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Title: Cat Eyes and Chaos
Pairing: Malec
Prompt: Magnus isn’t feline fine
Words: 1688
Summary: Magnus is making a new spell—an animal transformation one—to use when he or his friends are in need of a handy disguise, when he is interrupted by a very distracting Alec (clearly just out of the shower) and his magic slips out of control, wrecking unexpected chaos.
POV: Varies between scenes, but generally Alec & Magnus
Warning(s): Minor language but cuteness over 9,000
A/N: We’re writing this at the same time as chapter one. We’re very unorganized and irresponsible writers :D That said, I was the main writer for this chapter just like DSH909 was for the first; you can always expect some bad puns from me lol - Spruce
Hahaha I agree with Spruce! Probably start chap. 4 later - DivergentShadowhunter909
*If you have any prompts or suggestions for things you’d like to see in future chapters, feel free to drop a comment or review! We’d love new ideas!
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Magnus had mastered the art of deep concentration since the beginning of the 18th century. He’d caught on pretty quickly, despite learning the hard way that there’s no telling what’ll happen or who’ll suffer the consequences if a spell casting is disrupted, especially if he’s never cast it before. It was dangerous to let his magic slip out of control. Even the smallest of stray thoughts might cause unexpected chaos. At this point, he was pretty good at not being distracted when concentrating his magic. He would even call himself a master, if he did say so himself.
That is, until a half-naked Alec Lightwood walked into his living room asking for body wash.
Against his will, his jaw dropped and his eyes shimmered under his glamour, concentration already long forgotten. The blue flames still in his hand wavered and turned yellow, and that’s when he realized his mistake, eyes contorting in horror.
Oh shit.
Suddenly, Magnus disappeared in a very dense, very sparkly cloud of glitter. Alec looked ahead, startled, knowing that whatever had just happened was at the very least bad and by the look on his not-quite-boyfriend’s face, something he also hadn’t expected to happen, at all.
The cloud settled and revealed a pile of Magnus’s extravagant clothes. Magnus himself was gone. He was nowhere in the room, and Alec pointedly avoided thinking about what finding him would be like (although a corner of his mind secretly wanted to find out). Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a lump moving around inside Magnus’s clothes. A small black cat crawled out of the pile dizzily and stared at Alec with a pair of unfocused, green-gold eyes.
How did that cat get there? Just what does Magnus carry around in his coat...? Alec wondered, looking back into those golden orbs. The cat continued to stare up at him in what appeared to be confusion. It suddenly froze, round pupils rapidly shrinking to thin slits, and darted into the bedroom. Alec was too preoccupied figuring out where Magnus had gone to spare it a second glance, snapping out of the trance the cat’s peculiar eyes had sent him into.
But then there was a loud crash from Magnus’s bedroom, and Alec simultaneously realized he was still standing half-naked in the living room. He tightened the loose towel around his waist and sprinted to the bedroom.
The mirror was in pieces on the floor, menacingly sharp shards reflecting light on the ceiling. The cat was amidst of it all, fur on end and tail held high. It ran to Alec and swiped at his bare feet, and he might be imagining it, but concern seemed to be shining in its eyes as it tried to protect him from stepping on the silver shards.
Alec just didn’t understand this animal. What was it trying to do? The whole thing was weird, more so than what he was used to seeing. First, Magnus poofs to God knows where, then this weird black cat with golden eyes shows up and now it’s fussing over him for some reason? What—
Oh.
Oh.
How had he not seen it? It was so obvious. He took a deep breath and carefully went down on one knee, looking with disbelief at the small cat before him.
“You’re Magnus, aren’t you.” It wasn’t a question.
The cat bobbed his head slowly. His eyes shimmered and his little paw sparked a few yellow flames in silent affirmation.
“How did this happen?”
Magnus gave him an exasperated look—or as close as he could get to one in his new body, at least—as if saying, do you think I planned on getting turned into a cat, of all things?
Alec sighed. “Can’t you turn back with like a swoosh and a snap of your fingers?” He didn’t bother correcting himself. Then, “You’re just messing with me, aren’t you?”
Magnus, in turn, stepped back and summoned flames back to his paws. He grew them until they nearly enveloped him whole, when they flickered and went out, but not before emitting a considerable shockwave that rattled the closest furniture to them.
Now I know how the mirror broke, Alec thought. After a few moments of regaining his composure, Magnus settled his gaze back on Alec again, defeated.
