He smiles and leans into the touch and kisses Lev's cheek. 

He could totally kiss Sasha. Sasha is right there. 

He presses a quick kiss into Sasha's lips.

He sighs, soft and pleased, and kisses him back, soft and almost as quick. 

"Goodnight." He settles himself in, takes Lev's hand. 

"Goodnight." Lev pauses. "I've never done that before."

"We can get started on fixing that tomorrow," he says, half-slurred together, and then something unintelligible, and then his hand goes limp in Lev's. 

Lev had penciled in plans to have a panic attack as soon as Sasha went to sleep, but in fact it is really hard to have a panic attack when Sasha is in his bed, so he presses himself up against Sasha and falls asleep. 

He wakes up early; he always does. Gets out of Lev's arms to use the bathroom, comes back and finds a piece of blank paper and writes a note that says "I never actually took those books with us out of the library; I'll be back. —S ❤️" and leaves it on the bed where Lev will be expecting him to be. 

He wakes up and Sasha isn't there and for a bleary moment he worries that it was all a dream or that Sasha has decided to leave.

But then he sees the note with a heart (!!!) and everything is okay. 

He emails Claire and the head of the Aarons Foundation to tell them that he'll be working less because he's started seeing someone. He takes a shower, jerks off thinking about Sasha, gets dressed, and checks his email. Claire has already emailed him back with a link to Yenta's paid time off policies, under which he has accumulated almost six months of PTO, and a suggestion that perhaps he wants to go on a romantic trip for, oh, six weeks. 

He goes to the library to find Sasha. 

He turns when he hears the door open.

"Sorry, I know I said I'd be back, I got kinda lost on the way here. Your house is big. I might need a map or something. How are you?" 

"Good! Is there anywhere in particular you want to go? --In the world, I mean."

"...um, not that I've thought about much, but give me twenty minutes to think about it and/or research museums and I'll have a list?" 

"Cool! No rush or anything, Claire just sent me a passive-aggressive email about how I don't take vacations and I thought, you know, vacations might actually be fun if they were... with someone else."

He sounds pathetic.

There is no way to respond to that that doesn't sound either a) condescending or b) equally pathetic. He picks up the pile of books, from which two have been removed and three have been added, goes to hug Lev, realizes his tactical error, and leans on him instead. 

Yay being leaned on!

"I can work in here while you read if you want, or I can work in my office if you want some time aw-- alone time, or we can do something? Up to you."

He doesn't miss the correction. "Reading with you sounds nice." 

Then Lev will grab his laptop and start reading a report about the expansion of CBT groups into developing countries. 

Sometimes he snorts at his screen or makes disgusted faces or says "hmm, I guess."

Edith is briefly confused about where Lev is but eventually appears with coffee and waffles. 

He starts on an alternate history book about the Napoleonic wars as fought with dragons. He does not so much drink coffee but that's fine, Lev can have his, waffles are great. 

When Edith collects the dishes, she will notice that he didn't drink coffee and ask if he wants tea or orange juice or something instead.

(Lev will completely fail to process that any of this is happening because he is, instead, contemplating the risk that CBT spreads American-typical depression to other countries.)

"Do you have hot chocolate?" 

"Of course! Would you like that every morning or just right now?"

"Just right now is fine. Thank you!" 

Then he will get hot chocolate with little marshmallows. 

"I'm sorry if you meant that I should make it from scratch-- we don't have the ingredients for that around because Lev likes the packets."

Tiny marshmallows! 

"No, packets are great. Thank you again." He's very earnest about it. 

"You're welcome!" Edith says. "Talk to me any time you need something, we all want to help get you settled in."

(Lev takes a quick break from researching CBT to message Shelly to say that she should buy some more chairs for his office and they should be really really comfy like the couches in Sasha's room. Shelly complains in the kitchen about how she is being worked like a slave, to which Edith tartly replies "twenty hours a week?") 

If given a couple of hours, he finishes the book and moves on to an older childrens' fantasy that promises (and delivers on) lots and lots of scheming plots.