#leetje

[artpo]

Thank you sm for the gift @garsideofthemoon !! I loved it as you could already tell by my AO3 comment hehe!

THE KPTS SECRET SANTA 2023 REVEAL POST

Ho Ho Ho!

It’s time to conclude the second edition of the KPTS Secret Santa :)

Hope you’ve all had a lovely holidays and that you’ve enjoyed all the amazing gifts that were posted!

I’d like to give special thanks to @everyforkedroad, @artfreaksmeout, @mightymightygnomepriest, @nuwildcat, & @tinycharliechoo with helping me out as pinch hitters, making sure no one would be left empty handed! Thank you darlings <333

If you’d like, you can still add your works to the AO3 Collection! Just poke me if you do, and I’ll add the link to the Tumblr gift post as well. I’ve just revealed the archive as well. You can also repost your gift(s) to your own Tumblrs now, of course :)

That’s all from me in terms of service announcements, hope to see you all again next year! 

-x- Leonie (leetje)

*****

Are you all ready to find out who your secret santas were? :D

The list is in alphabetical order:

@angsty-violet made a gift for suzteel - gift here

@artfreaksmeout made a gift for thisautistic - gift here

@artfreaksmeout made a gift for wangxian234writes - gift here

@artpo made a gift for mortimerlatrice - gift here

@asylumwise made a gift for wiccawrites - gift here

@camuizuuki made a gift for benkaaoi - gift here

@crumchycow made a gift for shou-jpeg - gift here

@dr-lemurr made a gift for thestarscanalwayslookatus - gift here

@everyforkedroad made a gift for asylumwise - gift here

@everyforkedroad made a gift for nuwildcat - gift here

@fangirlwithoutafandom made a gift for angsty-violet - gift here

@garsideofthemoon made a gift for artpo - gift here

@haahka made a gift for fangirlwithoutafandom - gift here

@jeffsatyr made a gift for justanothervariant - gift here

@justanothervariant made a gift for haahka - gift here

@lady-guts made a gift for camuizuuki - gift here

@mightymightygnomepriest made a gift for dr-lemurr - gift here

@mightymightygnomepriest made a gift for monochrome-crisis - gift here

@mortimerlatrice made a gift for garsideofthemoon - gift here

@no1petesimp made a gift for artfreaksmeout - gift here

@nuwildcat made a gift for everyforkedroad - gift here

@nuwildcat made a gift for lady-guts - gift here

@pareghostic made a gift for the-water-nixie - gift here

@shou-jpeg made a gift for ayansbff - gift here

@shubaka made a gift for xxatlasxx - gift here

@sunshinesanctuary made a gift for lexluthorswigcap - gift here

@suzteel made a gift for tsttoain - gift here & here

@the-cookie-of-doom made a gift for viva-yas-vegas - gift here

@the-water-nixie made a gift for pareghostic - gift here

@thearvariblues made a gift for tinycharliechoo - gift here

@thestarscanalwayslookatus made a gift for shubaka - gift here

@thisautistic made a gift for mightymightygnomepriest - gift here

@tinycharliechoo made a gift for sunshinesanctuary - gift here

@tinycharliechoo made a gift for thearvariblues - gift here

@tsttoain made a gift for jeffsatyr - gift here

@viva-yas-vegas made a gift for the-cookie-of-doom - gift here

@wangxian234writes made a gift for zelenchai - gift here

@wiccawrites made a gift for punchlove-blog - gift here

@wildelydawn made a gift for crumchycow - gift here

@xxatlasxx made a gift for wildelydawn - gift here

@zelenchai made a gift for no1petesimp - gift here

Go forth and shower your santa in some loving!

[stereksecretsanta]

The Sterek Secret Santa 2024 Reveal Post 

Ho Ho Ho!

Thus concludes the twelfth edition of the Sterek Secret Santa!

I hope you all have had a fantastic Christmas and that you’ve enjoyed all the Sterek-y goodness created by all the lovely secret santas!

