Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 18:59:28 CEST
From: Sophie V <wind_phoenix@hotmail.com>
Subject: Porcelain : Chapter 5

Author's note: Hi everyone! This is the fifth chapter of "Porcelain"! Thanks
to everyone who read this story!

Comments, bad or good, suggestions and questions are welcome. Answers
promised: wind_phoenix@hotmail.com

This story doesn't imply the sexuality of any member of the Backstreet Boys
and N'Sync. If you're against gay stories or not older enough to read this
type of story, please leave.

Check these stories which I really like:
"Nick and Brian", by JC Vascardi
"Open Arms", by Carter
"Because I love you", by Lucas Thompson
"The Body Switch with Nick Carter" by Sher
"The Project" by Adam
"Any Path", his following story "No Painless Way" by Dara Lynn
"Star Crossed" by Jo Beth Hill
"It's Gonna Be Me" by Jamie
"Say my Name" by Jo Beth Hill and Colleen
"BSB and N'Sync" by Mark J. (it isn't updated since February. If the author
saw this, please e-mail me!)
"Heaven in yours eyes" (sorry I don't have the author's name of this story;
only his e-mail: ZeroDQ@aol.com)
and "Question of Faith" by Nathaniel O'Leary

WARNING: There's French in the chapter. So, especially people who understood
this language, don't be surprised if you don't see any accents on several
words (Text MS-DOS don't take them)

Yeah, I know that this warning wasn't a real warning, but it doesn't matter.

So, here we go!

Porcelain
Chapter 5
By Sophie V. (wind_phoenix@hotmail.com)

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This is good bye...

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Another day in the mansion. He rolled on his left side to check the time on
his watch.
10:15.
"Time to get up." He thought.
He rolled on his right side and what he saw made him smile, as always. In
front of him was his boyfriend, who was facing him and sleeping peacefully.
"He's so cute... I can wait..." he thought as he cuddled to him. He put his
arms around his waist and gently ran his hand in his blond hair.
"Hmmm..." mumbled his boyfriend as he stirred. He slowly opened his eyes and
smiled at him.
"'Morning, cutie." He said
"'Morning, Justin." Replied JC as he slowly kissed him on the lips.
Justin gladly returned the kiss and shuddered as he felt JC's hand fondled
his naked body.
"What time is it?" he managed to ask as he felt himself getting hard.
"10:15. Not too late for..." answered JC as he started to kiss Justin's
neck.
"For what?" moaned Justin as he closed his eyes, totally enjoying what JC
was doing to him.
"For working on the book." Said JC as he stopped his movements and started
to get up.
Justin's eyes shot open and looked at JC in confusion.
"FOR WHAT?" said Justin.
"For the book. We must translate it." Said JC
"What?... but JC?" said Justin, disappointed.
"No but, Justin." Said JC.
Justin looked at him and saw that JC looked serious.
"But... we said that Kevin was the only one to work on it!" he said, getting
a bit angry.
"Sorry... but I said to Kevin that I was working with him on the book,
today." Said JC as he walked in the bathroom.
Justin glared at him and laid down on the bed, not facing at JC. He was
furious that his boyfriend rather preferred to work on a book than to be
with him.
"The book is more important for him." He thought
But suddenly, he felt a hand on his crotch. He turned around just in time to
see JC kissing him passionately on the lips. After a few seconds, JC broke
the kiss and looked at him in the eyes.
"You really thought that I was going to work today?" he said.
Justin looked at JC in confusion and saw him grinning. Justin grabbed him,
pinned him, on his back, on the bed and then straddled his waist.
"You! You're gonna pay for this!" he said while laughing.
"Yeah... punish me... I afraid my Curly..." said JC with lust in his eyes.
Justin grinned and kissed him passionately on the lips.
"He gonna pay..." he sang in his mind as he removed his and JC's boxers...

