Desperately seeking story

[ashlaegl.livejournal.com]

My PC crashed a week ago and I lost the story I was reading and for the life of me can't remember who wrote it or the full title. The only things I remember of the story:

Justin went to NY to pursue his art studies. I think he was gone 4 or 6 mths. He kept talking about having red eyes and even painted himself with red eyes and had a successful art showing. Brian came to visit him in NY to celebrate and he wanted to propose to Brian but Michael called him to say that his comic shop burned down. Ben was also sick with a bad cough but didn't want to tell Michael about his problem. I can't remember who the author is but I think the title has something to do with "end justifies the means" or something, though I may be wrong about that too. It's got 18 or so chapters.

I would be so grateful if someone could point me in the right direction.

Edit: Was shown the way. Thank you shadownyc
http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=shadowofadeed&keyword=The%20ends%20justify%20the%20means&filter=all

Comments

[shadownyc.livejournal.com]

This sound like my story, The Ends Justify the Means.

Here is the link:

http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=shadowofadeed&keyword=The%20ends%20justify%20the%20means&filter=all

[ashlaegl.livejournal.com]

OMG!! That was fast. Thank you. That is exactly the story I'm looking for.

Woohoo, I can't say thank you enough. Oh, and great work on it :D

[wouldbedorothy.livejournal.com]

Could you edit your subject line to something specific to the fic you were looking for? It really helps later when people go looking through the tags. Whatever you think is good, but since there are so many fics with Justin in NY, I'd probably put a couple of the rarer details - Justin paints himself with red eyes, the comic shop burns down, etc.

Thanks! :) Awesome job updating the post right away!

[wouldbedorothy.livejournal.com]

One more plea for a specific subject line! (Technically I'm supposed to delete the posts without them, and while I doubt I'll do that this time, it would make me a very very happy mod to see it fixed.) You could just put "The Ends Justify the Means," if that's easier.