�So what�s the plan?� Chris asked grimacing slightly as his mom help him get his good arm into a jacket, the bad one in a sling laying across his stomach.
After over a week in the hospital the doctor satisfied that Chris�s wound was healing nicely and there was no longer a serious risk of infection agreed to release Chris from the hospital on the condition that he would simply go home, rest and take it easy until his physiotherapy started a couple weeks after that. Assured of that fact he signed the papers and everyone now stood crammed into the tiny hospital room waiting for the wheelchair to arrive that would take Chris from the room to the car. Chris had complained at length about having to ride in the chair but the nurses wouldn�t budge stating over and over again that it was hospital policy and he simply had no choice.
�Well�� Johnny Wright said looking around at the various faces in the room, �I suppose now is as good a time as any to go over the rules with you guys.�
�Rules?� Justin said frowning.
�Yes rules.� Johnny said sending a sharp look towards Justin. �The detective said that we should increase the security around you boys and its been decided that the best way to do that is keep you all in one place.�
�Who decided that?� Chris asked frowning.
�Well�� Johnny said with a meaningful look at Lynn and Beverly.
�Oh.�
�So you boys will be coming to live at the WEG compound with me for a little while. I�ve upped security there and it has mostly everything you could need so it will keep you boys from getting bored. I�ll try to make this as clear as possible. You all are absolutely forbidden from leaving the grounds without at least one bodyguard, in fact I�ve posted men at the gate who will stop incoming and outgoing traffic and they will make sure you have a bodyguard or they will not let you leave the compound. While its unlikely this guy will go after Lance in Russia I�ve sent an extra bodyguard over there just in case and you Justin when you go off to do the solo record will have a couple extra with you too. Day and Night am I clear?� Johnny said pausing to sternly look at the 4 men in the room. Nodding to himself at the small nods of understanding, turning around as the hospital room door opened and a nurse pushing a wheelchair came into the room smiling. �Good. Now so far the press hasn�t gotten any word of this so it should be fairly easy getting out of here unnoticed today, we�ll go back to the compound in two cars and meet up there for all the rest.
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TWO WEEKS LATER
Jake Sullivan whistled lowly to himself as he pulled up to the enormous property. The contents were mainly concealed behind trees and shrubs but he could see some of the sprawling lands and large houses and was thoroughly impressed.
�Man these guys must make a hell of a lot of money to be able to pay the manager enough to maintain this spread.� Jake said out loud to himself.
Spotting the men standing at the gate staring suspiciously at him he put on a fake cheery smile and pulled up to the gate.
�Good Morning!�
�I�m sorry sir you can�t go in here.�
�Oh well I just thought��
�Do you have a appointment?�
�Well no��
�Then I�m afraid you aren�t authorized to enter and you need to back up and leave.�
�Ok. No problem. But see my daughter, she is a huge fan of that group� Oh what were the called again? It started with an N I think�� Jake said feigning forgetfulness.
�Nsync?� The guard said, face going even harder.
�Yes! That�s it! Thank you! Well she wrote them this letter and made me promise to drop it off for her.� Jake said brandishing a letter that looked as though a relatively young girl wrote it.
�All fan mail should be directed and mailed to the boys fan club and distributed from there.�
�Oh. Well you see I�m here now I know this is where their manager lives� I saw a special about it on TV.�
�I�m afraid I can�t help you sir.�
�Oh please just take it I�m sure you have mail going to the fan club daily. I�ve come all this way I hate to go home and tell my little girl that I couldn�t deliver it as promised�� Jake said smiling inwardly to himself as he saw the security guard statue fall slightly, knowing he had won.
�Well� ok sir. But next time all fan mail is to go through the fan club. The address is on the web site.�
�Thank you sir you are very kind.� Jake said smiling. �Well goodbye!�
Backing up he watched in the rear-view mirror as the security guards watched him drive off.
�Now� lets see if it gets some results.� Jake said smiling widely to himself.
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�Hi Tom.� JC said smiling after stopping at the security gate and rolling down the driver side window to greet the man.
�Good afternoon Mr. Chasez. Hi Lonnie.� The security guard said bending down to look into the car at the larger man sitting in the passenger seat. �Conned you into letting him drive I see Lonnie. You must be losing your touch, they used to be scared of you.� Tom chuckled.
�Yeah well you know kids these days.� Lonnie joked back.
�Oh Mr. Chasez I have something for you.� The security guard said stepping away from the car and walking back into the little shack that was built beside the gate.
�I asked you to call me JC, Tom!� JC yelled after the man.
�I know.� Tom said reappearing holding a white envelope. �But it is more fun pissing you off by calling you Mr. Chasez. Here.�
�What is it?� JC asked taking the envelope from the man.
