Andrew Q Gordon

You just CAN'T be totally nice for even ONE bloody instance can you?? I mean say nice stuff, then BAM you go and get snarky on me - sheesh. :wacko: Just for you, I am going make doubly sure the SAD ending is used and they break up, in fact, I am going to make it so a Meteor escapes the atmosphere and smashes into Peter as he is riding his motorcycle to find Jason to say he is sorry and to profess his undying love, killing him before he can do it, leaving Jason to believe that Peter didn't love him at the end. Happy???? Everyone Blame Anya for the miserable ending, she MADE me do it. Just kidding Anya I you.

Wow, a really cold chill just washed over me - like the hand of death. Was that you??? Well I'll go down swinging if I have to, the end is written and will NOT be changed, not even upon pain of death or worse.

Hires a security detail. :2hands: :ranger: :sword: :axeman: :battleaxe: :mace: [Not saying I'll need it, but just in case. ]

Chapter 46: Lies is posted and up. Thanks again to everyone who voted for the story and for me. I really do appreciate it. Last few days someone has decided to embark on giving me their daily dose (5) of Negative reps. I was about to tell the powers that be I was going to hiatus until it stopped, then you all did this and suddenly it didn't matter what one asshole does. So thank you everyone who is reading and who gave me their support. It was a pretty cool gift, not as good as being told I'm gonna finally be a dad, but it was still pretty darn cool.

"Wow, Ethan. I'm sorry to hear that." Jason stopped putting his clothes away and stood by his bed. "How'd you find out?" Ethan snorted. "Seems Anthony was telling guys in Philly that he and I were open. Dumb ass forgot we had friends in common. Joey Bruno called me out of the blue last week to see if I'd be into hooking up with him since me and Anthony were allowed to mess around." "Yikes!" Grabbing his ear buds, he shifted the phone to his other ear so he could put them both in.

Thanks for the review, your comments were in line with how I wanted it to get out, so I am pleased it worked out. The last few chapters are written and I am trying to keep things close to the vest. I was pleased by how it ended, but then I wrote it so I suspect I should. If you see the response to the last review, I did write a happy and a sad ending, then I chose the one that worked best. So we'll see what everyone else thinks. Thanks again for the review, you clearly thought a lot about the chapter before you wrote it. Andy

Really cool, Sigh, don't get married and have a kid - I am not allowed to do anything fun - no sky diving, no bungee jumping, no motorcycle, no diving [see the pattern] if it's dangerous and Mike doesn't like it, I can't do it. "You're not gonna die and leave me with the kid." Howse about I sneak of to AU and you tell me where to go dive? Would be better if you make it a place I need to ride a motorcycle to get to the airport and parachute from a plain to reach but I won't be too choosy

Not Exactly Matt, but you get a "+" for the comment Hopefully you don't get some one who every day gives you five "-" just because. Then you'd know how I feel.

I am happy with the last 4 chapters, [5 if you count this one. It is going to be a rollercoaster, the only unanswered question is does it end up or down. For that you need to read the last chapter. It won't be decided til then. When I wrote this I wrote a scene with them staying together and one where it end with them saying goodbye to each other. I choose one - obviously - and I am happy with it. As you said, it may be a sad ending, as life is like that. But life is also good so it could just as easily tilt that way. Next Chapter will be up Monday I think. I've gotten off the Wed/Saturday schedule so I won't make folks wait til Wed for the next chapter. I said once I got it done I would post faster and i have, and will do so. but not too much faster LOL.

Thank you to everyone who voted for me and my story. It was really something to see that. I was going to post this on my status update but I figured that was tacky. Not that doing it here isn't tacky too, but it isn't quite as tacky as on the Status page. I appreciate all the encouragement and support everyone gave me over the months I wrote and posted this -but I really want to say thank you to Anyta - who, more than just my beta reader, has become a wonderful teacher and a real friend. If you have enjoyed this story, it is in no small part due to her. Again, sorry for being tacky, I'll shut up now and just say thanks again. Andy PS I HAVE to say thanks to Trevor - he has been my most unbashed supporter and cheerleader- so I had to give him his own shout out.

