"Yeah. Me too. I like that I can decide to spend the night with you, even though I always do."

"I love you. I love staying with you." He kisses Lev's cheek again, then shifts so his head is on Lev's shoulder. 

"Now that I know you're going to stay with me I can go back to using moda in a remotely responsible way."

.............................

"…what were you doing before?" 

"Taking it so that I could skip sleep and watch you sleep."

He hugs Lev. 

"Don't keep doing that. Sleep a normal human amount. With me." 

"I will! Because you're going to stay with me for years and years and I will be able to get my fill of watching you sleep by just doing it when I have insomnia!"

That's… honestly still worrying but it's also cute and they can have that conversation later. 

"I love you." 

"I love you. Sleep now?"

"Sleep now," he agrees, and nuzzles Lev's shoulder. 

Then sleep! 

Lev wakes up well-rested at 3:30 am, because he's been sleeping sixteen hours a day for the past week. He emails Claire to tell her that he's sorry he came back to work late but a family thing came up and starts catching up on what happened while he was gone. 

He's spent the last week sleeping off and on for maybe five hours a night. He's still curled up against Lev's shoulder. 

Fine by Lev, if he can get most of a work day done before Sasha wakes up then he'll get more time with Sasha. 

claire.sullivan: Is the family thing Sasha Michaels?

lev.aarons: yes. we're going to get married. 

claire.sullivan: Congratulations to you both! Do I get an invite to the wedding?

lev.aarons: of course

claire.sullivan: You don't have to but I would appreciate it if you'd do an interview about being LGBT.

claire.sullivan: It's great PR to have a company founded by two LGBT people, and it means that no one has an incentive to do investigative reporting about whether you're gay or not.

lev.aarons: ugh fine

lev.aarons: and I'm bi actually

claire.sullivan: One outlet, friendly journalist, softball questions, I promise.  

lev.aarons: just because I feel bad about disappearing for six months

lev.aarons: do you want sasha too 

claire.sullivan: I would definitely appreciate it, but I recognize what a favor you're doing me talking about your private life with journalists at all.

lev.aarons: I'll ask him when he wakes up

He wakes up at nine AM, blinks up at Lev and then smiles when he remembers that falling asleep next to Lev wasn't a dream, he's here. 

"Good morning. I love you."

"Good morning." He leans up and kisses him. 

"I'm trying this new thing where I work forty hours a week but I was up at 3:30 am so I got five and a half hours of it done while you were asleep."

"You're adorable." He could grab a book but that would involve leaving the bed that has Lev in it. 

Lev puts his laptop aside and kisses Sasha. "Claire wants us to do an interview coming out as gay. Well, me mostly, but you if you want to."

"Sure — I should probably email BMB before I agree to interviews but it'll probably be fine, it's an interview I'm doing with you because your cofounder asked us to." 

"Also I can just. Stop holding you to the agreements. I trust you not to tell a journalist about my dick or marry me for the sole purpose of stealing half my money."

"You do, I'm not sure BMB does." 

"I think the only one of the agreements that's actually with them is not telling people we met through Billionaire Marriage Brokers which... I would pretty much prefer anyway. We can claim we met on Yenta, it would make Claire happy."

"Oh, good — I did actually use Yenta, so I don't even have to make something up, that's great." 

"Please admire my self-restraint in not turning you into a one-person focus group."