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   The House That Built Me by Booklivesmatter

   Fandoms: Shadowhunters (TV), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Captain America (Movies), Iron Man (Movies), Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV)  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
   • F/M, M/M
   • Work in Progress

   08 Jan 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • Magnus Bane/Alec Lightwood
   • Clint Barton/Laura Barton
   • Pepper Potts/Tony Stark
   • Clary Fray/Jace Wayland
   • Simon Lewis/Isabelle Lightwood
   • Jane Foster/Thor
   • Steve Rogers/Natasha Romanov
   • Maryse Lightwood
   • Nick Fury
   • Robert Lightwood
   • Maria Hill
   • Phil Coulson
   • Melinda May
   • Bobbi Morse
   • Lance Hunter
   • Jemma Simmons
   • Skye | Daisy Johnson
   • Raphael Santiago
   • Ragnor Fell
   • Catarina Loss
   • Cooper Barton
   • Lila Barton
   • James Rhodes
   • Bruce Banner
   • Loki (Marvel)
   • Camille Belcourt
   • Luke Garroway
   • Imogen Herondale
   • Leo Fitz
   • Sam Wilson (Marvel)
   • James "Bucky" Barnes
   • Bad Parent Maryse Lightwood
   • Bad Parent Robert Lightwood
   • Spy Alec Lightwood
   • Secret Relationship
   • Adoption
   • Clint and Laura Barton's Family
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood First Meet
   • Domestic Magnus Bane/Alec Lightwood
   • Alec Lightwood Needs A Hug
   • BAMF Alec Lightwood
   • Aunt Natasha Romanov
   • Avengers Family
   • Name Changes
   • Tony Stark Has a Heart
   • POV Clint Barton
   • POV Alec Lightwood

   Summary

   Alec Lightwood wasn't expected to survive that night. His parents dropped him off in the midst of a human trafficking ring and cleaned their hands of their homosexual, thirteen-year-old son. Except the man they sold him to happened to be a SHIELD Agent undercover: Clint Barton.

   Clint and Laura Barton take Shadowhunter Alec Lightwood into their home and raise him as their own. Alec rises through the ranks of SHIELD and even becomes an Avenger alongside his adoptive father and aunt. When the time comes, Director Fury sends Alec back to the New York Institute undercover to bring down the Clave from the inside.

   How will Alec handle being back inside the very institution that would gladly see him dead based on his sexuality alone? And what about the mysterious warlock who saved his life during the Battle of New York?

   Series

   • Part 1 of The Best Years of My Life

   Language:

   English

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   Bookmarked by Kira85

   02 May 2024