Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 06:56:31 +0000
From: CHRISTOPHER ENGELKE <engelke2004@msn.com>
Subject: lances-latter-days Chapter 1

"Lance's Latter Days"
By Chris (engelke2004@msn.com)

Hello, everyone! It's been quite a long time since I last posted a story
here, but I hope you like this.

This is very loosely based upon the movie and the book "Latter Days". The
movie stars mostly newcomers to film, Steve Sandvoss, Wes Ramsey, and
Rebekah Jordan. Other stars of the movie are Jacqueline Bissett, Mary Kay
Place, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. If you get a chance to see this movie, do!
It's an incredibly beautiful movie, with a lot of wonderful performances,
especially by Steve and Wes. In my opinion, at least, this movie is as
beautiful and emotional, if not more so, as "Beautiful Thing".

This is an AU story.  In my story, there has never been and never will be a
*N Sync.  I don't own the rights to any characters depicted within this
story and do not own any rights to the movie "Latter Days".

If you have any comments or suggestions on where this could go, please
e-mail me at engelke2004@msn.com.

CHAPTER ONE

It was a beautiful spring day in Boston. Large crowds of people were waiting
in line. They weren't in line to get tickets to a blockbuster movie or to
see somebody famous. No, they were there to make history. The date was May
17, 2004. This was the first day that people could legally marry someone of
the same sex that they love as much, if not more than, their heterosexual
counterparts.

Sure, there was a time when people in San Francisco or Portland, Oregon
could legally marry someone of the same sex, but at that time, challenges
were filed there so marriage licenses were only for the straight population.

But things were different in Massachusetts. It wasn't just in Boston that
same sex marriages were legal... it was everywhere in the state.

Two of the people that were standing in line were Joshua Chasez and Lance
Bass. Their hands were joined so tight that it would be near impossible to
separate them. They looked at each other with such love that couples around
them were crying hard in joy that these two people found each other. They
could feel the intense love they felt for each other. As Lance and Joshua
came close to where they would get their license, Joshua took out his cell
phone and dialed.

"Hello?" Justin, his best friend, answered.

"Justin, it's me." Joshua said.

"Are you guys close?"  Justin asked.

"With the way the line is moving, I would say it'll be another ten minutes
then we will be there."

"Ok, Josh." Justin replied.  "We're just across the street in the coffee
shop. We'll settle up here and be right there."

"Ok, J" Joshua said.

"And, Josh..." Justin meekly said.

"Is there something wrong, Justin?"

"No...it's just that..." Justin started to say, but got teary-eyed. "I..." He
started to cry. "I can't believe I did that to you.  How could I use your
pain that you poured into your journal for my own personal gain and wrote
that song?"

Joshua's heart broke as he heard Justin say those words.  Last fall, Justin
was signed to Arista when a friend of Joshua's gave Justin's demo to Clive
Davis.  He worked very hard writing songs, but could not come up with one
that would be his first single.  One night when Joshua was at one of his
lowest points in his life emotionally, he wrote about the intense pain he
was feeling in his journal that he kept in his PDA.  When Justin came home
early the next morning after working for many hours in the studio, Joshua
went back to his bedroom to try to get some sleep.  Justin sat down near
where Joshua put his PDA down and tried to write again.  When the writing
wasn't working, he put his writing pad down on top of Joshua's PDA.  He
picked the pad and looked at Joshua's journal entry.  He thought for a
moment then started to write frantically.  The song ended up being a good
one and used as his first single.  Joshua wasn't aware of what Justin did
until the rough cut of the video showed up in their mail.

"Justin, we've talked about this."  Joshua sighed.  "Yes, I wish you would
have told me a lot sooner what you did.  But think about what it did for me,
for Lance.  We can never thank you enough for what that video and song did
for us."

"I don't deserve to be your friend, let alone your best friend!" Justin
cried.

"Justin, you are going to have to get over this.  You're my best friend and
you always will be.  You know that I love you very much.  Now get your ass
over here and watch Lance and I get our marriage license and then get
married."

"OK.  We'll be there soon.  I love you very much, too, Josh."  They hung up
their phones.  After settling his bill at the coffee shop, he looked back at
the last several months, remembering how they all got to where they were
today.

<Flashback>

Lance just arrived in Los Angeles. He was just 19 years old and living away
from home for the first time in his life. Well, he had just spent a month in
a Mormon Training Camp, but that was just a month.

