The Best Years of My Life
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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)
08 Jan 2026
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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