A/N This is rather a long chapter again! Thank-you to those who have been reading my work and extra big thanks to those who review, especially to CougrrrShae () Hugs my friend!
After Michie had began Troy's lessons she had fallen asleep with him. Lucy came into the room at one am in the morning as she was going to bed herself and woke her friend up. She knew that she had work the next morning so she waited for her to get dressed then saw her out before Jack locked up for the night. Lucy came back to her son's room and covered him up and left him to sleep, he had school in the morning too.
His lessons after school continued, Kris came to see him on Tuesday evening, filling him in on more history, what he was and wasn't allowed to tell the outside world about his brethren. How he was expected to behave in the Temple, how often he had to go and the regularity of Functions.
"And you do not want to miss out on any Functions!" Kris laughed. "We're guys here! Nothing ever wrong with the chance to bang as many babes as you can, right?"
"It's a bit new to me."
"Ah don't worry! You'll soon get into it! You had fun the other night, didn't you?" Troy blushed and nodded. "There is something I need to tell you about though. And you may not like it, but as the Sapphire it has to happen before you can join properly with Morgan." Kris took a deep breath and considered how to tell him. His hesitation worried the boy.
"You know how Lynnit.. opened you? To let your gifts release? Yeah?" He looked across at him. Why the fuck couldn't Michie have told him this? "Well, because you're the Sapphire you need to be opened more.. get what I mean?" He asked. Troy shook his head.
"Not really." Kris gave a sigh and wiped his hand over his face. He had to explain it.
"Well when you are opened, you couple with someone of the opposite sex, yeah?" Troy nodded, he'd done that. "In your case 'cos we thought you were probably the Sapphire we gave you a Priestess, Lynnit. Well, if you are the Sapphire, in other words. You. You have to be... opened by a man as well. A priest." There he'd told him! The boy looked horrified.
"What! NO!" He backed away from him, thinking that was what Kris had come to do.
"It's alright! Honest! He won't hurt you!" He caught hold of the boy's hand and held him in place. "It'll be OK. You did it to the Evans' boy didn't you?"
"Well, yeah. But that was different. He wanted me to." Kris laughed at that.
"And believe me. By the time you've been prepared you'll want it too. But if you don't like it, you never have to do it again, I swear." He'd been told that before!
"What? Like I can leave the brethren if I don't like it? Someone told me that only a couple of weeks ago!"
"Do you want to leave us?" Troy sat back and looked into Kris's eyes. Now he was being stupid.
"NO!" It was said with a little more force than he meant to."No. Of course I don't. Just once? Honestly?"
"Yes. I promise on my life, Troy. Just once. Then you can go back to doing women all the time! I promise." OK then. If it was just gonna be the once.
"You said, 'He won't hurt you'. Who is he?" He asked.
"As I said, it has to be a priest. The decision has been made to send you to be opened by Lynnit's partner." Made sense.
"So, that's why I'm getting sent to England?"
"Yeah. That and Morgan's there of course!" The boy's face broke into a huge grin at the mention of the gorgeous red-head. Kris was happy with his response. He didn't want to be the one to bring up the spectre of Wolfe. Daria would introduce them when the boy came to Temple at the weekend. Not that there was any chance in hell that he'd be allowed to get anywhere near Troy alone.
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The rest of the week continued with Michie and Kris coming on alternating nights to continue with his lessons. He began to learn to produce and manipulate balls of energy, with varying levels of success at first. By Saturday he had mastered it enough to knock over the trophies on the shelf in his bedroom. Everytime Michie visited they ended their lessons by making passionate love on his bed and she had taught him a couple of new positions he wanted to try out on Morgan.
Sunday morning Troy and his parents drove to the temple house for the weekly worship that his parents had missed since taking their child into hiding. Sunday was not a special day for them, it just happened to be the day when most people didn't work so were free to come to the temple. They would be there for the whole day, not just in worship but also they would eat and socialise together.
