Alright, this chapter should start to shake things up a little. I hope you all continue to enjoy and if you do please leave a review – I really do appreciate long, thorough ones that give me feedback on how to improve. :) Thanks.
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Seto met Pegasus at the corner and Pegasus dragged him by the hand to the shop where the potion had been purchases. His erratic behavior confused Kaiba but he had a feeling buried inside of him that many things were about to be made clear. In the back of his mind the pieces were beginning to come together that were telling him that Pegasus had been the guilty part from the start.
They soon came to the small shop and Seto entered. The shop was dank and filled with a number of dusty shelves crammed with bottles. The same woman sat behind the desk as she always did, preoccupied with one task or another. Pegasus ran up to the counter and slammed his hands on it.
"Fix him!" He screamed.
She looked at him calmly and Kaiba teetered on the precipice of revelation.
"Are you not happy with your results?"
"No! Of course I'm… I mean… it's just that…"
She nodded at his inability to get the words out.
"I know. Not what you thought you wanted. Well, perhaps it is and perhaps it isn't. I do deliver the product for which I have been paid, Mr. Crawford. Never doubt that. My potions work precisely as I promise they do. One way or another."
She stood and searched a wall behind her for a bottle.
"Please, do something. Anything. I know you said it was irreversible…"
"You say you are dissatisfied? Well then. Perhaps I can do something for you. You are willing to face the consequences?"
"Yes!"
"You weren't from your previous purchase."
"But I am now!" He reasoned. "Anything is better than this, just please!"
Kaiba felt frozen in place to the floor. All of his underlying suspicions were confirmed. He was at fault. He'd done something to him, something that even Kaiba's stubborn refusal to believe in the supernatural could over come. And now he was begging, as he always did, pleading for someone other than himself to make things right, refusing to stand up and solve a problem on his own.
Typical Pegasus. Disgusting.
He couldn't move but it almost felt like here, in the shop, the control was starting to erode away. It was as though he was finally reaching the end of the long, dark tunnel he'd been forced to traverse.
"Well, the potion's effects are irreversible. But I think this might help…"
"How can it?" Pegasus moaned. "If it's irreversible…"
She smiled.
"Oh, somehow it will. You might not understand it, but someone will… someday…"
Kaiba could have sworn she smiled at him with a look in her eyes. She then selected a bottle from the shelf and walked over to Seto. She uncorked it and handed it to him.
"Drink this," she ordered and he could not have possibly disobeyed.
The fluid slid down his throat and felt like it was acid, burning his tissue as it went. However, as soon as it hit his stomach, he felt like a fog had cleared in his head. He could move again – his body responded to his orders – and could think for himself. He saw how clearly he'd despised every one of his actions over the past few weeks. He saw what a mess had been made of things.
And most of all, a great and monstrous anger grew towards the man whom he knew was at fault.
His gaze snapped towards Pegasus and he saw the other man whiten like a sheet. His pulse started to beat faster as he saw fear dawn in the man's eyes, as though he knew that there would be no escape from the vengeance that Kaiba was about to bring down upon him. Kaiba's smirk twisted so much that it became a feral grin and his blood raced as he grabbed the man by the throat.
"So Pegasus…" he grinned. "Never expected this did you?"
"Kaiba?" He whispered.
"That's right," he replied, and threw Pegasus to the ground. He stepped on the man's chest and pressed hard with his foot. "You thought you were so clever, that you had it all planned out… You made me look like a fool, made me do things I never would have done… and I HATE being made to look like a fool.
Well now your day has come, you great incompetent blubbering fag. You thought you could control me? You thought you could trap me? I'm going to fucking break you. From now on your life will be a nightmare personally orchestrated by me." He took his foot off. "Now get up you flamboyant piece of shit."
Pegasus got to his feet shakily and looked at Kaiba, mesmerized. He seemed caught between the desire to run and the need to stay, to finish with whatever was going to happen.
Kaiba turned towards the woman who was once more behind the counter.
"Whatever he used on me, whatever poison it was, I want it," Kaiba demanded.
She nodded and produced another bottle of it.
"I'll need some hair," she said, handing him scissors.
He clipped off a lock and gave it too her, then took the potion once it was adjusted.
"You fucked with me, now I'm going to do it to you… only I'm never going to be so stupid as to go back on this in the first place. I'm going to trap you for the rest of your damn life and make it hell until you die…" He advanced on Pegasus menacingly, then grabbed him by the shirt and forced him into an unshelved part of wall. He pried his mouth open with one hand, uncorked the bottle with his thumb, and started to pour the new potion in with the other.
"Drink it," he growled. "Drink it all you flouncing slut, I will make you fucking swallow every last drop…"
The undiluted potion flowed into his mouth until he started to choke on it. He sank lower and lower, until he was on his knees, but still Kaiba forced more of the liquid into him. It flowed down the side of his mouth and he gasped and sputtered for air until Kaiba dropped the empty bottle and he collapsed onto his hands, coughing uncontrollably.
Then all of the anger and rage at his inability to fight the spell boiled up in Kaiba all at once. His face grew red and his eyes burnt with rage towards the man lying on the floor in front of him. He took him by the collar and began to beat him about the face until small trickles of blood were flowing down from his nose and bruises were beginning to show on the flesh.