In Nick and Brian's bedroom

Nick opened his eyes and stared at the ceiling of the room. The room was
good lighted.
"The sun is shining, today." He thought. He felt suddenly something wrong.
As if there was something heavy in his heart.
"What's that?" he asked. "... Maybe it's still the house... Brian was a
little afraid too..."
He then smiled and rolled on his right side, expecting to see the man he
loved sleeping next to him. His smile immediately faded, as he saw nobody
next to him. He sat up and looked around him. No Brian.
"Where is he?" he asked himself.
He got up and looked in the bathroom.
"Brian?" he said as he switched on the light. Brian wasn't here.
"That's strange... we always get up together..." thought Nick as he walked
in the bedroom. "He must be at the kitchen... yeah, it must be that..."
He quickly went to the bathroom in order to get washed. Fifteen minutes
later, he walked back in the bedroom and quickly dressed himself. He opened
the shutters and then exited the room.
In the hall, he could see some the sunlight under the doors of several
rooms.
"They must be all get up..." he thought.
He came in front of Justin and JC's room and stopped as he heard some loud
moans.
"Oooooh... yes... oh Justin..."
"Oh god... you're so tight JC...ah...ah..."
Nick put his right hand on his mouth in order to muffle a chuckle.
"Not ALL get up..." he whispered, smiling, as reached the stairs.
He then suddenly remembered what Brian said to him yesterday.
"He said we'll make love all the day, today... I can't wait!" he thought as
he quickly came down the stairs.

In the library

Kevin turned the pages quickly and started to be impatient. He didn't found
something knew and there was nothing in the library to help him. He
continued to turn the pages and suddenly stopped. On the left page was the
blue sun, which was on the cover, and on the right page, a text. But it was
in a different language. He knew what it was.
"French..." he whispered.

Nick walked in the kitchen and saw Howie and Chris drinking their coffee and
eating some pancakes.
"Hey guys." He said
"Hi, Nick. Sleep well?" asked Howie.
"Yeah, like a marmot." Answered Nick "You aren't up since a long time?"
"No. Just an half-hour ago... You didn't take your boy with you?" asked
Chris with a grin.
Nick immediately looked at him, confused.
"You're okay?" asked both Howie and Chris.
"I... You... you mean that you didn't see Brian this morning?" asked Nick.
"Um... no." Said Chris.
Nick looked at Howie who just shook his head 'no'.
"Shit! Where's he?" said Nick as he sat on a chair.
"He wasn't with you when you woke up?" asked Howie.
"No... I thought that maybe he was in the kitchen..." said Nick, starting to
worry.
"Don't worry Nick. Maybe Brian was up earlier than us. You know we're up not
since a long time." Said Chris, trying to reassure Nick.
"He's right, Nick, don't worry. I'm sure he's fine." Said Howie, patting
Nick's back.
"I hope... where are the others?" asked Nick as he ate a pancake.
"Well... I guess AJ, Justin and JC is still sleeping, Lance is in the
village and Kevin in the library." Said Howie.
"Still working on this book?" asked Nick while smiling.
"Yeah... I hope he isn't going to burn his brain." Said Howie.
"His what?" asked Chris, acting as if he never heard this word before. They
all laughed a little and continued to take their breakfast.
A few minutes later, AJ walked in the room, his right hand on his head.
"HI AJ!" screamed Howie, knowing that AJ must have a hangover.
"Ouuuch... Please Howie... my head is killing me..." said AJ as he sat
carefully in a seat next to Nick, his right hand still on his head.
The other just laughed. AJ took the bottle of water which was on the table
and drunk it completely.
"BUURRRPP... Sorry... Aaaaahhh... I feel better..." Said AJ as he put the
empty bottle on the table.
"You were so drunk last night... Kevin told you to be careful!" said Howie.
"Huh? I don't remember..." said AJ.
"You even remember when you said that you had HOT FUN in every clubs we went
this past time?" asked Howie, smiling.
Nick and Chris looked at Howie in shock then at AJ. AJ looked at them, eyes
widened open, and started to blush.
"I... I say that?" he asked
"Yeah... you can ask Kevin, he was there too..." said Howie.
"I hope you'll careful, AJ." Said Chris.
"Don't worry, I had several packets, you know." Said AJ.
"That's okay, AJ, don't worry. Besides, we don't want you to be a father
despite you." Said Howie.
AJ just nodded and started to eat.
"Sorry... but I like this drinks, it's very good."
"We saw that. Or else, you wouldn't started to yell 'HURRAH FOR THE FRENCH
BEERS!!!' as you danced last night." Said Chris. Nick and Howie burst out
laughing as AJ went bright red. After they had a good laugh, they continued
their breakfast.
"By the way, where are the other?" asked AJ
"Lance is in the village, while Kevin is in the library. Justin and JC are
still sleeping..." said Chris.
"I don't think so..." said AJ
"What?" asked Howie.
"JC and Justin are up. They wake me up..." said AJ.
"Then, why aren't they with you?" asked Chris.
"Err... They wake me but not like that..." said AJ
"Ah." Said Chris as he frowned. "Aaah.. Yeah I see." Said both Howie and
Chris a grimace on their faces. Nick just laughed and continued to eat.
"So, Nick... where are your other half?" asked AJ
Nick stopped smiling and sighed. AJ saw that and began to worry.
"Buddy? What's wrong?" asked AJ.
"Oh... it's just that Brian wasn't with me when I woke up and Howie and
Chris didn't see him." Said Nick sadly.
"Ow, come on... maybe he's somewhere in the house, in the garden or in the
village... don't worry." Said AJ.
"You think so?" asked Nick, still worried.
"Of course, Nick. Where do you think he is?" asked AJ.
"I don't know... I felt something bad... this morning when I woke up, I felt
something in my heart... as if something wrong happened..." said Nick.
"Really?" asked Chris.
"Yeah..." said Nick in a whisper.
Seeing Nick's expression, AJ decided to do something to cheer him up.
"Nick... when we'll finish our breakfast, we're going together outside and
search Brian, okay?" said AJ putting his left arm around his shoulders.
"Lance and me are going to open the other doors in the house. If we see
Brian, I'll tell him that you search him." Said Chris.
"Thanks, guys." Said Nick, smiling a little. Yet he still felt something
bad.

