champagne problems (ao3)
He said no. He can't-
He begged on both knees, and he said no.
He said no.
For @magnus-the-maqnificent happy belated birthday, sorry for being an angsty emo nightmare in your dms, and thank you for being an absolute treasure of a friend. I love you and appreciate you and you're amazing ๐๐๐
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He said no.
โNoโ.ย
โNoโ โ he canโt.
โNoโ โ he wonโt.
โNoโ โ itโs not what they are going to have.
No no no no
No.ย
The Dom Perignon in his hands makes itself known as he tries to catch the subway rail, and opening it with his teeth. The cork is lost somewhere down the subway platform, and he canโt bring himself to care. The first swig hits his throat like fucking velvet, and he tries to swallow the bubbles burning his esophagus on their way up. The old woman sitting two seats ahead gives him a barely concealed dirty look. Thereโs something in the back of his head about public intoxication, but thereโs no fucks left in his body to give.
He said no.
He asked him. Dinner, cake, candlelights, down on one knee. Then on both. Asked him. Begged him.
He said no.
His phone is ringing in his pocket, the caller ID illegible through the tears burning his eyes. He blinks it away, then turns on โdo not disturbโ. His family is going to worry, he knows he should let them know, but there is nothing in his power to do right now except sit in this night train and think, butโ
He said no. Didnโt even give a reason. Just a no.
The phone screen brightens for a few seconds to tell him about the battery running low, the lock screen crushing the already broken pieces of his heart. Itโs the last day the two of them ever spent in their old dorm room. He once joked how it was made for the two of them, both the madhouse full of their colourful friends and the quiet loving blanket of safety at once.
His car is still in the hotel parking, and he hopes Magnus brought his copy of the keys to the chevy. Not exactly the car of a hotshot lawyer, but Alec couldnโt bring himself to exchange it for a Mercedes or an Audi, or whatever it is that his colleagues drive. Itโs the car the love of his life saved up painstakingly to buy him, working all the way through college. Itโs the testament of their love.
The love currently wilting like the bouquet of roses in the restaurant garbage can.
He said no.
The handkerchief is still in his jacket pocket, he remembers suddenly. His fingers brush over a solid shape as he reaches for it, and he gets a clear jolt of memory at the familiar velvet box.
He left the ring in the champagne glass back at the table.
He can see the headlines tomorrow so clearlyโ Americaโs sweethearts no longer, scandal or publicity stunt? A senetor to be rejected by the most beloved face on public television, what a story.
Which again reminds himโ he said no.
What a fucking shitshow.
Alec downs the rest of the Dom Perignon in one go, trying to swallow his destined share of champagne problems.ย
Fuck him. Fuck his life. Fuck Magnus. Fuck this.
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anon asked โ Jace x Clary or Emma x Julian
โ Stay and make me forget my nightmares. Stay and sleep next to me. Stay andย chase the bad dreams away, the memories of blood, of dead parents, of Endarkened warriors with eyes like dead black coals โ
Emma Carstairs & Julian Blackthorn
[The Dark Artifices by Cassandra Clare @cassandraclare]
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Happy Birthday Will Herondale
There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.
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Boy, you got me hooked onto something
Who could say that they saw us coming?
Tell me
Do you feel the love?
Spend a summer or a lifetime with me
Let me take you to the place of your dreams
- Dhruv, double take
Alastair Carstairs and Thomas Lightwood || The Last Hours, by Cassandra Clare
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I dream sometimes, of a boy with green eyes, a boy who was never poisoned with demon blood, a boy who could laugh and love and be human, and that is the boy I wept over, but that boy never existed.
City of Heavenly Fire by @cassandraclare
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@lgbtqia-litsource event 01: queer women in literature
week 02: queer women of colour โ KAMALA JOSHI.
โyou will have to be delicate with me, then,โ ariadne said very softly.
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WILL HERONDALE
โLife is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read."(x)
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take my hand, wreck my plans (thatโs my man)
Chapter 4
With great acquaintances, Alec learns, comes a great power to take big decisions.
Side effects, however, may include nicknames that last a lifetime.
@magnus-the-maqnificent
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