He would be in Los Angeles for two years and wouldn't be allowed any contact
with anyone in his family during that long time.

He left Pocatello just a few hours ago, but he missed his family a lot. He
was very close with his mother. He was called a "mama's boy" even by his
Mormon friends. His relationship with his father was much more complicated.
He knew he loved his father, who was a powerful man in the Mormon Church in
Idaho. He knew his father was proud of how he grew up to be a wonderful and
respectful young man. His father knew that one day he would be as great a
leader in the church as he was. He was also close to his sister Stacy, who
was entering BYU as a freshman.

As the car he was in was taking him to his home for the next two years, he
was looking at anything and everything that LA was offering. He had never
been in California before. In fact, up until his training in Salt Lake City,
he had never been out of Idaho.  He always wanted to see someplace
different, but it never happened. His father was so dedicated to the church
that they never really went on vacation.

The car stopped at a stop light. As he looked around, he spotted a very
elegant restaurant called Lila's. He would have liked eating there at least
once while he was in LA, but that wasn't going to happen. He would be too
busy tracting with the other Elders he would be living with. Whenever he was
not tracting, he would be in intense study. He wanted to make his church and
his family, especially his father, proud of him.

It was at Lila's where he would face for the first time something that he
had blocked out of his mind, had hidden so deep that he thought it would
never surface as long as he lived. He saw one of the most handsome and sexy
guys he ever has seen.

Joshua Scott Chasez was a waiter by night at Lila's. By day, he was an actor
and was waiting for his big break. He was a very good looking man and he
knew it. His sex life was so busy that it put even Brian Kinney from "Queer
as Folk" to shame. Whenever he went out with his co-workers and friends
Justin, Chris, and Joey, he always went home with another hot, sexy man.

The next day, he always bragged about his conquests to his friends,
especially his best friend Justin, who was trying to get a record deal. His
favorite story was something that just happened the previous night. It was
one of his nights off from work. He had an audition the next morning for a
big commercial, so he couldn't go to a club and score with the hottest guy
there. He was just relaxing, reliving a particular hot time he recently had
with a guy when there was a knock on the door.  He went to the door and
opened it.

In front of him, on the other side of the door, was Quinn. He was a little
bit over six feet tall, had blond wavy hair, and came from a very rich
family. Despite the fact that his family was very rich and he was very good
looking, he didn't date that often. He had a hard time finding a girl he was
interested in.

He thought he found her in Margaret. Margaret lived in the same complex as
Joshua and Justin. Unfortunately for him, he went to the wrong apartment.
Margaret's apartment was a couple away from where he was now.

Joshua stared at Quinn then grabbed him inside and started to passionately
kiss him. Quinn pulled away, in deep shock and a little disgust. "I'm
straight!" he yelled at Joshua.

"That is always SO hot when people say that!" was Joshua's reply.

Quinn was flabbergasted. "I'm fucking serious!"

Joshua flirtingly replied, "That's too bad. I don't like to brag." which was
a blatant lie as he enjoyed bragging about his sexual skills and his number
of conquests. "However, I can suck the engine out of a tailpipe."

"Oh...you can, can you?" Quinn asked.

"Yes...and unlike being with a woman, you don't have to call me again..."
Joshua replied, walking his fingers up his bare, muscular chest. "...not
until you want a repeat performance."

That was all he needed to hear. Joshua threw Quinn on the couch and ripped
his clothes off. He then proceeded to give him the best blowjob Quinn had
ever had. From the first touch of Joshua's very talented and experienced
mouth on his cock to his intense orgasm, Quinn was moaning louder and
louder, and then screaming his throat raw when he came.

Quinn almost passed out when he came, his orgasm was that strong. It took
several minutes for him to catch his breath, and a few more to be able to
form a complete sentence in his brain. "Aren't you worried Elizabeth will
walk in on us?" he asked fearfully.

Joshua was confused. "Elizabeth? My roommate is Justin."

'What is going on here?' Quinn asked himself. He was even more confused than
Joshua. "I have a date with Elizabeth."

"Elizabeth is in 3D. This is 3B. Are you really straight and not
straight-curious?" Joshua asked.

"Yes." Quinn replied.

Joshua blushed. "Oh, God...not again!"

Lance and Joshua stared at each other, not able or even wanting to break
this connection. It was finally broken when the stop light changed and the
car Lance was in drove away.

Well...that's the end of Chapter 1.  Let me know what you think of this. My
e-mail addy is near the top of this.