"Eliot," chided Lucifer. He smirked, pressing forward, crouching down beside the tub and laying his hand right on Eliot's head. "You're in Hell, you're not supposed to be enjoying yourself. But since you seem to be settling in, we may as well press on with your lessons."
He stepped back, pulling his hand away, and gestured for Sam to get out of the bath, which he did at once, rising up dripping and making absolutely no effort to try himself off. He just stood there, water streaming off him, as Lucifer came to stand behind him.
"What do you say, Sam? Let's work on Eliot's obedience together. He seems to have you wrapped around his little finger, so why don't we see how he handles the boot being on the other foot. Go and kneel on the bed."
Sam obeyed, and Lucifer walked back around the pool, standing over Eliot again. "I think you can find the chains. Go and tie him up."
Eliot stiffened visibly, his mind making the quick connection and figuring
out what Lucifer wanted. Then and there, Eliot made the decision that he
wouldn't, that Lucifer could break him repeatedly, but he wouldn't be his
tool in hurting the other man.
"No," Eliot said, bracing himself for the lash of retaliation that refusing
the Devil would bring. When nothing happened immediately and Eliot wasn't a
mist of red spread across the tub, he continued, "I ain't workin' for Hell,
I'm not becomin' one of your demons. And, I have no interest in men."
Eliot didn't dare to flicker his gaze towards Sam, not even a glance in his
direction. He made sure that in his words he made it clear this was his own
refusal, that this wasn't about Sam or anyone. Some backlash will probably
still fall on the other man, but hopefully not as much as what could happen
if Eliot revealed that he came to care about the other man.
"That's adorable. How defiant you are--you know, wasn't I generous to you before? I offered you the chance to tie him up, and that meant however you saw fit. Now I'm going to tie him my way."
He retreated from Eliot at once, moving over to Sam, who was still kneeling dead straight on the bed. Lucifer reached across, taking hold of the chains, but as he lifted the shackles, long spikes grew on the inside of them; sharp, thick spikes, that visibly dug into Sam's skin as Lucifer attached the shackles to his wrists and ankles. Lucifer attached another to the collar at Sam's throat, and with a tap that too grew spikes, which curled upward and downward, presenting a thorny collar that should Sam curl into himself or drop his chin would spike into him.
Sam was soundless throughout it all, not making any sound of protest.
"Let's try this again. Go and take something out of the toyboy, and beat him with it."
Eliot's gaze hardened just the same way he hardened his heart when he saw
the spikes grow into thorny instruments of torture. If he gave in now, then
he will appear to be weak, or care, which may be worse in the long run. Sam
had suffered through worse, he said so himself, then he could take this
too. Otherwise Eliot would have to do worse to prove he didn't care because
going easy wouldn't be an option.
"I said I'm not doing it. If you're going to beat him bloody, that's his
problem, not mine." Eliot knew that sometimes to be kind one had to be
cruel first, but it was a fine line to walk here. He may save Sam from more
pain right at this moment, true, but that may open the floodgate to worse
in the future. Eliot wish he knew if he was making the right decision, or
if he was being a coward and just didn't want to hurt someone else.
But if the Devil wanted him because he was bad, then Eliot could play the
bad guy, just one who was defiant as well. He just hoped Sam understood.
"Yes, it's his problem. It's very much his problem. You see, your abject disobedience, Eliot--it doesn't hurt just you. It proves that everything that Sam's done these past two months has been for nothing. He hasn't secured any degree of obedience or respect from you. Even one would be enough."
Lucifer circled to the toybox, opening it wide. He'd never opened it before, but now the contents showed, the blades and whips and dildos, various cuffs and shackles, long rods, pieces of rope, a spear, things that resembled strips of thorn, paddles, things in boxes that were perhaps magical.
Lucifer showed Eliot each of the things he wasn't using, a soft strip of leather, a flat paddle, a cat of nine tails with nails sewn into the ends of each strip. Finally he took out a simple silver rod, but as he lifted it, coming back around the bed, it transformed into a silver snake, swerving about in his grip.
He raised an eyebrow at Eliot, and swung the snake, which struck with its silver bladed teeth, stripping two long lines across Sam's back. He jerked in all his chains, gasping out a sharp, breathless sound, but nothing more.
"What do you think? Again? Yes, I think again..."
He snapped the snake down, drawing another pair of twin marks back in the other direction.
"Shall I continue, or are you ready to take over?"
Eliot didn't let on that he was gritting his teeth, or that he was holding
himself still to avoid flinching with the blows. He just kept his gaze
steady, unwavering except with seeming disinterest.
"Why would I wanna take over?" he glanced from Sam's back to the Devil with
the snake. It figures that he would favor a snake. "So far you've been
appealin' to my humanity, but I wouldn't be in Hell if I had any. You
wouldn't want me. So I don't see what's in it for me besides doin'
somethin' I really don't wanna."
Once upon a time Eliot had been that sort of man, he may even mean those
words if he said them back then, but now they were no more than a really
risky bluff. Or he could try to keep the Devil's attention on him and give
Sam a reprieve. "And maybe he ain't the one I've got no respect for."
