November 9, 2001
Title: Something Wicked…
Author: Christine
Pairing: 1x2, 5x13
Rating: NC-17 Lemon.
Warnings: Language, violence. Evil Malicious Wufei!!!! Nasty Heero and General Oddness.
I started another series!! Inspired by a piece of sculpture that I picked up at Lunacon, that is now in my living room. It's not life size, but damn close.
Duo woke up, sore and coughing. He was wondering what the big lump next to him in the bed was, when his memory of the night before came back and he tried to stumble out of the bed with a small cry of terror. Heero opened his eyes at that sound and snaked out his arm to catch Duo before he got too far. His little toy was not leaving this bed unless he wanted him to! Duo struggled with Heero, stopping only when he was exhausted and coughing helplessly in his arms. Heero then folded Duo to his chest and started to rub his back.
Duo looked up at Heero with bleary eyes and asked, "Why?"
"You are mine."
Duo coughed at little more and then rasped, "Don't want to be."
Heero was silent for a moment and then asked curiously, "Why are you coughing? Are you sick? You seemed healthy last night."
Duo cleared his throat and then said hoarsely, "I swallowed a shitload of water and my lungs are still trying to get rid of it, even if there isn't any water in them anymore."
"You tried to kill yourself…you wanted to drown." Heero commented in a surprise. What had frightened his little toy so much? He had tried to be gentle and let him enjoy the experience, but he had fought him and he had been forced to hurt this little human when he tried his patience. Not that he usually had much patience with humans outside dealing with his creators, since most humans annoyed him when he dealt with them.
"I'll try again too." Duo told him quietly.
"You'll die when I want you to." Heero growled at him.
Duo started to laugh at that statement, which quickly turned into another coughing spasm. He rolled over on his side, hoping that position would help him breathe easier as his lung felt that they were going to shoot out his mouth. Duo sat up suddenly in alarm when he heard the sound of a muted scream in another part of the house, which stopped just as suddenly as it started. He didn't think that it was the other gargoyle that was screaming, so that would be Treize. Heero grabbed the side of his head and forced Duo to look at him.
"You can do nothing," he said softly, looking deep into Duo's eyes. "Your brother's fate is out of your hands. He is my brethren's toy. You are mine. That my brother Wufei wants to hear him scream in pain…there is nothing that you can do about it."
Duo shuddered, remembering the cold lustful look that the gargoyle named Wufei had given him. Heero had been bad last night, but aside from his anger at Duo's panicking on him, he hadn't been cruel to him. He had been really straightforward about what he wanted, which was to fuck him. Wufei would have hurt him a lot more then Heero had, from the way that he treated him in the kitchen. It wasn't much, but he thought that Heero would be easier with him then Wufei would be. Heero wasn't malicious like Wufei seemed to be; he was just there. So long as Duo let him do what he wanted without a fight, he wouldn't hurt him. Heero let go of Duo when he thought that he understood what his position was and his options, but watched him to see what he would do, to see what his reaction would be to his situation. Find out if his toy was going to be smart and not fight him or stupid and have to be beaten into submission again.
Duo shifted and wrapped a blanket around him, propping himself up against the wall. It was easier for him to breathe this way and he didn't have Heero touching him or looking at him if he was wrapped up. "Why do you call him your brother?"
Heero stared at him and frowned, what was Duo up to? Had he decided to be smart? He was surprised that he wasn't arguing about the fact that he had just claimed him, too cowed already to argue with him? Or too clever to argue about something that Heero had shown to be true last night when he took him? Duo saw the look that Heero was giving him and shrugged, "I am going to do something stupid if I just sit here, listening to that bastard raping my brother and…and I don't want to try another option for keeping occupied."
Heero thought for a second and then smiled, he knew what Duo was trying to avoid. He would let his little toy think that he won this round with hiding his body underneath the blanket. He could always play with him later. "He was made with me."
Duo gaped at him, that wasn't really the answer that he was expecting, but what else could be true. Heero and Wufei didn't look like anything that could be found in nature, so that meant that they had to be created by someone or something. So Dermail hadn't been that much of a loon after all…too bad he and Treize had to find this out the hard way. "What do you mean made?" he asked finally, after the silence grew too much for him.
"Wufei and I were created by the Council of the Five." Heero informed Duo. Watching his human think, trying to understand what was happening with him was… interesting.
"Like Frankenstein?" Duo asked curiously, trying to get more information, anything that might give him a clue on how to get out of here. If he kept this thing talking it wouldn't be doing other things with him, he put the fear that he felt in the back of his mind and just hoped that he was able to keep it there.
Heero shrugged, confused by the question, he did not understand this language, even if he could speak it. He growled, "I do not understand what you are talking about."
Duo smiled faintly, he didn't think that Heero would have understood the reference, but he had to ask anyway, since it was the closest simile that he could think of to try and understand this thing that was keeping him a prisoner. "It's a classic horror novel about a scientist that creates life in a man that he built out of dead bodies. I think that the moral was that man or science should not mess with the provenance of God."
"Sorcerers could always create life out of inanimate objects to do their work for them." Heero informed him.
It didn't matter if they got their power from God or from nature they could create life in something inanimate. He didn't know the details of their work, but from what he understood, it had something to do with taking the life essence out a human or some other animal and infusing it in their creation. All that he knew was that it was exhausting work for the sorcerers involved which is why they did it so rarely. Also more than one of them balked at killing a human for their magic, it was the darkest magic to do so, many sorcerers weren't that ruthless in their pursuit of power. Their creators had been and so they fashioned four gargoyles to do their bidding and keep them in power because they had been that ruthless.
Duo perked up at that information, "I thought that they were like mythical creatures, you know. No one nowadays believes in magic or sorcerers or anything like that. They're all stories that you tell kids, no one thinks that they were ever real." #Mythical creatures…gargoyles…myths that are going to spend a long time hurting you, since you were dumb enough to let them out of their prison. Not that it was much of a prison, since it was just a stupid wooden box! Last night was only the beginning, they aren't going to let you go if they get bored and Treize sounded really bad, he's not going to be able to survive much more of Wufei's kind attentions, not if he's screaming like that. You've heard it before…you screamed like that a couple of times when you were being…hurt. And since there are two of them…you aren't going to be able to slip out like last time when he was too stoned to keep an eye on you and he thought you were too cowed to run.#
"The Council labored over a decade to make the four of us." Heero told Duo, "Gathering the materials and working on the spells that they needed to create us, to control us. They worked very hard to make us into what they wanted and how we were to respond to them. What they wanted us to do with them and for them." #Mythical creatures? Then I shouldn't have to really worry about other humans finding us. It seems that they have forgotten much even as they changed their surroundings to make their lives more comfortable. I don't recognize anything in this building, what have the humans done with their science in the time that my brother and I were trapped in that spell?#
Duo was silent for a couple of minutes, thinking about what Heero had told him. "What did they make you out of?" he asked at last.
"A number of things." Heero said. #So many questions… are you that interested or are you probing for weaknesses? What do you want? You were scared last night and that is how you got hurt, since you panicked about my taking you. Why aren't you afraid of me this morning? I know that you are afraid of me, but not enough, not like you were last night. It's refreshing in an odd way, because no human really treated me like this before, just wanting to talk to me. Then you don't want to keep me entertained any other way it seems.#
"Like what?" Duo persisted, wanting to keep Heero talking and he might forget about other ways of keeping him busy. "Snails and shells and puppy dog tails? Flowers? Good intentions?"
"Topaz, Tiger's Eye, Sapphire and other items for my body. We all have been created out of different types of minerals and other precious materials. Certain spells had been researched to activate us and the Council tailored them so that they had the reactions that they wanted in my kin and me. We were made for their protection and for their pleasure," Heero replied, wondering about the whimsical things the Duo had mentioned. What good was an attack golem if it was made out of such fragile materials?
Duo stared at Heero, getting a good look at his captor for the first time. Heero wasn't anything that looked natural or even alive for that matter, but he was beautiful in an abstract sort of way. He was the same smooth brown color all over, the color of a fine grade of honey. That must be the topaz that had been used in making him. The slightly darker color of his nipples and genitals might be the Tiger's Eye that he mentioned, he thought that was something brownish that was also used in jewelry, but he wasn't sure. The color of Heero's eyes was so blue they seemed to glow underneath the brow ridges that he had.
So some nuts spent ten years or longer making a thing out of bits and pieces that were usually used in jewelry. Or several things according to what Heero just told him. Where were the rest of them? There were two of them here, what about the other two? Or were there more then those four, this could have been a project that produced large group of these things, just no one knew about them until now. Would he wake up tomorrow morning with a bunch more of these things looking to play with him like Heero had last night? A constant round of Hide and Seek with the prize, his body, always going to the monsters because they were nastier and stronger then he was.
Why was the word that was echoing through his head, why was a word that covered a lot of the confusion and fear that he was feeling. If these weirdoes were dead, how come Heero and Wufei were still working? Didn't the mad scientist or sorcerer's creations usually die with him? Who put them in that box if it wasn't the guys that made them? Why did it look so modern if Heero and Wufei weren't? When did it happen to them if running water and other things that he took for granted were novelties for them? Why was the box so new if opening woke them up? What kind of world did Heero and Wufei come from? Medieval? Ancient? Or was it like one of the fantasy worlds that Robert Howard and Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote about, with magic and scary monsters? He was learning too much about scary monsters right now; Heero was too close and he was eyeing him like he wanted another go at him. Duo shuddered a little and tried to put that thought in the back of his mind. He heard the faint noises that were coming from Treize's bedroom and pulled his blanket around him tighter. He shouldn't have pissed off that Wufei thing, it should be him down there getting the crap knocked out of him, not Treize. But he had panicked and now Treize was suffering because of it, he should be the one that was screaming, not his brother. It was all his fault and he had to get them out of here.
Duo continued to wonder about what was in bed with him, a monster that mimicked human behavior down to its basic level, sex. How did it work for him; why did it work? Heero had squirted something into him last night when he orgasmed or whatever he did when he raped him and enjoyed it; where did that come from? Did his body produce it? Did he have a hollow spot that he filled up with that goop? Or did he produce it out of thin air? And how did it…he do that…get an erection? Why did he want sex… especially with him? Why couldn't he find a nice girl gargoyle to play with? Duo's head hurt with trying to figure out why and how a rock mimicked a human's biological functions, and came to the conclusion that it was probably something really kinky for the Council that had created him, Heero had mentioned something about their pleasure. Those perverts must have thought that their creations were something safe to fool around with or watch fool around for kicks. When you played god, you should get some of the side benefits, such as watching your creations perform or using them. Had they been so bad to Heero so that he was willing to be kind to him? Could Heero have had years of humans hurting him like that junkie did to him? Was that why he was being so nice to him now, because he knew how much it hurt? Why wasn't he screaming and clawing his eyes out, just thinking about all this crazy stuff? Had he already gone nutso, which was why he was able to take this in calmly? Duo wondered about all these questions as he continued to study his captor.
