Prompt: Curses
Will knew he couldn't let Tessa fall in love with him. He had already made that mistake with Jem. He couldn't let it happen to Tessa too.
Will was cursed. All who loved him would die. Jem was already going to die. The yin fen coursing through his veins made sure of that. But Tessa was full of life - immortal life, in fact, given that she was a warlock of some sort. If Will let her love him, if he was the one who took away her life-
He couldn't let that happen. So he went searching for an end to his curse.
His curse was never real.
That was what he had found out one day, in a room with Magnus and the demon he had summoned, Marbas. The one who 'cursed' Will.
But it was never real.
Years of his life, wasted.
But he could waste them no longer.
"I love you," he finally told her. "I love you, and Jem loves you too." He had discussed it with his parabatai beforehand, and they found out that they both had romantic feelings for Tessa.
Tessa looked surprised, but soon, a smile spread across her face. "I thought- I thought I loved two men who did not love me back. And I see I am wrong."
So much could be accomplished when there wasn't the threat of a curse lurking behind Will Herondale.
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