The next thing I knew, I was lying on a bed without a stitch of clothes and sore cock. My brain felt sluggish, and I had this strange taste in my mouth, but I managed to say "fuck-n-shit-to-hell" a few times before sitting up and taking in my cell.
Cell... Shit. So it wasn't a cell, but just because there weren't any bars on the windows and shit didn't make it any less of a prison. I was actually back in my room, alone.
Not surprisingly, the link with Nathan was gone, and I couldn't seem to feel him or anyone out with the little telepathic ability I had. I felt strangely calm about all this, and oddly enough I decided to take a shower after noticing the little bit of dried mud still clinging to my shins.
I knew I had spent an unknown amount of time being fucked by a twin, and that the next time I saw one, it would be just before I forgot everything I ever knew. Normally this would have scared me shitless, but apparently the twin had done something to make me stay calm and relaxed like I felt then.
I even packed my stuff up and made the bed thinking it would be impolite to leave the suite like that. I also was tempted to get dressed, but I knew that would be a waste of time. I would only have to take it off again for my reprogramming fuck.
When everything I could think of doing was done, I simply sat on the bed and waited. My mind wandered a bit, and I began wondering what happened to Nathan and what would happen to him and his sister.
The more I dwelled on this, the less... patience I had, and by the time I heard someone coming down the hall, I had torn my room up and was again sitting patiently on the bed once more.
When the door opened, I immediately asked, "What's going to happen to Nathan?"
Kain didn't mask his surprise, but didn't bother answering it either. He had a pair of twins right behind him, and only motioned I should follow him which I did after feeling a warning from their empathic touch.
I felt... humiliated as I followed them naked to the palace, Peter and a couple of the girl voices watching from a safe distance, seeing I was in serious shit and was about to get my punishment. If they hadn't already known, then they did now.
When we reached Gladius's office, I was really getting concerned when Nathan wasn't there.
"Where's Nathan? What are you going to do to him? He doesn't deserve..."
"Silence, slave!" Gladius snapped. "Your betrayal should be the only thing on your mind. Nathan's loyalty to you was expected after seeing the bond between you two from before. Your fates have always been linked."
"You bastard. You knew I'd try to leave, didn't you!"
"You overestimate me, boy. I gave you what you believed you have always wanted, a chance to use your abilities to their fullest, then gave you a home and a challenging position to apply your skills to. And what do you do to repay me? You betray me by attempting to steal one of the most promising girls I've seen in years along with abandoning your post and that of your partners. You're not worth my time to tell you this."
I was about to argue this with him when the thought suddenly occurred to me he must want something from me to bother interrogating me like this.
I looked him in the eye and said, "What do you want from me? You can't tell me you enjoy watching me squirm."
He blinked a moment, then said, "Very good... I do want something from you, but I also do enjoy watching you... squirm. So lets see if you can work that out on your own."
"Fuck you," I spat. "You want something from me, the least you can do is tell me what it is."
"Girls?"
I felt that tingle again, then the next thing I knew I was home, holding a chain in my right hand, staring at...
"Mom?" I gasped as she raised her bloody head up to look at me.
"Why, Joey, WHY?!" she sobbed before I automatically raised the chain up and began beating her with it again.
As my horror and frantic panic overtook me, I felt that tingle again, then found myself right back in Gladius's office.
He waited for me to collect myself, then saw the rage boiling in my eyes when I realized it hadn't really happened.
"Unless you wish to experience more family get-togethers, I suggest you watch your tongue and start 'squirming,'" Kain said from behind me.
"Shit," I gasped, realizing for the first time how powerful his twins were.
"Alright," I relented. "What would you want from me. Well, I do have a nice body, but then you're not into gay shit like that. So you don't want me for my body. If you wanted me for my share link, you would have enslaved me or something to get that, so that can't be it. But then what can't you get from me if you enslaved me that you can get this way? Fuck if I know. Unless...
"Holy shit! That's it, isn't it! You want my thought encryption! You know if you enslave me, it isn't worth horse shit because you can't get past my failsafe in time! HAHAHA!"
"Girls?" Gladius said.
