Hey :) I am a great fan of Malec AUs and I keep thinking about different ones and about first meetings in those AUs and I thought I'd post them here. Some stuff from my tumblr that I wrote a while ago.

For those who are waiting for the next Tell me, would you kill?-chapter: I'm on it and I hope that maybe you can kill some time with these little things because I have to finish writing a paper first.
For those who don't care about that other story of mine: I hope you have fun reading this. :)

Disclaimer: Not mine. Not beta'd.

Magnus didn't know what he had expected when he'd opened the door of his apartment around 10 pm, but among all the possibilities he thought of, the young man leaning against the doorframe hadn't been one of them.

He had closed his eyes and looked very exhausted. His hair was a pure mess, which could probably blamed on the wind howling outside, and his pale cheeks were painted with that kind of rosy color that only cold weather managed to get done like that. Apart from that Magnus was surprised that even with leaning on the doorframe the young man was almost as tall as himself, dressed completely in black with the silver rings on his right ear being the only exception. Around the man's shoulder was slung a messenger bag ... a black one with an assembly of several buttons, but Magnus didn't take the time to read them. His concern that the young man might pass out any second overruled his curiosity.

"Uh, can I help you?", Magnus cautiously asked. He was concerned, yes, but that didn't mean he wasn't ready to slam his door shut again the moment the other guy turned out to be dangerous.

One eye was cracked open. It looked like it took a lot of energy to just do that. But when the stranger noticed that the question was directed to him, he almost clumsily detached himself from the doorframe and opened the other eye as well. They were blue and the man was actually quite handsome. He ran one hand across his face and through his hair, messing it up even more when Magnus hadn't thought it to be possible.

"Uh, maybe?", the young man muttered, "I ... kind of had a pretty shitty day today, but I somehow survived it - first day at a new job, never fun - and I just noticed that I forgot my keys and my phone died about an hour ago and my roommate is out ... somewhere. But as we haven't yet put that clichéd spare key under the doormat, I wanted to ask if I could use your phone ..." It seemed like he had wanted to say more, but had ran out of energy, his hands extended in a way like he was about to turn towards the ceiling and ask 'Why, God, why?'.

Magnus, never the shy one, simply grabbed one hand and shook it with a bright smile. "Nice to meet you, too, I'm Magnus."

The stranger seemed to snap out of his momentary trance, like he was shaken awake by the touch of Magnus' hand.

"Oh, right, I'm sorry, I'm Alec ... Lightwood ... I moved in about a week ago ... on the second, no third floor, staircase, uh, there." He awkwardly pointed at the ceiling to his right. Magnus suspected he meant one of the apartments on the next floor.

"Nice to meet you, Alec."

Alec smiled at that and it was a smile full of warmth, and thankfulness, and this kind of exhausted joy that made you want to cry ... happy tears.

"Can I use your phone?", Alec asked, still holding onto Magnus' hand like a lifeline. His eyes big and blue and almost sparkling in the dim light of the staircase. "And can I maybe have a hug? I would take that, too."

Taken aback at the unusual request, Magnus stared at the slightly shorter male for a while, but then decided that there as no harm in spreading a little warmth. He grinned at Alec. "Sure thing", he said, "you can use my phone and you can get that hug, too."

As if he could have said anything else. This guy was like a lost puppy with big, blue eyes. Or a lost kitten. Whatever ... he was damn cute and looked like he could really use a hug or just some comfort in general.

Magnus spread his arms and pulled Alec into a nice, long hug ... and he was hugged back. The other's arms closed behind his back and Alec hid his face in the crook of Magnus' neck.

A few seconds passed.

"You smell very nice", Alec mumbled.

"Well, thank you very much, you're quite cold. You must be freezing."

"I'm fine ... beginning to feel my toes again."

Magnus couldn't do anything against the smile stretching across his face.

The next day, the very same neighbor stood once again in front of Magnus' apartment. Mortified at what he had done the last night, blushing beet red from his neck to the top of his ears. Magnus just hugged him again while Alec buried his face in his hands muttering how sorry he was.

Something short. :)

And as I found out that these things help me with writer's block, you can send me a one word-prompt and I write Malec AU-first meeting about it. Of course you don't have to.

And as always if you are also on tumblr and want to keep updated with my more or less thought through AU-ideas for Malec, you can follow me or just check out my blog. :) (freakypumpkin there as I am here)

Bye Pumpkin