"That's ridiculous. You're human, you don't lack humanity. Besides, the very first thing you did when I stepped in here was try to protect him. It seems to me you're failing."
"That is what you thought you were best at, isn't it? Protecting people?"
Lucifer struck Sam again, and once more. On the fourth strike, Sam finally let out a whimper, jerking a little harder under the touch. His muscles were seizing up as he tried to anticipate the next blow, which only made the next strike more painful than the one it had preceded.
"I don't care if you don't respect me. That's what you need to understand, Eliot. And this place isn't so cut and dried as the bible would have you believe. You were never a bad person--you were a good person who did bad things. But it's because you were a good person that you have weaknesses, and I happen to know that Sam is one of them."
He struck him again, and Sam gasped, louder this time. He was trying to gulp the noises down, but that only made them more audible.
"Now do you want to fuck him, or shall I pick out an appropriate dildo to do it for you?"
Eliot's eyes narrowed at the sound of Sam's whimper, soft as a whisper but
it might as well have been a gunshot for the effect it had on Eliot.
Finally it was enough to bring Eliot out of the water, erection still
bouncing against his stomach and skin red from the heat. He didn't care
that he was naked or streaming water though, he walked right over to the
bed.
Up close the slashes appeared worse, ragged cuts in the skin that bled
heavily, not at all like the clean wounds made by knives or even whips.
They had tore into Sam's back with blunt force rather than sharpness,
dragging through the flesh from force as much as sharpness. They were ugly
things, crisscrossing like a railroad terminal in Hell.
The Devil was right in that Eliot was doing a piss poor job at protecting
Sam, but Eliot was focused on the big picture. Or so he had to convince
himself when Sam gasped from the unbearable pain. And Eliot didn't rape,
especially not to someone he cared about. "Why don't we cut to the chase?
We both know Sam ain't the issue here. What I do or won't do to'im aren't
what you care about." Eliot had to lock his joints in place to stop himself
from reaching out and yanking away the hideous snake. "We can talk about
what does matter. What's the end game here, what do you want from
me?"
Lucifer reached his hand out, running it possessively across Sam's left buttock. His expression sharpened, just a little, as Sam flinched away from his touch.
"I want a torturer, Eliot. I want an obedient, corrupted demon out of you in the end, and I'll get exactly that. If you can't even screw someone you like it doesn't bode well for you, does it? You see, there's two ways this can go--you can accept it, and like it, and hold onto some part of yourself in the process. Or you can fight it and become a mindless, factory-standard style creature, simple, burned up inside."
"I prefer when my demons have some independence, of course, some spark, but I'll live if I have to burn you out first. You're mine either way."
Lucifer stepped away from Eliot, moving around toward the bedding box. "Sam really doesn't mind, you know. He'd rather have you."
Lucifer pulled out an enormously broad dildo, the head of it shaped like a fist, and then another, with downward facing spikes, which would anchor it in place and tear when pulled out. The snake went back into the box, where it turned into a rod again, and he advanced back on the bed, on Eliot.
Eliot was horrified by the item the Devil chose, the dildo wasn't even
something that should exist. It was an item of torture, not sex, and would
rip Sam right open if it was forced inside. Eliot could harden himself, but
dammit, he wouldn't be able to face Sam if he allowed it to happen. But the
alternative, he didn't know if he'll be able to face himself afterwards.
This was the bottom line of all the evil things he did, and of course he
was made to cross it.
"Wait," Eliot said before the deed could be done, "I'll take over." Eliot
felt a little of himself die inside when he gave in and agreed, even
knowing that this was probably what Sam would want instead of the torture
device. But that didn't mean he had any choice in the matter or that this
was any less rape.
"Do I get lube or do you expect me doin' him dry?" If Eliot hadn't past
that point of no return earlier, his erection would've flagged and shrank
at what he was about to do. He was so far from being aroused mentally that
he wouldn't have been able to get it up if he wasn't already.
He stepped forward and placed a gentle hand on Sam's flank, the same place
Lucifer had moments before as if he could erase the Devil's touch. This was
the first time he touched Sam this way, or willingly touched the other man,
as willing as this situation was anyway.
Lucifer expected Eliot to break at that, and certainly he did. That was the thing--it was hard the first time. The next time it would be less hard. And the time after, and the time after.
He placed the dildo down on the bed, by Sam's ankle, so that there was a clean reminder to Eliot why he was doing what he was doing. The next moment, a tube of lubricant was flying into Eliot's hand, seemingly thrown out of nowhere by the devil.
"I can be benevolent, you see, so long as you don't test it unnecessarily."
lucifer moved over, sitting right on the edge of the bed in front of Sam's right shoulder. He reached up to stroke him, gently, comfortingly.
Sam knew where this was leading from the first refusal. Eliot might not break, he knew, but Lucifer was building on what Sam had inadvertently created over the last few weeks. He'd been played. Lucifer had wanted him to bond with Eliot, grow close to him, and Sam hadn't disappointed. He'd done exactly that, and Lucifer was now taking advantage, pushing Eliot the next part, where Sam hadn't been able to do any such thing.
It had been the plan all along.
So at this point, Sam couldn't fight it, wouldn't fight it. The only thing to do was to let it carry on the way it was.