The dim light hitting Heero's naked body reflected the sculpted planes of his face and he had a very strong profile with the slight muzzle that he had, but it didn't look bad, just exotic. His little button nose was nice also, but Duo still couldn't figure out why he had one, he didn't need it to breathe even if he liked sniffing him. Heero might be considered beautiful if you could overlook the fact that his deep blue eyes were all blue, like he had funky cataracts. The ears were elegant, pointed like an elf's ears and fanned out from his head a little. Heero's body wasn't built like a body builder's, since it was on the thin side, but still looked powerful as it was all muscle and sinew if you could think about a rock having those things. He hurriedly skipped over thinking about the rest of Heero's body and wondered about his wings instead, how they were attached and the way that they mostly curled out of the way. They must be strong to support his weight, but the few glimpses that he had with them extended, they seemed so fragile, like they belonged on a butterfly and he wondered how they managed to get the material so thin and flexible, so that it supported his weight and curled up like they did. Must be the magical part of it all, besides the fact that Heero was walking around at all.
The three fingers and a thumb were odd, but Heero seemed to be able to use them as he showed him last night when he held him down to rape him. The three prehensile looking toes gave him a pause, but since Heero flew, those toes must help him grasp branches or something like that when he landed. Duo could almost see all the work that had done with him, the care that someone had taken in making him. But he couldn't forget that this was something that hurt him, no matter how nice or how friendly it was acting now. It was eerie to think that he was carrying on a conversation with something that wasn't alive, that someone had put him together like he was a model kit. It was scary that he was beginning to relax around the bastard that raped him. But he was tired and a little out of it still and couldn't be afraid all the time; he didn't have the energy to be afraid. Heero had tried to be nice last night, he did try and make him ready for what he was going to do to him. He just panicked and ran which had angered Heero and made him stop trying to make it comfortable for him.
"Pleasure?" Duo asked after a while and then blushed when he thought about what he had just said, "Forget about that…please…"
Heero laughed, a deep rumble in his chest, amused at Duo's embarrassment. Heero knew that Duo had been studying him. His human wasn't stupid, just ignorant and he had apparently been thinking about their conversation in his silence. "It can be pleasurable…don't you want to know that?"
Duo shook his head. "I…I…"
Heero leaned over and pressed his lips to Duo's, kissing him gently again. He could afford to take his time now, since he had fulfilled his more demanding urges with his hunt of Duo last night. He could teach his toy that an encounter between two sentient beings could be enjoyed by both of them. No one had bothered before with this breathtaking creature it seemed, so more the fools were they! Duo stiffened up, not kissing back, shivering when Heero started to slowly work his hands underneath the blanket that he had wrapped himself in.
"To be good for you, you must relax." Heero scolded Duo, who was clutching the blanket tighter around him and shaking uncontrollably.
Duo shook his head, "I can't. I don't know…I never really did figure things out. And then there was that guy…I thought that what he did…it was my fault. That I did something wrong, I just…"
"Before that, no one kissed you?" Heero asked in amusement.
Here was something that he hadn't seen in a while, an innocent. Usually the humans that he had given to were jaded perverts that wanted to try something different by using them for a night or a week or however long, until they tired of them. The Council had charged high for that privilege and told them that they could do whatever they wanted with them. He had been passed around enough through the Council and their patrons to realize how corrupt and painful a human could be with their sexual pleasures, even with his almost indestructible body. He couldn't be broken easily, but he could feel pain and he didn't like it.
The humans that the gargoyles had used had been resigned to their fate and only sometimes had been pleasantly surprised with the pleasure the act was with him. Those humans had been slaves worn down by the physical and mental abuse that they had been subjected to over their lifetime, apathetic in their outlook and almost pathetically grateful when Heero hadn't wanted to hurt them when he mounted them, that he was willing to have them to enjoy the experience also. Duo was different, though he still had his spirit and no knowledge about the pleasure that he could give him during sex. Heero was suddenly glad that Duo had bitten Wufei. He didn't want him using Duo, especially since his brother that would have no appreciation of Duo's spirit or interest in teaching him about enjoying his body.
Duo flushed a brighter shade of red, discussing his lack of experience with the thing that had just raped him seemed so wrong somehow. "I didn't…there wasn't anyone that I wanted to kiss. Afterwards…I didn't want anyone to touch me."
Heero sat back and thought for a moment. He tried to remember the first time for him, what it had felt like. It was a hazy memory and the more that he thought about it, not a pleasant one. His creators had treated him roughly, knowing that anything that they would do to Heero, he could take. Most of the times that they had taken him it had been painful, since they didn't care if it hurt him. Heero had only learned that it could be different when he had learned about sexual pleasure with the other gargoyles. They had been more considerate with each other then any human would be, because of the way that the humans had abused them. Granted Wufei and then later Quatre had become twisted by their experiences into enjoying their partner's pain more then their pleasure, but it had usually been good with them too, since they usually worked out their darker urges on the human slaves instead of their brethren.
The experiences with the humans that the gargoyles had been used by ranged from indifference for their needs to outright abuse. Sometimes he was sorry to say they inflicted their rage from the abuse that they had suffered on the humans that they had been given to use, striking back at someone that was as helpless as they were. He had done that once or twice after a particularly disgusting human had had him. Most of the time, he had tried to make it as painless as possible with whatever slave he had chosen if they wouldn't take joy in his attentions. He knew that most of them didn't enjoy doing that with him, but sometimes he used them when Trowa wasn't around and he was tired of being alone.
Duo had already had been shown that their joining would be painful if he fought him. Unless he wanted to fight with him every time he wanted him, Heero shouldn't treat him like the humans had treated him, he should be gentle with him. Duo wouldn't last long as a toy if he broke him because of rough treatment and Duo was tight, hot and very fuckable even if he didn't like being mounted. He would try to be considerate about his fears, since Duo had never had sex before. Could it be that he wasn't being difficult, but just was afraid of the act itself since he was so inexperienced? That all he had had was pain with someone and he didn't know that it could be better? Duo didn't seem to be afraid of him unless he acted like he wanted to have sex with him and then the poor thing froze up, other then that he asked intelligent questions and seemed very at ease with him. He hadn't had anyone that acted around him like that for a long time. Most of the others human and gargoyle, were afraid of his strength. It was refreshing that there was someone that wasn't afraid of him most of the time. It was almost as good as having Trowa here with him, since he had always enjoyed his time with his fellow construct, no matter what they had been doing.
"Take off the blanket." Heero ordered. He wanted his human and now was a good time to start training Duo to his pleasure.
"Couldn't…couldn't that wait…?" Duo stuttered, clutching it tighter around him.
"I can take it from you." Heero stated simply.
Duo made an odd sound that vaguely resembled a hiccup and then relaxed his grip, slithering out of the blanket and then balling it up and kicking it off the bed. He shrugged at Heero's questioning glare, "I would have grabbed it again…this way it's not within reach and I'm not tempted." He was shivering though; he was cold without the blanket around him and he felt naked without it. Heero might be comfortable running about au natural but he felt really vulnerable.
Heero was pleased that Duo was obedient; apparently he had learned that fighting with him was futile. Some toys had never learned that lesson, no matter what they had done to them. The boy just panicked at the thought of being touched in a sexual manner. He would train that out of him, show him that it could be and would be enjoyed by him with Heero. "Lie down."
Duo stretched out on the bed beside Heero, face down and burying his face in one of the pillows on the bed, hugging it to his chest.
Heero stoked his back a little while, trying to calm him down and failing to do so, before ordering Duo curtly, "Turn over." He wasn't going to waste his time trying to make Duo relax if the boy couldn't or wouldn't stop being afraid of mating with him.
Duo turned over, trying to lie perfectly still with his hands at his sides. Heero knelt over him and started to trace the curls that were covering Duo's sack, touching everywhere that there was hair, under his arms and the light dusting of a line of curls that started low on his stomach and went down to the cluster of them that was on his balls. It was so sensuous, the feel of all those soft curls under his fingertips. Duo screwed his eyes tighter and his hands formed into fists, clenching the sheets underneath him, but he didn't move. He wasn't sure if he should breathe, he was so frightened by what Heero wanted, he was still sore from last night because he had fought him. Heero wanted to do it to him again and not have him fight back?
"Just touching." Heero murmured, wondering why he was annoyed that Duo was not enjoying his touch. "Watch me."
Duo reluctantly opened his eyes and stared at Heero. Heero leaned over and kissed Duo, slowly moving his lips down the side of his face to his neck. The position was awkward, but Duo felt good underneath his lips, he tasted of the outdoors and himself.
"Spread your legs."
Duo shivered and then opened his legs a little, not enough for Heero to kneel between though. "Wider," he ordered him.
Duo shifted some more and Heero slowly moved so that he was between Duo's legs and kissing the juncture of his neck and his shoulder. Duo wiggled when Heero started licking the sensitive skin there. "Tickles," he commented when Heero lifted his head to look at him.
Heero involuntarily grinned at the comment and moved up to kiss him on the lips again, pressing his body against Duo's so that Duo could feel his shaft slowly grow as he was enjoying Duo's mouth, nipping at his lips and trying to play with his tongue. Duo however was still stiff and unresponsive after his initial playful reaction and Heero growled in frustration.
"I am just exploring your body. I will not hurt you." Heero explained, trying not to sound too annoyed that Duo wouldn't relax. The human was frightened and he shouldn't act like he was angry, that would just make it worse.
Duo looked at him, his eyes filled with fear and not believing anything that he was being told. "You can just beat me up and take what you want; why be nice? You weren't last night."
Heero growled again and felt Duo shiver underneath him at that sound. He was frightening the boy so he should try and explain what had happened last night. If he bothered to explain things to Duo, he might cooperate with him. He didn't want to beat Duo every time he wanted to use him, because he was not Wufei with his twisted tastes in mating. "Last night was last night; it was something that I had to do after being imprisoned for so long and you annoyed me trying to kill yourself. Other then that it was a good chase, you would have done better if you didn't go in the water, but now is for both of us, for you to enjoy too." Mostly for his own gratification, but he was not going to explain that to Duo. Let him think that Heero wanted his enjoyment for something other then his own selfish reasons.
"I was afraid that I was going to get lost in the woods, that I had gotten lost," Duo explained with a grimace, ignoring the last part of Heero's explanation, if this was for both of them, Heero could just leave him alone. "I shouldn't have risked it; you might not have captured me. I could have…"
Heero chuckled at that explanation, secure in the knowledge that no one had ever escaped him, even if Duo had come close last night. "Just would have taken longer. Relax now."
Duo shook his head, if relaxing meant that he was cooperating with this thing he wasn't going to relax. He wasn't going to start opening his legs for this thing willingly, he didn't like Heero and he didn't want to do this with him.
"Do you want to be like your brother, beaten and bloody?" Heero asked in frustration. He was trying to be considerate of his toy's fears, why was he being difficult? Why wouldn't he stop talking?
"I'm scared," was Duo's quiet comment. It hurts and I don't want you, I don't want anyone. It doesn't matter that you are a monster or if you were human, I don't want this kind of touching. I don't want the pain.
