Slave Epilogue

This is the final chapter of Slave I hope you enjoyed. I am going to start uploading Lost Boys once a month and that will have ten chapters. After that there will be another ten-chapter story called Puppy Love.

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Danny p.o.v

"How's Danny been doing since he woke up?" I hear my father ask either Jorel or Dylan, I wasn't sure who. Since his visit about a week ago he has been busy trying to capture Aron since it was proving more difficult than first thought. "He's been okay, we have been battling a bit of infection on the deep cuts in his back and that's hit him hard. He is doing a lot better, he is awake quite a bit of the day, but he does need a few naps," Jorel explains. I rolled over, so I wasn't on my back anymore and I think Jorel noticed. My back was quite sore, and the infection wasn't quite gone yet. "I see, might keep him on bed rest for a little longer. We can have my best torture Aron until he begs for death anyway. More fun that way," I hear our dad say.

Dad would want him to feel the pain of what he did to me, so would the others if they were given half the chance. "That would be quite good to be honest dad. I think Danny does need a little bit longer to recover and it would be amazing to have Aron feel the pain that he has put Danny through," Jorel says, then I felt a weight on the edge of the bed closest to me. I felt a hand in my hair and I couldn't stop the smile. "Morning my Danny bear," my dad says, and I open my eyes to look at him. He looked really tired, but he has been working endlessly to try and find Aron, so I wasn't really that surprised that he was tired at this point. "Morning Dad," I say, and he smiles at me. Jorel was at the door, smiling but then he said he was going to get me some breakfast, so he left a minute later.

"Jay says you haven't been feeling well?" dad asks me, I know I heard the conversation he had with Jorel a few minutes ago but he thought that I was asleep at the time. "Yeah, my back went all bad. It hurts a lot still," I tell him, and he puts his hand on my forehead. I was still lying on my stomach, but I Iifted my head up so that he could check my temperature. "I know buddy, I am going to look after you today. You still have a bit of a fever," he tells me, and then rubs my cheek with his finger. I love having a father figure around. It is so nice to have his support and someone I can call up when I need him. I slowly sit up with his help because my back was still sore while it heals. I just wanted to hug my dad.

I carefully hugged him, and he hugged me back. "I'm sorry if I worried you dad," I tell him, just as Jorel comes back with breakfast and pain medication for me. "Don't be sorry Danny. A father has many jobs when it comes to raising their children and one of them is to worry when their child isn't well or have been hurt. I know you are going to be fine, but I really wanted to be with you and Jorel and I couldn't while we were searching for Aron," he tells me, and I smile at him. Jorel gave me my breakfast after a hug and I looked up at him with the tray on my lap. "Thanks Jorel," I tell him and he smiles at me. "You're welcome little brother," he tells me. He sits on the other side of me while I eat my breakfast.

"George is going to come and clean your back up again Dan, just so that we make sure with the antibiotics you're on and the cleaning wipes out the infection quickly," he tells me. We've been on a semi-strict routine where George would come and clean my wounds once or twice a day depending on how I have been feeling and whether or not it needs cleaning. For the last sort of 5 days I have been on some pretty powerful antibiotics which have left me feeling wiped out as a result. Dylan has gone food shopping with Jordon since Jorel will not let us go out on our own while Aron is still at large. Jorel takes the dishes away to be cleaned while I get some cuddle time with our dad before the dressings get changed.

"You will be feeling good soon Danny. I know that with George as a medic then you will be better in no time," dad says, and I try and relax in his arms despite the back pain I am in at the moment. George comes in and I get a little nervous. I haven't reacted the best to having this done in the past with the amount of pain I ended up in and I was bawling my eyes on it Jorel's arms and I was begging for the pain to end. He knows this and I think they had a plan for me since this infection didn't want to clear up. "Hey Danny, I'm just going to have a look at your back today. I have arranged with a friend of mine for you to get the infection surgically removed tomorrow. I sent him pictures and he said that would be the best course of action for you," George says.

"Is it really that bad? I know the infection is bothering him but surely it would have cleared up by now?" my dad asks George, he hadn't seen my back and to be honest neither have I. I know George has taken plenty of pictures of it to send it to his doctor friend, but I have not asked to see them. I am not a squeamish guy, but I don't think I want those images to haunt my dreams like the actual event has been doing. "I'll show you now Miles. It's the worst that I have seen, nothing seems to be working to get rid of it which makes me suspect they put something on the tools that they were using in hopes of killing him after he had been rescued but since they don't know how good we are medically they failed big time," George says, I was beginning to suspect myself that they had put something on their tools.