He was bound with his toes underneath his feet to keep his ankles from being stabbed with the spikes, and his hands lifted up to keep the same thing from happening, his legs were spread to expose his ass to Lucifer's strikes, but his head was kept very still, even when Lucifer stroked his cheek, providing the slightest comfort. He held still, waiting for Eliot's weight to come up on the bed beside him, shifting his legs apart just a little further in anticipation of what was to come next.
Sam didn't say a word; it wasn't his place to speak unless asked a question.
Despite the lack of warning, Eliot caught the lube one handed as deftly as
if he had been expecting it. He wasn't, he had honestly expected the Devil
to make him take Sam the worst way possible. Given the lube was a relief,
but it also made him wary over just how much leniency he could show without
trying Lucifer's patience.
Eliot didn't look at Lucifer as he began, squeezing out an ample amount
from the tube and warming it between his fingers. He worked in silence,
touching Sam lightly across his buttocks to alert the other man before he
dipped two lubed fingers down to rub between the valley between the mounds.
While Eliot had never done this before with a man, that didn't mean
he didn't know how things were done. He had certainly been on the receiving
end often enough the past weeks to be intimately familiar with the exercise.
He didn't dare to take too long with that though, just enough to slick the
area with lube before he moved the pad of his index finger to probe Sam's
pucker within. It was far less tight than he had anticipated, and just
touching it seemed to open the man spread beneath him. Sam swallowed his
finger up to his first knuckle before he truly pushed, catching him almost
by surprise how ready his partner --victim-- seemed to be. It made his
stomach clench too because he knew just why it would be that loose.
M'sorry, Sam. God, I'm sorry.
Eliot slowly pushed his finger in all the way and twisted, trying to find
that magical spot that would at least make this bearable. But he watched
carefully too, trying to make sure Sam wanted that pleasure before
forcing it on him. With how stoic the man had been, and his back looking
like a cat's scratching post, Eliot hoped he could read him correctly to
interpret what he wanted.
Sam was fine. Sam stayed still, just concentrating on his own balance, breathing through the agony that was his back. It was nothing compared to what Lucifer had done to him over the first few years of his time in Hell, and he was grateful - immensely grateful - when Eliot took over. Lucifer wouldn't have hesitated to use the vicious device he'd shown him. He'd have driven it deep, pulled it free, then used his blood as a lubricant.
Eliot's touches were practically loving in comparison, slow and tender. Sam knew those, too. Lucifer had touched him softly, he'd made him come tens of thousands of times, like Sam was doing to Eliot.
Apparently Eliot was learning by example very well. He pressed his finger inside and began to twist and shift it, and Sam curled his fingers into the bed in anticipation. Pleasure was good, yes. It took a lot to make Sam come, now, but if Eliot couldn't do it - which was likely considering he was already close - them Sam would have to be put through more still. He always had to come.
He couldn't move much, given the spikes, but he rolled his hips back against Eliot's touch to encourage him, anyway, breathing out a soft exhale of encouragement that he barely felt. It was for Eliot, reassurance.
This was Hell. What did Eliot expect? Sam had grown to accept it. Lucifer could have thrown him into a pit and let every demon in Hell have their turn with him, but he hadn't--this was practically merciful.
Those small movements were all the reassurance Eliot needed to know that
Sam was alright with this. He was turning into his touches, not away, and
although that didn't forgive Eliot for what he was doing, it at least made
him feel the guilt a little less. He found the soft nub and brushed it
slightly, putting his finger in and out twice and although it wasn't a lot,
he was certain Sam was ready for another finger.
The second digit went in just as readily as his first, swallowed into the
cavern of Sam's body with barely went effort on Eliot's behalf. Even so
Eliot twisted his fingers to make sure the area was stretched and lubed. He
curled his fingers in a second time to rub Sam's prostate before pushing
his third finger in.
Eliot didn't dare to take too long with the preparation although he wished
he could have spent more time. With girls he would have taken long minutes,
kissing and distracting them while he got them prepared. But he was very
aware of the Devil constantly watching them, and they weren't here making
love. This wasn't even just sex, and Eliot was preparing Sam for rape.
As he stretched Sam open with three fingers, turning and and pushing them
in and out, he reached his other hand around to put a firm grip around
Sam's cock. It wasn't his first time touching another man's handle, but he
was young and lonely and in a war that had no women close by hundreds of
miles away back then. After a firefight and horny with the exhilaration of
being alive, a bunch of men sometimes just really wanted another hand on
their cocks that just wasn't their own. The theory was much the same, and
he knew how to jerk a guy off.
Several more twists of his fingers and strokes of his hand and Eliot pulled
back. Sam felt ready, but Eliot's erection had gone down slightly. He
poured out more lube to try and pull himself back to fullness.
Sam didn't struggle with the digits. One after another was fine, and even if it had made him slightly uncomfortable it was nothing compared to what Lucifer would have done to him. Eliot was so much more gentle, and Sam was grateful for that. He rolled his hips downward, gently responding to the press of his fingers, echoing each of Eliot's thrusts with one of his own.
