Justin heads for L.A. and the boys deal with it.

The Kinney-Taylor family thinks it might be time for some culture.

Story # 56 in the Sunshine Files

When Justin came home from his studio and found Brian in the kitchen making dinner, he knew something was wrong.

Brian didn’t cook. Even after 15 years of knowing the man and spending most of them in a relationship with him, Justin could count the times Brian had made them dinner on one hand. Apparently, tonight he was adding one more to the tally.

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Fifteen-year-old Gus is spending the summer with Brian and Justin in New York. He decides to test the limits of Brian's relatively lenient parenting style, with unintended consequences.

A dangerous handsome stranger becomes fascinated with the boys.

Written for the Quoin Red Challenge.  Brian and Justin are partners in a Quoin.

Brian asked Justin a very important question when the "Changed" series concluded. What will his answer be? Where will they go from here?

AU

Justin lost his virginity on a one night stand with Brian when he was 17 and left that experience with more than he planned although nothing he would ever regret, 15 years later they meet again and get to know each other again whilst facing all sorts of obstacles and challenges from Michael who is jealous of Brian's attention being placed elsewhere.

Craig Taylor leaves his son a letter explaining his cruel actions during his life. It's up to Justin if can ever forgive him for the way he was treated.

It's dinner at Deb's with a few surprises.

Brian and Justin have been together for seventeen years, well, more or less: seventeen years have passed since the night of their meeting, the one in which Gus, the son of Brian and his friend Lindsey, was born and since then they have been on and off regularly.

Gus, however, is willing to do anything for his relationship to be as smooth as silk, but he has just moved to Pittsburgh and the only thing he is sure of is that life is a mess and this, in essence, is the only thing on which father and son agree.

Summary: I know this arc has been written hundreds of times, but I've never read anything like what I’ve come up with. I've changed a few timelines in order to make this my story. So join me as we find out what happened after the infamous Anniversary party.

Justin's in a red hot mood, so Brian gives him a hand!

I apologize for the delay in getting my holiday story to you, but I hope you will still enjoy it.  It seems that Brian has a problem being around for Justin whenever a big holiday comes up. They've been living together for several years, and this year is the straw that broke the camel's back.  Brian again misses every holiday for the last few months of the year, so Justin decides it is time to do something about it.

Many thanks to my wonderful beta, Judy, for her skills, and my dear Granddaughter, Marika, for the lovely banner.