The One Where Justin Loses His Hearing
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I don't think I would have noticed anything at first if Brian weren't teasing him about it. “Hey,” he'd say, when he'd have to repeat a question, or when Justin missed a joke a the diner. “You going deaf, old man?”
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- Part 1 of The One Where Justin Loses His Hearing
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Justin thinks I'm full of shit, but I swear to dog, I knew he was losing his hearing for a year before we were sitting in that dingy doctor's office reading brochures about decibels and playing with model eardrums. I just didn't think it was worth mentioning.
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- Part 2 of The One Where Justin Loses His Hearing
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I think everyone, even Brian, thought I understood a lot more than I did for a long time.
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- Part 3 of The One Where Justin Loses His Hearing
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I saw Brian first, standing at baggage claim, that smarmy half-smile on his face, holding a sign over his head like that guy in Say Anything: “The Inimitable Daphne Chanders.”
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- Part 4 of The One Where Justin Loses His Hearing
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I can count on one hand the number of times Brian Kinney has called me, and one finger if we don't count the times he was drunk and meant to call someone else.
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- Part 5 of The One Where Justin Loses His Hearing
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“Oh, and Cynthia? One more thing?”
He always does this. He calls me into his office for some completely tedious bullshit, stalls by going over it in way, way too much detail, and then, when my hand is on the door, tells me the actual reason he wanted to talk to me. For someone with a well-earned reputation for overconfidence, Brian Kinney is fucking chickenshit about asking for favors.
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- Part 6 of The One Where Justin Loses His Hearing
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When I was standing on the street outside the place I didn't think was my apartment anymore at two AM on a Wednesday, I texted Justin.
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- Part 7 of The One Where Justin Loses His Hearing
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You can't call Brian Kinney sweet, but sometimes you want to anyway.
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- Part 8 of The One Where Justin Loses His Hearing
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Now, Craig Taylor turned around from the hostess and there we fucking were, two foreign superpowers in the middle of a a packed restaurant lobby. Negotiating Justin like a treaty, I thought vaguely to myself, though the metaphor didn't really fit, since I was always trying to pass Justin off to the highest bidder anyway and Craig, of course, didn't want him.
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- Part 9 of The One Where Justin Loses His Hearing
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"Brian says I'm crying all the time," I said.
Technically, what Brian said was more along the lines of, "I really should have gone with my gut your last allergy season and bought stock in tissues, because for God's sake, Justin, pull yourself together," but Brian's way of expressing concern is an acquired taste.
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- Part 10 of The One Where Justin Loses His Hearing
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The One Where Brian Talks About Relationships by LaVieEnRose
Fandoms: Queer as Folk (US)
09 Jul 2018
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"Why does everyone think they deserve their own personal fucking confession about how I feel about Justin? Who the fuck are we saying needs that in this equation? I don't need it. Justin doesn't need it. It's for you. You need it. And just fucking spare me. You want security, reassurance, sappy little platitudes? Get them from your own relationship, not mine."
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- Part 11 of The One Where Justin Loses His Hearing
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The One Where Brian and Justin Take Manhattan by LaVieEnRose
Fandoms: Queer as Folk (US)
11 Jul 2018
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I won't pretend there wasn't a part of me that thought Brian was still gonna bail. That he'd stand alone in that empty loft and panic and sneak out the back way and run for the hills or some shit, or that at the very least I'd wait in the car for half an hour and finally go up and have to drag him, kicking and screaming, off the bed platform.
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- Part 12 of The One Where Justin Loses His Hearing
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"You always said rings were a meaningless heterosexual ritual," the blond one said.
"I know, but then I thought about it and realized how fucking gay it is for men to wear jewelry."
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- Part 13 of The One Where Justin Loses His Hearing
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"So," I said. "You know how you were thinking about asking your shrink to up your antidepressant?"
He looked at me warily. “Yeah.”
"Any further thoughts on that? Because I just looked at that painting you finished and now I’m thinking about killing myself, too."
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- Part 14 of The One Where Justin Loses His Hearing
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“It's...you're sending me to New York because he's not answering his phone at two in the morning?”
“Noooo,” Brian said, with fake-patience. “I'm sending you to New York because he texted me while I was in a meeting an hour ago telling me he felt like he was going to have a seizure, and now he's not answering his phone. Now don't you feel like an idiot? Get up.”
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- Part 15 of The One Where Justin Loses His Hearing
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You are so fucking sick, I signed on him, like one of those acting class games where you're somebody else's arms. Shut up, my high school had a drama requirement. I mean, so did Justin's, but mine was more “take an elective” and less “experience a traumatic hate crime that will haunt you for the rest of your life,” but six on one, half a dozen on the other.
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- Part 16 of The One Where Justin Loses His Hearing
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"I hate hockey," Justin said.
Brian said, "Really? I didn't know that, because you haven't told me five hundred times."
"I still don't get why I have to be here."
"People like me more when you're around. You make me look like I have a soul."
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- Part 17 of The One Where Justin Loses His Hearing
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He juggled the bags into one arm and held out his hand. “Sorry. Brian Kinney.”
“Justin's Brian?”
“As long as you promise to never, ever say that in front of him, sure."
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- Part 18 of The One Where Justin Loses His Hearing
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"I mean, it couldn’t have anything to do with you. You said it yourself. Nothing happened."
I said, "Yeah, that doesn’t always stop Brian."
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- Part 19 of The One Where Justin Loses His Hearing
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“You expect too much from him,” she said.
“I expect nothing at all from him! That's my point. I'm not waiting around on tenterhooks to see what Brian does next. He can do whatever. He's not my trained seal, so I'm not going to feed him fish.”
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- Part 20 of The One Where Justin Loses His Hearing