Ahhhh! Thank you so much!! Had so much fun with this one <3<3

Okay, so the answers are in there, or more the details that would stop those questions arising are in there, but maybe just a bit too well hidden.

_{Terry wasn't Lou's brother, Jon was the brother Derek was looking for, Terry was more of a kid, I realize it's the line about the brother being handed to him on a platter that makes it confusing. I had meant Terry as the platter and Jon as the brother being handed to him.
But, the Bryant line at the end:
Lou was already dead, Derek had sent the boys to 'take care' of her. This was all because of Lou getting pregnant, he only heard rumors she'd lost the baby so although Derek had noticed the resemblance when Terry showed up he assumes Terry was just another nephew, but then at the end, Derek sees Lou in Terry, and not just Lou, but that all too familiar expression he sees Terry pull? It's his own. Thus, no one crossed a Bryant. Without knowing his dad, Terry had turned out like him (there was an extra clue in the picture of an apple tree with fallen apples just below it, maybe too subtle lol)
Something about the bar being called Jerry's with that line about Derek's dad not actually being called Jerry, it seemed almost fitting that his son be Terry, also not Jerry.
I did write this from prompt memory on my phone, on the bathroom floor after a shower, and didn't have much time for editing, so gunna say massive points to you dirge for an opening memorable enough to do that, and let myself off any inconsistencies haha, at least one person did figure it out though, although it may have taken some detective work ;)}

I dunno, them not seeming like gangster names worked and made me wana add a surname, Derek had the vibe of an older criminal, Mike is a common enough name for it to be a character prime for projecting, and Terry, it does stand out, but it makes you wana play with the character more. And i dunno about you, but I always find if i get into them, character names are harder than bloody plot twists lol