"Mystery" & "Stay of Execution"
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Claim: Nsync: Lance Bass
Title:
Author: Em, at nslashmirror
Characters: Nsync
Prompt: 21 Epiphany
Rating: NC-17
Length: medium
Brief summary: Chris can't figure Lance out, he's a complete mystery to him. In this story we see Lance completely through Chris' at first suspicious and later almost obsessed but still puzzled eyes. This intense story had an enormous impact on me when I read it very early on in my popslash reading career and re-reading it now I find that it's just as good as I remembered it.
[I]t seemed that the others were falling into their niches with Lance - or he with them - and you still couldn't figure out what to make of him except that he was a nice, pretty sort of a geek who sang well. JC and Lance got along because they each had this quiet intensity thing, and sometimes took things way too seriously, and could say things without opening their mouths, and stare at you unsettlingly for long moments, and you were sure that they'd bonded over that. Justin and Lance were the youngest and had the moms and the South and being underage to keep each other company when the rest of you wanted to go to clubs and pick up women. But Lance was laid back where you were hyperactive, and intense in a studious way where you were intense in a sharp, observing way, and his jokes were slow and sarcastic where yours were rapid-fire and biting, and he was focused where you were random, and fuck, but you couldn't figure him out.
When you asked Joey why he liked hanging out with Lance, he shrugged. "I dunno, man," he said. "He's funny. He's a lot of fun when he stops being self-conscious and stuff."
"So, what," you said, folding your arms across your chest. "You're saying he's self-conscious around me?" and Joey merely shrugged again, but you didn't think that could be the case, because who were you? It would be stupid to be self-conscious around you, because you'd known the kid for what, seven months already? There had to be more to it than that.
So you decided to initiate him - death by humor. You'd get a reaction out of him or die trying.
Link to the story: Mystery
Claim: Nsync: Lance Bass
Title: Stay of Execution
Author: Velma & aMuse, at Velma and aMuse
Characters: Lance, Chris, Joey in absentia
Prompt: 37 Make-up
Rating: explicit sex
Length: medium
Brief summary: Joey is the absent matchmaker in this story, getting Chris and Lance to remember something they're both firmly convinced are completely over. There is nothing unusual about either the set-up or the evolution of this story, though both are excellently handled, it's the ending that sets it off from many other similar stories. It acknowlegdes that make-up sex isn't a panacea, that both second and third thoughts are inevitable in this situation, and while it ends on a note of hope there is still a lot of ambiguity about what will happen in the future.
Lance nods absently, watching the television with undisguised interest now. "Yeah, sure," he says, and Chris disappears as the picture shifts a little. They're in the pool now, all over each other. It makes Lance smile to remember, and the smile's still there, playing on the edges of his mouth as Chris returns.
"Here," Chris holds the open bottle over Lance's shoulder and taps it lightly against him twice. He keeps his gaze fixed on the television even as Lance takes the bottle from him.
"Thanks." It's weird, watching it, watching the two of them. They were stupid over each other then. Now they just seem over.
Link to the story: Stay of Execution
Claim: Nsync: Lance Bass
Title:
Author: Em, at nslashmirror
Characters: Nsync
Prompt: 21 Epiphany
Rating: NC-17
Length: medium
Brief summary: Chris can't figure Lance out, he's a complete mystery to him. In this story we see Lance completely through Chris' at first suspicious and later almost obsessed but still puzzled eyes. This intense story had an enormous impact on me when I read it very early on in my popslash reading career and re-reading it now I find that it's just as good as I remembered it.
[I]t seemed that the others were falling into their niches with Lance - or he with them - and you still couldn't figure out what to make of him except that he was a nice, pretty sort of a geek who sang well. JC and Lance got along because they each had this quiet intensity thing, and sometimes took things way too seriously, and could say things without opening their mouths, and stare at you unsettlingly for long moments, and you were sure that they'd bonded over that. Justin and Lance were the youngest and had the moms and the South and being underage to keep each other company when the rest of you wanted to go to clubs and pick up women. But Lance was laid back where you were hyperactive, and intense in a studious way where you were intense in a sharp, observing way, and his jokes were slow and sarcastic where yours were rapid-fire and biting, and he was focused where you were random, and fuck, but you couldn't figure him out.
When you asked Joey why he liked hanging out with Lance, he shrugged. "I dunno, man," he said. "He's funny. He's a lot of fun when he stops being self-conscious and stuff."
"So, what," you said, folding your arms across your chest. "You're saying he's self-conscious around me?" and Joey merely shrugged again, but you didn't think that could be the case, because who were you? It would be stupid to be self-conscious around you, because you'd known the kid for what, seven months already? There had to be more to it than that.
So you decided to initiate him - death by humor. You'd get a reaction out of him or die trying.
Link to the story: Mystery
Claim: Nsync: Lance Bass
Title: Stay of Execution
Author: Velma & aMuse, at Velma and aMuse
Characters: Lance, Chris, Joey in absentia
Prompt: 37 Make-up
Rating: explicit sex
Length: medium
Brief summary: Joey is the absent matchmaker in this story, getting Chris and Lance to remember something they're both firmly convinced are completely over. There is nothing unusual about either the set-up or the evolution of this story, though both are excellently handled, it's the ending that sets it off from many other similar stories. It acknowlegdes that make-up sex isn't a panacea, that both second and third thoughts are inevitable in this situation, and while it ends on a note of hope there is still a lot of ambiguity about what will happen in the future.
Lance nods absently, watching the television with undisguised interest now. "Yeah, sure," he says, and Chris disappears as the picture shifts a little. They're in the pool now, all over each other. It makes Lance smile to remember, and the smile's still there, playing on the edges of his mouth as Chris returns.
"Here," Chris holds the open bottle over Lance's shoulder and taps it lightly against him twice. He keeps his gaze fixed on the television even as Lance takes the bottle from him.
"Thanks." It's weird, watching it, watching the two of them. They were stupid over each other then. Now they just seem over.
Link to the story: Stay of Execution