As they arrived Daria came out to meet them, glad that they could finally be together in this way. First of all they were taken up to a massive dining room. There were probably about sixty or seventy people seated around a massive long oak table. At one end there were two elaborately carved high-backed chairs, from the carving on the back they were obviously for the Priestess and Priest. And the Priest was already seated in his. He was dark haired with a slightly crooked nose, but Troy supposed some would say he was handsome. But his eyes sparkled with intelligence but also a streak of cruelty. He eyed Troy with unhidden lust as the boy was guided to sit in the seat next to where Daria was to sit. The boy looked up at his parents as they were sitted a little further up the table and opposite their son. He could tell that something was worrying them very much as they looked between the two men. Jack did not like this situation, but neither did he want to cause a scene, the other man smirked at him before deliberately turning his face from Jack's and addressing his son.
"I don't believe we've been introduced." He offered his hand to Troy. He took it, then jumped as energy sparked from the man's finger's into his. "My name is Wolfe. And I am Daria's priest." Now Troy was a little uncomfortable. Kris had told him that Wolfe had expected to be the one to open him, but that Daria had forbidden him to touch the Sapphire. There was a problem with his behaviour that they had yet to tell him about. As he sat there holding the man's hand he began to caress Troy's finger's in his grip. The look on his face was preditory. So Wolfe liked boys then, did he?
The older man broke his contact sharply, as if afraid of something. On looking up he saw Daria approaching leading a young man by the hand. He was quite an attractive boy with rather feminine features, but the thing that Troy noticed the most was a massive black eye and bruising barely hidden under the sleeves of his T that were quite obviously caused by someone gripping his arms tightly. You could actually see where each finger had dug into his flesh. When the boy noticed Wolfe he stopped dead and tryed to pull away from the Priestess, but Daria smiled and whispered something in the boy's nodded tightly and allowed her to manouver him to the seat next to Troy. His eyes kept flicking towards Wolfe and showed his absolute terror, Daria stroked his arm and calmed him.
"Shh shh! It's alright. No one is gonna hurt you here." She shot a venomous look at Wolfe, "No one. I promise." She turned to the newly found Sapphire. "Troy. I'd like you to meet, Tate. Tate this is the Sapphire." His eyes opened wide. Nervously he offered his hand to Troy. When he spoke his voice was cultured with a slight effectation that left Troy with no doubt of the boy's sexuality. However there was also something about him that he liked very much, he could see himself becoming good friends with Tate. But his obvious fear of Wolfe made Troy dislike the priest even more. Daria took her place at the head of the table, welcomed her brethren and then guestured to the staff to begin to serve breakfast.
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Eating together like this was a completely new experience for Troy, for his parents it was wonderful to get back to the way they had lived their lives before the arrival of their beloved child. The meal was noisy with people talking and shouting to each other over the table, it was quite wonderful to be with people that they didn't have to hide any part of themselves from. Even Tate seemed to lose a little of his nervousness and chatted a little with Lucy and Jack. After the meal was over they were given a little time to freshen themselves up and then people began to make their way into the octaganal temple. Every one seemed to know where to sit, there were no chairs they just knelt on the floor. Troy hesitated, unsure of where he should go. Daria and Wolfe were now in robes standing on the dais before the altar, Kris and Michie were side by side on the left. He noticed that Tate was also at the front, standing on his own looking quite nervous. Daria leant down and spoke to him and he nodded and turned and began to make his way in Troy's direction. Straight towards Troy the boy suddenly noticed. Jack touched his arm gently.
"Your mom and me we're gonna go sit over there with the rest of our people," He pointed over to the right."But you. You're the Sapphire now so you have to go down in front of the altar, with Tate. Daria will explain the rest to you later, but for now you gotta go with Tate." As he finished speaking, the boy arrived in front of them. He reached to take the other's hand.
"My Lord?" Troy stared at him when he addressed him that way, Tate smiled shyly. "I am your Attendant. Come with me." Troy allowed him to take his hand and with one last puzzled glance he allowed Tate to lead him to the front of the altar. Tate dropped to his knees and Troy followed suit. Glancing across he caught Michie's eye and she smiled and nodded to him, letting him know he was doing it right.
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After what he supposed you would call a Service, there was a couple of hours for private prayers, socialising and in Troy's case, more lessons. Daria led him and Tate to her office, and seated herself behind a large desk with paperwork and statuary on it. There was an elaborate silver statue of the Goddess on one side and a carved moongazing hare on the other. She gestured for the two young men to seat themselves opposite her.
