The Price You Pay II JD x DM

Sequel to The Price You Pay – highly recommend that you read that one first if you haven't done so already.

Jorel p.o.v – three weeks later

I can see why Danny was labelled as aggressive now. Whenever voices were raised in the house it would set Danny off. He'd become frightened and on a couple of occasions he has lashed out if we haven't stayed a distance away from him and reminded him who we are and that we aren't going to harm him. Jordon was rubbing his leg from when Danny had just kicked him moments ago. Danny never meant to do it, when he finds out after he has calmed down he always gets upset and very apologetic. Danny wasn't calming down so easy this time though and it worried me. I had reluctantly told George to get the sedatives out of my car, if we can't calm him down in the next five minutes I was going to get George to knock him out for a few hours.

"Danny, no one here is going to hurt you I promise. Remember I bought you three weeks ago, and I promised you that you would be free," I tell him, it seems to have fallen on deaf ears. Danny is just rocking himself in the corner of the room. He isn't looking at anyone which wasn't helping. I tried to tell him again who I was and where he was, but he wasn't paying attention. My time was nearly up, I really didn't want George to have to drug him, however it is looking more and more likely that I have no other choice. I look to George and I knew he was feeling the same way. "Sorry Jay, there is nothing else we can do at this point. We just have to hope when he does wake up we can remind him of where he is and that and he won't be this way," George says, and I nod.

I tell him to just do it. Danny's going to be in this mini freak out state for a lot longer if we don't intervene now and it was unnerving how much he was rocking himself and bruising his wrists while mumbling how he should die because he fucked up and stuff like that. It upset me that he felt that way, but right now I am helpless to stop him from feeling this way. George goes behind Danny, who tenses at the person behind him. "Shh, Danny everything is going to be fine," George says and then restrains Danny who screams and tries to break out of George's grip while crying. I winced, and I looked over at Jordon to see him looking at Danny with tears in his eyes. He hates this as much as I do.

George injects Danny with the sedative, now it is just a matter of waiting for him to succumb to the medication. He is still trying to break out of George's arms, but George is a lot stronger than Danny, so it is going to be a futile attempt. Soon I notice Danny's attempts are becoming weaker. The drug seems to finally be working and Danny is calming down, even though it is not in the way I wanted him to. George rubs Danny's chest and tries to relax him before he goes into his medicine induced slumber. After ten minutes since George injected Danny, the young former slave passes out in the older man's arms. "Poor Danny, this is the worst I think we have ever seen him," George says, and I nodded straight away.

"Yeah, I want him to wake up in his room with just me. Maybe then we can remind him of what is going on in his life now and he would be calmer," I tell him, and he passes Danny over to me. It feels weird to hold Danny while he is like this. It's not the same as holding him while he is sleeping like I have done before. I just hold him and look at Jordon. Jordon walks over to me and touches Danny on the top of his head. "I know Danny never meant to hurt me, he was just frightened because Aron showed up again and started a big argument," Jordon says, at least Danny will know he is forgiven when he wakes up. "Yeah, how's your leg feeling now?" I ask him, I hadn't seen the damage done yet.

"It's fine, its not sore anymore and there is a tiny bruise," Jordon says, then he shows me. There is a small yellow-ish bruise on his leg, which is a lot less then I was expecting. When it happened, I was convinced that he was going to have a massive black bruise there. "That's good then Jordon. I'll tell you when Danny is awake, so you get let him know he is forgiven. He is going to be heart broken when he finds out what happened," I tell him. I hope we can find out how to end these freak outs for Danny's sake, he has dark bruises appearing on his wrists from where he was hitting himself and struggling against George. "Yeah, poor dude. I hate seeing him like that and he's hurt himself worse than anyone else," Jordon says.

I decide to carry Danny up to his room and I am going to lay down with him until he wakes up. I don't know how long the sedation lasts with him, so I am going to try and keep the room as quite and as calm as possible. Maybe then when Danny wakes up he will be able to let me talk to him so that he is calm, and we don't have a repeat of what just happened. He is still slightly underweight so, I didn't have any trouble picking him up and carrying him from the living room to his room. "Aww Danny, everything is going to be fine soon you will soon," I tell him, knowing full well he is not listening to me and he is not going to reply to me anytime soon either. I really hope he is calmer when he wakes up.