"I will make this good for you too." Heero promised. He should have known that was still a problem. Duo hadn't experienced anything but pain with him or with anyone, so why should he think that it was going to be good this time? "It can be good with me, I promise!" he continued in annoyance.
Duo kept still. Heero took that at a signal to continue and returned to kissing him. He gradually felt Duo's tense body unwind, either because he was enjoying this or because he was too tired to fight what was happening. Heero didn't care which was happening, he just wanted some positive reaction out of him, that slight reaction seemed positive to him. He shifted to cover Duo, since he wanted to feel more of his toy's skin and hair against him. Heero leaned most of his weight on his elbows, not wanting to crush Duo; he seemed so little underneath him.
Duo slowly relaxed his body; he couldn't stay tense for that long. Heero wasn't hurting him and he said that he wasn't going to hurt him. Maybe he could trust him? Or just let him do what he wanted, because he couldn't win, the only choice he had was how painful it was going to be to him. As soon as that happened, Heero started to thrust his hips slightly rubbing against him. Duo tensed up again, causing Heero to look up from what he was doing. He stared down at Duo, who was clenching and unclenching the sheets, scared still, even if he was going slowly with him.
"Not good?" Heero asked in confusion. He thought he was being gentle with the boy.
Duo shook his head, wondering how he could find the words to explain this to Heero. It was strange feeling Heero's warmth covering him, the weird feeling of his stone body on top his. The slow expansion of his penis as Heero become more excited with what he was doing to Duo both scared and excited him and he didn't know if he liked it or not. But he knew how it would end and he most definitely did not like that part of it! So why should he enjoy the first part if the second part was just going to hurt him?
"Different." Duo finally said, avoiding Heero's stare. "I know that you'd rather screw me to the wall, but…can I ask a couple of questions?"
Heero stared, what was going through this human's mind? And why would he want to put Duo on a wall, he would rather have Duo in bed with him, underneath him crying out in pleasure, no matter what it took. He growled softly, "What?"
"How…how do you…?" Duo blushed and then shook his head. "Why…? Never mind," he muttered.
Heero frowned. Why did Duo have to ask questions? Talk was so unnecessary. And he didn't like the fact that he was having a hard time understanding what Duo was asking him half the time, like now. This language was so different from what he was used to, understanding what Duo was saying didn't mean that he actually knew what his human was talking about.
"Just do me and get it over with Heero, I'll try not to run." Duo whispered. He wasn't going to think about how this was going to end and he just wanted it to end soon, before he broke his promise and tried to run away from him again.
Heero bit back a snarl at this incomprehensible statement and then stopped, not wanting to frighten Duo, the boy sounded so lifeless with that breathless request. Duo heard the low rumble in his throat and flinched. He had done something to anger his captor; so the big guy didn't like it that his toy? Whore? Pet? wanted to run screaming into the night rather than have him near him. Duo just went still, hoping that he wasn't going to get hit or worse because he had pissed him off.
Heero snarled out loud and rolled off of Duo when he flinched. Why was his toy so annoying? Should he be happy that Duo didn't try biting him, like he had Wufei? Or did even this foolish human know that it wasn't going to do anything to him if he bit him, except make him angry. He may be afraid of him, but Heero was sure that this one did not want to be given back to Wufei even more than he feared Heero. Duo shivered again and then screwed up his courage to try and explain to this monster what his problem was.
"Heero, you said that this was just playing around…right? So could…could you just hold me? I'll try not to freak, 'cause no one's held me. I haven't let anyone get near me since I got…hurt."
Duo couldn't even say the word, rape. How fucked in the head was he that he couldn't even say what had happened to him? If Treize had known, he might have tried to help, counseling or something like that. However, Duo didn't want anyone to know how he had been so stupid to trust someone like that, but he had been confused and cold. Running away didn't look like such a good idea now that he had done it; his mother had been acting so scary after the divorce, which had prompted that bit of foolishness. He had called his mother to ask her if he could come home and she had just hung up on him as soon as she heard his voice, telling him that no one that he knew lived there. He must have looked like such an easy mark because of that, a stunned lost look on his face and the betrayed one in his eyes. So easy to promise him some place just to sit for a second and by the time that Duo realized that they were away from other people it had been too late, he couldn't escape. It had taken a couple of nightmarish days after that had happened, but he had managed to run away from his captor when he had gotten careless and then headed north. He remembered that Treize lived up north, near that city he had gone to and had hoped that the man that he had just seen at his mother's wedding years ago was willing to take in such a screw up. If not…well he'd figure out something. And now…there was no place to run and he just had to endure Heero's attentions and get his older brother out of here.
Heero snarled again and Duo shrank back in fear. Okay, he had pissed him off by accident and last night was going to look like heaven when he got through with him. He shouldn't have asked him for anything, even if Heero was confusing him about what he wanted from him or how he wanted him actually. Heero for some reason wanted to snuggle and pet him today, after he wanted to tear him to pieces last night. Duo couldn't remember anyone just wanting to hold him, because his mother and stepfather had never been physically affectionate with him, so he didn't know how to react because this thing wanted to hug him along with fucking him. He just didn't want this thing near him. He didn't want anyone near him.
Heero didn't miss the fact that his snarls made Duo properly afraid of him, even if he didn't act it most of the time with his questions. He shouldn't be angry, since he hadn't really forgotten how little his toys wanted to be near him. Unless he was mounting them, they didn't want anything to do with him. Most of the times they didn't want anything to do with him then either, no matter how good he made them feel. But this one was different, he wasn't that afraid of Heero, he just didn't want anyone touching him. Heero rolled on his back and wrestled a semi-limp Duo on top of him. He cringed when Heero first touched him, and then relaxed his body. It was annoying to say the least, Heero had no idea what was bothering Duo half the time, his body language gave him no clues to what was wrong.
"What's the problem now?" Heero growled.
"I don't want to get you angry with me." Duo whispered. #I don't want you to hurt me.#
"You are making me angry, by jumping every time I touch you." Heero snarled.
"I'll try and stop," Duo murmured. #Then don't touch me!#
Heero ignored that statement and then snapped the band that was holding Duo's hair in a braid. He combed through the mass, letting the semidry strands fall around them. He thought that it would still be wet from last night but he wanted to play with it. It was a beautiful color and the texture was like silk.
Duo shivered as his hair fell free and then shifted so that he was more comfortable. He was surprised that Heero just held him; maybe this wasn't going to be too bad. He knew that Heero was angry with him, but he wasn't hitting him or anything, maybe because he didn't want to clean the blood off of himself. He remembered the other time…tied to a radiator and hit because of the other's bad mood when he was coming down off whatever he was sampling, but not too hard. He didn't want to scar or bruise Duo too much, even if his captor was high on something most the time, he knew that Duo would be worth more relatively unharmed. All he kept saying when he was near him or in him was how much money he was going to make because Duo was so pretty and would be priceless when he was 'broken'. How 'lucky' Duo was because he had him. It had been a couple of hellish days but he had gotten free and ran. Now he was in the same position again but he couldn't run because he had to get Treize out of here.
Heero played with his hair and Duo found he was staring at Heero's nipple and trying not to make a sound, not knowing what would piss off Heero. It was strange lying on someone's chest and not hearing a heartbeat or feel him breathing. Heero was warm though and it was kind of nice having him play with his hair. He thought it was a nipple, since it was the correct shape, in the right place and matched the hard nub that was under his cheek. Duo stared at it and realized that it looked different if he shifted his head, the light playing apparently playing tricks with his eyes, the color shifting a little depending on the angle that he was looking at it. "Wow," he muttered involuntarily, testing the theory a few times.
"What?" Heero snarled. Duo was teasing him with all the shifting that he was doing with his head, rubbing his chest and nipple the way that he was. And Heero was sure that Duo didn't even know what he was doing. He knew if he did the same to Duo, the boy would freeze up.
"The way that the light hits your nipple," Duo said, "this thing." He clarified his statement by touching it gently. Heero rumbled deep in his chest, enjoying the feel of Duo's fingers on him.
Duo snatched his hand back and stiffened up, wondering what he had done to produce that reaction, Heero sounded like a big cat that just got stroked the right way. Heero grinned and leaned down to touch Duo the way that he had been touching him. He really hadn't known what he was doing and that was so amusing to him somehow.
Duo hissed and then shivered wondering how his nipples could feel like that. It was nice and had sent a shock down his spine. Was this what was happening in Heero when he touched him?
"The one that had you…that hurt you, he didn't bother to touch you?" Heero asked curiously. How much of a fool had that one been if he had not bothered to explore all that Duo could do or feel with his body? If Duo showed as much spirit as he did in sex as he did when he was fighting him, he would be a priceless partner when he had him trained for his pleasure.
Duo shrugged, forcing himself to speak calmly. He didn't like those memories and telling them to Heero was something that he really didn't want to do, but he was too afraid of his captor not to. Besides, Heero was trying to be kind, since that was the closest thing that he could use as a word to describe what he was doing with him now. Heero could have just rolled him over and fucked him again, but even with him being a baby about things, Heero wasn't that angry with him. "He…he just liked 'breaking me', is what he called it. He was more interested in the money and drugs that he could get for me then seeing me a person. He just wanted me cowed and broken in so that he could pass me on to someone else to use me. Kept saying that he wasn't gay, even while he was doing me."
Heero grunted and started to gently play with Duo's nipples. His toy was innocent in a lot of things about sex, so it would be good to make sure that his pleasure came first. He hadn't done that with the human slaves that he had mounted, it hadn't been worth the effort to him. Most of the humans that he had used hadn't been as responsive as Duo and he usually wasn't willing to care about what they wanted, since all they usually hoped for was that he was gentle with them, which he had tried to be most of the time. Duo would be worth taking care of. He would train his little human to enjoy his body, that would tie him to Heero more then the outright abuse that Wufei inflicted upon any of his toys in his need to break his human's spirit and bind them to him. To feel some sort of power over someone else, because Wufei had felt powerless most of the time and because he enjoyed their fear more then their pleasure. This would be enjoyable for both of them also. He didn't want those beautiful eyes to be as dead as they had been when Duo had tried to drown himself. He wanted them to look on him with adoration and acceptance. This would be the start in Duo's training, and he would try and make sure that his eyes never lost the life that he saw in them, even if he annoyed him beyond belief while he was training him.
Duo whined and shifted, wondering why Heero continued to stroke his nipples, shuddering a little with the sensations that what he was doing produced. What did this have to do with fucking him? But it was good and made him relax so Heero wouldn't be angry with him, so he let him continue. Not that he could stop him, but this was confusing, how could he feel so much out of such a small area? They hardened as Heero kept touching them and he felt all the blood rushing to his groin and he was getting hard, why was he enjoying this? He didn't like Heero and he didn't want to have sex with a monster, even if his brain was chanting "good…great…excellent!" at him when Heero was touching him.
