And Baby Makes.... 2

Lance was frozen. This could not be happening. He backed silently away from the doorway. He stumbled over his own bag, tripping and banging into the wall behind him. The two lovers instantly woke, sitting up in bed.

“Lance?” JC asked groggily rubbing at his eyes.

“Oh Fuck...” Justin cursed moving to cover his naked flesh. JC looked at him in horror before turning back to his husband.

“Oh Shit... James!” JC scrambled from the bed a sheet wrapped tightly around his waist. Lance slid along the wall of the hallway. He felt for the door to Joey’s room and started banging harshly.

Pain and anger and hurt played across his paler then normal face. The door slid open to reveal a half asleep Joey and Chris. JC and Justin continued closer trying to explain. Lance merely collapsed backward into the room. Joey swiftly caught him in his thick arms.

“Lance!... Please?” Justin begged.

“Shut the door... shut the door... “ Lance pleaded. “Please shut the door...” he sobbed scrambling backwards. Chris stared numbly at his two half naked band members before slamming the door in their faces. He slid the chain into place before turning to his own lover who knelt on the floor with Lance in his arms. Chris kneeled beside the two, taking the broken man into his own embrace. “Why?” Lance pleaded.

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Hours later Chris lay stretched out alongside the younger man on the bed. Joey held a similar position on the other side. Lance stared up at the ceiling.

“I really loved him...” Lance whispered.

“I know...” Chris responded wiping at his friends tears. “Shh... it’s gonna be okay... rest now...” Lance shook his head.

“I have to fly back to LA tomorrow morning....” he whispered. Joey raised himself up to look at his friend.

“Why Jamie?” he asked. Lance turned his head to look at him.

“Danielle... she died last night... giving birth to my son...” he whispered. Both men looked shocked. “Josh was the only one who knew... he promised having a baby wouldn’t change anything... that he still loved me... we could work with Danielle... raise the baby as a family... the three of us and the baby....” he shook his head. “She’s dead... she was my best-friend and she’s dead.... all I wanted was for Josh to hold me and say it would be alright... and that he loved me... and the baby would be fine with just the two of us to raise it...” he cringed, the tears coming again. “Everything’s fucked now...” anger laced his words now. The two moved closer, wrapping their arms around Lance from both sides in an attempt to comfort.

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Lance woke alone. Several suitcases stood beside the bedroom door. Chris and Joey were no where in sight. His eyes burned form the previous nights crying. Joey popped his head in through the door.

“Come on Lance... into the shower... we have a plane to catch...”

“You’re coming with me?” Lance asked.

“I have to go meet my Nephew... don’t I?” he smiled. The sound of an angry curse sounded from the main room of the suite. It was distinctly Chris’ voice. Both heads swivelled in unison. Joey frowned. “Stay here...” he pleaded. Lance nodded.

Chris stood at the door fighting Josh who was trying to get in.

“I said no Josh...” Chris growled. He swung back decking him in the jaw. JC stumbled backwards falling to the floor on his butt.

“I have to talk to him Chris... to explain it to him...” JC cried from the floor.

“Now really isn’t a good time Jayce...” Joey spoke over Chris’ shoulder.

“I have to talk to him sometime... we have an interview in an hour...” JC whispered.

“Then you’ll have something to tell them won’t you...” Chris spat out. “NSYNC is over Josh... it’s dead... you killed it... you and Justin ruined it....”

“How can you say that?” JC whispered.

“Maybe if you had kept your dick in your pants we wouldn’t have too...” Chris growled.

“It was a mistake... I’m sorry... Lance will forgive me... Lance will understand...” JC sobbed.

“No he won’t... maybe if it had been with some random person... not Justin... not his best-friend Justin.... not someone he’d have to see you with every single day... we won’t make him forgive that... and he can’t forget it...” Joey spoke sadly.

“I started NSYNC and I’m ending it... I can’t work with two people who I despise... I can’t watch Lance cry himself to sleep over your miserable ass again... you betrayed him... you betrayed us... you divided the group... you made us choose sides... it wasn’t a hard choice for us to make...” Chris finished.

“Can we go now?” Lance asked timidly. “We’ll miss the plane...” he added. Joey forced a smile.

“Sure Scoop... wouldn’t miss it for the world...” Joey’s smile brightened a little.

“Where are you going?” JC asked from the hallway. Lance looked at him blankly.

“To see the baby...” he whispered.

“Danielle... had the baby?” JC asked. Lance nodded.

“My son..”

“A boy... how’s Danielle?” Lance’s face twisted in pain.

“Dead...” he spat stepping around him and heading for the elevators.

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News of actress Danielle Fishel’s death spread quickly. Reporter’s swamped NSYNC’s hotel for a reaction from her former boyfriend. No one knew how she had died or that half a state away Lance sat cradling their child. No one knew that he had held her as she stopped breathing in his arms. No one knew of James Daniel Bass, the twelve hour old infant.

Lance’s heart was broken. In twenty-four hours he lost his husband, his best-friend, his career, and the Mother of his child. But as he looked down at the beautiful baby in his arms a smile encased his lips.

“Hello Danny...” he cooed. Strength filled his heart. His world had been flipped up side down and back again. But he still had Joey and Chris and now this Blessing of a child in his arms. With dark skin and dirty blond hair he looked like his mother. But he had Lance’s pale green eyes. Lance knew they’d be okay. He had to live his life. He was all Danny had to rely on. He wouldn’t let him down now, not when things were just beginning.