Bound Part 2
Heero kept his breathing even. He felt the bed shift and he almost laughed. Did Duo think that Heero hadn't been ready for an escape attempt. All masters were. He remained still JUST in case he was mistaken about his new slave's motives. He felt Duo's weight shift again and Heero let out a disappointed sigh as Duo left the bed. "Are you trying to escape?"
There was a pause, then a whoosh of air that sounded resigned. "Yes, Master, I am. Is that shocking?"
Heero smiled and opened his eyes to gaze at Duo. "No. It isn't shocking that you would try to escape. And, believe me, I'm tempted to let you get away with it. I can't, though." Heero stood up and approached Duo... who had started to tremble. "Calm down. I won't hurt you, Duo. I didn't exhaust my healer just to undo all her hard work. Lie down."
Duo bit his lip and complied. He let out an alarmed yelp as Heero started to bind his wrists together with a smooth cloth. "What?"
Heero smiled as he caressed Duo's skin. "Silk. It's strong, but it won't cut into your skin. As to why I am tying you... it's to prevent another escape attempt." He quickly tied Duo's ankles to the bed, despite the weak struggles. "Duo... how far do you think you would have gotten? How long would you have lasted in your condition?" He nodded in satisfaction as he gazed at Duo. "Are you warm enough?" He had to laugh at the confusion on Duo's face. "You are in no condition for exercise of that nature. Go to sleep, Duo."
Duo scowled at the order, but he had to agree with Heero's reasoning. He wouldn't have gotten far in his weak state. He suddenly felt a bit confused. He'd tried to run from his first master, and he'd gotten badly beaten for it... his ears had been pierced and then he fought back because his master had tried to rape him. It seemed as if Heero had tied him up ONLY so he wouldn't hurt himself while he was weak. Although he was a little miffed about that, he had to admit he was grateful. He made a silent promise to play the role of the obedient slave until he felt strong enough to move without feeling dizzy. He closed his eyes and let sleep claim him.
*****
Heero woke early the next morning and just took a moment to study Duo. He had noticed, while bathing Duo, that the youth was a little underweight. He smiled as he reached over to play with a stray lock of hair that had escaped the braid. 'How could anyone harm such a lovely creature?' He was sorely tempted to kiss Duo, but he had promised he wouldn't try anything. He reached over and started removing the binds.
Duo felt the cloth being removed and let himself come to wakefulness. "Hmmm?"
Heero had to smile. Duo looked like a kitten waking up from a nice nap in the sun. "I'm untying you..." He paused in his movements and gave Duo a measuring look. "If you promise not to try to escape while you're so weak, I'll leave you untied. Do you promise?"
Duo blinked and nodded. "I promise, Heero." He felt warm, so he removed his shirt.
Heero knew Duo might try to escape when he felt strong enough, but he hoped he'd persuade Duo to stay before then. He gathered his little slave hadn't been trained in any profession. He had a strong urge to caress Duo's skin, but he remembered Duo's state the previous night. He'd never had to do what he was about to do. "May I touch you?"
Duo was confused at the question. Heero could do whatever he wanted to, and Duo would be helpless to stop it. "Huh?"
Heero chuckled and ducked his head... suddenly shy. "I want to touch you... to caress your skin. I know I didn't ask last night while I was bathing you, and I do apologize for that. I just want to get to know your body... and the only way to do that is to touch you." He reached out, but didn't touch Duo's skin. "May I?"
Duo had to think for a moment. Heero had been nothing if not gentle, and Duo figured he DID owe Heero for his life. So he took a chance and nodded. "Yes."
Heero let out a relieved sigh, and gently started to caress Duo's skin. He'd done this when he'd first gotten Hilde. She had been a pleasure slave just out of training and had been skittish. After all... she knew her fate was in the hands of another... someone who might not be as gentle as her trainer was. Heero had asked questions weeks before he had even thought of getting a slave of that nature. He wanted to know how he could relieve his tension without hurting his slave, how to ensure the slave wouldn't get pregnant, how to punish and how to reward without resorting to brutality. The result had been astounding. Heero found that he enjoyed Hilde as a person as much as a pleasure slave. She was also his companion and his trusted confidant. She had felt comfortable enough with him to tell him of her dreams and what made her happy. By the time this incident happened, Heero let Hilde leave the house for short periods of time so she could run errands in the village.
Duo had tensed as Heero started his caresses, but he was now relaxed. He decided to be bold. "What happened to your last pleasure slave?"