Heero rumbled with pleasure as Duo responded to what he was doing to him. He slipped him onto his back and knelt over Duo, not letting him do anything as he replaced his fingers with his lips. He started sucking on one of Duo's little nubs, hardening it more with his tongue and teeth. Duo tasted delicious and Heero was sure that he didn't even realize the sounds that he was making in his passion.
Duo grabbed at Heero's head and shoulders, not realizing that he was writhing on the sheets and making choked little sounds in the back of his throat.
"Ah…ah…oh…" Duo continued cry out as he touched and stroked any part of Heero that he could touch, lost in the sensations of what his body was feeling. He was feeling like this because Heero was touching him, shouldn't he touch him back so that he felt good too?
Heero smiled and licked his way down Duo's flat stomach to his cock. He was right in thinking that Duo would respond better to his kindness rather than force, Duo wasn't fighting him now, he was making those breathtaking sounds of passion that made Heero want to just fuck Duo for hours, coming in his body endlessly, just so he could hear those sounds. He should have done this last night, but he was too angry and too impatient to care about Duo's pleasure even after he had found out that Duo had been abused. He should have remembered the way that most humans reacted to him after they had been with Wufei and that his human would act the same way because he had been hurt. Now he would take care of his Duo and it would be sweet for the both of them.
As he licked the drops of liquid that were leaking out of the tip of Duo's cock, he was rewarded with a long moan of passion. Heero debated stopping what he was doing for a second, but Duo tasted unlike anyone that he had known before and he just wanted to drink down all of him. Heero swallowed Duo down to the hilt, nuzzling his curls as he breathed in the smell of musk and Duo. He sucked hard for a minute and wasn't surprised to hear the timber of those moans change into a frantic whine that ended in a full-throated scream, Duo thrusting into his mouth when he climaxed. Duo had come quickly, being unacquainted to the arts of pleasure as he was. Heero was prepared for the spurt of semen that went down his throat and drank it all eagerly, Duo was much better tasting than anyone he had been with before. He smiled up at Duo who was looking at him with glazed eyes, lost still in the sensation of his orgasm. Heero gave into his need and oiled himself, positioning Duo so that he was able to enjoy his body, but not hurt him.
Duo knew that he was lost when his mind blanked out to anything but Heero's mouth and hands. He had never felt anything like this before and all he could do was pant and moan as he let this monster do things to him that he had never let anyone else do, hadn't even thought about someone else doing those things to him. But it felt wonderful and the rest of the world turned into white noise when Heero's mouth went around his cock and all he wanted was for that hot suction to continue. He thrust into that hot wet cavern one or twice and then his universe melted and he came in Heero's mouth, barely able to understand what was happening to him or even who he was anymore.
Duo stared down at Heero who was still nuzzling his crotch even after he had come. His cock felt a little weird, sensitive to everything he swore and he was both relieved and disappointed when Heero stopped licking him and gently turned him on his side.
"Uh…" was the only thing that he managed to get out before he felt Heero's oiled cock slipping between his thighs, Heero rocking between them for a few minutes before he tensed and then held his close and bit his neck, splattering something hot and sticky between his legs in his climax.
Heero grunted in his climax, biting Duo at the juncture of his neck, marking him as his. He was glad that Duo had been lost in his own post orgasmic feelings not to fight him when he took his pleasure with him. He had realized that all the work that he had done would be lost if he had entered Duo's body if it was still sore from their first time. Not that it mattered, he knew of many ways that Duo could pleasure him while he healed and would teach him all of them.
"Mine," Heero growled again only loosening his grip slightly.
Duo shifted and looked up at him, blinking his eyes, apparently on the verge of sleep. Heero smiled and kissed him savagely. He had been right, drown his little one in pleasure and show him that could be good for the two of them and he wouldn't fight him. Duo looked like he could barely stay awake and very appealing with his heavy lidded gaze.
Duo didn't fight the kiss that Heero stole from him, it was a little late to protest it and besides he knew that he couldn't fight Heero and win. He knew that was being a coward, but Heero had been so gentle to him this time, fucking him the way that he had, it could be called fucking since he didn't enter him. He didn't hurt him like he promised and it had been mind blowing when he took him in his mouth. But he was so tired now, exhausted from last night and what he…they…had just been doing.
He knew that he should be either frightened or angry that Heero had just done what he did, but all he was now was sleepy. Heero had been right, it could be good for both of them, even if he didn't like Heero or want him to do that with him. He also knew that he was too out of it to do anything right now but curl up in a ball and sleep. He did that, feeling a slight thrill of fear when Heero's hand went between his thighs, but all that happened was Heero gathering up some of that goop from his body from his thighs onto one of his fingers and rubbed it on his lips. Duo licked his lips unconsciously, finding the taste odd but not bad. He was oddly comforted by the fact that Heero threw his blanket over him after he retrieved it from the floor and let him go to sleep, curling up beside him, staying between him and the door, nuzzling his body in some weird post sex possession fit he thought. Duo was trying to figure out if sleeping between him and the door was to protect him from Wufei or stop him from running from him when he fell asleep, mid-thought almost.
Heero smiled down at his exhausted human, he was surprised at how easily Duo had given in to his playing with his body. What was he planning? Or had he learned not to fight, to enjoy what Heero had to offer him? Heero didn't care, he would train this one to his pleasure, show him that mating with him would be enjoyable. As a reward for his cooperation and a warning not to fight him again, he would show Duo how bad his brother looked now that Wufei was using him for his perverted pleasures.
Duo woke up and stretched slightly, wincing at the sore muscles that he felt. He knew that Heero was still in bed with him, it was hard for him to miss the weight that was on the other side of him or the arm that was thrown across his waist. Didn't Heero want to do something else besides watch him sleep?
"You're awake?" Heero asked huskily.
"Mmmm" Duo murmured. He was still sore down there and he felt really odd. He decided that he really needed a bath and wondered if Heero would let him go long enough so that he could eat and clean up.
"I want you." Heero whispered to him, rolling Duo onto his back.
That woke Duo up fast. He involuntarily squeaked a little and Heero chucked at the noise. He leaned over to kiss Duo, probing his mouth as Duo involuntarily struggled against him. Heero looked down into Duo's frightened eyes and stopped kissing him. He would explain himself to his plaything some more, which would make things easier for them both. He was looking forward to the day that he didn't have to do this, when he could enjoy Duo without giving him the constant reassurances that he wasn't going to hurt him that Duo needed right now.
"Just touching again. I think that you would like this better than something new, since you know that it doesn't hurt."
Duo nodded and relaxed, for some reason he trusted Heero when he told him that he wasn't going to hurt him and that he wasn't going to make him hurt again, at least not this time. He still felt a little weird about all of this, but he wouldn't fight Heero. It had been really good the last time Heero had done him, because Heero hadn't hurt him at all. Heero had snarled a lot, but he was so patient with him about explaining what he wanted to do with him, but it was still bad that he was doing this to him. Was he a coward for not fighting Heero, just letting the gargoyle to those things to his body and liking what he was doing to him? He knew couldn't fight him, he'd end up a bloody pile of Duo and Heero would still be doing things to him. He needed to be in one piece if he was going to get out of here with Treize.
"Thanks," Duo murmured before Heero started kissing him again. Duo relaxed his mouth and let Heero's tongue play with him, Duo was confused that something that was made out of a mineral was so flexible. After a while, Duo muzzily decided that kissing back would be good, Heero had done a lot of tickling with that tongue and he wanted to tickle back, show Heero that he wasn't such a bother all the time.
Heero grinned as Duo responded to him, thrusting back with his tongue and starting to nip at the edges of Heero's lips. It was sexy as hell and Heero let Duo know that by rubbing his erection against his thigh. Duo 'meeped' at that and stopped kissing him, shrinking back a little.
Heero snarled and then stopped, Duo was frightened that he might loose control and hurt him. That was understandable since he was still new to having sex with him…with anyone. The stupid human that had abused him before he discounted, he thought that his human would still be difficult about sex with him even if he hadn't been abused. If all virgins were like this, he didn't ever want to deal with another one. He whispered softly in Duo's ear, "If you have your hand around it, you know where it is."
Duo didn't answer, but Heero felt his smaller hand slowly reach down to touch his cock. He groaned when Duo's hand encircled him and he thrust into that grip. Duo started to pull back, surprised at his reaction, he stopped only when Heero grabbed his wrist.
"That felt good. Play with the tip…" he ordered him.
Duo hesitantly moved his hand up, marveling at the way that Heero felt, since this was giving the phrase 'rock hard' a whole new meaning to him. Heero groaned softly and Duo couldn't even figure out how he was feeling Duo's hand there. He had no nerves or anything since he wasn't really alive, why was he reacting to Duo holding him?
"Show me?" he whispered back, unsure of what Heero wanted. Would he enjoy what Duo did when he was playing with himself? Or did he want something different?
Heero frowned at that whispered plea; his toy hadn't even pleasured himself? Was he that ignorant or was he too frightened of 'hurting' him and getting punished for his mistake?
"You're doing good, but I will show you." Heero said, reaching out to grasp Duo's cock. He cursed the stupid human that had ruined his toy in his mind, wondering what it would be like to have Duo respond to him without having to be reassured that he was not going to hurt him. How sheltered had he been before that had happened to him? Had anyone bothered to show the boy any affection? Had he been interested in pleasuring himself even?
He pumped it slowly, moaning involuntarily when Duo mimicked his actions, their hips bucking and thrusting at each other's touch. Duo couldn't tell if this was good for Heero or not, all he felt was the tight channel that he was thrusting into, as he pumped Heero at the same time. It felt like he was jerking off and he just concentrated on that, pretending that he was the one that was pumping his cock and not Heero. Duo didn't know how long he it had been when he tensed and cried out softly, spilling all over Heero's hand. That must have turned Heero on because he felt him start to pulse and cover him in that goop stuff, his arms suddenly grabbing him and holding him close as Heero came all over the two of them, kissing him roughly. Duo was a little stunned at the level of violence and just went still, wondering what was going to happen next. It had felt wonderful when Heero was jerking him off and he didn't think that Heero was angry even if he had been violent during his climax, it had been just that intense for the gargoyle.
Duo looked up when Heero stopped kissing him, "Uh…um…it was good for you too?"
Heero looked down in confusion. Duo's lips were swollen from the kisses he had been giving him and he looked a little dazed. He didn't seem frightened even if it had been rough, Duo wasn't cowering and from the tone of his voice, it seemed that he might be making a joke, even if he didn't understand it.
"You enjoyed all of it?" Heero asked suspiciously.
"Mostly," Duo admitted, blushing a little while looking guilty that he had enjoyed it, "You did too?"
"I enjoyed it." Heero said solemnly, wondering what part didn't Duo like and he thought it was that he was so brutal at the end. Why was his human ashamed that he had enjoyed him, since he had wanted it to feel good for him?
Duo suddenly smiled, "I got a clue that you did…but you got one too that I liked it."
