All The Way Down by Juli (NC-17)

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Hi there! I'm wistfuljane and I'll be your Popslash driver this month. Those of you who are familiar with my tastes will recognize most of the recs I have planned for this month. The recs will mostly be JC/Justin as the pairing is my Popslash OTP and the recs will also undoubtedly involve all five *NSYNC-ers in some ways as I'm also fond of group dynamics!fic. That said, I hope you'll enjoy this month's Popslash recs and thank you for having me!

Fandom: Popslash.
Pairing: Chris/Lance, JC/Justin.
Author on LJ: jewelianna.
Author Website: Missed Opportunities.
Why this must be read:

All The Way Down was written for a Soap Opera Cliche challenge based on the prompt "Surprise! I'm not really dead!" It is a wonderfully long and plotty AU about a lawyer who discovers an unexpected connection to his past while defending a man wrongly accused of arson and murder:

With a sigh, Lance opened the file gingerly, staring at the picture paper clipped inside. Shaved head, stubbly-chinned Justin Timberlake, accused of one count of arson, two of second degree murder. Lance knew the story; hell, it’d been all over the news. The Old Carter place had gone up in smoke in the middle of the night, killing the two brothers who lived there. Timberlake had hated Carter for as long as they’d known each other, a spat over a girl that had turned ugly back in high school and ruined both of their lives.

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It looked like an open and shut case. The kid’s fingerprints were all over the gas can they’d found at the scene, and he’d been seen in the local bar fighting with Carter that night. Timberlake had no alibi for the hours between 12, when he left the bar, and 3, when the cops had shown up at his house with handcuffs.

Lance sighed. Not only was this a subject he preferred not to touch, given his own treacherous history with arson, but it was an impossible case. The kid looked guilty from every angle.

jewelianna has a way with AUs and All The Way Down is a wonderful example of that, combining romance, mystery and adventure, all the elements that make it a perfect rainy day read, in one package.

All The Way Down.

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All The Way Down by Juli (NC-17)

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Ah, okay, the post is fixed.