Original Prompt: I'd really love a fic where Brian and Justin break up in 507, and Babylon doesn't get bombed in 510, so they don't get back together out of that kind of desperate fear of losing one another for good.
Brian goes to Australia, and he gets back and he sees the Art Forum article. Justin's talked to Lindsay and decided to go to NY (whether or not he does is up to the author). I'd like to see Brian not try to change himself for Justin by becoming Super Happy Marriage Man, which was a change that was born, I believe, from his terror that Justin could've died. Again.
In which Brian is an emotionally-retarded empath, Justin accidentally bonds to him, and Lindsay is an unhelpful guru of magic with 'contacts'.
Sometimes, Justin thinks that maybe, somewhere along the way, Brian became one of those pieces of the normal world that he's infected, cut out and chained to his little fucked-up world. He doesn't know if it's a nightmare or a fantasy.
A number of substantial phone conversations connecting Pittsburgh to New York City.
Apparently, it's the most wonderful time of the year.
Even as ghosts, all Brian and Justin want to do is fuck. Sadly, fate seems to disagree with this idea...
FBI Agent Brian Kinney is out to stop a ruthless society of thieves cohesively known as Oppenheimer--that is, until he meets Justin Taylor, a mysterious young thief who claims to work alone, but always seems to be appearing whenever Oppenheimer does.
After prom, Brian is visited by visions of his past, present, and future, and he has to make a choice.
This is a “dead lesbians” plot. But, unlike so many stories where that’s simply an “easy” plot device to give Brian custody of Gus in order to build Britin into a happy homo couple, this is a real look at the way things—and Brian—would be if the girls were gone. The sequel is linked at the end and it is just as good of a read (with a Christmas twist).