He is the only one in the house who has a television in his room. We decided to give him one because we thought it might help when he needs his space and some alone time that he could go and sit in his room and watch the television and we can be doing something else elsewhere in the house. It seems to have been working so far. I make him take maybe half an hour to and hour or more a day to do this as a way of helping him through the day and trying to keep him from becoming overstimulated which seems to have happened today before I got that chance because of Aron. Aron is determined to screw our lives over and I am determined to make sure that never happens. He can go rot in hell for all I care.

Now its just a matter of monitoring Danny to make sure he doesn't suddenly stop breathing on me and that he is going to be fine while he is unconscious. It is going to be a long waiting game for him to wake up now. I have never experienced looking after him on sedation. I know he was sedated when I first met him but the rest of that first day was helping him through the effects of the sedation and how sleepy he was because of it. He has been doing really well for these last three weeks aside from the little mini freak outs which don't happen often. We know what triggers them, so we know to avoid said triggers, so Danny can happily get through the day without any issues. Then Aron had to go and fuck all my progress up.

I kiss the top of Danny's head, I love the little bear so much and one day I hope I can ask him to be my boyfriend and he will say yes. It might help him more than any of the other tactics that we have used so far. "One day we are going to figure out how to make you better Danny," I tell him, and I rub his chest like George did, it seemed to work well despite Danny slowly falling asleep in his arms. It might work when Danny wakes up as well. George appears at the doorway but doesn't move any closer to Danny and I. "I researched the drug before I used it, it should last about two hours," George tells me. That kinda makes sense to me, it seems to be a light sedation rather than a general anaesthetic type of drug.

"Thanks George, I didn't think it was going to last longer than a couple of hours. It's good to have confirmation and to know when he might wake up to be prepared for it," I tell him. It's good to have George here helping me as well, I appreciate having his support when I need him as well. This is all a big learning curve. I have never had to have a slave before either. The dare was paying off though, Danny is a good addition to our group when he was happy. He still tries to do different chores in the house even though he gets told he doesn't have to do them. "Hey George, can you stay with me until he wakes up? I am still nervous that he might stop breathing on me," I ask, he will know I am worried anyways.

George comes and joins me on the other side of the bed and puts his fingers on Danny's next, checking his pulse. "His pulse is fine; his breathing is fine too. We just need to keep a close eye on them over the next few hours," George says, it was good to have that reassurance that he is going to be fine right now at least. Its just how he is going to be reacting when he wakes up which worries me somewhat. What if we go back to exactly how it was just before we sedated him, what would we do then? I don't think we could drug him again so soon. "I just hope he will be calm when he wakes up, I don't want to go through that again," I tell George who nods at me. "I am sure that he will be fine now Jorel, we can help him," George says.

2 hours later

Danny is slowly starting to wake up. I started rubbing his chest again to see if that would help him stay calm when he wakes up. He will be incredibly confused and possibly scared but I am going to be here to reassure him that everything is fine. George slowly left the room about a minutes ago when Danny stirred but he told me that he would come back if I called for him. "Hey buddy," I tell Danny, his eyes had just opened, and I saw the childlike fear within them. He let me keep rubbing his chest as it seems to be working to help him stay calm. "Jorel? What happened?" Danny asks me, and I could hear the fear in his voice now too. I am going to be truthful with him, it would be cruel to hide that from him when he wants to know what happened.

"Aron came over, he got angry and started a fight with us. You got scared and then we couldn't calm you down at all. Jordon went to calm you down, but you kicked him. In the end George had to restrain you and give you the sedative. We didn't want to do it, but we felt like we had no other choice," I tell him, and then I see tears in his eyes and I let him bury his head into my chest, so he could cry. He always cries when we tell him that has happened, and someone got hurt. Jordon is fine, his bruise is barely there but Danny's self-harm bruises are still very apparent on his arms. "I'm so sorry," Danny says and then breaks down into sobs. I held him in my arms and rocked him ever so gently from side to side.

"It's okay Danny, no real damage was done. Your bruises are worse than Jordon's and I am sure that Jordon already forgives you," I tell him. I rub his back and continue to rock him until his sobs turned into light sniffles. I wonder if Jordon is going to come in to check on Danny in a little bit to make sure that everything is okay. Well, I don't have to wonder for long because five minutes after I thought about him, Jordon appears. He was smiling, and Danny looked at him with fresh tears in his eyes. "It's okay Danny. I forgive you, I know that you didn't mean to hurt me. You don't have to apologise buddy," Jordon says, and Danny nearly burst into tears again. Jordon showed the little bruise to prove to Danny that it was okay.

