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500 follower celebration (closed)
“This is amazing. This is by far the best thing I’ve ever experienced, oh my god,” Simon babbles as Jace laughs next to him. He gently pushes Simon’s hair out of his face, and Simon smiles dopily up at him. Jace tries to ignore how his heart constricts at that.
He’s just a friend, Jace reminds himself, watching as Simon tries to get out of bed and stumbles right before his feet hit the ground.
“Have I ever shown you my baby photos?” Simon asks, and Jace has to hide his snort behind his hand, because this is definitely not something Simon would willingly try to show Jace were he even one degree more sober than he is now.
When Simon told Jace that he’d never gotten drunk off of vampire liquor, only buzzed, Jace went and got him the tequila of alcoholic blood from a smaller Queens clan.
Now, Simon is drunker than Jace had anticipated, but he’s giggly and happy, and Jace is enjoying watching Simon’s ridiculous drunk antics.
“Look,” Simon says as he opens the book of old baby photos. “That’s me taking a bath. I think I’m like one in that photo.”
Jace hums, glancing over to the photo and has to resist the urge to steal that photo away so he can tease Simon about it forever.
“I took these before I left the house. They were in my room,” Simon explains, blinking a few times at the book in front of him as he flips to a new page. “I didn’t think you’d ever get to see these, yaknow.”
“Why?” Jace asks.
“Because I have a crush on you, duh,” Simon says like it’s the most obvious thing in the world, although his words are a little slurred.
“What?” Jace asks dumbly, his eyebrows furrowed together. Because, well, the fuck?
It’s the other way around. Jace has a huge thing for Simon that is one sided. Jace is the one who worries about Simon whenever he fights with them during a demon attack. Jace is the one who has tried to come to terms with the fact that Simon might just never like him back.
“I know, okay? You don’t have to pretend like you feel bad or anything. I know you don’t feel the same,” Simon says sadly, fiddling with the corner of the photo album page.
“Wait - what?” Jace says again, because he’s confused and whatever just came out of Simon’s mouth is a huge plate of no. “Of course I feel the same.”
“Now I’m confused,” Simon says, shifting to look at Jace. He narrows his eyes, and Jace can tell they’re still slightly unfocused from all the alcohol. “Why do you have a crush on me?”
“I don’t know,” Jace answers. “Why do you have a crush on me?”
“Touché,” Simon says, before grinning widely and leaning forward with closed eyes, obviously expecting a kiss.
“Nope,” Jace says, ducking his face out of the way and catching Simon by the shoulders. “You’re drunk, Simon.”
“Yeah, and you’re hot. Glad we’re both stating obvious things here,” Simon says, pouting.
“Simon,” Jace says with a soft laugh, trying to downplay how it feels like his heart is doing somersaults in his chest. “I’m not - we’re not having our first kiss when you’re drunk. I need to know that when you’re sober, you’ll still want this - me.”
“Of course I will,” Simon protests.
“Tomorrow,” Jace says softly, pushing Simon back gently and cupping his face. “Tomorrow morning we’ll talk about this, okay? Then we can get to the kissing.”
Simon sighs dramatically, “okay.”
Jace smiles, unable to help it, and slowly leans forward, kissing just the very edge of Simon’s lips. Simon watches him with wide eyes as he pulls back and jerks his head towards the bed.
“Let’s get some water in you and then you’ll rest, okay?” Jace says.
“M’kay.”
When sunrise comes, they do more kissing than talking, but Jace still considers it one of the best mornings of his life.
Magnus’ words break the silence surrounding them and Alec glances up at him with a quizzical look on his face.
They are sitting on opposite sides of the coffee table in Magnus’ living room. Alec hasn’t seen him since Magnus walked away from him at the Institute three days ago.
It’s been a busy couple days, trying to catch both Valentine and Jonathan before they destroy the world, but despite that, Alec had immediately made his way to the loft, when Magnus texted him to come see him.
“You can’t,” Magnus says, almost daring Alec to try.
So he does.
He tries to think of someone he knows to be a great leader, someone who’s happy. But all he finds is heartbreak and sadness. He thinks of Luke, a well-respected pack leader, who’s lost not only his old life but also his long time partner. He thinks of his parents, of their messed up marriage, of all the lies their entire family has been built on. He thinks of Lydia, who was so close to having both, when the love of her life was killed.
