If Brian had enough faith in Justin by letting him pick up Luke by himself, then Justin should have the same faith in himself.

Justin couldn't get a word in edgewise. I'd say for sure Luke takes after his papa.

Great chapter. What a beautiful picture of "Luke". Now getting Brian & Justin back together will really make this story perfect.

It still must hurt to know that Justin could have been in his son's life from the beginning.  I know I would find it hard to forgive.

Hi again! I just have to answers on your answer to my review. Brian and love...if he still have feelings for his sunshine? It's your story but I would say SURE! He loves Gus, he loves Luke and I sure believe he still loves his sunshine. I think, after the bomb Brian was finally ready, ready for a comitted relationship, ready to even marry Justin, ready to finally tell Justin that he loves him, but sadly not ready to say: STAY, I need you. I think, he will always let justin go. I think, he was even  ready at the end of S4, but then Justin went to LA and Brian didn't believe he would ever come back. He told Michael, he said "why would he". And then Justin came back - but just because the movie was cancelled - and Brian had turned to his old self, what was in my opinion really pathetic. And then the bomb happened. And I always got the impression that at the end of S5 while Justin wanted to go but believed that they could stay togehter no matter what, Brian didn't really wanted him to go and also didn't believed in staying together. He didn't believe that Justin would come back. But he always let him go... Ethan, LA, NY and also as sad it is: Luke. And now he has to realize that such "selfless" love is maybe great but doesn't work when there are more human beings involved than just the two of them. But I really believe that he loves him deeply. After all, he'd choosen a life with Luke and also Gus. He could have decided against Luke, against a pregnancy, he
could have get an abortion. Nobody would have known. And he isn't stupid. He must have known, that Justin would maybe never forgive him for that. And - I'm sure you will tell us about it - but I'm sure he got the greatest bullshit from Linds and Mel - maybe they wanted to adopt
Luke, take him away... - and also from Michael - did he wanted to get Brian an abortion or give Luke away or maybe play happy family together...

I hope I will not misunderstand, I do not want to justify Brian's behavior, just want to understand it. And, this is all my opinion, but we all analyse them and their relationship so much and now also your story  :-)
It's because we all love them so much, isn't it!
I hope you don't be annoyed with my long reviews, but there are just so many thoughts inside my head and there are so many aspects when humans are involved.

i'm looking so much forward to tomorrow! Warmest regards!

First, I really admire Justin for his prudence and his strength in this situation. No, they don’t need a contract and I'm glad they start talking to each other. That’s something what in my opinion was already missing in the show.

I:’ve already mentioned it in the review for chapter 3, I’m glad, Brian has told Luke so much about his other Dad, showed him pictures. At least, he did that.

For me, the most important sentences in this chapter are ““What do you want, Justin?” Brian finally asked after several minutes of silence. And when he asked, he realized that this question should have been asked more than five years ago. Justin was right, he should have been allowed to make his own decisions.” He starts to see that what he had done maybe with really good intentions, was one of his most worse mistakes, the most wrong decision. I think, he should start therapy to finally overcome his demons and to learn that you can’t always decide for others what would be best. In S1, Brian would have gone to New York, he would have left everything behind regardless of losses, but Brian is not Justin.

And I hope, he’ll have a totally breakdown when he sees Luke and Justin together because I think, then he will really understand, really realize what not only Justin has missed, but also Luke and himself by his damned decision. But I also hope, that they will somehow find their way back together to be the family they should have been.

Amazing story, can’t wait to read more!

Hi

Your story is very frustrating and i can't believe i love it.

I love Justin and always will and when i read how Brian deal with the Luke affair i just want to strangle him.

i'm so mad at Brian and Jennifer it's unbelievable.

I really hope the decision of Justin to not signed the agreement paper will not backfire because i really don't trust Brian.

Looking forward the next chapter

Ciao

Some progress.  I do hope they can work things out.

Really loving this story.  I'm glad Justin isn't forgiving Brian.  Because to have someone keep you out of the first five years of your childs life IS unforgivable.

Thanks

Deb

“as he came to the realisation that he and Brian were truly over. After this, there was no turning back.” – Oh no, please no! I know, at the moment it looks like there is no way for them getting together again, but – and I don’t know what’s wrong with me, because I know there isn’t hardly anything more worse Brian could have done -  they have to find a way, cause nevertheless, they love each other, and although sometimes love isn’t enough, no, no, I won’t imagine…

Crazy, how Brian still knows what’s best for Justin and calling Emmett. If only he would have done five years ago what would have been best for Justin. I’m so glad that not everyone was included In this secret. Justin needs a real friend now.

I’m really curious if there is another explanation for Brian’s decision than Justin’s career. Now, he stays three days a week at home. There could have been other solutions for them like moving to NY together. I still don’t understand Brian!

My goodness! I'm just not getting Brian. On one hand, he seems to be destroyed on the ground, seems he’s still loving Justin. The way he says "He said he hated me” and then starts to cry. On the other hand: What was he expecting? How was he imagining telling Justin this and get some other reaction????

And I have really no words for Jennifer. Brian, okay, this is no excuse, but sad but true, we know about his cliffs and how his mind sometimes worked. But Jennifer? Didn’t she want to get between them? But a baby ... she should, no, she must had told Justin. To compare this betrayal with some problems during puberty is just shameful.

OMG, what a great but terrible chapter. Great because of your writing style and because you portray their feelings so wonderful. Terrible, because it's just terrible what Brian did. And I also find it terrible that it seems as Brian would have continued to lie to Justin if the two boys hadn’t turned up. No matter what he had for reasons, would he continued to lie to him?

Justin's pain and hurt is so palpable and it's understandable that he tells Brian that he would hate him and can never forgive him, but with the genres being "Angst w / Happy Ending" I hope that the two will somehow come together again - they have already gone through so much together. But it can’t be easy this time. It's understandable that Justin didn’t want to hear any explanations from Brian at the time, but it was a pity, I had the impression that Brian had just been very open and honest. His reasons? I'm curious. The obvious thing is that he didn’t want Justin to forego a potential career, but that would’ve been Justin's decision. Maybe Brian was worried that Justin would‘ve just come back because of the baby, which of course is nonsense. Justin would have opted for him and a family together, and most importantly, he would’ve been happy with that decision and yet he would have gone his own way as an artist. In any case, all that shows that Brian had little faith in Justin and in their love. That’s just sad!  

I’ve just read another great story with a similar theme (The Intruder). Here Brian was too stubborn and didn’t want Justin to come back to him just because of the baby (from LA). Cyn took matters in her own hand and informed Justin, however, and Justin returned home the next day, they had a great pregnancy together and became a wonderful family. Nevertheless, Justin went to NY for a few months later and became successful as an artist.

At least, Luke seems to know about Justin. I am very curious what Brian told him. I hope he at least behaved decently and showed him every newspaper clipping of his famous dad. :-)

I'm very curious…

Hi! After looking inside your story when you started to publish it, I decided to wait with reading until it’s finished because there’s nothing more worse than such an very well written and so emotional story which stops at one point and won’t be finished. But today I decided to have some trust in you!

So, great start, I really like your writing-style and you get us real curious. But because of the mpreg information at the tags I’ve already got an idea and got angsty about it from the start…. Oh, Brian, no no no, how could you….