He must be insane to be joking with this thing. But Heero was trying to be nice and if he was relaxed around him and didn't freak out at the littlest thing, he might be able to get away if Heero was fooled by his act, even though he really did feel good around Heero now. It must be a sex thing because he was now oddly relaxed around Heero, since he felt like a pile of Jell-o and he wanted to curl up again. Duo yawned and stretched, preparing to fall back to sleep again. What was it about sex that did that to him?
Heero smiled as Duo curled up again, falling back to sleep easily it seemed. What was it about him that he needed to sleep all the time? Duo was like a little cat in that aspect, sleepy all the time it seemed. Heero's finger traced a line from Duo's stomach, and over his sternum gathering the evidence of their activity, then gently smeared his lower lip with it, watching as Duo drowsily licked the fluid that he had placed there.
"Do you like that?" Heero asked huskily.
Duo blinked, confused by the question and was silent for a moment before replying, "Tastes kinda odd, but I could get to like it. Its weird tasting yourself, don't you think?"
Duo was wondering why Heero asked him that question, since he was having a hard time thinking right, now he just wanted to sleep. Heero did this the last time too, was it some sort of ritual for him?
"Clean me off." Heero ordered him. He wanted to feel that tongue on his body again.
Duo stared at him for a moment before moving to get out of the bed. Heero grabbed his arm as he started to get up and shook him. "Where are you going?" he demanded.
"To get a washcloth." Duo muttered. He was the one that suddenly needed to be clean, what was his problem?
"Clean me with your tongue." Heero repeated, settling down so that he was on his side, propping his head on his hand, watching to see how tame his human was.
Duo gaped at him, wondering where that order had come from, was that why he had asked him if he liked the taste of that goop? What if he had said no, would Heero have told him to do this?
"Duo…I gave you an order." Heero said, letting his voice get a little harder. Duo had been amenable to everything else that he had done with him this morning, so he didn't think that he would argue about this. Duo would be touching him, since he would be the one that was in 'control' so it should make him feel better about being with him.
Duo flushed and leaned over to start to 'clean' Heero. He didn't think that this was going to really clean him, but if Heero wanted him to do it he would. He knew that he could be Wufei's punching bag right now and he didn't want that even if he felt guilty that Treize was suffering that fate. Licking up a bunch of odd tasting fluids was a small price to pay for Heero being so gentle with him. They didn't taste bad, just strange and he thought if Heero was going to have him doing this a lot he could get to like the taste.
"Just lick up everything that was gooped on you, right?" Duo asked, just wanting to make sure that he was getting this right.
"Human!" Heero growled as he rapidly lost his temper, what kind of foolish question was that?
He groaned with pleasure as Duo slowly started to lick his way across his stomach, delicate little laps of his tongue, imitating a cat drinking cream. Heero wondered if he was doing this deliberately or if he underestimated the effect that it would have on Heero. He glanced down at Duo and the little that he could see of his face showed that the boy was concentrating on his task. He moaned his appreciation as Duo's agile tongue slowly licked up the fluids that had been splashed over him, slowly working his way from his waist to his neck, his last lick flickering over Heero's lips quickly before he leaned up on him to kiss him hungrily, his tongue darting in to touch his own, before he pulled back and stared at Heero with a slight smile on his face.
Heero was amused and a little alarmed, what was Duo playing at? He had been so shy and uncertain earlier and now he was as bold as a courtesan.
Duo giggled a little rolled on his back, "I do good?" he asked playfully, trying to tickle Heero's stomach. "You aren't bad tasting, I'm just wondering what I ate? Is ate a good word to use? Licked in more accurate but I feel really, really weird right now, dizzy and still sleepy. You get sleepy afterwards? Do you sleep? Eat? What's that stuff you shoot out? I know why I do it, but you can't make little gargoyles can you? So what's that stuff? Or can you make little gargoyles? But wouldn't ya need a girl for that? Were there any girl gargoyles?"
Duo rolled back and stared into Heero's eyes, "You know you don't have a belly button? They gypped you out of that, you should complain. Other then that…great body really, Treize would be overjoyed to give you a tumble. He likes guys…me, I don't know. You were nice today and I liked it when you were gentle and why can't I shut up?"
Heero smiled and kissed Duo on the forehead, he didn't know his little toy would react like this. To some humans his essence was like the alcohol that they drank, and it seemed to affect Duo the same way. He was cheerful and talkative, and very relaxed around him for the first time since he had claimed him, he should make Duo do this more often if this was the reaction that he was going to have. This was much better then the struggling body that he mounted at the lake their first time. Duo seemed eager to touch him and enjoy his body now.
He was not going to take advantage of the fact that his little human was half hard and might be interested in Heero mounting him. Tempting a thought as that was, since he knew that Duo wouldn't enjoy it, even if his body wanted Heero, his spirit wasn't willing even with the way that he was acting now. He would eventually train Duo to his pleasure and Duo would then welcome his attentions at any time, so he could wait. He was confused about why he was being so considerate about Duo's feelings, since he was just a human that was there for his pleasure.
"You should sleep then if you're tired." Heero said gently, amused by Duo's babblings, even if he didn't understand half of what he was telling him. Something in him felt good that his human was this much at ease with him, willing to snuggle up to him because he trusted him for some odd reason. He had been told many things in his long existence about the way that he was, but he thought that this was the first time that anyone had told him that he was gentle.
Duo smiled at him and nodded, glad that Heero understood, he had no idea why he was ever afraid of him, "Thanks, you don't mind?"
"I can keep myself occupied while you sleep," he reassured him. He touched the back of Duo's neck gently, feeling the silkiness of his hair and marveling at the fact that Duo was still relaxed around him. He fought the instinct to tighten his hand around Duo's slender neck to show him how weak he was and why he should still fear him. For some unknown reason he was reluctant to show Duo how ruthless he could be with him if he wanted to be. He had usually established that fact with the humans that he used early, showing that he could either be very good for them or could hurt them if they angered him. None of them ever fought back after that lesson, but he really didn't want Duo to be afraid of him, he that wasn't what he wanted with Duo.
"Then after this nap, I get you really clean. Neither one of us is a cat to clean up with our tongue as fun as that was." Duo murmured curling up and snuggling into Heero's body, falling asleep as he gently stroked his hair.
The sun hadn't changed its position much when he woke up next. Duo started to crawl out of bed not really registering that there was someone else in the room with him. He was startled when Heero grabbed his arm and he let out a little startled cry before he could help himself.
"Where are you going?" Heero growled.
Duo blinked at him, "I got to pee and I really want to clean up and eat." He flushed and muttered, "I sort of forgot you were there too."
Heero stared at him, how could Duo forget that he was in bed with him?
Duo noticed the stare and sort of shrugged. That had sounded stupid, but he had forgotten that Heero was with him. Hell, Heero was heavy, so the tilt in the mattress should have been a clue to anyone that was smart, but he was still feeling really weird right now, so he thought that he was missing a few things that were important, like his common sense.
"You are not going anywhere without me." Heero growled. He was not going to let Duo escape or have him used by Wufei, which might happen if he let his toy wander around. He wasn't going to be as bad as Quatre was and lead Duo about like a dog, but the human was not getting more then a couple of arm's lengths away from him in the future.
Duo shook his head, "Indoor plumbing, the bathroom is the room next to this one, just let me close the door and pee, then I can shower with you sort of and get you clean if you want that. The tongue thing doesn't count, that was more of a playing around thing then really getting clean."
Heero stared at him, thinking furiously. Duo was being very informative about what the changes had made when he was imprisoned. What was the trap? Why was he bothering to explain why he was doing right now or was he lying to him to lull him into a false sense of security? What did he mean by indoor plumbing?
Duo saw the suspicious look in Heero's eyes and tried to explain his reasoning to him. "It's real simple. I cooperate with you, and then you don't hit me. Part of that cooperation is telling you what I'm doing and explaining to you stuff that you don't understand. From the way that you reacted to water running out of the tap last night or whenever that was, you don't know about indoor plumbing and other modern stuff. I'll tell you about it as we go along. I'm not trying to insult you or anything, you just didn't have this stuff where or when you're from, did you?"
Heero frowned and then grudgingly replied, "No."
Duo's explanation was very reasonable, but he could be still under the influence of his essence? It hadn't been that long, so Duo should still be feeling the effects and he had been very talkative and relaxed with him then. Could he just be trying to be friendly with him now because he trusted him not to hurt him now? Or was he trying to reassure him so that he would trust Duo and then he would try to run away to get help?
Duo smiled and shrugged, not put off by his curt answer. "Hey I don't care where you're from, you really don't have to tell me, but unfortunately you're here now."
Heero snarled at him and Duo shivered involuntarily, he had been really stupid to tell him that! He tried to explain, even as he realized that Heero was going to beat the shit out of him for talking to him like that, Duo was willing to bet that no one had mouthed off to him before. "I mean that…shit, I wish that the damn crate never showed up here. That you wouldn't be nailing me to the mattress and Treize wouldn't be the plaything of the Gargoyle de Sade."
Heero snarled again and grabbed Duo's arm, semi-dragging him into the bathroom and then throwing him to the floor, "Do what you have to and then clean me!" he didn't know what Duo had told him, but it was unacceptable that Duo didn't want him here. Duo was his human and he was going to like that. He was going to writhe under his touch and enjoy every caress that he gave him if he killed him in the process of teaching him that.
Duo curled up in a little ball and crossed his arms over his head, hoping that Heero didn't kill him. He shivered waiting for the first blow to land, the beating that his captor was going to give him because he expressed the vague wish that he had never touched him.
Heero growled and reached down to lift Duo up, annoyed that he was cowering at him. While part of him felt guilty that he had frightened Duo, most of him was angry that a human had dared tell him that he didn't want him near him. Humans were lesser creatures, even if they had created him. They were weaker and slower then he was, unable to stand up to even the weakest construct in a battle. The one human that he showed any kindness to dared protest that care and attention that he had shown him! Duo knew that he could be brutal and he still told him that he didn't want him to be with him. Didn't he realize that he was the only thing that was protecting his fragile body from his brother's twisted desires? Duo should thank him for any attention that he gave him, because the alternative was not as pleasant as he was. He should have showed him that when he had wanted to, instead of just playing with his hair. Wufei would break him and then throw him on the midden before going on to his next victim. Didn't he try to make it pleasurable for him? He took care not to hurt him again and explained what he was doing to him, he had drowned his little toy in ecstasy and this was how he was repaid by having his toy tell him he was not wanted?
As he lifted Duo up to beat him for his insolence he stopped at Duo's whispered, "Just make it quick. Just kill me."
"Why?" Heero asked quietly. His anger fizzled out when he saw how frightened Duo was. He remembered the conversation that he had had with him about why he was afraid of him and shuddered internally. Duo had tried to be nice to him and he had repaid him with his anger. No wonder the boy asked to be killed, he thought that Heero was worse then Wufei, playing with his emotions and getting Duo to trust him just to turn on him. Heero lowered his arm and waited to for Duo to finish.