"Now Troy, I have to explain to you what Tate is, and his association to the Sapphire. " She clasped her hands in front of her, elbows resting on the polished wood. "When you are highly placed within our brethren you will always have someone to help you with your duties. But you don't just choose someone. Just as you were born to be Sapphire, your Attendant is born to serve you." She smiled and motioned to the other boy." And Tate was born to be your Attendant. His job is basically to cater to your every whim and need." Troy looked at the other boy who was looking at him adoringly and smiled back.
"Anything?" He asked with a cheeky grin.
"Oh yes! Absolutely anything!" She laughed. Tate twisted in his seat and smiled a little shyly.
"It is my duty. I will wait on you, get you refreshments or anything you require. Help you dress if you wish." He blushed a little, " I will procure... Partners for you if you so desire. I live to serve you, my Lord." He bowed his head a little.
Troy was completely amazed by this and sat there open mouthed for a few moments, then he thought about something.
"What about be my friend?" He asked. Tate lifted his head and faced him with a beaming smile that lit up his whole face regardless of the ugly bruising around his right eye.
"That, my Lord, would be the greatest honour of all."
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Daria left them to get aquainted. They talked about their families, school, which they were both due to finish soon, and interests. Troy told him about basketball and Tate enthused about his love of musical theatre. Although they were both gifteds it seemed that he had never met Ryan Evans, and Troy suggested he should introduce them as he thought they would get on Evans' were away at their country club so that would have to wait for another weekend. Finally Troy took a deep breath and asked him what he really wanted to know. He smiled softly and took Tate's hand in his.
"If you don't want to talk about it yet, I'll understand ." He assured him. "But... Who hurt you like this?" He lifted one of the sleeves up, revealing more of the bruising on his arms, then gently ran his fingertips around his swollen eye. Tate closed his eyes under the tender touch and briefly looked away before turning back to Troy, shaking slightly with tears prickling in his eyes.
"When we go to England," He began," You are going to be opened by another man, Lynnit's priest. Yes?" Troy lent in closer to him and held both hands now. Tear's began to fall freely from the slight boy's eyes. "Well, Attendants have to be double opened too. And he promised not to hurt me. That he'd be gentle and take his time like he's supposed to." He released a little hiccuping sob. "He threw me on the bed and pulled my pants down. And he forced himself in me. No preparation, no care. I screamed so loud! He hit me across the face and pinned me down. I thought he was going to suffocate me, I was so scared. It hurt so much,like he was splitting me open. Then Daria and Kris came, and pulled him off of me. Daria was so upset. She felt so guilty for letting him come to me, but it's not her fault. He was supposed to open me. She didn't know he was going to do that to me!" He shook with sobs, Troy didn't know what to say, so he just took him in his arms. He felt him resist for a few moments before relaxing into his embrace. Steadying himself he looked up into Troy's blue eyes. "And the worst part is, I still haven't been properly opened, so I have to let someone do it to me again. And I don't care how gentle they say he'll be, I'm terrified!" He burrowed against Troy shoulder, still shaking with sobs. Troy didn't understand his own feelings. Everything about himself had changed so much since opening, but as he held Tate in his arms he knew that he would do anything for this boy.
"Shh." He whispered, "It's alright. I'm here. I won't let anyone ever hurt you again. Just tell me. Who was it?" Tate looked up at him with his tear-stained face and gulped back his tears.
"It was Wolfe." He said simply. "Wolfe raped me."
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The two young men were still snuggled together when Daria came to tell them it was time for lunch. She stood in the doorway just watching them for a while, they were bonding, just as they should and it made her very happy. All that needed to be done now was for both boys to go through with their secondary openings, and Tate's was probably gonna be a little more difficult than Troy's. But at least they would go through it together, she had already asked Drue to open his Attendant too.
Lunch was the same raucus affair as breakfast had been, Tate was a lot calmer sitting near Wolfe this time, though Troy found it hard to be civil to him now that he knew what he had done. After lunch there was another service before people began to make their way home. Troy and his parents stayed behind to finalise the arrangements for the journey to England the next Saturday. The two young men would be traveling alone and would be picked up by Lynnit's husband at the airport and then driven to the Temple house, which was on the east coast. This would be their last week as independant 'normal' people. After they had been opened, Troy would be able to access his full powers and his lessons would resume in ernest. And Tate would leave his own home and move into the spare room of Jack and Lucy's house so that he was available to begin his calling as Troy's Attendant.
