Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 12:22:51 -0800 From: K_Magic@Prodigy.Net Subject: Fate Stepped In - Chapters Thirtten - Fourtten Fate Stepped In - Chapter Thirteen - Fourteen A quick Thanks to all that have e-mailed me with feedback. I enjoy hearing your opinions, views, suggestions and every thing else you have to say. Keep them coming. So as always: This is my first attempt at writing, so be kind. Please over look any grammer or punctuation errs. Remember...This is FICTION. (You all know the standard disclaimer, insert it here.) E-Mail any comment or suggestions to K_Magic@Prodigy.Net ---------------- Chapter Thirteen ---------------- Drew had left the guys, Chris and Joey at the club about 1am. He walked the four blocks back to the hotel. He wanted some time to think. The streets were pretty much empty as he walked along, thinking about the last 24 hours. All the emotions he had felt, with JC, with Jeff. He knew in his heart that what he felt for JC was just a crush. He smiled and thought...How many people actually get to help the people they have crushes on when they are in need and then get kissed by them. Then his mind wandered to Jeff. Did he really and truely love Jeff. He had walked about a half a block before he decided. He had pictured Jeff's face, his eyes, his smile, his body and how it felt to make love with him. As he walked through the hotel lobby door, he knew his answer. He got into the elevator and went to his room. All while he prepared for bed, he thought of Jeff and their future together. "Now, if only Jeff truely loves me." Drew said to himself and he laid in bed waiting for sleep to overcome him. His mind was full of uncertainty as his mind drifted to sleep. Drew was slowly awaken by the light in his room. He squinted open his eyes. "Shit, forgot to close the drapes last night. He rolled over in bed to check the time, it was 7:30am. He then noticed something on the pillow next to him. There was a long stemmed red rose laying on the pillow. Drew picked it up and read the attached card. Drew, My heart belongs to you, if you'll have me. With all my Love, Jeff. Drew laid back down and put the rose up to his nose. As the smell entered his nose, the biggest smile formed on Drew's face. He had found what he needed...True love. As he lay there, he heard a noise coming from across the room. He looked over and laying on the sofa was Jeff, asleep. Drew rose out of bed and walked over to the sofa. He kneeled down and just sat there watching Jeff sleep. Jeff was in only his boxers and the extra blanket he was using had slipped off his body. Drew just sat there admiring Jeff. He took the rose and put it up to Jeff's nose. Jeff twitched and then with his hand tried to brush it away from his face. Drew chuckled and he place the rose down, then leaned down and gently kissed Jeff on the lips. Drew lifted his head and looked down. Jeff had opened his eye and was smiling at him. "Morning" Drew smiled back. "Thanks for the flower." "Hey, anything for you." Drew leaned down again and kissed Jeff, this time with more passion. As he kissed, his had was exploring Jeff's chest. Jeff's hands went up and gently grabbed the sides of Drew's head and pulled him deeper into the kiss. Drew broke the kiss and got up. He extended his hand out. "Let's go back to bed." Jeff took his hand and Drew pulled him up. "Any day, Mr Latchey, any day." They walked over to bed and split. Jeff got into one side and Drew the other. The both met in the middle of the bed and Drew settled into Jeff's arm and rested his head on Jeff's bare shoulder. Both were asleep in a within a few minutes. ----------------- Chapter Fourteen ----------------- The phone was ringing for the fifth time before Justin reached over and answered it. "Good Morning...This is your 6 o'clock wake up call...Have a good day." "I didn't order a wake up call" Justin said to himself as he put the receiver back on the phone. Then he remember Lance was in his room and probably set it up.. Justin felt like he had just gone to bed. He rose, yawned and stretched then remembering Lance the walked over and looked in the closet, but the closet was empty. "Well maybe Lance got up early and went back to his room." Justin thought as he entered the bathroom to take a shower. There was a note taped to the mirror. Justin, Thanks for last night...I'm sorry. I can't face Josh this morning...It hurts too much. Please don't worry about me I will survive. I decided to take an earlier flight home. I will see you at the studio at 3pm. Please don't worry about me I just need to think a few things through on my own. Thanks for understanding. I set the wake up call for you, you're P.I.T.A today. With love and appreciation Lance "Shit, I don't want to be Pain In The Ass." But then he thought to himself that Lance wasn't here, JC's mind on something else and with Chris and Joey going out clubbing last night, he had to do it. Justin showered, shaved, brushed his teeth, did his hair and got dressed in ten minute. He hopped on the phone and ordered breakfast and then called JC, Joey and Chris to make sure they were up, which they weren't. He called them after 5 minutes and rewoke them. Then called again after 5 minutes too makes sure they were up. He was living up to the P.I.T.A. name. Lance would be so proud of him. When they all arrived at his room for breakfast, they asked where Lance was. Justin told them that Lance got a call about a water pipe busting at his house, so he flew home earlier this morning. Chris and Joey took his word for it, JC was about to say something then thought better of it and just