I don't have a shirt on, we decided because of how frequently I got a fever that it wasn't worth it, and it made it easier for when George had to take a look at my back to see how the wound was healing. I just have this massive dressing covering my back. Dad let my take his hands as George peeled the dressing off my back. I gripped his hands so tight I was scared that I was going to break them. "It's okay buddy, you grip my hands however tightly you need to," my dad says when George has about half of the dressing off. He has now seen how bad it looks and how red and sore it is. "Right, I am going to count to three and then it's off okay Danny?" George says, and I nod. I just want it over and done with now.

"One…Two…Three," George says, and then I felt intense pain all over my back and I cried out. It tugged on some of the wound itself. Jorel came running into the room and rubbed my chest to comfort me. "I can see why surgery is the only option now, poor Danny that looks so sore," dad says, now that he has had a good look at my back. I was on morphine for the pain it left me in and I was taking deep breaths to try and push through that burst of pain. "Yeah, I'm sorry Danny for making the pain worse. I just had to get that off quickly," George tells me. Then I remember when one of the slave masters would tell me that it was better to rip a band-aid off quickly then doing it slowly because that just makes the pain worse.

"It's okay George, I know it needed to come off. The pain from that is only temporary," I tell him. He knew the pain medication I had hasn't really kicked in yet, but when it does I am going to be more comfortable then I am right now. "How are your hands dad?" Jorel asks, I had released my grip on his hands now. Our dad rubbed his hands and I felt kinda bad even though he told me that I could hold his hands as tightly as I needed to. "They are fine, I was expecting him to squeeze harder, but it was still quite gentle. When you pulled the rest of it off he did squeeze a little harder, but it didn't really hurt," dad says. I suppose he does have a high pain threshold because of all the things he has been through during his life.

"I didn't want to hurt you dad," I tell him, and I felt him squeeze my hand gently. He knows that because of what I have been through I am quite a gentle natured person. I don't want to unintentionally put anyone through pain that doesn't deserve it like my dad. I would however, love to give Aron hell for what he has done to me. "I know Danny, but I know if something like this happens that it won't hurt and even if does then it will be fine because if it makes my son feel better then nothing matters. I would walk through fire for you and Jorel," he tells me and Jorel. We both smile at him. I know how much he cares about us and it was a weird thing to get used to, but I am starting to get used to it and enjoy it.

"I'm going to update my friend to make sure that you definitely get the operation done tomorrow Danny. Then we can sort out the medication and stuff so that you can come off it," George tells me. That sounds like a good idea to me. I don't really want to be on this medication anymore, and the slight hospital stay is going to be worth it. "Is it going to be a whole day affair or a couple of days?" my dad asks George, since George is arranging it all he knows more details about it. "I am hoping that since I am technically the main medic here that my friend will do the op, then send Danny home on the same day so I can keep an eye on him as he recovers over the next few days," George says. It does seem like it would be a thing that would only take most of a day to do.

"Okay, so you, Jorel and Dylan take him. Let me know when he gets to go home then I will come over to spend some time with him," dad says, and I smiled. I am glad that I have that role in my life who will come and support me after the quite major operation that I am going to go through tomorrow to fix the damage Aron and his Nine Lives crew did to my back. "Yeah, might be just me and Jay tomorrow. I haven't asked Dylan about it, but I knew the whole appendix thing made him uncomfortable, so it might be better for him to keep an eye on Danny when he gets home," George says. That does sound better than the three of them being with me in the hospital. It is also more than likely that George can be helping his friend operate on me.

"That makes sense George. If Dylan is not comfortable waiting around in hospital then we can get Jordon to keep him occupied with some tasks left to do in the kill room before Aron arrives while we wait for Danny to have his op done and then see how he does afterwards and get an idea of when he is coming home," Jorel tells me and the others. I really just wanted to relax completely in dad's arms but the back pain was stopping me until I turned around, so my head was resting on his shoulder and we were chest to chest on the bed. I did all my movements slowly and carefully, so I didn't rip anything open or make the pain worse by accident. I felt dad mess around with my hair a little bit which I felt quite soothing.