If you’d like, you can still add your works to the AO3 Collection! You can also repost your gift(s) to your own Tumblrs now, of course! Just poke me and I’ll also add the link to the Tumblr gift post.

Sadly I'd like to announce that this has been the last Sterek Secret Santa. RL doesn't allow me much time to spend on hosting gift exchanges anymore.

It's been an amazing twelve year run, and I'd like to thank each and everyone of you that's participated over the years. Sterek is and always will be eternal <3

-x- Leonie (leetje)

*****

Now it's time to find out who your secret santa was!

@1989dreamer made a gift for heavensenthale - gift here

@alaidiem made a gift for negativenorth - gift here

@always-mimits made a gift for sivan325 - gift here

@comedicdrama made a gift for in-over-my-head - gift here

@eevylynn made a gift for sugareey-makes-stuff - gift here

@geekmom13 made a gift for wolfspurr - gift here

@goddess47 made a gift for nightlight9 - gift here

@greenleaf1316 made a gift for theydraggedmein - gift here

@heavensenthale made a gift for mintonarel - gift here

@in-over-my-head made a gift for serenelystrange - gift here

@mintonarel made a gift for alaidiem - gift here

@myulalie made a gift for comedicdrama - gift here

@negativenorth made a gift for 1989dreamer - gift here

@nightlight9 made a gift for always-mimiTs - gift here

@quackquackcey made a gift for greenleaf1316 - gift here

@renmackree made a gift for thotpuppy - gift here

@serenelystrange made a gift for geekmom13 - gift here

@silverloveless made a gift for stacinadia - gift here

@sivan325 made a gift for eevylynn - gift here

@stacinadia made a gift for goddess47 - gift here

@sugareey-makes-stuff made a gift for renmackree - gift here

@thefrailtyofgenius made a gift for violetfairydust - gift here

@theydraggedmein made a gift for thefrailtyofgenius - gift here

@thotpuppy made a gift for myulalie - gift here

@violetfairydust made a gift for quackquackcey - gift here

@wolfspurr made a gift for silverloveless - gift here

That’s it! Go and shower your no-longer-secret-santa with love and virtual tackle hugs!

[malecsecretsanta]

The Malec Secret Santa 2023 Reveal Post 

Ho Ho Ho!

It’s time to conclude the eight edition of the Malec Secret Santa :)

Hope you’ve all had a lovely Christmas and that you’ve enjoyed all the amazing gifts that were posted!

The fantastic @vaguelyrotten, @crankyfossil, & @banesapothecary deserve extra love and gratitude for being wonderful Christmas Angels this year in helping me out to create last minute gifts, making sure no one would be left empty handed this year! Thank you darlings, I really appreciate that you wanted to help me out in a pinch! <333

If you’d like, you can still add your works to the AO3 Collection! Just poke me if you do, and I’ll add the link to the Tumblr gift post as well. You can also repost your gift(s) to your own Tumblrs now, of course :)

That’s all from me in terms of service announcements, hope to see you all again next year! 

-x- Leonie (leetje)

*****

Are you all ready to find out who your secret santas were? :D

Most of you should know the drill by now. The list is in alphabetical order. 

