PROLOGUE – Trapped into a marriage
Chapter Notes:
Set up for the AU situation in which Brian finds himself.
Story:
In the series, Brian and Lindsay have been friends since college. They even allude to the fact that they fooled around a little then. What if that encounter resulted in a child? How would their lives have been different if Gus had been born back then and Melanie wasn't in the picture until later?
This story assumes that Justin is about like he was at the beginning of the series, but doesn't go to bars to pick up his first sexual partner. He's still an aspiring artist and the rest of his life is similar. In this version of his story the bashing does not occur. (He doesn't confront & embarrass Hobbes on Liberty Avenue, so there's not enough hate for a bashing).
Brian is different than when we meet him at the beginning of the series because he is somewhat 'domestic' in his life with Lindsay, but that doesn't mean that he doesn't still want to score with men.
This story is 'what if' / 'AU' / and the characters are slightly OOC due to their modified situations.
Thanks to JustBeAQueen and 4thway for beta reading for me.
The characters are owned by Cowlip and Showtime.
PROLOGUE
Lindsay Peterson and Brian Kinney met in college. They became close friends and found out that they had a lot in common. They were both interested in graphic arts: Lindsay as an artist and historian, Brian for advertising graphics. Also, they both confided to each other that they were homosexual. Neither had told their parents.
Lindsay's parents were the textbook WASPy country club couple. They were affluent with a nice house, took tennis lessons, did charity work, and fit into the neat mold of American domestic perfection. Lindsay always knew that if they found out she was a lesbian they'd probably have heart attacks. She'd decided in college that getting pregnant by Brian was her way to achieve her parent's picture of what her life should be like. She didn't exactly get pregnant on purpose, but she was knowingly having sex with an intoxicated Brian without protection. Who better than her very good friend to be the father? He had the qualities she'd want in her kid's dad: good-looking, smart, good genes, honorable.
When Lindsay got pregnant, she told Brian first. Having a kid was not in his plan at all, but he told her he'd support her in whatever way he could. He had no idea that her thoughts were along the lines of marriage and domestic living.
Once her parents and his parents found out, they got 'the kids' together and told them that they had to get married. Brian's parents, although not the picture of domestic bliss themselves, insisted that it was the proper Christian thing to do per the Catholic Church. They didn't know he was gay and he wasn't going to announce it to them just to get out of a marriage. Besides, he reasoned, even if he had told them about his homosexuality, they might still make him get married. He gave in to the whole thing after Lindsay secretly told Brian that he could still pursue scoring with guys even after the wedding. She wore a wedding ring; he did not. With down payment money from Lindsay's parents, they bought a house. Unbeknownst to their parents, Brian slept in the guest room.