ok....feeling a bit better now...i would like to amend my comment a bit...not only do the brian and justin not go through the series stuff that is negative together, I suppose on the flip, they also don't get to do the good stuff together either...just wanted to add that...i think my previous post may have come across as if all of their canon relationship was negative...and i really meant to say that they just didn't have those years of life experience spent together (good times and not so good) to help form the identities they present in this fic...and that probably makes a difference to the characterization, in my opinion.