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Title: Praise and Reward System – Phoe's Tumblr Drabbles

Fandom: Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments

Disclaimer: All rights to the Shadowhunters show reserved to Ed Decter, the books the show is based off and its characters belong to Cassandra Clare. This fanfiction on the other hand is entirely mine. No money is made with this, though reviews are more than welcomed.

Tags: m/m, teasing, established relationship, praise kink

Main Pairing: Magnus/Jace

Shadowhunters Characters: Jonathan 'Jace' Herondale, Magnus Bane

Summary: Prompt: Jagnus + pats on the head

Magnus had been looking for ways to make Jace watch out for himself. Punishments hadn't worked, but surprisingly enough, rewards did the trick.

Praise and Reward System

Phoe's Tumblr Drabbles

Jace Wayland-Lightwood-Fairchild was very reckless by nature. Something that caused Magnus to roll his eyes when he had been an outsider, but then the blonde moved into his loft and then the blonde moved into his bed and suddenly, the blonde was very much his problem. No eye-roll anymore, just concern and slight frustration. Jace's self-sacrificing nature was concerning.

Magnus had to do something. He'd tried asking Jace to be more careful, but that didn't work. And then he tried something different. He tried punishments next. However, his little Shadowhunter turned out to be a glutton for punishments. Especially spankings. These just did not discourage bad behavior from Jace at all. And the less fun kinds of punishments – like denying him sex – just punished Magnus too. Or, like sleeping apart, it made him feel guilty for the punishment. Magnus didn't want to punish Jace, not like that, not by denying him some of the rare comfort Jace sought out. No, falling asleep arm in arm was one of the few comforts Jace allowed himself.

The next thing Magnus tried actually worked. Rewards. Turned out Jace was very keen on those. Instead of punishing the unnecessarily reckless behavior – because Magnus knew that Jace's job came with a certain amount of risk, but there was a line to be drawn when one was being too reckless – Magnus rewarded the good behavior. When Jace came back from a mission with barely any injuries, when Alexander or Isabelle mentioned that Jace had been careful.

"Good boy," said Magnus in a dark, pleased voice.

Jace on the couch went lax, tilting his head against the backrest. Smiling, Magnus reached out to run his fingers through Jace's hair, caressing it, patting his head in praise. Jace loved having his hair played with and Magnus liked teasing Jace. He'd started calling Jace a puppy ever since he had stood in front of Magnus' door like a stray puppy-dog, asking for shelter. The fact that Jace reacted like this to being called a good boy only this feel much more appropriate. So he patted Jace's head in praise whenever Jace did something good.

"You were very careful today, my love," praised Magnus, gently caressing Jace's hair. "Alexander told me how responsible you were on today's mission. I'm so proud of you, puppy."

"Don't call me that," Jace grumbled, though it was half-hearted at best.

Magnus laughed and leaned over the couch to kiss the top of Jace's head, his arms finding their way around Jace's neck. He got more comfortable resting his head on top of Jace's, the blonde as relaxed as possible, a soft, pleased smile on his lips as he leaned back against Magnus.

~*~ The End ~*~

Author's note: Part of a bunch of prompts I took a couple days ago on tumblr (come visit me at takaraphoenix)! ;)