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Eight years ago, Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood were everything to each other, best friends who turned lovers, until they broke up, and became strangers. Families were torn apart, without ever knowing why, and their friends were forced to choose sides.
Now, it’s Christmas in Ashbrook, Massachusetts, and Alec is home for the first time in years, trying to keep his life neatly compartmentalized: family on one side, a no-strings fling on the other, and Magnus firmly in the past. And he intends to keep it that way. Magnus, meanwhile, has been doing his best to rebuild a quieter life near his parents, until an engagement party throws them back into the same room, the same air, the same unfinished history.
It’s a small town at Christmas, and there’s nowhere to hide.
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Alec Lightwood lost three years, a name he once said like a prayer, and the shape of the life that held him.
Now, with a limp he didn’t earn and memories that won’t return, he is trying to stitch together something that feels like living—physiotherapy, wine-stained Friday dinners, polite conversations that feel like performances.
But when a stranger’s hand brushes his in a quiet grocery aisle, something in him stirs. Not a memory—something older. Something deeper.
A story of love after forgetting. And the quiet ache of being known by someone you can’t remember.
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Bridges of Time by caffeineaddicted_malec
Fandoms: Shadowhunters (TV), The Shadowhunter Chronicles - All Media Types
26 Apr 2025
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In 2005, Alec and Magnus knew each other. They went to the same school, Idris High, and were the top two scorers of the class. They were academic achievers (or overachievers??), rivals, and mortal enemies.
In 2023, Alec and Magnus haven't seen each other in almost two decades. Alec is a successful corporate attorney in New York, while Magnus is leading his Broadway musical, moving from one place to another in search for work.
When their paths cross again, feelings, rivalry, unresolved tension—everything rekindles. They try to see the other with the lens of the person they used to know a long time ago, but that person doesn’t exist anymore.
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A “Then and Now” dual-timeline AU exploring Alec and Magnus’ relationships through two timelines: their time as academic rivals in Idris High in 2005 where being at each other’s throats was the default state of existence, and in 2023, where a chanced reunion brings back memories and deeply buried feelings.
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20 Nights Before Christmas by caffeineaddicted_malec
Fandoms: Shadowhunters (TV), The Shadowhunter Chronicles - All Media Types
25 Dec 2024
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20 nights, one subway, zero chill! Alec: buttoned-up CEO with a security obsession. Magnus: a drag queen who sparkles brighter than Christmas lights. They collide in NYC's subway, where awkward chats, swoony sparks, and holiday magic take over. Will love catch the last train home?
A strangers to lovers AU full of fluff, glitter, and mistletoe vibes because I have been dying to write Christmas Malec AU.
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- Part 1 of The Drag Queen and I
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A blind-date that lasts longer than he thought, a shared interest in humanitarian work, and a tropical getaway later, Prince Magnus Bane of Edom realizes that he may have been the Prince and an heir to the throne of Edom, but his own heart is ruled by a man from across the oceans. A man of many talents and professional faces – Alexander Gideon Lightwood, award winning actor in a long-running TV show and philanthropist.
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- Part 1 of Royalty AU
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The Drag Queen and I by caffeineaddicted_malec
Fandom Shadowhunters (TV), The Shadowhunter Chronicles - All Media Types
25 Dec 2024
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The series follows the life of Magnus Bane - an interior designer by profession, and Alec Lightwood - a soldier, in the US Air Force. All the works can be read individually (they're complete works on their own) as well as a part of the series.
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True Love Never Dies by khaleesiofalicante for justaburningpile
Fandoms: The Shadowhunter Chronicles - Cassandra Clare, The Mortal Instruments Series - Cassandra Clare, The Shadowhunter Chronicles - All Media Types, Shadowhunters (TV)
16 Jul 2022
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Magnus and Alec meet at university. They fall in love.
Shit happens.
They break up.
They meet again. They fall harder. They get married. They have kids.
Shit happens.
They get divorced.
A story told through three different timelines and four different perspectives.
Welcome to the divorce au.
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Bookmarked by caffeineaddicted_malec
09 Nov 2025
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Only Fools Rush In by khaleesiofalicante
Fandoms: The Mortal Instruments Series - Cassandra Clare, The Shadowhunter Chronicles - Cassandra Clare, The Shadowhunter Chronicles - All Media Types, Shadowhunters (TV)
12 Dec 2024
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“Sir,” Alec groans into his hands helplessly. “I have no plans to get married. Magnus doesn’t either.”
“You heard him before,” Asmodeus huffs triumphantly. “He agreed.”
“Then call your matchmaker,” Alec shrugs. “I’m sure she’ll find a good match for him.”
“I don’t just want Magnus to get married, Alec,” Asmodeus replies quietly. “You understand that, right? I want him to be happy.”
“And you think I could make him happy?” Alec can’t help but ask.
An arranged marriage au where they fall in love after they get married :)
This fic updates every Tuesdays and Fridays.
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Bookmarked by caffeineaddicted_malec
17 Sep 2024
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Magnus Bane is in a panic, his entire club has been contracted to provide entertainment for a party held at and for The Company. The Company is a "family business" and Magnus wants to keep his people as far away from that world as he can. Then he sees him—Alexander Lightwood the eldest son and head of the family.
Alec Lightwood has run his life and his business the same way for years. He gets what he needs but doesn't form attachments beyond those of his mother, sister, and two brothers. He didn't choose this life or these responsibilities but he loves it all the same. Then he sees him—Magnus Bane the man who runs Pandemonium.
This work was created for By the Angel Bingo: Presented by the Malec Discord Server
The 3x3 Bingo Card Prompts are found in the chapters as follows:
- Panic
- Interlacing Fingers
- Free Space
- Mutual Pining
- Begging
- "You know I'd do anything."
- Flavored Condoms
- Teammates
- Didn't Make it to the Bed
This story is fully written. Chapters will post every couple days.
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Bookmarked by caffeineaddicted_malec
20 Jul 2024
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Absentia by Demy85
Fandoms: Shadowhunters (TV), The Shadowhunter Chronicles - All Media Types
20 Nov 2024
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Alec is an FBI Agent in the Boston office. One night he doesn't return home and is reported missing and declared dead after five years in absentia. A year after this declaration, his former boyfriend, Andrew Underhill, was called one night and told where he could find Alec.
After that, a race against time begins.Bookmarked by caffeineaddicted_malec
10 Jul 2024
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Alec Lightwood is twenty-eight years old and works as an educator at the Idris Institute for children without a family. He loves his job, but despite this isn't happy. His parents want him to marry a good woman and form a family with her. To help him to take a wife they put heavy pressure on him, which often results in awkward family dinners with strangers, whom Maryse considers appropriate to become a future Mrs Lightwood. For these reasons, Alec feels trapped and hides his homosexuality even from his siblings, Isabelle, Max and Jace. Repressed and alone, at the age of twenty-eight, Alec lies to everyone about being gay, has never been in a romantic relationship and is a virgin, which causes him great shame. One day, however, at the birthday party of Clary Fairchild, Jace's girlfriend, he meets the charming Magnus Bane. A man whose life has taken so much out of him and who has ended up convincing himself that love is not for him. A man whose heart starts beating furiously again after a handsome stranger shows up on his doorstep with a present and a bottle of Whiskey.
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Bookmarked by caffeineaddicted_malec
03 Jul 2024