Andrew Q Gordon

Jason told me to tell you piss off Frosty - he resents being called the dumb blond trophy wife.

Honestly there is a lot to say, but I can't quite wrap my mind around things tonight. You've done an amazing job of keeping us all wondering what's going on. It's not that we can't speculate but there are so many things that 'might' be right but only one that is. And that won't be revealed for several weeks. You are a cruel man HC, maybe I'll just have to stop reading until you finish posting. And who knows by then I might just lose interest

This is not a complain, but I am totally bewildered. Interested, intrigued, but in the 'dark' Oh well, guess I'll just have to keep reading

Heard of yes, willing to share? Not a chance. For some reason he keeps mistaking me for someone hot - good thing love is blind because I am SO dating out of my league on so many levels Here's to having enemies - Matt (Tetrefine) said Winston Churchill said it was a sign you stand for something - when I figure out what I stood for that got me my enemy I'll let you know.

@Cia: Yup and Mike says it looks like a puppy right now - so did all the 'dog people' he hangs out with at the dog show and dog park. Funny how all my soccer friends didn't see it but the dog folks did @Nephy: With this Judge I said a lot worse, but sadly such is as it is. And yes, the rep thing, it is stupid, as is the person doing it, whomever it is, ah well, take all the points they want, I know it's just one asshole now @Maria: Ten weeks blew by SO fast. I was like: really??? I was thinking, yeah it's not close yet, then the office asked for leave requests through the end of August and I was like oh man. It excites and scares the crap out of me at the same time. Thanks for stopping by @Mike: I have this image of Grandpa Mike holding his 4th grandson and it gives me this huge smile and a chill. I see my dad doing this - it will be his 4th grandchild but it is still the same. Grandmothers get all the press but grandfathers are affected even more. No one expects them to be all gaga over the baby but they almost always are. Thanks for the note @Mark: Dude you can't say things like that, if Mike reads it he'll be all over me - did I forget to mention he is possessive AND jealous??? No worries on the rep thing, just took me a couple days to get over being pissed. @Eric: Thanks - yeah I had one of those in my first Job too - every where seems to have em. Sad it is so hard to remove them once they get in and start abusing their power. As for the Baby, more than half way through the first trimester. Now that it is 'real' I spent half the weekend sorting through my finances to get things in order as payments are now starting to come due. Good practice for the - Dad can I have $XX# for tonight - I am sure to get all too soon. Rep thing is meh, eventually they'll get caught, last laugh will be mine. Already is.

Peter is having issues, as someone wrote to me earlier, this is not him, or at least not the him before the attack. It's not that he doesn't love Jason, it's that he isn't aware he's different so he is as frustrated as Jason. The two had fallen into a nice grove, which Peter is out of but doesn't know it. Like I said in a reply to someone else, this close to the end it is getting harder and harder to say stuff. So I'll keep mum on the issue of what happens and the hints being dropped. Not too much further to go. Just three more chapters. Thanks for the review. Hope you're happy with the entire book when it's over. - - Andy

Yes, Sara, I felt it had to add something to the story - in this chapter it was to show how little Peter suddenly was concerned for Jason and how it was all about him and his needs and his ability to be in control. Since Anyta is always chiding me to show not tell, I decided this was the best way to show this side of Peter - along with the other aspects - like Peter was fine not seeing Jason until Jason had something else to do, or when Jason said not tonight, Peter insisted that yes it would be tonight by coming over, etc. This close to the end, I won't comment on the ending, but now I know conner and jared are gonna be happy at the end of SS by Kingdomby the Sea.

The entire story will probably wrap up in less than ten days. There are only three chapters left. I think it fair to say, I will keep you all on edge until the last chapter. At least that is the plan. I am interested to see how folks take the ending. But I am going to be patient and not jump to post them all at once. Thanks Kevin. - - Andy

"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

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.

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

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

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.

Kevin, I wasn't sure if it was going to be clear that it was an 'almost rape.' I mean it wasn't totally but it showed a lot less care about Jason on Peter's part. Have to see how the last four play out. Trying to be vague so I don't give things away. Not too much longer - two week or less at this point - less if I post faster. Thank Kevin. Andy