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Alec can’t breathe.
The cracked vinyl hospital bench creaks beneath him as he rocks forward to hunch over the borrowed cellphone in his hands, the fluorescent lights glaring up off the sterile, bleach-white floor to burn his sleep-tired eyes.
He’s too late.
The emergency message from the Red Cross took three days to reach him, and Alec is far, far too late.
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For Every Bird There Is A Stone by lawsofchaos for Aria_Lerendeair
Fandoms: Shadowhunters (TV), The Shadowhunter Chronicles - All Media Types
14 Sep 2024
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Alec immediately regrets the instinctive shift of his feathers, knowing how many Downworld throats have been slit open on nephilim wings, knowing how many times Magnus and his council must have seen that happen. But what’s done is done and moving them back would do nothing. Alec comes to a halt at a respectful distance from the High Warlock and waits. His arrival was without notice and is certainly unwelcome. By both nephilim and Downworld custom the next move belongs to Magnus alone.
“Tell me, Alexander Lightwood,” Magnus begins icily, and it’s no surprise that he knows Alec’s name. “What brings the Head of the New York Institute to my door, unarmed, runes inactive, and completely alone?”
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Greater Love Hath No Man by lawsofchaos for violetrenegade
Fandoms: Shadowhunters (TV), The Shadowhunter Chronicles - All Media Types
19 Aug 2024
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“I have prayed to the Angel every day since I first took you in my arms that I would be enough, mijo, that I could teach you and raise you and love you in the way that you deserve."
Max tightens his small, blue fists in the Shadowhunter's leathers, a sob building in his throat.
"But I'm not- I'm not enough for you."
Twenty years after the Clave brings the Circle's members back into their ranks after Valentine's death, an infant warlock is left on the steps of the New York Institute. Alec Lightwood will blow up the ground he stands on for those he loves.
Edit: Added a second coda chapter! (19AUG24)
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The Ides of March Are Upon Us by lawsofchaos
Fandoms: Shadowhunters (TV), The Shadowhunter Chronicles - All Media Types
16 Mar 2024
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In honor of the Ides of March (and betrayal), here are a series of scenes I've written for fics that will never exist.
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“Jace, I would give anything to spare you this.” Alec breathes deeply, eyes remaining closed. “But as your Head, I am telling you that this will happen."
Jace makes a barely audible sound at that certain proclamation, and Magnus would give a lot not to know what it sounds like for the strong-willed Shadowhunter to smother a sob into his brother’s shoulder.
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A thin werewolf slips up into the VIP section and comes up to whisper in Magnus' ear. "Commander Lightwood dropped a body off at the door, High Warlock. A nephilim body." As Magnus' gaze jerks over to the guard, the wolf continues unbidden. "There's a Circle rune on the neck, sir." He hesitates before continuing. "But it's been... uh.. stabbed through the center."
Alec smirks, still not looking up. "Pretty sure I chipped the blade on his vertebrae, actually." He quirks an eyebrow even as he smoothly guides the whetstone over the weapon's edge. "It would have been an utter shame to waste such a well-marked target though,” he purrs.
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Here I have come, and here I will stay by lawsofchaos
Fandoms: Shadowhunters (TV), The Shadowhunter Chronicles - All Media Types
25 Feb 2024
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“The last time I saw this note,” Isaiah comments, his smile sharp-edged and grimly satisfied, “Alec had just pinned it to the chest of a dead Circle member.”
Magnus’ eyes widen. He may have known there was an explanation for his husband’s signature being on a note in a Circle archive, but that was most certainly not the explanation he expected.
“Frankly, I’m curious how they got the blood off it.” Isaiah sounds remarkably unperturbed. “There was quite a bit as I recall.”
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- Part 4 of Consular High Warlock Magnus Bane
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Jace blinks, peering at the loft in vague stupefaction. “This,” and Alec’s parabatai’s voice sounds like he’s dragging each noise out from his exhausted mind and forcing it out before he can forget what word he just discovered. “Isn’t the Institute?” The final phrase comes out as a question.
Alec tilts his head in puzzlement, glancing at his brother as if wondering how he could possibly consider that Alec had taken them there instead of here. “No?”
Alec’s head moves back to level and he narrows his eyes instead. “We said we were going home after patrol.”
The ‘ergo, we are home now’ wasn’t said, but it was obvious in implication.
(EDIT: Chapter TWO is the new chapter!)
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The river cannot go back by lawsofchaos
Fandoms: Shadowhunters (TV), The Shadowhunter Chronicles - All Media Types
17 Nov 2023
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The first time that Alec commits treason for Magnus is six months after the wedding-that-wasn’t.
