Title: The Call

Rating: PG-13

Archive: anywhere, just let me know where it goes

Summary: An expanded version of The Call video

Authors Note: i've tried to remain close as i can to the plot of The Call video including the switching of the guys at different points. so if you haven't seen the video. you might want to before you read or you might get confused. this is my interpretation of the video. so don't flame me if you think i got it wrong :)

Disclaimer...Backstreet boys do not belong to me, neither does the call. i'm making no money off of this. i'm just having some fun!

By Cheri.

AJ looked down at the cell phone in his hand. He couldn't believe he was considering this. He looked up at the woman in front of him. Her raven hair framed her pale face and her full, luscious, lips jutted out as she frowned.

"Well?" she said. "What are you waiting for?" AJ sighed as he began to punch the buttons on his cell. He wasn't sure about this.

Angie lay in bed. She had been trying for the past two hours to read, but her thoughts kept drifting to AJ. She glanced over at the clock and sighed.

"Where the hell is he?" she thought. She was getting tired of this clubhopping of his. He claimed that it was only him and the other guys who went to these clubs, but she wasn't so sure. She had a funny feeling his late nights were spent in someone else's bed. well, she was gonna find out tonight one way or another.

RIIIIINNNNGGG

Angie was startled as she heard her phone ring in the hall. With another sigh, she went out into the hallway and picked up the receiver. As she put it to her ear, she heard the pounding techno music and knew it was AJ.

"Hello?" she said

"HI, IT'S ME! WHAT'S UP BABY?"

"What's up?" she thought. "I'm home waiting on you as usual, that's what's up!"

"I'M SORRY,LISTEN, I'M GONNA BE LATE TONIGHT, SO DON'T STAY UP AND WAIT FOR ME, OK?"

"WHERE ARE YOU?" Angie hoped that she had correctly guessed the club that he was at.

AJ sounded far away. "What? would you say that again?"

"shit!" Angie thought "his batteries are going dead." She screamed into the receiver "HELLO?"

AJ sounded like he was in a well now. "You're really cutting out, I think my battery must be low. Listen,If you can hear me, we're going to a place nearby, alright? Gotta go!"

Angie hung up the phone. "Bastard!" she thought. "well i'll teach him a lesson he'll never forget, that's for sure!" Angie walked to the chair beside her bed and grabbed her coat. " I just hope he took the right bait." she thought as she went out the door to her car.

The rain pounded down on the cab window as AJ leaned against it. The mystery woman was on top of him, exploring his mouth with her tongue. "God, this woman's amazing!" he thought "Wait! What am i saying. What if Angie finds out i did this, it'll break her heart. I can't do this, I gotta tell this woman i can do this, i have a girlfriend!" He snapped out of his thoughts as the cab slammed to a stop. He looked out the window and saw that they were in a tunnel. Just then he heard the door open behind him. He turned and saw the woman running across the street as fast as she could go. "WAIT!!" AJ yelled as he opened his door, and took off after her. As he ran past the cars, he bumped into a bumper. "hey man, i'm sor..." He turned around and looked through the windshield. he was shocked to find that even though the car was running, there was no one in the car. "What the hell?" he said.

As he looked up he saw that the car behind the one he was at was empty too. he began to run alongside the cars looking in all the windows. Every car was empty.

"HELLO?" AJ screamed out but the only answer was the steady drone of the cars around him. Just then he saw the woman run down a sidewalk leading out of the tunnel. "HEY, YOU!" AJ took off again. running towards the sidewalk, he reached a guardrail overlooking the sidewalk and swung his body over...

THUD! Brian landed on the pavement. Looking up, he saw the woman running towards a tall building. Brian ran after her, but by the time he reached the building, she was nowhere in sight. "Damn!" he thought. As he turned around, he stopped short. above him, on the next building, was a huge billboard of him and the guys advertising their black and blue album. He shuddered as he saw that someone had somehow put gigantic X's over his and AJ's face. As he was wondering who could have pulled this off, he felt something hit him in the shoulder and knock him back.