"No WAIT!" I cried. "I wasn't laughing at you, I was laughing at.. At me! Tim made me put that in so if I got enslaved and he later freed me, I wouldn't have to redo it all... I hated him for it, but... Shit... So what do I get in return?"
"Get for it?" Kain snorted. "What makes you think..."
"Kain," Gladius warned before saying to me, "You're in no position to bargain. Either you provide me with the information, or you experience personally torturing every family member you have, starting with your little nephew you care so much about."
"Tommy?" I whimpered, feeling trapped and very vulnerable which was exactly what they intended for me to feel.
I agreed, and as I explained the inner workings of what had to be my most prized accomplishment up to that time, I felt truly beaten, and felt even the anger and rage I had always counted on to draw strength from in the worst situations leave me.
When Gladius was satisfied he could master my innovation, I went with Kain back to his lab without argument. Nathan was there, his face as blank as they come, and for a moment I grieved for my friend when he didn't respond to my saying his name.
"Kain," I said after laying down beside Nathan with a traderous hardon. "Who will I be afterwards?"
"He'll be here in a moment," he said before signaling to the twins who escorted us to move into position.
I was nearly going out of my mind with panic and desire by the time another pair of twins came in with the two male voices who taught the children.
"Nathan you're with that one again," Kain said in Spanish to one of them, pointing at my Nathan.
"Lucas, your soon to be acolyte would like to meet you before he becomes you."
Lucas grinned wickedly at me, then in Spanish said, "You're gonna love being me, kid. I just love the kiddies. They're always a good fuck."
I just closed my eyes and waited for it all to end, not feeling any emotion besides the dread of an imminent death.
I don't remember the exact moment the twin began her humping, I just suddenly found myself recalling the memory of Joy fucking me that second time at our camp reunion.
Memories, I had lots of memories. Fun ones, happy ones, tender ones, all the things I did that I was proud of or had a blast doing went first. Suzi was in a lot of them, and so was Tim, but for the most part the ones I dwelled on were primarily about Suzi instead of him.
I had a sense that I was never going to see these memories again, so I was very careful to relish in them while I had the chance. My birthdays, my Christmases, my eight grade graduation... The thrill of driving for the first time alone, and that faithful day I lost my virginity with Suzi on the sofa at school.
Girls I had enslaved, guys I had played sports with, friends from preschool and on... Peoples faces, places I visited, toys I had outgrown and tossed. All these things seemed whiz through my mind, and pretty soon my life's positive aspects were gone.
Then came my betrayal, my plans and plots to enslave Tim to enjoy the things I wanted and he denied. Then his betrayal, his rat, Sarah's releasing it, my tantrums and my purposely re-experiencing the hatred and anger Steven had given me for him just to make me stronger so I could get my revenge on him. These things were painful to experience a second time through, but not as painful as the things I did for Steven. Enslaving Suzi... Watching her as they gave her the drug and her spirit slowly drained away... Helping Steven break her in... Oh God, if that didn't hurt... It was probably the hardest thing I had to endure in my life.
There was no emotion, just... pain as I relived these moments of my life. Then when even these were gone, the pain remained.
I was re-experiencing some of my dullest moments of my life, followed by a few odds and ends like embarrassing moments and times I wished I could fly. There was a brief period of nothing, yet I was actively searching my memory for any last fragments... then suddenly I was back in the cave with Lea...
"... Has anyone told you that you look a lot like your father when he was your age?"
"YOU LEAVE my FUCKING FAMILY out of this, or I'll!.. I'll.. Oh god... What are you doing to me?"
"Why I'm going to fry your brain with pleasure, Joey... Don't you want me to do that?"
"Don't you?"
"Don't you?"
"Don't you?..."
Lea's face... seemed to hover before my eyes for a long time, so long that my vision blurred until I no longer could make it out.
Then I saw movement, and another voice... somewhat familiar to me... saying something I didn't understand.
At first I assumed Lea had moved closer for the red headed blur seemed larger, her features slightly more defined than before. But as the voice continued to speak, I struggled to focus my eyes while comprehending her words, then found myself becoming angry.
