Chapter Six

Rescue Night

"We may have a way in," Bruno said as he sat down at the table with Jotaro. With him was Yukako and Koichi.

It had been almost a week, and Jotaro was back to try and see if there was a safe way they could get in and get Kakyoin out of that place. Kakyoin hadn't been to work, and no one else seemed worried about his absence.

"We may have a way in?" Jotaro repeated, glancing between Bruno and the other two. "How so?"

"Yukako got an invitation to their upcoming masquerade ball," Bruno explained.

"Why do you get invitations to that place?" Jotaro asked as he eyed the cam Domme.

"I used to do cam sessions at the Vampire's Nest," she said, smiling gently at Jotaro as she held Koichi's hand. "The place just had an air of wrongness about it."

"They also disagreed with what the basics of good BDSM are," Bruno added.

Yukako nodded. "Yeah, they thought I should force Koichi here to be my sub even though he has no interest in the scene." She smiled at him. "When I refused, I was told I didn't understand real BDSM." She sighed and shook her head. "I was glad to get out of there and start coming here to the Gold Experience to do my cam work."

Jotaro nodded. "So, what does this mean for us?"

"Well, Yukako can go in without a problem, since she gets invites still. She could take Leone masked as her sub, since he used to be a cop. They can go in and possibly get out with Kakyoin. My inside man tells me that Dio has his eyes on a new sub, a young man named Pucci." Bruno sipped his drink thoughtfully and smiled at Jotaro.

"Do you think maybe I should have been more controlling or protective of Kakyoin? Was I not doing enough?" Jotaro asked, frowning deeply at Bruno. "Was I doing what he needed?"

Bruno reached over and patted his hand gently. "You've been doing splendidly. Especially for a new Dominant. It takes time, and you simply haven't had a long time with Kakyoin to know everything about him yet." Bruno sighed. "This has been hard for you, I know. But you have to know that Dio is ruthless and probably is using those Kakyoin cares about to control him."

Jotaro was silent for a few minutes. "Still, I can't help but feel I should have done more."

"There was nothing more you could have done, Jotaro," Bruno assured.

Jotaro nodded, but he had his doubts. Perhaps he should have been more in control. How much longer would he have to wait to get him back? He hoped that they were able to pull off going into the Vampire's Nest and getting him out during the masquerade

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Hol Horse had a drink and was sitting down at a table in the Vampire's Nest. He had been thinking about the situation with Dio and his taking back of his sub Kakyoin. He couldn't help but think there was something wrong with the whole situation. If the boy wanted to leave, he should let him leave. He glanced over and saw that Prosciutto was doing a scene with Squalo. He guessed Squalo's master, Tiziano, must have been out of town again. Prosciutto often took on subs who were without their masters for short times. He decided to walk over and observe up close.

Squalo was laid back in a reclined seat with a blindfold on his face. He was dressed in a simple t-shirt and jeans. Prosciutto was wearing a similar outfit and standing over the seat. He looked up as Hol came over toward him.

"Hol," he said and looked up at him. "How are you?"

"Fine, how about you?" he said as he sipped his drink he'd brought with him.

"Good," Prosciutto replied and leaned over Squalo to wrap his hand around his neck, carefully putting pressure on the arteries on the sides of his neck with his thumb and fingers.

"What do you think of this deal with Dio's sub? The old one?" Hol wondered as he watched Prosciutto let go of Squalo's neck. Squalo was panting for breath lying there.

"Well, I think it is a little much to practically kidnap the boy back after he threw him out," Prosciutto said as he picked up the blindfold to check on Squalo's eyes.

"He got upset because he was over at the Gold Experience," Hol told him.

Prosciutto nodded. "Well, people tend to stay there once they go there, and Buccellati keeps his employees unlike around here."

"I always wondered at that." Hol had never understood why so many people left Vampire's Nest for the Gold Experience. He'd never gone over there, though.

"Yeah, a lot of stuff that goes on here isn't allowed over there," Prosciutto commented as he reached both hands to compress the sides of Squalo's neck again for a few seconds. A slight giggle escaped Squalo's lips right before Prosciutto released.

"What do you mean?" Hol asked, concerned now that Prosciutto said something of it.

"Well, there's a lot of abusive relationships that are allowed here," Prosciutto explained, checking Squalo's pulse at his wrist. "Many of the things that are allowed here aren't in the spirit of real BDSM."

"I never thought of it that way," Hol muttered, now thinking about that idea. How much of what he saw as normal here were really wrong?

