"Alexander Gideon Lightwood, will you marry me?"
Alec knew everyone was staring at them but his eyes only saw Magnus in that moment. His vision narrowing until it was his face, and his face alone. The light stubble around his mouth, his dark eyes open and vulnerable. Alec had never seen anything so gorgeous. This is not how he thought today would go. Not how he thought any day would go. He assumed that he would be the one to ask, the one to give himself up in that way. Like how it has been before with other things.
"Yes, of course, yes." The words tumbled softly from his mouth before he had even thought them. He held up his left hand. It shook slightly. Magnus grasped his hand and his touch grounded Alec. He took a deep breath as Magnus gently slid the ring onto his finger. Alec's heart swelled and he felt like crying but he had to do something first and he hoped his voice wouldn't shake.
Alec picked up the other ring, but when Magnus offered his hand Alec stopped him. "Wait, I need to do this. I want to do this. For you." Alec's words came out in a whisper and he cleared his throat. He took a step back. Magnus's face scrunched up in apprehension.
Then Alec got down on one knee. Immediately Magnus's eyes flicked from confusion, to recognition, and then to a brilliant gold. His mouth widened into a smile that made Alec's heart ache. He wanted to find ways to make Magnus look like that for the rest of his life.
"Magnus Bane. You are the love of my life," Alec proclaimed. His voice, clear and sure, ringing loudly in the room. A soft gasp came from behind them, likely Isabelle, he assumed. "You are my world and I cannot live without you. The spark inside you lights the spark inside me. I want to spend the rest of my life showing you how much you mean to me. Will you marry me?"
Magnus sucked in a ragged breath, a few tears slipping down his cheeks. "Yes, Alexander, I will marry you."
Alec grabbed clumsily at Magnus's hand and slipped the ring on his finger. Tears had begun welling up in his eyes and he tried to blinked them away. Still clinging to Magnus's hand he stood and tugged Magnus towards him. The moment their lips crashed together was like fireworks. His hands slipped to Magnus's waist while Magnus wound his hands up into Alec's hair. The taste of Magnus made him dizzy but he steadied himself by pressing his fingertips into the skin just above Magnus's hip bones.
Someone cleared their throat and lips parted, but they kept their heads pressed together. Alec wished for more time but he knew they didn't have it. Magnus lifted Alec's chin with a finger and gazed into his eyes. Alec was pleased to see cat eyes still staring back at him. Their hands interlocked and he could feel the cool metal of the rings.
"Darling, I must go and save the world. Again. But we always find our way back to each other." Magnus said, sighing. "I love you."
"I love you too." Alec spoke the words as Magnus backed away, letting their hands drop. Alec felt his heart drop too. Fear ran through him. But so did faith. Faith in Magnus, that he would be how he always was, strong. And faith in their bond. That something this powerful, something that could make his entire body feel as if it was on heavenly fire, could not end. And with a wink, Magnus portaled away.
Energy drained from Alec's body, from his bones. He realized that his face was wet with tears, but was not sure when he had begun to cry. He walked over to the balcony slowly and as if the sum of all of the Earth's gravity was pushing down on him he fell to his knees, looking up. Blue sparks shot into the sky and began to close the rift. And as he wept his friends, his family, came up beside him and wept with him.
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