its almost one am and i am barely coherent but i just had a thought
what if at the end of the mcga series we get a repeat of the end of the last olympian
the norse gods are giving the heroes gifts for their bravery in the fight against loki and they call up magnus
and odin says āwe rarely bestow this gift but we feel like you have earned it. magnus, we would like to offer you a second chance at being alive.ā
and magnus is floored because being alive again means so many things?? he could go back into the mortal world and actually live there, fix up his uncleās house and make it an actual home for himself, hell he could start a charity for homeless kids. and he doesnāt know what to say so he turns back to his friends and theyre all giving him forced smiles and it hits him
this offer is only for him.
obviously for hearth and blitz and sam the reward doesnt matter since theyre still alive, but his other friends will still be dead. theyll still be residents of floor 19, waiting for the actual end of the world to come.
if magnus becomes alive again, that means he couldnt come back to hotel valhalla. they could visit, but it would never be the same as actually living there. he wouldnt have any of it-the brawls, the feasts, his floormates, the rest of the hotel.
and when he died again, would he even end up back at the hotel? he could be chosen for a different afterlife, one where he never sees his friends again. he could lose them for all eternity.
and magnus looks at mallory and halfborn and t.j. who are all clapping for him with sad smiles, struggling to imagine life without them, and then he looks at alex.
alex, who chopped his head off the first time they met. alex, who had shared stories of her past with him. alex, who was snarky and talented and witty and brilliant, who was staring at him with wide eyes threatening to spill over because she knows, she knows that magnus becoming alive again means leaving the hotel.
and in that moment magnus realizes that he is in love with alex, and he doesnt know why he never realized it before, never realized that he would go to the end of the world for her, never realized that he stared all the time because he just loved every thing about her.
and he knows. he knows he cant take the godās offer. because it means he could never see his friends or alex again, it means losing some of the people he cared about the most, and hes already lost so many that the thought of losing them makes his stomach churn.
so magnus turns back to the gods, and he tells them, āas much as i appreciate your offer, i have to say no.ā
and the room gasps, because hes turning down such a valuable gift from odin himself, he could never get this chance again. but odin nods, smiling, like he knew all along that magnus would say no.
and the moment magnus goes back to his friends theyre all swarming him, asking why he turned the gods down, why didnt he take the chance to be alive again? and alex is standing outside of the group, still staring at him in shock, and magnus cant take it anymore, he breaks free of the group and wraps alex in the biggest hug he could manage.
they stay like that for what feels like ages, like theyre the only two people left in the world, holding each other in silence, until alex breaks it. āwhy?ā
ābecause i dont want to ever lose you,ā magnus whispers back. āi couldnt take the chance.ā
and alex is just so overwhelmed with emotion, at the idea that someone would turn down the gods because of her, that she starts to cry, and magnus is crying too because he knows, he knows why alex is crying, and their friends all give them the biggest group hug with tears of their own and they all stay there, with the weight of the world finally eased off of their shoulders, and the gods are faced with a heartbreakingly beautiful display of mortal friendship and feelings, the reason why magnus turned down the chance to live again
and im tearing up over this because magnus loves people, he loves his friends and family and he will never ever let them go