"You okay there Danny?" he asks me, and I nodded. Dad is very worried about me and I didn't want him to be. Then again he will say that it his job as my father to worry like my mom probably did about me when she wasn't with me. "Yeah, I just want my cuddle," I tell him, and I felt the vibration of his chuckle. He loves how something so simple comforts me so much and he often comes over just, so we can have an evening where we are cuddling each other. "That's fine by me Danny. We can sit here and cuddle all day if you wish," dad says, George had to leave the room to take a phone call with his friend. Jorel smiled and carefully joined the cuddle session because he probably felt a little left out because dad was hugging me.

"I really enjoy taking some time out to be with you boys. Even if we just spend the day being lazy and just cuddle and watch TV in bed," Dad says, since we live in the Undead base he doesn't get to see us as much as he sees Larissa and the others. I hadn't noticed the television was already on in the background but Jorel just turned the volume up on it. "I enjoy spending time with you too dad. I wish you could come over more often," Jorel says and I nod to show that I agreed with him. I miss dad a lot when he isn't here. "Well, since both of you seem to think that way. I am sure I can spare more time out of my week to come and spend a few hours with you," he says, and he chuckles when he hears my muffled cheer.

"I agree with Danny. It would be so good if that could happen," Jorel says and I look at him, so he could see my smile since he said he wanted me to smile some more around him. Now the pain has finally subsided I carefully turn back around so my back is resting against dad's chest, so we could all watch a movie which happened to be a mafia movie. I found it funny that the three main people in one mafia are watching a mafia movie. "Yep, it's weird to say that this house is calmer than back home even though there is no Aron threat back home. It's mostly your brothers bickering over who should be heir first or not," dad says and Jorel and I sigh. I hate it when I hear about our brothers having a fight because I was adopted into the family and not long after promoted to second in line to become Godfather which meant I over took them.

They think it is like the royal family where it goes in age order which would put me at the bottom of the list. Sadly, as they have discovered it doesn't work like that and Larissa was third in line anyway, so they were fourth and fifth in line which means there is a lower chance of them actually becoming the Godfather before they died. "They still don't accept Danny into the family do they?" Jorel asks and I look to dad just as he shakes his head. "Your sisters do, and your mom does, they have happily welcomed him to our family and treated him like he has always been here. The boys are a different story all together and I don't see them changing their minds any time soon," dad says. Mom has been very worried about me since she heard of Aron taking me and torturing me for hours before dad found me.

She has been getting regular updates from Jorel daily and she has even come to visit me a few times which has been nice. I am slowly adjusting to her being my mother now. Of course, she is never going to replace the woman who gave birth to me and raised me in the early years before I turned fourteen, but I love having her there when I need her and to have that motherly support that I thought was completely lost when my birth mom died. "Oh, I just remembered, the boys are being sent by me on a slight wild goose chase for the next few days. Maybe after you come home from the op Danny you and Jorel can stay with us for a couple of days. Your mom and sisters would love it," dad says, and I smiled. That sounds like a good idea and it would be nice to spend more time with mom and the girls.

"That would be nice. I know mom has worried about me and Dan a lot and no amount of discussion over the phone is going to fix that. She wants to see us in person and then she will relax more," Jorel says. I felt bad for mom because she has been worrying so much and I am too nervous to make a phone call to reassure her that everything with me is fine. "Jorel, if you call mom later can you help me talk to her? I know she is worried about me, but I have always been too nervous to talk on the phone," I ask, I know that he would help me and maybe even dad will help me. Jorel knows how bad I am at talking on the phone. I nearly had a nervous breakdown ordering pizza once but Jorel helped me through it.

"Sure thing Danny, and tomorrow dad can help you and we can slowly but surely build your confidence up to the point where you are talking on the phone on your own," Jorel tells me. So, if we keep working on this day by day then soon enough I can just order a pizza on my own without getting a panic attack. "Jorel's right Danny, we can work on building your confidence up with the phone. Might not do it tomorrow though if you are feeling a bit under the weather from the surgery," dad tells us. That is a good point, if I get to come home tomorrow after the surgery on my back then I don't think I'd be feeling up to making a phone call. All I would want to do is cuddle my family and sleep. I do count George and Jordon as my family even though its not the same as Jorel's relationship with me.