"I can't take mood swings…it's too much like living with my mother again, walking around on eggshells so that you didn't get her in a bad mood, which she took out on everyone around her. It got so bad after the divorce, that's why I ran. Wufei may be a sadist, but he honest about it, he's getting his jollies off of breaking bits you." Duo whispered, shivering uncontrollably. He didn't mean to piss Heero off, but he didn't know what was acceptable behavior to him. Heero had been amused at all the babbling that he had done earlier, but if since he mentioned that he didn't want him near him, he went ballistic, Duo continued in a shaky whisper, he had to tell Heero this, even if he beat him to death. "I'm gonna be honest with you Heero, you can kill me or not for it, I don't care. I didn't want anyone near me after I got out of there, away from a guy that wanted to sell me to someone else for his next couple of hits. I know that I don't have a choice now either, since you're going to fuck me, whether I fight back or not. I tried fighting back and you hurt me. I didn't fight about you fucking me and you didn't hurt me. Just because I don't fight you, doesn't mean that I want you fucking me, even if I liked it. I just don't want to be hurt."
Heero stared at Duo, wondering why he had picked such a willful human to make a pet of. He knew that most of the time he was amused be Duo's responses to him, he enjoyed watching his reactions to what he was doing to him during sex. Was the price that he had to pay for a human that enjoyed his body, that the human that would be insolent towards him, showing no respect at all? He had thought that he could tame this human, had he been wrong or was he just expecting too much out of him so soon? He had only had Duo about a day and a night, not that long. Certainly not long enough for his little pet to lose all the fear that he had about sharing his body with him because of that fool that abused him. He shouldn't be angry at Duo just because he needed more training. Heero smiled a little as he thought about he giggly human that had cuddled up with him, intoxicated by his essence. He would put up with some insolence if he got to experience that more often. He decided that after he was cleaned by Duo and he let him see his brother, he would tutor him in the fine art of oral sex, so that he saw that giggly human more often. He liked having someone that was playful with him and it was better for some reason since it was Duo, annoying as he was. Duo was being honest with him about how he felt about being with him. It was just up to him to show Duo that he could enjoy what he was offering him and like him also.
"I'm sorry Duo…" Heero rumbled, "The humans that I used, they were happy about being with me or at least didn't talk back when we chose them to use for our pleasure. But then, we didn't have use of slaves that had any spirit left in them."
"Slaves?" Duo asked, his voice squeaking a little on the word.
Slaves, that explained a lot about their attitude, life was cheap if you were a slave from the vague descriptions that he had gotten in his history classes and no wasn't in their vocabulary. No wonder Heero acted like he did, he wasn't used to someone telling him what was on his mind. The faster that Duo dropped this topic, the longer he would live. No wonder Heero and Wufei acted like they owned them, most of the humans that they dealt with were either their owner or property. He knew what Heero thought they were, just because they couldn't fight them.
"Could you turn your back?" he asked shyly, dropping the topic for his own peace of mind. "I got bashful kidneys."
"Bashful kidneys?" Heero repeated in a bemused tone.
He didn't even bother to ask Duo to explain better what he had just told him. He may not have understood everything that Duo said but he got the basics. Duo let him mate with him just so he wouldn't hurt him. He ignored the small stab of uneasiness that he felt at Duo's statement, he just hoped that as soon as he showed Duo that it could be good all the time with him he wouldn't feel that way. He even hoped that Duo would enjoy him like Trowa had. Heero knew that he shouldn't have these feelings about a mere human, but he thought he felt that way because he was lonely and out of sorts in this strange new place that he had ended up in. He didn't trust Wufei or even like him that much, but he was a tie to his past that he couldn't ignore. A future with just Wufei in it was something that he didn't want to experience, maybe that was why he was so careful with this little human, since Duo was not afraid of him and could learn to like him? He was very out of sorts if he was hoping that a human would be his companion, like Trowa had been.
Duo shrugged, "I can't pee with an audience and you'd throw another fit if I ask you to leave."
Heero smiled at his explanation and turned his back, studying the bathtub so that he would feel better. "I don't trust my brother...if I let you alone…"
Duo thought about that while he peed, Heero wasn't too happy with Wufei, but he doubted that he would do anything to help Treize. He finished and flushed, amused to see that Heero studied where the water went with the same intensity that he had trying to figure out where the water had come from when Duo snagged a drink out of the facet. Duo's head felt a lot clearer after his scare, nothing like a ton of adrenaline racing through your system because you got the crap scared out of you to clear your head. He just had to figure out how to take a shower with Heero without watering the walls and creating a lake on the floor.
"I think that we're gonna have to do this in stages." Duo mumbled, thinking aloud. "I got to see if you and your wings fit in there and then start with the water. Thankfully I got one of those removable shower heads, I can water you like a bush to clean you up."
Heero stared at Duo wondering what he was talking about.
Duo looked up and asked cautiously, "Could you spread out a wing? Can you do one wing at a time? I was thinking that I can start with your wings and then do your body, do you mind?"
"The water comes out of the wall, like it does with the bowl that you just used?" Heero asked him.
"Not the same water. All the water that we use comes from a well that is on the property since were too far out of town to be on town sewerage. It gets pumped into the house by a machine into a holding tank. Two tanks actually, one for hot water and one for cold." Duo told him.
"So a shower will clean me with hot water?"
"It will, but I also don't want to water the floor either." Duo started to tell him. At Heero's confused expression he added, "I want to keep the water in the tub only, which might not happen if your wings stick out too much. If water's outside the tub, it won't go down the drain."
Heero studied the tub carefully and then sat down at the end of the tub, facing Duo with his back to wall. "This should work."
"I hope so," Duo muttered, before asking in a louder tone of voice, "How hot do you like your water?"
"Very hot," Heero told him with a slight smile.
"I don't want to burn you," Duo told him, "so if its too hot tell me."
Heero laughed and shook his head, "Little human I am made out of minerals, and so hot water will not burn me. Pick the temperature that you will be comfortable with and use that."
Duo smiled weakly, he should have remembered that, Heero must think that he was an idiot. He climbed into the tub with Heero and started fooling around with the water. He took down the showerhead asked softly, "Could you spread out a wing? I promise that I wouldn't hurt it. They look fragile and I can't believe that you can fly with them even after I saw it, but then I always believed the bumblebees could."
Heero smiled and leaned back as Duo started to wash his body and his wings. Duo's touch was light and whatever he was using smelled wonderful. "Bumblebees?"
Duo shrugged, "According to physics, bumblebees shouldn't get their pollen gathering butts off the ground, but they do."
"Physics?" Heero asked. If his human was gong to babble at him all the time he could at least explain some of the things that he talked about.
"The science of blowing things up and watching things fall," Duo replied. "All based on the work of one or two guys I swear. But fun to read about even if the math is beyond me."
"Ah…" Heero commented as he let Duo clean him. Washing his body gave Duo something concentrate on and he forgot to be frightened of him again. Physics sounded like one of the things that humans learned about in order to replace magic. Now he only had to figure out how it had replaced magic. He wasn't going to trust Wufei's word on this, because he didn't trust his brother not to lie to him. Wufei had become a stranger to him and he trusted no one. Not even the human that he was trying to tame, with his easy explanations and odd manners.
Heero noticed that his human was in the perfect position for him to suck on his nipples again and so he leaned over a little and started to do that. Duo jumped at little at the attention and almost slipped, only saved by hurting himself by him catching Duo. He shouldn't have startled his little toy that way, but he couldn't resist another taste. Was Duo going to think that he was going to do nothing but mate with him for the rest of his life? From the frightened expression that he had in his eyes, Duo must be thinking that.
"I like your taste," Heero muttered.
Duo scrambled until he was in a more or less upright position and then froze in place.
"I just want to touch, nothing more." Heero grinned a little, "I want to clean you."
"Okay." Duo told him, "I was using a shower gel on you when I was washing you. I know that it's a little girlish, but I like the smell. Just pour some on the washcloth and then start scrubbing…gently."
Heero enjoyed the smell also, ginger and cinnamon. They enhanced the boy's natural scent and he followed his advice. He cleaned Duo's cock last and had a wonderful time making his human writhe with pleasure as he teased him while he was cleaning him. He played with the curls there and wasn't surprised to feel Duo harden under his touch. The gel made it easy for him to play with Duo and he liked the reaction that Duo had to his attentions.
Duo watched with horror as he started to react to that monster playing with him. He didn't like the fact that he had a hard-on and he really didn't like the pleased expression that Heero had as he unconsciously protested when he stopped playing with him, because it felt so good.
"Later…" Heero promised.
Duo nodded, too scared to protest. He had told Heero the truth, he might not like what he was doing to him in his mind, but he also knew that fighting back left him hurt and Heero would take what he wanted any way.
"I got to do my hair now," he managed to gasp out even as he wanted to finish what Heero had started. His hand reached down to touch himself and he was surprised to have Heero's iron gripe stop him from doing that.
"If I wanted you to do that, I would have told you." Heero snarled at him. "Don't touch yourself or I will beat you."
"Yes." Duo told him, blushing bright red that he had even wanted to do that in front of Heero.
"Do your hair and then I will take you to the food preparation room." Heero told him as he watched Duo's erection wilt. He had embarrassed his toy when he played with him like that, but Duo hadn't wanted to him to stop touching him either. Duo needed to learn that he wasn't going to hurt him if he obeyed him and that he could enjoy his touch. He also had to learn that while he wasn't going to hurt him, Heero was the one that controlled his pleasure and that he was not allowed to touch himself unless he was told to.
Duo washed his hair quickly and then hastily conditioned it, because the hot water was starting to run out and he hated cold showers.
"I will do your hair." Heero told him as Duo turned off the water and wrapped a towel around his head to get the excess water out of his hair.
"Okay…" Duo reluctantly agreed to his order. He'd do almost anything to keep Heero in this good mood. He just hoped that Heero knew what a brush was and how to use it.
Heero watched Duo as he quickly dried off his body and then his own, kissing him roughly when he was through, wanting nothing more then to play with his human. Duo had mentioned food and he knew that humans should eat when they were hungry because it was stupid to deny them food.
Duo stood still for the kiss that Heero 'rewarded' his good work with and was proud off the fact that he didn't react to the way the Heero seemed to want to eat him alive. He was embarrassed that his stomach started making 'feed me' noises during the kiss, but Heero had laughed at that, so it wasn't too bad he guessed.
"You are hungry?" Heero asked him.
"A little," Duo admitted.
"Then I will let you do your own hair." Heero told him. "It will be faster. I will play with it later. We have time."
Duo shivered at the implications of his statement, that Heero wanted him around for a long time. He hurriedly brushed out his hair and braided it. It was wet but if Heero was willing to let him alone long enough to eat, he could put up with a wet braid. He started to go back into his bedroom to get something to wear when Heero moved in front of him.
"I want you naked." Heero snarled at him. His toy had a wonderful body and he wasn't going to cover it up with the strange clothes that humans wore now.
Duo nodded, trying to ignore the sinking feeling that he had. Clothes made him feel safe, but he knew that explaining that to his captor would be a waste of breath. Heero wanted him naked, so he would be naked. He just hoped that the other gargoyle wouldn't touch him or at least Heero would protect his 'prize' from his brother.
