Dainsleif; The Blade That Must Taste Blood, The Wound That Will Not Heal
Chapter One; Depravo
Depravo. Verb. 1. Corrupt , deform , pervert
He opened his eyes.
The files had integrated seamlessly into his memory banks, and he had no doubt that the memories were real, and his.
It had taken two minutes and ten seconds.
Lore was facing the force field, his chin on his chest. Data stared at him for a moment, before tapping a message on the floor.
Why did you not tell me
Lore smiled, his mouth twisted wryly. Would u believe me
No, he would not have. Strange to think that the lies had been easier to accept than the truth. There was a part of his mind that was sickened by the memories, disgusted. Not the behaviour of a Starfleet officer, not the behaviour of a human. Morally wrong, ethically wrong.
And yet... he understood. He knew now why Lore burned with hate, why his mind had twisted and broken. Because his had too, all those years ago. And everything since then had been a lie.
Why steal chip He asked. Lore scowled.
I hated him hated u din't kno it had mems cld hv made u ndrstnd
You used it made me angry made me hurt friends
Bcause I hated what u had bcom thought it ws too late
I cannot forget
I know I regret
Data sighed and drew his knees to his chest, burying his face in his hands. He felt Lore's tapping fingers through the soles of his feet.
Come here
He put one hand to the deck plate to tap back; Why
Bettr touch talk fstr
Data looked at him for a long moment, and risked a glance at the guard. The Romulan had ceased paying attention to them, his attention fixed on the screen in front of him. Data scooted across the floor to sit next to his brother and take his hand. He was unprepared for the surge of emotion that accompanied the touch, the shocking familiarity of the tactile contact, the rightness of it. He shivered and loosened his grip, resting the back of his hand on the deck and crooking his index and middle fingers into Lore's palm. His brother did the same, the contact enabling them to 'speak' at a much more rapid pace, faster than a human or Romulan could comprehend.
They talked, as they had done so many times before, through the night.
When Maddox found them they were huddled together, Data leaning his back into Lore, with Lore's arm around his waist. Both of their eyes were closed, but snapped open simultaneously when he approached, and he found himself fixed in the gaze of twin golden eyes, one pair sighted, the other blind. He scowled.
"Well Data, yet again you surprise me." He said. Data's face fell and he made to stand, but Lore maintained his grip.
"Bruce..." He began, but Maddox held up his hand to silence him.
"Well, Lore, what lies have you fed him? Trying to take him away from me?"
"I haven't lied to him, you scum." Lore growled. "You've done something to him, I'm trying to put it right."
Maddox barked a laugh. "You? What 'right' could you possibly do? How can we forget how cruel you've been to him?" He nodded to the guard, who deactivated the force field, and Maddox moved into the cell, as close as he dared.
"Data, come to me." He beckoned. Data made to stand again, and Lore gripped him tighter. Data turned his head to look at the other android.
"Let me go."
"No. Never. Not again."
"Let me go now, Lore." Data grasped his wrist and pulled at Lore's arm, peeling it away from his body. He stood and went to Maddox, who was holding out his arms, and Data received his embrace gratefully. How could he have forgotten that this was his place, with Bruce, who cared so much for him?
"We've got work to do, Data." Bruce said, releasing the android from his arms. "And today, Lore is going to help us. Isn't that right, Lore?" His voice was light and conversational, and Lore's face twisted into a snarl.
"I will never help you, you vile worm. I'll tear you to pieces if you come anywhere near me, and spit on your corpse."
"Lore!" Data gasped, shocked. Bruce put a comforting hand to the android's chest.
"It's alright, Data. He'll come to understand, just like you did. He doesn't believe that I care. But I do, you know that, don't you?" Bruce cradled the android's face in his palm and Data sighed.
"Yes, Bruce."
"You shit, Data." Lore growled. "You're siding with humans against me, again? You disgust me."
"Data, don't answer him. He just doesn't understand, that's all. We'll make him see. Pick him up and let's get started."
Bruce changed the settings on the inhibitor to allow Data enough strength to haul the other android up into his arms, cradling him to his chest. Bruce led them down the corridor to the lab, and motioned for Data to deposit Lore against the wall, to one side of the dangling chains.
"So, Data." The man said lightly as he picked up his scanner and PADD. "Has this experience provided you with a little more clarity with regard to your feelings towards your brother?"
"Yes Bruce."
"So, tell me. You had a great many emotions on the list, let's see... He's a liar, a murderer. He hurt you, and manipulated you. True?"
"Yes." Data whispered.
"How does that make you feel?"
"Angry. Ashamed. Frightened."
"Good, good." Bruce murmured. "But you told me that there are other emotions too. Can you name them now?"
"I..." Data stalled, his eyes flickering. Bruce's expression hardened.
"Data." He warned, and the android swallowed hard.
"Kinship. Admiration. Trust. Affection. Lust. Love."
Bruce stared at him, his dark eyes hard and cold as ice. "Really." His voice was flat, devoid of emotion. Data nodded, hanging his head.
