Locked Up. In Love AU
Title: Locked Up. In Love
Authors: 'Britney Glass'
Summary: Justin is in jail. Shannyn is in pain.
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Romance/Drama AU
Notes: Based on Alicia Keys' "Fallin'" video
Disclaimer: I do not own the members of NSYNC...
Locked Up. In Love.
"Soon, baby. The sooner I get outta here, the sooner we can be together again..."
Shannyn woke up to the memory of her lover saying those very words. It had been a month and a half since Juston got locked up. But she remembered it like it was yesterday.
She got up. Brushed her hair and walked to the cold gloomy kitchen and made herself a cup of coffee. She didn't want to remember it but it kept coming up. Her mother told her she would never make progress with a boy like Justin Timberlake. But instead, she took a chance on the man she loved so much.
Shannyn and Justin were from different sides of the spectrum. She was a budding doctor and came from a finacialy stable family. Mommy and Daddy's pride and joy she was but she couldn't quite steer clear of the bad boys. She met Justin in high school. She was a cheerleader and he was a hoodlum. Justin came from a lower class broken family. And while his mother didn't take quite good care of him, he learned how to do it himself. But not in a good way. He would steal from stores and he was quite good at it. He intialy did it just to feed his brothers but it became handy when he wanted to get himself and his friends a little something special. Like new sneakers or expencive jackets. Justin was smart. Street smart. Text book smarts was something that was in a whole other world for him.
Thats when he met Shannyn. A teacher was worried about Justin and had assigned him a student tuitor. Shannyn had volunteered that day. And when she walked up to his table in the library, he was in love. It took her five minutes to fall into his spell. After she had been tuitoring him, he took a chance and asked her out on a date. Justin had his doubts. Maybe she wouldn't be into a dirty thug like him? Maybe she was only making nice because she was afraid that he could have her killed? No. It was real. She had made a connection and like a polite princess, she had taken up his offer.
And thats pretty much where it went from there. Shannyn and Justin spent everyday of high school with eachother. Despite the grand tradition of high school stereotypes, nobody really did give their relationship flack. But then there were the parents. Shannyn's mother knew she had been seeing someone. And that had been perfectly fine with her...she just wanted to meet this mystery fella. So Shannyn had arranged for Justin to come to her house for dinner.
The dinner was a terrible terrible idea. When Shannyn brought Justin into the house, her mother and father paniced at his sight. His slightly bald head, the studs in his ears, his baggy loose jeans and ratty nikes, the wifebeater covered over the blue work shirt which wasn't closed. Shannyn pushed him a little to dress a little more "formal" for the occasion. But he had told her that he wanted her parents to see the real him. That he didn't want to lie and put on some stupid act. He wanted to come as himself. But that didn't work. Her parents only saw the outside. They didn't even give him a chance to win them over. They just threw him out and then scolded Shannyn for seeing him. Justin was outside of the house when he heard them. Thats it. He knew that she would probably take her parents side than his. But something surprised him. See, they cut dinner short and decided to send her to bed but a few minutes into "sleep", she came outside through the backyard and came running towards Justin's arms before he left her neighborhood.
As much as she didn't want to...she kept him a secret. She would bring one of her guy friends over and say that she was going out with him and then be out with Justin. And this plan worked. Her parents trusted her and never overlooked her dates seeing something different. She knew it was wrong but she also thought her parents were way outta line for looking down on Justin in his face like that.
Justin dropped out of school towards graduation. Shannyn graduated with high honors and went on to college but not quite wanting to move on from Justin. Her parents rewarded her by buying her an apartment close to school and a car. Little did they know that Justin also lived there as well. Hell, they still didn't know that she kept this relationship up well into the end of high school. That was, until...
Shannyn's parents dropped in for a surprise visit. Justin was there and the shit hit the fan. Her parents were furious. They threatened to stop paying her rent, take her car, and close her bank account. It was hard but she chose Justin. After that, her relationship with her parents went sour.
But she was in love with him. And he was in love as well. In fact, Shannyn was the very person who kept him from ruining his life. Even before he thought about doing something wrong, all he had to do was think about his girlfriend and the way she had helped him out so much.
