Chapter 2
The sun was long up by the time Joey woke up in the huge bed of the cold CEO he had spent the last night with. Kaiba was already awake, Joey felt his hands on his own body. He was surprisingly gentle and it had been the first time with a man where he didn't need the thought of Valon to come. It was embarrassing to him that Kaiba's hands and lips had made him moan and that feeling of Kaiba inside of him, while feeling his hands on his body, had been enough to make him come. He never thought that anyone but Valon could make his body react in such a way but there hadn't been a single moment where Joey could think about Valon. Every time he tried to think of him Kaiba had told him to look into his eyes and those eyes made it impossible to think of Valon. Those eyes that had looked cold at the start but gotten lustful, seductive and unbelievably soft while Joey had gotten closer to reach his orgasm. like the ice was melting to some degree.
Now he looked into the blue eyes that once again where nothing but cold and hard while watching his every move. He slowly got up and reached out his hands to get his pants. But before he could reach them Kaiba grabbed his wrist and pulled it back.
"I didn't say that you could leave already." Kaiba said, his voice cold like always.
"You only said I had to stay till you're awake and you are, so give me my money and let me go." Joey said. He'd been with Kaiba for long enough and should get enough money for the rent at least, he hadn't looked at the time yet but he'd probably get enough to buy some food for a few days as well if not weeks and he would need to get to his his job as a waiter which he still had, too.
"I don't care. I want you to stay." Kaiba said.
"Well tough luck, I can't." Joey said.
"Why not?" Kaiba asked, not letting go of Joey's wrist.
"I've got a job. I need to go." Joey said and tried to free himself of Kaiba's iron grip.
"You're not going to run of to the next guy." Kaiba said sounding angry.
"It's none of your business." Joey said. "Let go of me and deal with it."
"Forget it." Joey heard him say and felt himself being pushed with his back onto the bed. Kaiba was holding his hands over his hand onto the bed and sat on his hip so fast that Joey couldn't even start fighting back.
"Let go of me." Joey said, starting to struggle against the other who was strong and had the upper hand but Joey still was giving him a hard time holding him down.
"No." Kaiba said "I won't let just someone bruise and scar your skin again."
Joey looked surprised but remembered the possessiveness Kaiba had already shown the night before over and over by not letting him think of anyone but him. "It's none of your business and now let me go before I'm running late or I swear I´ll make you regret it."
"No." Kaiba said again "You'll stay until I say otherwise."
Great, Joey thought, possessive and a control freak. I've hit a jackpot. "Let me freaking go." Joey said, still struggling against the other.
Kaiba's phone rang and he moved one of Joey's hands under the other arm and pushed that one down even harder to stop him from getting away while having one hand free to answer his phone. "Finally." He said once he had picked up while still holding on to the struggling Joey. "What took you so long?"
"Let go of me" Joey said and started to struggle even harder to free at least one of his hands and managed after a moment, while Seto was listening to whoever was calling him. No one can hold down Joey Wheeler with one hand and he would teach Kaiba that the hard way.
Joey was just about to punch Kaiba when he heard him ask "What time does Joey's next shift start?" Joey froze and stared at the brunet guy who was releasing his other hand but still sat on his hips. "That was all? Get moving and find out more." Kaiba said before he ended the call and put the phone aside and looked at Joey again. "You could have told me what job you meant."
"You knew?" Joey asked surprised.
"If I'd known I wouldn't have tried to hold on to you." Kaiba said.
"The job isn't what I meant." Joey said looking away the blush returning to his face.
Joey felt the cold eyes still on his face, while he still looked away and then heard the other chuckle. "Don't tell me you thought I didn't know who you are." Joey's blush darkened further, still looking away from the other. "So you're working as a waiter in a restaurant, right? And your shift starts soon."
"I need to go, so get off of me and give me my money, got it?" Joey said trying to free himself again.
"Chill, I´ll get you there in time but first you'll promise me to come back here right after that." Seto said.
"Forget it." Joey said. "I don't want to."
"You need money for your father, right?" Kaiba said "To keep him fed and keep a roof over your heads while he is drunk more often than not."
"It's none of your business and now let me get up and stop spying on me." Joey said, starting to wonder if the money was worth the trouble he was getting himself into.
