Work Text:
"Should I get an ankle tattoo?" Alec whirled around to face Magnus, who was standing across the flat in the kitchen.
"What?" Alec responded, the book he had been reading discarded on the couch.
"I'm thinking about getting an ankle tattoo," Magnus repeated, pouring himself a cup of coffee.
"Magnus, you just woke up," Alec replied. "Maybe you should think about that for a minute. What would you even get a tattoo of?"
"Your name, of course," Magnus responded without looking up from stirring in his creamer. "You know, like mundanes commonly do."
Alec gave Magnus a confused look as he picked up his book. "Don't they usually do that on their arms?"
Magnus shrugged and looked at Alec as he raised his coffee cup. "I'd be open to suggestions,"
"Let's back up a minute," Alec said. "Maybe think about getting a tattoo longer than five minutes. It's there forever, and Magnus forever is a long time for you. We've only been dating a few months, you could end up regretting it."
Alec's voice got a little shaky at the end of his little speech. This caused Magnus to launch himself across the room next to him. "I will not regret anything, Alexander."
Alec let out a shaky breath. "Well..."
Magnus waited anxiously for Alec to continue his sentence. The last way he wanted their weekend to start was with Alec becoming stuck in a spiral of self doubt.
"How about on our first anniversary, if you still want a tattoo, we can go get tattoos."
Magnus was caught off guard. "We?"
"Yeah," Alec replied, slightly fidgeting. "If you still want a tattoo of my name, on our first anniversary, I will get a matching one of yours."
"Deal," Magnus said immediately. There had been part of Alec in that moment that thought they'd both forget about this conversation on their first anniversary, if they had one, he had thought. Magnus, however, was positive they'd have one and marked the date so he wouldn't forget.
That's how, on the morning of their first anniversary, Alec found himself getting a tattoo of Magnus' name on his ankle. At the end of the day, they had matching tattoos of each other's names on their ankles, so that they'd always be together wherever they went.