"Yeah, I forgot for a moment about that. We have plenty of time to build up your confidence, so I wouldn't worry too much about it now. Let's focus on getting your back fixed up first," Jorel says and George walks back in a minute later. It seems like he has finished on the phone with his friend who would be doing the surgery on me then. "Keith said he is going to make you the priority patient tomorrow morning. He agrees that your back has gotten worse and it needs dealing with sooner rather than later," George says, and I smiled at him. I am willing to go through any pain necessary to get my back sorted out and I wouldn't have to deal with the infection anymore. I'd rather have two or one ugly scar on my back then the infection scabs.

"It does mean that from midnight onwards you can't have anything to eat or drink Danny. It's going to be an early start but worth it," George says, and I nod. I understood because Dylan had told me what usually happens before an operation but that didn't happen with me last time because it was an emergency case. I had to have that operation done as soon as possible so that my life was saved. Tomorrow is going to be very different to my first experience in the hospital and I know that George is trying his best to make it the shortest stay possible for me. He knows that I was put off hospitals by what happened last time and by how bad my treatment was at some points, I was left without pain medication for hours because they thought I had become addicted to it when in reality I needed it to get through the day.

I was so tired; the pain medication had finally started doing its magic and I was very comfortably resting in my dad's arms. "Are you getting sleepy there Danny?" dad asks me, and I nodded straight away. He made sure that we are comfortably lying down together in the bed and I was going to be okay when I do fall asleep in his arms in a short while. "That's okay Danny, you go to sleep buddy. Today is all about resting for you before your surgery tomorrow," dad tells me, and I smiled at him. I get settled in his arms and close my eyes. I knew Dylan wasn't home yet, but he was fine, and he would be home soon enough. Whatever he was doing was important and I didn't want to worry him unnecessarily.

4 days later – Danny p.o.v

"Morning baby," Dylan says, I had been up for a few hours suffering in silence. The surgery went fine three days ago but I am still in pain every now and then and I didn't want to disturb anyone when I woke up at four this morning in a bit of pain. "Morning babe," I tell him, and I hug him gently in bed. I want to go back to sleep as well but I think that we are dealing with Aron today. I know the day after my surgery dad had to go to his base because they had captured Aron and he wanted to dish some punishments out on my behalf first. I think it might be sometime next week before we actually kill him just because I was not really fit enough to carry it out yet and the others wanted me to make the final blow.

"Do you want some breakfast in bed?" Dylan asks me, and I shake my head. I want to move around a little bit more and I could always rest on the sofa if I need to because I would probably get tired and want to get a nap in when I have the chance. "I want to go and join the others downstairs Dylan. I know I can get some rest on the sofa if I need to and I am going to take it easy during the day," I tell him, and he smiles at me. He gets up at turn to look at me. "That's fine Danny, I wasn't going to keep you in bed another day. I think George would agree that it would be good if you could get up and move around a little bit today," he tells me, and I smile as he stretches his hand out, so I could take it and he could help me up to my feet.

I stand up and wait a moment, so I can get my balance and hold onto Dylan for support when I need him to. "I knew that, I just didn't know if people wanted me to stay in bed for another day or not. I am quite done with bed rest to be honest with you," I tell him, and he chuckles at me. I think I have been on solid bed rest since the day I had been found by my dad. "Yeah fair enough Danny, the only time you haven't had bed rest so far is when you travelled to the hospital for surgery," Dylan tells me, and I smile at him. I slowly walk towards the bathroom with Dylan's help and I went to use the toilet. "Where's Danny?" I hear George ask, its about 8 am right now so he would be coming to give me the first dose of medication for the day.

"In the bathroom George, he says he is ready for doing a little bit of moving around today," Dylan says, and he left me in the bathroom, so I could have some privacy. When I was done in the bathroom I walked into the bedroom to see George with the glass of water and the pills I had been prescribed. "That's good, I want him to move around today anyway. Just so that he gets his strength back and things like that," George tells me. It was exactly like what Dylan had told me just minutes ago. I take the pills and chase them down with the water before I walk with George and Dylan to go and meet the others in the kitchen so that I could have some breakfast. Mom and Larissa were in the kitchen and making breakfast when I walked into the kitchen.

"Oh morning Danny, wasn't expecting you to be up and wandering today," Jordon says and Larissa turns around to see me. She gives me a gentle hug and mom was too busy cooking to give me a hug right now. "It's about time for Danny to try and get back into his normal routine. Can't have him staying in bed all the time now and he's getting a bit restless," George says and Larissa smiles. I sit down, and Dylan sits next to me. Jorel and dad are at the mafia base right now and they are coming to get me in a little while so that we could dish some punishments to the bastard that ruined my life. "Good morning my boy, you look a lot healthier than some of the pictures I have seen of you recently," mom says, and I get a warm fuzzy feeling inside.

