A/N- You guys. You GUYS. I've been seeing my own name/stories showing up on tumblr, you know how happy that makes me?! SO HAPPY. I reblog all of the ones I see so now you should go follow me, blacknails512 as usual :3 I fucking love all of you
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Disclaimer that I didn't have in the last chapter- As much as I want to own The Mortal Instruments, as well as Scarlett Johnasson, I unfortunately own neither. BUT SHE'S MINE DON'T FUCKING TOUCH HER.

Alec was sound asleep in my arms before I had very long to process or question what he'd said. It wasn't that I was unsure of whether or not he loved me –he told me every day –but I just couldn't help feeling that I'd imagined his voice in my ear, his breath on my neck. It was almost more logical to believe that I'd imagined it instead of believing he'd actually spoken.

In other words- I was kind of freaking out.

I was just half lying in my bed, with my arm curled around Alec's shoulder, trying not to fidget too much so I wouldn't wake him and letting my mind go crazy with ridiculous scenarios that wouldn't make any sense in the morning. I had been hearing things because I was tired, I'd imagined it because my brain was still fuzzy from everything that'd happened before, I was the one who actually said it at the same time that Alec was breathing so my brain tricked me into thinking it was him, it was all perfectly clear.

He had said it in an odd way though, like his lips and his tongue were out of sync just enough that I noticed. So he had a small impediment, which was understandable, he barely learned how to speak before he lost his ability to hear, but my brain was still trying to convince me I was being stupid and needed to get my ears checked. He had a speech impediment though… could you imagine an impediment?

I was giving myself a headache and just decided to talk to him the next day about it. Being exhausted and mildly sleep deprived was not helping at the moment, so I told myself to focus on the sleepy angel in my arms instead, listen to him breathe. I moved my hand up the crook of his shoulder and neck into his hair, tangling my fingers with the dark black threads and gently pulling them back out. Alec unconsciously responded, making one of those sleep noises that just made me think of him as even more of a kitten. With a smile, I kissed the top of his head and smiled even more when his arms tightened around me.

Sometime that night, I was woken up by a strange, thunder-like sound directly in my ear that startled me for a moment, making me jump. I had the energy to get one of my eyes half open and I realized how completely dark it was in my room. When we had fallen asleep the sun was barely down and when I woke up I could only see as far as the light from my alarm clock illuminated. It was three fifteen. My ear felt oddly warm and my eyes were still heavy but I was conscious enough to notice that the strange noise was coming from Alec's stomach, which I was resting my head on. I'd somehow migrated all the way down there in my sleep but it's not like I was really complaining.

Alec's stomach growled in my ear again and I lifted my head up, blearily blinking my eyes at him. He was already awake, looking sheepishly at me and blushing a bit, somehow smiling with his bottom lip between his teeth. I moved up his stomach some more and bent my back at a weird angle to get my lips connected to his, grinning when his stomach made noise again. It sounded like it was getting close to just digesting itself unless I fed him soon.

I had realized barely ten seconds before falling asleep that we never actually got to eat dinner, seeing as how I nearly set ours on fire and then we were too busy being attached to each other to bother cooking something else. It wasn't even seven by the time we were done and we'd been asleep for about eight hours already. He was probably starving.

With a slight groan and a long stretch, I got my arm to the other side of the bed where my phone was sitting on the side table and brought it back to where we were laying on each other. I knew Alec's phone was back in the living room where he'd left it in his hoodie pocket so I just typed my message and left it open, setting it on his abdomen so he could read it.

Would you like an early breakfast or a really late dinner?

He just typed his reply under my own message and handed it back to me.

You can sleep a while longer if you want to. I'll be fine for a few more hours.

Dinner it is.

I saw Alec just shake his head and smile, reaching for my phone again.

Can I use your shower while you make "dinner?"

Of course, darling.