Heero ignored the strange look that was in his human's eyes. Duo was under his protection and Wufei wouldn't lay a paw on his human if his brother knew what was good for him. His human had nothing to worry about.
Heero escorted Duo the kitchen and watched him make something to eat for himself and Treize. He was silent as he watched Duo scrape clean the plates that had the food that the two of them had been eating when they had captured them. He was confused when Duo just put them on a box that was under the food preparation area that had cups and bowls in there, how was he going to clean the plates? He was also trying to figure out where the rest of the food was stored in this place. He couldn't smell anything really, how did these people eat if there was no food in their dwelling? What had changed for the humans while he was under that spell with Wufei? He was pulled from his musings by Duo saying something to him.
"Hn…" he muttered, trying to remember out what Duo had asked him, since he hadn't been paying attention to whatever he had been talking about.
"I asked if you cared what I made for us to eat?" Duo repeated, "I don't know what your usual diet is, but I'll try and make something that you like."
"We don't need to eat." Heero told him, "We run off of the energy that we gather from the world around us and the power that our creators gave us when they created us."
Duo frowned thoughtfully at that information and then asked him curiously, "Solar powered golems? Or Nuclear? Fission? Fusion? Wishes?"
"I don't understand what you're asking me." Heero snarled, "Nor is it your business, human!"
Duo shuddered and stepped out of his reach in the face of Heero's anger. He shouldn't have run off at the mouth, figuring out what made Heero tick might give him the info on how to shut him down and destroy him, not that he really wanted to hurt Heero. He would gleefully shove Wufei into a supernova, the sadistic bastard, but so long as Heero kept his paws off of him, he would let him wander around in this brave new world that he found himself in.
"Just a bunch of different power sources," Duo explained in what he hoped was a soothing tone. "I'll explain later them later to you, if you want me to. Right now I just want something to eat. Can I check on Treize too? See if I can…you know…take care of things…stuff that he might need…"
Heero looked down into Duo's pleading eyes. Heero knew that he wouldn't tell him, but Duo was terrified about what was happening to his brother. He didn't miss the way that Duo tried to get out of his reach when he was angry, but was still willing to explain things to him. He was frightened of what he might do to him, but he wasn't reacting in the mindless terror that he showed the first night when he panicked at his mating with him. Duo was worth the bother that he was going to have with training him if he wasn't afraid of him, like so many humans had been.
"I will let you check on your brother. I also will not let Wufei push him beyond what physical punishment that he can take." Heero told him. He knew that it wasn't much but Duo seemed happy at what little hope he had offered him.
"Thank you," Duo murmured before he whirled around to open the box that was behind him. Heero blinked at the chill that he felt come out the box and was surprised to see food in there. No wonder he couldn't smell a lot of food, the humans had managed to figure out how to harness the coldness of winter so that things didn't spoil on them.
"How does this cold box work?" Heero demanded.
Duo looked up and shrugged. "I don't know the technical explanation. Basically, it keeps things that we put in there cold so that things don't get nasty. It doesn't mean that if you leave strawberries or milk in there too long they aren't going to spoil, just not as fast as if they weren't kept as cold. Something to do with an element called freon and electricity and insulation. I can look up a better explanation if you want, but just let me feed Treize first before I hit the 'Net to find out how this thing works."
"That is interesting. Sorcerers sometimes could do that, but it was usually just easier to salt down the meat or slaughter an animal to eat when you wanted it." Heero told him.
"That's all industrialized now." Duo replied. "Big areas that all you do is kill animals and then cut them up into pieces parts to be shipped out to stores and then bought by the person that wants to eat it, many, many miles away from where the animal was killed."
Duo grabbed something out of the box and threw it at him. Heero caught it instinctively and then looked at what he had in his hand. It looked like it was some sort of meat that had been wrapped in a flexible glass and sealed to the strange white material that it rested on. People ate this? It looked like some sort of meat, but it he really couldn't smell it.
"Most people that you talk to nowadays think that Moo Cow meat only comes wrapped in these neat plastic packages and have no idea that what they drive by in that field is the same thing that gives them milk. It's the same things with chickens, pigs and other food animals. The look on a kid's face when he realizes that is priceless." Duo explained.
"What's industrialization?" Heero asked, trying to picture what a place must smell like if all that happened there was the slaughtering of animals. How could anyone live near someplace like that? How did you feed all that cattle while people killed them?
"Mmmm," Duo thought for a second as he tried to figure out how to explain all the changes that had happened while Heero was in that box.
It wasn't like he was dumb, he had picked up on how a 'fridge worked easy enough. He was silent for a minute thinking about how he could explain all the neat goodies that modern society had, as he made himself a salad. He really didn't want to eat it, but he knew that he had to eat the fresh vegetables first before they went bad. With any luck he could get him and Treize out of here before they went through all the canned goods. Heero was silent as he watched Duo throw together a bowl of precut vegetables and then cover it with some odd looking green sauce from out of a bottle1. Duo poured himself a glass of soda before he got a fork to eat the rabbit special he had made for himself. After a couple of bites, he looked at Heero and shrugged.
"It's kind of hard how to explain some of this stuff to you. We just have a different set of experiences. In a nutshell, industrialization is what shaped my society and allowed most regular people to have all sorts of neat goodies. You just make a whole lot of stuff at the same time, using the same basic steps over and over again. That leads to something called mass production and then better way of life for everyone in that country. Which leads to all sorts of other neat benefits, like fresh vegetables and fruits year round."
Heero shook his head, "I don't understand. Most humans live like this?" he asked gesturing at the kitchen.
Duo shook his head, "A lot of them can. It's kind of hard to explain without running you through the entire Social Studies class that I had on the World Economy."
Heero growled, "Explain it then. I do not understand the words that you use. What does the expansion of energy in a race have to do with anything that you tell me?"
Duo cocked his head, trying to figure out where the hell that came from. Racing…running… slang, that was a problem, Heero and Wufei had no concept of slang. He might be able use that to his advantage, since Heero didn't have any sort of an accent, he forgot that the gargoyle had no idea of modern idioms. Duo smiled and flushed, he really didn't want Heero to feel stupid and not because he would get snarled at. He was trying to be nice to him in an odd sort of way. Heero acted like he was a prize he had won, which sucked but at least he listened to him and wasn't being too grabby.
"The guys that put you together, they hand carved you right? They went to a lot of trouble to get the way that you looked just so. They chanted up a storm and got their bits and pieces that they needed to make sure that they got you up and working for them. They did that for all of you, one at a time and it must have taken them forever. Because of the way that they worked, they could only concentrate on making one Heero or one Wufei."
"Basically, that is what our creators did. I explained all this to you earlier." Heero told him impatiently. What did that have to do with this thing called industrialization?
"What if they managed to get their hands on a huge amount of topaz?" Duo asked him. "Enough to make ten golems. Then they got enough of the other stuff that they used to make you for, enough for ten Heeros."
"So what if they did?" Heero asked, trying to figure out where this was going.
"Then they had a spell or a machine that carved out all ten of you in the shortest time possible. Perfect copies, so that all of you looked the same."
"A machine that would do that?" Heero asked in amusement. "I can imagine that, but there is a lot more then just carving to create a golem."
"I know," Duo agreed with him, "but this is a 'what if' sort of thing. We are making Heeros like one would turn out the cold boxes, also known as refrigerators."
"So you have the ingredients together and you have your magic users chanting up a storm so that they can get through the ritual in the shortest time possible. They do this day and night, and turn out a number of Heeros that all look alike, like a batch of cookies made from a mold."
Heero thought for a second, "They have done all the work at the same time, all the rituals and the assembly. They make golems, not one at a time, but in batches. Less work and more output."
Heero decided not to mention some of the other things that had been used to put him together. He didn't think that Duo was ready to understand about human sacrifice and he didn't want him to shy away from him for any other reason then his shyness about sharing his body with his master.
Duo nodded, "That's the basis of the Industrial Revolution. Mostly…kinda and a very simplified explanation. A lot of people think that mass produced items lack a soul or aren't special. I don't know. All I know that because of that I was living a nice comfy life."
"Until I showed up." Heero told him.
Duo opened his mouth and then shut it again. He didn't want to ruin this rare moment of peace by pissing Heero off. He ate the rest of his meal in silence, hoping that it could last. He rinsed out his bowl when he was through and put it in the dishwasher. "I'll run it later," he muttered half to himself.
"You have machines that wash your dirty plates?" Heero asked.
Duo nodded, "Dishes and clothes. Just let me heat something soup up for Treize and I can feed him."
"We will feed him," Heero reminded him. He was not letting his little human out of his sight if he could help it. He didn't trust Wufei at all and didn't want Duo to get caught in a power struggle between the two of them if he could help it. He also knew that Wufei could carry a grudge for a long time and since Duo had rejected his advances he would do anything that he could to hurt him.
"Thanks Heero." Duo murmured again as he slowly pushed open the door to Treize's room. He felt better knowing that Wufei was keeping himself occupied in the library. He wouldn't have to hide his reaction from the bastard about whatever he had done to Treize if he wasn't around.
Heero grunted and walked into the room that reeked of blood and sex after him. He really didn't want Duo to see this now and he knew that his brother wouldn't want Heero near him if he had a choice. Not after whatever Wufei had done to him, but Duo wanted…needed to take care of his brother and seeing how bad Heero could hurt him would be warning enough to make Duo cooperate with him. Not that it was really a problem, since Duo was submissive as anyone could ask of in a slave, most of the time. Heero just wanted him to stop jumping at the wrong moments and talking about things that he didn't understand.
Duo put down the bowl of soup on the desk. He walked noisily over the bed and glad to note that Heero stayed near the door. "Treize?" he called out softly. He didn't know if he should be happy or sad that he just heard a soft moan from the lump on the bed that slowly began to move.
"Duo?" Treize replied softly.
"I brought you something to eat and…and to see if you…you needed me." Duo whispered. He didn't want to make any loud noises, because he didn't want the other gargoyle, Wufei within a foot of him again. He thought if he was too loud it might come back here to see what he was doing.
Treize shifted and sat up, hissing and groaning as his body protested this movement. Duo looked at him and tried to smile. That he managed to smile he was glad to say, even if there were tears flowing down his cheeks. In the dim light Treize looked awful. He right eye was swollen mostly closed and there was a lot of blood encrusted on his face keeping the other one shut from a cut on his forehead. There were bruises on his face also, Wufei had really knocked him around for his kicks Duo thought. There was also bruising on his chest and rib area, Duo just hoped that nothing was broken. He almost absentmindedly noted the collection of handprints on Treize's hips and thighs. He had a matching set from Heero from last night and his were as visible with his pale skin as all of Treize's bruises were. If he could see Duo, he'd know what he had been doing, even if the noise that he had been making with Heero wasn't a clue. Duo shivered and he hoped that Treize could forgive him someday for ending up with the good gargoyle.
Treize heard Heero move into the room and went white at the sound.
