Hey, no idea if you even want feedback for a story that's more than a year old, but I rerally enjoyed this. I really liked the dynamic between between them, the great insight we got into what it's like to be Brian in that situation, forced to lie to someone he likes and respects so much.

(Sorry about eventual typos -- may be just my browser being wonky, but the text in your reply box is grey on grey and half a millimeter high, so I can't see what I'm writing. ;-)