Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 18:20:57 CEST
From: Sophie V <wind_phoenix@hotmail.com>
Subject: Porcelain : Chapter 8

Author's note: Hello tout le monde! This is the eighth chapter! Thanks to
everyone who read this story so far, including Red, Dara, Sher, John, Tara,
Chris, Marcy, Angela and all the other! ;) I hope you'll like this chapter!

Anyway, comments, bad or good, suggestions and questions are welcome.
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This story doesn't imply the sexuality of any member of the Backstreet Boys
and NSync. 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", and all the sequels 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" by Beck
"Question of Faith" by Nathaniel O'Leary
"Chances are" by Red
"Josh and Just" by AJ Shukla
"Just One Call" by Sarah
"Kevin and Dustin" by Nick Moore
"Little White Lies" by Elly Iles
"Devotion" by Angel1313
and a new one "The Real Nick" by Kevin Michael
I know it's a long list but whatever! As long as I liked them ;)

You can also check out my first story "Together Again"!

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English isn't my first language. So sorry for all the grammar errors and
other stuff like that...

I don't know if this chapter is REALLY okay (grammar and other stuff). If
not, please tell me.

So... here we go!

Porcelain
Chapter 8
By Sophie V. (wind_phoenix@hotmail.com)

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In my dream...

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"Where I am?"
"You can't know where you are..."
"Why?"
"You're nowhere..."
"I don't understand..."
"I know where you are but you don't..."
"Yes..."
"What do you see?"
"Nothing... it's all dark... I don't even see my body..."
"It was the same for me... No body, nothing..."
"No body?"
"Try to touch you."
...
"I don't feel my body! What happen?"
"Your body is somewhere... all you've got know is your soul..."
"My soul... I can see but I can't feel and touch, 'right?"
"Yes."
"But why I can't see where I am?"
"Because you're nowhere..."
"I still don't understand..."
"You will, I promise..."

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"Before I told you anything, we must told you something... My name is
Matthew Sam Salway... I lived here for more then fifty years..." said Salway
"My name is Sarian Talmino... known as Saya. I lived in this village since I
was four years old and I had some powers... I can see things... like I did
to several of you..." said Saya
"Saya and I know Marcario Thomerow since we were at this village... He told
us all his life in this house and since we were really curious, we also read
the entire diary and other books about everyone who lived in this house and
know we know the complete story... Everything..." said Salway.
"Please, help us." Said Kevin
"Yes... you must know it... Marcario wanted it." Said Salway.
"He wanted it?" said JC, confused.
"I'll explain after..." said Salway as he raised his hand. "So... are you
ready?"
Everyone nodded, ready to hear everything. Saya and Salway sat in a couch in
front of them and started to relate.