It was reciprocation, and Sam made every effort to make sure he knew that he was with Eliot completely. Even with three fingers inside him, Sam gave just as much, making soft breathless noises each time Eliot's fingers brushed against his prostate.
Suddenly Eliot's hand was around him, and it was the first time that he'd ever willingly touched him that way. Sam was grateful, because he needed that push to get beyond his usual limit of pleasure, but more than that, he hadn't needed to ask Eliot to do it. He'd never ordered him to stroke him before, so this, the first time, being willing. It was an open door that Sam would be able to step through later.
He shuddered as Eliot's hand pulled back, his muscles tightening slightly across his shoulders.
"It's okay," he said, breaking his usual silence, speaking because he thought Eliot's stopping was because he was afraid of actually going ahead and doing the act. "You can."
Eliot was very aware of the Devil by the end of the bed, watching every one
of his moves with sadistic amusement. Even if the situation weren't as it
was, he would've had trouble enjoying himself with such an audience in
place. But he tried to think other things, ignore the king of demon while
keeping one eye open in case the Devil decided to join in and interrupt.
Sam's words, breaking the man's stoic silence, was unexpected but
appreciated. It let Eliot know he wasn't hurting him, and although there
was little Sam could say under these circumstances, he chose to reassure
Eliot instead of not saying anything at all.
Eliot reached to caress Sam's ass, smearing warm lube across his skin but
returning the gesture of reassurance. He wish there was more places he
could touch, but with Sam's back the way it was, Eliot didn't dare to put
his hands anywhere else. "I've gotcha," he murmured, soft enough to be
heard by Sam. He didn't hold hope that Lucifer would've missed it, but he
kept his voice low just in case.
Giving Sam's ass crack one last swipe to add on extra lube, Eliot finally
shifted himself up between Sam's spread legs and used one hand to press
open his cheeks. He used the other to guide himself forward, not quite
leaking but hard enough for the job, and lined his tip up against Sam's
slicked hole. He gave Sam a few seconds to adjust before he leaned forward
and pushed until he slowly breached Sam's defenses.
Sam wasn't going to fight it. The sex was gentle enough, and Eliot wouldn't have hurt him at all irregardless of how he filled him. Lucifer had taken up much more room himself. He didn't fill that space at all, but Eliot knew what he was aiming for, because Sam had shown him just how important it was to hit that mark, and his own eyelids closed, eyes rolling underneath. It was easy, so easy, to feel pleasure if he wanted to, to let it come to him if he chose to.
He never moaned for Lucifer, but he made soft, pleading noises to Eliot, made gentle encouraging sounds that would carry him through the process, so he knew that he was doing the right thing, making all the right moves.
He took far too long, he knew. Eliot had already been on the verge of coming, even though he'd wilted under Lucifer's orders. This time, even with his stroking, hitting that spot every time, Sam couldn't force himself to spill until the right moment hit him. So he forced the images behind his eyes to cooperate, tried as he often had in the beginning to imagine that this was a place other than Hell, and that this was consensual, even if he'd never for a moment imagined sleeping with another man.
Orgasm was a little more halfhearted than he'd hoped it would be, but he spilled across Eliot's fingers, finally, his legs locking as he tried to keep himself in place, made sure he didn't fall forward. The cuffs and collar would slice into him if he lost his balance now.
Even though Eliot had been on the verge before, he held on for the sake of
the man beneath him. There were little that he could do for Sam right now
except to try to make this almost bearable and take onto himself to do
everything so Sam didn't have to. That included keeping his arm around Sam
while his hand held his cock so he could stroke the other in time to his
fucking.
It wasn't only for the sake of what they were doing that Eliot made sure
Sam got off, but Eliot was a man who made sure he pleasured his partners
too. Given, most of the time he pleasured women, but now was not the time
for differentiating. This made things awkward at first, but he got the hang
of it quickly, establishing a rhythm that took him back to the edge. Except
Sam wasn't ready, so he tightened his grip and pumped him faster until
Eliot felt the man shudder and spill, weak as the orgasm was, across his
hand. Quickly he changed his grip to holding Sam up across his stomach,
taking the weight off the man as best as he could without actually pressing
into the slashed back.
I've gotcha, he had said, and he kept his word.
Then and only then did Eliot groan and follow suit, releasing himself deep
into the depths of the man beneath him. Panting lightly, Eliot stayed in
place until he was sure Sam could support himself before he let go and
pulled out, his spent cock slipping easily from Sam's channel.
Without looking towards the Devil, Eliot asked, "There, was that what you
wanted?"
Sam was grateful for all of it. It was uncomfortable, but it wasn't rough, and while his wounds stung and his muscles ache, it was done. It was always done after he spilled over.
Lucifer didn't change the rules on him this time, either. He reached out and stroked Sam's hair back, almost comforting, before he bent away, not so much as laying a hand on Eliot as he retreated a step or two.
He stopped, though, bouncing on his heel and looking back on Eliot. "For now. I knew you could do what you're told. Now all you need to do is transfer that over to people you could care a whole hell of a lot less for. Simple, really." He made a clucking sound with his tongue, then turned away again, and a moment later the door was closed.