"I love you…" Pegasus whispered.
"SHUT THE FUCK UP!" He screamed.
Dumping him on the floor, he kicked him again and again until Pegasus was moaning in pain. Though he couldn't be sure, he could guess that more than a few ribs had cracked and perhaps even his arms or legs. However, he was still angry and out of control; Pegasus started to crawl towards him and so he kicked him repeatedly. The process repeated itself a few more times.
"You stupid idiot," he panted, beginning to tire from releasing so much energy all at once. "You stupid idiot, you should fight back. But you can't, can you?" He grinned in an unhinged way. "You'll sit there and take it again and again and again…"
He punctuated each 'again' with another kick and blood from his face spattered on the floor.
To the side, the woman watched all of it without comment. Kaiba saw her and went over to the counter, grabbed the scissors an dcut off another lock of hair.
"I want another bottle of it," he demanded.
She nodded, took the hair and prepared it. He then grabbed it and ordered Pegasus to open his mouth as he lay there on her floor. Pegasus looked at his, his eye beginning to swell, and obeyed. Kaiba poured it on him, getting some in his mouth and much of it all over his face. Then he smashed the bottle with a smooth downward motion and knelt next to Pegasus. He picked up a shard from the floor and leaned in.
"I'll bet you can guess what I'm going to do with this, can't you, you flaming bitch?" He drew it across Pegasus' cheek and a line of blood spurted up from where he had cut. "Does it hurt? Do you want to cry? You're always crying. Cry for me now." He slapped him. "I said CRY, damn it!"
Tears began to flow from his one undamaged eye, running down his face and getting salt into the cuts Kaiba was making all over. Kaiba dug the glass into his, watching him bleed and smearing him with the blood. At last, his frenzy abated and he dropped the glass. Pegasus looked up at him, beaten and bloody, then stood and embraced Kaiba, weeping into his shoulder.
Kaiba's eyes were still cold with fury.
"You damn fool."
"I love you," Pegasus responded between the tears.
The woman cleared her throat.
"Now that you are both through, would you kindly leave? I do have other things to be getting on with, you know."
Kaiba looked at her.
"What the hell am I supposed to do with him? I can't very well walk out into the street with him… like this."
She nodded and stood, gathered a few powders and mixed them, then dissolved them in water and fed the drink again to Pegasus.
"There," she replied. "No one will see you take him back. No one will wonder where he has gone. It will be as though he has disappeared. Nobody will look; nobody will care."
A confused look crossed the younger man's face.
"But how did you know that I was considering…"
"I have my ways, sir. I would not be a very good businesswoman if I did not. As I said – it is all taken care of."
"What about payment?" He asked suspiciously.
She smiled in an odd way that raised the hairs on the back of his neck.
"Do not worry about compensation. That had already been taken care of."
He nodded and wondered what she meant. However he didn't take long to ponder it. Instead, he called his own limo driver and had Pegasus brought back to his own home.
Once at the Kaiba mansion, Kaiba forced Pegasus into his own room and locked the door. He had quickly ordered Pegasus to distance himself from him and refused to let him touch him at all, which seemed to cause the man to tremble a great deal. Even so, Pegasus remained fairly silent. He followed and obeyed without question and Kaiba noticed his eye was growing steadily duller as though he had no will of his own left.
Which might have been altogether true.
Once they were in Kaiba's bedroom, the animalistic grin returned again and after the lock was in place, Kaiba took out a roll of duct tape.
"Tables have turned, haven't they," he laughed. Then, with rough, harsh motions, he stripped Pegasus naked and bound his hands and feet together with the tape. Yet through it all the other made no motion of resistance or complaint. "That's right," Kaiba said as he tore off another piece. "Be a good little bitch… the worthless whore you know you are…"
When he'd finished binding him Kaiba proceeded to force himself on Pegasus over and over again until the man's body shuddered beneath him from pain and fatigue. The wounds from earlier split open again and tears of pain fell onto the bed.
"Had enough?" Kaiba grunted. "Yes that's right… I'm going to do this over and over, as much as I want… because that's what you're here for, to please me, satisfy me, and I can do whatever I want with you…"
He finished, then turned Pegasus over and ripped off the tape. It left bright red marks where it had been and caused Pegasus to cry out when it was torn off of his skin. When the job was complete, he fell onto the bed, beaten beyond all recognition. Then with a heave, Kaiba pushed him off of the bed and onto the floor where he landed in a crumpled heap.
"Dogs don't get to sleep on the bed, you prissy little poodle," Kaiba sneered.
Pegasus curled up at the foot of the bed and finally fell unconscious. Kaiba went to sleep feeling sated and pleased that he could now move on and have the situation exactly as he wanted it. He could do whatever he wanted to Pegasus and nobody need ever find out. He could rape him, beat him, abuse him, and nobody would ever care.
The man was his to punish and his to exploit.
In his thrill of vengeful pleasure, he forgot about the mystery of the fee of which the woman had spoken.
And that's it. Quite a turning point – I hope you enjoyed. Remember – input, input, input. I'm not averse to rewriting. And I'll have the next chapter in Pegasus' point of view out as quickly as I can.
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