"Everything begin 400 years earlier, in England... A man, named Marcario
Thomerow, lived in a mansion like it. He was rich and was passionated by the
magic books and sorcery... He was an expert in white magic, in old languages
like Latin and was very lonely too... One day, he started to write a magic
book based on some legends and all the magic books he had found in his
searches... Devil, Maledictions, Infer... He was writing everything he heard
about it. Everyone didn't appreciate his passion for these things... Some
people started to believe that he was an evil sorcerer or a blasted... A few
times later, there was too much tension and he were forced to leave. He then
decided to leave England in order to travel the ocean and hoped to have
peace..." said Salway
"But he didn't stop his book. He continued to write on it while his journey
and finally, when he arrived there, in Ontario, he was sure that he would
have peace until his death. There weren't to many habitants at this time but
this village was there... With his money and help from many people, he built
this giant mansion, on the hill... It took two years to finish it... People
thought that he was a good man, but something bothered them... Marcario
wanted to build a chapel under his garden but he never said why. Despite
everything, he finally had everything he wanted... his mansion, his chapel
and peace." Continued Saya.
"But... Did people start to think that this man was... strange? I mean... a
chapel under the ground..." said Justin.
"Yes, people started to distrust him... They really thought it was
strange... we looked into his book and found out that he wanted this chapel
under the ground because he thought that this way, he'll be near the hell
and near the heaven at the same time..." said Salway
"He was a bit crazy to think that." Said Joey.
"Actually... he said in his book that he felt himself go wrong... he was
doing many magic and sorcery... but one day he lost control of what he did
and felt himself became an evil spirit." Said Saya.
"An evil spirit?" said Kevin.
"Yes... his magic book was completely finished and unfortunately he started
to loose control of himself... He didn't always control what he was
doing..." said Salway.
"What did he exactly write in his magic book?" asked Lance.
"Many things I guess... we don't really know... All I know is that he had
use magic to erase half his book..." said Salway
"Why? Can't he erase in another way?" said AJ
"No... This book is magic and nothing but magic could do that..." said Saya
"I see..."
"Why did he want to erase his book?" asked Lance.
"Well... he had discovered that he had written some black magic... So he
wanted to stop that..." said Saya.
"Did he success?" asked Kevin.
Salway shook his head 'no'.
"He erase the black magic so he thought that he success... But he discovered
that he only free the malefic spirits... And then he started to get
possessed..." said Saya.
JC looked at Justin and hugged him tight. After what happen earlier, he now
really thought that his boyfriend was under some weird magic.
"He stopped to write his book by saying that if he didn't do something
quickly, the village would be in serious danger... So he try to stop
this..." said Saya.
"What did he do?" asked Justin.
"The only way to defeat the evil was to use good magic... and he success. He
was very happy and had wrote at the last pages of his book how he did that."
Said Salway.
"So... this 'evil thing' had disappeared?" asked Lance.
"No... He... 'locked it' in the book." Said Salway.
"He what?" said AJ.
"He had locked it in the book... it's hard to explain... Anyway... after
that, he had put the book in the chapel and saddled the entry, hopping that
nobody will ever find out." Said Salway "After that, he write in his book
that he will never forgive himself to have do that and... Well we read in
the history book of this village that he died by an unknown disease." Said
Salway.
"Poor guy... it's really weird..." said Lance.
"Yes... after that, all the village thought that the house was haunted...
nobody wanted to live there..." said Saya.
"I understand that... but I still don't understand something... what happen
here?  What did we do?" asked Lance.
"Well... the story continued... 400 years later. In January 1900, a man and
his son had gone to this house to live happily despite the story of the
house. We don't really know what happen but all we know is that a few time
later the father died in strange disease and that the young boy had fought
the evil." Said Saya.
"But... how? The evil spirit was in the book and was locked in it!" said
Joey.
"Yes... but the boy had found the book and read everything in it... He
accidentally free 'it'."  Said Salway
"How?" asked Lance.
"I think he wrote that he had use some magic that had involuntarily free
it... He loved sorcery..." said Salway.
"I see..." said Lance as the other nodded.
"Fortunately, the boy was very intelligent and with his talent in the magic
he locked the evil spirit in a box. He then wrote in the book that he'll
'locked' the box in the chapel after he had put the book at the same
place... Then he leave this village and nobody had ever see him again..."
said Saya.
"The boy was young?" asked Kevin.
"Yes... he was only ten years old but was very intelligent... he even write
a complete description of himself in Marcario's book.... A young blond boy
about 4' 5'' with bright blue eyes... we don't no much things about him..."
As he heard this, Nick suddenly remember something...
"Wait... I swear I see this boy... yes! It was the one who told me to
remember my dream..." he thought a bit confused. "It was really him?"
"In the book, I saw that somebody wrote in the book in 1907... what is
that?" asked JC
"Well... seven years later a couple with their only child, named Marc Timer,
had gone to this village and purchase this house... the child was Marcario
Thomerow, the one who died yesterday." Said Salway.
"Wait... you said that the boy's name was Marc Timer..."
"He change his name later." Said Saya
"Why?" asked Lance
"I'll tell you later..."
"He was the one who worked in the book in 1907?" asked JC
"Yes, it was him." Said Salway.
"And, again, everything had started... but this time some strange things
happen." Said Saya
"What things?" asked Kevin
"Well... one day his parents had disappeared... the next day, he found...
some parts of their bodies..." said Salway.
"Brian had disappeared... and then this arm..." said Justin
"It WERE some parts of their bodies..." said Salway.
"Were?" said AJ
"Well... Marcario said that what he found had disappeared only an hour
after..." said Salway.
"It was the same things... does this mean that we have to fight the evil
spirits?" asked Lance.
"Yes... fortunately for him, some people who know magic had help him to
fight it... he success. He had locked the monster in the box where the boy,
seven years ago, had locked it." Said Saya.
"And the parents? Where did he find them?" asked AJ.
Salway and Saya looked at each other and sighed.
"The parents had never been found... he never saw them again in his life..."
said Salway.
Hearing that, Nick felt his heart breaking into million pieces and tears
came into his eyes. He sniffled a little caused the other to look at him.
Before everyone could say anything, he burst into tears and ran away from
the room.
"Nick!" called Kevin as he quickly followed him.
There was a silence in the room during ten seconds until AJ spoke up, his
voice cracked.
"Does... does this mean that we'll never see Brian again?"
"I don't know... I really don't..." said Salway.

