Pairing: Malec
Trope(s): Time Travel AU, Parabatai Bonding, Lightwood-Bane Babies
Prompt:
Alec had sworn to take things easy work-wise for the next few days; they were absolutely not postponing the wedding because he'd gotten himself injured on a hunt. But work always has a way of finding him. On an outing with their boys and Jace (for whatever reason), they come across some sort of magical anomaly.
Alec and Jace are struck by a spell, and they wake up in London; only nearly two centuries ago (Slightly post-TID). (Spell Theory: it threw them through time, and they were pulled out somewhere near their bloodline - it just so happens Magnus is also nearby).
Alec is freaked out about leaving the boys behind - as they're nowhere to be found - and Jace is freaked out about getting murdered by his soon to be brother-in-law. Alec's first instinct, of course, is to find Magnus. Surely past-Magnus will be willing to help; at least now Alec knows how to woo him a little more confidently than he had the first time around.
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Canon-ish - Alec was injured by a demon as a young child during an outing with his parents, leaving him with weak lungs. He's falling behind in all his training and he's terrified that he'll be permanently barred from field work. He's increasingly terrified his siblings will go off on missions without him.
In the stupidest move of his life, he makes a deal with a demon. A soul for his health. (Additionally: Alec never goes half-assed and it's a very powerful demon).
It sits on the back burner as he grows up and works around the clock to catch up and be the perfect Shadowhunter. It's at some point in his relationship with Magnus, maybe after he's injured and needs healing, that Magnus realizes that he has a weird magical trace on him.
Alec comes clean about the deal. Magnus is #notamused.
Post-Valentine times - the Shadowhunter numbers are down and the Academy is reopened. As a high performing Parabatai pair, Alec and Jace are brought in to teach.
Alec wants to build up the resume some more and maybe finally remove the anti-Downworlder drivel out of their teaching material.
Jace is there because he doesn't want to be in New York for months without his Parabatai. Plus Max is attending and they even convinced Izzy to come down to cover a few topics - he wasn't going to be the only Lightwood left behind.
An invitation is extended to Ragnor to resume his old post, which is promptly forwarded to Magnus because he has done his due and his friend owes him favours. Incredibly reluctantly, complaining every moment to anyone willing to answer his phone call, he accepts. He's not ready to be surrounded by out-of-their-depth mundies and bratty Shadowhunter brats that somehow manage to spit out slurs around the silver spoons in their mouths.
A cute instructor with an adorable smile might make it mildly less unbearable (if the annoying Parabatai would just stop wreaking havoc for 2 seconds).
Pairing: Malec
Trope: Good-with-Kids Alec, Madzie!, Different First Meeting, Canon AU
Prompt:
Alec comes across Iris and Madzie at a park during an afternoon coffee run. After a bit of chatting, Iris sees that he's charmed her usually shy young ward and realizes he's actually quite good with kids. She persuades/convinces him to help her with her wards by coming by to babysit when she needs to go somewhere.
("The High Warlock isn't fond of kids, did you know that? Has me taking care of all these abandoned warlock children because he can't be bothered. But I do everything I can to give them a good home until I can find someone to adopt them.") - Iris knows keeping her enemy closer is imperative, now that her underground operation is really taking off.
Alec, a little blinded by the fact she's willing to trust him and definitely pre-occupied by caring for a host of babies and toddlers (that he is completely enamoured with), doesn't realize the truth of what she's doing. There is a locked door to a basement, but that's just for storage, isn't it?
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Alec taught Madzie that if there's ever an emergency she should go to the High Warlock. As much as he's trying to enact change at his Institute, they're not quite ready for a young warlock to come knocking for help. (Nor does he want to advertise the fact he uses almost all of his free time to babysit). (For free). (Jace and Izzy would never stop laughing).
She shows up there one day, bawling her eyes out that her nana was attacked.
Magnus is, simply put, confused. He's supposed to know all the warlocks in his city and has no idea who she is. She insists she wants Alec, another unknown person, and after practically dragging information out of the child does he put together that it's a Shadowhunter. Which is somehow even more confusing than the child at his doorstep.
He goes to the Institute to grab this mysterious Alec, since he's a bit out of options here, and together they go to Iris' place to fend off whatever demon she'd let loose. (It escaped from her basement - a wandering magical toddler fiddling with locks). She, along with the other children, are long gone.
Alec is devastated by the betrayal (and possible injury to one of the children). Magnus decides he isn't a collaborator in Iris' horrible warlock breeding factory, and is just another victim of her cruelty.
They #PowerCouple to save the other kids and bring her to justice.
Magnus is injured on a mission somewhere up north where it's snowy and gross and he isn't happy about being there in the first place. He's separated from his friends and is found / saved by Alec, who's a dragon shapeshifter living in the mountains by himself.
Magnus wakes up in a cave warded too strongly for him to use any magic with a blizzard outside with a very enthusiastic young man for company. He's wary about this turning into a 'Misery' situation (though his search hasn't yielded a sledgehammer - thankfully).
Alec is just incredibly excited at having a visitor that's also a super gorgeous warlock and is trying to woo him with increasingly worse romance tactics. (There's a tiny town nearby-ish he's always flown to for supplies and has grown up watching TV through windows - he's very confident that he'll succeed in getting a kiss).
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"If I'm going to be marrying one of yours, I have a few requirements. Hm, let's see... Male, over 6' feet, dark hair, blue eyes, and he must be good with his hands." He says it with a grin because Magnus wants them to view his demands as ridiculous as he finds their idea of an arranged marriage between a Shadowhunter and a Downworlder to 'better their alliance'. How archaic.
