The Epidemic - Chapter Four

Note: This story was written for Joie Lee and the Nslashfic crew. I hope you all enjoy it.

All of a sudden Chrissy jumps up fromt eh bed and runs to the bathroom. Dani follows her, "you gonna be…. JC call an ambulance!

Now!!!

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The paramedics arrive, "Where's the problem?" One of them asks while looking from person to person in the room.

"In here," Dani yells from the bathroom.

They work on Chrissy for a few minutes and then one comes out, "Um, we're gonna have to take her to the hospital. She's not responding very well. We'll need at least one of you to come with us."

"I'll go," Dani states. "You all got that press conference to deal with."

"Well, since we're supposed to be taking care of the girls, I'm thinking at least one of us should go along too." Chris stated.

"I'm going," Lance said quietly.

"Ok," JC stated. "Dani. You ride with Chrissy in the ambulance.

Chris, you and Lance take two bodyguards and follow them. Everybody else, down the hall now." JC grabs Britney's arm, "You can leave. We don't need you around here anymore."

Britney smiles, "Oh, you'll need me before this is all said and done, trust me. You boys wouldn't want me saying anything to the public about all this crap now would you?"

JC turns and glares at her, "And just what do you plan on telling anyone that we aren't already planning on telling them? That you got pregnant and then got an abortion?" JC raises an eyebrow. "Don't mess with me Brit. I'm not Justin and I sure the hell ain't Johnny. I don't take kindly to threats and you really don't wanna mess with me right now."

Britney stepped back, "Don't worry, I won't say anything."

"Good, cuz I'd really hate for this thing between you, Justin and Wade to get ugly. They're good friends and I don't wanna see you mess that up by trying to start anything."

"I won't. I couldn't hurt Justin like that."

"Sweetheart, you already have." JC stated and walked out the room and down the hall to the conference room.

JC met, Joey and Justin in the hall, along with Kelli, Bobbee, Diane, Karen and Lynn. "Ok, are we all ready for this?" Diane asks.

"As ready as we will ever be." Justin and Joey states together.

They all enter the room, cameras immediately start clicking. JC goes to the middle of the table, Joey on one side with Kelli, Bobbee and Justin on the other side. The three mothers flank them.

"Hi, I'd like to thank you all for coming," JC begins. "We have a few things that need to be stated and then we'd like to meet with the representatives from MTV."

The crowd of reporters immediately started spouting off questions.

"Excuse me. If you don't stop and listen, we'll have to leave and you'll never know why we called this meeting in the first place." JC stated. (The room becomes silent.) "Thank you. Now. We called this meeting to inform the fans and public of something that is very important to us." JC takes a deep breath. "As you may have noticed when Bobbee and Kelli entered, they seemed to be a little….Um… well…. They're pregnant. Yes, both of them. They are both about four months along. But they're not the only ones. Dani, and Chrissy are both pregnant too. For those of you who have no idea who these women are, they are our girlfriends. Dani is with Chris, Chrissy is with Lance, Kelli with Joey and Bobbee being mine. We don't know the genders of the babies or any other information at this time."

"Mr. Chasez? Why are Dani and Chrissy not here?"

"Dani, Chris, Lance and Chrissy are at the hospital at the moment. I'm not going to get into that at the moment, because I don't know anymore than you do now."

"What's gonna happen now? Are you all getting married or what?"

"No, there are no weddings planned at the moment. Although I do know that Joey and I plan on supporting Kelli and Bobbee with the babies as best we can." JC answers.

"As a matter of fact," Bobbee steps in, but stops when she sees the glare from JC.

"Mr. Chasez? Over here."

"Yes?"

"Um, how do explain all of your girlfriends getting pregnant at once?"

"I couldn't even begin to explain how this happened."

"So, 4 out of 5 girlfriends are pregnant, right? Or is it 5 out of 5 and Britney just doesn't want anyone to know just yet?"

"No, Britney is not pregnant, and that is all we'll say about Ms. Spears."

"Why? Has there been a falling out with Ms. Spears?"

"Excuse me." Justin starts. "Ms. Spears is not part of this conference and I for one would prefer that she not be discussed further. Thank you."

"I think we should end this conference here. Thank you all for coming. We will keep you all posted on these matters. If the representatives from MTV would meet with Lonnie, he'll bring you to the room we've had prepared for our meeting with you. Thank you and good afternoon."

The eight of them got up and left the room. The reporters were all in a buz trying to figure out what other news was forthcoming.