He held his shoulder and started to get up when he spied a little black ball next to him. picking it up, he gave it a squeeze. Brian stared at it puzzled. It looked like a rubber bullet. "But, how?.." Brian's thoughts were interrupted as a hail of bullets hit the ground around him. Running down the alley beside the building, he saw a little supermarket in front of him.

With bullets flying all around him, breaking windshields and glass, Brian covered his head and burst through the double doors.

As Brian uncovered his head, he noticed that the market was deserted too. "What the fuck is going on? Where is everyone?" At that moment, all the lights above him went off. Brian hurried nervously down the aisles searching for whoever did it. He turned down the meat aisle and called out "IS ANYONE THERE?" The lights from the frozen food section was still on, giving an eerie yellow tint to everything in the aisle. Shopping carts filled with food were scattered up and down, ownerless. Brian took a deep breath "Ok, i'm creeped out now" he said.

Just then, he heard some cans falling behind him and turned around just in time to see the woman dart out in front of him. "WAIT!" Brian ran after her through the aisles, ramming into food and knocking over cans in his haste to catch up to her. As he turned a corner, he saw her duck out the back doors. Brian called up a final burst of speed and shot through the doors...

Nick stopped himself just before he ran into the big black car that was parked in front of the doors. He looked on the hood and saw the car keys sitting on top of a note. Nick picked up the note and read...

Nick

Meet me at the Biltmore Hotel

I'm in room 1065

I've drawn a map at the bottom.

Howie

Puzzled, Nick picked up the keys, turned off the car alarm and drove off. As he sped along, he noticed that there was no one in sight. "God, Howie, i hope you haven't vanished too." he thought. Pulling up to the entrance of the Biltmore, Nick jumped out and ran through the empty lobby to the elevator. He jabbed the up button with his finger and paced back and forth in front of the door. "Dammit, c'mon!" he thought. When he heard the ding of the elevator and the doors finally opened he lunged into the car and pushed the 10 button. When the door slid opened, and Nick walked out onto the deserted floor,he saw that room 1065 was at the end of the hallway. Praying that Howie was in there, he began to walk quickly past the silent rooms and the deserted maids cart. As he walked past an open door, he peered in quickly. The bedspread was rumpled and he could hear static coming from the tv in the corner. Terrified now, Nick ran the rest of the way to 1065 and pounded on the door, half expecting no one to answer. His heart jumped when the door opened and Howie stood in the doorway.

"HOWIE! JESUS! THANK GOD YOU'RE HERE!" Nick screamed in his face. He pointed a trembling finger out into the hallway. "EVERYONE'S GONE!, EVERYONE'S GONE!"

Howie grabbed Nick by the arms "Whoa! Hey, Calm down! Calm down, man!"

"CALM DOWN?" Nick screamed,"YOU'RE THE FIRST PERSON I'VE SEEN ALL NIGHT! I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON, BUT IT'S SCARING THE HELL OUT OF ME!"

Howie stared at him. "Nick, i don't know what your talking about. i've been here all night and i've seen people coming and going on this floor. no one's disappeared."

Nick headed to the bathroom,"Maybe i'm going insane" he thought as he splash cold water on his face. Behind him, he heard Howie come up to the door.

"Listen, if it'll make you feel any better, i'll go outside with you and show you that no one's disappeared. ok?"

Nick looked up at him and nodded. He walked past Howie as he finished putting on his leather jacket. Taking a deep breath, Nick walked up to the closed door and put his hand on the knob. "Here goes nothing" he muttered. "1...2...3!"

Nick stared in disbelief. He cautiously walked out into the noisy hallway, with Howie following behind. As he passed the maids cart, the maid, a young dark haired lady, smiled sweetly at him. Beyond her, a couple strolled towards them, giggling loudly. As nick passed by the open door, he saw that now there was a woman lying in the bed, reading. "what the fuck is going on?" Nick wondered to himself. He turned around to look at Howie. Howie raised his eyebrows. "Well Nick,convinced?" he said with an amused grin.

Nick turned his head back around and sighed. "Ok, maybe I jumped to conclusions"

Howie chuckled softly, "C'mon Lets meet up with the others."

