#brooklynxmagic

Write Off 

by @astudyinfic / @brooklynxmagic

Rating: Teen and Up

Pairings: Magnus/Alec

Summary:  Alec Lightwood always wanted to be a writer but familial pressure sent him into law instead. But he never gave up on his dream and started publishing under a pseudonym, Gideon Day. 

Magnus Bane always wanted to be a writer but the twists and turns of life led him to working at a coffee shop he now owns. But he never gave up on his dream and started publishing under a pseudonym, Augustus Darkhallow. 

Alec loves Magnus. 

Alec hates Augustus. 

Magnus loves Alec. 

Magnus hates Gideon. 

How do you come out and say, “My love, I wrote all those books you hate”? 

Neither of them really knows.

Beta: @actuallyredorchid

Banner Artist: @lightwormsiblings

Artwork by: @kamzcaicedo

“He come back,” Magnus assured Ace.  Why would he carry Chairman when the cat could just reappear once his feet were firmly on the ground?  Besides, he was happy right now so he didn’t need the comfort his cat provided.  

Some people had security blankets, Magnus conjured magic cats.

Jumping off the branch, Magnus followed his friends through the grass.  It was beautiful, different from the land where he grew up but Magnus thought that was okay.  He’d like Ragnor’s gardens too and this was like that.   Running his hands over the plants, Magnus smiled at the softness of the petals, the rough bark.  

Through the arch, he saw something that looked more like what he was used to and he beamed.  “Pretty!  We play?”  He hurried in, losing himself in the grass for a moment before turning back to his friends.  

“Play now?” he prompted, nodding towards the tree.  Realizing Chairman wasn’t there, he murmured in Indonesian and the cat reappeared on his shoulder.  Pointing where the swing was, he grinned, “Look!  Tree, Chairman!”

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“ Play! Let’s play!” Ace yelled as he ran through the garden, taking high steps to move through the taller grass. The walled in garden was his favorite place to play, and now he had two new friends to play there with!  And sure enough, Chairman came back, which only made Ace even happier. “ Chairman here, we play! Magnus, go swing, hold on I give push, you fly!” For Ace, knowing he had two new friends (before, Sophia had been his only friend) and he got to show them his favorite places to play, this made it a Very Good Day for the young boy. 

As Sophia followed the boys more slowly, stopping to say hello to the trees and plants, something was becoming very apparent to her, which made her sad. Ace and Magnus were going to be better friends than she and Magnus ever would be. They would be friends - good friends, even- but Ace would always be more important to Magnus than her. And she had a feeling it would be this way when they were Adults, too. 

Mai told her than when she Knew Things, she had to work very hard to separate her Feelings from what she Knew. After all, Things Happen as they are supposed to. Just because she was Special and able to Know, it didn’t give her the right to meddle and make it personal. But even with all that, it was still Okay to feel sad and unhappy sometimes - she was just a warlock after all, and warlocks had Feelings. But she had to control what happened when she had Feelings because her magic sometimes Went Not Good when she had sad or angry Feelings. 

So she did that now, going to her main sources of comfort: the trees and the plants. She asked the roses for flowers to decorate her side of the room, and they gave her very beautiful blossoms. After that, the wildflowers let her pluck them to make a crown for herself, so she might be Queen of the Gardens. She even spied the Pesky Rabbit, that Cookie didn’t like as it ate up the vegetables from her kitchen gardens. 

Jace had died. He’d died, and Alec hadn’t been able to do anything to stop it. If anything, he’d been the one who caused it. He hadn’t been careful enough. Hadn’t kept a close enough eye on him and Clary. Because of that, Jace had died. He’d come back somehow, but he’d still died. Alec had felt his rune bleed, felt their bond break…

He hadn’t been able to sleep. So he was in the miscellaneous room, punching at the punching bag he'd put in after a while of living with Magnus. He wasn’t sure how long he’d been there - he was just trying to wear himself out enough for him to maybe get a couple hours of sleep before he had to get up and head back to the Institute. He kept the door closed, keeping as quiet as he could to ensure he didn't wake his boyfirend.

Magnus blinked when he heard Alec speak.  He hadn’t meant to be ignoring Alec.  Far from it as Alec was one of his favorite things to focus on.  But Chairman looked so cute in his costume that Magnus couldn’t help but become distracted.  

“I’m sorry darling.  Forgive me?  It’s just…. isn’t Chairman the cutest little bumble bee you’ve ever seen?”

Alec stared at what had distracted Magnus for so long. Chairman was wearing a costume. A bumblebee costume. Oh the Irony. Alec couldn’t help stiffle a laugh at that.

“I suppose SOMETIMES is a key word for you?” Alice quirked a brow, now seated on the fellow warlock’s couch with a bit of a grin. New York’s weather was still odd to her, but the company seemed to make it worth the hassle.

When Alec had followed the shout in the woods, he'd expected to come across the scene of some horrible crime. He definitely hadn't expected to come across a guy in some kind of altercation with a… whatever that thing was.

Luke was trying to advise him to at least think before he went charging in, and Alec might have listened, if at that moment the creature hadn't grabbed the guy he'd been chasing. That was when Alec noticed that he was unarmed, and before he could think better of it, he was already marching up to them.