Hey Jim, Welcome - now I have to be nice to her. Just Kidding, she is a wonderful lady, Glad to 'see' you here. Andy

Thanks Trevor. hopefully when all is said and done you will be happy with the story adn how it ended. [Don't read too much into that - it could be a really stupid, but happy ending.]

Um well, there is more sex to come, I kind of saved it all for the end, as this was where it all seemed to fit properly. The last one, is perhaps the most detailed - that will be in one of the last 4 chapters - so precise I know. As for what's happening with Peter. I have to say it was/is hard to do that - it's almost like killing a favorite character, but if everything is rosy and wonderful, why write the story? It would be boring. As for the last part - I can neither confirm nor deny the existence of UFOs. [that was my non-responsive answer that means absolutely nothing.} Thanks for the comments, sorry you hated the chapter. I am not sure I liked it much either. This was the hardest chapter for me to write - by far.

I once filed a Motion in Court captioned, the Untied States of America vs. XXXX Untied is a word so spell check didn't catch it and Untied is so close in appearance to United that I never caught it. I probably used it on several motions as we use things as templates all the time. But to this day I always laugh about the Untied States. Then of course their are the Jury Trails I have referenced in Motions, which make me start humming Not things found on GA, but they are typos I have never live down. Andy

I don't think Peter is a complete jerk. Deep down, he is still the same as before, but he isn't willing to see how he has been affected by what happened to him. Unless he accepts the attack has negatively affected him, he can't move on. Next chapter will be out Monday or Tuesday so not long to wait. Thanks for reading and for letting me know your thoughts. Andy

Pete is going through a rough patch. Jason is trying to stick with him so that Pete will come around. If he doesn't Jason won't stick around for long after this.

I think Jason is hoping Peter gets better too. In Peter's defense he did stop when Jason asked. That he didn't care much doesn't help his case for sure. Peter does need therapy, but you can't make him go if he doesn't want to. Thanks again for your input. It was definitely helpful.

The story will show about 3 more weeks of their lives. That of course will leave room for more, but I am not sure what I could write about after this one ends. The plan right now is to do a short story detailing the trial of Jordan. Beyond that I have other things I am ready to work on. Hopefully you and others will like those too. But until then thank you for reading

Expect? nothing. What would I like? People to be honest. All feed back is appreciated, and I would be lying if I said I didn't really enjoy the positive stuff. But the most helpful stuff was the critical stuff. Anyta and I 'met' when she started pulling out her red pen[type]. Recently Cailen hinted at something in his feed back that told me how observant he is with my writing. I asked for an honest assessment and he gave it to me. Now let me say, that was an amazing gift. I say gift because he took the time to type out things he saw as an issue. THAT took a lot of work for which he got, 'thank you so much' and nothing else. So I like both. I like to hear what people like and what they don't. See above/ Go for it. If you don't promote yourself who else will? Nephy has been good about helping promote other/new authors, as has Fishwish and a few others, but Nothing works as well as you yourself telling folks. No comment. As Iarwain said - there is no way to make folks do anything. One thing to note for those who say read count isn't in scale with reviews. Only members can review. If you look at whose doing what on GA, you will see at any given time, there are more guests than members. And those guests are reading. They can NOT review or comment - so a fair amount of your following is those who are not members and can't comment. But for those who read, one of the best parts about posting on line is the back and forth between me and an author - go read the discussion thread for Hostage. People had as much fun reading the story as sparring with Nephy. I like the back and forth with those who post on my story forum. I find it a kick to read their comments and comment back. So posting is sometimes helpful, sometimes gratifying, and some times it is just fun. I wish I could duplicate the banter from Hostage on my story thread. But if I can't have that, I'd like to have it with an author I read often. [note, I have been very poor at commenting more than a review here or there, so this serves as a reminder to not be so lazy.]

Jeremy, thanks for the 'rant.' I was hoping this was the reaction the chapter would evoke, but wasn't sure I'd pulled it off. But as I keep saying, don't hate on Peter too much, he is a good person at heart, he just hasn't dealt with his trauma properly yet. Hopefully it isn't too long before he sees what you see, Jason ain't gonna take it forever. Thanks for the review, it answered questions I had about the chapter. Andy

@ Lugh - thanks - could be worse, I coulda gotten locked up @Anyta - um you told me to write about almost getting locked up LOL. Sorry the psychic friends network isn't gonna be impressed by your powers of divination And yes it is sweet as!