He smiled again, though I could tell he was trying to contain the grin, and kissed me softly before I moved off of him so he could get out of my bed. The sheets slipped away from him as he stood up and I got a full view of his perfect body as he was gathering up his strewn about clothes. After a minute or two of staring, Alec finally noticed and blushed a color that resembled that of a pomegranate and threw the closest piece of clothing, which happened to be my boxers, at me, getting me in the face. I just laughed and removed the article from my face, getting it off in time to see Alec dart into the bathroom.

While Alec was in the shower, I gathered the rest of my own clothes, throwing them in the washing machine along with Alec's dirty shirt that had certain fluids on it. I pulled on some clean, bodily fluid free clothes and combed through my hair, but when I got into the living room I saw one of my socks on the floor. Upon further inspection, I noticed that it had a rather large hole in it, one that definitely hadn't been there the day before.

Mew

I turned around to find Chairman Meow standing behind me, with his ears down and his little tail between his legs, looking like the most pitiful thing on the planet.

"Awwww," I said out loud, picking him up. "I set the apartment on fire and then I don't feed you; I'm the worst owner ever! Let's get you some food, yeah? You precious little thing."

After feeding the Chairman (and giving him a little extra) I scoured the fridge for something I could make for Alec and I. I found that we had leftover nothing, with a couple of nothings, and also lots of nothing. There was burnt chicken from the night before but I doubted Alec would eat that, and I didn't really want to anyways. Somehow I managed to gather together the food for some sort of breakfast burrito. So we could have an early breakfast for late dinner, seemed legit.

As I was frying and simmering various things, while also occasionally kicking away Chairman who was waiting for food to fall, I didn't hear Alec's soft footsteps coming into the kitchen. I jumped when he slid his hands around my waist, almost dropping the sliced bell pepper I had in my grip as well as the piece I had in between my teeth. Smiling as well as I could with pepper in my mouth, I turned in his arms and came to face the most gorgeous smile I'd ever seen, paired with a set of glowing eyes. Alec smiled wider and kissed me around the pepper, biting it off and taking it with him on his way to the stools next to the island counter. I noticed that he was wearing one of my shirts, and it made my grin grow to almost my ears.

When I turned back around to check on the vegetables, I heard a certain hiss that definitely hadn't come from the frying pan, or Chairman Meow for that matter. I flicked my head back around, saw Alec wincing as he sat down on the wooden chair, and felt like I'd just gotten smacked in the back of the head with the sudden realization that hit me- We hadn't used anything to help with the pain on his end. I didn't use a condom or offer any lube or even try to prepare him; I felt like the worst boyfriend in the world. I actually couldn't believe it slipped my mind so completely, I think my mouth fell open, and he was walking so normally! Like nothing was even bothering him.

I abandoned my frying pan for a few moments to grab a seat cushion from the good chairs in the dining room, and fast-walked back to Alec. It wouldn't help a lot, but it would be enough to at least make him more comfortable while sitting. With a small tug on his shirt sleeve, I got him to stand up long enough for me to slip the cushion on the seat and sit him back down like a child. His cheeks turned a cute shade of pink and he looked up at me through his eyelashes, almost like a puppy. I just smiled an apology and kissed him until I smelled something burning, running back to the stovetop. I didn't want a repeat of the night before.

So around four o'clock in the morning, my boyfriend and I sat down on my couch, with the cat switching between whose lap he was laying on, eating (mildly burnt)breakfast burrito dinners while a quiet, subtitled version of Scrubs played on my TV. I had quite a while before I had to go to the bar and I felt like we had all the time in the world to just… be together.

A/N- I AM SO SORRY THIS IS SO LATE I REALLY DON'T HAVE TIME TO WRITE ANYMORE I'M SO SORRY. I got 86 reviews for the last chapter and I feel like I let all of you down when I don't update fast enough, it's just that I don't have time and when I do have time I'm tired and my writing is shitty ;_; winter holidays in November and December-January, I will try so hard to push out faster updates when I can, thanks for understanding you guys!
In other news, I really loved your reviews and if you could vote on the poll it would be fantastic! Might have to do with a new oneshot I'm postiiiiing…

Love and kisses and Malec and lesbians and ROCK N ROLL
~Ella, who is stuffy a-fucking-gain.