They moved out of the nice ritzy apartment and into a creeky one bedroom. Shannyn had a little money in her account and they lived off of that for awhile. But then came the time for them to start thinking about employment. And Justin had thought long and hard about it. He had felt guilty for the both of them but mostly for Shannyn. She had given up everything to be with him. She had even given up something he didn't think she would have...the love and respect of her parents. And that was saying a lot about how much he had meant to her. So Justin decided that he wanted to take care of her. He didn't want her to work but just to keep on concentrating on school and her career. He would take care of the financial worries. So the next day, he sought out jobs. And even dressed accordingly just to fit the mold.
He got turned down and shoved aside but a break finaly came when he had been hired as a plumber. He made just a little above minimum wage but it still wasn't enough. But still...he found ways to make it work.
It was hard times but they got through the most of it. Occasionaly, they would fight. Sometimes, Shannyn blamed herself and Justin for the way things were. If she had a bad day, she would take it out on him. Justin would yell back at her but never laid a finger on her. She knew her anger was temporary. She couldn't stay mad at him forever. Shannyn had fallen head over heels in love with him. But she was dissapointed in him often of times, too.
Justin didn't like his job but he sucked it up just to make his girl safe. He and his co-workers even joked about robbing banks but somewhere in his head, he wanted to do it.
Thus beggining a pain that will hurt Shannyn a great big deal.
The next night, Justin excused himself after dinner telling Shannyn that he was going to be working late. She kissed him goodbye and continued on the dishes. As Justin walked out of the door, he met up with a few of his friends as he got into their car and began to drive off. They drove to the bank and got out of the car and towards the trunk to reveal a few weapons and wrenches from their plumbing supplies. They all knew what they were doing. But Justin was a tad bit scared.
"Come on J, don't you want that girl of yours to live like a queen?" his co-worker Derik said.
Justin closed his eyes for a second. He can see Shannyn telling him no. Telling him that it was wrong. But he just needed the money to take care of both of them.
The bank was fifteen minutes passed the closing time but there were still people inside. The guys began their heist by breaking into the glass doors by throwing a wrench at it. The bank employees were horrified as the guys came piling in with guns and sacks to keep the money. Justin didn't want any part in the killing. He just wanted the money.
The bank employees kept their cool by lying on the floor and keeping silent while the guys took the money and everything else. One employee was smart and decided to push the button that alerted the police that there was a bank heist in process.
Justin was in the safe along with two other men grabbing as much money as he could. He was slick at this. All he had to do was take the money, and then run discarding his ski mask and everything. He heard gun shots and then police sirens soon followed after. The two other men who were with him left. So he decided to grab his sack and leave. But by the time he reached the broken entrance, he was met with the police. All of his partners left.
"FREEZE! KEEP YOUR HANDS UP!" the policeman said on the megaphone.
Justin sighed as he dropped the sack of money and held his hands up. The policeman went foreward to handcuff him and then take him into the car.
Shannyn had fallen asleep figuring that he was bound to come home in the morning. But it was three a.m. when she got a phone call.
"Hello?"
"Shan, baby, its me..." Justin replied.
"Justin? Where are you baby? Its late, please come home..."
There was a long pause for awhile. He closed his eyes and sighed not wanting to say it "Babe...I'm in jail...."
Shannyn felt the hot tears come out of her eyes as she swallowed in "Jail?"
"Yes, please take my car...come out here. I just need to see you. I'll explain everything..."
When Shannyn got to the police station she found Justin sitting there in the jail waiting patiently for her. They talked things out. He explained everything which led her to tears and anger. She didn't think he would stoop to so low.
Now her she was. She was getting ready for her third conjugal visit to Justin. As soon as she got dressed, she got into the car and drove to the prison he was at. Justin moved to the big house from spending a few days in the station jail.
When she got there, she was led into a room with family, lovers, and such who were either waiting for or talking to their loved ones. Shannyn sat there waiting for Justin to come and talk to her.
Justin apeared in his orange jumpsuit then sat down in front of her. They were separated by a thick soundproof glass and could only talk through the telephones.
"Shannyn..." Justin spoke into the phone.
"Justin..." Shannyn stamped her palm to the glass and let tears fill her eyes. Looking at her love wasn't easy. Not like this. Not when she couldn't touch him or kiss him.
