Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 12:00:31 -0800
From: K_Magic@Prodigy.Net
Subject: Fate Stepped In - Chapter Two

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.)

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On with the Story.
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Fate Stepped In - Chapter Two


Drew Lachey watched Jeff Timmons and his brother Nick leave the down
stairs bar.  He had left them a half-hour earlier saying he was tired
and was going back to his room.  Nick and Jeff were wasted and Drew
was starting to get the feeling he had got the last time.  Their talk
was turning more sexual and the looks they were giving eachother had
Drew feeling uneasy.  The last time happened just after they got
their record deal and partied all night.  But Drew was getting the
same uneasy feeling tonight as he did that night.  And if they found
him tonight, it would happen again.  He loved them both, but he just
could not stand to be raped by two drunken assholes, especially since
one of them was his own brother.

The emotional baggage was wearing on him.  Though it happened when
they were plastered and they didn't remember any of it the next morning,
Drew remembered it all.  Hopefully his feeling were wrong and nothing
was going to happen.  But, if it happened tonight, he didn't know what
he would do.  They were coming into their own as a band, and the guys
would never let him leave.  Nor did he want to leave, he loved his life
and maybe deep down on some level, he enjoyed what Nick and Jeff had
done to him that night.  Well maybe just Jeff.  Drew lusted after Jeff.
He followed Jeff around like a puppy dog, but Jeff never noticed him.
He spent most of his time hanging with Nick, and Drew was left to
kick it with Justin.

But even with his feelings for Jeff, "Not tonight" Drew said to himself.
So he just stayed in the lobby watching and waiting for his two band
mates to leave the bar.  He would wait down stairs until they got back
to their floor, find that he wasn't in his room and then they would head
to their own rooms and go to sleep.  But from his hiding space, Drew
heard their conversation as they entered the elevator.

"What floor?" Jeff said.

"Fourteen, room 1432", Nick said as the elevator doors closed.

Drew wondered what they were talking about, 98 degrees was staying on
the twelfth floor.  Since they had other plans, Drew felt safe enough
to go back to his room and got on the next elevator.  When it reached
the twelfth floor, he hesitated.  Curiosity won out and he turned around
and pressed the button to summon the elevator back to take him up to
the fourteenth floor.

When the elevator door opened, Drew walked down the hallway.  It was
empty, so he kept walking looking for room 1432.  When he reached it,
he put his ear up to the door.  Drew could barely hear Nick and Jeff
and some moaning.  He knew what was happening, but to who.  Who was
taking his place tonight?  He had to know, so he would wait.  Wait for
them to leave and sneak a peek at who had saved him this night.  Drew
walked down to the ice machine room that was located half way between
the room and the elevator.  He would hide between the ice machine and
the wall when they left.

It was about 3:30 in the morning, so hopefully no one will come to get
ice he thought to himself. At about 4:10 he heard the door down the
hallway open then close.  From his hiding place he heard his brother
voice say, "So what do you think?"

Jeff answered " D was better, we better stick to him".

"Oh my god, they remember everything," Drew thought to himself,

In Drew's mind it was all ok as long as they were drunk and could not
remember anything.  Now that he knew that they remembered everything,
how could he ever look them in the eyes again.  He was brought back to
reality by the sound of the elevator doors opening and closing.

Drew left his hiding place and walked down to room 1432 and turned the
doorknob slowly.  It was unlocked and he slowly opened the door.  The
room was pitch black, but the light from the hallway lit up the room
enough for Drew to see that there was no one in the room.  He closed
the door and turned on the entry light.  It lit up the room enough for
him to see the whole room.  He looked around and didn't see anyone.  He
could smell both Nick and Jeff's cologne and the smell of sex in the room.
He stepped towards the bathroom.  Looking in, he could see someone lying
face down on the floor.

Drew's medical training took over as he rushed into the bathroom, turning
on the light as he entered.  On the floor was a naked young man sprawled
face down in a pool of vomit.  Drew kneeled down and lifted the young
man's head up and turned his body over.

As soon as he saw the face, he knew who it was.  It was JC from NSYNC.
Drew grabbed a towel from the counter and lightly placed JC's head onto
it.  He stood up and grabbed another towel and wet it with warm water.
He returned to JC and started to clean the vomit from his face.  His
breathing was steady and he looked to be just asleep, but Drew figured
he was probably in shock.