"Morning mom, I feel a lot better than I have done for a long time," I tell her, and she smiles at me. I am still getting used to calling her mom, but I am starting to like it more. I am so blessed to have this chance to have an actual family who cares about me. I know my mom who passed away cared about me, but I know my father who is still around somewhere never did and I didn't exactly have a normal childhood. My mom put a plate of food on the table and I dug in straight away. It was one of the best meals that I had ever eaten. Mom is such a good cook and I wished I could have her meals more often. I think we are staying over there tonight and then we are going to spend a day relaxing at their base before continuing with our plan to deal with Aron.

"That's good Danny. You know I am happy for you to call me mom, but only if you are comfortable with it and I don't want to force you into it," she tells me, and I nod at her. I was too busy enjoying her cooking to talk at that particular moment. "It's good that Danny is comfortable mom, he knows that you don't want to replace his mom and he still loves you as much as I do," Larissa says, and I eagerly nod to show that I agreed with my sister. It was amazing to have siblings too, I was an only child when my mom was alive because the slave master didn't want to have more children born because it was too risky even though he would get an endless supply of free slaves to raise and shape to his will. They would be less likely to disobey him too.

I did mention it too him one day and he said he would consider it. Then when I was about to be sold to Aron he told me that he had considered it and he was going to be implementing it when he had planned it out thoroughly enough. I think he wanted to have sex with the women, so they would be his kids and more likely to obey him because he is their dad and we have to do as our mom and dad tells us to do. "Yep, and he knows that I love him just as much as I love you and your siblings." Mom says, and I had just finished my breakfast. "I love you too mom, thanks for cooking breakfast," I tell her, and she smiles. Larissa decides that she was on washing up duty and I heard the front door open and close.

"That felt good, can't wait for Danny to experience that," I hear Jorel say. They are walking towards the kitchen now, but they probably had been talking the entire ride up here. "Yeah, if he feels comfortable enough doing it. Danny is quite a gentle soul and I would hate for him to feel pressured into doing anything he might not be comfortable with," I hear dad say next and I saw both mom and Larissa smile at me. Jorel and dad would not be expecting me to be up and wandering around yet, so it will be a nice surprise for them. "Morning girls and Dylan," Dad says, he hadn't seen me yet. The three people he mentioned said good morning back. Then he saw me and had a big smile on his face.

I had been told by Jorel, Dylan and George that I looked really ill up until the morning after my surgery and I felt a whole lot better then too. I had fought the infection off now and all we had to do was clean the two wounds which run down my back where the skin graft was put on after all the infection had been removed. "Hello Danny, how are you feeling now?" he asks, and he very carefully picks me up, so I could have a hug with him. "Hello. I'm feeling fine now dad, just got some occasional pain when I first wake up where the stitches are but it's okay," I tell him. I wrap my arms around his neck and enjoy my cuddle with him. Then he passes me to Jorel and we have a hug before he put me back on the chair. I hadn't realised that Dylan had taken my seat, so I was place down in his lap which I didn't mind.

"If you two boys wait another few minutes then I will make you two some breakfast," mom tells Jorel and my dad. Jorel and dad sit down on either side of Dylan and I instantly. I bet they were both quite hungry and this point. "Are you sure you are ready for today Danny?" Jorel asks me, I knew he was worried about me. I was not sure when I first got up this morning but now I am more awake, and I am comfortable then I feel fine enough to do it. "Yeah, I can get plenty of rest in between. I do feel a lot better than I have done for a long time," I tell him, and he smiles. The infection had dragged on for a lot longer than it should have and after the surgery I did spent most of my time sleeping to get my energy back after the events of that day.

"Alright Danny, we are only looking out for you. We just want to make sure that you are safe, and you don't suddenly collapse on us or anything," Jorel says and I hug him again. He was one of the most worried about me. I didn't react as well as I could have to the anaesthetic when I was waking up and I did stop breathing for a little while, but they brought me back. Jorel was in the room when it happened so, when I did come round he held me very tightly and I was a bit confused as to what was going on until George told me what had happened when they were waking me up the first time. "I don't think Danny is going to be having issues with his breathing today Jorel. I think he is going to be fine once he has a baseball bat in his hands," George says, and I chuckle.

