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1. The Road Not Taken (Looks Real Good Now) by notcrypticbutcoy

   Fandoms: Shadowhunters (TV), The Mortal Instruments Series - Cassandra Clare  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   28 Aug 2021

   Tags

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   • Magnus Bane/Alec Lightwood
   • Magnus Bane & Ragnor Fell
   • Alternate Universe - Small Town
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Fluff and Angst
   • Implied Sexual Content
   • Mentions of Cancer
   • Implied/Referenced Character Death
   • Family Dynamics

   Summary

   Being recognised is the last thing Magnus wants when he returns to his small, beachy hometown, hoping to make peace with the past he's tried so hard to forget. The universe is clearly playing some kind of cosmic joke, he thinks, when he runs into an old flame working behind the same counter he did at age eighteen.

   As Magnus tries to move on from his past, there's something that keeps tugging his gaze over his shoulder. What is Alec Lightwood doing stuck in the sluggish pace of small town life?

   Or: in which Magnus despises small towns, everyone has a tragic backstory, and Magnus and Alec learn that choosing themselves brings good things.

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