Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 06:56:31 +0000 From: CHRISTOPHER ENGELKE 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. 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.