"Danny will be fine today, I will make sure of it. I agree with you George, once he gets his hands on a baseball bat and Aron then everything is going to be fine," dad tells me and the others. I am still not sure if I will give Aron an aggressive beatdown like Jorel is desperate to do. I do want Aron to feel the pain that he has put me through over the last 10 years of my life. "I want Johnny to put him in the dirt," I hear Jorel mumble and I chuckled at him. He is so silly sometimes, it feels so weird to refer to George as Johnny 3 Tears but when we are out on missions we have to. I am just so used to calling him George though since I don't go on many missions myself. I like being the tech guy that stays behind a lot of the time which is fine by the others. "Hey, where's Jordon?" I ask, realising that I hadn't seen him yet.

"He was down here earlier, he must be in his room," Jorel replies and I carefully get off Dylan's lap to make my way upstairs. I obviously told them I was going to check on him. I know he still misses Matt and some days it is harder than others for him to deal with that grief. I manage to make it from the kitchen upstairs just fine, although I started to cling onto the bannister rail for support just to make sure that I don't fall down. I quickly find Jordon's bedroom door and knock on it softly. "Who is it?" I hear Jordon ask. He did not sound like he was in a good mood right now. "It's me, Danny," I tell him, and he gets up and I hear him walk to the door and open it. He was crying, but he tried to stop when he sees me.

"Hello Danny, how are you?" he asks me, and I smile. I hug him first because I knew he needed that. "I am okay Jordon, how are you doing?" I ask him. He hugged me back and tried in vain to wipe his tears. He invites me into his room and closes the door. Then he goes and sits on the bed. He pulls his legs up and hugs them. "I'm doing awful to be honest with you Danny. I shouldn't be missing him, he betrayed us, but I miss him all the same," Jordon tells me, and I knew instantly who he was talking about. He was talking about Matt and I understood how he felt. "Its perfectly natural to be missing him Jordon. You were still in love with him when he died, you hoped that he wouldn't betray us, and you can be happy together like you used to be," I tell him. He hugs me tightly then seconds later I feel tears on my shirt.

Jordon is sobbing his heart out in my arms and I am more than willing to let him cry in front of me and to let all of his emotions out. I have been in his position and I still am sometimes when I get really upset over the fact that my mom passed away. I know how he feels and I know how much he appreciates having someone's shoulder to cry on when he needs it. "It seems like you always know when I need you for this," Jordon says, and I chuckle. It was true though, I have been there every time he has needed to cry. "It's good that I know that though Jordon. Then I am easily able to come and give you the comfort you need," I tell him, and he smiles at me. He is slowly but surely calming down now which is good.

I don't know how long he has been keeping his emotions in, but it seems like it has been a while because just when I thought he had calmed down he sobbed again, and it was heart breaking. I am still willing to comfort him and to make sure that he knows that it is okay to cry in front of me. "Jordon, want to come with me and we can go visit Matt? Maybe giving him a final goodbye might help you," I tell him. It might backfire on me but at least I offered him that opportunity and it might be worth while for him. He will get some peace in saying goodbye to Matt I can feel it deep down. "You will definitely come with me Danny? I want to say goodbye, but I am too scared to do it on my own," Jordon tells me through his tears.

"Of course, I will come with you. I will be with you every step of the way Jordon I promise you," I tell him, and he looks me in the eyes while he wipes away the last of his tears. I smile at him and he smiled back straight away. "I want you to take me to see Matt please Danny," he tells me, and I nodded at him. Then I get up and hold my hand out for him to take. He takes it and I pull him up to his feet. "Be careful Danny, you're still recovering from the surgery," Jordon tells me. I felt fine and I told Jordon this. Then I went to get my phone, wallet and keys. I am desperate to drive now that I know how to and I am hoping that Jordon will let me. We also need to let the people downstairs know so I know how much time I have to do this with Jordon before I go to deal with Aron.

"I'm just going to take Jordon out for a little while. I will be back before we need to leave," I tell Jorel and my dad who smiles at me. Dad came up and hugged me tightly. "Okay, just make sure that you two are safe out there. Even though I have Aron now, we don't know if he hired anyone to try and harm you in the meantime," he tells me, and I nod. I made sure that they were aware of where we planned to go so that if we were not back on time then they would know where to start looking for us, but we weren't going to be gone for very long and I doubt that we are going to be taken by anyone or have anything done to us. "I'm going to drive okay Jordon? I will be fine I swear," I tell him, and he chuckles.