Jordon also hugged Danny who hugged the older male back tightly. I saw Jordon rub Danny's back and I thought the younger male was crying again but he seemed to be fine. "It's not okay though Jordon, I hurt you and did everything that got me in major trouble when I was a slave," Danny tells us. I hope Danny goes into more detail on that, it would be interesting to know more about Danny as he talks more about his past. So, lashing out got him in trouble, freaking out got him in trouble and being sedated got him in trouble too. "Well, it is okay here Danny. You are not going to get into any trouble here. It's different from when you were a slave," I tell him, hoping that helps reassure him. It seems to a little bit.

Jordon talked to Danny a little more and we put some ice packs on his bruising to see if it would help. Now I think I want to talk to Danny on a little more personal level and maybe see if we can turn our relationship to something more than friends. I took the ice pack off one of Danny's wrists to see it had done nothing to really help him and then took the other one off too. "Those are going to heal themselves soon enough Danny," I tell him, remembering they are probably going to last a few weeks at most. He smiles at me, I was so thankful that he has gone back to his calm bubbly little self that I have grown use to seeing. George is going to make sure that Aron never comes near us and triggers the same thing again.

"I know Jay, it's happened before," Danny tells me, I felt sorry for him. He should not have to be used to being hurt or having bruising. He is still lying next to me and I don't think at this moment in time he wants to move. I was glad that he felt happy enough to relax with me and that he didn't feel like he was afraid anymore. "I know buddy, it's never going to happen again while I'm here looking after you," I tell him. I want to promise Danny that we will do everything within our power to help him and prevent any more freak outs being triggered. He surprises me by resting his head on my chest and resting his hand quite close to it. "I like cuddling with you," Danny tells me, and I smile. It's the most simplistic things in life that he enjoys.

"I like cuddling with you too Danny, it's nice," I tell him, and I see one of his brightest smiles. I love it when he smiles. I am definitely going to be asking him out by the end of the week, I have to reveal my feelings before it is too late. I know that Dylan has his eyes set on Danny, but I want to be the one he loves. I want to be selfish for once in my life. Dylan has so many girlfriends on a regular basis that he fucks and leaves. I am going to be loyal to Danny, I won't break his heart like Dylan will if he gets the chance too. "Hey Jay, what are you thinking about?" Danny asks me, I suddenly realise I was staring at his beautiful face without saying anything for a few minutes now. I smile at him and he smiles back.

"Just random things Danny, don't worry about it too much," I tell him. The television in his room has been a good source of entertainment for me while Danny has been unconscious and now he is awake we can both watch something together. He often wakes up in the middle of the night and can't go back to sleep, so he will watch it quite quietly until he has either fallen asleep or its time for the rest of us to wake up for the day. He has a DVD player and I let him build a collection of films that he would like, and it allows him to have the same opportunities as us and we can give him something that he can say he owns himself. "Okay Jay, you can tell me anything you know that?" Danny says, and I nod.

"I do Danny and I appreciate it. There are sometimes where I just have random thoughts that don't really make any sense," I tell him. He really is a sweet soul despite everything that he has gone through and he always tries to help other people when he really should be looking after himself and put himself first. "Yeah, I have got to say though it has been a weird adjustment from being a slave to becoming free. Usually by now I would have received a beating for what I did, and they might have decided that I should be punished in other ways. I am glad you bought me when you did," he tells me, and I squeeze his shoulder. I know talking about what he went through is a rough topic and he tends to avoid it more often than not.

I am pretty sure that he thinks that he if was still at the location I bought him from that he would not be alive now. The abuse he suffered back then was pretty awful if the snippets that we know of are anything to go by. "Well I am glad that I bought you Danny. I had no idea how much better this place would be until you arrived. Everyone is so much happier here and we are all calm and have a heck of a lot more fun now," I tell him. I also did tell him how I bought him because I was dared to when I was drunk, he doesn't mind it and we both call it the happy drunk accident. Its our little inside joke and the rest of the guys get it but no one outside of this house does which is perfect for us. I wouldn't want them to understand.

Danny is a little tired, but we understand that because we had to drug him to the point where he passed out in George's arms. It took him about a week and a half initially to recover from the constant drugging he had before I bought him. "If you want a nap Danny then go ahead. I know you are going to be tired from what happened earlier which I wanna apologise for. I really didn't want to do it, but I felt like we had no other choice," I tell him. I know exactly how he is going to respond to what I have said. He is going to tell me that it wasn't my fault and that I had to do what I needed to do in order to control the situation. He always has that outlook on life and I respect that, it seems to help him stay somewhat mentally stable.

