Fic Rec: Your Name for a Capital (Shadowhunters, Malec)

templemarker gave me a great list of bookmarks for Alec/Magnus Shadowhunter fics, so I thought I should return the favour and share this one.

I love a good time travelling story. I really, really do. The chance to see the characters before / after the characters we meet on the show -- there's something so satisfying about getting to see our favourites in different circumstances.

That's why this was absolutely wonderful. I'm used to Magnus as the more experienced, as worldly and patient and kind, but it was wonderful to see him at lower moments, younger and lost and yearning. And wonderful to see the man Alec's become, to see him through fresh eyes -- still straightforward and earnest, but happier and settled in his life.

Your Name for a Capital (22606 words) by theprophetlemonade
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Shadowhunters (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Magnus Bane/Alec Lightwood
Characters: Magnus Bane, Alec Lightwood, Catarina Loss, mentions of Camille Belcourt
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Pre-Canon, Time Travel, 5+1 Things, First Meetings, Developing Relationship, Established Relationship, Multiverse, canonverse, Canon Compliant, Historical References, Historical Inaccuracy, Canon Typical Discussions of Suicide, Soulmates, Explorations of Loneliness, Mild Angst, Romance, Character Study, Gift Fic, Malec Secret Santa 2019, author takes the laws of time travel very seriously
Summary:

[ “I can’t wait another hundred years to see you again, Alexander.”

He hates it, he does. He hates the way Alec looks at him with a history they haven’t yet shared.

Alec’s fingers dig into his ribs. A moment of hesitation. “You won’t have to wait that long,” he murmurs, quiet enough to be a secret. “I promise.”

“You don’t know that.”

Alec stops, forcing Magnus to stop too. Magnus squints at him, seeing double, but Alec shakes his head. “Magnus, I do.”

“How?”

“Because,” says Alec, and once again, Magnus feels the tug of magic kneading at his skin, a string of fate that wraps around his bottom rib and leads beyond his chest and enters Alec’s in exactly the same place. “You and me, we always find our way back to each other. Whatever happens.” ]

Magnus Bane meets a man from his future, interwoven throughout moments in his past.

GO Fic: Temptation

Some stories start as a great idea. Some stall. And sometimes, you fracturea bone, get waylaid by real life, and it takes you months to come back and write the last two sections. (Having said that, it's now done. After this, I want to finish the Clint/Coulson story I started *last January*. And then, my wips folder will be clean.)

Temptation (4123 words) by out_there
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Crowley (Good Omens), Jesus (Good Omens)
Additional Tags: Two bros hanging out in the desert, Temptation in the desert, Name Changes
Summary:

And the tempter coming said to him: If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. (Matthew 4:3)