“Well, crap.” Alec took a deep breath and pinched the bridge of his nose. “What have you gotten yourself into, Magnus?”
It’s not my fault you’re so distracting, Alexander, Magnus thought at him loudly. He knew Alec wouldn’t understand him, but he still meowed indignantly. I want to get my hands—paws—all over you so badly you don’t even know.
“There has to be some way to fix this, right?” Alec continued, moving to stand up.
Magnus nodded hastily before pouncing and landing on Alec’s thigh, then giving a small jump to climb to his shoulder and then to his head. He proceeded to curl up in a ball there and make himself comfortable, all of which took about three seconds to happen before he was resting his chin on his Shadowhunter’s hair. He let out a pleased purr. Your head’s comfy. I give you a 9/10, Alexander.
“Magnus. Magnuswhatareyoudoing—!” Alec yelped, hands shooting to his head to yank the cat off his hair, who was holding onto it stubbornly with sharp claws.
“GetoffgetoffgetOFF.” He squealed. Finally succeeding, he held Magnus an arm’s length away from his face. Magnus stared at him innocently.
“Don’t look at me like that! Just because you’re a cat now doesn’t mean you get to act like one!”
He set him down on the bed with one last glare before moving onto the closet, extracting a change of clothes (he’d somehow managed to squeeze one in there despite Magnus’s very obvious lack of extra closet space) and heading to the bathroom to change. A quiet patter behind him told him he was being followed. His cheeks flushed.
“Nope. You’re staying here, kitty.” He said, blocking the doorway with his leg and moving to close the door.
Magnus gave him a betrayed look. I thought we were past this! Alec shut the door closed and sighed heavily. This was going to be a long day.
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Magnus was curled up on the couch on top of spell book, it was open to specific page, a detransformation potion, but he had to go buy the potion from Ragnor. Alec walked out of the bathroom and found the spell book, Magnus ( he just could not get used to the idea that Magnus became this cat) curled up on top of it, he knew it was important, but not wanting to disrupt Magnus he sat next to him, and started stroking his fur, Magnus purred in approval before moving off the book and onto Alec’s lap.
As Alec started to read the book, a scream could be heard from the door.
“MAGNUS, ALEC I'M HERE!!!”
Oh no, Alec just remembered he had a training session with Jace an hour from now, they usually hung out at the apartment beforehand. Alec smiled as he came up with a plan, leave the cat with Jace while he bought the potion, easy enough right? He was not sure how good of a babysitter Jace was, considering he killed most of his goldfish back at the Institute, not that he had that many, there was Cheddar, Timi, Cheese, Amber, Cheeto, Goldie, Clementine, Splash, Jaws, Peaches, Buttercup...
Oh god, what is he doing? He is leaving his boyfriend with Jace? During his thought the doorbell rang once more and he realized he never opened the door for Jace, as he stood up Magnus meowed angrily, Don't do this Alexander, I was comfortable and it was amazing. We were having a moment!!
Alec rushed towards the door and opened it, “Took you long enough” Jace said with a smirk as he pushed past Alec to sit on the couch, on his way he encountered Magnus, who was looking at him angrily. You interrupted the cuddle session, what are you doing in my house.
“Alec… Whose cat is this and why does it hate me?”Jace said really slowly, trying to comprehend the whole thing.
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“Where’s Magnus? I have the potion.”
“In there,” Jace said breathily, his pointing hand shaking. Alec started forward when Jace put a heavy hand on his shoulder. He stared into his parabatai’s shaken eyes.
“Careful,” Jace warned, casting a nervous glance in the nest’s direction. “No one comes out of there alive.”
Alec enters the nest and Izzy is passed out on the floor. There’s two bottles of vodka tossed next to her and a wet cat bowl. The cat is woozy. Izzy wakes up.
ALEC: YOU WERE DRINKING WITH A CAT?!!
IZZY: HE STOLE MY WHIP! SO WE HAD A DRINK-OFF AND IF I WON I GOT IT BACK!
ALEC: AND YOU WERE BEAT BY A CAT?
IZZY: HE MAY BE A CAT BUT HE’S A FORMIDABLE OPPONENT ALEC
After that Alec comes out with Magnus the Cat in his arms, all passed out and cute and all and he scolds Jace and Izzy for not being able to handle this one fuzzball.
“YOU WEREN’T HERE BEFORE HE WAS ALL ASLEEP AND CUTE ALEC HE WAS A LITERAL DEMON”