"Baby, please don't cry...please..." he replied and stamped his hand to hers.
"How are you? You getting enough sleep? Eating right?"
"I get by...I work out most of the time...play basketball...and think about you..."
"You look bigger the last time I saw you..."
"I hate it here, baby...I just want to hold you...I just want to get out and get some good food to eat and live again..."
"Well, this is the price you pay doing such a thing like robbing a bank..." her tone was cold.
"I DID IT FOR YOU, SHANNYN...I did it for us...I cared about wanting to take care of you so much that I was willing to do whatever it took to make sure you were safe..." Justin tightened his fist.
"Oh, by doing something completely stupid? You don't know how much this is killing me, baby. I can't talk to my parents because they will tell me 'I told you so...' and with you gone, I feel like I have no one..."
"Baby, I am getting out. I've got another court hearing in a few weeks. They got me a good lawyer. I'll explain my reasoning, get out of here on good behavior and then I'll be back in our place and I'll start all over, okay? I'll make this right for both of us..."
They both cooled down. Shannyn looked at Justin and cried she touched the thick glass that sepparated them as Justin did the same.
"I just..." she paused for a second "I just want you to be there...for our baby..." she sobbed into the telephone.
Justin froze for a second. "Baby? Shannyn, are you pregnant??"
She sniffled and nodded her head.
"Oh..Oh babe, I will make damn sure I'm getting out of here..." he stood up and as did she.
Justin and Shannyn pressed their lips to the glass as if they were kissing. But they both wanted the real thing.
"Times up, Timberlake..." the guard called.
And with that, they left eachother's side. They parted ways. This was the lonliest part of their conjugal visits. Living in those ten wonderful minutes of seeing eachother and having it be over so quick they didn't even realize it was ten minutes. Shannyn walked to the parking lot tears streaming down her face hoping that better days would come soon.
Meanwhile, while his prison friends were watching TV, Justin sat in his bunk. From there, he had the perfect view of the parking lot from the tiniest window. He watched Shannyn. Dreaming of the days when he will be reunited with her. Touch her, feel her, kiss her. And be close to his unborn child.
FIN.
Authors: 'Britney Glass'
Summary: Justin is in jail. Shannyn is in pain.
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Romance/Drama AU
Notes: Based on Alicia Keys' "Fallin'" video
Disclaimer: I do not own the members of NSYNC...
Locked Up. In Love.
"Soon, baby. The sooner I get outta here, the sooner we can be together again..."
Shannyn woke up to the memory of her lover saying those very words. It had been a month and a half since Juston got locked up. But she remembered it like it was yesterday.
She got up. Brushed her hair and walked to the cold gloomy kitchen and made herself a cup of coffee. She didn't want to remember it but it kept coming up. Her mother told her she would never make progress with a boy like Justin Timberlake. But instead, she took a chance on the man she loved so much.
Shannyn and Justin were from different sides of the spectrum. She was a budding doctor and came from a finacialy stable family. Mommy and Daddy's pride and joy she was but she couldn't quite steer clear of the bad boys. She met Justin in high school. She was a cheerleader and he was a hoodlum. Justin came from a lower class broken family. And while his mother didn't take quite good care of him, he learned how to do it himself. But not in a good way. He would steal from stores and he was quite good at it. He intialy did it just to feed his brothers but it became handy when he wanted to get himself and his friends a little something special. Like new sneakers or expencive jackets. Justin was smart. Street smart. Text book smarts was something that was in a whole other world for him.
Thats when he met Shannyn. A teacher was worried about Justin and had assigned him a student tuitor. Shannyn had volunteered that day. And when she walked up to his table in the library, he was in love. It took her five minutes to fall into his spell. After she had been tuitoring him, he took a chance and asked her out on a date. Justin had his doubts. Maybe she wouldn't be into a dirty thug like him? Maybe she was only making nice because she was afraid that he could have her killed? No. It was real. She had made a connection and like a polite princess, she had taken up his offer.
And thats pretty much where it went from there. Shannyn and Justin spent everyday of high school with eachother. Despite the grand tradition of high school stereotypes, nobody really did give their relationship flack. But then there were the parents. Shannyn's mother knew she had been seeing someone. And that had been perfectly fine with her...she just wanted to meet this mystery fella. So Shannyn had arranged for Justin to come to her house for dinner.