Sam had to do everything he could not to slump right over. Eliot could choose to do anything at this point, help him free or leave him tied up, but he hoped it was the former, no matter that if he was alone he would have waited it out. He hadn't been beaten like this in so long, it was more the shock of the pain than anything else.
Eliot didn't answer, he didn't move and barely even breathed until the
Devil left the room. It wasn't until then that he sprung into action,
moving around to Sam's side to see if there was a way to remove those
damnable chains.
Sam's question made him grit his teeth but he didn't look up as he tried to
look for a lock or a way to open the spiked cuffs. He couldn't, he didn't
think he could face Sam right now. Sam was just forced, by Eliot no less,
yet against all logic Sam asked Eliot if he was fine. Even
busy running his hands over the chains for weak spots, he paused to take a
deep breath. "I should be askin' you that."
Running his fingers over the edge, he concluded that there was no actual
opening. The chains were as magical as everything else and he couldn't open
them by normal means. "How do I get these open?" But then they suddenly
opened and Eliot was working to throw them off. "Are you okay? How can I
help?"
It was the thought that counted most. The moment Eliot wanted it, touched the chains, they fell away instantly, releasing Sam's wrists, and Sam consequently pulled back, flinching visibly as his muscles stretched and tightened the open wounds, trying to sit back but only managing to catch a stinging wound on his heel as he rocked back into it. He took a sharp breath, then released it, managing the pain. God, he'd kept fighting shot and stabbed before, with a broken arm and a ringing concussion, with blood pouring out his ear. He could do a scratched ass.
"There's nothing to worry about. I'm fine." His voice shook a little. It was the most he was going to betray, the most vulnerable he'd admit to being right then and there. He looked right at Eliot. "I get fucked all the time. Trust me, you did me a favor. That thing--" He glanced at the wicked looking dildo. "He'd have used it. You don't need lube after."
The voice of experience. He shifted, flinching again, reaching across to touch Eliot's knee, still clammy from the warm water. "You're the one who had to...to be something else. You gave up something. I didn't. But if you're feeling that guilty about it, you can help me back to the bath. Hell or not, it's going to take a couple of days for these to heal, and they hurt like a bitch."
When Eliot met Sam's gaze, his eyes were sullen and disturbed, but remained
determined and strong. He was hurting from his actions, but it wasn't
something he would talk about or that he couldn't push on from. This would
remain with him, like all the other things that he did that ended him in
hell, and he would remember it, but he wasn't going to let it freeze him
here.
Which was how Eliot made himself move, helping Sam up, sweeping the dildo
and chains onto the floor in the meanwhile. Some of the spikes scratched
him with the action, but he didn't even seem to notice as he stepped in to
give Sam his arms for support should the other man need them.
"I didn't want--... I thought it'd be worse if I let him know it mattered.
He wants me to submit, I can take that, but now he knows it'll work, and
you're..." Eliot trailed off, it not needing to say the rest. Sam was going
to be the leash around Eliot now, the whipping boy to his resistance, but
no matter how effective that will be, the hitter wasn't ready to submit.
The only thing he felt he needed to add, as he carefully helped Sam back
into the still hot water, was, "M'sorry."
Sam understood, at once. Sam was what was going to be used to control Eliot, he'd understood that since Lucifer's first commands. But Eliot cared. That was what Sam had done to him. He held up, grateful for Eliot's help as they moved across the room again, and letting a soft hiss or pain and relief as he was lowered back down into the water.
When he could think again, speak again, he looked right at Eliot, intensely.
"No, I'm the one who's sorry, Eliot. If I hadn't made you care about me... Honestly, I don't even know why you do. I rape you. Every day. I don't deserve your compassion."
His back was aching now, the muscles complaining, going rigid in an effort to prevent movement and therefore continued pain. Sam was trying to get them to relax in the hot water, but it was hard. He hurt all over. He looked back across to Eliot.
"There's no way out of this, for either of us. I'll condemn you, whether you're willing or not."
"You didn't make me do anythin'," Eliot corrected as he took in how
uncomfortable Sam looked. He was bleeding into the water still, causing the
hot water to grow pinkish with blood. If this was anywhere but hell, Eliot
would be alarmed by how easily lethal that could be.
Whatever Eliot had decided to do, it definitely wasn't because Sam
made him do it. Their time together simply showed Eliot the truth,
that Sam was as much of a victim as he was, and that he suffered things
only of Eliot's nightmares. Once that was established, it all went from
there. He meant what he implied to Lucifer about respecting Sam too, the
man had survived more than he could ever imagine, he witnessed it with his
own eyes. If Sam had tried to actively convince Eliot instead, then things
wouldn't have gone this way at all.
"It ain't your fault either. I know that. You wouldn't be apologizin' if it
was." Eliot let his gaze slip away, jaw clenched. Although the ordeal was
over, neither of them were relaxed, and taking note of that, Eliot
carefully touched Sam's shoulder. "Turn around," he said softly, "I'll
clean your back."
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He stepped back, pulling his hand away, and gestured for Sam to get out of the bath, which he did at once, rising up dripping and making absolutely no effort to try himself off. He just stood there, water streaming off him, as Lucifer came to stand behind him.