�Fan mail. Some guy dropped it off for his daughter earlier today. He was acting kind of funny but we opened it up and checked it out. Its just some fan mail from an 8 year old little girl. Big fan too.� He added winking. �We were going to send it over to the fan club but after all that�s been going on we figured it would cheer everyone up a little.�
�Thanks Man.�
�Have a nice day JC. Lonnie� Tom said opening the gate.
�That�s Mr. Chasez to you!� JC yelled out the window grinning broadly as he drove by and up to the house.
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�Thanks Lonnie.� JC said two minutes later climbing out of the car.
�No problem Skinny. I�ll be working out if you need me ok?� the bodyguard answered.
�Yup. Thanks.� JC said nodding absentmindedly not hearing the jab that had been intended to get a rise out of him.
Making his way to the house JC opened the letter and reading it as he went. Not really paying attention to where he was going, he bumped into something solid a few moments later that almost sent him sprawling to the ground.
�Oh hi Joey�
�Hey Jace. What�s so interesting that you felt the need to almost send me flying?�
�Fan mail.� JC said turning the pages around to show Joey the colourful inked page.
�They know we are here?� Joey asked concerned for a moment.
�Nah. I think it is just a fluke kind of thing. She is really cute though.� JC said gesturing to the letter.
�Yeah?� Joey said stepping around to JC�s side trying to read over his shoulder.
�Yeah Listen to this. Dear Nsync. My name is Mandy and I am 8 years old this coming November. I really like your music. I don�t have a favourite one of you because I like you all. My favourite song of yours is Its Gonna Be Me. I was very sad to hear you were planning to stop singing together. What are you are going to do now? Are you going anywhere cool? Daddy says that we can go to Disney land for part of the summer vacation this year. Have you ever been there? I know that you probably don�t write back to all the mail you get but could you write to me? I live at 32 Cotton Street, Orlando Florida, 35267. Could I also have an autograph? Thank you. Daddy said he was going to drop this off to you for me� did he really? Oh Mom is calling me for dinner so I have to go now. Bye. Love Mandy. Look she even drew hearts and stars over all the �i�s.� JC said smiling.
�Cute. Look I�m going to head out and get Brianna and Kelly at the airport now. I�ll be back in an hour or so.� Joey said grabbing his wallet.
�Ok. I think I may do a little writing.� JC said looking around. �Where is everybody?�
�Chris�s first physiotherapy session was today remember? They all went� Joey said looking around. �Have you seen my keys?�
�Oh right I forgot. I think I saw them on the table when I dropped mine there.�
�Oh cool. Thanks. See you later.�
�Bye Joey.� JC said.
JC wondered off into a quite den that held a piano and a bunch of books, paper and pens. He had set it up about two days after moving into Johnny�s compound as a quiet place of his own to sit and write. He grabbed a couple pieces of paper and a pen then sat down at the piano and started to play random notes. After a few minutes his eyes strayed to the letter that he had put down on the seat of a chair as he entered the room.
Getting up and crossing the room he picked up the letter and walked back to the piano sitting down and reading the letter again. Picking up a pen he pulled the nearest clean sheet of paper to him.
�Dear Mandy�.� He said out loud writing down on the paper. �Thank you so much for your letter. I�ve already shown it to Joey and I�ll be showing it to the rest of the guys whenever I see them next. We haven�t really stopped singing with each other we are just talking a small break to do some other things. We�ll be back before you know it. We are all going to be going all over the world and doing all sorts of different things over the time apart��
For the next several minutes JC in small detailed listed off just some of the things they all had planned for the break making to sure to include at least one thing for each of them and finished answering the other questions in the letter. Just as he finished signing his name and promising to send her letter onto the fan club that would make sure to send her a autograph picture a knock on the door made him jump.
�Hey Kid. I�m going off duty now until the morning. You need anything before I go?� Lonnie said stepping into the room.
�Nah. Thanks Lonnie I�m ok. Goodnight.� JC said looking down at his letter. �Oh Lonnie wait!� He called snatching up the letter and shoving it into an envelope. �Do you think you can drop this off in the mailbox on your way home?�
�Sure Kid no problem. Be good for the night time security team.� The bodyguard said sternly, and turned leaving the room.
�Hey man. It�s not me you have to tell that to.� JC called after him laughing.
A\N � I have finally gotten to the part where I get or have (depending on how you look at it) to be really evil to the guys. Some sort of violence is likely after this point so be warned to proceed with caution. Also time is likely to elapse a little quicker from now on so don�t be surprised if I jump time a bit. I�m not going to leave anything important out but in order to make it at least a little realistic and fit what we do know has happened since the start of the hiatus (no that doesn�t necessarily mean I�m going to follow all of it.) its just a bit necessary to jump the filler stuff that really isn�t important. And yeah I�ll shut up now. =)