#alexis asks

Alexis let out another grunt of frustration as she swung at Liam, missing him completely as he dodged her with ease, straightening up with a smirk. 

“Come on, Lex. At least put some effort in here,” he teased. “You’re making me look too good here.” 

“Shut up,” Alexis shot back, but the animosity wasn’t directed at him. She was too busy glaring back out of the training room, her eyes narrowing as they followed Caoimhe and Jace walking past, heads close together as they talked. 

It was odd but knowing that Liam was hurting too, it made it a little easier for Alexis to watch her heart ripped to shreds in front of her. She loved Jace and Caoimhe, she did, but watching them together, knowing that Jace had eyes for one of her best friends, it kind of made Alexis want to punch a hole in a wall. Or go stab a demon.

But at least she wasn’t alone in that thought. 

Liam followed their gaze, his face darkening slightly for a moment too and Alexis didn’t miss the way his fists clenched ever so slightly, a tiny hint of his heart slipping out.

As Alexis and Liam locked eyes again, she watched as his face softened slightly. “Hey, you were way out of their league anyway,” he said, throwing her a wink in an attempt to lighten the mood back up.

“Then why am I talking to you?” Alexis threw back teasingly, straightening up into her fight stance again, watching as Liam easily matched her. 

Liam rolled his eyes at that. “Because I’m out of your league, so you gotta reach for something,” he said, flexing his muscles in a ridiculous fashion, a mockery of the same move Jace tended to pull when he thought he was being smooth but actually just ended up looking like he was trying way too hard. 

Alexis snorted as she shook her head. “Idiot.”

Ahhh yay I’m so glad people still care about Alexis even though I haven’t made new content for her in forever (new years resolution is to develop her fic properly i swear) haha. but yesss i do have a few crossovers for her! i’ve chatted to @peterparcour a bit about Lexie and her ocs Caoimhe and Liam (you can see a few of those posts in my alexis-freeman tag or my oc-crossover tag!) and also @chlobenet and I have agreed that Evie and Lexie would make great friends since they’re both a mess :P and I’m always up for more crossover chats with my girl! Lexie is a snarky ass angel who deserves some friends to make up for her shitty bf Jace so crossovers are always welcome! 

YES OUR GIRLS omg i just want all the drama like alexis growing up with venus/izzy being parabatai and she’s t o t a l l y not jealous except that she lowkey is. i also just want them to be friends tho with their matching snark and potty mouths while everyone else glares at them. but also venus totally not putting up with alexis’s constant drama with jace every other week. she’d just tell alexis to get over it and then the two of them can go fight demons and kick ass together like omg gimme please. i’m here for it!!! 

Ahhhh Alexis my sassy shadowhunter! So Alexis does not have a parabatai and that is mostly out of choice. She’s a very driven shadowhunter and she is one of the top fighters in the NY Institute which is why she is able to do solo missions and can be trusted to get the job done. If she had a parabatai, it was probably intended to be Isabelle if the Lightwoods had their say because it made sense since the two girls grew up together, but Isabelle and Alexis never quite clicked enough and they both always preferred to fight apart. Alexis does lowkey wish she had a strong enough connection to someone to have a parabatai but she’s also terrible at showing emotions which makes things tricky :P

Ahhhh yes these presh kids!!

Okay so Lexie and Alec are basically besties, both full of sarcasm and both spending 90% of their time being done with Jace. Lexie basically grew up with the Lightwoods and Jace because her father was on the run and her mother was imprisoned by the Clave, and she and Alec got close pretty quickly. They both had a thing for Jace for a long time before Jace and Lex started dating, but Alec never holds it against Lexie because he knows how much she loves Jace. Also Alec and Lexie are both killer strategists and they grew up pretending to run the Institute together, coming up with attack plans on fake demons in preparation for when they were older!

