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Alec Lightwood ([personal profile] angelic_archer) wrote in [community profile] riverviewlogs 2018-01-23 04:09 am (UTC)

"There has to be a reason why they wanted me to fit the straight stereotypes when I was just a kid." By the Angel, he'd been ten when he'd met Jace. What had he done at that age that made Robert so paranoid that his eldest son might turn out gay? No matter how often he tried to figure it out, he'd never recalled one event that could have made Robert paranoid about Alec's sexuality. "And glitter does not equal gay. Technically he's bisexual."

Jace might be right. He might have been bored as a mundane but if he'd never known the difference... and now, sometimes he wondered about a 'normal' life or at least one that didn't revolve around weapons and fighting.

"I wouldn't be the person I am if it weren't for you. You were the first one to truly believe in me. Everyone else expected me to be less." But Jace never had. He'd encouraged Alec to focus on his strengths and to find ways to keep up with one of the best Shadowhunters of their generation.

"Maybe guitar. If I'd been a normal teenager, drums to annoy Robert and Maryse." But he probably wouldn't have, even if they'd all been Mundanes. Alec still would have been afraid of being outed so he would have done everything possible to be respectable according to their parents' rules. Pausing, he thought of the things Jace had been trying lately. The apartment was now full of tools and cookbooks. "I haven't really tried anything new since we arrived here. But there's things I'd like to do. I think."

The idea of having choices was too new for Alec to really consider seriously. "Why can't you start a family? If I can have one someday, so can you. And if I have one, then you'll have a family too."

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