New Halloween fic - Part One of Two

See, here's the thing. I wanted to write my yearly Halloween fic because this is one of the few ways I get to celebrate Halloween (it's really not a big thing here at all). (And yes, yes, Reverb, Homecoming, I know - working on them too.)

I'd expected the Halloween fic would be you know, five or six pages. But it didn't turn out that way at all. It's over twice that length now and I'm not within coo-ee of finishing it.

So ... rather than miss Halloween completely, what I've decided to do is to post it in two parts. This one today, and the second and final part on the weekend.

Summary

Set probably around a year after the end of S5, but in an AU where Brian and Justin didn't meet that night under the lamp post. Brian is around 35 and Justin is 23. At some point I'll probably put some notes together on what has been going on in my head as I've been writing this, but for now ... we all know that I don't like Mikey, but that's not the sole reason this is the way it is ... it just struck me as a damned interesting 'what if ...'

So here you have it:



( Never Have, Never Will: Part One )