sat there picking at his food. After breakfast, they packed up, headed for the airport and flew out. They were home by noon. JC had been quiet, he had not spoken more than 10 words all morning. When they finally arrived in Orlando, Joey went home, Chris, JC and Justin spit up and went to thier rooms at Justin's home. Justin was lying on his bed resting when JC entered his room and laid down next to him with his head at Justin's feet and stared up at the ceiling. "I tried calling Lance, but I got no answer. I've been thinking all morning, what you said, what Drew said. I searched my mind, my heart and my soul and the only thing I came up with was Lance. Drew was right. Deep down, I didn't love him, I loved what he did for me. I have some more thinking to do." JC rose off the bed. "I'm heading to the studio a little early, I'll meet you all there." "Ok Josh...I'm glad you finally solved your problem, now if you can just get Lance to come around...all will be happy in paradise." "Curly, you are too corny for words." Justin just flashed one of his famous smiles. "Oh and Justin, just to let you know...As a gay man who looks for things sexy in men, your smile is not sexy...It's more...What's the word I'm looking for....Oh...Cheesy...just to let you know." JC ran out of the room as a pillow came flying towards him. JC poked his head back in and said... "And Curly...That is just plain childish..." JC just flashed one of his famous cheesy smiles and ran. Justin just covered his face with his other pillow and spoke into it... "I fuckin swear, those two homos thinks they are so funny sometimes." When Chris and Justin arrived at the studios at 3, Joey had just pulled in. They went in and found JC in one of the recording studios. He motioned for them to sit down inside the studio. He spoke from inside the control room. "Hey guy...They want us to add a song to the Pokemon Soundtrack. It's not going to be in the movie, just on the soundtrack. I will sing you the song we are going to do." As he finished what he was saying, Lance walked in and joined the others. JC looked at Lance, but Lance did not return the look. "As I was saying, I will sing the song how I think we should do it. Please listen and wait until after to discuss it. Then I have another song I want to sing, so please just sit there until I'm done." They all looked at each other and shrugged their shoulder and waited for JC. JC was in the control booth for about 5 minutes. He walked into the recording booth and put on his headphone. The music started and as soon as Lance heard it he looked at JC who started to sing looking directly at him. When clouds above youuuu start to poooooour And all of yoooour dooooubts rage like a stoooooorm And you don't knoooow who your are anymore-ore-ore-ore Let me help you fiiiiind what you've been searching for-or-or-or Somewhere there's a field and a river You can let your soul run free Someday let me be the giver, leeeeet me bring you peeeeace Somewhere there's a break in the weather Where your heart and spirit go free Someday it will be for the better, leeeeeeet this bring you pe-e-e-e-eace James I know yoooooou think no one seeeeees The weight on your shooooulders, but you can't fool meeeeeeee And aren't you tiiiiiired of standing so tall-all-all Let me be the ooooooone to catch you when you fall-all-all-all Somewhere there's a field and a river You can let your soul run free Someday let me be the giver, let me bring you peeeeace baby Somewhere there's a break in the weather Where your heart and spirit go free Someday it will be for the better, let this bring you peee-eeee-eeeeeeace Let me bring you joooooooy, let me bring you peeeeeeace Take these tears that you cryyyyy and trust them to meeee Let me give you heaaaaaaart, let me give you hooooooooope Be the one constant wooooorld that you've never kno-o-o-o-own Somewhere there's a field and a river You can let your soul run freeeeee Someday let me be the giver, let me bring you peeeeace baaaby Somewhere there's a break in the weather Where your heart and spirit go freeeeee Someday it will be for the better, let this bring you peeeeeeeeeeace Somewhere,somewhere,somewhere,somewhere...somedaaaaay Let me be the one, let me be the one to catch you when you faaaaaall Somewhere, somewhere,somewhere,somewhere...somedaaaaay Let me bring you peeeeeace The emotion that JC put into the song had tears in Justin's eyes. Lance had his hands folded on the back of his head with his elbows resting on his knees. Chris and Joey just looked at each other as the music stopped and they mouthed the word "JAMES" to each other with questioning looks on their faces. Then they heard a new song's music start and looked up at JC as he began to sing. Sweet....Sweet...Sweet Tell him...um Let me be paaaatient Let me be kiiiiind Make me unselfish Without being bliiiind Though I may sufferrrr I'll envy it noooot And endure what comes Cause heeee's all I goooot And teeell him Tell him I neeeeed him Tell him I loooove him It will be allllriiiight Tell him I neeeeed him Tell him I loooove him It will be alllriiiight Now I may have faaaaith To make mountians faaaall But if I lack looove Then I am nothing at allllll I can give awaaaay Everything I possesssss But I'm without love Then I-I-I have no haaappiness I know I'm imperfect And not without sin But nooow that I'm olderrr All childish things innnn And teeeell him Tell him I neeeeed him Tell him I loooove him It will be alllriiiight Tell him I neeeeed him Tell him I loooove him It will be allllriiiight I will never be jealous and won't be to prooooud Cause love is not boustful Love is not loooooud