Today marks ten weeks - ten weeks you ask? The baby is ten weeks along. I hope to post pictures in the gallery later tonight. Speaking of ten weeks, I have to say what an amazing person our surrogate is. Of course there is the obvious, that she is carrying our kid for us, but above and beyond that, we got SO lucky when we found her. First, she takes everything so serious. More than many soon to be moms I know. She won't drink cola because it is bad for the baby. I mean she researches everything and if there is a whiff of bad in it, she avoids it. Then there were the hormone shots. Those were horrible. Absolutely terrible. And she took every damn one. Right now everything is going really really well and she is the reason. We have been trying to do things to keep her happy, to the point we made our lawyer less than thrilled. S [the surrogate] didn't want to deal with an escrow service, so we canceled our plans to use one, which is why it is probably a mistake on my part. But everything has to go through our lawyer so hopefully this will be fine. But our thinking was we don't want to stress S out anymore than she already is. Her point was/is valid. Why did she have to submit a request to get paid what the contract says she is entitled to? I tried to get the service to just send a check - figuring if we are paying them, they should do it how we want, but they didn't seem to want the responsibility of remembering. I set it up with my bank to send her a check by the 15th of every month. S was happy so I can deal with the rest later. So yesterday I nearly got locked up. The judge and I were going at it and I didn't realize how upset I must have seemed until afterward when my co-worker told me he thought I was gonna get locked up. Basically the judge got in a snit and said, he denied our motion to join two robberies into one trial. The issue for him was joining them required a continuance. Well Duh! I filed the motion 3 weeks ago letting him know the Lead Detective was out of the country this week and asked to continue. He never ruled on the motion. So we get to court and he snapped - "I'm denying that motion.' That's when the switched flipped in me. After some heated back and forth, the judge realizes he is being arbitrary. I mean these were two armed robberies where the suspect put a gun to the victim's head. After hearing the facts [and I don't want to tell them lest I give away too much] the judge starts smirking until it is a full on shit eating grin. Called my facts a 'made for tv episode' when the defense said it didn't sound so unique as the law required for them to be joined. Needless to say, he agreed with us, joined the case and then pressed me to start the cases and continue if need be. Once that became the ruling, the defense agreed to the continuance and we are set for a new date. Now that the cases are being joined, the suspect wants to plea - go figure. Finally, on to the pissy - that would be me. Today as I was posting the latest chapter to a story, I watched as some one started bringing down my rep. I started at 804 and every time I switched between the chapter screen and the main story screen it went lower until it stopped at 799 - which coincidentally is 5 neg reps, exactly what any one person has in a day. Sadly for me, this is not the first time that for no reason it has been going down. Of course with the number of positive points I have it hardly makes a difference, but in truth just watching it happen pissed me off. Now, I understand if I post something controversial or inflammatory and people don't like it and they collectively knock me down. That is one use of the negative points, to keep folks civil. But that was not the case. In two minutes someone found 5 obscure posts and hit the neg button. Part of me wants to say oh well, who cares, I have a lot of good points, but then the pissy side of me kicks in. Clearly someone just doesn't like me cause and rather than say something, has decided to hit me with a bunch of negative points without being found out. None of my recent stuff was hit, it was all somewhere I can't find. So this was personal. Sorry to vent but it bugged the crap out of me for a while, still does but after going running I feel less agitated Anyway, if I seemed pissy to anyone earlier today, I apologize, it wasn't you. Andy

Of course I can't say right now how things work out - go on call me a tease, I'm sorry but Ive held out this long. But Peter is a bit of a mess, he is about the only person who doesn't think he needs counseling. Let's hope the boys find a way to fix this before it is too late.

I think everyone but Peter agrees right now that he needs counseling. Dont hold this against him, he is still the same as ever, he just needs to work through his problems. Hopefully Jason will still be there when and if he does.

I love how you sign on every time with a - it's just so Benji - it's how I see you. Yes, counseling should be on their to do list - but, will they. as with everything lately, maybe ??? Not much left B-man, then it will be a memory. Thanks for the encouragement. Andy