Prosciutto leaned back, crossing his arms over his chest. "BDSM is about more than controlling another person. It includes compassion, caring, love even… There's a lot of things that aren't done correctly here because Dio allows that sort of thing here."

Hol nodded, not sure what to think about Prosciutto's words. Was everything he knew wrong? Was what he thought of as right actually not right? He turned away and headed back to the bar and sat back down to think about it. What was right after all?

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Avdol looked at the files and sighed. He had to find this identity thief. All they were calling him was "Rubber Soul" since he was known for stealing identities. Ever since he was employed by Senator Wilson Phillips about a massive data breech, he'd been on the case. So far, he'd found more victims. The police were at a loss, so they had been forthcoming with helping him try to catch this identity thief.

He looked through the files and jerked as his phone went off.

"Hello? Avdol here," he answered.

"Hey, man, it's Officer Smith down at the police station. We've got a guy we picked up with a bunch of IDs on him that match your case for Rubber Soul. I think we might've caught him," the man on the other end of the line said.

"I'll be right down," Avdol said as he gathered his files and stood up.

A few minutes later, he stood in the police station where they had a man in custody waiting in the interview room for him. He looked through the evidence pile and found at the bottom Kakyoin's ID and credit cards. He sighed and opened the door and went in to find a nondescript man with beady eyes staring back at him.

"Rubber Soul," Avdol said as he sat down across the table from him.

"Ah, what a name I got for myself," he answered, smirking across the table at him and the officer that had just sat down.

"Where did you get these?" he said as he shoved over Kakyoin's ID and cards.

"Those?" He looked at them and smirked. "What does talking about it get me?"

The police officer frowned. "We might be able to work out a deal if you offer something on someone else who was helping you."

Avdol nodded. "I'm sure you know something on someone you can trade for leniency."

"Alright, well, that boy's stuff came from Dio Brando's place. And I know some dirt on him. He often hired criminal types to work for him, and then he protects them. This one guy he has attacked and nearly killed a girl. I heard she doesn't come out of her house anymore," he said, smiling the entire time.

Avdol shook his head and stood up, taking the files with him. "Did you see this guy?"

"Nah, I didn't see anyone, I just took the cards off Dio's desk. Thought they looked like a likely mark for me to use," he answered.

Avdol nodded, heading to the Gold Experience to see if he could talk to Bruno since this was the boy they were missing. He hoped to at least give them some answered for what was going on with him. After a few minutes he got to Bruno's and found Jotaro was there.

"I've got some news," he said as he looked over to where Bruno was waiting with Jotaro and Leone sitting at the table.

"What did you find out?" Bruno asked as he came around from the bar.

"The police picked up a guy using Kakyoin's ID. He got the cards from Dio. He also talking about other people that are working for Dio that are criminals. It seems he's going to put a few nails in Dio's coffin," Avdol explained and looked over at Polnareff. "And he claims that the man that attacked and nearly killed Polnareff's sister works for Dio."

Polnareff stopped drying the glass he held and looked over at Avdol. "Will this bring him in?" he asked tentatively.

"I don't know, but it was pretty obvious Kakyoin wasn't the one using his card and he got caught pretty easily," Avdol said and dropped a paper on the table.

Jotaro picked it up, seeing that it was the card statement.

"This is for a lap dance at a local strip club… and a female escort…" he muttered as he read it over. "I can see how they would have picked up the change in his spending habits."

"Yeah, there was a flag on his accounts immediately," Avdol said softly.

"Are they going to be able to do anything about Dio with this information?" Jotaro asked, handing the papers back to him.

Avdol shrugged slightly. "We'll have to wait and see what comes of it. If he can for certain be connected to these criminals, they might be able to get him for aiding and abetting. He seems to be protecting those that work for him, so that might be enough to get him picked up once they put together a solid case."

Jotaro nodded and looked over at Bruno. "So, our best bet is to go forward with our plan to sneak into the masquerade and get him out."

"It seems so. We can't count on the police getting to Dio before then, so we'll continue as we planned," Bruno nodded.

Jotaro licked his lips thoughtfully. "Good grief, what a hassle because Dio couldn't let go of Kakyoin to someone else."

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Dio sat at his desk with Kakyoin on his knees beside him. Pucci was seated on the sofa waiting patiently. The masquerade was set to start in the next hour. He reached down and grabbed Kakyoin by the hair and wrenched his head upward to look at him. He smiled. The cuts he'd made over his eyelids as punishment were starting to heal but would leave a scar running down each of his eyes. He thumbed the top of the wound and was happy to feel the ridge that started on his forehead.