"It will be my business." Kaiba said "I´ve got an offer you'll find very hard to refuse."
"What offer?" Joey asked sceptically.
"Like I said, you need money for your father and yourself and since you never managed to afford college and have gotten kicked out of a few jobs for being constantly late or missing all together, you only got the one bad paying part time job you have now in some cheap restaurant, right?" Kaiba said.
"Thanks for summoning that up." Joey said sarcastically. "But that isn't an offer you jerk."
"I´ll get you a job." Kaiba said.
"What kind of job?" Joey asked.
"You can keep that waiter job but you also will live here and do whatever I want." Kaiba said with a smug smile "You'll be my private little play toy that won't let anyone touch him but me."
"You've got to be kidding me." Joey said and struggled to get away from under the taller man.
"Listen Joey." Kaiba said holding on to him with more force again. "We make a contract for one year. During which I'll pay all of your expenses. If you want to go to community college, fine I'll pay if you and you want to go to a party take a credit card from me. Whatever you want just name it but no one will be allowed to touch you but me!"
"What about my father? I can't just abandon him." Joey said. "And I need to go, I'll be late and then I can forget that job."
"I pay for his necessary expenses, too." Kaiba offered. "He'll have a paid for roof over his head and one that won't leak whenever it rains. He'll have a full fridge and enough fitting clothing. Just no money, so he won't be able to buy alcohol."
"That's all?" Joey asked. "Because I doubt that it is worth spending more time with you than absolutely necessary. If I wasn't as tight with money as I was last night, I wouldn't even be here. I've got my standards and your not making the cut."
Joey saw the anger flare in the others eyes much stronger than usual and was surprised since Kaiba never seemed to care, so why could he hurt him with those words when it was confusing to get such an offer from Kaiba in the first place? Kaiba must really love looking down on him to treat him that way. "Name a price you want me to pay by the end of the year and I will." Seto said "No matter what price. One million or maybe two?"
Joey stared. Two million would be enough to pay for more tuition for college and his father wouldn't be able to afford any alcohol for over a year, meaning that he might stay away from the alcohol for longer. All his problems could be solved if he accepted that deal but it also meant that he would be Kaiba's toy for one entire year! That Kaiba would use him and look down on him and do whatever he wanted with his body for a whole year. "What did you mean with no one will be allowed to touch me? Can't I even hug my pals because no one can stop me from that, especially not you! I won't stay away from them for all the money in the world."
"Fine. Hug whoever you want. All but one." Kaiba said and Joey looked questioningly, surprised that there would be one exception and wondered who that would be and why. "You won't touch Valon at all."
"Why him?" Joey asked. He hardly saw him as it was since Valon and Mai where constantly on the move, loving the adventure of exploring the world.
"Do you really think that I'm stupid?" Kaiba asked. "I saw the way you looked at him. Most of your friends think that you've got a thing for Mai, right? But I doubt it. The way you look at her is the same way you look at Serenity. But you still can't stand seeing her with Valon. Not because he has her, it's because she has him, isn't it?"
Joey stared. No one had figured that out yet. Even Yugi and Serenity thought that he loved Mai and he never said they were wrong. He never said that he didn't love her either but the fact that he wouldn't answer to such questions had only encouraged their believes. It had saved him from admitting who he really loved. "You hardly see him anyway, right?" Kaiba said. "So it shouldn't be too hard not to touch him at all. Not to even give him your hand if you see him. No touch or no money, but like I said. You'll most likely won't see him anyway."
Joey looked at Seto again and was visibly tempted by the offer. It meant he wouldn't have to stand by the street hoping that the next guy wouldn't hit him. Praying that it wasn't some psychopathic killer. Physically he would be safer with Kaiba but emotionally might be a different matter. His father might be a drunken guy who might beat Joey if he was getting too drunk and didn't have more money. But since Joey was about 14 he was stronger and better with fighting and the scars were all from long before that time. And his father might say mean things then but the knowledge that it is only because of his addiction was taking most of the sting out of those words. It won't be the same with Kaiba, who was sure to look down upon him and probably will start playing mind games just to have fun with him. That must be the only reason to offer that at all. To play with him and destroy him in the process. Why else should he care about keeping him around anyway?