@aceon-ice made a gift for another-random-stranger - gift here

@another-random-stranger made a gift for gloriouspomelo - gift here

@banesapothecary made a gift for insomniaccoffeebean - gift here

@banesapothecary made a gift for shipnotised - gift here

@cam-ryt made a gift for moonlight-breeze-44 - gift here

@carelessflower made a gift for banesapothecary - gift here

@cheezieball-blog made a gift for schreiberling2021 - gift here

@cinberella made a gift for thatnerdemryn - gift here

@crankyfossil made a gift for dicaculus - gift here

@crankyfossil made a gift for evadne01 - gift here

@decadentwerewolfstrawberry made a gift for nancyloumm - gift here

@dicaculus made a gift for squiggly-lines-on-a-page - gift here

@em1000 made a gift for cheezieball-blog - gift here

@evadne01 made a gift for sweetpeapod - gift here

@forensicsisabelle made a gift for crankyfossil - gift here

@gospi made a gift for i-have-not-slept - gift here

@greentealycheejelly made a gift for kohdono - gift here

@i-have-not-slept made a gift for aceon-ice - gift here

@insomniaccoffeebean made a gift for gospi - gift here

@jamessxcarstairs made a gift for skylar102 - gift here

@justawanderer made a gift for tarlos_spain - gift here

@kaijuusandkryptids made a gift for la-muerta - gift here

@kasper-tag made a gift for greentealycheejelly - gift here

@kohdono made a gift for kasper-tag - gift here

@la-muerta made a gift for carelessflower - gift here

@livinglifebehindthemask made a gift for forensicsisabelle - gift here

@maddummel made a gift for decadentwerewolfstrawberry - gift here

@magnus-the-maqnificent made a gift for vaguelyrotten - gift here

@nancyloumm made a gift for secretphilosopherwitch - gift here

@nyctophile-shadowhunters made a gift for kaijuusandkryptids - gift here

@schreiberling2021 made a gift for em1000 - gift here

@secretphilosopherwitch made a gift for maddummel - gift here

@shipnotised made a gift for nyctophile-shadowhunters - gift here

@six-of-snakes made a gift for jamessxcarstairs - gift here

@skylar102 made a gift for magnus-the-maqnificent - gift here

@squiggly-lines-on-a-page made a gift for six-of-snakes - gift here

@suchawannabe56 made a gift for cam-ryt - gift here

@tarlos_spain made a gift for suchawannabe56 - gift here

@thatnerdemryn made a gift for livinglifebehindthemask - gift here

@thelightofthebane made a gift for cinberella - gift here

@vaguelyrotten made a gift for justawanderer - gift here

@vaguelyrotten made a gift for thelightofthebane - gift here

Go forth and tacklehug your no-longer-secret santa! They definitely deserve some loving!

[wangxiangiftexchange]

Wangxian Winter Solstice Reveal Post!

Hi everyone, are you all ready to find out who your gift-makers are? :)

I’d like to thank everyone for participating in this fourth edition of the Wangxian Winter Solstice Gift Exchange!

However I am not sure I will host this exchange again next year, my life is moving in different directions, and participation has declined a lot for the last two years. It’s been a pleasure though!

Last but not least, if you still wish to add your gift to the AO3 Collection Archive then please feel free to do so! If you’ll add them, shoot me a message afterwards and I will add a link from the gift page on Tumblr to the gift on AO3 as well. You’re now also free to post the gifts you made to your own Tumblrs & etc of course!

Okay that’s all for my public service announcements!

Warm winter greetings, @leetje​

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Click below to find out who made gifts for whom!

@accidental-child-art made a gift for rnmyn- gift here

@beetleknee made a gift for bererjs- gift here

@bererjs made a gift for hex82141a- gift here

@deathbyoctopi made a gift for webawee- gift here

@dreamingdoll9 made a gift for rosethornewrites- gift here

@ereshai made a gift for dreamingdoll9- gift here

@hex82141a made a gift for mdzs-rabbithole- gift here

@kaminikaku made a gift for leahlisabeth- gift here

@leahlisabeth made a gift for deathbyoctopi- gift here

@mdzs-rabbithole made a gift for kaminikaku- gift here

@moonanstars124 made a gift for accidental-child-art- gift here

@nie-huaisangs-inner-thoughts made a gift for ereshai- gift here

@rnmyn made a gift for nie-huaisangs-inner-thoughts- gift here

@rosethornewrites made a gift for moonanstars124- gift here

@vedrividia made a gift for beetleknee- gift here

@webawee made a gift for vedrividia- gift here

Now go forth and shower your gift-maker with love, they deserve it!

[digital-corruption]

Congrats with your milestone!! 💕❤🥳🎉🎈

Thank you! 🙂

[shsummertimefest-blog]

Enjoy, @leetje!

