OMG! You did it! So I can uncross my fingers and toes now! Can't tell you how excited I was to see this!
First of all, ACK!!! WHAT HAPPENS WITH MIKEY!?! Without Ben being able to tell Michael about Brian's reactions at the hospital, what will make Michael be willing to consider reconciling with Brian?
That said...
I love how even though it's not how it happened in canon, the bombing still managed to change Brian's perspective about him and Justin...
He starts off still trying to play Justin a little, manipulate him to Brian's advantage...
He pauses, probably trying to decide if this is a good idea, so I go in for the kill.
And then he starts to get it. He realizes that things have changed, he has changed. That even though Justin, in his love and fear for Brian, is probably in a perfect mindset to be manipulated by him, that he can't do that anymore...
He's here with me and we're just being us, but this time I know it can't last, not like this, not like it always was.
He realizes that he has to cut himself open RIGHT NOW for Justin or they were just going to fail again...
"I love you, but saying it, telling you to get you back... it was bullshit.
and...
But that isn't what he means, it isn't what he needs and fucking deserves to hear. It isn't the whole truth.
And then he gives him his truth, his whole truth...
"What I want... what I really want is for us to have a future."