Dave Holmes and a couple of other people got up and made their way over to Lonnie who was guarding the door that the others had just gone out of. Lonnie walked them down the hall and into a smaller conference area that was set up with couches set up around a small table.

JC stood up, walked over to Dave, "Thanks for coming Dave. I hope you're ready for more shocking news."

"What you mean there is more to this "All the Girlfriends of NSYNC are Pregnant" headline? What more could there possibly be?"

"Well, perhaps you should get set up and sat down before we start." Joey says, coming up behind Dave.

"Ok." Dave sit down, everyone gets comfortable. "So, guys, why am I here?"

Justin and Joey both look to JC, "We have a couple of important announcements and we wanted to make sure that they came from a reliable source. We didn't want this information coming out through the tabloids."

"Ok, so where do we start? Should I start rolling now?"

"Yes." They wait for the camera man to get himself set at a good angle.

"Ok. Ready?" Dave looks around the room, he gets nods from everyone in the room.

"We are here with members of Nsync, their girlfriends and family members after a major announcement that 4 out of 5 of the members' girlfriends are pregnant." He turns to JC, Joey and Justin, "So why are we here gentlemen?"

"Well, as you just stated we've had a few interesting moments lately and we just wanted to explain a few things before this hit the tabloids." Joey answered.

"Ok, so we know about the girls. What else is going on and where are Lance and Chris?"

"First off. Lance and Chris are at the hospital. Chrissy had an appointment, so at this point that isn't necessary to the discussion." JC stated.

"Ok, so once again, I ask, why are we here?"

"You are here because Johnny has decided he doesn't want to represent Nsync anymore so we've taken it upon ourselves to manage our own careers from now on."

"So what does this mean for you guys?"

"It means that we will now represent ourselves. We won't be signing off on things as easily and we will have a lawyer look everything over. If you wanna piece of Nsync from now on you'll have to go through Nsync. Not a team of management people. Each one of us has taken it upon ourselves to ensure that we get what we need and don't get into things that we can't or don't want or need to ."

"So you're taking over management of yourselves. No Management team? Very impressive. But how are you going to handle all of that and do the performances and all that entails being Nsync?"

"We've got a lot of support from our family and the people we trust. There will be no lacking of appearances and performances. We will continue as we always have."

"So what else is going on? Anything else?"

"Well, there are a few things but we don't really need that aired at the moment. That's all we had for you officially."

"Ok, well you heard it here folks. Nsync has taken over their own management. Time will tell if this is a good move or not. This is Dave Holmes, live with Nsync."

The camera man turns off the camera, packs up his stuff and leaves. Dave looks at the guys and says, "Is there anything I can do to help you guys? This has got to be quite a challenge for you all."

"Yeah, actually there is something you could do for us." JC says with a smile.

"Anything. You name it."

"You wanna go on the road with us? Be our PR person? We could really use someone of your stature. We've got Lynn but she's got her own groups to worry about and I don't think Justin here can really do it by himself."

"Man, I'd love to. I've had about my fill of working for MTV anyway."

"Thanks. So when can we expect you to join us?"

"Give me til the end of the week. You guys are gonna be around all week right?"

"Yeah, we've got the awards show this week, plus we're supposed to do TRL and a couple other things."

"K. I'll meet you on Thursday after the show, you can have a contract and everything ready then."

"Great. Thanks and we'll have it ready." JC smiled and shook Dave's hand.

"I'll see you Thursday."

Dave gets up and heads out the door. JC pulls his cell out to turn it on and sees he has several messages, one being from Dani. He dials the phone only to get a voice mail. He leaves a message as their little group disbands to their rooms.

"Hey Dani, the press conferences are over. Call me back and let me know what the situation is. Do we need to bring the crew in or can you handle it?"

Bobbee is still sitting quietly on one of the couches, "Hey JC, Joey? Can I talk to you guys?"

"Sure, what's up?" Joey asks, returning to her side.

"Umm. I just wanna make sure that this arrangement JC and I have is ok with you Joey? I don't want you to feel that you have to do this."

"What? I'd be more than happy to take care of this baby. You've made it more than clear that you're not ready for this baby, and that you don't want it. I would never wish that on a child. All children deserve to be loved. If you can't give it that then I'm very happy to know that you realize that and are mature enough to give it to someone you know is more than willing to give it that." Joey answered.

Ring, ring

"Hello?" JC answers.

"JC, this is Dani. I think you, Joey and Justin need to get to the hospital as soon as possible."