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Re: Smoke and mirrors. [TALLY!]
« Reply #20 on: February 11, 2014, 11:11:56 pm »
"I can get behind that." Jake held his mug up and grinned. "To finally ending a crappy day!"

He clinked their glasses together and took a gulp of beer. "And may tomorrow not be half so shitty," he added.

Though, shit. He might have to consider tucking in earlier than he'd planned. Now that he was sitting after standing on his feet all day, exhaustion was starting to creep up on him fast. But he just sat up straighter (that was supposed to help you not feel tired, right?) and hid another yawn behind his hand. Hopefully the food would wake him up.

"Ha, sorry," he said, propping his elbow on the table and resting his chin in his hand. "Long day. Sitting down's always a trap after standing all day."
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Re: Smoke and mirrors. [TALLY!]
« Reply #21 on: February 11, 2014, 11:40:40 pm »
Aydan chugged a healthy portion of the beer in one go.

"It is, isn't it?"  Aydan sat back, watching Jake more conspicuously now.  Mona's knife had stilled.  Her sons spoke more quietly at the bar, the Marshal shooting glances at Jake out of the corner of his eye.

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Re: Smoke and mirrors. [TALLY!]
« Reply #22 on: February 11, 2014, 11:53:50 pm »
"Uh...yeah," Jake said, leaning more heavily on his elbow. He jolted when his hand started to slip out from under him and jerked up straighter, blinking at Aydan.

"Wait, sorry...what'd you say?" His words came out slightly slurred. Shit. No. scratch that. He wasn't going to make it. Aydan was starting to blur in his vision and it was becoming difficult to keep his eyes open. Fuck. He rubbed at his face.

"I...whoa. I think I...um..." He was trying to say he needed to leave, but the words slipped away.
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Re: Smoke and mirrors. [TALLY!]
« Reply #23 on: February 12, 2014, 09:10:41 pm »
"I think you're right," Aydan said, watching Jake sway in his chair.  He grabbed his arm to steady him so he didn't go toppling.  Mona's sons snickered to themselves.

His phone chirped again—Bard with a delightful follow up picture.  He texted back with one hand. 

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« Reply #24 on: February 12, 2014, 09:29:46 pm »
Something was very, very wrong. Jake's head was swimming, his body heavy with lethargy, and some instinct in the back of his head was screaming this wasn't normal, something was happening, but he couldn't do a thing about it. He felt Aydan steady him but his words seemed to be coming at him as though from a distance, like in a dream.

"Aydan...? Something's wrong," he muttered, his own voice sounding distant and detached in his own ears. He tried to push himself up but wobbled, falling back into his seat.
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Re: Smoke and mirrors. [TALLY!]
« Reply #25 on: February 13, 2014, 03:23:40 pm »
"I know," Aydan said, holding Jake up so he could get a look at his eyes.  Near fully dilated.  Good enough.  He tucked his phone away and pulled Jake up with him, slinging his arm around his shoulder for support.

Mona's hand disappeared beneath the counter.  "Room's open, now."

"Thanks.  I won't be long."  They ascended a flight of stairs up to a steel door.


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« Reply #26 on: February 13, 2014, 03:50:10 pm »
Jake had to cling to Aydan's shirt to feel grounded because it felt like he was floating. He stumbled up the stairs, only held upright because of Aydan. Snippets of conversation came to him, but none of it really made much sense.

At least not until a thought filtered through the haze and he remembered, vaguely, that stairs were...wrong. There hadn't been stairs coming here.

He stumbled on one of the top stairs and let himself sink down like his body wanted to. He shook his head, and regretted it when the world spun. "Wait..."
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Re: Smoke and mirrors. [TALLY!]
« Reply #27 on: February 13, 2014, 05:51:23 pm »
The door gave with but a little pressure, revealing a small room with a table in the middle.  Aydan dragged Jake up to his feet and bend him over that table, face down.

He left Jake there while he crossed to one of the walls and flipped on a camera there, one carefully aimed so as to capture Jake, but nothing else.

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Re: Smoke and mirrors. [TALLY!]
« Reply #28 on: February 13, 2014, 09:21:02 pm »
Fresh dread filled Jake at the blurred sight of that room, but he could do nothing as he was dragged to that table, and the only resistance he could offer was to go limp. He slumped over the table and tried to move, but he couldn't will his muscles to work; everything felt heavy, exhausting. And then, head spinning, a red light caught his attention--and a new wave of panic swept over him. Panic that was at odds with his lethargy, giving him a strange sensation, like being on the outside looking in.