The voice, the female voice was talking about mom and dad... And Sarah... And Tommy... Something about... No... No, not again... They couldn't be.... Not Tommy. Please not Tommy.. NO! NOT TOMMY! YOU HEAR! I WON'T LET YOU! I WON'T FUCKING LET YOU ENSLAVE THEM! NOT YOU! NOT ANYONE! NEVER AGAIN!"
My eyes focused on my tormentor, and at first I thought Lea had grown up in front of my eyes, but then my memory clicked and I recognized the face of who I knew to be Lea's mother.
Zoe continued to build my anger and my rage to the point I was throthing with emotion, violently spasming as she drove me beyond the bounds of sanity and kept going further and further with the promises of Tim telling me what I could and could not feel, think, even breathe...
At that point the force pulling out these memories stopped, but it was already too late. I don't know what else Zoe said to anger me even more, perhaps she could have said anything at that point and I would have just gotten angrier no matter what. All I know is at some point my anger reached a breaking point, and like a balloon I released it all, flooding the others sharing that virtual space with my insane rage and anger to kill anyone I could get my hands on.
As it all flooded out of me and into the three beings I felt within my reach, the memory of Zoe ended with my vision blurred with a growing redness. When my emotional balloon had deflated from its expulsion of all my anger and rage, everything went blood red, then faded to a fluffy white.
"Joey?" a young familiar voice said. "It's your turn."
I found myself staring at a white puffy cloud in a bright blue summer sky, and after a moment I recalled what I was doing and said, "A turtle on its back doing the back stroke."
"A turtle?"
"That's what I see. Not it, huh?"
"No... Are you sure brothers see the same thing in clouds?"
"Sure I'm sure. Come on. The more we practice, the more like brothers we will be."
"All right," he sighed. "But... We're not really brothers, so maybe..."
"Yes we are!" I said with a lot of emotion. "You're my brother. We're always together, aren't we?"
"Yeah, but... I mean, what if my mom has to take that job in New Jersey. I'd have to go with her, and then..."
"Shut up! Shut up shut up!" I said, fighting my tears. "You're not going to move, you hear! I'll die if... You can't leave me. Don't leave me?"
"I won't," he said with emotion. "I left Teddy, but I won't leave you. I swear to God I won't. We'll always be together, okay?... We'll even have a house together with our wives and all our kids."
"Yeah..." I said, feeling better thinking about that. "Yeah, our kids could play together, and they could all be brothers and sisters like we are..."
"Who do you want to marry? I think I'd marry Toni."
"That's only because she has the same initials as you."
"So? I think that'd be cool."
"Well I'd want someone who... who... who can think on their feet like I can."
"Yeah? Like who?"
"Let me see... Well, Benji is always talking in class, but always gives a good excuse when she gets caught."
"Yeah, but I bet she'll be a woof woof when she gets older with that name," he snickered. "What about that new girl, Suzi? She's already figured Rhonda out and told her to 'jump off one of her daddy's airplanes without a parachute.'"
"Heheh, I bet Rhonda loved that. But Cindy said she was asking who you were. I think she likes you."
"So? We're brothers, right? If she likes me, she likes you."
"Well, I guess... It's your turn, and we got a new cloud above us so..."
I waited for his answer for a lot longer than I should have, then realized the white bulb shaped cloud I was staring at wasn't a cloud, but real light bulb.
I was still a bit dazed when my attention was drawn to the sounds of several people breathing, one of them right into my ear.
I snapped to my senses when I recognized the feel of the twin's body, then carefully rolled her off me and looked around.
All four twins were out cold, just like the three males they were...
"Nathan," I gasped as I scrambled to roll the matching twin from on top of him.
The gasp that followed was orders of magnitude greater, the shock I received when looking at Nathan's face almost caused me to faint right there on the spot.
Before me laid the same dark haired young man I had met a month and a half ago, the same person I had shared my biggest and darkest fantasies with and had grown to trust during our adventures of enslaving and raping the countryside.
But this face... was known to me from before that time. I had loved and hated it, I had kissed and despised it, and now I couldn't believe my eyes that it was the one and the same.
I reached out and touch it, then felt light headed and laid down beside him to think.
"What was it Gladius said?" I mumbled to myself. "He expected Nathan's loyalty to me after seeing the bond between us from before? Our fates have always been linked?"
