Life Support by maleccrazedauthor

Chapters: One-Shot
Genre: Canon AU
Length:

5K – 10K

Rating: General Audience
Secondary Characters:

Catarina Loss,

Clary Fray, Izzy Lightwood, Jace Wayland,

Madzie,

Valentine Morgenstern,

Victor Aldertree

Secondary Pairings:

None

Themes:

2×10,

Alec POV,
Angst,

Death,

Established Relationship, Family,

Protective Alec,

Relationship Milestones,

Suicidal Thoughts, Suicide Attempt

 

Summary:

Such simple words. They changed everything.

And they changed absolutely nothing.

This wasn’t a development that had happened in the past few minutes or even in the panic-stricken hours before dawn in which he’d been searching for Magnus. This had been happening for weeks, in small steps. It had been happening in fiercely competitive grins across the pool table at the Hunter’s Moon, and in the unaccustomed feel of Magnus’s hand taking his to pulling him down the streets of Prague. It had been happening in companionable hours of gentle kisses and conversation on Magnus’s balcony and in impassioned gasps and the slide of sweat-slick skin against his own between Magnus’s sheets.

There was only one thing to be done.

Kissing Magnus felt like the jolt of electricity necessary to restart Alec’s heart, and clutching him close again was life support to keep it beating.

Aldertree’s words about the impossibility of shadowhunters and downworlders being together echoed in his brain, haunting him as he breathed in the scent of Magnus. But even if Alec wanted to heed them, he couldn’t. He was too far gone. There was nothing to do but ride the fall out and wait to hit the ground.