He managed to push himself up onto his elbows, shaking with the effort. "Aydan, please..."
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« Reply #29 on: February 13, 2014, 10:54:40 pm »
"Beg more," Aydan said.  "They'll like that."

He shoved Jake back down and reached beneath him to get at his belt, unfasten it and yank his pants and underwear down.  Not far, just enough to expose his ass to the camera.  Aydan did love half-clothed sex.

A supply shelf held some lube, and Aydan spent a minute getting himself hard grabbing a decent sized dildo.  Another time he might have played around, taken it slow, but Bard's texts had made him impatient and he eased it into Jake immediately, preparing him.

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« Reply #30 on: February 14, 2014, 10:39:28 pm »
"No, no, no..." Aydan was taunting him, but he begged anyway, his voice weak in his own ears. It was all he could do, shoved down on that table with his body betraying him, unable to fight back, as the terrifying reality unfolded like some surreal, terrible dream. A dream he could watch but couldn't participate in, a captive audience to his own violation. He felt Aydan yank his pants down, and his head dropped down onto his arms. He shook his head, denying it, wanting to wake up, wake up now.

"Stop...please..."

The pain he felt was no dream.

Jake cried out, and clawed at the table, but he was paralyzed--from fear, from the drugs. The drug had relaxed him, but his body was unprepared for the cold, hard intrusion, the sensation cutting through the haze. "S-stop!"
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Re: Smoke and mirrors. [TALLY!] [M]
« Reply #31 on: February 18, 2014, 11:00:43 pm »
Aydan was more interested in getting off than drawing this out.  He got Jake just loose enough to take his cock and that was it.  A few minutes of vigorous fucking and he was done.

When he finished cleaning himself up at a well-supplied sink, he grabbed a vibrator off the shelf, turned it on high, and shoved it in Jake as far as it would go.  Before he left, he took the kid's business card from his wallet.  Who knew?  Might want to look him up again.

Downstairs, he paid Mona.  "Thanks, gorgeous."

"Anytime."  She winked at him, and didn't bother to count her payment.  "Boys, clean up?"

Her sons both downed what was left of their drinks.  They headed upstairs, but not before inviting the other guest to join them.

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Re: Smoke and mirrors. [TALLY!] [M]
« Reply #32 on: February 21, 2014, 12:38:40 am »
Sometime during it, Jake blacked out.

Now and then, there were flashes of consciousness, of awareness. The stinging slap of flesh against his backside, something moving inside him, and darkness again. Time no longer existed. It could have been seconds or hours before he came back to himself, the world reeling around him, something buzzing faintly. Someone was moaning, the sound close to a sob and too close to his ears. He squirmed, body aching, pressure building, head throbbing. Fuck. Was that him?

He faded out again.

Voices, several voices. The world swam back into existence, but everything was fog, and still that buzzing, the faint groans. His face stuck to the surface it was pressed to, drool on his chin. And then figures, their details obscured by fog. Reality flickered again and came back, the figures drew closer, laughing, and he heard muttering, no, no, no. And then that stopped. Something forced in his mouth, gagging, and the world went dark.
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« Reply #33 on: February 21, 2014, 12:51:10 am »
The three of them—Mona's two sons, plus their friend from the pub—fucked Jake on camera until they couldn't possibly sate themselves anymore.

"All right, let's get him to the alley."

"Hey, leave the vibrator in.  Let him find all that cum in him when he wakes up."

They carried him in a plastic tarp through a false door, down a long hallway that cut beneath the entire neightborhood, and finally deposited him several blocks away, in a dark alley cramped by support beams and crates.  The Marshal pissed on him before they left back the way they came.

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« Reply #34 on: February 21, 2014, 01:51:25 pm »
When Jake came to, the first thing he did was throw up--which was a blessing, because it got rid of the taste of cum.

He managed to roll onto his side before he did, which meant some of it got in his hair and clothes, but right then he didn't have the clarity of mind to care. Everything hurt. His head felt split in two, his stomach roiled with nausea, and his body...

Oh gods.

