Gusmas 2011: Triggered & Temporary Loss of Sanity Title: Triggered Series: Recovery Author:museme87 Prompt(s): Dec 15th—gift image Notes: Fulfills not_yet_defined's "all 7 images" challenge. For the 37-drabble story challenge. We're now at Gus' birthday in 2.02. And it's important to note here that I've always interpreted that memory recovery as only a partial one—regaining the memory of the actual bashing in the garage but not the dance.
In the end, he never expected Justin to be triggered by one of Gus' birthday gifts. If he'd known something so random could've done it, Brian would have paid more attention to Justin's surroundings. But he hadn't, and now he's left to try and make things right.
"This doesn't look like the bathroom."
"I lied."
No shit.
He kneels in front of the rocking chair and takes Sunshine's hands. Justin refuses to look at him, so Brian squeezes to get his attention. Justin glances down at him with water-logged eyes.
"That's not the part I wanted to remember," Justin whispers.
Title: Temporary Loss of Sanity Series: Recovery Author:museme87 Prompt(s): Dec 16th—table Notes: For the 37-drabble story challenge. This is post-2.02, pre-2.03.
Fucking Justin for the first time in three months feels a hell of a lot like winning the lottery. And winning the lottery, well, it makes people do crazy shit.
That's really the only way Brian can rationalize this—sitting at the table of one of Pittsburgh's finest restaurants, across from Justin who is wrinkling his nose at everything on the menu.
"So is this like a date?" Justin asks casually, eyes still fixed on the menu.
Brian shrugs, skimming the wine list. "I don't know."
Sunshine looks up, smiling. "Oh my god. It is. This is our first date!"