Heero smiled... glad that Duo was comfortable enough to ask questions. "I thought you heard last night. One of my servants had been slacking, and my seed took root in Hilde's womb. She's with child. I freed her and will take care of her and the child. Should something happen to me and I have no heirs, her child will inherit my title and lands. She has always been very loyal to me, and she's a good friend. Unlike you, she was born a slave. She does know how to weave, though. All slaves are taught some sort of craft to pass time while their masters have no need of them... or if they are ever released." He rubbed a tense muscle. "Turn onto your stomach and I'll massage your back for you."
"What? But... but I thought I was your slave! Why would you want to massage my back?"
Heero had to chuckle. "Because you're still a person and your muscles must be tense. Being healed after a whipping like that will cause very stiff muscles. Please."
Duo sighed and rolled onto his stomach. He let out a yelp as Heero started rubbing one sore muscle after another. "Ohhhh..."
Heero let himself smirk as Duo started groaning. Another lesson for his slave. How to make someone feel pleasure without doing anything that could be considered sexual. "Does that feel good? How about this?" He applied pressure to a small bit of Duo's back, and nodded as he heard something pop.
Duo cried out as his back was snapped into alignment. He groaned as Heero continued working. "Ohhh God!" He whimpered when he started to feel... aroused. "Uhh... Heero?"
Heero heard the nervous tone in Duo's voice and eased up. "You don't have to be afraid. May I keep touching you with my hands?" Taking a risk, he tickled the cleft at the top of Duo's butt under the cloth of Duo's sleeping garments. "Just my hands?"
Duo wriggled at the tingles he felt from that touch. He didn't want to be enjoying this. He turned his head to give Heero a slight glare. "You're trying to seduce me!"
Heero shrugged. "Maybe. But I just want to give you a sample of what I want to do with you. May I?"
Duo closed his eyes and buried his face in the crook of his arm. "Please don't."
Heero sighed in disappointment and finished the massage. "Try and get some sleep. You have the run of this wing when you awaken." He left the room to seek out Hilde. She was early enough in her pregnancy that he could still relieve sexual tension with her.
*****
~1 week later~
Duo let out a silent breath of relief as he left the room. 'Heero didn't wake up! Good!' For the past week, he'd been hard pressed not to give in to Heero's considerate treatment. He had stood his ground, though. He was not a slave and he refused to remain living as one. He crept along the hallway... avoiding guards whenever he could. There! There was the exit to his cage... once he climbed down those stairs, he'd be free again. He took a quick look around and ran down as quietly as he could. He reached out to grab the door handle.
"Where are you going, Duo?"
'NOOOOOO!' Duo screamed his denial in his head as he turned to face Heero. There was that disappointed look again. "Look... you don't want me as a slave! I don't obey orders!"
Heero chuckled. "You are rather presumptuous to say that. You know nothing about me." He sighed and looked at Duo. "Duo... where would you go? You are only wearing your sleeping garments, you have no money and no knowledge of the area. You would be like a lamb to the slaughter. There are countless brigands out there who would take what I am waiting for you to give me... then they'd beat you up and leave you for dead... or they'd take you with them and have fun with you whenever they want until their abuse kills you." He reached out and grabbed Duo's wrist in a firm grip. "Come on... perhaps you should sleep as a slave normally sleeps so you can see how well you have been treated."
Duo expected Heero to bring him back to the room. Instead, they turned down a different hallway into a darker area. He watched as Heero opened a door. The room beyond the open door was long and narrow... with several pallets on the floor. Heero led him to one in the middle.
Heero could feel the confusion in Duo, so he spoke. "These are the slave quarters. I've never needed to use them... until now." He fought against his urge to just let Duo get away with the attempt. Duo needed to learn before he was hurt during one of these foolish attempts to flee. "Lie down." He watched as Duo complied. He took a deep breath to steel himself for what had to be done. He took the manacles that were at the head of the bed and latched them around Duo's wrists. He had chosen this bed because the manacles were lined with something soft, so Duo wouldn't be hurt. He did the same with Duo's ankles and then covered Duo with a thin sheet. "I'll send someone to feed you tomorrow, and I'll see you in a few days."
Duo blinked as Heero stood to leave. He bit his lip to keep himself from crying out. He didn't want to be a slave, but he really had enjoyed Heero cuddling him at night. As soon as Heero left and closed the door, he curled up as best as he could and started weeping.
Outside the door, Heero clenched his fists and walked away. He wanted to go back and pull Duo close to calm him. He couldn't, though. That, he had been told, was the hardest thing about being a master. HE was in charge, and he had a duty not to let a disobedient slave walk all over him. If he made an exception for one, he would no longer have any respect. He could be a little more lenient once in a while, but he could never EVER let a slave off the hook. He walked to Hilde's room and knocked on the door.
