#LRHWY

[onetimetwotimesthreetimess]

Alec raised an eyebrow at him. “Magnus.”

“Yeah?”

“Talk to me.”

“I am.”

“Baby.”

Magnus let out a ragged breath at that, relaxing further on the bed. “I’m tired.”

“Of?” Alec asked, because it helped Magnus when someone would direct questions at him. He wouldn’t know how to express it himself.

“Of never getting over this. Of always having so many skeletons in my closet.”

“And?”

“And Max having to deal with all of this.”

His boyfriend gave him a small, sad smile. “Max is okay. He’s going to forget all about it by tomorrow. I’m sure he already has.”

“That doesn’t help.”

“What will help?”

“If everyone would just leave me,” Magnus sighed. “If he would leave me alone.”

“He’s not here, baby. He can’t hurt you anymore.”

A small wounded noise leave his mouth, “He already did. He always will.”

---Everyone just needs to leave LRHWY Malec the fuck alone. My mans has had enough

[alekt]

Exile BELONGS to lrhwy malec

‘And it took you five whole minutes To pack us up and leave me with it. Holdin' all this love out here in the hall’ the break up after the proposal

‘You're not my, homeland anymore. So what am I defending now? You were my town. Now I'm in exile, seein', you out’

‘I can see you starin', honey. Like he's just your understudy. Like you'd get your knuckles bloody for me’

- this is 100% Magnus. Yes mags he would get his knuckles bloody for you, pretty sure he would kill someone if you asked

‘We always walked a very thin line. You didn't even hear me out (You didn't even hear me out). You never gave a warning sign (I gave so many signs)’ THE ANGST

[khaleesiofalicante]

When Lrhwy Alec reads TLND

@onetimetwotimesthreetimess

He gets it.

[carelessflower]

Lrhwy Magnus: please come home too ☹️

Alec: baby I miss you too!! Is everything okay?

Magnus: your child is driving me insane

Magnus when he realize he (a baby) is now sharing house with three other screaming for food babies @onetimetwotimesthreetimess

[dandeliononthemoon]

I just think that packing is boring and pointless and stupid and????? just throw everything in a fuckinf bag and leave??

Yeah but space management eeshu

If you pack carefully you can put a lot more in your suitcase then if you just throw stuff in it

So you won't need another unnecessary bag :)

Plus it is like a puzzle you like puzzles right

[onetimetwotimesthreetimess]

LRHWY II’s chapters would be short, she said. They would be glimpses into the next ten years of Malec’s life she said

Also, the chapter

[onetimetwotimesthreetimess]

The first time Lrhwy Alec comes back from deployment after adopting Max 🥹

okay chapter 2 actually begins with this scene and I’ve been wanting to write it for the longest time. Here’s a snippet for you.

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Alec’s been skipping on his feet since morning. Since yesterday.

All week actually.

It’s impossible not to feel that way when today is the day. He’s only waited seven months for this. To be back home, back to his family again.

Their entire unit is at the airport right now, waiting to be picked up by their family members.

Alec cannot wait to see Magnus but there’s nothing new about this. He’s always excited to see Magnus.

But this time, Alec’s longing to see someone more than Magnus.

Max.

His Max. His baby.

It still doesn’t feel real sometimes that he is a dad. That he has an actual child to love.

The past few months without Max have been painful in a way that nothing has ever felt. Being away from Magnus is hard enough but there’s something cosmically different about missing his own kid.

He sees and talks to Max on video calls all the time but there’s nothing that can compare to actually holding his baby.

Also, Max is three so he can’t really hold a conversation. He’s always just saying gibberish between bouts of ‘daddy, daddy’ all the time.

Mom, Jace, Izzy, Magnus and Max are coming to pick him up.

Alec’s never been more in hurry to get home.

It’s 3:35 when his flight lands and by the time Alec is out, it’s almost 4. Magnus should be here soon.

“Alec!!” Jace yells and Alec turns up to find his mom, brother and sister there. Alec rushes towards them and envelopes his mom in his arms. Then Jace and Izzy. When Jace holds his face in his hands like the dramatic bitch he is, Alec almost cried with happiness.

“Where’s Magnus?” He asks when there’s still no sign of his boyfriend and son.

“I don’t know. We can’t reach them.”

“What?” Alec asks, a little worried.

He takes out his phone and checks Magnus’s last text

It’s a photo of Max and him, cuddled up in the morning.

We can’t wait to see you.

I miss you darling.

Magnus has been doing a countdown since the last 48 hours.

48 hours until I see you.

20 hours until I get to hug you.

2 hours until I get to kiss you.

I miss you.

I love you.

Alec calls him but Magnus doesn’t answer.

He calls him again. And again. Until he sighs.

Maybe they’re stuck in traffic.

“They’re probably stuck in traffic,” mom says.

Alec nods.

They wait for another half an hour, but Magnus still doesn’t arrive and Alec’s worry rises.

“We should go home. We’ll drop a text and let him know that we’re home. You can meet him there,” Izzy murmurs.

