I read the AP article and all I could do was picture Brendon and Spencer devastated faces.  There's so many things involved with album writing that-  Jesus, either way, after hearing from Walker and Ross, and I am very glad Panic! split in half.  Sounds like some serious poison had built up if they're acting like this a year later.

The One Where Brent Has Doubts And Then He Doesn't
by nev_longbottom 
unbetad and written in the middle of the night on little sleep and with sore, happy fingers. Also, it's a surprise crossover

( Brent's pretty sure Ryan would have opened his eyes really wide and then told her his safeword. He bets it's something ridiculous and literary like )