Downstairs...

Kevin came down the stairs and looked for Nick. He finally saw somebody on
the couch. On his belly, a pillow covering his face, Nick was sobbing. Kevin
went over him, picked him up and hugged him. Nick buried his head in his
right shoulder, still crying.
"Nick... calm down, that doesn't mean that we'll never found Brian." Said
Kevin softly.
"He... he said... that... that he'll never... found them... I'll never see
my Brian agaaaiinn..." sobbed Nick.
"No, Nick... I'm sure we'll found Brian... I promise you..." said Kevin.
"How... can you be sure?" said Nick while crying.
"I don't know... but something tell me that we mustn't loose hope... we must
be strong, Nick." Said Kevin as he broke the hug and looked at Nick, who
managed to look at Kevin. His face was red and covered by tears stream.
"You sure?" he asked in a small voice.
"Yes... we'll fight these evil spirits and we'll found Brian... and perhaps
we'll could use magic to help us to find him!" said Kevin.
After a few seconds, Nick spoke again.
"I didn't think about that... Saya had some power, she'll help us..."
Kevin nodded and smiled a little.
"We'll do that, Nick... for you, for Brian... for everyone."
Nick rubbed his face with his right arm and said, looking at the stairs:
"We must go back to them... We must do something quickly! I want to find
Brian! WE MUST FIND HIM!"
Kevin nodded and rubbed lightly Nick's left shoulder. Then the two men
walked back to the stairs.

Upstairs...

"So after what happened, he walked back in the village and decided to stay
with Tom, who was the cemetery keeper at this time, as he had lost his
parents and was orphaned... Nobody in the village really knew him so when
someone asked his name, he said that he was Marcario Thomerow." Said Saya.
"That explain why he had the same name... why did he change it?" asked
Lance.
"Well... he said to us that he was so determined to defeat this mal that he
decided to be like Marcario... He tried to do be an expert in white magic."
Said Saya.
"He did some white magic?" asked Lance.
"Yes... he does... even after he had won against the evil spirits with his
allies, he decided to continue the magic..."
"Who was his allies? Some people from the village?" asked AJ
"Yeah... there was Tom and... My great-grand-mother." Said Saya.
"Oh... maybe that's why you have some powers." Said JC.
"Yes."
"But... you said earlier that Marcario said something about us... What is
it?" asked AJ
"Well... Marcario said that he was feeling that it wasn't finished... that
someday, some people would have to fight this again... He even said that he
had some vision about young men who will have to do it... it was only four
days ago..." said Saya.
"And... It's... us?" asked Lance looking at his friends.
"Yes... it must be you... You have to fight it." Said Saya.
"But... how... we don't have powers." Said Justin.
"Don't worry, we'll help you... Tom was a member of the family of Matthew."
Said Saya.
"Yes, we're here for you." Said Salway.
At this moment, Kevin and Nick entered in the room. AJ and Howie immediately
stood up and hugged Nick.
"You'll see, Nick. We'll find Brian." Said AJ
"Yes... Keep the faith, Nick..." said Howie.
"Thanks, guys..." said Nick as he hugged them back. He then broke it and
said to Salway and Saya.
"Please... help us."
"We'll do, young man." Said Saya "Sit and listen."
Then she quickly said to Nick and Kevin what they missed.
"We found this book and the box in the chapel... I'm sorry..." said Lance
looking at the floor. Chris and Joey nodded and looked at the floor too.
They all looked guilty.
"No... You don't have to be." Said Saya.
"But..." started to said Chris before Saya cut him.
"I know you feel guilty because your friend disappeared and that the evil
spirits are back but you know... these spirits must disappeared forever.
..."
Lance, Chris and Joey looked at each other then back at Saya but said
nothing.
"Now everyone... you know the whole story." said Salway "Any questions?"
JC and Lance lifted their hand.
"Why there's a blue sun on the cover of the book?" asked Lance.
"Well... Marcario, the one who lived 400 years earlier, had drawn it because
this was the magic symbol that he used to fight the spirits." Said Saya.
"He only used that?" asked Lance confused.
"No, of course not! He used other things but that blue sun was the main
symbol." Said Salway.
They all nodded in understanding.
"So... what was your question?" asked Salway to JC.
"Earlier Justin had a really weird experience... and then when he took the
pills, which supposed to cure him, he started to scream in pain... what was
that?" said JC as he took Justin's hands. Justin looked at him and then at
Salway.
"What exactly happen?" asked Salway.
JC explained to them what happen. Salway looked worried.
"Well... it's weird... I think that your friend was already...
'contaminated' by this blood." Said Salway.
"What?! What do you mean?!" said Joey.
"Well... your friend had the same things that happen to Marcario 400 years
earlier before he died... even if he took the pills I think it's too
late..." said Salway.
"WHAT?!" screamed everyone in the room.
"We exactly know what happen to Marcario 400 years earlier and everything
looked like what I think it is..." said Saya "We must do something
quickly... as for Brian... than for Justin."
Justin and JC looked at each other and hugged each other tightly.
"Am I gonna... die?" asked Justin, terrified.
"If we defeat the spirits, no..." said Salway.
"We'll defeat it... there's no way that we don't do anything!" said JC
angrily, a tear streaming down his face.
"We'll do, don't worry." Said Saya.
"So... what do we do know?" asked Howie
Salway looked at everyone and said:
"First, we must have the book. Where is it?"
"I'll get it. I let it in the library." Said JC as he hugged his boyfriend
one last time before he exited the room.
"When we'll have the book, we'll do a magic seance and invoked Marcario
Thomerow. He must help us." Said Saya.
"You can do that?" said AJ
"Yes, young man."
"Please, calm me AJ."

