Chapter One

They had just finished off the last night of this leg of the tour, everyone was getting ready to fly home for the holidays, and they would come back together in two months to start the other leg of the tour. He slowly walked back to his hotel room wishing he was able to fly out that night but there where no flights available for him to take from Houston to Nashville that night so he was stuck for the night. He pulled his key card out of his pocket and slid it into the hotel room lock and pushed it open when he heard the lock click. He slowly walked into the room not bothering to turn on a light, knowing that he was just going to climb into bed so he could get up for his early morning flight. He walked past the bathroom and suddenly heard a swooshing sound through the air as he felt something connect with the back of his head. Before he could even make a sound he was falling to the ground unconcious, never knowing what had happened.

Brian Littrell came walking out of his hotel room the next morning pulling a small carry on bag with him. He knew he was the last one leaving this morning for the airport because the rest of the guys took earlier flights so he just made his way down the hallway not bothering to stop and say goodbye to anyone. As he got off the elevator Mike his security guard was waiting for him, "you ready to go," he asked.

"Yeah, did all the other guys get off fine?" Brian asked as he followed Mike out towards where the taxi's waited.

"I know Kevin, Howie, and AJ did. But I think Lon was having a hard time finding Nick this morning. It looks like he ditched his security detail again."

"Doesn't he do that all of the time? So no one knows if he got on the plane or not?"

"I don't know, Lon is looking into that, he isn't very happy about this either since he was supposed to get to fly home after he made sure Nick got on the plane safe."

"And he's supposed to be on the plane so he isn't answering his phone?"

"Yep, Lon might kill him for this one. So you are headed home to Atlanta, are you sure you don't want me to come with?"

"I am sure Mike, I have flown home by myself plenty of times, I will be fine. You need to go home and enjoy time with your family."

"Mike," he said as he answered his ringing phone. "Uh--huh... you are sure... okay start calling the car rental places... also call and see if they can track his phone... did you try Lauren's number... uh-huh... okay call me if you find out anything."

"What's going on?" Brian asked as Mike ended the phone call.

"Nick never got on the plane."

"So what is Lon doing?"

"He is making some phone calls to see if he rented a car, and he is also trying to get a hold of Lauren to see if she had heard from him."

"So we have no clue where Nick is right now?"

"No, but you know he willl pop up, he always does this shit."

"Did Lon check his hotel room, maybe he over slept."

"He did that this morning when he didn't show up downstairs for his meet up time. He said the room was empty and there was no sign of Nick."

"Maybe I should stay here and help find him," Brian said playing with his phone.

"No, you know he will show up, go home spend time with your family. By the time you land we will have found him."

"Okay, what are you going to do?"

"I am going to head back to the hotel and meet up with Lon and see if I can help him find Nick." Mike said as the taxi pulled up to the curb at the airport.

"Call me as soon as you find him," Brian said as he grabbed his bag and headed into the airport.

Chapter 2

His head was killing him, it felt like there was a man inside it beating a steady rhythm on his skull. He tried to move his hands so he could rub his eyes but something was preventing his arms from moving, he tried again and could feel something holding them in place. He slowly opened his eyes and tried to see where he was, the room was so dark he couldn't see two feet in front of him. He knew he was sitting on the floor, and it wass cold, probably concrete. But how did he get there, he was trying to remember, the last thing he could remember was walking into his hotel room after the concert. But how did he get here. Suddenly he heard a noise and saw a light start to make its way across the room as a door was opened across the way.

"Good morning sleepyhead," a male voice said as he stepped into the room and turned on a light, causing him to close his eyes from the brightness. "I'm glad to see you awake finally, I was worried I might have hurt you more than I had planned." He said as he made his way over to him. The guy kneeled down next to Nick and started to run his finger down his cheek. "You see I have been waiting for this day forever and I don't know what I would have done if I couldn't have done what I wanted."

"What do you want with me?" He asked as he moved his face away from the man.