"Okay Danny, I don't feel like I am in a fit state to be driving to be honest with you," he tells me, and we get into the car. I make the short drive to the cemetery where dad has said he buried Matt. Despite him being a traitor, he still deserved to be buried and what he did when he was good had to be acknowledged since the bad stuff was quite recent. "Are you sure you can do this?" I ask Jordon. He was shaking a bit and I reached out to take his hand in mine. It was nothing else but platonic, he knows my heart belongs to Dylan and his still belongs to Matt. "I'm sure I will be okay with you here Danny," he tells me and squeezes my hand back. Then I get out of the car first, so I can be right there from the moment Jordon gets out of the car.

I take his arm and we walk through the cemetery through to where I have been told Matt has been buried. Jordon has a semi-tight grip on my arm, but I was quite happy for him to do that. He needs my support and I am going to be a good friend and be here for him. "Hey Matt," I say, when we reach his tombstone. Hopefully this is going to help him with his grieving process since we never went to the funeral. Everyone was too hurt by his betrayal at the time. "Hey Matt," Jordon says, and he lets go of my arm, so he could go up to the grave and talk a little more privately. I had the flowers Larissa gave me in my hands. When we are about to leave I am going to place them down. I just let him have his privacy with Matt for as long as he needs to.

I felt Jordon squeeze my shoulder when he was done, and I went and talked to Matt for a minute before placing the flowers down and offering my arm out to Jordon for support. "Thank you Danny. I feel better now," he tells me, and I could tell from his tone of voice that he did sound a lot happier. I was glad that I was able to provide him with some help and support when he needed it most. "You're welcome Jordon. I just wanted to help you in the same way you helped me when I was grieving for my mom," I tell him, and we pause so that we can have a hug. We did this when I was really missing my mom a few months ago. "I know you do Danny. You are too good for this world sometimes," Jordon says.

2 days later ~ Danny p.o.v

"Be careful Danny, I don't want him hurting you," Dylan tells me, we are going to dad's base again today and Aron is not going to be alive by the end of the visit. Last time I went to dad's base and gave Aron a beat down he kicked me right where he knew it would knock me down. "I'll be careful Dylan. He's not going to be alive long enough to hurt me," I tell him. Jorel and dad are going to make sure that there is no possible way that Aron will be able to do what he did last time to me. I hug Dylan and he hugs me back tightly. He is going to be worrying about me until I come home later I know he will and nothing I can say or do is going to reassure him that everything is going to be fine. I suppose I can keep him updated with text messages throughout the day.

"Danny is going to be just fine Dylan. Everything has been planned out by both boys meticulously over the last few weeks and they have prepared for every eventually and have a method of dealing with it," dad tells Dylan, in the hopes that it would reassure Dylan a little more and he would feel more comfortable in letting me go and do this. Our relationship is so strong, and I loved how much Dylan cared for me. "Okay, it doesn't mean that I am going to stop worrying about him though," Dylan says, and I give him another hug for good measure. He looks at me and wraps his arms around my waist and taps my back to some random tune he heard. "No one is forcing you to not worry babe. We just want to reassure you that I am going to be perfectly fine," I tell him.

"I know Danny. I just feel nervous about not being with you especially after what happened the last time you were around Aron," Dylan tells me. Dad decided for safety reasons that only Jorel and I were going to go today despite the fact that the other three desperately want to kill Aron when they get their hands on him. Dad says that he is planning on letting the guys have at him once he is dead and we are going to dispose of him afterwards. I am sure that they will love the opportunity to tear Aron apart because of what he has done to everyone. "You, George and Jordon will be able to dish your punishments on Aron soon enough. I just felt that Danny and Jorel were the ones that should do the killing part," dad tells him.

"We don't have any issues with that. Danny and Jorel deserve this much," George says as he makes his appearance. His little bit of hair was sticking up in a few different directions and he definitely looked like he had only just woken up. "Morning George, you're right the two boys need this today," dad tells him. I was still in Dylan's arm, he was hesitant to let me go at that particular moment. I yawned a little bit since I hadn't fully woken up myself yet and by the time I get there I should be fine. "Morning Miles, morning Danny and Dylan," George says, and he goes to make his coffee. He can't function during the day without at least one cup of coffee. "Morning George, Dylan is very reluctant to let me leave this morning though," I tell him, and he turns around to us.