He looks at Magnus and thinks of how much grief and betrayal he’s gone through in his long life, and he has to swallow the lump in his throat before answering.
“I can’t.”
“I know. They never let you be successful AND happy.” Magnus stares off into the distance for a moment before looking back at Alec. His eyes are sad, but there’s something else in them as well.
Before Alec can figure out what it is, however, Magnus is out of his seat, legs carrying him slowly around the table and towards Alec.
“I’ll tell you a secret,” Magnus says, kneeling in front of him.
Alec almost stops breathing. The fact that Magnus is so close to him after so long makes him overwhelmed and dizzy, and it’s very clear in his voice when he speaks, words shaky and whisper quiet. “Tell me.”
“I’m going to be the first.” Magnus takes Alec’s hand in his, looking into his eyes with a determination Alec has never seen on his face before. “Swear it.”
“Why me?”
“Because you’re the reason. Because you are going to be the first one along with me.”
Magnus squeezes Alec’s hand, and suddenly the emotion in Magnus’ eyes that Alec couldn’t pinpoint before becomes clear. Hope. Magnus has hope, he has faith in them, in their future together, and he’s asking for Alec to do the same.
“Swear it,” he repeats.
Alec doesn’t hesitate; he looks Magnus directly in the eyes, feeling the same determination he saw before. “I swear it.”
“I swear it,” Magnus echoes, a small smile tugging at his lips.
He reaches up to rest his hand against Alec’s neck, thumb slowly caressing his cheek, and Alec can help but smile too.
They’re okay. They’re going to be okay.
edit: i’m gonna put the disclaimer here and i hope people will see it, but the dialogue is mostly taken from ‘a song of achilles’ just a psa i guess
big s/o to kris @saltyalec for the amazing banner!! thank u!!
days of dark ( magnus/alec | pg13 | 2/? | 20k+ )
Alec can’t wrap his head around what’s happening. It’s insane, and yet somehow makes perfect and total sense.
He crawls to one of the walls and moves down it before backflipping off it and landing perfectly on his two feet. He’s doing things he’s never dreamed of before, and yet everything in his body is telling him that this is right.
Alec looks at his palms again and grins. He can hear the buzz of the city in his ears, and smells the air from the sea not too far away.
He flicks his hand up and presses down his middle and ring finger to his palm, causing the webbing to shoot from his wrist. Alec climbs it and swings back and forth, getting some momentum before shooting another web and swinging from that one, cheering throughout it all.
congratulations on your follower milestone riya 😘 okay so 💖 and matthewbane magnusbaene hoteldumorts (all of whom i love with my whole heart)
thank u ceci !!!! love you <3
@matthewbane - i love your blog !! u make the most beautiful gifs and your theme is stunning i love it so much !!!! u make my dash a better place <3
@magnusbaene - your writing is so so beautiful i love it so much !!! and your blog is amazing too !! and you’re so pretty every time you post photos of yourself im literally in awe of how gorgeous you are !!!!
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@matthewbane replied to your post“Hi!! I was just wondering if you could tell me what Magnus' and...”
just to add - in 1x04 when magnus summons the memory demon, that scene happens in the books except Azazel is the demon who is summoned and takes a memory from each of them! so the azazel in the show is entirely new/different from the books so whatever relationship magnus and azazel have in the show is something the writers have created themselves, since the situation is totally different :)
i’ve read about this situation (haven’t read it in the books yet)
i’m guessing they will take some things from the books and then add new things because the show is making their own thing
i also read that azazel can’t show up in a real body on earth in the books and that’s clearly not the same thing on the show because he does have a body
So we didn’t win the poll but one woman went above and beyond, working on European and US time, day and night to make sure our boys did as well as they did...
Thank you @softdaddario for all your commitment and energy you put into this poll and the fandom as a whole, you’ve really gone above and beyond so from me, @matthewbane (who made the gif and helped plan this behind your back ;) and the rest of the fandom *Alec voice* we love you!!
hi!! sorry for blowing up your notifications but i was so excited to stumble across a blog who loves vilde and eva/vilde as much as i do :'') i was wondering if you could rec me any other blogs who are vilde or evilde-centric?? thanks a bunch! <3
hellooo!! and thank you so much, i really appreciate that you like my blog content <3 as for other vilde/evilde centric blogs there aren’t nearly enough imo, but here are some good blogs that come to mind:
