I took a deep breath. “Do you think it’s all romantic bullshit, Brian? The Christmas tree lights, and the wedding rings, and the fireplace?”

He shrugged but didn’t answer me.

“Because it’s all your romantic bullshit, Brian. You bought this house, you bought this fireplace, you bought the fucking firewood. You bought the Christmas tree, and the lights, and you bought these fucking rings. I never asked you for any of this. Never.”

He turned his head, and his eyes looked hurt, but I just stood up, and picked up his ring from the table. “You can tell me it’s all bullshit if you want. You can throw our rings on the floor and tell me to fuck off. Go ahead.” I started to pull my ring off, his still in my palm, and Brian grabbed my hand and stood up. He didn’t let go of my hand, just pulled it up and shoved my ring back down on my finger.

“Don’t.” He had his forehead pressed against mine, and his hand was clenching so hard on mine it hurt.

I felt tears burn in my eyes again. “Why, Brian? Why shouldn’t I? You did.”

He shook his head, and dug his ring out of my palm, and pushed it hard on the finger of his left hand. “Don’t.”

I closed my eyes, and he just pressed his forehead harder against me, and held our hands together tighter.

“Brian…”

“Justin, Justin, please… just…” and he kissed me, and I thought, sometimes there just aren’t words for everything. He broke his mouth away from mine, and let go of my hands, and brought his up to either side of my face, his fingers lacing into my hair. He kissed my forehead, and then my hair, and looked at me. “I love you.”

This just owns me. The entire chapter, the entire fic, the entire series completely owns my soul, but this ... just blew me out of the water. I couldn't even comment initially, because I was too awestruck by the entire thing, and then I spent about four hours going. Xie. Brian. Justin. Rings. And then I finally reread it, and now I'm commenting, and I'm still not coherent because I'm still blown away.

I want this fic to just go on forever, and ever, because this is what happened to Brian and Justin and I love it so much and I have never read anything so amazing, and I just want to buy you candy and babies and sex and cake and a trip to the moon Pittsburgh and anything else, ever.

This is where I end my comment so you don't feel the need to call the police on me.