[teenwolfficrec]

Be Mine

by leetje (AO3)

Pairing: Derek Hale x Stiles Stilinski

Oneshot

Word count: 2k

Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

Summary: Derek and Stiles enter into a fake courtship with other to appease their families. Derek should've known it would all implode eventually.

Read Here!

-> Follow me for more fic recs!

[dailymalec]

Hello! I'm one of the admins of the SH Summertime Gift Exchange fest (shsummertimefest) and we're back for a second edition! I was wondering if you'd be so kind to help promote the gift exchange once more? You can find our promo post under (tagged/sign-up-post). Thank you for your time :)

Yes, of course!

You can apply and sign up here .

[prettydjarinsoloinspires]

@leetje Lol, I think we just had this convo on twitter. Haha! But I'm still screaming!!

[zweibierbitte]

@neerlandstrots

Lutz only wanted to drop by to visit his girlfriend. But just when he as about to ring the door bell he heard some shouting from inside. Ah hah, the teenage siblings were being... annoying teenagers again.He sighed. Hopefully he could take Maaike out today. He rang the doorbell and waited. 

[kptssecretsanta]

THE KPTS SECRET SANTA 2024 REVEAL POST

Ho Ho Ho!

It’s time to conclude the third edition of the KPTS Secret Santa :)

Hope you’ve all had a lovely holidays and that you’ve enjoyed all the amazing gifts that were posted!

If you’d like, you can still add your works to the AO3 Collection! Just poke me if you do, and I’ll add the link to the Tumblr gift post as well. I’ve just revealed the archive as well. You can also repost your gift(s) to your own Tumblrs now, of course :)

Sadly I'd also like to announce that this has been the last edition of the KPTS Secret Santa. RL doesn't allow me much time anymore to spend on hosting gift exchanges. Having said that, I'd like to thank everyone that's participated in this little gift exchange! It's been a pleasure organising this for you all <3 

Oh and if anyone will be going to BOC's NYE Party this year, see you there? :))))

-x- Leonie (leetje)

*****

Are you all ready to find out who your secret santas were? :D

@angsty-violet made a gift for artfreaksmeout - gift here

@answermywearyquery made a gift for yujeong - gift here

@artfreaksmeout made a gift for epikhightechnology - gift here

@artpo made a gift for nuwildcat - gift here

@camuizuuki made a gift for lady-guts - gift here

@chelleofchaos made a gift for everyforkedroad - gift here

@cheresha made a gift for thisautistic - gift here

@crumchycow made a gift for dr-lemurr - gift here

@dr-lemurr made a gift for tinycharliechoo - gift here

@epikhightechnology made a gift for answermywearyquery - gift here

@everyforkedroad made a gift for artpo - gift here

@frogoffandom made a gift for chelleofchaos - gift here

@jeffsatyr made a gift for angsty-violet - gift here

@lady-guts made a gift for camuizuuki - gift here

@nuwildcat made a gift for frogoffandom - gift here

@penguininpink made a gift for crumchycow - gift here

@the-cookie-of-doom made a gift for penguininpink - gift here

@thestarscanalwayslookatus made a gift for the-cookie-of-doom - gift here

@thisautistic made a gift for wretchedamaranth - gift here

@tinycharliechoo made a gift for thestarscanalwayslookatus - gift here

@wretchedamaranth made a gift for jeffsatyr - gift here

@yujeong made a gift for cheresha - gift here

Go forth and shower your santa in some loving!

[stereksecretsanta]

The Sterek Secret Santa 2023 Reveal Post 

Ho Ho Ho!

Thus concludes the eleventh edition of the Sterek Secret Santa!

I hope you all have had a fantastic Christmas and that you’ve enjoyed all the Sterek-y goodness created by all the lovely secret santas!