As Nick and Howie headed to the door, they passed by a small coffee shop in the corner of the lobby. A man stood at the counter. "Here you go sir, one cappacino to go." the clerk said as he handed over the drink. "Thank you." Howie said as he turned to go back to his room.

Nick stared out the window as the car sped along the rain soaked street. He felt better now that he was with Howie. "Maybe things will get back to normal." He thought as he watched the blur of the pavement. He didn't realize that Howie was watching him now with narrowed eyes and a smug smile. Nick settled back into his seat and looked over at the side view mirror. He noticed that it was tilted outward. "Hmm, The mirror is crooked." he thought " I'll fix it in case Howie needs to use it." He tilted the mirror in until it reflected the drivers seat. Nick shuddered as he looked. Instead of seeing Howie driving, it was the image of the mystery woman. Nick couldn't believe his eyes. He looked over at Howie and saw him staring back with an evil grin on his face. All of a sudden, he threw open the door and hurled himself onto the pavement. Nick looked back to see Howie spinning over and over like a log. When he stopped, Howie got to his knees and grabbed the skin on his face. as Nick watched horrified he pulled off his skin to reveal the woman undernieth. As Nick turned back around, he saw the speeding car was heading for the wall of a parking garage. He lunged into the drivers seat and with a death grip on the steering wheel tried to turn the car away from the wall. His effort only made the car go out of control more. Nick, seeing that he was going to crash, did the only thing he could. He ducked down and began to pray. The car skidded faster and faster towards impact, until by some miracle it skidded to a halt just inches from the wall...

Kevin looked up. He quickly checked the front and sides of the car to make sure he hadn't hit anyone. He breathed a sigh of relief and climbed out of the car. As he turned around to shut the door, he noticed that the wall had several little copies of their black and blue ad. in each one, the faces had a huge white X carved into them. As he stood there and stared at the X's in confusion, he heard a zipping sound behind him. Spinning around, he saw the woman running away and throwing off the rest of her Howie disguise. Determined to get the truth from her, Kevin took off as fast as he could go. He saw the woman duck into the Biltmore entrance adjacent to the parking garage. By the time Kevin reached the entrance, she was already a floor above him. Swearing silently, Kevin ran up the back stairs, taking two steps at a time. After what seemed like an eternity, Kevin reached the top floor. He ran into the cooridor and saw that the woman was running down the hallway towards a window at the end. "Oh God," He thought,"She's gonna kill herself." As Kevin watched spellbound, the woman took a tremendous leap through the window and sailing through the air, she crashed thru the window of the building across the street. Kevin closed his eyes and took a deep breath. Ignoring the little voice in his head that was telling him he was insane, he began to run towards the window. With a grunt, Kevin jumped out the window. For a moment, he felt the cool night air rush over him and a scary sensation of hanging in space. Then he felt his foot connect with the window pane, sending him sprawling onto the glass covered floor.

Kevin jumped up, breathless, in the darkened room. The moment he straightened up, the light in the room flicked on. He looked around in shock. The walls and ceiling of the barren room was covered with words painted with bright red paint. His heart sank as he spun around and around reading the hateful words...

LIAR

CHEAT

SCUM

PIG

DOG

SLEAZE

FRAUD

Kevin bowed his head in shame. She knew, Angie knew. Everything that happened tonight must have been her doing. Kevin felt tears running down his cheeks. How could he have done this to her. He looked up and saw a flight of stairs just outside the door. "NO!" he thought "I'm not gonna lose her, i'm gonna explain what I did and beg her forgiveness." He ran back down the stairs to the entrance. When he reached the street, he saw the other guys standing side by side with their backs to him. As he ran up to meet them, he stopped short. In front of him were hundreds of people, all with accusing glares on their faces. And in front of them stood Angie, a small smile on her face. "I told you I'd teach you a lesson." she said...

"Well, What are you waiting for?" AJ was startled out of his thoughts by the woman. He looked down at the cell phone in his hand and looked back up at her. "I can't" he said. "I've got a girl waiting for me at home. I can't do this to her." He walked past the woman towards the entrance. "WAIT!" she yelled. AJ turned and smiled at her "Sorry, gotta go!"

The End