A wise man once said "Relationships take effort.". Magnus's and Alec's seemed to take a little bit more than that. - Trigger warning: The topic of Chapter 4 is self harm. I will be writing Chapter 5 so it flows seamlessly from Chapter 3 for people who choose not to read Chapter 4.

I'm not done with this, and I think y'all will like the ending. It's only 1 more chapter.

Fun Fact: The way Rick treated Drew made me so mad, and I'm still not over it. He just...left? ANd came back? Like nothing happened! I just can't believe it. He literally broke! Drew! like come on. Also the Trevor Project is a LGBTQ safety hotline. I don't know if they sell sweatshirts, but you should support them.

I have recently been told my smut is good, so what else to do except write more smut?

I couldn't decide on the amount of angst that I wanted to include in this story so I wrote 3 different endings. Chapter 4 has a little angst, Chapter 5 has some angst, and Chapter 6 has a ton of angst. Fun fact, I had to stop writing Chapter 6 multiple times because I cried so much. So have fun with that.

I said I was gonna write a Malec fluff fic and goddammit I did it. It's kinda bad because I'm tired and yes I know I haven't updated Chicken Parm and Heartache and yes I know I write more Drew x Rick than Malec but I'm trying! ok! please bear with me I just feel like I written so much angst recently and not enough fluff it was making me sad.

This is my first public smut and idk much about sex so please take it easy on me I had to do some research

I wrote some angst, and then I wrote some smut, and now I'm writing some fluff. I'm definitely going to write more oneshots for this, just of them being cute and domestic. It makes me happy. There's also some memes and references to my other fics, and of course Rick's love of apples. I can't go too long without talking about it lmao.

Drew and Rick go on a good, old-fashioned, Texas date

There's a prompt list on Tumblr that I use sometimes as inspiration for my Malec fics. This is where I will be housing them.

This is the longest fic I've written to date. The irony of the fact that it's a smut and I don't like sex is not lost on me. I feel like Rick is just super kinky and Drew hasn't ever been introduced to it, but he's open to trying it for Rick.

Dating someone in the Army was hard. Drew and Rick both knew this, but couldn't help being drawn together. But the pain of being together might be too much for their relationship to withstand.