"I understand why it had to happen Jorel. I don't blame you for it, I was freaking out and you couldn't calm me down by talking to me and the other methods that work other times. You gotta do what needs to be done no matter what happens or what the situation is," Danny says, almost a word for word recount of what I was thinking that he was going to tell me. I rub two of my fingers on his cheek which made him close his eyes and smile. He is such an innocent soul. "I know Danny, I was expecting you to blame me to be honest but that is just me probably slightly overreacting because of what happened. I didn't like what I saw, I didn't like seeing you stressed out and upset and no one could calm you down no matter how hard they try," I tell him.

It's important for him to try and get an understanding of our side of this, I don't want him to think of us as monsters. I know we are different than the slave masters, but Danny might not think that way when he is freaking out and we are begging him to calm down and then grabbing him quite harshly and stabbing his arm with a needle in the same way they did to give him a drug that would make him sleep for hours and have that uncertainty when he woke up. When he woke up and I hadn't have spoken to him and reassured him that everything was okay then he would probably be anticipating a heavy heavy beating from someone. I think that was one of the worst things about it all. The childlike fear in his eyes and in his tone.

It just shows how vulnerable he really is and how much we need to make sure that we can protect him and make sure that he gets the love and care that he needs. "I love you so much Danny. Seriously Danny I do, like more that a brother or a friend might love someone," I tell him, feeling like it was now or never. I heard George tell Dylan something and it went along the lines of "now is not the best time for that Dylan. I think after what happened today that's the last thing he needs." Now I am making a huge assumption that they were talking about Dylan doing exactly what I have just done with Danny. "I love you too Jorel, I kinda felt that there was something different only between me and you and its not the same with the others," Danny says, and I chuckle at his display of innocence. He doesn't really know what love is until now.

"Awe, well let me tell you something about that Danny. We are going to take this nice and slow so that you feel comfortable and we can be happy in love without being forced or rushed into it," I tell him. I want to establish that at the beginning of our relationship because I know that he is going to be very new to all of this and he is going to be influenced by a lot of people outside on what the expectation should be. Dylan is probably not going to be happy when he finds out about all of this but screw what he thinks. Danny and I are happy and in love with each other, at that is all that matters to me right now. He smiles at me and I loved the smile, it felt like I was melting when he smiles at me like that.

I kiss him on the cheek and he smiled again. He wasn't sure what to do I decided to give him some help, I put my lips on his and then he naturally kissed me back which is good. This is a whole new thing that Danny is experiencing, and I am glad that I am the one to introduce this to him. When the time is right we will be able to announce the new relationship to the others, but right now I want it to be our little innocent secret and I want to make sure that Danny is happy before we tell them because the news will be big. It is not everyday that you ask one of your friends out and they agree to it. I also don't want to make Dylan angry, but I am not sure if Danny actually feels the same way about Dylan that Dylan does about him.

Yeah I know Danny said after my confession that he felt something was different between us and not the others, but for all I know he could be saying that to make me feel better. "Jay what's wrong?" Danny asks, even though his voice is quiet like usual it was enough to break my train of thought. I see concern in his chocolate brown eyes and I feel like all my worries melt away. "Nothing Danny," I tell him, and he saw right through my lie. He gave me a look that read, I am not believing this bullshit Jorel. "Okay, I am a bit nervous for the others to find out because I am pretty sure Dylan feels the same way about you that I do," I tell him, and he tilts his head to the left. He is very new to the concept of romance, so he is not going to get it straight away.

"But Jay, I don't like Dylan in that way," he tells me. He sounded a little more confused and I have no idea how to help him out with it really. He has to learn a lot of this on his own. Everyone is going to have a different concept on what love is and Danny needs to discover his own meaning to the word love. "I honestly don't feel the same way about Dylan that I do for you Jorel," Danny tells me, and I smile. He is amazing, he can make me feel better in just a couple of minutes. Now I need to be able to provide the same comfort to him when he needs it. "I am glad about that to be honest Danny. I guess I am paranoid about it all. Dylan has had so many good relationships where he ruins them because he sees someone else. I have barely had any relationships like his and I am scared that I am going to fuck it all up and ruin it between us," I tell Danny, feeling comfortable in sharing that much with him.