The boundaries between them have always had the same haziness as the air drifting up from sun-baked sand in the desert - visible, yes, but blurred. There is an inevitable, crystalline awareness that they are the sworn and avowed leaders of two peoples who have been at war more frequently than they have been at peace. They are each beloved of the other, but there is a line that they do not cross.
This far you may come, but no farther.
EDIT: Now featuring art by DrLemurr!
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Five Times Alec Lightwood Doesn't Say He's Gay and One Time He Does by lawsofchaos
Fandoms: Shadowhunters (TV), The Shadowhunter Chronicles - All Media Types
20 Oct 2023
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The first time Alec sees a pride parade, he doesn’t know what it is.
It isn’t the big NYC Pride March; it’s a small parade. Or, at least, Alec will eventually realize it’s small for New York.
He never finds out whether the march is completely impromptu or a gathering of a few different neighborhoods or even something else entirely, but on a steamy June day three months before his fourteenth birthday, Alec stands alone, partially hidden in the mouth of a Brooklyn alley, and watches six hundred rainbow-garbed mundanes dance their way through the streets.
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everything it has taken (everything it is giving) by lawsofchaos
Fandoms: Shadowhunters (TV), The Shadowhunter Chronicles - All Media Types
18 Jul 2023
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The sensation of blood-soaked metallic dirt beneath his cheek is insubstantial and fleeting, overlaid and then replaced with the smooth slide of cheap cotton and Alec jerks back into being entangled in the rough weave of Institute-standard sheets, agony shrieking down his side.
In which the world burns the first time and Alec and Magnus break reality (to burn it down again the right way).
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That Looks Upon the Tempest by lawsofchaos for quickbright
Fandoms: Shadowhunters (TV), The Shadowhunter Chronicles - All Media Types
01 Jan 2023
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“I don’t suppose you have room for two at this table?”
Magnus’ heart stops at that rough, familiar voice. Alec is breathtaking, his warden’s uniform just as gorgeous on his lean form as his officer’s uniform, and Magnus suddenly has no doubts as to who has prepared this prison for him, full of allies and friends and small comforts he’d never thought to expect.
Slouching, his arms resting irreverently on the table and legs spread wide, Magnus tilts his head up to meet his husband's adoring gaze, the plastic and metal table Magnus’ throne.
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PODFIC: Consular High Warlock Series by ambivalently_certain, lawsofchaos
Fandoms: Shadowhunters (TV), The Shadowhunter Chronicles - All Media Types
15 Jun 2021
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PODFIC:
Each chapter is a podfic for one of my Consular High Warlock fics, read by ambivalently_certain. ❤️
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- Part 2 of In Podfic Felicitas
- Part 1 of The Law is the Law
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Podfic: In Somno Veritas (In sleep lies the truth) by ambivalently_certain, lawsofchaos
Fandoms: Shadowhunters (TV), The Shadowhunter Chronicles - All Media Types
14 May 2021
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PODFIC:
Jace blinks, peering at the loft in vague stupefaction. “This,” and Alec’s parabatai’s voice sounds like he’s dragging each noise out from his exhausted mind and forcing it out before he can forget what word he just discovered. “Isn’t the Institute?” The final phrase comes out as a question.
Alec tilts his head in puzzlement, glancing at his brother as if wondering how he could possibly consider that Alec had taken them there instead of here. “No?”
Alec’s head moves back to level and he narrows his eyes instead. “We said we were going home after patrol.”
The ‘ergo, we are home now’ wasn’t said, but it was obvious in implication.
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- Part 1 of In Podfic Felicitas
- Part 2 of The Law is the Law
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Slowly, losing the fight against the trembles shaking his hands, Alec unbuckles the archery guard on his wrist, his breathing quickening as he tries to prepare himself for what he knows is beneath. He feels brittle and fragile, as though the loose guard is the only thing tacking the pieces of himself together.
Alec yanks it off and the breath is punched out of him in a wordless sound of pain and loss at the sight of the blank skin beneath, every trace of Magnus, of their marriage, erased as though it's never been, not even the silver scar from when the runes are removed through divorce remaining._____
As a true nephilim, Magnus realizes he can bear runes in the time he's without his magic. However, the goal was always to get his magic back.
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One Luminary Clock by lawsofchaos for Aria_Lerendeair
Fandoms: Shadowhunters (TV), The Shadowhunter Chronicles - All Media Types
11 Feb 2021
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Coda Fic to Never Judge A Shadowhunter By Their Scent written by the delightful Aria Lerendeair.
Selected moments from Isaiah's POV.
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Lighting the small candle, Isaiah centers it on the altar and stares at the wavering flame for a long moment. For the first time since his wife’s death, Isaiah feels a single tear slip down the crags of his scarred cheek.