"What do you say, Sam? Let's work on Eliot's obedience together. He seems to have you wrapped around his little finger, so why don't we see how he handles the boot being on the other foot. Go and kneel on the bed."
Sam obeyed, and Lucifer walked back around the pool, standing over Eliot again. "I think you can find the chains. Go and tie him up."
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Eliot stiffened visibly, his mind making the quick connection and figuring out what Lucifer wanted. Then and there, Eliot made the decision that he wouldn't, that Lucifer could break him repeatedly, but he wouldn't be his tool in hurting the other man.
"No," Eliot said, bracing himself for the lash of retaliation that refusing the Devil would bring. When nothing happened immediately and Eliot wasn't a mist of red spread across the tub, he continued, "I ain't workin' for Hell, I'm not becomin' one of your demons. And, I have no interest in men."
Eliot didn't dare to flicker his gaze towards Sam, not even a glance in his direction. He made sure that in his words he made it clear this was his own refusal, that this wasn't about Sam or anyone. Some backlash will probably still fall on the other man, but hopefully not as much as what could happen if Eliot revealed that he came to care about the other man.
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He retreated from Eliot at once, moving over to Sam, who was still kneeling dead straight on the bed. Lucifer reached across, taking hold of the chains, but as he lifted the shackles, long spikes grew on the inside of them; sharp, thick spikes, that visibly dug into Sam's skin as Lucifer attached the shackles to his wrists and ankles. Lucifer attached another to the collar at Sam's throat, and with a tap that too grew spikes, which curled upward and downward, presenting a thorny collar that should Sam curl into himself or drop his chin would spike into him.
Sam was soundless throughout it all, not making any sound of protest.
"Let's try this again. Go and take something out of the toyboy, and beat him with it."
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Eliot's gaze hardened just the same way he hardened his heart when he saw the spikes grow into thorny instruments of torture. If he gave in now, then he will appear to be weak, or care, which may be worse in the long run. Sam had suffered through worse, he said so himself, then he could take this too. Otherwise Eliot would have to do worse to prove he didn't care because going easy wouldn't be an option.
"I said I'm not doing it. If you're going to beat him bloody, that's his problem, not mine." Eliot knew that sometimes to be kind one had to be cruel first, but it was a fine line to walk here. He may save Sam from more pain right at this moment, true, but that may open the floodgate to worse in the future. Eliot wish he knew if he was making the right decision, or if he was being a coward and just didn't want to hurt someone else.
But if the Devil wanted him because he was bad, then Eliot could play the bad guy, just one who was defiant as well. He just hoped Sam understood.
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Lucifer circled to the toybox, opening it wide. He'd never opened it before, but now the contents showed, the blades and whips and dildos, various cuffs and shackles, long rods, pieces of rope, a spear, things that resembled strips of thorn, paddles, things in boxes that were perhaps magical.
Lucifer showed Eliot each of the things he wasn't using, a soft strip of leather, a flat paddle, a cat of nine tails with nails sewn into the ends of each strip. Finally he took out a simple silver rod, but as he lifted it, coming back around the bed, it transformed into a silver snake, swerving about in his grip.
He raised an eyebrow at Eliot, and swung the snake, which struck with its silver bladed teeth, stripping two long lines across Sam's back. He jerked in all his chains, gasping out a sharp, breathless sound, but nothing more.
"What do you think? Again? Yes, I think again..."
He snapped the snake down, drawing another pair of twin marks back in the other direction.
"Shall I continue, or are you ready to take over?"
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Eliot didn't let on that he was gritting his teeth, or that he was holding himself still to avoid flinching with the blows. He just kept his gaze steady, unwavering except with seeming disinterest.
"Why would I wanna take over?" he glanced from Sam's back to the Devil with the snake. It figures that he would favor a snake. "So far you've been appealin' to my humanity, but I wouldn't be in Hell if I had any. You wouldn't want me. So I don't see what's in it for me besides doin' somethin' I really don't wanna."
Once upon a time Eliot had been that sort of man, he may even mean those words if he said them back then, but now they were no more than a really risky bluff. Or he could try to keep the Devil's attention on him and give Sam a reprieve. "And maybe he ain't the one I've got no respect for."
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"That is what you thought you were best at, isn't it? Protecting people?"
Lucifer struck Sam again, and once more. On the fourth strike, Sam finally let out a whimper, jerking a little harder under the touch. His muscles were seizing up as he tried to anticipate the next blow, which only made the next strike more painful than the one it had preceded.
"I don't care if you don't respect me. That's what you need to understand, Eliot. And this place isn't so cut and dried as the bible would have you believe. You were never a bad person--you were a good person who did bad things. But it's because you were a good person that you have weaknesses, and I happen to know that Sam is one of them."
He struck him again, and Sam gasped, louder this time. He was trying to gulp the noises down, but that only made them more audible.
"Now do you want to fuck him, or shall I pick out an appropriate dildo to do it for you?"
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Eliot's eyes narrowed at the sound of Sam's whimper, soft as a whisper but it might as well have been a gunshot for the effect it had on Eliot. Finally it was enough to bring Eliot out of the water, erection still bouncing against his stomach and skin red from the heat. He didn't care that he was naked or streaming water though, he walked right over to the bed.