"So, dear Emerald. Tonight, we're having a little fun. We're having a ball, a masquerade, and I'm going to show off what I own. You're going to be allowed to entertain people. Consider yourself the party favor for the night," he told him as he gripped his hair.

Kakyoin didn't move or say anything as Dio knew he wouldn't. He was docile after the last week. He glanced over to Pucci and grinned. He was utterly and completely devoted already. He wouldn't go to another master even if he abandoned him, he knew. He almost regretted the time he'd taken with Kakyoin because it took away time from Pucci.

"Heaven," he directed his attention to Pucci.

"Yes, Master?" he responded immediately.

"You will be my prized display for the evening. You will be at my side the entire night while Emerald is thrown to the floor to be played with by whoever might be interested in him. He's not worth my time like you are." Dio stood up and stood by the sofa and put his hand under Pucci's chin and tilted his head upward. "Wait here with Emerald while I go and check on things for tonight's event."

Dio left the room and Pucci looked over to Kakyoin who was sitting and watching the door where Dio had left. Pucci smiled smugly at him.

"If you had listened to him and been treated better and not thrown away. There is so much that you had to have done wrong to be tossed aside," Pucci said with a smug tone to his voice.

Kakyoin growled under his breath and wondered what he was going to do. To be treated like this was going far, even for Dio. He wanted to be with Jotaro so badly after this week under Dio's rule again. He missed the compassionate, loving arms that he'd gotten used to. He didn't care what Dio did, though, he would never really be his again. He belonged to one person, and that was Jotaro.

He looked up as the door opened again. Dio smiled at them.

"Time for the party!" he announced and came over to grab Kakyoin by the collar. "You'll be tied to the cross and anyone that wants to take you for something, can. You're nothing but disposable to me anymore."

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Yukako walked into the Vampire's Nest leading Leone by a metal leash. He was dressed as a puppy, with a hood that completely covered his head. She wore a one piece catsuit that was mesh with strategic pieces of latex on it. She also wore a hood to conceal her identity. They walked in and found themselves in another world from the Gold Experience. The subs here were obviously not treated well. It seemed most of them were jumpy and fearful when someone got too near them, or they looked brainwashed and just stared into space. Yukako wondered if there weren't drugs involved with some of them.

She tugged Leone up to her. "Have you seen him yet?"

Leone shook his head, looking around for Kakyoin. "There's Dio," he said, looking up to a mezzanine that looked over the floor below. He was in a suit and holding a leach that extended to another sub, dressed in a harness and what looked like booty shorts from where they stood.

Yukako wandered around, watching the interactions between Doms and subs. She saw a great m any that were outright abusive, and it took all she had not to say something. This was not BDSM, this was torture for these people. Finally, she caught sight of Kakyoin's distinctive pink colored hair. He was trussed up on a St. Andrew's cross and was being flogged by someone. Yukako glanced up at Dio again and saw that he had no eyes for Kakyoin at all. That boded well for their plan.

She made her way over to the cross, watching as someone else took a turn flogging Kakyoin. She could see already that his back was red and he had certainly had quite enough for the night. He wasn't bleeding, luckily, but that would change if this kept up at the same intensity. As the man stepped back and put the flogger down on the table beside the cross, Yukako stepped up and picked it up. She took Leone's chain and looped it over a hook in the cross and proceeded to use the flogger, but nowhere near as hard as the others. She noticed that people were dispersing around her and figured it was now or never.

She unhooked Leone and then went to release Kakyoin's wrists from the attachment points. He slumped backward into her, obviously already exhausted. She leaned in close to his ear.

"We're here to get you out," she whispered.

Kakyoin turned his head sharply toward her and of course had no idea who she was. She reached up and petted his head gently and led him into the crowd. She could see the door and wanted to bolt for it, but that would get them caught. Slowly, slowly, they had to avoid attracting attention. She glanced up to see Dio engrossed in the other sub he had apparently taken that was seated at his knee. Luckily Kakyoin was semi-dressed in a pair of latex shorts and a harness.

Yukako checked around her and whispered to Kakyoin, "Just keep walking where I lead you. Jotaro's waiting for you."

She heard the sharp intake of breath and smiled to herself as they made it to the door area. She stopped with both of them, acting like she was instructing them both for a moment, then she slipped out the door, shoving Kakyoin in front of her quickly. There wasn't anyone out front in the parking lot as she shuffled the two of them to the car. She put Kakyoin in the back and told him to lay down until they got away. That wasn't a problem because he was exhausted to the breaking point. She settled Leone in the passenger seat and then got in to drive.

