Until the very end

good evening friends i now present to you: malec alliance rune arranged marriage AU - chapter 1!

@magnusbae come witness your child

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mind & heart, body & soul

3k words, ch. 1/however long my motivation lasts 

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There’s no reception. No afterparty. Even Shadowhunter weddings, solemn affairs at best, usually have some kind of celebration afterwards.

But this—

It seems like everyone wants to distance themselves from this.

It’s a travesty. Alec knows that everyone thinks so. He saw the disgust in the eyes of the few Clave officials present as witnesses, heard the whispered remarks—it’s so sad to see such a promising young Shadowhunter’s future tarnished like this, don’t you think?

And the thing is—Alec isn’t entirely sure he disagrees.

He understands the necessity of it. Knows the Downworld had demanded proof of the Clave’s intention to uphold the new Accords. He doesn’t even really begrudge them it, after all he’s learned recently about the true depth of the entanglement between the Clave and the Circle. He understands why it had to be him—the eldest son of a prominent Shadowhunter family, a family of former Circle members at that, a literal symbol of the Clave’s future, offered—sacrificed, the other Shadowhunters would probably say—to maintain the peace.

But no one’s hearts seem to be in it. Certainly not his parents’—they hadn’t even attended the ceremony, despite being key players in arranging the whole thing. Certainly not his future— his husband’s, his husband who’d barely looked at him as they’d exchanged their vows.

Nothing about this feels real, and what’s the point of both of them both ruining their lives for a hollow gesture?

Because the thing is, the ceremony is over. The halls of the Institute are quiet, somber, in mourning maybe. Alec feels alternately completely numb and like his heart is about to beat out of his chest.

And his husband is nowhere to be found.

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