In the village

"40$50, mister." Said the cashier.
Lance gave his credit card and wait for the bill. He took his card back,
quickly signed the bill and exited the shop with three bags, all of food.
"What a drudgery! When I thought that we must stay here for several days..."
he thought, angry.
He started to walk to the mansion when he saw a several persons, all dressed
in black, exited the cemetery. He walked near a old person and asked, very
kindly:
"Somebody is dead?"
The old man looked at him and nodded.
"Yeah... It's Marcario Thomerow... He died last night..."
"All my condolences, mister." Said Lance
"You're kind... I was one of his last friend..." said the old man.
Lance just nodded.
"How old he was?" he said
"He was 100 years old."
"He lived for a long time... I guess he died of old age..." said Lance
The man just nodded.
"You're not from the village, are you?" he asked
"Yes... how do you know?" asked Lance
"I know everyone in the village..." said the old man "So, you're new..."
"Not really..." said Lance "My friends and I are staying in the mansion
before we'll go back to our destination."
"This mansion?" asked the old man, pointing at the house on the small hill.
"Yes, this one." Said Lance.
"Marcario was living here when he was a child." He said.
"Really? Well it's good to know." Said Lance, nervously. "Well, I must go
back, now. Good bye, mister."
"Good bye, young man." Said the old man as Lance walked toward the house.

Later...

"Five days?!" said Kevin, angrily.
"That's what he said, sorry. I couldn't do anything." Said Lance
"What happen?" asked JC and Justin as they walked in the library.
"Guys... we must stay here for five days." Said Kevin, sadly.
"Oh... why?" asked Justin.
"Mike said to Lance that he must go to the city to get some fuel. And since
the bus must had several problems, we must wait five days."
"He said that to you?" asked JC to Lance.
"Well... I was walking outside to get some air when Mike said that to me. He
said he was to presser to wait for us to get ready so he left us here."
explained Lance.
JC and Justin just nodded and sighed.
"Everyone know that?" asked Justin
"Except AJ and Nick, yes." Said Lance.
"Well, I'm going to tell them." Said Justin as he exited the room.
"So... Still working on the book?" asked JC
"Yeah... I found a moment ago that the text was now in French." Said Kevin.
"Hey, I studied French in school. I can help you 'til Justin come back."
Said JC
"Well... I'm going to look for Chris... See ya later, guys." Said Lance as
he exited the room.
"So... here we go..." said Kevin.

