That...was...TORTUROUSLY beautiful. Ow. My heart broke into a million pieces. And then I cut my fingers on the shards as I tried to mend it back together.

I cried, sobbed, bawled my eyes out reading this. It was heartbreaking and lovely at the same time. I can tell that you and Veritas love these boys just as much as I do. Thank you for always feeding my G/R need. <3

I love Peter in this. Especially needed was his injection of humor during all the angst.
"I am in my underwear with Gale Harold who now realizes he is gay, I need some wine"
LOL! I'm sure Peter would have been willing to 'be there' for Gale. ;)

So many parts made me cry for them:
"Gale." Randy's voice was reedy, broken and splintered, Gale felt that if if his heart had a voice it would sound just like that.
That was such a beautiful line...and so raw to know how much pain Gale was feeling. I couldn't understand how Randy could walk away from him, until this line:

if I base my happiness, our happiness on their misery it will kill me I can see that now. Randy would never hurt them. It would destroy their relationship.

But this just destroyed me at the end:

"You'll find someone you know, someone better than me, someone that...you will find someone, you're Gale fucking Harold and you’re beautiful and he'll love you and he'll be amazing and I'll hate him but ...." [...] "There will never be anyone like you Rand, you were the one, my once in a lifetime. Just not in this lifetime huh."
So not fair! Randy gets to go back to his family, but Gale gets no one. He'll never replace what they have--he won't want to, won't even try, and he'll end up alone in the end. :(

And then you nailed my coffin closed with this gem:
Walking down the hallway he heard them fade away, each step pulling him further away from his heart. Ugh! *dead*