Teeeell him Tell him I neeeeed him Tell him I loooove him Everything is going to be alrigh-igh-igh-igh-ight Now I may haaaave wisdommm And knowledge on eeeeearth But if I speak wroooong Then what is it wooorth What we now knoooow Is nothing compaaaared To the love that was shoooown When our lives were spaaaared Tell him I neeeeed him Tell him I loooove him It will be alright Tell him I neeeeed him Tell him I loooove him It will be alrigh-igh-igh-igh-ight Throughout the whole song JC sang with his eyes shut, pouring his heart and soul into the song. Singing it with emotion that was all JC and it was powerful. As the music stopped, JC entered the control booth. He was doing something, but they couldn't tell what. He sat down at the computer and then 5 minutes later exited the control booth. All while he was in there, all for other members of NSYNC sat there in silence. Lance never moved and still had his head covered by his arms. Justin sat there looking back and forth between JC and Lance. Chris and Joey sat there looking at each other trying to figure out what was going on. JC walked up to them, put a laptop infront of Lance and started it up. He then stuck in a CD into the rom drive and walked to the other side of the room and stood against wall. The disk started up and JC's face came onto the screen and began to speak. Lance...My love...my life...my heart...my soul...the songs I have just sung are for you. They are recorded on this disk and you have the only copy. I am not good talking with people especially when my feelings are involved, but please know that every word I sung is to you and it comes with my love from every fiber of my being. I know we have not started off on the right foot. And I appologize for that. I did not know what I had when I had it and when I finally figured it out you were gone. Please forgive me. It is clear in my mind and heart that you are the only one for me. I love you James Lance Bass. I know it, Justin knows it, my family as of this morning know it, and now Joey and Chris know it. Also, I called your parents today to give them a piece of my mind, but they were too worried about you to listen to me. They love you James and they have been trying to get in touch with you since last night to apologize...Please call them and talk. Now, it's up to you. I will respect any decision you make.... JC image faded out and the music started... Lance looked up with tears flowing out of his eyes. He rose and walked over to JC. He looked up at JC, who had tears flowing down his cheeks. Lance raised both his hands up to JC's face and wiped the tears away with his thumbs, holding the sides of JC's face with his palms. He looked directly into JC's eyes and pulled him into a kiss. It was the most passion filled kiss that any of the guys had seen in their whole lives. Justin wiped the tears from his eyes and walked over to were Chris and Joey were sitting and wrapped his arms around their shoulders. "So what do you think of my boys?" "I guess we missed something, eh Chris." "Yeah, I guess so. I don't remember seeing a memo on this, you Joe?" "Nope, I must have missed the episode of Springer about Boy Band Members in Love." "Shut up Larry and Moe" Justin said pushing both their head together with a thud. "Owe, I guess that make you....." "Curly" Chris finished Joey's sentence, as they both got up. Joey grabbed Justin and Chris pulled up on his boxers, giving Justin a huge wedgie. JC and Lance finally broke their kiss and Chris and Joey walked over to them and pulled them into a four way hug. "You know, it would be nice if you two let us in on your lives once in a while, so we don't hear you confess you love for each other in the middle of a song." "Joey's right. But, uh...JC when we do that song for the Pokemon soundtrack, we are going to take JAMES out of the song and replace it with something else...Right." "Yeah Chris...it's going to be...Girl I know you think no one sees." "But Josh, I like James better." "Scoop, it's only like that on your copy of the song...the only one that matters." Lance just smiled and kissed JC on the cheek. "Oh Jaaaames, by the way..." Lance looked at Joey with a questioning look. "JC needs you...." "And JC loves you..." Chris added. "And it going to be alright..." They both said pretending to wipe tears out of their eyes. "That was so beautiful" Joey said. "So, so beautiful." Chris added. JC just shook his head as he shoved Joey into Chris. "Let's go Jokers, we have to get to studio C to start recording that song." Justin had finally pulled his boxers out of his crack and straighten himself up. He walked over to the group. "Assholes, remember...payback is a bitch." Chris and Joey just smiled at him and then looked at each other and then to Lance and JC. "Ok gay guys, does Justy here look sexier when he's pissed off or when he has his boxers pulled up his back? Chris asked. JC and Lance looked at each other and said "Wedgie...Atomic" Chris grabbed Justin this time and Joey grabbed Justin's boxers with both hands and pulled up. Justin let out a scream as his face turned red. JC, Joey and Chris ran out of the room as fast as they could. Lance walked over to the computer and grabbed his disk out of the drive. "Gee Curly...uh I'd help you out and all...but..uh...I'm not into that kind of stuff." Justin just glared at him as he walked out of the studio. It took Justin three minutes to work his boxers down into normal position and straighten himself up. "Fuckin assholes, I will get all four of you...this I promise you." He said out loud to nobody as he stepped out of the studio and walked toward studio C.