As for Izzy and Lexie, well that’s a different story! They tend to fight like sisters since they grew up side by side, often compared to the other and feeling like they’re both fighting for attention. Izzy’s parents briefly considered the idea of training Izzy and Alexis to be parabatai but they argued too much and ultimately it was decided that pairing them was not a wise idea, and Alexis likes to think she fights better alone anyway. They do love each other deep down, but Izzy often wishes Lexie would just open up to her instead of pushing her away in an attempt to maintain her tough exterior. 

And Max! Presh little Max! Honestly Max is a little scared of Alexis because she puts up such a front and she’s always been a little bitter about how much he gets doted on by everyone. Lexie always thinks back to how she was raised as a child, with parents of the Circle and how she was essentially punished for their crimes so she gets annoyed when everyone loves this kid so much. But still, she has a soft spot for Max and she tells a killer ghost story which Max both loves and hates. 

“Is it true?” Jace’s voice was soft as he stood at the doorway of Alexis’s bedroom, leaning against the frame as if he was unsure if he was welcome inside.

Alexis didn’t move, staying exactly in the same position she’d been in for the last half an hour, hands flung over her face as she lay on her bed. “I don’t know what you’re referring to,” she replied, her words muffled from under her hands. 

“Lex-” Jace cut himself off with a sigh and Alexis shifted one hand from her face in time to catch the way he dropped his head down, his brow furrowed. “Lex,” he started again, “Clary told me what happened.”

“Of course she did,” Alexis replied, the snark not quite hiding the hint of pain underneath.

Jace moved into the room now, his footsteps almost inaudible but Alexis knew him well enough to feel him moving closer to her. 

“Alexis,” Jace started again, now hovering halfway between the doorway and the bed, seemingly unsure of how close she’d let him get before she snapped. “Just talk to me,” he said, almost pleading with her.

Once upon a time, it would have been so easy. Even when they fought and argued, he was the first person she went to, and vice versa. When she struggled, he was there. When she needed to cry, his shoulder was already there waiting for it. 

But there was something different between them now, a tiny crack in their foundation. Now, Alexis felt the lump in her throat, thicker than ever, as she shifted, moving her hands away to look at Jace properly. Even now, there was something in his eyes. A distraction. Almost like he was waiting to go back to Clary, like he was seeing Alexis purely out of habit, out of obligation. 

She knew it wasn’t all true, but she couldn’t deny the way his eyes flickered from her to the door ever so briefly. 

Inhaling slowly, Alexis sat up on the bed, collecting herself together, no help needed. “I’m fine,” she said after a moment.

“Lex, you don’t have to be fine after that. That vampire bitch nearly killed you-”

“Better dead than a soulless monster, right?” Alexis quipped, well aware of how close Camille had come to biting her, and far too aware of how tempting it had been. Well aware of how sweet the offer of the bite had been. To let herself be detached from her world, to disappear into the night, never to deal with her heart again.

Jace watched her quietly, studying her. Moving a hand to rub the back of his neck, he frowned. “You don’t have to pretend with me, Lex. You know that.” It was almost like he was waiting for her to be truly honest. Like he knew the truth, just how low she was sinking. 

Alexis stood up, eye to eye with him now, stubborn as usual as she threw up the walls around her heart yet again, an all too regular occurrence these days. “I guess you don’t need to pretend either, then,” she said cooly, “so you can do what you’ve been wanting to do from the moment you walked in here. You can go right back to Clary.”

Jace’s jaw clenched in frustration and Alexis watched as he stalked back out of the room, leaving her alone yet again. 

my angel!!okay so alexis used to always train with izzy when they were younger because alec and jace were training to be parabatai and that usually worked well except that alexis always wanted to be pushed harder and one day she accidentally knocked izzy out cold while sparring. izzy was out of action for a few days and when she recovered, the lightwoods decided that alexis could train with hodge or alec instead to avoid another incident. mostly because everyone was slightly nervous about izzy trying to get some kind of revenge with her whip next time they put the girls together.