Love Finds A Way
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Expectations by GideonGraystairs
Fandoms: Shadowhunters (TV), The Mortal Instruments Series - Cassandra Clare
22 Jan 2021
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“You deserve to be happy,” Lydia had told him when she’d given back her wedding ring. “For once in your life, Alec, be a little selfish.”
Now, staring at his signature on their divorce papers, Alec couldn’t help but feel the weight of all the expectations he would never live up to. All he’d ever wanted was to be perfect. You’re a Lightwood, his parents had always said. Anything short of perfection and you’ll disgrace this family.
An AU where Alec doesn't meet Magnus until after he marries Lydia, and doesn't start to get to know him until after they divorce.
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- Part 1 of Love Finds A Way
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Assumptions by GideonGraystairs
Fandoms: Shadowhunters (TV), The Mortal Instruments Series - Cassandra Clare
27 Jan 2021
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Now that he knew a little better who Alec was outside of his Shadowhunter duties, it was difficult not to stare. All these years and he’d barely spared Alec a thought, easily dismissed as just another Nephilim. Three years of monthly, if not weekly, meetings and he’d never taken the time to just... look at Alec.
And now he couldn’t stop.
An AU where Magnus doesn't meet Alec until after he marries Lydia, and doesn't start to get to know him until after they divorce.
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- Part 2 of Love Finds A Way
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Possibilities by GideonGraystairs
Fandoms: Shadowhunters (TV), The Mortal Instruments Series - Cassandra Clare
02 Feb 2021
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Alec breathed in the night air, cleaner here than anywhere else in the city. It must’ve been a spell. He looked up at the moon, and the stars, and the skyscrapers that obscured them. He could be brave, now. He could test out how hot the ember was between them. He could take a leap of faith and hope that he hadn’t made this all up in his head, that Magnus felt it too.
An AU where Alec doesn't meet Magnus until after he marries Lydia, and doesn't start to get to know him until after they divorce.
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- Part 3 of Love Finds A Way
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Thoughts by GideonGraystairs
Fandoms: Shadowhunters (TV), The Mortal Instruments Series - Cassandra Clare
21 Aug 2021
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This stupid, stupid little nephilim, Magnus thought, warmth flooding his chest. Even when he’d thought Alec was straight-laced and conservative and the perfect Clave errand boy, he’d always known how much Alec cared. About everything, even the things that weren’t his to care about. How much had he fought for his siblings and their friends, when the Clave turned against them? How hard had he worked to solve the Downworld’s problems, even when they didn’t affect him? How defensive had he been anytime someone made a snide comment about his mother’s de-runing?
“Alec,” Magnus murmured. He rested a hand on Alec’s knee. “Why did you come here?”
An AU where Magnus doesn't meet Alec until after he marries Lydia, and doesn't start to get to know him until after they divorce.
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- Part 4 of Love Finds A Way
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When she’d sniffed back her tears and fixed her hair where he’d messed it up, she refocused on him with a different kind of energy. It had always amazed him — Isabelle’s ability to pull herself together and look like she’d never fallen apart in her life, all in an instant.
“Jace said you’ve been gone a few nights,” she began, effectively changing the subject. Her tone was teasing, like she knew something and was only trying to get him to admit it. “And you weren’t in your room this morning. Where were you?”
An AU where Alec doesn't meet Magnus until after he marries Lydia, and doesn't start to get to know him until after they divorce.
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- Part 5 of Love Finds A Way
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Chances by GideonGraystairs
Fandoms: Shadowhunters (TV), The Mortal Instruments Series - Cassandra Clare
04 Oct 2021
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As soon as Magnus thought it, Alec’s expression broke for a moment, only long enough to get a glimpse of hurt before it was neatly stashed away. Magnus had once admired Alec's ability to set all his feelings aside and be nothing but a proper diplomat. He wondered now how much of that was diplomacy and how much was fear, not wanting the rest of the world to see what he was really feeling.
An AU where Magnus doesn't meet Alec until after he marries Lydia, and doesn't start to get to know him until after they divorce.
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- Part 6 of Love Finds A Way
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Our own. No matter how hard Alec and the others here had been working to fix things between the Shadow and Downworld, there was still a rift. It was still us and them. Slips of the tongue that showed how ingrained this racism was in their culture, how long it had been there that it was second nature to so many.
An AU where Alec doesn't meet Magnus until after he marries Lydia, and doesn't start to get to know him until after they divorce.
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- Part 7 of Love Finds A Way
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Sparks by GideonGraystairs
Fandoms: Shadowhunters (TV), The Mortal Instruments Series - Cassandra Clare
18 Mar 2022
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Magnus had enough experience to sense that this was dangerous. This bubble around them, like they were somehow removed from the world only two feet away from them. This air, charged and warm, like it was a breathing thing with amorphous shape. The way he knew exactly how much he would have to shift for them to touch.
An AU where Magnus doesn't meet Alec until after he marries Lydia, and doesn't start to get to know him until after they divorce.
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- Part 8 of Love Finds A Way
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It should’ve been the fact they still hadn’t found the person responsible that kept him up at night, but he was ashamed to admit that it wasn’t. Instead, it was stupid, inconsequential little things that didn’t matter, things like being flirted with at a party in downtown Brooklyn and how it’d felt like it’d irrevocably shifted something between him and Magnus.
An AU where Alec doesn't meet Magnus until after he marries Lydia, and doesn't start to get to know him until after they divorce.
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- Part 9 of Love Finds A Way
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Things had been off since his party the night that Lorenzo sleazed his way back into the city. Magnus had sent a handful of texts, to which Alec had replied slowly and without much fanfare. It was his usual style, but something felt different. Distant, maybe, in a way that it hadn’t been before, even when the Institute was in crisis and Alec had few moments to spare.
Something had changed. Perhaps he was overthinking it, that dangerous spell in the air the night of his party, but he couldn’t help but wonder if that had been the cause of this shift.
An AU where Alec and Magnus don't meet until after Alec marries Lydia, and don't start to get to know each other until after their divorce.
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- Part 10 of Love Finds A Way