"I don't think you're going to ruin it Jorel. You know I am not going to go out with Dylan and we are going to take things nice and slow so that we both feel comfortable. It is just as important that you are comfortable and happy with our relationship as it is for me to be the same," Danny says, then he shows me his heart-melting smile which helped me fall in love with him the first time I saw it. Maybe this is what is meant to be. Danny and I are meant to be together I am pretty sure and one day I am going to stop being so damn paranoid about it. "Okay Danny, I love you bear," I tell him, and I kiss his cheek. Then he kisses my cheek, he was learning more and more and surprisingly quickly too which is nice.

I am glad that I am able to teach Danny things, I know he was a sex slave, but he probably never enjoyed it and never kissed the men or women he was with. I knew for sure he had no experience in kissing because when I kissed his cheek he didn't really react, he was unsure on what to do. Kissing on the lips is easier because you just have to copy the same movement the other person is doing, and he is good at that. A lot of the time he learns things because he sees someone else doing it and he copies it, for example Jordon was doing a silly dance to the song and Danny was watching along. He managed to remember the moves and the timings and one day when Jordon did it again Danny just joined in without any issues and it looked good.

"Jay, dinners ready downstairs. We got Chinese and its just a bunch of thins we know people like. Danny you are welcome to have any of the food that you think you might like. I know you haven't really had Chinese takeaway before," George says, Danny and I were snuggled up close and he did knock first. "Okay George, we'll be down in a minute," I tell him, and he smiles at me. I think he either suspects that Danny and I are dating now, or he knows because he overheard part of our little conversation. "What kinda food is it?" Danny asks, I love all the moments where he tries to figure things out on his own. "Well, we always have rice and noodles. I usually get the crab and sweetcorn soup which is nice, and Jordon gets sweet and sour chicken. The others usually get spicy food and I am not sure if you'd like that," I tell him.

When we get to the dinner table, he decides that he would try a little bit of mine and a little bit of Jordon's. We know he likes the rice and the noodles, so he can have as much of those as he wants. George has some prawn toast which he decides to let Danny try some and see what he thinks of it. "So, do you like it Danny?" George asks after Danny had a couple of bites. Danny nods his head and smiles at George. George gives him a couple more slices which Dylan doesn't like since he has been trying to get some from George for ages now. He could just ask for some of his own when the order is made, Danny doesn't know about these things yet. "Thank you George," Danny tells him, and the older man smiles.

"You're welcome Danny, I am glad that you can experience new foods that you probably never imagined having before," George says, much to Dylan's disappointment. The first meal Danny had when he arrived was pizza, since then we have cooked most of the meals which have included things like spaghetti bolognaise and tuna pasta. Danny loves his food and there are not many things that he doesn't like which is good. It means that we can still meal plan how we used to and not have to change too much about it. It was funny how every now and then Jordon would drop a piece of his chicken onto Danny's plate and Danny would never question where this seemingly endless supply of fried chicken in sweat and sour sauce was coming from.

I am not sure though, if he enjoyed the chicken or the soup more. He was eating both like he had never been fed. At least we knew he was enjoying the food and there is no worry about any of it being wasted. Danny is going to eat every last mouthful of what he had been given. After dinner its Danny and I's turn to do the dishes and then we are going to watch a film and Danny's probably going to want to go to bed after that. He is still a bit tired from the whole incident we had earlier this afternoon. I am going to be very surprised if he doesn't fall asleep during the film he seems that tired now. He has started dozing off in his food and I have been gently nudging him to make him wake up a little more.

"Do you want to go to bed after doing the dishes Danny? You seem very tired," Jordon says, and Danny shakes his head. "I'll be okay Jordon, I am used to being this tired and pushing through it sometimes I would have no other choice," Danny says, revealing a bit more of what he went through to us. I know that the slave masters would not give a shit if Danny was tired or not, their whole purpose was to drive innocent people to their early graves by overworking them. I gave Danny the easy job when we did the dishes together. He'd come up to me while I was washing up something and rest his head on my shoulder and close his eyes for a moment. "Don't worry bear, you'll be in bed soon and fast asleep," I tell him.

"Can you stay with me?" Danny asks me, and I wrap one arm around him. "Yeah sure thing Danny, you just let me know when you want to go to bed and I'll come up with you," I tell him. Then we go into the living room. He made it only about halfway through the film before I knew he was done for the night and he was getting desperate to go to bed. I took his hand as we left the room and I got him all settled in bed. "I love you Jay," he tells me, his voice telling me how sleepy he was. "I love you too Danny," I tell him and shortly after he falls asleep.

And that is the end of another one shot, hope you enjoyed.

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