I saw this this morning and wanted so much to read it then but have had a full day-but in getting home-this was the first thing i opened up. Oh Wren-This could have happened in the series-this could have been what we saw instead of the garbage they gave us. I remember the gallery and that beautiful sweater Justin had and I kept that in my mind while I was envisioning this. You give us Brian's thoughts that add so much to what we didn't see:
If he says 'no', then I'll know that whatever we have left, it's something temporary...

So … all I can do then is make the fucking most of whatever time there is.

And if he says 'yes' … we can use the trip to Chicago to celebrate...

Either way … at least I'll have tried.

Lovely, just lovely