I have myself thinking a lot about the relationship between Michael Wayland and Robert Lightwood. As there isn't much fanfiction about the pair that i could find, I decided to write my own, so I hope you people like it. I have a few ideas on where I am going to take this, but if anyone has any requests let me know. It would also be nice to know what people think of the story, but you don't have to review if you don't want to!

I own nothing but the plot.

The Shadowhunter world was full of rules and expectations. It was hard at the best of times to know if you were going the right thing or not. If that wasn't hard enough, being Parabatai with another with another Shadowhunter had even more rules and expectations attached. One of the biggest rules attached to being Parabatai was that you could not, under any circumstances fall in love with your parabatai. Add this to the fact homosexuality was looked down upon and had a lot of stigma attached, then you had a problem, should you find yourself developing romantic feelings for your parabatai. A problem Michael Wayland found himself facing. He hadn't realised he was attracted to guys until he found himself falling in love with non-other than Robert Lightwood: the one Shadowhunter he defiantly should not be in love with. Why? The pair were parabatai, and part of Valentine Morgenstern's 'circle' so a relationship between the pair simply would not have been able to develop.

Realising his dilemma, Michael decided to do what he thought most people would do in his situation and attempt to supress his feelings, potentially even develop feelings for another person. This may have worked for anyone else, but for Michael it didn't. Given how much time he spent in Robert's company, and given how many times he had seen him without his shirt on (for the application of runes) he found himself falling more and more for Robert, until one day he finally admitted he was in love with him. This presented a new problem for the Shadowhunter: how to deal with the fact he was in love with someone he wasn't meant to be in love with. The worst but was that he had to deal with this alone. Admitting you were gay, and found out by falling in love with your parabatai wasn't the sort of thing you did.

Now really struggling to deal with his emotions, Michael slowly became slightly detached from Robert, which unsurprisingly didn't go unnoticed. After having a training session, with Michael being very distracted, Robert decided that enough was enough and took Michael outside for a private word. Deciding not to waste time with small talk, Robert just got straight into it. "What's gotten into you?" he asked, folding his arms and staring at his parabatai, who had suddenly taken an interest in his shoes. "I don't know what you mean" he replied, still staring at the floor. Robert rolled his eyes. This wasn't going to be as straight forward as he would have wanted. "I think you do know what I mean. You've been acting odd for days. We're parabatai but just recently you've been trying to distance yourself from me and have been acting peculiar, so I'll repeat my original question: what's gotten into you?"

Michael looked up then, and there were tears in his eyes. "I've been trying to stop it, I really have. I want to tell you and it's killing me that I can't. There's nothing you can do about it, I have to do this alone" he said, which confused Robert. Parabatai were supposed to help each other out when one of them was in difficulty. What was so bad that Michael seemed to think he needed to do it alone? After his outburst, Michael had turned away and was about to leave when Robert grabbed his arm, making him turn back to stay with him. "Please Michael. You hurt, I hurt remember? Let me help you" he begged. It pained him to see him in so much pain. Michael seemed to realise that Robert was not prepared at all to let the matter drop. Taking a deep breath, he looked him in the eye and said "I am in love with you. Raziel knows I've been trying to stop it but it's been getting stronger rather than go away" he said.

Robert just blinked a few times before responding. "You're in love with me?" he found himself asking, not fully sure he had heard the words correctly. "Yes. Robert I'm so sorry" Michael whispered, and it was only then Robert realised just how much pain his parabatai was in. Roberts's brain seemed to have forgotten how to function and before he knew it, he had cupped Michaels face and kissed him. After a moment's hesitation Michael was kissing him back. He had imagined doing this a number of times, but this was not how he had imagined it to happen. His hands seem to have placed themselves on Roberts's waist. After what seemed like an eternity, they broke the kiss, took a step away from each other and just stared at each other, trying to process what had just happened.