In the garden

"BRIAN!" called Nick for the hundredth time.
Since a moment, AJ and Nick were searching Brian in the garden, without
success.
"Nick!" called someone. Nick sighed as he recognized AJ's voice.
"What?" asked Nick, seeing that Brian wasn't with him.
"You see that Brian isn't here. Come on, we must go back to the house." Said
AJ
"No way! I must found Brian!" said Nick as he turned around and restarted to
call Brian's name.
"Nick... you know he's not in the garden... come on..." said AJ as he forced
Nick to turn around. He saw that Nick had tears in his eyes. He immediately
hugged Nick.
"Shh... Calm down Nick, I'm sure Brian is fine. Maybe he's in the
village..." said AJ
"No... Something bad must happened to him..." said Nick as tears started to
stream down his eyes.
"Nick, Brian will be back soon, I'm sure. Don't cry..." said AJ as he broke
the hug and wiped Nick's tears with a tissue.
"Guys!" Said a voice.
They both turned around and saw Justin walking toward them.
"What is it, Justin?" asked AJ
"Well... not very good news..." said Justin.
"It's Brian?" asked Nick, getting more worried.
"No, it isn't, Nick. Well, listen..." said Justin. He quickly explained why
they must stayed at the house for five other days.
"Five days... This is too great... I guess our show in Toronto is
canceled..." said AJ as he sighed.
Justin nodded and looked at Nick. He saw that he had tears streaming down
his face.
"Nick... what's wrong?" he asked.
"Brian... he's... not here..." said Nick before he started to sob.
Justin immediately hugged him, trying to comfort him.
"Calm, Nick... Brian must be somewhere..." said Justin.
"Kevin had said the same thing... yet he didn't see him..." said Nick.
"He'll come back for lunch." Said Justin.
"What if something had happened to him? What if he was kidnapped? What
if..." said Nick.
"Nick... where in the middle of nowhere... or nearly... why do you think
that something had happened to him?" asked Justin.
Nick looked at Justin, his face red because of the tears.
"He came back alone to the house, last night..." he said.
"Look... I understand why you're so worried... If I didn't now where was JC,
I'd be like you, now. Crying because I'd thought that something had happened
to him... But listen... we'll wait until lunch. And if he hasn't come back
yet, we'll search him, you and me. Okay?" said Justin.
Nick nodded and wiped his tears away from his face.
"I'll help you, guys. I'll search in the village." Said AJ
"Thanks, Bone." Said Nick
"Good... Now come on, we must come back to the house." Said AJ.
The other two nodded and the three guys went back in the house.

Several hours later...

The sky started to turn gray, which meant that there'd be a storm soon. Nick
was very afraid and nervous, now. It was 13:30. And Brian hasn't come back
yet.
"Nick, AJ left to go to the village. I go to the garden. You can search in
the house, okay?" said Justin very softly.
Nick nodded as Justin exited the house and started to walk in the garden.

In the library

JC frowned as he read something.
"Kevin, listen at that...
'Je ne comprendrais jamais ce mystere. Il y a tellement d'evenements qui se
sont produit ces derniers jours. La derniere fois, dans la chapelle, j'ai eu
l'impression que les statues pleuraient. Comme si elles etaient vivantes !
J'ai peur. Parfois quelque chose me dit que la decouverte de cette chapelle
va engendrer quelque chose de grave. Mes parents sont morts peu apres cela.
Et je ne crois pas que ce fit un hasard...'"
"What that's mean Josh? I don't really understand French..." said Kevin.
"I think it's mean...:
I'll never understand this mystery. So many events happened these last days.
Last time, in the chapel, I had the impression that the statues were crying.
As if they were alive. I'm afraid. Sometime, something tell me that to have
discover this chapel will created something grave. My parents are death
afterwards this. And I don't think that it was a coincidence.'" Said JC
He looked up at Kevin who was starring at him confused.
"What do you think this mean? Are you sure you're translate it correctly?"
he asked.
"Yeah, I'm sure Kev... I really don't know what that's mean but... I'm
worried now... I wondered if... it's going to happen..." Said JC
"What's gonna happen?" asked Kevin.
"This... the death... the fact that maybe we're in danger because of the
book..." said JC.
"I really don't know, JC... But nothing strange had happened, 'right? When
you went in the chapel, did you see a statue crying?" said Kevin.
"No..." said JC
"Well, it's good sign. If there's nothing strange, we're safe, no?" said
Kevin
"Yeah, that's right." Said JC as he restarted to read the book with Kevin.