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"What do you mean, he's gone?" Dio yelled at Hol Horse who had come up to tell him that Kakyoin had disappeared during the party.

Of course, Hol had seen a female Domme leading him to the door. He hadn't stopped them, and wasn't about to tell Dio what had happened. After his talk with Prosciutto, he'd decided his days at the Vampire's Nest were numbered. Now that he was aware of these things, he couldn't help but see them. The subs that were cowed. The subs that were treated like literal slaves, obviously not by choice. The subs that were abused by their Dom/mes. He saw it all way too clearly now.

"Yeah, no one saw what happened. Someone took him off the cross during the party and he disappeared," Hol explained, shrugging at Dio.

"Well, whatever, if they want him back so badly that they'll break into my party to sneak him out, they can have him. I've ruined him. He'll be of no use to anyone now." Dio ran his hands through Pucci's hair as he spoke. "He wasn't devoted like Heaven. I've had my revenge on him for daring to go to another Dom. I have little doubt that he'll be too traumatized by what I've put him through this week."

Hol nodded and bowed a bit as he left the office. He licked his lips thoughtfully and looked around the place for what was going to be the last time. He wasn't going to come back to this place again.

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Kakyoin laid in the back the entire trip. He was too tired and shaky to sit up anymore. He just wanted to rest and that was all. The car jolted to a stop and surprised him, and he slowly sat up. He realized that he knew his rescuers. The puppy was Leone, Bruno's sub, and the Domme was Yukako, the cam Domme that worked downstairs.

"Come on, Jotaro is beside himself," Yukako said as she opened the back door for him. "You have no idea how hard it was to keep him from busting in that place to get you out this week."

Kakyoin stood up, seeing they were outside the Gold Experience. He was nervous about seeing Jotaro again. What would he say? He had chosen to stay, after all. Of course, he did so to avoid any harm that might have come to Jotaro, but still. He let Yukako take him by the hand and pull him toward the building as Leone followed them.

He had barely gotten inside the door when he was grabbed up in a tight hug. He sighed, recognizing Jotaro's smell immediately. He relaxed into his hold and immediately started to feel tears in his eyes, which stung the cuts that were still healing over his eyes and down onto his cheeks. He gripped Jotaro's form hard.

"I'm sorry!" he gasped finally, taking a deep breath and not looking up at him.

"Shh. There's nothing to be sorry for. You're back now," Jotaro said quietly, running a hand over Kakyoin's head.

He looked up at him, blinking away the tears that were still in his eyes. Jotaro reached up and ran a thumb down the cuts on his face. Kakyoin could tell he was angry by the set of his jaw and the quiet that had taken him over. He didn't say anything, though, he only hugged Kakyoin to his chest again tightly.

"You're back, that's all that matters," he said and let go to move them to the table.

Bruno sat down a glass of juice for him, having already heard what was happening to him at the party. Kakyoin drank it without saying anything at all. Leone had sat down on the other side of the table and was drinking something as well. Jotaro sat down close to him, turning to face him.

"Did he hurt you any more than your face?" he said in a demanding tone.

Kakyoin shook his head slowly. "He just made me service him and said I was to be a party favor at the party tonight for whoever wanted to use me." He chuckled softly and looked at Jotaro. "I think I found out where my limit for being flogged is, but they didn't stop when I got there. I feel really tired and sore."

Jotaro leaned over and pulled his face to him, leaning in to brush his lips against Kakyoin's gently. The touch was so soft that Kakyoin exhaled in surprise and then leaned in, letting Jotaro take control of his head and deepened the kiss for a few seconds. He broke it, leaning back. Was he going to be angry at him at all?

"I missed you, and have been very worried since you've been gone," Jotaro admitted.

"I missed you so much. I just kept thinking about you and that kept me sane," Kakyoin said, looking at Jotaro with wide eyes. "He wanted to break me, he said so. But I couldn't let him. I couldn't. I had to come back to you no matter what. I didn't know when, but I knew I had to. Even if you turned me away, I had to come back."

"I'd never turn you away, Kakyoin," Jotaro smiled subtly and brushed his hair back from his face behind his ear. "I don't care what he did to you, you're mine, not his."

Kakyoin's heart skipped a beat and he knew he'd found something true and enduring with Jotaro. He swallowed and leaned into him, putting his head against his chest. He listened to his heartbeat and that was enough to make him feel better.