Hilde knew who it was. "My lord... what are you doing up at this time of night?" Then she saw his distress. "Duo?" When Heero nodded, she pulled him close. Heero was too kind-hearted for his own good, but it made him a good master. "Where is he?"
"Slave sleeping quarters!"
Hilde bit her lip. "He's all alone in there, isn't he? That'll give him two lessons. One... that he is being treated better than any slave has a right to hope to be treated. Two... that you treat your slaves with respect." She sighed. "I'll bring him his meals. I suppose you want him to be fed as a slave would be." She smiled as he nodded. "You do realize that if he tries to escape a third time, you can't make your guards leave him alone. That was the deal you made."
Heero sighed. "Yes... but they know that I want to be his first. If they rape him... I'll kill them."
Hilde shook her head. "That might work the first time they grab him. The second..." She shook her head again. "I hope he learns by then."
The picture that brought to mind made Heero scowl. He COULD see a few of his guards, being fed up with Duo, beating him senseless and then having their way with him before throwing him into the dungeon. He didn't want that to happen... it would break Duo's spirit, and he didn't want it to be broken. "Talk to him, Hilde... teach him."
Hilde held her former master tenderly. "I will do what I can to help, Heero. Just get some sleep."
*****
Something was shaking him.
'Wha? Why's the bed so hard and cold?' Duo blinked his eyes open and gasped as he was yanked to his feet by a girl no taller than he was.
"About time you woke up! Hurry and eat your breakfast! If you're not in the kitchens in ten minutes, you'll get hit with a spoon!" The owner of the voice shoved a plate at him.
Duo blinked at what the person considered breakfast. It was a stale, somewhat burnt crust of bread, some warm cheese and a tin cup of water.
"Well? Are you going to eat it or not? You don't have time to gawk at the fact that you got cheese! If you don't want it..." The plate was gone before Duo could respond and the owner consuming the contents. "Now come ON!"
Duo let himself be dragged along the hallway. Duo was confused when he was dragged into a room. "What?"
The girl turned to him with an exasperated look on her face. "You can't work in those clothes!"
Duo yelped in shock as his warm sleeping garment were stripped from him to be replaced by a loincloth. He felt something grab his unbound hair and the suspicious sound of a pair of shears. "NO! Please... not my hair!"
The girl let out an impatient sigh. "Fine! Your hide, not mine!"
Duo winced as she pulled his hair into a tight braid. He was going to make it a little looser when she chained his feet together. He was yanked again. "Ummm... can we slow down?"
"YOU'RE the one who wanted to keep your hair! We have to make up for lost time!"
Duo glanced out a window as they ran. "The sun isn't even up yet!"
The girl spun on him and gave him a confused look. "You are a slave! Slaves in this castle are always awake at this time!"
Duo growled. "I am NOT a slave!"
The girl shrugged. "If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it is a duck. You were chained like a slave in the slave sleeping chamber and you claim not to be a slave?"
Duo bit back a reply and ran silently, shivering every time they passed an open window.
When they got to the kitchen, An aged voice called out. "Where have you BEEN?"
The girl sighed. "Sorry, Howard! He wanted to keep his hair." She glanced at Duo. "Get on your knees."
"Why should I?" He'd never had to before.
Howard chuckled and appeared. "It's quite all right, Hilde. You can tell his lordship I won't have him slacking off." He studied Duo. "So THIS is the new pleasure slave that tried to run away twice? I can see why our lord is willing to put up with such insolence. He must have gotten pretty far to deserve this treatment."
The girl nodded. "As close as the door. He's really lucky Heero stopped him. The castle guard have been looking for an opportunity to get their hands on him. Not many would interfere when it came to a slave's behavior."
"Don't talk about me as if I weren't here!"
"Don't you get it yet? You are a SLAVE! You have no rights aside from the ones your master chooses to give you." The girl sighed. "Howard... can you do without a potato peeler for one more day? He needs to learn."
Duo followed as he was dragged into a library and sat down as he felt pressure on his shoulders.
"Do you realize how lucky you are? Heero is risking a lot by letting you off so easily." She reached out and took Duo's hands. "So soft... perfect..." She then walked to sit beside Duo. "Duo... what are your reasons for being so difficult?"
Duo growled. "I don't WANT to be a slave! I want to explore and see new places! I want to be able to come and go as I please!"
The girl nodded. "I understand, but... how would you explore? You could have been keelhauled for stowing away. Do you have any money? Anything worth anything? Do you have any means of making money so you don't have to beg? As for the being able to come and go as you please... once you regain Heero's trust, you'll be able to go anywhere on his land which includes a small village, a lovely forest... a beautiful lake that you can swim in."