"I can see that Danny bear, he knows you are going to be fine and we will join you in a few hours anyway," George says, and it manages to get Dylan to loosen his grip a little bit. Now that Dylan knows that I am going to be fine and he will be joining me in a few hours after I leave with Jorel and dad to complete our job for the morning. "Okay, I will see you later Danny boo," Dylan tells me, and I stand on my tiptoes to kiss him before I leave. He pulls me up, so I am being held by him. He lets me kiss him on the lips and he kisses me back straight away. "I love you Dylan, I will be fine," I tell him, and he puts me down. "I love you too Danny, I will see you in a little bit," he tells me, and I walk over to dad, so we can leave to his base.

Jorel was already waiting at the door with dad's keys in his hands. "Dylan finally let you go then?" Jorel asks and I nod at him. "Yeah, he is nervous about it, but he knows that I am going to be seeing him soon and nothing is going to go wrong," I tell him, and he smiles. Since my kidnapping everyone has been a little more nervous when I went out. They were fine when I went with Jordon to the cemetery a couple of days ago. They were happy that I had helped Jordon out through his grief and that I was there for him when he was making that big step towards getting over his grief with Matt. He is never going to forget his first love but at least he says he is almost ready to move on with his life now and maybe find someone new, like Jorel has done.

"So, how are you and Vanessa doing?" I ask Jorel as we head to the garage. He recently started dating Vanessa like I had suggested once Jorel had gotten over his relationship with Jess. He has been so much happier since their relationship ended I felt sorry for both of them. "We are doing good thanks Danny, she doesn't know about the mafia bit yet. I am planning to wait until it is worth arranging the family dinner, so she can meet you and our siblings as well as mom and dad. I am worried that she might dump me because of it but it will prove that our relationship is real then," Jorel explains, he kinda butchered the explanation but I had a rough idea of what he was talking about. Vanessa will need to know the truth about Jorel's life in order to decide if she will continue the relationship.

8 pm

"So fucking glad we are rid of that bastard," George announces when we pile into the minivan that will be taking us home. I was left a little shaken up by the day's events, but I was told that it was natural considering that was the first time I had ever killed someone in my life. I was aggressive to the slave masters I had, but I had never killed them. Jorel was always in front of Aron as dad watched on. we wanted to make sure that he fucking knew who was going to kill him. "I have to say Danny, you have done really well in the circumstances," dad says, and I smile. Now our threat is neutralised he feels comfortable enough to be the one driving us home. "Dad's right, you did amazing considering you know it is the first time you have killed anyone," Jorel says.

Dylan was sitting next to me and had a tight grip on my hand. Aron tried to hurt me but Jorel made sure he couldn't lay a finger on me again. "Uh, thanks I guess," I tell them. I wasn't really sure what reaction was appropriate right now. We are going to celebrate either tonight or tomorrow that the bane of our existence is dead. "You're going to feel a bit weird for a while Danny. It's natural after what you have experienced. Everyone in this minivan has gone through the same," dad says when he sees my face in the rear-view mirror. Of course, he was going to know exactly what I was feeling without me telling him. He has dealt with new recruits for the last god knows how many years and part of the initiation process was to do this.

Soon we are home and Jorel encouraged me to try and eat something even if I felt like I didn't want to. It is important to try and carry on as normal and we decided to have a small celebration tonight and a bigger one when everyone is feeling up to it. By small celebration we meant a couple of beers with some pizza while we watched a movie together. "You'll be okay Danny. I know it's a lot to get used to, but you have done amazingly well for the first time you have done something like this," Dylan tells me and kisses the top of my head. I agreed to eat a few slices of pizza, I didn't feel sick at that moment. I only wanted one beer though, I don't really like drinking and I don't have a taste for a lot of drinks yet.

Later that night I am snuggling up with Dylan in bed and I was drifting off into a peaceful sleep while Dylan was drawing patterns in my back. "Goodnight Danny, I love you so much," he tells me, and he kisses me on the lips. I kiss him back, so thankful that he is mine and I have him in my time of need. "Goodnight Dylan, I love you to the moon and back," I tell him, and I close my eyes. Soon drifting off to sleep.

And that is the end of this story I hope you enjoyed.

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