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It was a stormy night at the coastal town of broadchurch. The not so newlyweds where Lying in bed, alec was reading a book his glasses almost falling off his nose. one of the only things keeping him up was his and paul's bedside lights. He was waiting for Paul to get out of the shower so he could go to sleep with Paul. Paul would normally take 10-15 minutes in the shower while Alec would only take 5 or 8, he doesn't see the point in just standing in the shower for no reason and because he grew up in lower-middle class glasgow he was use to having very Quick showers to try and save money.
After 10 minutes Paul steps out of the bath room with his towel around his waist, he looked over at alec and gave him a small Tired smile his blonde hair looking darker because of the water that was dripping on to his face. Paul Quickly put on some boxers and some checkered trousers that was a green and a Navy blue colour that he "borrowed" from alec then he put on a grey t-shirt that he also may or may not have "borrowed" from alec.
Paul then flopped onto the bed resting his head on Alec's chest. Alec had stopped reading and had rested his book on the bedside table he was now twisting pauls hair in his fingers, Paul looked up at Alec and took off his glasses and put them next to his book. Paul looked into Alec's eyes and could tell he was thinking of something."Alec, what are you thinking about?" Paul said, the alec looked at him and said " would you like to get kids?" Paul looked confused for a minute "kids? How would we get kids?" Paul was now resting on his elbow so he was face to face with alec." Well, um, we could adopt or become foster parents or um, get a surrogate." Paul didn't say anything for a few seconds " sorry, it was a stupid question just forget about it let's go to bed" Said alec Quickly looking away from Paul. " no, no, alec, I would love us to have kids. If you want we can look at adoption or surrogate or fostering but I think we'd need to get a house instead of this small flat." Alec looked back up at him "Really?" "Really." Said Paul smiling at Alec before pulling him into a kiss then resting his head back on alecs chest.
"Are you working tomorrow?" Said Paul " hm? Uh-huh, yeah I am, but I'm off from this Sunday till um, Tuesday" "any interesting cases?" "Ha, no just some teens vandalising the old corner shop" "oh to bad, how's Ellie?" "Miller?, yeah she's good Tom's being a hand full for her but she's still good" "good, well night, love you." Love you to" alec says kissing the top of paul's hair which was now dry