I’d have been nowhere if it wasn’t for the following AMAZING Christmas Angels, who all embraced the true Christmas spirit of giving by merrily coming to my aid to make sure no one was left without a gift: @geekmom13, @trinitorettomadrigal, @always-mimits I cannot thank you all enough <3

But thank you to all participants for another successful secret santa! It’s wonderful to see a steady core of secret santa participants still going strong after all these years :) Sterek is Eternal, whoop!

If you’d like, you can still add your works to the AO3 Collection! You can also repost your gift(s) to your own Tumblrs now, of course! Just poke me and I’ll also add the link to the Tumblr gift post.

That’s it for all the service announcements! Hope to see you all again next year!

-x- Leonie (leetje)

*****

Click below to find out who your secret santa was!! 

Most of you know the drill by now. The list is in alphabetical order. 

@1989dreamer made a gift for buffaluff - gift here

@alaidiem made a gift for nostalgiafan123 - gift here

@always-mimits made a gift for geekmom13 - gift here

@always-mimits made a gift for kevaaronday - gift here

@buffaluff made a gift for always-mimits - gift here

@disneyprincessbuffyannesummers made a gift for evanesdust - gift here

@dwarvyn made a gift for sugareey-makes-stuff - gift here

@eevylynn made a gift for comedicdrama - gift here

@evanesdust made a gift for like-lazarus - gift here

@fandom_cosplay215 made a gift for lilacedten - gift here

@geekmom13 made a gift for just-another-busy-fangirl - gift here

@geekmom13 made a gift for nightlight9 - gift here

@goddess47 made a gift for i-might-be-in-over-my-head - gift here

@greenleaf1316 made a gift for thetommoway-oioii - gift here

@heavensenthale made a gift for mindofmim - gift here

@i-might-be-in-over-my-head made a gift for silverloveless - gift here

@irrationalrage made a gift for springlockedspectre - gift here

@just-another-busy-fangirl made a gift for stacinadia - gift here

@kevaaronday made a gift for mintonarel - gift here

@like-lazarus made a gift for softranswolves - gift here

@lokicorey made a gift for heavensenthale - gift here

@mindofmim made a gift for fandom-cosplay215 - gift here

@mintonarel made a gift for greenleaf1316 - gift here

@negativenorth made a gift for sinnabon-cosplay - gift here

@nightlight9 made a gift for theydraggedmein - gift here

@quackquackcey made a gift for irrationalrage - gift here

@renmackree made a gift for tabbytabbytabby - gift here

@rosalinesbenvolio made a gift for trinitorettomadrigal - gift here

@silverloveless made a gift for sterekbros - gift here

@sinnabon-cosplay made a gift for disneyprincessbuffyannesummers - gift here

@softranswolves made a gift for goddess47 - gift here

@springlockedspectre made a gift for eevylynn - gift here

@stacinadia made a gift for dwarvyn - gift here

@sterekbros made a gift for alaidiem - gift here

@sugareey-makes-stuff made a gift for wolfspurr - gift here

@tabbytabbytabby made a gift for renmackree - gift here

@thetommoway-oioii made a gift for rosalinesbenvolio - gift here

@theydraggedmein made a gift for thotpuppy - gift here

@thotpuppy made a gift for quackquackcey - gift here

@trinitorettomadrigal made a gift for 1989dreamer - gift here

@trinitorettomadrigal made a gift for lokicorey - gift here

@wolfspurr made a gift for negativenorth - gift here

That’s it! Go and shower your no-longer-secret-santa with love and virtual tackle hugs!

[malecsecretsanta]

Merry Christmas, @leetje!

happy holidays leonie, have a wonderful time of love and celebration! i hope you enjoy your fic! x

Read on AO3

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wherever you are is the place i belong

Of all the things Magnus expected to be doing an hour before midnight on Christmas Eve, trekking through inches of dense Hungarian snow was not one that had crossed his mind. It was all that rat bastard Lorenzo Rey’s fault for antagonizing the notoriously reclusive and anal-retentive High Warlock of Budapest.