Jake almost convinced himself it was a bad dream. Too much drinking, he'd gotten a little crazy. Wasn't like he'd never been dumb and blackout drunk before. He could have convinced himself that's what had happened if not for the throbbing pain between his legs. He reached down, shakily, found the edge of the vibrator, and his mind went numb, his throat tightening until it was hard to breathe. Still inside him.

He bit his lip and managed to ease it out, though it hurt, his flesh torn and tender, blood and semen dried at the edges and keeping it stuck to his skin. But worse even than the pain was the sensation of more semen seeping out, trickling down his thigh.

He threw up again.

Though everything felt fuzzy, there were flashes of memory here and there. Of Aydan, the cigarette, going to get a drink, and then...Jake stopped there, whether by choice or by drugs. But it didn't matter that he couldn't remember everything. The physical evidence was covering him.

Inside him.

Shaking, he got to his feet and stepped out of his pants, movements mechanical. He stripped off his underwear and wiped himself off with it, desperate to be rid of the evidence. Then, tossing his underwear to the side, he yanked his pants back up. They were wet in weird places, and so was his shirt and hair, and the smell was foul--gods. Urine? His stomach roiled again and he leaned against the nearest wall and sucked in deep breaths, eyes shut, hand against his mouth to keep from vomiting again. This was unreal. Fucking unreal.

What now?

What if they came back?

How did he know it was a "they"?

It was those thoughts that made him push off the wall and make the long, staggering trip home, each step painful, head still fogged and woozy from the lingering drugs. Somehow, he made it.

He called out of work. Said he wasn't feeling well.

And then he curled up in the shower, still clothed, until the hot water ran cold.
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Re: Smoke and mirrors. [TALLY!] [M]
« Reply #35 on: May 10, 2014, 11:01:53 am »
A couple of months later, Aydan stepped through Jake's full-body mirror and into his bedroom.  It was the middle of the night, Jake was sound asleep, and Aydan had a gift for him.

Out of curiosity, he'd looked into Jake's past and lo—a draft runner from Aedolis.  It was too good an opportunity to pass up.

Aydan had been waiting for just this night.  A night when Jake would forget to lock his tablet so Aydan could get onto it.  He killed the sound, loaded up the snuff site where he'd uploaded Jake's video, and set it to play on a loop.

The best part?  That Marshal's badge was clearly visible, even though his face was hidden.  Jake wouldn't be able to go to the authorities and he would know it.  After giving it a little thought, Aydan had had them blur out Jake's face, too.  For now.  The kid needed something left to lose.

One more thing.  Aydan left a message for Jake on Jake's own notepaper.

See you soon, baby.

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Re: Smoke and mirrors. [TALLY!] [M]
« Reply #36 on: July 30, 2014, 06:04:42 pm »
Life went on, mostly. The weeks and months went by, and Jake did what he could to just...find some sense of normalcy. And forget. There was no one he could talk to about what had happened. No one he would have wanted to talk to about this. He just wanted to forget it like a bad dream and get on with his life--

But he couldn't.

It invaded his dreams. It followed him to work. He stopped doing a lot of the things he used to do, the sorts of things that had at one point been just harmless fun--like going to a bar with coworkers and picking up chicks. Now he avoided the bars and usually went home after work, and some of his work buddies had even noticed, had complained that he'd been antisocial lately.

He had to just let them think he was being a jerk.

It got a little easier as more time passed without incident. He saw no sign of Aydan. He couldn't remember where Aydan had taken him that day, but he remembered what it looked like, vaguely, and stayed away from areas that looked similar. It was so strange, how normal life was after everything that had happened, how the world around him existed as it always had, like he hadn't had his life and body torn apart. He could almost believe it hadn't happened, and would have been happy to pretend, thought that maybe he could get to a place where he could actually, eventually, believe it.

Except when his cell phone alarm woke him that morning, the first thing he noticed was the glowing light of his tablet screen, bright in his dark bedroom where it lay open on his nightstand. Blinking, Jake rubbed the sleep from his eyes. He'd left it on? Weird. It should have shut off on its own. Hopefully it wasn't busted.

With a yawn, Jake snatched it off the nightstand and had been about to turn it off when he noticed a video was playing and--

Oh my god.

The tablet fell from his fingers. Jake clapped a hand over his mouth as his stomach revolted and it took every ounce of willpower to swallow down the rising bile. Oh my god. There was a note on his nightstand, too, and Jake didn't have to pick it up to see what it said.