In the car on the way home they chatted about Troy's first full experience of the Temple and he's first impressions of his new aquaintance. The news that the boy was moving in with them was a little surprising, but he couldn't see why there would be any problems. And they had two weeks in England to get to know each other a little better.
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Troy's week at school seemed to go by so fast. He only had lessons until Wednesday to give him two evenings to pack and prepare for his trip to his English brethren. However he wasn't intending to use Thursday night to pack. Jack and Lucy had been invited out to dinner with some of their newly reunited friends, they had decided to stay over and come home in the morning. As Lucy had convinced Troy that his bad feelings about Gabi were nothing more than guilt from his recent sexual encounters, he had invited the girl to come over. They had not been intimate since the week after Troy had been opened and she had made comments about him not being around to even have a little kiss and cuddle with. Plus he'd only made love with Michie once that week and he needed a release. He was still having problems with seeming to be in a state of almost permenant arousal.
Thursday arrived and he brought Gabi home from school with him. His parents waved to them as they rushed out the door past them and drove off to their dinner date. Once they were safely gone Gabi wrapped her arms around Troy's neck and slid herself onto his lap as they sat on the couch together. She gently ground her ass into his groin and chuckled as she felt him harden beneath her. He gently began to nibble at her lips, requesting entrance into her mouth, which she gladly allowed. They sat in silence kissing progressively more passionately as their fingers began to skim over each others flesh. Troy gently drew her top up her body as she lifted her arms to allow the removal of the cotton garment, he dropped it to the ground next to them. Pushing her back against the couch he kissed her lips and throat while teasing her breasts through the lace of her bra. Gabi groaned and began to pull at his jumper, he pulled it off himself and then moved close again. She skimmed her hand down over his tight abs reaching for the ever increasing bulge in his jeans and caressing it firmly with her hands as he moved closer,pulling her up and onto his lap as he twisted to seat himself with her straddling his lap. As they continued to kiss he reached behind and unclasped her bra, sitting her up slightly he removed it and immediately dropped his head and began to lick and nibble at her hard nipples. Gabi's head dropped back, eyes closed and her breath coming in harsh pants. She felt wonderful. It was obviously true that he had been getting lessons in sex as her father had told her these heathen bastards did. As he reached beneath her skirt and began to tease her sex through her panties she whined with pleasure and bucked her hips against him. What a damn shame she was gonna have to kill him, she thought as he started to ease her underwear off.
Within minutes he had her stretched out naked on the couch while he knelt next to her and began to kiss and lick at her sex, last time they had done this he hadn't really been sure what he was doing. This time, he had a lot more experience and knew exactly where to stimulate her to have her moaning and tensing in pleasure beneath him.
"Troy!" She whined, "what are you doing to me? Feels so good!" Her hands scrabbled on the fabric of the couch as she arched towards him. He replaced his mouth with teasing fingers and slid up to kiss her gently. In the back of his mind he knew he shouldn't be doing this, Morgan's message from before was worrying him. This girl was dangerous. He shouldn't let his guard down. He nuzzled against her breasts and suck and nip at her swollen nipples. Gabi brought one hand up to tangle in the hair at the nape of his neck as she pulled him close.
"Fuck me, baby." She demanded running her spare hand between his thighs and squeezing and stroking him through his jeans. He broke away from her and stood to remove them. He pulled them open and drew his magnificent dick from it's prison and stood running his hand back and forth on his length. He moaned softly and shut his eyes thinking only of the coming union. She watched him with hungry eyes as he swelled to his lust stopped her thinking before she spoke, she wasn't supposed to know what he was doing.
"I want you to show me what they have been teaching you. I'll be better than any of your whore teachers though!"
Troy stopped dead, he'd just shed his jeans to the floor and had been about to join her on the couch, but now. A cold streak flashed through him as he considered what to do. She had just insulted people who already meant an awful lot to him. The fact that she wasn't supposed to know about his sexual experiences over the last few weeks didn't even seem to register through his annoyance. His mind was now made up, he had been considering ending it with Gabi. They were both very young and he didn't really think it was very fair on her when he was off being intimate with his brethren behind her back. Now their relationship would be over, after he had given her the fucking of her life.
He grabbed her hands and pulled her to her feet, she blinked her eyes at him,noticing the anger that suddenly coloured his passion.