Gergo Bartos had grown perilously distrustful through the centuries and his spellwork reflected that—but it didn’t keep Lorenzo from asserting the possibility that he purposefully sabotaged the warding of the archives in the Spiral Labyrinth, leading to a security breach. Bartos was livid, and sent word to the Clave and the Warlock Council that he refused to ever again be brought to a conference, summit, or any such engagement where he had to share space with Rey.

Naturally, the solution was to send the High Warlock of Alicante and the Inquisitor to Budapest on Christmas Eve to try to smooth things over.

“I’m going to strangle that man the next time I see him,” Magnus grumbled to himself, carefully avoiding a slick glaze of black ice.

Alec’s fingers pressing into Magnus’ forearm flexed as he looked down at the mounds of wet snow below his boots. “Lorenzo? I’ll back you.”

Looking over at him, with delicate little snowflakes trapped on his eyelashes and the soft ends of his hair, Magnus felt that familiar lurching feeling in his chest, like for a second his heart stopped just to take him in. The silvery moonlight reflected off the snow and formed a backlighting that gave his angel the halo he deserved, resting on the crown of his head. The high points of his cheeks were flushed pink from the cold, as was the tip of his nose.

Maybe this turn of events wasn’t totally unfortunate.

“Are you too cold?” Magnus asked, sending a pulse of warmth to the surface of his skin and letting it bleed out to Alec.

Alec shivered at the sharp contrast in temperature, then leaned in close to press his face to Magnus’ cheek. “Ugh, that feels so good. I didn’t know it got this cold here. It’s not as bad as New York but still…”

“Your nose is ice!”

Pressing his face more enthusiastically against Magnus’ with a deep, throaty chuckle, Alec peppered kisses with cold lips against the round of his cheek. “When we get home, can we take a hot bath? Maybe add a bath bomb or two, a couple mugs of tea, some eucalyptus candles, and a Sam Cooke vinyl playing.”

“I love when you talk dirty to me,” Magnus teased, catching the tip of his nose against Alec’s in an aborted Inuit kiss. “That sounds like absolute heaven. Did you know there are some divine thermal springs here in Budapest? The Széchenyi Baths are open all year round you know. Maybe we’ll find the time to indulge.”

“You know patience isn’t a virtue of mine when it comes to you, Mr. Lightwood-Bane.” Alec nipped at Magnus’ earlobe with his teeth, a gentle sting of pleasure. A soft sigh punctuated the wistful declaration and preceded the next words out of his mouth. “How much further?”

“Not far.”

“And we can’t portal because…?”

“We can’t portal in because Gergo has perfected the enchantment that surrounds his property; it doesn’t allow portals in or out within a certain distance of his home. This is as close as I could get us without potentially risking life and limb. Believe me, getting spliced would be the least of our worries if we tried.”

As the woods grew denser, clearly capable of making a lesser person claustrophobic, the strength of Bartos’ magic signature grew. Magnus could feel the hairs on the back of his neck standing up and goosebumps spread across his skin.

“Do you feel that?” Alec asked, stopping suddenly in his tracks and pulling an arrow from his glamoured quiver and nocking it in his bow.

Holding out a hand to keep Alec from making a sudden move, Magnus’s magic began to probe their surroundings for a trigger, a thread lying in wait to be pulled. “Wait.”

Like a flash of lightning, a bolt of raw energy shot through the trees, and Magnus only just stopped it in its tracks before it reached them. “Látom, hogy az idő még ébersé tette Önt, Gergo,” he called out evenly, keeping his eyes on it.

“Bane? Te vagy az?” a voice responded from somewhere unidentifiable in the distance.

“Az inkvizitátor Lightwood-Bane-nél vagyok.” The concentrated energy Magnus was holding at bay suddenly dissipated, and he lowered his arm back to his side. “We’re here as representative authorities on behalf of the Warlock Council and the Clave.”

