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“What’s wrong with you now, did you and your boyfriend have a spat,” Raphael asked, fed up of Magnus moodiness.
“Quite the opposite actually, I realised that I have completely fallen for him.”
“And that’s bad because, you don’t like falling. Help me out here Magnus.”
“I want to be with him all the time Raphael, but he is always leaving. We never get to much time together and it breaks my heart a little more every time I have to see him go. I want to find a way for him to stay with me for ever but every time I bring it up it gets pushed aside.”
“Oh my, you really have fallen for his boy. You said he likes land so much, surely he wouldn’t mind becoming human.”
“Oh, he wouldn’t but I know he would miss the sea and he would lose his immortality meaning I would lose him eventually. I refuse to do that to him and I can’t permanently become a merman it would make me miserable.”
“I see your dilemma now my friend, but what if he became a halfling. Half man, half merman. He could keep his immortality and have legs. It just means for a week every few months he would have to return to sea.”
“Raphael you’re a genius, I know there was a reason we were friends,” Magnus jumped up, running to get his spell book.
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“So what news did you want to tell me,” Alec asked.
“You know how we talked about the possibility of one of us changing permanently, but you can’t become human as you would lose your immortality.”
“Yes, wait you’re not suggesting becoming a merman. I’ve already told you, I won’t let you do that to yourself,” Alec said, voice becoming serious.
“No, I know that. What id instead of you becoming full human, we turn you into a halfling, half merman and half human.”
“What’s the catch, with something this perfect there is always a catch.”
“You would have to return to the water every couple of months for a week but other than that you would just be an immortal human.”
“Let’s do it.”
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For the next month all Magnus did was search through his spell books, eat, see Alexander and sleep. Raphael would give him worried stares but didn’t say anything. Only helping out. They had managed to piece together a spell, they checked it over knowing it would work.
“We made a spell,” Magnus said, Alec’s eyes lit up at the words.
“Does that mean.”
“You can be human, we can be together.”
Magnus leaned over to Alec, kissing him passionately. This was the start of the beginning.
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“Are you ready Alexander, we can wait if you need to,” Magnus asked.
“To spend the rest of our immortal lives together, yes Magnus,” Magnus heart swelled at Alec’s words.
He began to chant, magic floating out of his hands except this time instead of being blue, the wisps of magic where all different colours. Alec was enchanted by then, but he was snapped out of this when he felt a pain in his tail, it grew slowly until once again a pair of legs replaced it.
Standing on wobbly legs, Alec walked unsteadily over to Magnus, practically falling against him, laughing. “Here’s to forever.”
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2 years later they were married, a small ceremony in Paris, they both were overjoyed that they were officially wed. Their vows were on little note cards, which were now stuck to the fridge. In memory of that glorious day.
“You have opened my heart Alexander, eagerly destroyed the walls I built to keep my heart from love, you are the kindest, smartest and most wonderful man I have ever met. I am proud to call you mine, forever and always as this is our beginning,” Magnus’s card read.
“I never know true happiness until I was with you, against everything I fell for you so quickly I feared I would crash. But you love caught me and I am truly grateful I met you. Forever and always as long as you’ll have me,” Alec’s read.
3 years after that they adopted their first child, Rafael. He was an abandoned warlock and Magnus brought him home temporarily until someone adopted him. Both Alec and Magnus fell in love with him and so they adopted him instead.
A year after that they brought home a halfling like Alec, they named him Max. In memory of Alec’s brother who had died very young.
They both couldn’t be happier, Magnus had everything he thought he could never get, a husband, kids and a family where he truly belonged. Alec for once in his life felt like he truly fitted in, they were an odd bunch but they were family.
Their names were muttered about for centuries, a true love story of the warlock with a frozen heart and the merman who melted it.