It's much easier to sleep this way. There are still quite a few hours spent lying awake, listening to Archie's heartbeat.

Then, miraculously, the weak ends.

The week ends, and Archie's still there. Archie's still there when he wakes up, still grinning and warm and real. It's oddly impossible to sleep in the first 24 hours of understanding that they've truly made it.

Hopefully the nearly constant kisses will distract Archie from that.