From the darkness of the vast woods, a man suddenly appeared from a glimmering portal of opalescent magic. His hair was a darker shade of blond, and his eyes were a deep brown that almost looked black from where he stood. His physique was mostly hidden under the long black robes he wore and the loose button up shirt, but what was clear was that he was very tall with softer features. “This is about that rohadék, Lorenzo. I made it clear that I will not be cooperating with him any longer. I did nothing to sabotage our people’s haven and source of community. I would hope that is something you would know about me without a shadow of a doubt, Magnus.”

Shifting away from Alec to move towards Gergo, Magnus nodded and held out one hand in a peaceful gesture. “I do. I believed you from the beginning. We didn’t come here to accuse you of anything.”

“Is that so?” Gergo looked at him, and then at Alec, with stern eyes and a set jaw. Some of the ice in his expression had thawed, however, and he looked less guarded than when they began. “To what do I owe the visit, then?”

“We can prove your innocence,” Alec stated simply, speaking up for the first time.

“Color me curious.” With a wave of his hand, a pale blue sheet of magic appeared and formed a barrier that started just behind him. Slowly, it began to peel away, allowing Gergo to step through. “A more comfortable venue seems best to continue this.”

Magnus put his hand on Alec’s lower back, steering him gently. He also used the opportunity to his advantage, pressing faint traces of protective magic onto Alec with fingers teasing just under the fabric of his coat, sweater, and t-shirt to brush tenderly across his skin.

They walked towards an old-style mansion that had just dropped its glamour—it looked like the sister establishment to the Sacelláry Mansion. Its exterior was as immaculate and pristine as the day it was built, though it almost seemed to be existing in a place where time didn’t wear down what it touched. There were large columns that barred the front, balconies off every window from the second floor up to the attic. It was painted a crisp ivory color with minimal accents of chestnut brown, still perfectly preserved. The inside was mostly cold, sterile marble in white or black, save for the doors which were large oak double panels. The hallway seemed to stretch on forever, with numerous doors on either side, until Gergo stopped at one and opened in, gesturing for the two of them to go inside.

It was the apothecary, markedly different from Magnus’ own with its more chaotic atmosphere. Nearly every surface housed magical objects and items, numerous bookshelves stuffed full with tomes, journals, and volumes were pushed against the walls, and a massive cabinet of glass vials full of potions, tinctures, and salves of varying colors sat snugly in the space just inside the room beside the door. “I’m prepared to prove my innocence, no matter what effort it may require from me,” he stated bluntly, taking a thin stack of papers from the desk in the corner. “This is how I created the warding. Whoever was able to slip between the cracks would have to know even more than just how to find the back doors—they would need to understand the minutia of the mechanisms I applied.”

Magnus looked at the outstretched hand and its proffered notes written in hurried cursive. After a few moments of reading, it became clear that there were extensive adaptations in the spellwork that made it unique. Whoever had managed to hijack it would need some prior knowledge. But… “You put in a tripwire.”

“I did.”

“And?”

“I haven’t been allowed access to the Spiral Labyrinth since the breach. So I don’t know.” Gergo walked around the desk to be opposite them and opened one of the drawers. “If it was triggered, this would detect it.” A small, round stone that was milky-white and appeared to encase something living inside that swirled in ceaseless, shapeless movements. “It acts like a magnet of sorts, attracting the energy source it touched.”

Alec came up behind Magnus, reaching into his coat pocket and pulling out a test tube of a navy blue substance. “One of the best forensic pathologists in our Institutes managed to isolate the energy signatures that were found within the warding and then reduced it down into a concentrated form. This might be able to give us an answer.” He pulled off the stopper and held it out towards Gergo.

As soon as the stone got within a few centimeters of the substance, the swirling insides became frantic and turned a dark gray.

All three men looked up at one another.

“We’ll take this to the Summit tomorrow,” Magnus declared. “The sample Isabelle provided, and the stone.”

For a moment, Gergo just observed him with narrowed eyes.