But what if Alec leaves and Magnus arrives and it’s another hour before they see each other again. He doesn’t think he can wait another hour.

His entire body is longing to see them. Alec can’t wait. If he doesn’t see Magnus and Max in the next thirty seconds, he will jump off a window.

But another half an hour passes without the sight of his baby and his other baby and Alec just wants to cry.

He hugs his mom, a little too tightly as he whispers, “Let’s go home.”

Jace takes his bag and they all turn to leave when a voice, the voice calls him.

“Alexander!!!!!”

Alec turns and his entire body sighs, relaxes, and somehow gets alive again.

Magnus stands there with Max in his arms. A huge smile appears on his face and his shakes his head to the side, opening his arms.

Max squirms in his arms so his boyfriend puts him down, exchanging a look at Jace, who makes his way towards the small boy.

Max is a chaotic little shit and he can go from anywhere to anywhere in a matter of three second.

“Magnus,” he whispers as Magnus comes running towards him, crashing their bodies together.

Alec doesn’t try to hide the tears that leave his eyes as he touches, and holds the love of his life in his arms again.

“I’m so sorry. There was a small accident and we got late,” Magnus says hurriedly and the words accident raises up his blood pressure suddenly. He pushes back and glances at his boyfriend’s body and only then he notices how disheveled he looks. There’s some light bruising on his arms and his shirt looks like it hasn’t been washed in days

Magnus is going to have an aneurysm if someone captures a picture of him looking like this and it goes viral.

“What? What happened?” He asks.

Magnus shakes his head, “I’ll tell you later,” he says and cups Alec’s face. Alec closes his eyes as he feels Magnus’s lips against his and breathes. And he wonders for a second how he ever lived without doing this for seven months. They kiss for barely a few seconds and Alec wants nothing but to do this for the rest of his life but there’s something, a huge voice inside his chest still and it’s not going to be filled until he holds his son.

Alec’s scared though. He is so, so scared that Max is not going to recognise him.

When Alec went for his deployment, Max was barely two and a half years old. Now he’s 3 and three years old are babies and don’t have the best memory and what if his baby doesn’t remember him?

There wasn’t a single second that Max left Alec alone before, always clutched to Alec’s side. Always with Alec but that was seven months ago.

And sure, Alec’s been talking to him on calls but what does a three year old even remember?

Maybe Magnus can see his worry because the man holds his face and smiles, “Don’t worry, sweetheart. He’s very, very excited to see you. He missed you like crazy.”

Alec exhales. He believes Magnus. Always does.

They release each other from their hold and Alec makes his way towards Max, who is clutching Jace, a nervous expression on his face.

Max is never nervous and Alec’s heart breaks a bit. He doesn’t want his kid to ever be worried.

He crouches down infront of his son and gently, touches his head.

“Hi, my baby,” Alec whispers.

Max, who’s been looking all worried until now suddenly perks up.

“Daddy in phone,” he says pointing towards Jace’s phone.

Alec chuckles softly, his heart breaking at Max’s surprise to see his dad infront of him, instead of a phone.

Magnus is crouching next to them too and he smiles at the two of them.

“Daddy’s here now, Blueberry.”

Max looks at him for a good few seconds before the damn breaks and he bursts into huge, loud tears.

“Daddy here?” He hiccups as he falls into Alec’s arms, clutching onto his uniform.

Alec starts crying too as he holds his baby.

“I’m here, Max. I’m here. I’m so sorry for leaving you,” Alec whispers, holding onto his son like his life depends on it.

“Da-daddy..” Max continues saying daddy, like it’s the only word he understands right now.

Alec puts him back on the ground and cradles his face. “I missed you, baby.”

Max beams through the tears and Alec can’t wonder how fast he’s growing up.

“Missed you daddy,” Max says as he jumps into Alec’s arms again.

And it feels like Alec can finally breathe again.

[onetimetwotimesthreetimess]

getting into the headspace to write LRHWY after almost a year is fucking difficult. Send help. Send me cute LRHWY related stuff for me to be back in the game.

[onetimetwotimesthreetimess]

Sundays are for chilling and writing and drinking

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since you want motivation, how about you tell us smth u luved about lrhwy? any specific scene or detail?

I was rereading LRHWY over the last week and I found this one detail that I absolutely adore.

When Alec was Missing In Action, in those 8 months that he was presumed dead, Magnus used to keep a hand on his heart and check if his heart was still beating.

Because if his heart was beating, then that meant that Alec was alive.

I’m ngl I had forgotten about that detail and when I reread it, I adored it so, so much. It was such a Magnus thing. It was so heartbreaking and beautiful.

[onetimetwotimesthreetimess]

Alec smiled internally at how hard Magnus must have tried to give him space. 

“I’m not.”

“You are. I have noticed the hushed-hushed phone calls. How you have been leaving at random times. I have eyes you know?”

“I—” He needed more time to talk to Magnus about it. He needed to be prepared before dumping all of this.

“Will you tell me what’s going on, now?’

Alec always knew he was an idiot. His history of stupid decisions has proved that.

