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Alex wakes up to the sound of George’s voice, a soft hum in their otherwise quiet room. For a moment it feels more like the end of a pleasant dream, but as his brain slowly unscrambles George’s words he’s almost tempted to pull the blankets over his head and fall back asleep.

“...Yes, of course, that’s fine — email it over. I’ll come in late tomorrow to go over the plea bargain, so get Jay on my calendar — yes, we should be back in the city by the early afternoon — yes, 4 o’clock will work.”

It’s disorienting, at first, as he rolls off his stomach and onto his back. The curtains are still drawn over their windows, blocking out the sun, but George is fully dressed and leaning back against the headboard with a hardback book open in his lap, phone pressed to his ear. He gives Alex an apologetic smile, holding up one finger and mouthing, ‘Gilbert.’

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It’s still dark outside when Alex wakes up, mouth bone dry and head throbbing. He’s kicked off his blankets at some point in the night and, it would appear, changed out of his button-up and into one of the cotton t-shirts from his suitcase.

The night before comes back to him in a series of unattached, almost random memories and he blinks up at the dark ceiling, suppressing a groan. The little clock on their bedside table reads 5:38 a.m. Far too early to be awake, but hangovers have always turned him into an unwilling early riser. He has to piss, but he’s pretty certain if he stands upright he’ll vomit right onto their bedroom floor. It’s not exactly how he wants to wake George up.

Oh yeah, this is still happening. I can’t believe it’s been 8 months and there’s still about 10 chapters to go. Thanks for sticking with me. This chapter is mostly Vermont fluff, John makes a small reappearance...but I swear we’re getting back to the plot in chapter 28. 

Thanks guys!

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can we talk about Angie for a second? Can you explain her train of thought in your last chapter? Was she just reacting out of shock? also, this story is still fantastic and i wish you could see that! <3

Sorry I’m just now getting around to this. Usually when a parent moves on to a new partner whether it be after a divorce, death, etc. ...regardless of how the kid feels about the new partner (because Angie really does like George), it really does feel like that parent is closing the door on their previous relationship. It’s not an easy thing to process no matter how great the new partner is.

and lol it’s really not but thank you.

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In your most recent chapter, Washington's inexperience in looking after others is mentioned. Does this mean there's no Lawrence in this verse?

oh lawrence has actually been mentioned a couple times!

George picks the napkin up off his lap, folds it, puts it back on the table. “Well, my father passed away when I was eleven. I lost an older brother while I was in my twenties, and my mother only a few years ago — and she and I didn’t exactly see eye-to-eye. Never quite got along.”

There’s one personal picture on George’s desk — he looks very young in it, standing in front of Big Ben with an arm around a slightly older man. Related to him, judging by the heavy brows and identical smiles. The brother who passed away, he thinks. The one George mentioned over dinner.

Even though it’s not mentioned directly in the story, in my mind Lawrence died in a car crash rather than from illness, if that’s what you’re referring to. And I think, when his mother died, his career was already established in New York so he wasn’t in Virginia as often to look after her. probably just put her up in a swanky nursing home tbh. 

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I just wanted to let you know that I really like your writing, and recently I read "Where We Are, Where We Started" and I really liked it. (I read it all in two days).

Thank you so much, I’m glad you like it! I’ve been a little hypercritical lately, so I guess it’s just a relief to hear that it still holds up. I’ve been writing it for about eight months now and it’s been wild. 

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What do Alex and George do for special birthdays-and-anniversaries sex?

Oh man, so I feel like on an actual birthday, they’ll spend it with the kids - dinner and maybe go to the theater, take an early night because they’re Old and have work the next morning. But the weekend following a birthday, they’ll take a short trip - maybe rent a house somewhere upstate, stay at a bed and breakfast - and more or less have a mini sex vacation. They might break out a new toy or two and experiment, but I think mostly it’s an excuse to stay in bed all day and just enjoy being together, uninterrupted. 

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Can I just tell you WWAWWS is easily my favorite wham fic out right now? I actually don't mind the irregular updates, because that means we get to enjoy it for a little longer and it's always a fun surprise to see the ao3 update :)

thank you <33333 that means a lot!

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in WWAWWS, did Lafayette and George have a past relationship? in your writing it sounds like Lafayette has feelings for him, so will that ever come up on George's end or is he even aware of it?

They never had a past relationship, no. I’ve purposefully left any romantic feelings between them sort of ambiguous so you can kind of draw your own conclusions. But basically, Lafayette was into him when he was younger and before he met Adrienne and those feelings were never really discussed or reciprocated. I think there are some unresolved feelings there that initially made it hard for him to warm up to Alex. 

George would probably be taken aback and a little freaked out if he found out that Lafayette ever had feelings for him tbh. George has always viewed him more like family and it would, I don’t know, kind of feel like finding out an in-law was in love with you. 

I have such a soft spot for Washette so I wanted to tease a little something in this story, but one day I’d like to write something more, uh, straightforward.