I looked at Tim's face again, then felt a mixture of anger, guilt, friendship, yeah, even a little love... His face didn't cause the fire in my chest like it had before. Every time I tried to recall a moment his features made me angry, those same features became Nathan's and calmed me.
"Lea... No, it was Zoe... Shit, they both were in on it. But why?"
That was an important question, but then Lea's last words to me became super clear and shocked me again.
"They knew this would happen... They fucking planned it," I said kind of loudly, sitting up and looking at Tim's unconscious body.
I knew I had to get us out of there, and the only place I could think to go was up the mountain to Lea's cave. But how to get there without the guards I never saw stopping me...
My eyes wandered around Kain's lab looking for anything which would help me, or if nothing else something to tie the others up with even though it probably wouldn't really stop them from getting the alarm out if they woke.
"Shit," I exclaimed when I realized I had lost an entire day somewhere from seeing the date on the desk calendar. "Saturday? What happened to Friday?" I muttered without thinking as I tied the real Nathan up with his own shirt.
"Friday," I repeated as I did his legs. "I always _liked_ Fridays!" I said angrily, making the bonds extra tight.
"Of course I liked Saturdays even more," I said to Lucas as I started doing the same to him. "And you, you fucker wanted to take all my Saturdays... Saturdays..."
"Shit! It's Saturday!" I exclaimed. "Haha! Now if I can only get Tim to accept the link.."
I finished tying the drooling fucker up, then slipped on his shorts which were kind of snug before getting down on the floor next to Tim and turning him towards me.
"Shit, if only I had my coin," I muttered when I got no response from my telepathic query. "Tim... Shit. Nathan. Whoever you think you are... WAKE UP!"
Nothing.
"Nathan, if you're still in there, don't take this the wrong way," I said before pressing my lips against his and initiating a kiss.
Nothing.
"Fuck! What do I have to do, apologize?"
Nothing.
"That's it, isn't it! You fucking bastard. You'd risk both of us being brainwashed into thinking we're someone else just to hear me say 'I'm sorry, Tim. You were right, and I was wrong'?!?"
His breathing changed slightly, or it might have been my imagination, but I wasn't about to take the chance.
"I'm sorry, Tim. I'm sorry for... fuck... For not believing you knew something that I didn't. For going behind your back to do things you knew would only make me want more. I'm sorry for not being the friend... the brother you have been to me. I'm sorry... I guess I deserve to..."
"Joey?" someone whispered loudly from behind the lab's door.
"What? Who's there?" I said, wiping my tears from my face.
"Janel. Lea told me to come and get you. Are you okay? The door's locked."
"I am now," I said, getting up and unlocking the door.
"You've been a busy boy," she said, taking in the scene.
"Yeah, and you're gonna be in big trouble for helping me and... Nathan."
"That's okay. As soon as I'm done here, Lea arranged a deal to help me and Cory get away without losing the last four years of our memories. Grandfather wouldn't... What's wrong with Nathan?"
"His mind's asleep. And his name isn't Nathan, it's Tim. That's the real Nathan," I said, pointing to the bound man. "And if things hadn't gone right, I'd be answering to the name of Lucas by now. Shit. I still can't link with him...
"Janel, can I link with you?" I said urgently. "Just until I can get us up to Lea?"
"You mean that thing that made Nathan... Tim? Tim stronger? Sure. I wouldn't mind the power boost at all."
"Then accept this," I said as I initiated a share link with her.
As soon as I was linked, I reached out and felt around inside Tim's head, then concluded he was asleep just like my mom and I were before I kissed them. For the time being, I wasn't going to try and wake him any more. I just took control of his body and stood him up.
I think Janel was impressed at my puppeteer ability, but then she couldn't really appreciate how difficult it really was to walk two bodies at once, especially out of step from each other.
I practiced walking us around the room a bit, then told Janel I was ready. Janel went ahead and acted like a scout, and we didn't have any troubled finding and putting the guards to sleep without raising the alarm. But when we reached the path leading up the mountain, we encountered a problem.
"The others are already up there," Janel said, seeing the smoke from their fires.
"Why would they go up there so early?" I wondered out loud, accidentally letting Tim walk into a tree while I gazed up at the smoke.