“I am cheating on you,” he said without thinking much.

Magnus didn’t even pause before he rolled his eyes.

“Wanna try again?”

“What? I really am.”

“Stop fucking around and tell me what’s going on.”

“You think I can’t cheat on you,” Alec said dramatically. 

Magnus rolled his eyes again, “You are obsessed with me.”

Magnus Bane, a five times Grammy Award winner turned music producer and Alec Lightwood, Lieutenant Commander of the U.S. Navy SEALs have been dating for the past five years.

After a tumultuous journey of breaking up and getting back together, Magnus and Alec are stronger than ever. But life never stops throwing bricks at you and it will be a cold day in hell before Magnus and Alec are able to get a day of peace.

A snapshot of stories revolving around love, loss, happiness, setbacks and pain that follows Malec in the next fifteen years of their life.

Chapter 1 of LRHWY II: Don't Give Up On Me

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[onetimetwotimesthreetimess]

currently thinking of LRHWY Malec and look at this scene from the good old days lol.

I gave y’all something Cassandra never could. A fabulous TMI gang X Warlock Gang friendship sjshsjskslll

[onetimetwotimesthreetimess]

I wrote a few thousand words of the next LRHWY chapter but I’m stuck now. Wanting to write 10 different fics (I have a problem, okay??). Someone send motivation or I shall perish under the weight of my ambitious list of WIPS

[onetimetwotimesthreetimess]

Also Lrhwy Max and Magnus being cute whilst Alec away if you got some extra sprinkles for us 🥹

“Bapak! Bapak!” Max yells through the glass. The mike is on so everyone inside the recording studio can listen to his yells.

Magnus waves at his son, laughing at his excitement.

He’s been taking Max to the studio with him ever since he’s been a baby. Albeit, he’s still a baby and only two years old but Max still gets excited after all this time.

“Hi, Blue,” he smiles.

Mira, Eduardo and Caleb who are the ones recording wave at him too, making cooing noises and silly faces.

“He’s adorable,” Mira comments.

“Don’t let it get to his head.”

“He’s two Magnus,” Mira replies. “And you’re the least humble person I’ve ever met.”

“Rude.” He then faces Max again and speaks loudly, “Mira is being rude to Bapak, baby.”

Max giggles, loving the attention. “Mira! Mira!” He keeps on yelling back.

“It’s all the chocolates you get him that has him besotted with you,” Magnus rolls his eyes.

“Don’t roll your eyes too hard Magnus. Your Alec is showing.”

Max manages to crawl over the instruments and sticks his face against the glass separating the two rooms.

“Bapak,” he says sadly this time.

Little shit.

Magnus comes out to the other side and the boy jumps in his arms. Max has become attached to a pair of horns that Ragnor got him for his birthday. He wears them all the time, everywhere.

It pinches at his neck when Magnus tries to hug him at times.

“You wanna sing?” He looks down and asks the boy.

“Sing!” Max yells back.

Max can speak now.

He just likes not to and prefers one word commands.

“Let’s go.”

He takes Max inside and places the mike infront of him.

He yells gibberish through the mike and makes all of their ears hurt a bit but Magnus smiles through it. Caleb in on the other side now recording all of this.

Alec’s going to love it.

He kisses Max’s head at the thought of his husband.

“Daddy’s going to love this, Blueberry.”

Max’s eyes widen at the reminder and his single word commands change this time as he yells into the mask. “DADDY! DADDY!”

[onetimetwotimesthreetimess]

“We’re going to get the results any time now,” Magnus swallowed, “And it will all be over.”

Alec sighed, knowing that it was impossible to get Magnus out of his head sometimes.

“Jesus, I could really use a drink right now.”

He knew it was a reflex to say this for Magnus and the man wouldn’t do it, but it worried him nonetheless.

“I won’t. I won’t. You don’t have to worry about that.” He added before Alec could say anything.

“I’m not.”

A sad smile appeared on Magnus’s face at that. “You are.”

“Okay. Maybe a little," Alec admitted.

“I’m just really scared Alec,” his boyfriend spoke honestly. He seemed tired. “I miss home.”

Something tugged at his chest at the words and Alec wished Magnus was in New York right now. He knew his boyfriend liked London.

But he loved New York.

Magnus missed New York.

Read the final chapter of Love Really Hurts Without You

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[onetimetwotimesthreetimess]

“Why are you here for me? I didn’t ask for it. I don’t want any of you here.” He said as he fell back onto the couch.

Jace sat next to him, mindful of keeping some distance. “Alec wasn’t the only one who loved you. You have been family to all of us for years.”

“I’m not.”

“We have spent more time with you in the past four years than we have with Alec in a decade, Magnus. You are our family whether you like it or not.” Jace insisted.

That was what hurt him more.

The fact that he did not just lose Alec but an entire family.

Something he had never had his entire life but finally found.

And now he lost it again.

“I don’t want to do anything with a single one of you. Please leave.” Magnus all but pleaded this time.

Chapter Thirteen of Love Really Hurts Without You

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