Up close the slashes appeared worse, ragged cuts in the skin that bled heavily, not at all like the clean wounds made by knives or even whips. They had tore into Sam's back with blunt force rather than sharpness, dragging through the flesh from force as much as sharpness. They were ugly things, crisscrossing like a railroad terminal in Hell.
The Devil was right in that Eliot was doing a piss poor job at protecting Sam, but Eliot was focused on the big picture. Or so he had to convince himself when Sam gasped from the unbearable pain. And Eliot didn't rape, especially not to someone he cared about. "Why don't we cut to the chase? We both know Sam ain't the issue here. What I do or won't do to'im aren't what you care about." Eliot had to lock his joints in place to stop himself from reaching out and yanking away the hideous snake. "We can talk about what does matter. What's the end game here, what do you want from me?"
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Lucifer reached his hand out, running it possessively across Sam's left buttock. His expression sharpened, just a little, as Sam flinched away from his touch.
"I want a torturer, Eliot. I want an obedient, corrupted demon out of you in the end, and I'll get exactly that. If you can't even screw someone you like it doesn't bode well for you, does it? You see, there's two ways this can go--you can accept it, and like it, and hold onto some part of yourself in the process. Or you can fight it and become a mindless, factory-standard style creature, simple, burned up inside."
"I prefer when my demons have some independence, of course, some spark, but I'll live if I have to burn you out first. You're mine either way."
Lucifer stepped away from Eliot, moving around toward the bedding box. "Sam really doesn't mind, you know. He'd rather have you."
Lucifer pulled out an enormously broad dildo, the head of it shaped like a fist, and then another, with downward facing spikes, which would anchor it in place and tear when pulled out. The snake went back into the box, where it turned into a rod again, and he advanced back on the bed, on Eliot.
"Last chance."
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Eliot was horrified by the item the Devil chose, the dildo wasn't even something that should exist. It was an item of torture, not sex, and would rip Sam right open if it was forced inside. Eliot could harden himself, but dammit, he wouldn't be able to face Sam if he allowed it to happen. But the alternative, he didn't know if he'll be able to face himself afterwards. This was the bottom line of all the evil things he did, and of course he was made to cross it.
"Wait," Eliot said before the deed could be done, "I'll take over." Eliot felt a little of himself die inside when he gave in and agreed, even knowing that this was probably what Sam would want instead of the torture device. But that didn't mean he had any choice in the matter or that this was any less rape.
"Do I get lube or do you expect me doin' him dry?" If Eliot hadn't past that point of no return earlier, his erection would've flagged and shrank at what he was about to do. He was so far from being aroused mentally that he wouldn't have been able to get it up if he wasn't already.
He stepped forward and placed a gentle hand on Sam's flank, the same place Lucifer had moments before as if he could erase the Devil's touch. This was the first time he touched Sam this way, or willingly touched the other man, as willing as this situation was anyway.
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He placed the dildo down on the bed, by Sam's ankle, so that there was a clean reminder to Eliot why he was doing what he was doing. The next moment, a tube of lubricant was flying into Eliot's hand, seemingly thrown out of nowhere by the devil.
"I can be benevolent, you see, so long as you don't test it unnecessarily."
lucifer moved over, sitting right on the edge of the bed in front of Sam's right shoulder. He reached up to stroke him, gently, comfortingly.
"It's okay, puppy. It's over now."
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It had been the plan all along.
So at this point, Sam couldn't fight it, wouldn't fight it. The only thing to do was to let it carry on the way it was.
He was bound with his toes underneath his feet to keep his ankles from being stabbed with the spikes, and his hands lifted up to keep the same thing from happening, his legs were spread to expose his ass to Lucifer's strikes, but his head was kept very still, even when Lucifer stroked his cheek, providing the slightest comfort. He held still, waiting for Eliot's weight to come up on the bed beside him, shifting his legs apart just a little further in anticipation of what was to come next.
Sam didn't say a word; it wasn't his place to speak unless asked a question.
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Despite the lack of warning, Eliot caught the lube one handed as deftly as if he had been expecting it. He wasn't, he had honestly expected the Devil to make him take Sam the worst way possible. Given the lube was a relief, but it also made him wary over just how much leniency he could show without trying Lucifer's patience.
Eliot didn't look at Lucifer as he began, squeezing out an ample amount from the tube and warming it between his fingers. He worked in silence, touching Sam lightly across his buttocks to alert the other man before he dipped two lubed fingers down to rub between the valley between the mounds.
While Eliot had never done this before with a man, that didn't mean he didn't know how things were done. He had certainly been on the receiving end often enough the past weeks to be intimately familiar with the exercise.
He didn't dare to take too long with that though, just enough to slick the area with lube before he moved the pad of his index finger to probe Sam's pucker within. It was far less tight than he had anticipated, and just touching it seemed to open the man spread beneath him. Sam swallowed his finger up to his first knuckle before he truly pushed, catching him almost by surprise how ready his partner --victim-- seemed to be. It made his stomach clench too because he knew just why it would be that loose.
M'sorry, Sam. God, I'm sorry.