He drops heavily to his knees before the altar and looks up towards the silent angel above him, vision blurring.
“Zadkiel,” Isaiah prays, pleads, his voice rough and hoarse, “Angel of mercy and benevolence, I beg you tonight to watch over your child, Alexander Lightwood. He has survived everything the angels have seen fit to test him with, but please, please do not make this night one more thing he has to survive.”
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Face blank, Alec steps forward without a moment of hesitation to stand in front of the Inquisitor, his people parting respectfully before him to clear his path as he goes. He comes to a halt a few paces in front of the Clave representative and the guardsmen she’d brought from Alicante. A coiled leather whip hangs from the belt of the man at her left shoulder.
Shoulders drawn back and hands clasped behind his waist, Alec meets Imogen Herondale’s steel gaze. The words are ritual and although Alec has said them many times before, never before has he meant them less.
“That it may please the Angel to bring back into the way of righteousness all such as have erred, I place myself before you for Discipline.”
Imogen Herondale smiles.
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Intolerable by lawsofchaos for Aria_Lerendeair
Fandoms: Shadowhunters (TV), The Shadowhunter Chronicles - All Media Types
31 Dec 2020
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Magnus wants nothing more than to flood Alec with his magic until it would be easier to separate the waters of two rivers than to untangle where Magnus ends and Alec begins, and the presence of another, the presence of a power that does not belong to Magnus touching Alec’s core is an acid-burn in Magnus’ mind.
It is intolerable and Magnus will not have it.
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Or the one in which everyone returns from Edom and Magnus' magic decides that Alec is precious and must not be allowed to be possibly harmed by Lorenzo's intruding magic
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- Part 3 of Consular High Warlock Magnus Bane
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Consular High Warlock Magnus Bane: The Drabbles by lawsofchaos
Fandoms: Shadowhunters (TV), The Shadowhunter Chronicles - All Media Types
04 Dec 2020
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Alec lowers his hand and meets Jace’s gaze with his own. Jace swallows at the warmth and pride and trust in those hazel eyes as Alec lifts his stele, the tip glowing in preparation.
“Ready?” He asks.
Jace nods, not trusting his voice, and lifts his shirt to bare his parabatai rune and the blank stretch of skin above it.
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Drabbles from the Consular High Warlock Series
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- Part 5 of Consular High Warlock Magnus Bane
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Dona Nobis Pacem by lawsofchaos
Fandoms: Shadowhunters (TV), The Shadowhunter Chronicles - All Media Types
26 Sep 2020
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“When Alec kneels before you on that dais, Magnus,” Jace keeps going, “he’s telling every person present that it is your judgement, your respect, that he places before all others. In you placing that rune on his neck, Alec is publicly proclaiming that it’s your blessing and your judgement on him and on his reign as Head that gives him the right and the authority to uphold the Covenant.”
Magnus' throat is too tight to speak, but there’s a distinct shimmer visible in his suddenly unglamoured eyes.
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- Part 2 of Consular High Warlock Magnus Bane
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Stone Can Be Broken by lawsofchaos
Fandoms: The Shadowhunter Chronicles - All Media Types, Shadowhunters (TV)
28 Jun 2020
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There’s a deep weariness in Alec’s eyes when he finally looks up to meet Catarina’s gaze. Magnus, on the other hand, turns away to glare at the wall behind Alec’s head, the line of the warlock’s shoulders as razor-sharp as the war paint masquerading as eyeliner on his face.
Alec takes a deep inhale, pushing back the hurt and tilting his chin up ever so slightly in quiet resignation as he breathes out slowly.
“In order for true love’s kiss to break the curse,” and here Alec’s voice is carefully even against the incipient tightening of his throat, “is the love required to be mutual?”
EDIT: Sequel by Aria_Lerendeair
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Dare Not Touch the Sun by lawsofchaos for Kuro2612
Fandoms: Shadowhunters (TV), The Shadowhunter Chronicles - All Media Types
25 May 2020
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In his quiet moments, Alec thinks of Magnus. He thinks of the glitter and the sparkle that surround him, from his gleaming jewelry and his shimmering make-up to the coruscant sparks of magic that flicker constantly in absentminded trails over lithe and agile hands. In his quiet moments, Alec thinks of Magnus and imagines he’s at his most beautiful and glittering when every adornment is removed and Magnus lies supine on their bed, a king accepting reverence from his subject.
This is what Alec makes himself remember the next time Magnus swans into the Institute, inclining his head in greeting instead of shaking Alec’s hand.
In which Alec and Magnus just want to hold each other's hand.
~Inspired by Artwork by Kuro2612~