Queer As Folk - One Shots

S4 E14 - Brian Proposes Living Together

"Arrghhhh!" Brian groans in pain as he rolls too hard on his sore shoulder after taking a nap on the large floor cushion he been lying on for the past couple of hours. He's still not sure why he bought it, it doesn't match anything else in his apartment, but he's really glad he did if only for times like this...and that time he fucked Justin on it before they got rudely interrupted. "Ahh!" he groans again, his free hand quickly going to his shoulder to help hold it in place.

"You okay?" Justin calls as he looks up at the sound Brian's making, knowing that he's been in pain ever since he got back from the Liberty Ride and now it sounds like he's just hurt himself all over again. He's still annoyed with him for going on it in the first place without him after promising that he wasn't, never mind crashing and injuring himself. The stubborn man will never learn. Nevertheless, he quickly pads around the desk he's been working at since Brian fell asleep and comes over to check on him. 

"Yeah, I'll be alright." Muttering to himself, Brian takes out the earphones, finding that the music he was listening to has long ended. He rolls a little to look at the golden man who's now lying next to him, looking at him lovingly. Justin is bathed in a beautiful sunset glow coming in from the window which makes him look ethereal. Brian's next words stick in his throat a little but the need to know what Justin got up to in Hollywood has been bothering him ever since Justin came back, "So...did you fuck Tom Cruise?" 

Justin sniggers as he lovingly touches Brian's chin with his thumb on the pretence of adjusting the pillow his head is resting on, "Everyone knows he's not gay!" 

Tsking through his teeth Brian tries again as another spasm of pain hits him, he hopes some conversation with distract him until he can take more painkillers again, "Adrian Brody?"

"Nice, but alas..." 

"Toby McGuire?"

"Please!" The look on Justin's face shocks Brian. Really? He doesn't find Toby McGuire sexy? Squeaking out a "What?!", he tries to work out why Justin looks so disgusted. 

Justin gets a smirky look on his face as he decides to tell Brian who he did get to fuck with. He was going to keep it a secret, but since he's asking...leaning over he whispers in Brian's ear "Connor James", leaving the man both impressed and a little crestfallen. Isn't he the actor who plays that superhero, come to think of it doesn't he appear to save the world in nearly every movie he's in? How's Brian supposed to measure up to that reputation?

"No shit!" Brian laughs, covering up his jealousy, making Justin grin back at him and confirm it once again with a cheeky nod. "Sounds like you had a most excellent adventure."

"Sounds like you did to!" Justin nods at Brian's arm in its sling.

Growing suddenly serious Brian confesses, "Bicycling down life's endless highways I had time to think."

"Oh?"

"About what I'd do differently if I survived cancer. AND sleeping in a tent!"

Justin keeps his voice and words neutral, knowing how much Brian hates anything that could be interpreted as pity, "Equally unpleasant, I agree. But now that you have, what did you decide?"

Taking his head out of the cushion, Brian looks at Justin and bottles what he was going to say,  "The first thing I'd do differently? The bedroom." He points in the general direction of the offending article, "I'd get rid of that thing over the bed!"

Justin wonders why he ever expects anything different to come out of Brian's mouth. Of course he wasn't going to be serious, even though he sounded it and acted like it at the beginning. Of course cancer wasn't going to change anything in his life, he would just carry on like it had never happened. Most people would stop and take stock of their lives but not Brian. Justin knows he was a fool to ever think that he would, well at least now he can go back to Hollywood and take Brett up on his offer of Art Director without any qualms.