Topher Lydon

What if the only Forbidden Knowledge is the truth you deny yourself?

Lucas is unrepentantly happy he has his boyfriend. I remember being that giddy in love with someone when I was a teen.

I wanted an atrocity of a car and felt this worked to show Andy's inability to adapt or change easily, he's always just that bit behind, out of date... obsolete. The fact that Lucas is dragging him kicking and screaming into the real world and out of his cycle is healthy.

Homo-Erectus!

04 "No, Lucas. Listen to me. Pay attention to the diagram." Andy pinched the bridge of his pale nose, exhaling a breath he didn't technically need to take. "You are a Homo sapien. It is the basic taxonomic classification of your species." "No," Lucas countered smoothly, leaning back in the creaky wooden kitchen chair and stretching his legs out under the table. "I'm Homo erectus. See?" Andy’s dark, centuries-old eyes flicked downward. It was entirely involuntary.

I think Tanaka sees there is danger, he's putting together what the threat is behind the scenes. It's an interesting chess game.

Lucas playing Beer pong, in the midst of a pack of shirtless werewolves, making "Twig-Lit" Jokes while Andy tries to get him to put his shirt back on

And let's not forget Peter. Who everyone underestimates at their peril

Ouch, that last stanza... maybe I need tutoring from Andy...

It's the key. Gable wants to break from Merrick, to do that he needs Avery-Woods. It will allow him to dis-entangle his business from the corruption of the Montreal Pipeline, and Merrick's corruption. Merrick needs GS&P to keep his secrets and his empire running. Gable's plan is to use Andrew to seduce Will, and slowly leverage that relationship to get Avery-Woods. Merrick is looking at a massive danger to everything he built. But he's seeing an opportunity. Jason Jensen is the son of his oldest friend, in a gay relationship, living in Will's house. In a twisted way Merrick is trying to save the son of his friend, and in so doing pull Will down disrupting the Avery-Woods deal and forcing Gable right back into Merrick's grip. Jensen is the key to destroying three men standing in Merrick's way... A wonderful alignment of purpose that a ruthless prick like he is, would gladly exploit. Everything else, that's just collateral damage. Honour Denton Jensen. Destroy Will Carter. And ensure GS&P are his going forward. It's only business.

The Tie Thieves Two shadows steal through midnight air, To Will's closet, row by row, Where silken soldiers wait in there— Burgundy, navy, silver glow. Peter's fingers find their prize, Andrew's practiced in the art, They whisper, bicker, analyze— Each tie a treasure to depart. "Just borrowing," they both declare, "Returning when we're bored or through," But Will, asleep without a care, Has thirty-seven—never knew. They slip back out, the raid complete, Ties tucked away where none will see. He'll never miss them, never check— And next month, they'll steal three more from me.

The GREAT tie heist! Will has no idea and far too many ties.

The light through the study windows was the colour of old gold, the kind of light that made everything look like a painting. Alistair Merrick stood at the window, watching it fade, his back to the room. His phone was in his hand—he wanted a report from Marcus, confirming the boy was attending the youth group. Progress. Slow, but progress. Behind him, Robert Gable was still talking. "—and Avery's people have been exceptionally receptive. Carter, especially—the HR director, young man,

It's not even a cool one LOL And Lucas takes one look and decides it must be christened, all over it.

You will find out. A Rooo-Rooo-Rooooooo! I just think it's funny that a pack of werewolves play on a team called the Cows.

I am having great fun in writing this one. it's the right level of unhinged. An over exuberant, over-joyed teenager is the perfect foil to a grumpy Vampire with an Impala, a werewolf adjacent boyfriend, and simply no cool remaining afterwards.

Moo-Juice!

03 Andy sat at the small, cluttered desk in Lucas’s bedroom, a heavy algebra textbook open in front of him. He was attempting, with every ounce of his three-hundred-year-old willpower, to maintain the stern, authoritative posture of an aristocratic tutor. He had spent centuries cultivating an aura of terrifying intimidation. He had made grown men—kings, generals, and witch hunters—weep with a single, calculated glare. He had commanded rooms simply by standing in the doorway and al

Ahh Will, fuzzy, cuddly, and just as clueless

Gable needs Avery's business. To get to Avery, he needs to get to Will. To get to Will, Darius is using Andrew like a honey trap. So I wouldn't say Darius is either, yet. He's a corporate Fixer, it's his job to make things happen. He is weaponizing the relationship Will and Andrew have fallen into by refusing to actually sort out their mess of a relationship. So no, he's neither Ally or Enemy, he's just focused on making it happen. Andrew said it best, their relationship is a company asset.

Dylan, thinking he's subtle.

And somehow, the best employee they have.

They just can't stay away from each other. Good Morning

The next three days were a blur of orientation and document review. Andrew's workspace was a cubicle on the twenty-eighth floor, wedged between two other articling students—a woman named Meera who spoke in rapid-fire bursts and a man named Trevor who seemed perpetually on the verge of tears. They were both bright, both ambitious, both clearly terrified. Andrew found them exhausting, but he also recognized something of himself in their desperate competence. The Merrick file lived in a room

I think after three hundred years of the same thing over and over and over... this is all new, and it's something he doesn't understand or expect. In a way that has to be thrilling. Andy's gonna make sure Lucas studies while hard... I mean very hard... I mean... oh bother.