Downstairs...

JC entered in the library and found the book opened, still on the table. He
took it and quickly looked at the page. It wasn't on the right page. On the
right page was a text in a language that he never saw before and some
pictures and on the left page was a blue sun.
"I'm sure that the text was in French and that there weren't this picture!"
he said "Maybe a draft..."
Then the door closed suddenly, making JC jumped a little in surprise. Then
he saw that everything in the room slowly started to turn red.
"What's that?" he thought.
Everything became more and more red. JC ran at the door and tried to open
it. It was locked.
"Shit!" he said. He turned around and saw that it hadn't stopped. The room
continued to go red. He put his hand on his eyes and rubbed them. When he
opened them, he saw that nothing had changed, and that there was nothing on
his hand.
"Oh no... Is it the spirits they were talking about."
He walked near the table and remembered that the blue sun was a magic
symbol. He nervously looked at the pages and saw other symbol... a hand... a
heart... and a cross.
"Shit! What I must do?" he thought nervously.
He looked one more time at the room, which was colored by a strange red
color and saw something moving in the room. He didn't really see it but
could feel that there was somebody or something with him.
"HELP!" he screamed at the top of his lungs.
No answers.
"HEEEEEEELLLLLLLPPPPPP!"

Upstairs...

"You all must be concentrated on this. I don't know what exactly will
happen, but we must try." Said Saya.
"You mean you never do that before?" said Nick
"I did it... but in this house it's different... there's some negative
spirits..." said Saya.
"Shhh!" said Lance.
"What Lance?" asked Chris.
"Didn't you heard something?"
The other shook their head 'no' when they heard a small scream.
"...heeeeelllpppp..."
Justin jumped out of the bed as he recognized the voice.
"JOSH!!!!!!!" he screamed as he ran out of the room.
The other quickly followed him and ran down the stairs. Then they stopped,
not really knowing when was JC.
"The book was in the library! He must be there!" said Justin as he ran to
the door. He tried to open it but found it locked. He then started to knock
roughly on the door and called JC's name.

In the library...