"Turn around and get on your knees!" He demanded. His authorative voice caused a gush of juices from her hot pussy. She immediately complied thinking it was just a game. He pushed her forward over the back of the couch and she gripped the top with her hands as he pushed her knees apart causing her to display her dripping hole to his view.
"Do you still want me Gabi?" He asked, moving close and sliding his erection along the crack of her ass. She whined loudly and pressed her hips back against him.
"Please! Fuck me!" She twisted round to watch as he humped gently against her.
"You sure? What if my whore teachers haven't taught me right?" It was her turn to freeze now. Oh shit. She shouldn't have said that. He still seemed up for it though, they would deal with this later, now she just needed to cum. She smiled apologetically.
"I'm sorry. Please?" Troy grabbed her roughly by the throat and kissed her passionately, shoving his tongue deep into her mouth.
He let her free and moved behind her and positioned himself at her opening, Gabi dropped her face down between her hands panting in anticipation, with a quick thrust of his hips Troy buried his hard dick as deep inside her as he could. She threw her head back and howled with pleasure as he pulled back then thrust back fully inside her. She was tight, but he knew she wasn't as pure as she had claimed, he began to piston in and out of her at great speed. He closed his eyes and blocked the image of who he was really with from his mind, Gabi squealed and pushed back against him. Reaching underneath her he began to stimulate her with his fingers, feeling her body pulse and throb beneath his touch. He would satisfy her and he knew his own body was striving towards release but it was not love or even affection that kept him driving into her body. It was his need for satisfaction alone, and with his eyes shut he focused on other partners in his head to help him reach what he needed.
He withdrew from her body and flicked her over onto her ass. He pushed her thighs apart as far as he could and slid back into her wet channel. His eyes were dark with his lust as she wraped her arms around him and thrust her hips in time with his, he slid his thumb down and worked her clit firmly. He felt her body arch and stiffen beneath him and her channel gripped him as she climaxed, her body shuddered and her breath was released in tight gasps. His own body tightened and he knew he was about to join her. Their was one thing he had always wanted to do to her, and she had always refused him. If this was to be their last time together and as she was in no fit state to refuse him now as she lay limply beneath him,he decided to do it now. It was quite a silly thing really but something that most guys he knew talked about doing. He pulled his dick from her body and moved closer to her, he began to work his hand furiously up and down his length,moaning in pleasure as he did. As he began to peak he directed his jets of hot cum at her breasts, shooting ribbons of his sticky seed over them. Ecstacy was his. He let go of his body and leant over her, rubbing his chest against her cum-covered breasts. She was still laying within the afterglow of the orgasm he had given her and just watched him blindly whimpering softly as his thigh pressed between her legs. His dick jerked of it's own accord as he calmed back down. He would never do this again,of that he was sure. She had been his first love, he didn't know what was going on with her now, but his newly opened mind and body told him that something was not right.
Troy pulled away from her and flopped onto the couch next to her. She snuggled up to him and was shocked when he pushed her away.
"What's wrong, Troy?" She held on to his arm, but he shook her off. He took a deep breath his jaw clenching tightly. When he turned to face her his eyes were cold.
"I don't know what the hell is happening with you, but something is not right."
Oh if only he knew how true that was, she thought, laughing inside a how vulnerable he was at the moment. If it wasn't for her father insisting that the deed had to wait until after he came back from England she could have killed him now and left a nice surprise for his stupid parents. Damn good job they'd done of protecting him from the Brotherhood. They'd let him date the daughter of the man who had killed the last Rose! But he would live a little longer, because of ancient rules that said he had to be fully opened before he died. She hoped he would have a fun couple of weeks because they were going to be his last if she had anything to do with it.
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She sat there, faking her confusion at his outburst while he internally battled with himself. She had to go. He turned to face her one last time.
"Put your clothes on and get out of my house. Aside from school I never want to see you again." He got up from the couch and picked up her clothing and threw it on the seat next to her. Then he picked up his own and left the lounge and made his way up to his bedroom. He stepped into the shower to wash off the memory of her touch and as he came out and began to dress again he heard the door shut as she left. Dropping his head down he shut his eyes and sighed deeply. Whatever was going on with Gabi, whether jealousy or something else he hoped that it was over now.
If only he knew that it was only the beginning.
