Summary: “I’m sorry,” Brian repeated, his tone serious and deliberate. “For a lot of things over the last two days. I… I didn’t know what to do with what happened before I left Pittsburgh, and I wasn’t ready to talk.” He paused, sighing. “And I don’t know how to lie to you. I haven’t for a long time, and you know that. So sometimes, it’s easier to piss you off, so you’ll leave me alone until I find enough of my remaining ball to face you -- as irrational as I know that sounds.”
“Or,” Justin said, a small smile playing on his lips, “you could say, ‘Hey Justin, I’ve got something on my mind that I’m not ready to talk about, and I need a little space.’” He gave his husband a meaningful look before continuing. “Brian, I know what you’re doing when you do it now… But what I don’t understand is why, almost two decades into our relationship, you still think the solution to
anything is to push me away -- if for no reason other than it
won’t fucking work.”
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Brian gets some unexpected and difficult news and turns to his usual coping strategies. Justin knows better.
Categories: QAF US
Characters: Brian Kinney,
Daphne Chanders,
Joan Kinney,
Justin Taylor
Tags: 10k+ Word Count,
Cancer,
Established Relationship,
Family,
M/M,
One-Shot,
Post-series,
Real Life Issues,
Tearjerker,
Vulnerable BrianGenres: Angst,
Canon,
Could be Canon,
Drama,
Hurt/ComfortPairings: Brian/Justin
Series: Until At Last You Know
Chapters: 1
Table of Contents
Completed: Yes
Word count: 11295
Read Count: 897
