#moni26

I hope you enjoy it!

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Alec was frustrated and when Alec got frustrated, expensive coffee makers and dull paperwork that the Government said he needed to do tended to burn in hellfire until there was nothing left but ash and a smell that took him far too long to get out of the furniture. The espresso machine was (purposefully, he was fairly certain) acting up and had refused to make a single even remotely palatable cup all morning, his delivery of beans to restock his inventory for the next week was late and his sister, who had promised to be here two hours ago to relieve him, was nowhere to be seen. So yes, if there was a slight smell of brimstone and freshly-printed staff schedules wafting in from his office, well…Alec was going to continue to ignore that for just a little bit longer.

For @moni26. In the process of writing this fic, at least 4 other ideas were born, so thank you Leonie for organizing this exchange and thank you Moni for having the most open request of all time, making it absolutely impossible for me to decide what to write so I started writing all of them. Cheers.

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is it really the wrong number?

“Hello,” the voice that picked up on the other end was not Jace’s voice. Maybe this was Jace’s mysterious date. A guy he doesn’t want the family to meet. Wait, does that mean Jace is also gay? Does it mean Alec’s been in the closet for years to avoid embarrassing the family for nothing? His brother is sleeping around with men while Alec is scared to download a hook-up app to avoid recognition?

He’s taken too long to reply because the voice insists “hello? I can hear you there.”

“Can you put Jace on the phone?” he slurs, pityingly.

“Wrong number,” the man says, hanging up.

Alec frowns. Who does that dude think he is? He re-dials without stopping to check the name on the screen.

“Hello?”

Hey @moni26, thank you so much for reaching out 😊

Nope, you didn't violate any rules, you're totally fine. It's not you - it's tumblr. Even though you tagged us, your posts didn't show up in the tags. I have no idea why that is, my only explanation is that Tumblr's a bi*** sometimes. I've put you on our "daily check-ins"-list now where we put everyone that we know has this issue. So please keep posting, we'll keep reblogging 😘