Still the money and all the other things were a lot for Joey and to get a few millions after that was a once in a lifetime opportunity. Joey knew he had to think about it fast. He had to go to his job, especially if he chose to say no. But even if he said yes, he still wanted to keep the position, the one normal part in his life. The one place where no one but a few of the guests knew about his secret life at night nor about the beatings he had gotten as a child. There weren't many of those normal places left. And if he lost it he would get a hard time explaining where the money came from. Even his friends knew that his father was drunk more often than not and that he had a hard time paying the rent for his run down one room apartment, without the job no one would believe him capable of doing that.
"Say yes and all your problems will be solved, Joey." Kaiba said sounding much too seductive, considering how cold his voice had been a few times while having sex. "After one year with me you'll have a bank account with a million or two. You'll have it all. The apartment of your father will be big enough for you too and you can get whatever you want. Just one word and you'll get it all."
What exactly would you want me to do?" Joey asked just to make sure that there wouldn't be any surprises if he agreed to this.
"Nothing big." Kaiba said "Just that your body is mine. And mine alone. I want to be able to sleep with you whenever I want to. I want to be allowed to touch you and kiss you whenever and wherever. That is all that I really want but, it would be easier if everyone would believe that you're my boyfriend but I'll leave that for you to choose. Maybe you can think of another excuse why you live with me and share a bed with me and will let me kiss you whenever I want to do that."
"No games?" Joey asked.
"What sort of games?" Kaiba asked, sounding much too innocent for Joey's taste. He knew Kaiba would play some sort of mind game and he still wasn't sure if he should take that risk. Not that he was afraight of him but he would probably be a pain in the back.
"I'll think about it." Joey said and tried once more to get up. "But I need to go now or I'll be late for work and I don't want to be late for that. I will keep that job even if I work for you, too."
"You can work there." Kaiba said "But you'll have to choose if you want to work for me now. I don't see any reason why I should be patient. Take it or leave it but choose now."
Joey stared at him. "What if I want to get out of it before the year is up?" Joey asked just in case it would get too bad.
"Then you can go." Kaiba said. "I won't hold you against your will and I won't ask money back for what I paid, but you also won't get the money we agreed on. Even if you quit one day before the year is up. A whole year or no money."
Joey thought about it again. He knew he didn't have much time but at least he could still leave whenever it got too much and so he said "Fine, but only for three million. And don't you dare and try to play a mind game with me."
"Do you really think I would do that?" Kaiba asked "Now get dressed, I´ll drive you to work and pick you up. I'll get the contract ready to sign for after that and already get a new apartment for your father and make sure that he moves as well as get your stuff from there."
"I better come for that." Joey said "Dad will never believe a word you say."
"I make him believe." Kaiba said smugly.
"No." Joey said. "I'll talk to dad or the deal is off right away."
Joey saw that Kaiba didn't like that even though he still didn't understand why he even cared. "Fine." He said "Then I'll get everything ready today and we get the move done together tomorrow. And don't tell me you have to work. I already know your shift for this week. Oh and I'll have a security guy following you. Just for protection of course, since my fans might not like me having a guy staying at my place."
Sure, Joey thought ironically Just to protect me. Not at all to keep an eye on me or to make sure that I don't have a lover or something. No, he would never even think of that. "Fine. I don't care." He simply said, knowing that there would be no way around it anyway if he wanted to get his money. "But don't take me for stupid I know you just want to keep an eye on me to make sure I don't run off with someone else."
Author's note:
Thanks to silvers-edge, Rowan A.K.A , dancing elf, Nagareboshi-Lover, Jonouchi Katsuya, hizeezetoyou and lilgurlanima for the reviews.
And Jonouchi Katsuya wrote "Joey was victimized too much. I think Joey should go kick some tail." To everyone who agrees, I do too. He needs to kick ass, it's just more like him but like you see he isn't a total whimp who still gets beaten by his father. But he grew up, a few years have past after all and he isn't a teen anymore. He is more understanding and still very caring but he will still get on Kaiba's nerves with his spunk a couple of times. He won't lay down on the huge bed for a whole year and let Kaiba do what he wants. That would be too much to ask. He's still the same, just a bit more mature.