Drew glanced down at JC's face, it was beautiful.  He then looked down
at JC's body. His smooth slim body was perfect, and the sight of his soft
cock nestled in his brown pubic hair had Drew's cock growing hard instantly.

Drew started to clean JC's whole body, cleaning off all the vomit, dried
cum and all the miscellaneous fluids from around his ass.  Once he was
done, Drew pick JC up and carried him out of the bathroom.  While exiting
the bathroom, he turned on the room's lights and carried JC to the bed.
Just as he reached the bed, JC opened his eyes.

JC's vision was blurry, he squinted but couldn't see anything.  It was too
bright and his eyes were puffy and red from crying.  He felt like he was
floating, no he was being carried.  He squinted again and looked up, he
could not focus his eyes.  There was an outline of a face, with
spiky hair.  JC's mind could only focus on one thing:  It was him,
he had come and saved him.  The man he knew he loved had saved him.

Just as Drew got to the bed, he looked down at JC's face.  His eyes were
slightly blinking, but not open and a slight smile was on his face.
Drew knew he was in love with this man.  He laid JC in his bed, looked
around and found his boxers and slipped them onto JC and then covered
him with the sheet and blankets.  He sat down next to JC and looked at
his face.

Drew whispered, "JC can you hear me?"

JC appeared to be back asleep.  Drew leaned down and brushed his lips
lightly across JC's lips.  JC's body started to shake.

"JC can you hear me, are you OK"

JC rolled over and curled up and started to cry.

"JC everything is alright, I'm here, everything is alright" Drew said as he
caressed JC's back with one hand and stroked his hair with the other.

JC spoke in a very low voice. "No...its not...you hate me...everyone will
hate me".

"No JC, I don't hate you and no one else will either, why are you saying
this?"

"It's because...it's because I'm....gay".

Drew sat there in shock.  Could he actually have a chance with JC.

"See you hate me".  JC's body started to shake even more.

"I can't live with you hating me, because I love you...I love you Lance"

Drew's heart sank.  The room got quite and the JC stopped moving.  Drew
turned JC toward him.  He had passed out.  Drew look lovingly at JC's face,
"How could I fall for him so fast."  Drew whispered to himself.

They had meet only once, during MTV's Spring Break where 98 degrees had
sung right after NSYNC during a fashion show.  When they had shook hands
and said hi, Drew had stared into JC's intense blue eyes a little too long
and had to break his gaze and look at his shoes.  But other than that, they
had never talked.  Drew's heart yearned for JC.  He lightly pushed some
stray strands of hair away from JC's forehead, and leaned down and kissed
where the hair was.

"I do love you JC," Drew whispered, but as soon as he had said it he knew he
could never have him.  JC's heart belonged to Lance and there was no room
for him.

Drew rose off the bed, looked down at JC then walked over to the desk.  He
opened the drawer and pulled out some paper and started writing.  When he
was done, he looked at the clock.  It read 5:30.  He folded the papers in
half and looked around for JC's planner.  When he found the info he needed,
he turned off some of the lights in the room and left.

JC woke as the door closed and curled tighter into a ball.  "Lance hates me,
when he tells the others that I'm gay, everyone else will hate me too."  JC
cried himself to sleep.  Forgetting his pain and humiliation.  None of that
mattered to him now.  Lance knew his secret and hated him, he was a dirty
fag and no one loved him.

Drew stood outside of room 1434, pulled out his cell phone and dialed the
room number.  He heard the phone ring twice and then heard someone pick up.
He pressed the end button on the phone.  He bent down, slipped the folded
papers under the door and then knocked three times and ran to the elevator.
As the elevator reached to floor and dinged, he heard a door open.  He jumped
in and pushed to button for the twelfth floor.

By the time the elevator door opened, Drew was crying harder than he ever
had in his life.  He now knew what it felt like to love someone, to look at
someone's face and feel love in both his heart and soul.  If only he could
find someone that loved him the same way.  If only JC had opened his eyes
and saw him, had smiled at him, had express his love to him.  But JC's heart
belonged to Lance and Drew's heart could only yearn for love, any one's love.

Drew opened his door and entered his darkened room.