While he'd gotten a week of leave from his duties at the lighthouse, he hadn't even known how to begin planning for travel or anything beyond the house that Alecto had made a home for both of them. He wants nothing more than to spend time with Alecto, just the two of them, without any interruption of duties or visitors, however well-meaning or otherwise welcome. In all honesty, Joshua could spend long, uninterrupted hours just looking at Alecto, heart full with the knowledge that inasmuch as such things mattered, they were joined together in the eyes of the law, that they'd made promises to belong to each other. Forever.

He'd never looked forward to anything as much as this implication of infinity awaiting them, of shared touch and warmth and life, whatever they decided to make of it, together.