The dinner was a terrible terrible idea. When Shannyn brought Justin into the house, her mother and father paniced at his sight. His slightly bald head, the studs in his ears, his baggy loose jeans and ratty nikes, the wifebeater covered over the blue work shirt which wasn't closed. Shannyn pushed him a little to dress a little more "formal" for the occasion. But he had told her that he wanted her parents to see the real him. That he didn't want to lie and put on some stupid act. He wanted to come as himself. But that didn't work. Her parents only saw the outside. They didn't even give him a chance to win them over. They just threw him out and then scolded Shannyn for seeing him. Justin was outside of the house when he heard them. Thats it. He knew that she would probably take her parents side than his. But something surprised him. See, they cut dinner short and decided to send her to bed but a few minutes into "sleep", she came outside through the backyard and came running towards Justin's arms before he left her neighborhood.
As much as she didn't want to...she kept him a secret. She would bring one of her guy friends over and say that she was going out with him and then be out with Justin. And this plan worked. Her parents trusted her and never overlooked her dates seeing something different. She knew it was wrong but she also thought her parents were way outta line for looking down on Justin in his face like that.
Justin dropped out of school towards graduation. Shannyn graduated with high honors and went on to college but not quite wanting to move on from Justin. Her parents rewarded her by buying her an apartment close to school and a car. Little did they know that Justin also lived there as well. Hell, they still didn't know that she kept this relationship up well into the end of high school. That was, until...
Shannyn's parents dropped in for a surprise visit. Justin was there and the shit hit the fan. Her parents were furious. They threatened to stop paying her rent, take her car, and close her bank account. It was hard but she chose Justin. After that, her relationship with her parents went sour.
But she was in love with him. And he was in love as well. In fact, Shannyn was the very person who kept him from ruining his life. Even before he thought about doing something wrong, all he had to do was think about his girlfriend and the way she had helped him out so much.
They moved out of the nice ritzy apartment and into a creeky one bedroom. Shannyn had a little money in her account and they lived off of that for awhile. But then came the time for them to start thinking about employment. And Justin had thought long and hard about it. He had felt guilty for the both of them but mostly for Shannyn. She had given up everything to be with him. She had even given up something he didn't think she would have...the love and respect of her parents. And that was saying a lot about how much he had meant to her. So Justin decided that he wanted to take care of her. He didn't want her to work but just to keep on concentrating on school and her career. He would take care of the financial worries. So the next day, he sought out jobs. And even dressed accordingly just to fit the mold.
He got turned down and shoved aside but a break finaly came when he had been hired as a plumber. He made just a little above minimum wage but it still wasn't enough. But still...he found ways to make it work.
It was hard times but they got through the most of it. Occasionaly, they would fight. Sometimes, Shannyn blamed herself and Justin for the way things were. If she had a bad day, she would take it out on him. Justin would yell back at her but never laid a finger on her. She knew her anger was temporary. She couldn't stay mad at him forever. Shannyn had fallen head over heels in love with him. But she was dissapointed in him often of times, too.
Justin didn't like his job but he sucked it up just to make his girl safe. He and his co-workers even joked about robbing banks but somewhere in his head, he wanted to do it.
Thus beggining a pain that will hurt Shannyn a great big deal.
The next night, Justin excused himself after dinner telling Shannyn that he was going to be working late. She kissed him goodbye and continued on the dishes. As Justin walked out of the door, he met up with a few of his friends as he got into their car and began to drive off. They drove to the bank and got out of the car and towards the trunk to reveal a few weapons and wrenches from their plumbing supplies. They all knew what they were doing. But Justin was a tad bit scared.
"Come on J, don't you want that girl of yours to live like a queen?" his co-worker Derik said.
Justin closed his eyes for a second. He can see Shannyn telling him no. Telling him that it was wrong. But he just needed the money to take care of both of them.
The bank was fifteen minutes passed the closing time but there were still people inside. The guys began their heist by breaking into the glass doors by throwing a wrench at it. The bank employees were horrified as the guys came piling in with guns and sacks to keep the money. Justin didn't want any part in the killing. He just wanted the money.
