Length:

10K – 25K
Rating:

Teen & Up
Secondary Characters: Izzy Lightwood, Jace Wayland,

Lydia Branwell,
Meliorn

Secondary Pairings:

Alec Lightwood / Jace Wayland,

Clary Fray / Jace Wayland,

Izzy Lightwood / Lydia Branwell

Themes:

Alcohol,

Alec POV,

Angst,

Author,

Dance,

Flirting,

Friends to Lovers,

Lawyer,

Pining,

Pretend Relationship,

Relationship Milestones

 

Summary:

It seemed like a good idea at the time. Date someone else that way he can learn to be a good boyfriend for the guy he really wants, then things got a bit messy and confusing but honestly, when you’re Alec Lightwood that’s nothing new.

Or: Alec likes Jace so when Jace leaves to England for five months, he decides to fake date Magnus Bane in order to learn how to become a good boyfriend and finally win Jace over. Sounds like a foolproof plan, right?

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Will You Be My Best Friend? Will You Be My Last? by ohprongs

Chapters: One-Shot
Genre:

Human AU
Length:

Under 5K
Rating:

General Audience
Secondary Characters:

Camille Belcourt,

Chairman Meow,

Clary Fray, Izzy Lightwood, Jace Wayland,

Jocelyn Fairchild,

Luke Garroway,

Maryse Lightwood,

Robert Lightwood,
Simon Lewis

Secondary Pairings:

Camille Belcourt / Magnus Bane,

Clary Fray / Izzy Lightwood,

Jace Wayland / Simon Lewis, Jocelyn Fairchild / Luke Garroway

Themes: Angst,

Break Up,

Fluff,

Friends to Lovers,

Holidays,

Hurt & Comfort, Magnus POV,

Pretend Relationship,

Relationship Milestones, Valentine’s Day

Summary:

or the ‘you pretended to be my partner bc my ex wouldn’t stop talking to me’ au

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Catalyst by DarkAliceLilith

Posted during Week #2 of Shadowhunters AU Mondays, Post-2B

Chapters: One-Shot
Genre:

Human AU
Length: Under 5K
Rating:

Teen & Up
Secondary Characters:

Aline Penhallow,

Clary Fray,

Izzy Lightwood,

Jace Wayland,

Lydia Branwell,

Meliorn,

Simon Lewis

Secondary Pairings:

Alec Lightwood / Jace Wayland,

Alec Lightwood / Lydia Branwell

Themes:

Alcohol,

Alec POV,

Angst,

Arranged Marriage,

Celebrity,

Coming Out,

Fluff,

Friends to Lovers,

Internalized Homophobia,
Music, Musician, Pining,

Pretend Relationship

Summary:

Musician AU. After ending his engagement with fellow singer Lydia, Alec begins to realize that living in the closet might not be the best option after all.

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Our Battles Choose Us by ThePineScentedAir

Chapters: Chaptered Fic
Genre: Canon AU
Length: 25K – 50K
Rating:

Explicit

Secondary Characters: Camille Belcourt,

Clary Fray,

Izzy Lightwood,

Jace Wayland,

Lydia Branwell,

Maryse Lightwood,

Max Lightwood,

Meliorn,

Ragnor Fell, Raphael Santiago,

Robert Lightwood,

Simon Lewis,

Valentine Morgenstern

Secondary Pairings:

Alec Lightwood / Jace Wayland,

Clary Fray / Jace Wayland, Izzy Lightwood / Ragnor Fell
Themes: Alec POV, Angst,

Battle Couple,

Cat-Eyed Magnus,

Death,

Drained Magic,
Enemies to Lovers,
Family, Fluff,

Friends to Lovers,

Hurt & Comfort,

Injured Alec,

Injury,

Magnus POV,

Outside POV, Pretend Relationship,

Relationship Milestones,

Travel,

Warlock Mark Reveal

 

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.”

—
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?