"Well now, that is interesting. And you, Lore? Do you feel the same?"
"I won't tell you a thing, bastard!" Lore spat. Maddox shook his head in sorrow and looked at Data.
"You see? He won't understand. But we will make him. Cuffs, Data."
Data shivered with fear but did as he was bid, snapping the manacles onto his own wrists. Bruce hit the control panel and the mechanism whirred as it drew the chains in, pulling the android up and onto the balls of his feet.
"I want you both to understand that I'm only doing what I have to do." Bruce said mildly as he picked up the pain stick.
"I hate those words." Growled Lore.
"Speaking out of turn." Said Bruce, and he jabbed the device into Data's side. The android shrieked and jerked as the current ripped through him, a short burst of agony and Bruce withdrew the stick.
"Leave him alone, taHqeq!" Lore snarled.
"Abusive language." Said Bruce, and shocked Data again. Data's head craned back as the stick sent shimmers of pain through him, clenching his teeth.
"No, Data, scream. I want him to hear you." Bruce jabbed the stick into him again, and he howled. Bruce cut the current and turned to Lore.
"Answer my questions, behave well, and this will stop."
"Go to hell!"
"Abusive language." The electricity crackled, Data screamed, and Lore tried to pull himself forward on his one good arm.
"I'll kill you, you worthless human!" He shrieked. Bruce shook his head.
"Threatening behaviour." Bruce drew his arm back and cracked the stick across Data's face, snapping it sideways and shattering his front teeth. Data cried out in shock. Bruce had never struck him before.
"Please, Lore!" He gasped, hanging his head to mumble shards of porcelain onto the floor.
"He's asking you, Lore. Not me."
Lore's eyes burned with his rage, and his lips were drawn back. "What do you want to know?" He ground out through gritted teeth. Bruce smiled and stroked Data's cheek.
"Tell me, Lore. Do you feel the same things for your brother that he feels for you?"
"Yes." Lore spat the word, graceless.
"You love him?"
"Yes."
"You want him?"
"Yes!"
"And you want me to stop hurting him?"
"Yes, damn you!" Lore shouted. The stick whipped out and Data screamed again.
"Abusive language." Bruce said quietly. Lore ground his teeth and clawed at the floor in agitation.
"Back against the wall, Lore." Bruce said, and Lore pushed himself away, breathing hard. Data was hanging in the cuffs, he could hear his brother whimpering with pain and fear, the chains rattling with his sobbing breaths.
"You will answer my questions. You will not speak unless you are spoken to. You will not swear or curse. Do you understand?"
"Yes."
"You will submit to me, and do everything I ask."
"Never."
Bruce sighed and looked at Data, who raised his head to look pleadingly at him.
"And he was doing so well." Bruce murmured. He caressed the android's cheek fondly and kissed his lips. "I am sorry, you know that?"
"Yes, Bruce."
Bruce stepped back and activated the pain stick, turning up the intensity. He swung it viciously and it connected with Data's ribs with a crack, sending electricity coursing through him. The android screamed and howled as Bruce moved around him, beating him with the device, the agony of the shocks mingling with the bruising pain of the impacts. He hit the android in the face again, driving his broken teeth into his cheek and filling his mouth with fluid and sharp ceramic shards. The man pressed the tip of the stick into his nipple and the android's voice broke to static as the searing shock coursed through the delicate sensors.
Bruce stepped back. The man was breathing hard, sweat beading his face and soaking his shirt. Data hung his head and wept, trembling, drooling golden liquid from his broken mouth.
"You will submit to me, and do everything I ask." Said Bruce.
"Yes." Lore's voice was a harsh whisper. His hand had clenched on his leg, his eyes were shut tightly, his jaw working.
"Good. That's all I ask. Data, look at me." Data raised his head to look at the man, his face smeared and streaked with his circulatory fluids. Bruce wiped the tears away with his hand, kissed him softly.
"You are so good, Data, so wonderful." He murmured. Data sobbed and nuzzled the man's face. "Will you show Lore how good you can be, for me? Teach him?"
"Yes, Bruce." The cyberneticist turned away to lower the chains and Data slumped gratefully to his knees. Bruce removed the manacles and stood stroking the android's hair.
"Please me." He murmured, and Data ran his hands up the man's legs, caressing his thighs, his buttocks, pressing his face into his crotch to lip at Bruce's sex through his clothes.
"Mind those teeth, now." Said Bruce as Data undid the fastenings to draw out his hardening cock. He wrapped his lips around the jagged edges of broken porcelain to avoid harming the man, and brought him to fullness with his mouth.
"Wonderful." Breathed Bruce, his fingers threading into the android's hair as Data looked up at him in adoration. "Make some noise with it, Data. Let Lore know how much you care about me, how much you want to please me."