"I don't know. They weren't up there when I came down looking for you," she said, watching Tim mechanically stand up.
"Let me go find out," she said, starting up the path.
"We can't wait for you to go up there, find that out, then come back. We'll just have to try and fake it," said as I had Tim follow her and then followed them both myself.
We came up with several possible scenarios to use, but ended up having to go by the seat of our pants when we reached the clearing and found them having an orgy.
Connie noticed us first, but only paused in her wild humping of Gordon's cock to wave. Gordon apparently looked out through her eyes then, for suddenly Connie was complaining while he got up.
"Joey. Nathan... What are you doing up here? I thought..."
The announcement of our names basically brought the orgy to an end, and everyone sort of asked the same question and then waited for an answer.
I opened my mouth to reply, but before I could, Peter said, "Look. It doesn't matter. You did something wrong, and you've been punished for it. We've all been there."
"Some more than others," Jonas muttered.
"Yeah, so get those shorts off and... What's wrong with you, Nathan?" Beatrice asked.
"I don't feel good," I had Tim say before sitting him down.
"Lea wanted to see the three of us," Janel said to distract their gazes at Tim's spacy expression.
That got their attention all right.
Shit. If Lea hadn't shown up right at that moment, I think they would have all gone with us to find her, never before having heard of Lea wishing to see more than one of us at a time before.
But instead, we left them to get back to their orgy, but not before I told them a hasty goodbye. None of them took it to mean a final goodbye, but they would, sometime.
Janel and I each took a hand Lea offered to us, then we walked in silence all the way to the cave. Before we went inside, however, I surprised Lea by picking her up and hugging her gently, saying, "Thank you. For everything."
She gave me another one of her innocent little girl looks, then kissed me on the cheek before I put her down.
"I thank you, too, Joey. It has been years since I've seen the children play so well with each other. You've brought the one thing this place can't give them."
"What? You don't mean..."
"No, not love," she said as we entered the cave. "But the beginnings of it. They all won't find it, but some of them will now. Isn't that right granddaddy?"
"Yes, yes, Lea, my dear," Benjamin said from the table. "Now where is that fool with my new toy? Zoe, you promised I'd have..."
"Patience, Pa-pa..." Zoe said walking up to me. "Play with your granddaughter, Pa-pa. You know we won't be back for another year."
"Thank you," I said to her as Benjamin grumbled on a bit. "I don't know how I'll repay you for all this, but I'll try and make it up somehow. Uhm, why did you help me, anyway?"
Zoe looked over at her father, then rolled her eyes before I saw a wicked smile form on her lips.
"Because my ma-ma.... She knew your ma-ma and your pa-pa. Even brought them together some would say..."
"ZOE!" her father exclaimed, cutting her off.
When we looked at him, he said very in a very irritated voice, "WHERE is HE! I will not go on like this much longer now!"
"I don't understand," I sighed as Zoe went over to him and soothed him.
Suddenly a short naked man with green camouflage paint all over his body silently scuttled in and in a very hushed voice spoke to Lea without taking his eyes off the rest of us. He then departed as quickly as he came, but not without giving Zoe a slight bow of respect.
"He's coming now, Granddaddy," Lea announced.
"Who was that?" Janel asked before I could.
"The help," Benjamin answered distantly. "There's a whole tribe of them running around out there watching the woods, protecting Lea, taking care of her... Zoe, he isn't much to look at."
"Pa-pa, I told you, no peeking!"
"Who's coming?" I asked, then forgot my question while checking out Tim's bump on his head from the tree earlier. "Lea, do you have a first aid kit?"
After I retrieved kit, I cleaned the minor cut and was just finishing putting on a bandage when I froze in fright from hearing Kain's voice say, "Lea? I have the two slaves you... Zoe?"
The way he said her name sounded as if... Well, I just knew... Put it this way. I would have sounded the same way if I had walked in and found Suzi standing there.
He was speechless for a moment, but then he saw me and Tim, and then Benjamin.
"What is going on? Why are they here? They were supposed to be..."
"Never mind them," Benjamin said irritated and impatiently. "Bring your two companions in! I want to get this over with."
