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getithereI’m putting this out in the universe hoping someone can help. I’m looking for a QaF fic. I’m pretty sure I initially read it on the Brian/Justin Fanfic Archive and so I’m hoping it might be available on AO3. I've checked several of the tags going back almost a decade but nothing matched.
Here’s what I remember from it:
- the “beginning” and “middle” had a lot of Brian being judged as the “heartless” “thoughtless” guy by the fam. It definitely takes place after the end of season 1 and I think it takes place during season 2 cause I don’t remember Ethan being a thing and Brian was still pretty traumatized from the bashing. Plus Justin still was dealing with the after effects. There was also a lot of fam putting Brian down for “not caring” for Justin post-bash. (I'm not 100% on this timing, but it was DEF post-S1)
- I remember one of the “ending” scenes was Brian blowing up at Deb and Justin after Justin mentions that he’s never said he loves him or some thing and Brian says that he did ("I did! I did! But then he forgot!" and Deb gasps as she realizes it was right after the dance but before Justin got bashed). And then having a sort of breakdown where he says stuff like how Debs calls him sunshine but that night he really was and that normally he can’t say it but that moment it was the easiest thing and that he just said it. And then that Justin forgot. I seem to remember that someone else was also at the loft with them when this conversation happened, potentially psychologically trained but I may be mistaken on that part. Maybe it was Lindsey or Cynthia.
And second if you have any long fic recs (pref 100K+ words but I'll take 10K+) where Emmett becomes a friend and confidant to Brian (but not ship please) similar to S4 Ted, I'd be grateful.
Here’s what I remember from it:
- the “beginning” and “middle” had a lot of Brian being judged as the “heartless” “thoughtless” guy by the fam. It definitely takes place after the end of season 1 and I think it takes place during season 2 cause I don’t remember Ethan being a thing and Brian was still pretty traumatized from the bashing. Plus Justin still was dealing with the after effects. There was also a lot of fam putting Brian down for “not caring” for Justin post-bash. (I'm not 100% on this timing, but it was DEF post-S1)
- I remember one of the “ending” scenes was Brian blowing up at Deb and Justin after Justin mentions that he’s never said he loves him or some thing and Brian says that he did ("I did! I did! But then he forgot!" and Deb gasps as she realizes it was right after the dance but before Justin got bashed). And then having a sort of breakdown where he says stuff like how Debs calls him sunshine but that night he really was and that normally he can’t say it but that moment it was the easiest thing and that he just said it. And then that Justin forgot. I seem to remember that someone else was also at the loft with them when this conversation happened, potentially psychologically trained but I may be mistaken on that part. Maybe it was Lindsey or Cynthia.
And second if you have any long fic recs (pref 100K+ words but I'll take 10K+) where Emmett becomes a friend and confidant to Brian (but not ship please) similar to S4 Ted, I'd be grateful.