See you soon, baby.

He was there. Aydan had been there. In his room. Somehow, he had gotten inside. Somehow, he had put the video on his tablet, written the note, been by his bed while he slept. It felt surreal, but the panic he felt was very, very real. He was here. He was here. Or had been. Where was he now?

Oh god, it was real, it had actually happened, and now he was back and--gods, he had been too nervous to before, but now he had to go to the authorities and--

His stomach twisted again. The badge. He hadn't glimpsed much of the video, but he'd seen enough, and one of the men? He had a badge.

He was a fucking Marshal.

Jake was on his feet before he realized he was moving, pacing around his room without knowing what he was actually trying to do--except that he knew he had to leave. He had to leave now. Aydan was coming back, and he had a fucking Marshal in on it, and that meant there was nowhere he could go here that would be safe. He might even know that Marshal, might even work with him, might have seen him every day before and after...after that.

These men could do whatever they wanted with him.

They could even make him vanish after this.

He couldn't fucking stay here. He had to leave. He didn't know where he'd leave to, but he'd uprooted once before, and he could flee again.

Jake didn't waste any time. He didn't know how soon soon was, so he threw on some clothes, packed his important documents, threw some clothes and other essentials into a small travel bag, and took off, leaving his cell phone and electronics behind and purchasing a new phone; he didn't want to risk being tracked that way, so it was better if he just disappeared. He was getting on the first vessel leaving the Cancer, and he'd deal  with the details later.

His travel visa was denied.

Jake tried to argue with the officers--it was supposed to be good for ten years--but it was no use. It would be a couple days before it was cleared, and he would just have to hang tight until then.

And so he checked into a nearby hotel to wait it out.
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Re: Smoke and mirrors. [TALLY!] [M]
« Reply #37 on: July 30, 2014, 11:29:10 pm »
Three days after Jake tried to leave Cancer, Aydan texted him.

Quote
Leon.
You'll want come speak to me about Aedolis.
I'll be outside the Capricorn Cafe around noon tomorrow.
-Aydan

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Re: Smoke and mirrors. [TALLY!] [M]
« Reply #38 on: July 31, 2014, 12:22:26 am »
The text had startled him. The phone was new, and Jake hadn't given anyone the number--for good reason. But he told himself that maybe it was just spam or something.

And then he read the message.

It was a good thing they built these new cell phones so durable, because he dropped the thing like it burned him. His head spun, his heart raced, but all he really felt was numb as a crushing sense of unreality bore down on him. It was all his worst fears instantly realized--and he couldn't process any of it. He couldn't process much of anything beyond the desperate desire to just leave. NOW.

The threat in that message was implicit. Aydan knew who he was. He knew his real name. Knew where he was from. He could expose him, and he would be hunted--Aedolis didn't fuck around, especially not with draft runners. If he didn't show up, Aydan could expose him--

But it wouldn't matter much if Jake was already out of the Cancer, on some ship to who knows where, and so that was the first thing he tried to do: leave. It had been three days and he hadn't heard anything, but surely his visa had to be cleared by now!

If only...

He tried to leave again on the day of the meeting, but there was a complication with his visa, as it turned out, and that was all the information he could get. And that was that. There wasn't much of a choice left. If he couldn't leave, and he didn't show up, he would be exposed--and that was as good as a death sentence.

Not that going to that cafe didn't feel like a long walk to the gallows.

Jake showed up just before noon and took a seat at a table, hoodie zipped even though he wasn't cold. There he waited, seated on the edge of his seat and unable to keep still, legs moving restlessly with the pent up desire to leave, leave for anywhere but here.

He just prayed something would come up. That maybe Aydan wouldn't show. That maybe he'd get in an accident or something before he arrived. Something.
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Re: Smoke and mirrors. [TALLY!] [M]
« Reply #39 on: July 31, 2014, 01:22:24 am »
Aydan had in fact, at the time Jake arrived, been inside getting coffee.  He scanned the crowed upon exiting and what do you know, there was his newest project sitting right there.  They had other plans if Jake had refused to show up, but it was nice when things went smoothly.  This would keep things easier for everyone.

He plunked his coffee cup down on the table and sat across from Jake.

"Leon," he said, smiling.  "Can I get you anything?"

 

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