Top Shadowhunters Fanfics
26 notable Shadowhunters works from our AO3 database, ranked by kudos — with full stats, tags, and similar-fic recommendations for each.
by Someone_aka_Me · Malec
Most people get their Soulmarks any time between fifteen and twenty. A few words, sometimes a sentence or even two. The next words their soulmate will say to them. Usually, the first words they'll ever hear from their soulmate. Magnus never got a Soulmark. He's looked. Many times. At first he
by trellanyx · Malec
“Magnus—” Clary looked back up, and immediately wished she hadn’t. The cold, ancient fury that was rapidly settling into his skin made her flinch instinctively. She waited for a lightbulb to break, or the floor to start trembling, but nothing happened. Magnus had a tight rein on his magic, and that
by notcrypticbutcoy · Malec, Saphael
The door opens. Alec tenses, and his body throbs. A man steps through, and Alec curls his fingers into his palms, terror pulsing through him. Because the man isn't a man. He's a warlock. A demon. The same person he felt crouching over him when he fell. Why is he here? What has the warlock done to
by KouriArashi · Malec
There hasn't been an omega in the Lightwood family for generations, and Alec is intent on making sure that nobody finds out that he's the first. Then he meets Magnus Bane, who turns his world upside down.
by sarcasticfluentry · Malec
After the Clave drops the charges against Isabelle and declares her free, Magnus decides he doesn't want Alec's bow and quiver after all. He gets something even better.
by Lecrit · Malec
Working for Magnus isn’t easy. Magnus is out of control and Alec has to yell more often than not to get him to listen to him. He hates everything formal because it means he has to watch his mouth. Most importantly, Magnus is an incorrigible flirt.Which would be alright if Alec wasn’t utterly, irreme
by KarasuYurei · Malec
After the events with Deucalion and Jennifer Blake, Derek goes on a search for his biological family. He, Stiles, and Cora head to New York City to try to find the family he doesn’t remember. It turns out that there was a lot to his adoption that he never knew.
by stridermagic
What it says on the tin. Drabbles devoted to top Harry.Most chapters will contain sex.
by KouriArashi · Malec
It's hard to stay in the closet when the guy you had a one-night stand with two nights ago turns out to be your new partner ... but Alec will be damned if he isn't going to give it a try.
by sarcasticfluentry · Malec
After Magnus crashes Alec's wedding and Lydia is attacked, the Institute goes on lockdown. Magnus stays the night in Alec's room.
by Aria_Lerendeair · Malec
Magnus Bane, High Warlock of the Downworld, has sworn, after the Second Uprising, to never work with the Clave again, and has banned any warlock from doing so.However, when the New York Institute refuses to respect that, and continues attempting to contact him, Magnus takes a moment to personally di
by lawsofchaos · Malec
Jace blinks, peering at the loft in vague stupefaction. “This,” and Alec’s parabatai’s voice sounds like he’s dragging each noise out from his exhausted mind and forcing it out before he can forget what word he just discovered. “Isn’t the Institute?” The final phrase comes out as a question.Alec til
by otppurefuckingmagic · Malec, Sizzy
As the goalie for the New York City Blazing Angels, Alec Lightwood thinks he's finally found the team he can go all the way to the championship cup with. Then his agent and financial advisor are arrested for stealing their clients' money, and Alec is forced to take on a side job doing endorsement de
by KouriArashi · Malec
Every warlock has a soulmate. 98% of the time it’s another warlock, but sometimes it’s a mundane, a seelie, or even a Shadowhunter. Until their name appears on the warlock’s chest (and their corresponding soulmate’s), there’s no way to know.Enter Alec Lightwood, who wakes up at fourteen with a warlo
by GoldenDaydreams · Malec
“Two can play at this game.” Alec had the pleasure of watching Magnus go from confused, to a slow smirk, and understanding coming to his eyes. “I might not be able to kick him out, but I can make him want to leave.” A.K.AThe story where Jace keeps interrupting Alec and Magnus's 'alone time,' and th
by Master of Unlocking (Hikarinimichitasora) · Malec
Soulmate AU where you age to about 18/21, and then you stay that age until you find your soulmate.
by KouriArashi · Malec
To keep the peace between the Shadowhunters and the Downworlders, a treaty designates an intermarriage between the two groups every seven years. Alec isn't exactly happy to be chosen, but then he finds out that his intended is nothing like what anyone expected.
by notcrypticbutcoy · Malec
Magnus' bed looked so nice and warm and comforting, and Raziel, it smelt like Magnus, all over, and Alec wanted to bury himself in it and never leave. Even his pillow smelt of Magnus' shampoo.***When Alec gets home from a mission absolutely exhausted, all he wants to do is get home and cuddle with h
by glorious_spoon · Malec
After a patrol gone very wrong, Alec Lightwood comes to in the infirmary with no memory of the past three years, and that turns out to be just the beginning of his problems. There's an ominous plot afoot, a possible traitor at the Institute, and he's pretty sure that he ought to remember the handsom
by arandomfan91 · Malec, Saphael
Alec is in love with Magnus. Magnus needs Alec to be his fake boyfriend. What could possibly go wrong?
by katikat · Malec
All my Shadowhunters/TMI fics and ficlets in one place. Most of these stories are either Malec or gen, with Alec being the main player, one way or another. Later on, some Jalec, too.Discontinued.
by GoldenDaydreams · Sizzy
Alexander hates the entire concept of soulmate marks. From a young age, he’s seen the flaw in their design. His father is his mother’s soulmate, but she is not his, Isabelle's words are most certainly written by mundane, and the words on Jace's collarbone are not the first words Alec said to him.And
by hexicity · Saphael
The ad is messily stapled against the public announcement board in the quad. It looks like someone wrote it with their non-dominant hand in the first pen they found. Its sloppy red ink reads in giant letters: “FOUR BEDROOMS. ONE BATH. PASSABLE KITCHEN. WILLING TO DELAY PAYMENT ON RENT. PLEASE DON’T
by Nadja_Lee · Saphael
This is the story of cultures clashing, painful beginnings, learning, growing and accepting each other and finally happy endings in the middle of a Shadow World marked by war and change.The Downworld and Idris has been at war since Valentine’s climb to power. The result is a Shadow World filled with
by Nadja_Lee · Saphael
Magnus is gifted a Shadowhunter omega, Alec Lightwood, for helping the NY Institute. Magnus has no need for Shadowhunters, omegas or a mate. But one look at Alec and he is starting to change his mind on all counts….Things start to get very interesting when Raphael shows up at Magnus' door with his n
by orphan_account · Saphael
Simon is pretty sure Raphael is going to murder him one day, and it's all going to be Clary's fault, somehow."Listen, guys," he started. "I don't think you realize what kind of schedules vampires keep." Everyone present - Clary, Jace, Izzy and Alec - looked at him with confusion. "What do you mean?"
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