"While you see Nickholas I want you," he said as he grabbed Nick's chin and forced him to look at him. "And I will have you all to myself." The guy pulled a syringe out of his pocket and grabbed on to Nick's arm. "You will be begging for me when I am done with you."

"What the hell is that shit," Nick yelled as he tried to move away from the needle.

"Now don't make this hard on me, just let me give this to you and I will leave you alone for a little bit," he said as he pinned Nick's arm against the wall and staarted to slide the needle into the inside of his wrist. "See that wasn't so bad was it."

"Fuck you," Nick spat out as the guy stood up and walked towards the door.

"Now I will be back in a little bit, enjoy the ride you are about to go on," he said as he opened the door and walked out.

***

"Mike I think we have to call and notify the rest of the guys about this, they can decide what they want to do, but right now he is missing and we don't know where he is," Lon said as he sat in the hotel lobby.

"Okay I will call Kevin and see what he wants to do, that boy better not randomly show up at home later today, cause I might fly there and kill him," he said as he started to scroll through his contacts and find Kevin Richardson's phone number.

"Hello."

"Hey Kevin it's Mike."

"Hey Mike what's going on?"

"We have a situation here, remember this morning when you guys were headed out and you had asked about Nick?"

"Yeah, why?"

"We haven't been able to locate him. We have called all of the airlines, car rental places, Lauren, everything and no sign of him."

"So Nick is missing?"

"Yes, we don't know what you want us to do, we are still here at the hotel in Houston."

"Okay, I don't know if we should file a missing person's report or if we should wait. I mean he has dissapeared like this before so he might appear suddenly at home. But usually we can find some clue as to where he has gone. You know what I am going to call the police deppartment and see what they think. Why don't you guys head on home, there is no reason for you guys to stay there, and I will deal with this from here."

"Are you sure, we can stay here and help look for him here."

"There isn't really anything you can do at this point, so go home. If I need something I will call you," Kevin said as he turned on his IPad and opened up safari. "I am already looking up the number for the Houston Police so don't worry I will get this figured out."

"Okay call if you need anything."

"I will, bye." Kevin hung his phone up and started to search for the number for missing persons. Kevin picked back up his phone, and hit a number on his contacts list.

"Hey Kev what's up?"

"Brian have you heard from Nick at all?"

"No, I know Lon and Mike where looking for him, they didn't find him did they?"

"No they didn't find him, I am getting a little worried, do you think I should call the police or should I wait till tomorrow and see if he shows up?"

"I don't know man, usually we would have found him by now, but I don't want to jump the gun and have him show up and the media jump all over it."

"Okay I am going to wait till tomorrow morning to call the police, is there anyone that you think we should call?"

"Did they call Lauren?"

"Yeah and she hadn't heard from him, they called all of the airlines and the car rental places."

"Maybe we should call the police then," Brian said getting more and more nervous as the conversation continued.

"I am going to call AJ and Howie and see if he called either of them, and call Lauren again and see if she heard from him before I call the police. Call me if you hear anything from him."

"I will, talk to you later." Kevin hung his phone up and scrolled through his contacts finding Howie's number.

"Hey Kev what's up?" Howie asked answering the phone.

"Howie have you heard from Nick at all?"

"No why?"

"No one can find him, he never got on his flight this morning."

"What did Lon say?"

"Lon and Mike have been calling everyone they can think of him trying to find him but they haven't had any luck. If you can think of anyone to call please let me know, I am going to try calling AJ."

"Okay Kevin, keep me updated. I bet he will show up in the morning with some crazy tale about how he got home."

"I hope so D." Kevin immediately hung up his phone and looked up AJ's number.

"AJ."

"AJ please tell me you have heard from Nick."

"Sorry man I haven't, why?"

"He has dissapeared."

"Ahh, he will show up don't worry man."

"I hope you are right, call me if you hear from him okay."

"Will do."