Only, Alec Lightwood knocks on his door with a literal marriage proposal stammering that maybe he fits the description, ("I'm an archer, does that work for the hand thing?"), and would Magnus please consider him as a candidate?
Jace is a jerkface. The kind of stupid jerkface that puts his brother's name in the dumb Goblet of Fire. It's his luck, of course, that his name is drawn out in the overcrowded dining hall where there's really no way to explain himself before being ushered into the 'Room of Champions'. Jace has almost laughed himself out of his seat, Isabelle is amused, first-year Max is ecstatic, and Alec... really hates his brother.
Yet, it's a lot less annoying when the beautiful Beauxbatons seventh-year, Magnus Bane, apparently can't stand their own chosen champion, one Lorenzo Rey, and insists on helping him win.
They devise a lot of unconventional methods to survive the rather deadly trials, and somehow Alec isn't becoming the laughing stock of the year and is making it through.
If he can face off against that dragon, maybe he can get the courage to ask the sparkling wizard to the Yule Ball? If Magnus doesn't do it first, of course.
All beings descended from angels and demons have magical gifts. Most are elemental-type gifts (fire, water, earth, lightning, etc...), but there are the occasional telepaths, empaths, psychics, and other more 'mystical' abilities. Most beings are born with one gift that they spend a lifetime perfecting - all but the warlocks, who can dedicate their lives to learning multiple types of magic.
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Alec is a Shielder; able to form a protective magical wall. He's the most powerful Shielder Magnus has ever seen - able to imbue someone with a one-time-use shield that will protect them from any strike. (Jace has built his entire combat style around using that one free hit to surprise and disarm his enemies). Its range and strength is an extension of Alec's sheer need to protect. Only, Alec can't see that in the face of having a coward's gift; there's a reason there are no physical shields in the armoury.
Warlocks can perfect multiple magical branches, thanks to their affinity for magic and their long lifespans. Some will settle at four or five, mastering and expanding those skills to the best of their abilities. Magnus is a man that isn't easily satisfied, nor is he one to be bested. The Shadowhunters haven't pinned his number, but it's certainly over ten.
People can do a 'Matching' to see if their magics are compatible; used as a way to test the efficiency of a couple (mostly for Shadowhunters - the Downworlders think it's fun. It's practically a game and it's definitely incredible to watch.) For example, the gifts of fire and air would be deemed a better Match than fire and water, which would be likely to fail. A 'Perfect Matching' occurs when both the magics and the souls are a Match; it's a gorgeous display of magic and is honoured among all people.
Magnus has never had a Perfect Match. In general, it's more difficult for warlocks to Match at all, as all of their magics have to work with their partners' - or if coupled with another warlock, somehow they have to make multiple magics Match from both sides. It's exhausting and not often attempted. If he can Match three or four of his magics to the other person, he'll consider that a win and worth pursuing.
Other warlocks blame his ambition for his lack of a Perfect Match. How is someone expected to Match twelve (fourteen? ten? - only Magnus knows) types of magic? He, however, knows it's not so much how many, but the types themselves. Over the centuries he's come to discover that he leans towards the destructive magics, over the gentle. Fire, lightning, poisons, shadows... His attempt to learn healing taught him he can quicken the process of illnesses and that's a magic kept secret between him and Catarina. His powers are a roaring tornado at the worst of times, a bubbling volcano at the best; anyone a Match to all that would probably turn the world to ash.
Alec is insanely self-conscious that he's not good enough for Magnus (the most amazing and talented warlock to ever exist, in his opinion) and nearly breaks it off with him (and when he tries, Magnus worries it's because of his reputation - queue both trying to tell each other how amazing they find the other while trying to be self-deprecating because they're stupid boys).
They're randomly chatting in the Institute one day, probably going over a mission or something in the main hall, and a Shadowhunter asks how their Matching went, and they realize they never actually did that part. So they do it then and there in the middle of the Institute. And it's gorgeous. Magnus starts with a flame, his very first magic, and Alec bubbles it in one of his shields but feeds it oxygen to keep it alive, rather than snuffing it out. Magnus adds more and more of his magic, more than he's ever permitted himself, and Alec's shield expands around it but never breaks. It's almost a challenge to see how far he can push Alec, and he does, and he keeps pouring in magic but Alec effortlessly keeps it all contained.
It clicks, then, that Alec is his Perfect Match. He's never been looking for someone to match his chaos; he needed a counterbalance, someone who could reign it in and bring him back down to earth. Someone unafraid of the magnitude of his power, but instead stares at it with wide awestruck eyes full of love and wonder.
Uh, this got away from me a bit. I picture Jace having a magic skill that amplifies his senses, making him an even better fighter, and that he and Alec sort of 'share' their magic via the Parabatai bond. Alec gets a bit enhanced when Jace is using his magic, and Alec can give Jace a shield through the bond even if they're far from each other.
I see Izzy with either a metal/stone manipulation magic, or something biology-related. Not necessarily healing, but maybe she can sort of 'read' a person's body after they've died, helping with her pathology. Or even alive - she pokes Jace and smacks him for hiding a cut on his leg. No one is able to hide injuries from her and her brothers are #exasperated.
A scene I picture: because Alec's shields stay linked to the person no matter the distance until it gets used (even when he's asleep), Izzy and Jace know they have to 'de-activate' them or else it'll slowly continue to drain Alec. They do so by throwing things at each other; Magnus is very confused when Isabelle throws a pebble at him. People know Alec likes them once he gives them a shield. It's basically a right of passage in the Institute.
Another scene: the one where the wards are down at Alicante. Alec shields the entirety of the city while Magnus uses his magic to seal the rift; queue best battle couple.
The end. (This was minimally inspired by the video game Magical Diary: Horse Hall which has colours of magic, and then my brain went from there.)