Duo saw his reaction and shook his head, even though he knew that Treize couldn't see him before explaining to him quickly, "Its Heero and he's not getting any closer, that I know of. He just wants to watch me. I think that I fascinated him when I showed him how a gas stove and an electric can opener works. The shower just made his day I swear. So if you want a shower, he probably wants to watch."
Treize shook his head, trying to ignore the pain that shot through his body at that movement. Heero was more interested in Duo then he was any appliance and even if Duo wouldn't say anything about his treatment at the hand of the other gargoyle, Treize had figured out from the muffled screams that he had heard that Heero was sexually active with Duo and he was being kind enough or practical enough to make sure that Duo was enjoying himself, unlike the one that had him. He glared at where he thought Heero was when Duo sounded like he was fooling around with the food that he had brought to him. Treize didn't know why he was playing macho bullshit games with something that could break his neck with very little effort, but he had to do something to about these two to protect Duo.
Heero stared back impassively, wondering again what kind of fools had let them loose. The older one had been beaten thoroughly by Wufei to the extent that he couldn't see him and he still tried to challenge him about his brother! Duo was a mixture of fear and bravery that he had never seen before. What had happened to the world and the humans that he knew?
"I think that you better feed me Duo." Treize told him calmly, ignoring Heero after that one stare.
Duo looked up suddenly, frightened that he asked him for help. "Treize?"
"I was not as cooperative as I should have been in the beginning." Treize explained softly, "So I have a few broken fingers. Plus I am more interested in food, then seeing how bad the damage is, since I can't see."
"Oh shit." Duo didn't want to say anymore, broken fingers on an artist were bad and damaged eyes were a worse injury for one. "Your eyes look good, just a little puffy."
Treize smiled gently to reassure him and shook his head, "Off hand for the fingers and I figured out about my eyes, I just hoped that it wasn't wishful thinking."
Duo nodded and muttered, "Small favors," before sitting down to start spooning liquid into Treize. Hopefully he would be able to keep it down. Duo remembered that he was sick to his stomach the entire time that he was held before. Treize ate quickly, not knowing when Heero would get bored and take Duo away so that he could entertain him more.
Duo sighed with relief when Treize ate everything and asked, "Do you want more?"
Treize shook his head. He had only eaten because he didn't want to worry Duo and he knew that he needed to keep up his strength, either to escape or endure the monster that was torturing him.
Duo looked at him and then asked gently, "Do ya want me to set them? I think that I could do that. Or just tie 'em together. And clean you up a little…get the blood and…and…and whatever off of you. A shower maybe?"
Treize hugged Duo gently he knew that he was putting up a brave front to cope with what was happening to them. Treize had realized earlier that there was nothing personal in Wufei's abuse of him, it wasn't something that he had done, because that was just that the monster enjoyed hurting people. He knew later that he might not be so accepting of his fate, but for now he was. It might have helped that he had learned the difference between love, lust and enduring bad sex with someone a long time ago. He had experimented a lot in college and had dabbled in some not so nice areas of sex, discovering that most of sex came under the bad and ugly category and if you were lucky…the good. Duo never had that chance to learn and Treize was worried about what was happening with his shy little brother. He was worried that Duo would hate himself for all this if they ever got away, thinking that he had done something wrong when he enjoyed his captor's attentions, because he had never had been with someone before this as far as he knew.
"I think that Wufei should be asked for permission if you plan to do that," Treize replied quietly, "he might want to enjoy the screaming that setting them is going to cause. He enjoyed the screams I made when they broke. He might decide to break something else if he doesn't give me permission to clean up and I do clean up and I don't want to deal with that."
Heero stared at him for a second before nodding and then left the two of them alone. Treize wasn't as foolish as he acted if he figured that out about his brother. Let Wufei make all the decisions and he would be happy for a little while and Treize might save himself some pain.
Duo watched Heero leave and then whispered quickly, "They understand English and speak it, but I don't think that they know it. And technology…Heero couldn't understand how water got to the house or anything like that."
"They haven't been 'alive' or active for a while, I think that they had been in that box for a long time." Treize whispered back, hugging Duo to comfort him.
"A touching scene isn't it brother?" Wufei purred from the doorway. "They do look good together. Maybe later we can watch them play? Would you like that Heero?"
Heero shrugged, trying to pay no attention to Wufei's attempts to anger him. He noticed that Treize tightened his grasp on Duo for a second before letting him go, trying comfort him in the face of Wufei's maliciousness? Heero had learned long ago to ignore Wufei, he didn't like his brother, but he was all that he had right now. He hoped that Wufei didn't notice that gesture of Treize's, since he would use that information and make sure that the brothers 'played' together. As Heero recalled hazily, it was a taboo to humans and they would argue about it before eventually giving into Wufei's demands. Heero thought that Wufei would enjoy forcing them into accepting what he wanted more then watching the act itself. It wasn't going to happen though, since no one was going to touch Duo like that but him!
Apparently Wufei hadn't because he continued in the same purring voice, "Heero will set those little breaks. I shouldn't let him, but I think that you have learned your lesson. Your little brother can help you get cleaned up afterwards."
Treize nodded his agreement, he had learned that he had to submit to this creature or Duo's neck would be snapped like his fingers had been. Wufei had laughingly told him that in the beginning and he truly believed him now. With what that thing had done to his body, he didn't want him ever getting his hands on Duo. He wasn't too sure if Heero would protect Duo or share him with that monster and he never wanted to find out.
Heero grunted and grasped the hand with the crooked fingers. The last two looked odd and he thought that might be the reason that Treize had been screaming the second time. He knew why he had been screaming initially. He pulled them straight, barely noting the scream that Treize let out at his action. "You should tie them together," Heero growled as he turned around to a very white Duo and pointed at him, "Get something. Then you can clean him up."
"Concerned?" Wufei sneered. He knew that Heero had a tendency to be submissive with the rest of their group, but this was appalling. Next thing that was going to happen would be that fragile human would be mounting his brother.
"They last longer if you care for them. If you break yours too soon, you are not playing with mine." Heero said quietly, looking Wufei straight in the eye.
Wufei was as strong and as tough as he was, but Heero had won all of the fights that they had had in the past. He would win one now with him and Wufei knew that. He didn't care enough most of the time to fight for dominance in their grouping, but he wasn't as weak as Wufei thought he was. He submitted because he had been afraid of hurting his brothers, they had had enough pain from the humans that they served, why hurt each other?
Wufei let his gaze drop and laughed suddenly. Heero was right. He would be 'gentler' with his human. He didn't want to go through the bother of finding a new one, since he knew now that Heero wasn't going to share. There many things that he could do to make him scream that weren't too damaging, nerve clusters were wonderful things in a human and he knew the location of all of them.
Duo scurried into the bathroom and grabbed whatever he could find in there. He knew that Treize kept odds and ends around for emergencies, he was glad of that right now. If he could just make it through this without throwing up he would be grateful. He wet down a washcloth and decided that he would wash Treize a little first and then see what he could do to bandage him up.
Duo walked out of the bathroom, disturbed by Wufei's staring at him. Heero was staring at him too, but Wufei looked like he wanted to eat him like he was the last bit of food at a banquet and Wufei was starving. Heero just watching to make sure that Wufei behaved himself rather then anything else, it seemed. He washed the blood off of Treize's face and was glad to see that he could open his eyes a little. Duo didn't think that he had a concussion or anything like that, and that the fingers were the worst of the damage right now. They just had to escape before it escalated any further. Duo ignored the two gargoyles as they watched everything that he was doing and started to wrap Treize's broken fingers making sure the brace them with a wooden splint that he found. It wasn't professional, but it was as close as Treize was going to get until they got out of here. Duo jumped a little when he felt Heero come up behind him and peer at what he was doing.
"Competent." Heero grunted.
Duo looked up, confused at the attention. "You know first aid?"
"I fixed a lot of humans, something I learned…" Heero didn't finish the rest of the sentence and from the sick look on Duo's face, he had figured out why Heero was so good at fixing humans, because Wufei hurt a lot of them.
Wufei laughed coldly. "If you are through with my toy, you can clear out of this room."
Duo opened his mouth to protest, but shut it when Treize shook his head. Wufei was not going to let him clean up and arguing about it would only make it worse. Any reaction that Duo or he had to this thing would just incite its fury and Treize didn't want to give it any ammunition to use against him later. He was glad that he learned that the other one was taking care of Duo and apparently wasn't going to hurt him, so one of them might make it out of this situation alive.
Heero shrugged and lifted Duo into his arms, ignoring the surprised squawk that he made at that move. "We'll go. For now."
Wufei bristled and snarled, "I…"
"I wanted to make sure that he's not too damaged." Heero interrupted in a bored tone. "We need information about this place and this time, you said so yourself. Hurting the humans that we have too badly so that they can't give us the information that we need or lying to us because they don't think that they have any hope is not wise. We need to find out too many things to abuse either one of these two before we find out that information. Curb yourself until we can afford to waste his life. I will be checking on him daily with my toy."
Wufei laughed again, surprised that his dour brother actually cared about the humans. He noted the care that he held his little toy with and remembered that Heero had made his toy scream with pleasure, not pain. Heero's brains must have rotted during the time that they were frozen because of that spell. The humans were lower creatures that may have created them, but they also served them. So why was he taking the time to make sure that his toy enjoyed what they were doing? The little brat was a biter and annoying because he didn't show the proper amount of respect for them, so why was Heero catering to the little piece of waste by being nice to him?
Heero frowned at his 'brother'; Wufei wasn't foolish, so why was he acting it? Things had changed, more than just the books and the language. Humans had made many wonderful things without magic, now they might have made a weapon that could actually hurt them. If the humans had managed to pipe water into their homes and heat it, make boxes that cooled things down and harnessed elements that chased back the darkness, they had to have learned about things that could hurt them. Duo and his brother were the only humans that were here for them to ask without exposing themselves to capture by the authorities, which might happen if they had to get more humans. So they should be taken care of so that they could tell them what they needed to know to survive in the strange place that they found themselves in. Did Wufei even understand yet that they weren't as powerful as they once were because they did not have the authority of the Council behind them and that they were alone in this odd place?
"I don't want to have to fix any more broken bones, torn flesh or have to bury his body. Wufei, try and restrain those nasty impulses of yours until we find out about this place." Heero growled at him before walking out the door with Duo.
Treize felt relieved when he heard the two gargoyles arguing. He couldn't understand most of what they were talking about, but he thought that the gargoyle named Heero was trying to protect Duo from the other one. He saw that Heero was willing to be careful with Duo and for all his harsh words, was cradling his body almost protectively. He briefly wondered what their argument had been about, because they had been talking too softly and in a language that he didn't even recognize. He stopped thinking and felt his stomach twist in fear when he saw Wufei looking down at him with a wolfish grin on his face once Heero left the room with his brother.
"My brother did leave me with some guidelines to take care of you," he purred, "but he wasn't really thorough enough for once. Heero never did understand how fragile you humans are or how many different ways you can hurt without breaking flesh or bones. And I will teach you all of them…"
End Part Two
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