If Alec weren’t with him, Magnus thinks, maybe he would be more inclined to have faith that he could be trusted with the responsibility. Things had changed when Magnus became Alicante’s high warlock—rumors had circled that maybe his alliance was shifting, maybe he had lost himself in the dizzy daydreams of his shadowhunter lover. He’d had to choose between his love and his people before, and he hoped never to face it again because it nearly tore him apart. But he was loyal to the people it was job, both formally and informally, to protect.

“Swear a blood oath,” Gergo finally said.

Without skipping a beat, Alec, still at Magnus’ side, pulled an adamas blade from his boot. “I’ll go first.” He glanced over at Magnus with an understanding expression that made it clear that he had gauged the situation correctly. He pressed the sharp point to his palm just hard enough to draw blood, and then clenched his hand into a fist so it dripped down onto the stone still writhing inside. “Et sanguis meus, ut accipiat fidem meam. Si fractum ita et ego.”

Magnus clenched his fist tight enough that his nails dug into his skin to break it. “Et sanguis meus, ut accipiat fidem meam. Si fractum ita et ego.” His blood fell slow in droplets, mingling with Alec’s in a way that made something in his chest go tight.

When they left, bloodied hands clasped together, Magnus felt Alec’s pulse against his in the midst of the wet warmth.

“That could have gone worse,” Alec pointed out, speaking quietly among the ambient silence of the woods.

Magnus chuckled wryly, looking over at him. “Politics are rarely ever a situation in which anyone wins.”

The soft crunching of snow beneath their boots with each step was abnormally prevalent with how quiet the city had become. The snow was still falling at a steady pace and accumulating on the ground, making a pristine and untouched layer of soft white.

“Well my love, since we won’t be getting much sleep tonight anyway, how about that bath you tantalized me with earlier?” Magnus suggested as he brought them to a stop.

Alec grinned at him like the sun rose and fell at his command, and Magnus had to look away to keep from being completely incapacitated by it. “That sounds perfect.”

Before the portal home could be summoned though, the clock tower that loomed above them began to toll midnight.

“Merry Christmas, Alexander,” Magnus murmured, putting his hands tenderly on either side of Alec’s face to bring him in for a kiss. It was soft and warm and tasted like snow.

“Merry Christmas, Magnus.”

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Wangxian Winter Solstice Reveal Post! 

Hi everyone, are you all ready to find out who your gift-makers are? :)

First of all I would like to give a special thank you to @wwxadhd & @moonanstars124 for helping out with creating additional gifts, making sure no one was left without a gift! You guys are the best and I couldn’t have done it without you <3

Secondly I’d like to thank everyone for participating in this third edition of the Wangxian Winter Solstice Gift Exchange! It’s been a pleasure really. You bet I’ll be back next year :D

Last but not least, if you still wish to add your gift to the AO3 Collection Archive then please feel free to do so! If you'll add them, shoot me a message afterwards and I will add a link from the gift page on Tumblr to the gift on AO3 as well. You’re now also free to post the gifts you made to your own Tumblrs & etc of course!

Unfortunately I won't be able to host the Lunar New Year exchange again, I'm on vacation at that time ;)

Okay that’s all for my public service announcements!

Warm winter greetings, @leetje​

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Click below to find out who made gifts for whom!

List is in alphabetic order :)

@accidental-child-art made a gift for apprenticedmagician- gift here

@apprenticedmagician made a gift for unlarky- gift here

@beetleknee made a gift for kikivmiko- gift here

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@gege made a gift for preludianstaves- gift here

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@leahlisabeth made a gift for moonanstars124- gift here

@luckymoonly made a gift for gege- gift here

@mdzs-rabbithole made a gift for neverenoughwangxian- gift here

@moonanstars124 made a gift for bererjs- gift here

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@wwxadhd made a gift for luckymoonly- gift here

@zeeprince-kun made a gift for leahlisabeth- gift here

Now go forth and shower your gift-maker with love, they deserve it!

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Aww thank you so much sweetie!! ❤️❤️❤️

You are welcome dear. It is so sweet... And so are you! <3

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