The following day, Jeremy woke up feeling very groggy. His heart sank in to his stomach as he remembered where he was and who was keeping him captive. The piece of rubber around his cock had been making him twitch all night, but he daren't reach for it. Not with Damon watching him all the time, he was scared of what his punishment might be if he disobeyed him. The biggest ache of all, was the hollowness he felt at not knowing where Tyler was, whether he was even okay. The thought made him feel numb.

"you're awake!" Damon walked in to the room and stood just inside the doorway, looking just as pristine as the night before. He beckoned to Jeremy to follow him.

Leading him up a large winding staircase, he showed him in to the bathroom.

"Take a shower, I'll wait outside the door. Be quick" Damon said gently, leaning over to run the water for him.

Jeremy quickly stripped and stepped in to the shower, thankful that Damon was allowing him to shower alone.

As he rubbed the soap over his body, his hand stopped at his cock as it twitched under the light touch.

Damon growled from the doorway, making him jump.

"Don't even think about it Jeremy. Hands up on the wall."

Damon leans around the door of the shower and continues washing him. Jeremy presses his hands to the wall as Damon's hands ghost over his balls and slide along his cock. He fights the urge to buck his hips between Damon's hands, gasping under the surge of the water gushing over his face and neck.

Damon finishes washing the last of the soap from Jeremy's body, and hands him a towel.

"I thought I might be able to trust you to do as you were told Jeremy" Damon said in a low, disappointed voice. "Obviously I was wrong. You will have to be punished."

"No, please Damon, I'm sorry, please don't." Jeremy begged fearfully.

"This is how it has to be. You misbehave, you are punished. But my punishments are sure to get your attention Jeremy. Come with me."

"what do you mean? Damon?" Jeremy tugs his jeans up and leaves the bathroom shirtless as he follows Damon along the hall and back down the stairs.

Damon opens a tall, steel door that is hidden by the staircase, and grabs a torch from a nearby table. He motions for Jeremy to follow.

They walk down a steep, narrow staircase, towards yet another door. This door is padlocked heavily with thick metal chains and heavy locks. Damon takes a key from the wall and opens the 2 large padlocks, slides across the thick steel bolt at the top, and pushes open the door.

As they step inside, the first thing Jeremy sees is a barred door. A door that looked strong enough to keep anything inside. Even a werewolf…

Damon walks towards the door and raps on it.

"Lockwood… Someone here to see you."

He unlocks the heavy door and shoves Jeremy inside, grinning.

Tyler is slumped against the wall, wearing only jeans and a t-shirt. His wrists are chained above his head with old shackles, and there is a chain around his ankle, loosely tightened to the floor.

Jeremy stares, heartbroken at what he sees. He can make out from where he stands that Tyler is in pain.

He looks up when Jeremy walks in.

"Jer?" Tyler panted breathlessly.

"Tyler…" Jeremy starts to move forwards to go to him, but Damon snarls and grabs his forearm fiercely. Dragging Jeremy's face up to his by his hair, he seeks out eye contact with a dodge of his head.

"You…don't…touch him. You can sit with him, but you don't touch, Do you understand Jeremy?" he whispers in Jeremy's ear, low enough so that Tyler cannot hear.

"Please Damon…don't do this, please…" Jeremy begs, gripping at Damon's shirt in an effort to get him to break.

"No touching…I mean it Jeremy" he shoves him towards Tyler.

This was the worst punishment he could have hoped for.

He sunk down next to Tyler, but not close enough to allow contact.

Tyler squirmed in his chains and looked over at him helplessly, pleading with his eyes for him to come closer.

Jeremy looked in to his brown eyes and tears formed in his own, knowing he couldn't reach out to comfort him.

"You ok Ty? Did he hurt you?"

Tyler just stared back at him, the answer being obviously, yes.

"please come closer to me Jere I can't reach you." He whined breathlessly, trying his best to shift his body towards Jeremy and giving a frustrated sob when the chains held him still.

"I cant baby, I can't, I'm sorry" Jeremy breathed, hands tingling with the need to reach out and pull him in to his arms.

"Need you to touch me Jere…he…wont let anyone touch me" Tyler dropped his head back against the wall as tears spilled from his eyes.