The bank employees kept their cool by lying on the floor and keeping silent while the guys took the money and everything else. One employee was smart and decided to push the button that alerted the police that there was a bank heist in process.
Justin was in the safe along with two other men grabbing as much money as he could. He was slick at this. All he had to do was take the money, and then run discarding his ski mask and everything. He heard gun shots and then police sirens soon followed after. The two other men who were with him left. So he decided to grab his sack and leave. But by the time he reached the broken entrance, he was met with the police. All of his partners left.
"FREEZE! KEEP YOUR HANDS UP!" the policeman said on the megaphone.
Justin sighed as he dropped the sack of money and held his hands up. The policeman went foreward to handcuff him and then take him into the car.
Shannyn had fallen asleep figuring that he was bound to come home in the morning. But it was three a.m. when she got a phone call.
"Hello?"
"Shan, baby, its me..." Justin replied.
"Justin? Where are you baby? Its late, please come home..."
There was a long pause for awhile. He closed his eyes and sighed not wanting to say it "Babe...I'm in jail...."
Shannyn felt the hot tears come out of her eyes as she swallowed in "Jail?"
"Yes, please take my car...come out here. I just need to see you. I'll explain everything..."
When Shannyn got to the police station she found Justin sitting there in the jail waiting patiently for her. They talked things out. He explained everything which led her to tears and anger. She didn't think he would stoop to so low.
Now her she was. She was getting ready for her third conjugal visit to Justin. As soon as she got dressed, she got into the car and drove to the prison he was at. Justin moved to the big house from spending a few days in the station jail.
When she got there, she was led into a room with family, lovers, and such who were either waiting for or talking to their loved ones. Shannyn sat there waiting for Justin to come and talk to her.
Justin apeared in his orange jumpsuit then sat down in front of her. They were separated by a thick soundproof glass and could only talk through the telephones.
"Shannyn..." Justin spoke into the phone.
"Justin..." Shannyn stamped her palm to the glass and let tears fill her eyes. Looking at her love wasn't easy. Not like this. Not when she couldn't touch him or kiss him.
"Baby, please don't cry...please..." he replied and stamped his hand to hers.
"How are you? You getting enough sleep? Eating right?"
"I get by...I work out most of the time...play basketball...and think about you..."
"You look bigger the last time I saw you..."
"I hate it here, baby...I just want to hold you...I just want to get out and get some good food to eat and live again..."
"Well, this is the price you pay doing such a thing like robbing a bank..." her tone was cold.
"I DID IT FOR YOU, SHANNYN...I did it for us...I cared about wanting to take care of you so much that I was willing to do whatever it took to make sure you were safe..." Justin tightened his fist.
"Oh, by doing something completely stupid? You don't know how much this is killing me, baby. I can't talk to my parents because they will tell me 'I told you so...' and with you gone, I feel like I have no one..."
"Baby, I am getting out. I've got another court hearing in a few weeks. They got me a good lawyer. I'll explain my reasoning, get out of here on good behavior and then I'll be back in our place and I'll start all over, okay? I'll make this right for both of us..."
They both cooled down. Shannyn looked at Justin and cried she touched the thick glass that sepparated them as Justin did the same.
"I just..." she paused for a second "I just want you to be there...for our baby..." she sobbed into the telephone.
Justin froze for a second. "Baby? Shannyn, are you pregnant??"
She sniffled and nodded her head.
"Oh..Oh babe, I will make damn sure I'm getting out of here..." he stood up and as did she.
Justin and Shannyn pressed their lips to the glass as if they were kissing. But they both wanted the real thing.
"Times up, Timberlake..." the guard called.
And with that, they left eachother's side. They parted ways. This was the lonliest part of their conjugal visits. Living in those ten wonderful minutes of seeing eachother and having it be over so quick they didn't even realize it was ten minutes. Shannyn walked to the parking lot tears streaming down her face hoping that better days would come soon.
Meanwhile, while his prison friends were watching TV, Justin sat in his bunk. From there, he had the perfect view of the parking lot from the tiniest window. He watched Shannyn. Dreaming of the days when he will be reunited with her. Touch her, feel her, kiss her. And be close to his unborn child.
FIN.