JC got more and more nervous. Some places of the room troubled one time and
then stopped. It was still all red and he could feel more presence around
him. He then heard someone calling him and knocking on the door.
"JOSH!! OPEN!!!"
It was Justin.
"I CAN'T!! IT'S LOCKED!!" he screamed.
He then heard another voice.
"JC! WHAT HAPPEN?!"
It was Joey.
"I... DON'T KNOW!!" he screamed back
In fact he had a small idea of what it was. He read in the book that the
young Marcario saw that too. But he didn't know what he did to stop it.
"There must be something!" he thought as he quickly turned the pages of the
book. He heard the other called him and knocking on the door but now he must
found a way out. He could feel his hearth beating more and more quickly. He
put the book on the table and continued to look at the pages. He then found
the passage when Marcario had felt this.
"J'avais si peur... mais ma foi m'a sauve..." he read.
"His faith?! How his faith had help him?!" said JC, frustrated. He turned
the pages and found the one when the book was opened when he found it.
"The blue sun... the heath... the hand... the cross..." he said. He was
hardly breathing now. The atmosphere was getting hotter and there was less
and less oxygen. He then remembered something. He then started to hear some
faint whispers. But he couldn't tell what 'they' said. He pulled out a
necklace out of his tee shirt and look at it. It was a silver necklace with
a silver cross. He had got it on his 22nd birthday from his bandmates and it
was a really precious thing to him. He took it off and stared at it and then
at the page.
"The cross... the heart..." he said as he put his cross over his hearth.
"The hand and the sun..." he hardly said, having more and more difficulty to
breathe. He then slowly started to move his hand toward the picture of the
blue sun. He had no idea why he did that. It was more as if something was
guided him.
"Is it right?" he thought nervously as he slowly put his hand on the blue
sun. He then saw the blue sun shining around his hand. JC closed his eyes
and started to pray. He knew that if Marcario was saved by his faith that he
must do that. He had no idea what to do else.
As he continued to pray, he felt that he could breath more easily and that
the room wasn't as hotter as before. He continued like that for a few
minutes and opened his eyes.
Everything was back to normal. The library was no longer 'all red' and JC
felt no strange presence around him. He could also breathe normally.
"Thanks God..." he said as he looked at the ceiling and sighed in relief.
Then the door burst opened.
"JOSH!!!" screamed Justin as he ran toward JC and hugged him tightly.
"Oh my god! Are you okay?! What happen?!" he said quickly as he saw that JC
was sweating and his face was pale.
The other also ran in the library and went around JC.
"You're okay?" asked Joey, saying
"What happened?" asked Chris.
"Are you hurt?" asked Lance.
"Calm down everyone!" said JC as he cuddled Justin. "Everything is okay
now."
"What happen?" asked Chris.
"The spirits... they tried to have me..." said JC
"WHAT?!" said everyone.
"When I went to the library, I found that the book was opened to some
strange pages with a picture of a hand, a cross, a hearth, a blue sun and a
text in a language that he had never seen before..." said JC.
"But that doesn't explain what happen." Said Justin.
"Well... everything in the room started to go redder... I could feel some
weird presence. It was more and more hot and there was less and less air...
I read in the book that Marcario, the young one, had felt that too. He said
that his faith save him. After I looked at the picture, I tried to do
something."
"What did you do?" asked Chris.
"Well I put my cross on my hearth and my hand on the picture of the blue
sun." Said JC as he showed them his cross and the picture of the sun.
"Then something happen... the blue sun had started to shine... I closed my
eyes and prayed for a few minutes and when I opened my eyes, everything was
back to normal."
The other looked at each other, amazing by that.
"You had some talents, JC." Said Saya.
"Really?" said JC
"Yes... How did you know that it was the right thing to do?" she asked.
"I don't really know..." said JC looking at the book. He then turned back to
the other.
"But I felt something really strange... as if somebody was helping me to do
it."
The other looked at Saya and Salway, hoping that they had an answer.
"I don't know what to say... perhaps that you DO have some talent." Said
Salway.
"I don't think it's that... but I don't know what it was." Said JC
"Well... everyone, go to the room. We must do spiritualism... Perhaps that
what you feel, JC, was the help of a good spirit..." said Saya.
The other nodded and everyone exited the room.

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"That was closed..."
"Yes."
"You did something, didn't you?"
"Yes."
"I forget to ask you one thing?"
"What is it?"
"Who are you?"
"I'll tell you."
"Why not now?"
"Later."
"I still want to know."
"I know. But I'll tell you later, don't worry."
...
"They're going to contact us."
"Yes."
"Do you think it's gonna work?"
"Who know?"
"Why don't you say anything to me? I still don't know what happen."
"I'm sorry."
"Don't be... I'm sorry, I shouldn't speak like that."
"No... YOU shouldn't be sorry. But you must understand. If I tell you
everything, you won't understand."
"Why?"
"You understand later."
...
"Why did we see that scene? I thought that we didn't see anything, that we
were nowhere..."
"This is the negative spirits... We can see what they do."
"You were right to do something."
"I must do that."
"What do you mean?"
"... They're there... because of me."
"What?"
"They're going to contact us... especially me."
"I heard something that they were going to contact Marcario Thomerow, not
you."
"You don't understand?"
"What? No, I don... wait a minute... you ARE Marcario Thomerow?!"
"Who did you think I was?"
"... But what does this mean?"
"I have nothing to explain."
"No... I know that you have something to tell me..."
"..."
"Please... tell me."
"In my dreams I'm dying all the time..."

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To be continued...

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