Justin in Orphanage/Brian Teenage Mentor

[toto-too514.livejournal.com]

Justin is young, and I think he's living in a boys' group home after losing his family in a car accident? I don't think he knows or believes they are dead and is expecting them to return. Teenaged Brian travels to the group home perhaps to work as a "mentor," as part of a religious retreat. Mikey goes with him.

I remember distinctly a scene where once arriving at the home Brian hears Justin running upstairs making a lot of noise slamming doors, etc. He loves to draw. They meet again as adults. Justin is working at a gallery??? He wears punk style clothes.

Thanks in advance for any help!

EDIT- Believe the Fic is a WIP called "Branches" by discothequey. But the account is purged. Does anyone have a copy?
EDIT 2 - FOUND! Part 1 (Past) link is in comments. (Present) still incomplete.

Comments

[wouldbedorothy.livejournal.com]

She got a new LJ under the name discofabuleux. Branches is there. Branches (Past) is complete, but Branches (Present), where they reunite older, was never finished.

I weep if I let myself think about it.

Branches (http://discofabuleux.livejournal.com/?skip=20&tag=fic%3A%20branches)

[toto-too514.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the quick reply. Deciding if I want to torture myself re-reading it!

[wouldbedorothy.livejournal.com]

It's in my all-time top 10. I'd definitely reread Past, even if I guess it ends all kinds of heartbreaking.

...I was going to say I was torn about rereading what there is of Present, but I just did lol. Yeah, definitely worth reading. Although I'd stop reading about halfway through Part Six, right after the very frustrating phone interruption, to end on B/J and not get into some stuff that never got explained.

[toto-too514.livejournal.com]

Ha! I know what you mean about being torn about re-reading some classics that you just KNOW are not complete. Somehow I keep hoping if I just try one more time they will magically be finished, LOL!

[lucy1975.livejournal.com]

Tegan is probably my all time favorite QAF fan fic writer. She is so talented and her fic was amazing. I was so sad when she left and never completed her WIP's.

[toto-too514.livejournal.com]

Yes, I agree! I'd actually forgotten exactly HOW much I enjoyed her writing until I started re-reading this Fic.