They were sitting in the kitchen having breakfast, when Magnus looked up and saw Alec looking at the ring on his finger, a small smile on his face.
"It's silver." He explained. "Because it reminded me of you.* Precious yet usually unseen. And also, rarer than gold." He smiled. "It's simple because I know you'd prefer it that way, and… Oh. I almost forgot." He clicked his fingers, and a blue fire surrounded the ring. Alec felt the familiar tinge of magic where it touched his skin, but wasn't burned by it. "Check it out."
The Shadowhunter took it off to look inside. Magnus' name had appeared, written in beautiful cursive beside the same date. "Thank you." Alec choked out. He knew Magnus loved him, but seeing the proof in little details like that, always got to him. "You know, I keep wondering what I did to deserve you."
"You got it backwards sayang." Magnus kissed his hand. "The real question is, what did I do to deserve you."
"Do you want the list organised by date, quantity, quality or Alphabetical order?" Alec said making Magnus laugh.
"I bet my list will be longer."
"Is that a challenge?"
"Merely the truth darling." Magnus winked.
"Look." Alec said, suddenly surprising him by leaning into his personal space, his face just a breath away. "I would love to show you how wrong you are by reciting the whole list to you, and even writing it down if you want, but that would take hours, maybe days, and our children are waiting for us. So…"
"Another time." Magnus whispered looking into his eyes enchanted.
"Exactly." Alec smiled pulling back, but Magnus grabbed his shirt stopping him.
"Do you think we have time for something else instead?" He asked mischievously, eyeing his naked torso.
"No Magnus."
"Oh c'mon." He purred, trying his best to seduce him since he hadn't been able to do so before.
"You're impossible. We will be late…" Alec complained, leaning in again, against his will.
"Just one kiss then."
"You know it's never just one kiss." He said wrapping his arms around Magnus' neck, unable to resist him.
"Two then. And we'll go."
"Mags…" He whined, even closer now, his body language coming in stark contrast with his words.
"You're just delaying the inevitable and wasting more time baby." Magnus smirked.
The Shadowhunter looked at him, his blue eyes darkened, and for a second was tempted to pull away just to prove him wrong, but what would be the point, when he was dying to kiss him too? So he finally gave in, closing the remaining distance between them and kissing him.
Magnus smiled against his lips. "I love you." He said when they separated, and Alec kissed him again.
"I love you too." Another kiss.
"Love you more." And another.
"Mags…"
"Hmm?"
"We have to…" He struggled to speak between kisses.
"Have to do what, my love?" The Warlock murmured moving lower to kiss his neck.
The Nephilim moaned involuntarily, forgetting what he was about to say, and pulled him closer.
Magnus kissed him one more time and pulled back, smirking when Alec chased his lips.
"I love destroying your self-control." He teased.
Alec's eyes widened. "Angel, the kids. I'm horrible."
"Relax darling, they are probably still asleep in this ungodly hour." Magnus said dramatically.
"Magnus, it's 10 o'clock."
"Barely the break of dawn." He said seriously and Alec laughed getting up.
"You're impossible." He crooned kissing his hair and taking his hand. "C'mon, let's go."
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They headed to Izzy's and Simon's house to get the kids and everyone else so they could go to the Institute together where Maryse was cooking Christmas dinner for them all. Jace and Clary had already gone there earlier to help.
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*Based on Magnus' thoughts about Alec in the short story "The Course of True Love [and First Dates]"
"If Jace was gold, catching the light and the attention, Alec was silver: so used to everyone else looking at Jace that that was where he looked too, so used to living in Jace's shadow that he didn't expect to be seen. Maybe it was enough to be the first person to tell Alec that he was worth being seen ahead of anyone in a room, and of being looked at longest.
And silver, though few people knew it, was a rarer metal than gold."
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ALSO! "Sayang" means "Darling/beloved" in Indonesian.