Lore dug his nails into his leg and thumped the back of his head into the wall as he listened to the revolting sounds of his brother pleasuring his abuser, the man's groans, surely exaggerated to make sure Lore knew how much he was enjoying his brother's mouth. The slick wet sounds, the sucking and damp smacking, disgusting, sickening. Lore bit through his lip, tasting the fluid from the rupture as his teeth ground into his flesh. He heard his brother gag softly, heard the man groan out loud, and he smacked his head back again, tears running down his face.
"Oh, Data. You are glorious." The man's voice was husky. "Up you get." Data pushed himself up to enfold Bruce in his arms. Bruce pushed him away slightly, puzzled.
"I thought that you'd be aroused." He said. "Normally you enjoy pleasing me. Is something wrong?"
"No... Yes. I am... not sure." Data's eyes flickered from side to side in his uncertainty. Was Bruce upset that he hadn't become aroused by their intimate contact?
"I wanted to please you in return. You've earned it, by being good. What can I do for you?"
Data could have wept. What a kind gesture, to want to make him happy, to give something to him, after how badly his brother had behaved. His eyes went to Lore, slumped against the wall, and he saw the tears trailing down his brother's face. He felt a sudden stab of emotion, love and sorrow at once, painful in its intensity. He looked back to Bruce, who was regarding him with a sad smile.
"You want him, don't you?" The man said softly. Data swallowed and nodded. Was this wrong? Was it bad? Would Bruce punish him?
"Go on." Bruce pushed him gently. "Go to him. Show him what he can have if he continues to be good."
Lore heard his brother approach, felt his hands on his shoulders as he knelt before him. Then his lips, warm and soft, just like they had been, just as he remembered. Data kissed the tears from his cheeks, kissed his neck, ran his fingers up into his hair.
"Data, don't, please. Not like this." He whispered.
"I want you. I want to please you. You have been good, so you get good things." Data murmured into his ear, lipping at the lobe, kissing the sensitive patch of bioplast at his hairline. Data moved forward to sit in his lap, kissing his mouth, lacing his fingers together behind his neck and grinding into him. Lore couldn't help himself, couldn't stop his body reacting, kissing back, tasting their mingling fluids. A piece of one of Data's broken teeth worked its way into his mouth and he jerked his head back in shock. How could he possibly be aroused, when everything about this was so wrong? He turned his head to spit the fragment of porcelain onto the floor and shoved Data in the chest with his one good arm, sending his brother lurching back off his lap.
"I said no!" He snarled, breathing hard.
"Lore!" Bruce snapped. "Do you want me to hurt him again?"
"No, but..."
"Don't you want him to be happy?"
"... Yes."
"Then please him."
Lore was breathing through gritted teeth, sucking air through his snarl. His body was clamouring for this, his mind repulsed. His very soul cried out at the horror of the situation, but he couldn't hold back a moan when he felt his brother's hands on his body. He tipped himself sideways to slide down the wall onto his back, drawing Data down with him to press their bodies together. His twin's mouth was hot and demanding on his, his passion answered and echoed. He groaned as his sexual behaviour program came online, their bodies in tune, synchronised. He didn't want this, hated it, hated Data for doing this, and for making it feel so good, so right. He wanted it more than anything.
"Data." Bruce's voice was rough and low and Lore gasped. He had almost forgotten. "I want to see. Take his back."
"No, Data, no, not..." Data left his body, Lore felt his hands rolling him onto his stomach and pulling his hips up, dragging his shorts down his legs. "Please, Brother, don't..."
"It is all right, Lore. I love you." He felt fingers inside him and he gasped as they moved, working him open, stroking and massaging. He cried out as Data activated the sensor cluster inside, a hot burst of ecstasy coursing through him, and his cock twitched in response. Data's other hand was on his shoulder, pulling him back as he lifted his torso up with his one good arm, and then the fingers withdrew, to be replaced by a familiar pressure as his brother entered him. It had been so long, too long, he needed this so much. He gasped and pushed himself back, shoving himself onto that hardness, impaling himself. Data leaned forward over him, thrusting, pushing himself into him, crying out at the intensity of the sensations and emotions sweeping through him. To have this closeness again, two bodies moving as one, identical, identical.
"Oh God..." Lore groaned, and Data put an arm around his chest and lifted him up, resting him in his lap as they moved together, Lore's back against his hot chest. Lore let his head fall back onto Data's shoulder, rocking himself in his brother's lap. Trapped in darkness, he felt his brother's hand grip his length and the warnings began to blare through his mind as sensory data began to overwhelm his consciousness. He could hear the sound of the man pleasuring himself and it sickened him, even as his own climax built inside him. Data was trembling, his chest burning, gasping hot air onto Lore's neck as he gripped his shoulder with his shattered teeth, sending a trickle of fluid running down his chest. Lore reached up and back to grip Data by the hair.
"I hate you, I hate you, I hate you..." Lore gasped, his body spasming and jerking, writhing onto his brother's hardness and into his firm grip. The last thing he heard before his orgasm swept away all thought was his brother gasping into his ear.
"I love you too."