Duo snorted. "I don't believe for a second that he'd let me do that."
"Because he confined you to his wing? He did that because you tried to run. He had to take away some of the freedom you would have had or risk losing face." She let out a sigh. "Now... why are you so adverse to being a pleasure slave?"
Duo closed his eyes shut tightly and started trembling as he remembered his first master telling him how he was going to pound into Duo until Duo was black and blue from the waist down and had bled to death. He wasn't even aware he was sobbing until he noticed he was in the girl's arms... being cradled like a child.
"Shhh! I heard who had you before. I've heard of them, and they are all cruel men. Heero isn't like that! Even while in training, I had never known sex could actually bring pleasure for me until Heero purchased me. I'd heard horror stories about slaves who had been bought to be passed around as stress relief for guards and soldiers. I truly expected to be thrown to the bed and beaten. What I got instead... was the most exquisite night of my life. The first week I was here, he simply slept with me in his arms... as if he were a child cuddling up to his favorite toy. He isn't rough, Duo... and he never goes further than you're willing to at the time. Give him a chance. That's all he wants. He wants a chance to show you that being his slave is NOT such a bad thing."
Duo sighed and nodded. "All right." Then he remembered something about what she said and frowned in a confused way at her. "You're the pleasure slave that got pregnant, aren't you?"
Hilde laughed and nodded. "My name is Hilde. Heero's been very lonely lately. He won't do anything with me because he doesn't want to hurt the baby. Many masters wouldn't have cared... or they would have given me pennyroyal to cause the pregnancy to abort. Heero's not that sort of man."
Duo sighed and nodded as he looked down, blushing. "So... what's it like?"
Hilde chuckled. "Sex? That's not for me to tell you. It's for Heero to show you. Give him a chance and let him seduce you. You'll find that it's not a bad thing. Although... what you can do..." With that, she started whispering in Duo's ear, giggling as Duo blushed.
*****
Heero sighed as he returned to his household... and was brought up short by Hilde looking like the cat who ate the canary. "What has you so happy?"
Hilde giggled. "I talked Duo into training himself a little. I showed him the chest of toys that came with me."
Heero gulped at the thought. "Um... excuse me..." With that... he passed Hilde and entered the house... taking the stairs to his wing two at a time and then running down the hallway to his chambers. He opened the door and forced himself to swallow.
Duo was kneeling on the floor with his head resting on the bed. He was moving one of Hilde's old toys inside of himself... whimpering. He had what looked like a frustrated expression on his face for a few moments, then he jumped and let out a low moan.
Heero knelt next to Duo. "Will you allow me...?" He gasped when Duo opened his eyes... they were nearly black with desire. "You're not doing it properly, Duo. Will you allow me to show you?"
Duo whimpered and nodded. "Please... please, master!"
Heero let out his own moan, silently thanking Hilde for whatever she had said to Duo. He recognized the toy Duo was using. It hadn't been designed for a man, but when used properly, he knew it would make Duo cry out in delight. "Now... the spot you're looking for... is right HERE!" He pulled the toy out a little and the thrust it into Duo, hitting one spot.
Duo yelped and clutched the sheets. He felt his body and his soul being rocked as Heero moved that thing in him. "Mas... mas... ter?" Duo looked over his shoulder and gave Heero a shaky smile. "Heero... be my first true master."
Heero was rocked to the very core. "You don't HAVE to let me do this."
Duo groaned. "PLEASE! That... whatever it is... has me so worked up that I can't think!"
Heero sighed. "Then not tonight. I won't take advantage of you when you're like this." With that, he worked the object skillfully and quickly brought Duo to orgasm. "I do want you, though. You don't know how beautiful you are, or how delicious you sound, when in the throes of passion." He picked Duo up and settled him into the bed after removing the hard ceramic object. "My proud Duo. Ask me again when you're thinking straight."
Duo's smile was serene as he reached up to hug Heero. "Thank you."
Heero hugged Duo back. "I want your first time with me to be gentle and romantic, not a rut as if you were an animal. You deserve that much. After that... we'll see what works best." He caressed Duo's face. "You realize, of course, that I'm going to have to confine you to the four rooms that make up my chamber for the time being. If I'm not with you... you MUST stay here. Is that understood?"
Duo nodded. "Yes, Heero."
Heero settled down and cradled Duo against him. He made a mental note to get a present for Hilde. She was better with words than he would ever be. He pressed a gentle kiss to Duo's forehead and fell asleep.
TBC...
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