In the garden

"Nothing... where the hell is he? Does he know that his boyfriend is
worried?" said Justin, irritated, as he walked in the garden. In deep
thought, he didn't see a root in front of him, which caused him to fell on
the ground.
"Shit!" said Justin as he started to get up. He was on in knees when he felt
something on the palm of his left hand. He looked at it and saw in horror
that it was blood.
He wanted to cry but felt that something was wrong. He felt nothing. No
pain, nothing. With his right hand, he quickly searched a clean white paper
hanky in his right pocket and wiped his hand. After he had put the now red
hanky in his pocket, he now looked at his hand. There was no injury. He
sighed in relief but then asked himself.
"But... if it wasn't my blood... what is it?"
He looked closely at his left and saw something under the bushes. He went to
take whatever it was and felt something cold. He touched it and felt
something. Fingers. He started to freeze and slowly took 'the thing with
fingers' out of the brushes while closing his eyes. He put it in front of
him and was breathing heavily. He still had his eyes closed, afraid to see
what it was. It wasn't very long, cold with some liquid on it and had
fingers. And it smelled bad. While trembling, Justin slowly started to open
his eyes. His eyes widened opened at what he saw as his face went pale with
horror.

It was an arm. Or nearly. It was cut at the elbow. There was blood
everywhere and a bracelet around the wrist. It was enough for Justin. He
quickly stood up and vomited behind some bushes. He looked one last time at
the arm to confirm that he wasn't an illusion. He then started running
toward the house, screaming at the top of his lugs.
"JOOSSHHH!! JOOOOOOOOOOOSSSHHH!!!!!!!"

In the library

JC and Kevin were still looking at the book when suddenly JC looked up.
"Something wrong?" asked Kevin.
"You heard nothing?" asked JC
"Heard what?" said Kevin when suddenly they heard a scream coming from the
garden. JC immediately recognized the voice.
"JUSTIN!!" he screamed as he ran out of the room. Kevin quickly followed
him.
As they ran in the room, Joey and Nick were coming down the stairs. Suddenly
the entrance door opened and Justin ran in his lover's arms. JC hugged him
tightly as Kevin, Joey and Nick quickly surrounded them.
"Just! Sweetie! What's wrong??" asked JC as he continued to hugged Justin.
"My... god... JC... I... I..." said Justin as he looked up at his boyfriend.
He was really pale.
"Just, what's wrong? You look like you just saw a ghost!" said JC
"N...n... nearly..." said Justin.
"What? What did you see?" asked Joey
"In the garden..." said Justin
"Show us." Said Nick.
"Calm down! You see that Justin is in a state of shock!" said JC angrily at
the other, still hugging Justin closed to his heart.
"No... They're right... I must show you..." said Justin.
"You're sure Justin? You're so pale and afraid... If you don't feel good,
there's no way that..." said JC before he was cut by his boyfriend.
"I'm fine... I must show you..." said Justin.
"Sure?" asked JC one last time.
Justin just nodded. JC walked at the door, while hugging Justin by the
waist, and exited the house with the other guys.

They arrived near the place, when Justin stopped walking.
"It's here." Said Justin, pointing a place behind the tree. "I don't want to
see this again..."
JC kissed him on the head and hugged him.
"It's okay, babe. It's okay..." he softly said.
Nick, Joey and Kevin walked near the tree and walked around it. They all
gasped at what they saw. A bloody arm. They all put their hand on their
mouths, feeling sick. Joey couldn't take it and vomit behind the tree. Kevin
and Nick walked near the arm and knelt in front of it.
"Oh my god..." said Nick.
Kevin nodded, really shocked and then saw something around the wrist.
"Look at that..." he said.
They closely looked at it and saw a silver bracelet. There was some blood on
it but they could still read what is writing on it:
'Frick'
They immediately stood up after they saw this. Kevin knew it was a gift from
Nick to Brian, the night they got together. Which meant that...
"No..." whispered Kevin as tears came in his eyes.
He looked at Nick and saw that he was very pale. His breathing was quick and
he was trembling as tears were streaming down his face.
"..." Nick couldn't think. He couldn't move, couldn't do anything. Except
one thing. Before he faint, he screamed at the top of his lugs.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!"
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