"Zoe, I can't allow this," Kain said, almost pleading like.
"Shhh," she said, walking up to him like a predator approaching a petrified prey. "We are together again. This only matters."
"But I... Ahhh..." Kain cooed as Zoe stroked the back of his head. After a couple of strokes, he took Zoe in to a lover's embrace and said "Zoe, Zoe, Zoe... My Zoe..."
"That's right, my love," she said, "Lea said you missed me."
"My Zoe..." he gurgled happily from her shoulder. But then his gaze fell across me and Tim again that caused him to get a hold of himself and say, "But my father..."
"Tell me, my love... Would your father rather have them? Or a grandson."
"WHAT?!?" Benjamin cried. "Don't tell him that, child!"
"Pa-pa, I will tell him what I wish. He is my mate."
"I forbid you to have a boy child with him! You have Lea."
"Pa-pa, don't talk to me this way. You know what will happen. Please don't make me do that to you."
"Why you little... This was all your mother's idea! Wait until I get back and... FINE! Give Gladius what he wants! See if I care! I'll be long dead before all of you have to deal with it. I'll hold you personally responsible, Zoe! You! Boy! Joey! Take this and get ready to leave."
I just had enough time to react and catch my coin, then before I could ask why, Nana walked in along with Cory.
"I just want make sure we have an understanding," Janel said in a worried tone. "You're only going to use him until we're in Germany?"
"Yes, yes... I'll probably be done with him before then since his size isn't that great," Cory said, feeling his crotch. "Nana, I missed your mouth.. I wish a blow job before we leave."
"J'obéis, seigneur," Nana said.
"Uhm Joey..." Janel said, as Nana started give Cory head and Zoe gasped from somewhere on the floor with Kain.
"Huh?" I said while rubbing my coin against my cheek.
"I know this is kind of... at the last minute, but could you... show me how that two way thing works?"
I stared blankly at her, then jerked myself to attention before saying, "Sure. You want to go someplace more private?"
"Nah, right here on the table will be okay," she said with an evil grin.
I'll say one thing, Cory was a lucky guy to have her as his mistress. Sure, Janel could be a real bitch, but man, she was a good fuck.
Before I left, I tried to talk Lea into somehow getting Sakura up here to take with me or somehow set her free another way, but she wouldn't even consider it. I regretted leaving Sakura like that. I can't tell you how much it pained me to do so, but I had to get Tim out of there and there just wasn't time to go back for Sakura too.
I said goodbye to Janel and Benjamin on the other side of the mountain, Zoe having decided to stay with her daughter and Kain a while. Not that I could blame her with the mood her father was in. I kind of pitied Janel having to put up with him all the way to Germany, but she didn't have much choice about if she wanted to get Cory back in one piece.
I managed to get Tim and I out of Venezuela within a day without being linked to anyone, which wasn't easy considering Tim was flat on his back the whole time. For obvious reasons I was reluctant to go very far into Colombia without the link, and with the help of the coin, I managed to trigger a share link with Tim. After that, I didn't have any troubles getting us a fast ride out of South America all together.
In Panama, I did a lot of soul searching and went through some personal hell before managing to wake Tim up with a heart felt kiss. I don't mind telling you I cried after he opened his eyes. And I swore from that moment on I would always look out for him, whether he wanted me to or not, just like he had tried to do for me. I felt certain it really was Tim in my coin linked dreams. How he was able to do it while his conscious mind believed himself to be another person we'll never know.
Which brings me to the subject of Nathan. The Nathan I knew is gone and nothing can ever bring him back. He believed in me like no one else ever has, including Suzi and Tim. Yeah, I know... It was really Tim all the time, but to me it wasn't. How Gladius's twins fooled me into believing Tim was another person, I'll never understand. But in a lot of ways, Nathan was a different person, the combination of Tim and the real Nathan which resulted in something that was both but neither of them. I'll never forget my best amigo, and in his honor I named my first born Nathan Franklin Connor which I think he would have liked.
Shit... Speak of the devil, here he is. He's telling me it's time to go play blocks again. "Yes, master Nathan. I'll be there in a moment," I tell him.
He's such a slave driver... heh... Like father like son, I guess. Shit.