Summary:
Alec was watching his family as they talked and wandered around the loft. It had been almost four weeks since he had named the New Clave Council and Alec had heard only good things from Jace and Izzy about what was happening with that, but Alec had decided that he couldn't be a Shadowhunter anymore and it had nothing to do with the lack of feeling in his legs.
Mostly Alec was tired of fighting, of almost dying and worrying about leaving Magnus to mourn him.
He'd been thinking about what he would rather do with his time before bringing his thoughts up to Magnus. He didn't want to run the Institute, really he was tired of pretending that he didn't love and care for a Warlock, even if everyone knew it was still expected of Alec to not tbe affectionate with his Fiance and Alec was too tired to want to cater to the sensibilities of the Nephilim.
As Alec watched Madzie grin and laugh with Clary as the young woman paintes blue and purple scales on her cheeks and forehead Alec knew what he wanted. He wanted to make sure little Warlocks like Madzie was never afraid of what she could do, that people like her weren't used or hated or feared or hurt by others, he just had to figure out how.
Maybe Magnus could help him create a place or something that would draw Warlocks to them or even a Warlock's mother, how many women had been lost when it came to raising a being of Magic, kind of a support for those that wanted to raise their children.
Alec smiled and lifted Madzie onto his lap as she ran to show him her scales.
"Now I'm a real fish!" She said excitedly.
"Are you, that's wonderful, Fishie-Fish." Alec returned.
"And it's your turn, Mr. Lightwood." Clry said as she branded her paintbrush in hand as she came closer.
"What?"
"Oh, yes, every one is getting painted." Clary declaired.
"Fine." Alec sighed.
"Now, what shall we give him?" Clary asked Madzie.
"Feathers and fishes." She demanded.
Clary laughed and began painting golden and silver feathers over Alec's cheeks and tiny little fish in the corners of his eyes and down the sides of his nose.
"You look ridiculous." Clary grinned, "I'm going to find Magnus and give him the same thing."
Alec shook his head, by the end of the night all of the adult couples had matching face paint and Alec tried not to laugh at Simon and Rapheal's Klingon Ridges that painted their foreheads or the purple butterflies that fluttered across Jace's right cheek.
His mother had a blue wolf on the right side of her face that matched the one on the left side of Luke's. The Seelie Queen had chosen to bear a crown of thorns and roses across her forehead as had Lydia, and that was something Alec had never seen coming. Maia and Isabelle had matching stars in the corners of their eyes. Max had convinced Clary to give him green and yellow fish scales and Madzie was dragging him all over the room saying that this Shadowhunter was hers and Max didn't appear to mind and though his mother had clutched at her heart and gasped Alec had noticed that it was only playfully.
"All well over here?" Catarina asked.
"Yeah." Alec said softly as he looked up at her.
"And how are you legs doing?" She asked, she was the only one Alec had told about not having feeling in them and he had made her swear not to tell Magnus, not yet at least.
"Same as yesterday." Alec told her.
"Oh, sweetie, I'm sorry."
"Yeah, me too."
Catarina stared down at Alec sadly and Alec looked up in time to catch it.
"Not for the reason you think, mostly it's the little things, you know?" Alec shrugged a little, "Standing with Magnus on our wedding day, running after our kids one day, walking Izzy down the aisle when she gets married, standing with Jace when he and Clary get married, leaning down to kiss Magnus, you know the little things."
"And being a Shadowhunter?" Catarina asked.
"No, I... " Alec stared at the people in the room that were celebrating the fact that the New Clave Council had De-Runed and sentenced Valentine and his followers to a prison in the Mundane World.
"I'm not going to miss that, maybe I'll miss being able to watch Jace and Izzy's backs in the field but I think I've done a pretty good job of making sure they have enough people to support them if they need back up." Alec smiled up at Catarina, "And I have Magnus."
"You do have me, Love of mine." Magnus said as he wrapped his arms around Alec's shoulders and pressed a kiss to Alec's temple, "Now, what don't you have?"
Alec pressed a kiss to Magnus' lips, "I don't have to deal with Silly Shadowhunters and their prejudices. I want to be able to kiss my Husband whenever the mood strikes me."
Magnus stared, "You.., you aren't going to be a Shadowhunter anymore?"
"I don't want to be, I want to be with you, I want to help little Warlock's like Madzie and maybe even baby werewolves." Alec gazed searchingly into Magnus' eyes, "What do you say, Warlock mine, do you want to have baby Downworlders with me?"
Magnus pressed a deep kiss to Alec's lips, "Yes, my love, any or all of them, as many as you want."
Alec grinned, "We'll have to get someplace bigger."
"We will, and then there is getting them there safely and ..." Magnus looked down at Alec, "I suppose the details can wait."
"Yeah." Alec pulled Magnus down for another kiss.
"Alec! Alec!" Madzie cried, "This is my Shadowhunter!" She pulled Max forward with a large grin, "I'm going to marry him when I'm bigger, just like Magnus is going to marry you."
Alec smiled and pulled Madzie into a hug along with his brother, "You'll be my little sister then."
"Perfect." The little girl grinned and pulled Max over to the Seelie Queen and repeated the process.
"They are darling, I expect they'll look back on this one day and be embarassed." Magnus smiled softly as he settled himself in Alec's lap.
Alec looked at the two and shook his head, "Maybe not, Max is already besotted, I think we have another Shadowhunter/Warlock couple that will grow up to love eachother."
Magnus looked at Alec, "We'll just have to make sure they never know the difficulties we had when we first started."
"Never, not with the way we're changing all the rules." Alec pressed a kiss to Magnus' lips again.
"Well, maybe one day you won't surprise me anymore." Magnus smiled.
"Wouldn't you be bored then?"
"Bored, with you, my Angel?" Magnus asked, "Never in a million years or longer."
Magnus pressed another kiss to Alec's lips.
Eventually Alec was going to have to tell Magnus about his legs and they were going to have to discuss the rest together and Alec would probably have som esort of breakdown about not being able to walk again but Alec knew that as long as he had Magnus and the rest of his family of Shadowhunters and Downworlders he'd be alright.
But eventually could wait until tomorrow, now all that mattered was the man in his arms and the people around them and Alec kissed the man he loved and never wanted to stop.
I was having a little trouble figuring out where else to go with this story, so I'm giving you an ending, maybe not the best one that could have happened but an ending at least.
Magnus and Alec open an Orphan home for downworlders and some Shadowhunters end up there and they have fun raising the little ones that end up there.
Honestly the weirdest thing that ended up on their doorstep was the demon baby, Alec never knew demons had actual babies but they raise that demon just like the rest and, well... that demon eventually took over a plane of Hell but he still comes by for cookies and milk on Sundays.