Eliot slowly pushed his finger in all the way and twisted, trying to find that magical spot that would at least make this bearable. But he watched carefully too, trying to make sure Sam wanted that pleasure before forcing it on him. With how stoic the man had been, and his back looking like a cat's scratching post, Eliot hoped he could read him correctly to interpret what he wanted.
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Eliot's touches were practically loving in comparison, slow and tender. Sam knew those, too. Lucifer had touched him softly, he'd made him come tens of thousands of times, like Sam was doing to Eliot.
Apparently Eliot was learning by example very well. He pressed his finger inside and began to twist and shift it, and Sam curled his fingers into the bed in anticipation. Pleasure was good, yes. It took a lot to make Sam come, now, but if Eliot couldn't do it - which was likely considering he was already close - them Sam would have to be put through more still. He always had to come.
He couldn't move much, given the spikes, but he rolled his hips back against Eliot's touch to encourage him, anyway, breathing out a soft exhale of encouragement that he barely felt. It was for Eliot, reassurance.
This was Hell. What did Eliot expect? Sam had grown to accept it. Lucifer could have thrown him into a pit and let every demon in Hell have their turn with him, but he hadn't--this was practically merciful.
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Those small movements were all the reassurance Eliot needed to know that Sam was alright with this. He was turning into his touches, not away, and although that didn't forgive Eliot for what he was doing, it at least made him feel the guilt a little less. He found the soft nub and brushed it slightly, putting his finger in and out twice and although it wasn't a lot, he was certain Sam was ready for another finger.
The second digit went in just as readily as his first, swallowed into the cavern of Sam's body with barely went effort on Eliot's behalf. Even so Eliot twisted his fingers to make sure the area was stretched and lubed. He curled his fingers in a second time to rub Sam's prostate before pushing his third finger in.
Eliot didn't dare to take too long with the preparation although he wished he could have spent more time. With girls he would have taken long minutes, kissing and distracting them while he got them prepared. But he was very aware of the Devil constantly watching them, and they weren't here making love. This wasn't even just sex, and Eliot was preparing Sam for rape.
As he stretched Sam open with three fingers, turning and and pushing them in and out, he reached his other hand around to put a firm grip around Sam's cock. It wasn't his first time touching another man's handle, but he was young and lonely and in a war that had no women close by hundreds of miles away back then. After a firefight and horny with the exhilaration of being alive, a bunch of men sometimes just really wanted another hand on their cocks that just wasn't their own. The theory was much the same, and he knew how to jerk a guy off.
Several more twists of his fingers and strokes of his hand and Eliot pulled back. Sam felt ready, but Eliot's erection had gone down slightly. He poured out more lube to try and pull himself back to fullness.
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It was reciprocation, and Sam made every effort to make sure he knew that he was with Eliot completely. Even with three fingers inside him, Sam gave just as much, making soft breathless noises each time Eliot's fingers brushed against his prostate.
Suddenly Eliot's hand was around him, and it was the first time that he'd ever willingly touched him that way. Sam was grateful, because he needed that push to get beyond his usual limit of pleasure, but more than that, he hadn't needed to ask Eliot to do it. He'd never ordered him to stroke him before, so this, the first time, being willing. It was an open door that Sam would be able to step through later.
He shuddered as Eliot's hand pulled back, his muscles tightening slightly across his shoulders.
"It's okay," he said, breaking his usual silence, speaking because he thought Eliot's stopping was because he was afraid of actually going ahead and doing the act. "You can."
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Eliot was very aware of the Devil by the end of the bed, watching every one of his moves with sadistic amusement. Even if the situation weren't as it was, he would've had trouble enjoying himself with such an audience in place. But he tried to think other things, ignore the king of demon while keeping one eye open in case the Devil decided to join in and interrupt.
Sam's words, breaking the man's stoic silence, was unexpected but appreciated. It let Eliot know he wasn't hurting him, and although there was little Sam could say under these circumstances, he chose to reassure Eliot instead of not saying anything at all.
Eliot reached to caress Sam's ass, smearing warm lube across his skin but returning the gesture of reassurance. He wish there was more places he could touch, but with Sam's back the way it was, Eliot didn't dare to put his hands anywhere else. "I've gotcha," he murmured, soft enough to be heard by Sam. He didn't hold hope that Lucifer would've missed it, but he kept his voice low just in case.
Giving Sam's ass crack one last swipe to add on extra lube, Eliot finally shifted himself up between Sam's spread legs and used one hand to press open his cheeks. He used the other to guide himself forward, not quite leaking but hard enough for the job, and lined his tip up against Sam's slicked hole. He gave Sam a few seconds to adjust before he leaned forward and pushed until he slowly breached Sam's defenses.
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He never moaned for Lucifer, but he made soft, pleading noises to Eliot, made gentle encouraging sounds that would carry him through the process, so he knew that he was doing the right thing, making all the right moves.
He took far too long, he knew. Eliot had already been on the verge of coming, even though he'd wilted under Lucifer's orders. This time, even with his stroking, hitting that spot every time, Sam couldn't force himself to spill until the right moment hit him. So he forced the images behind his eyes to cooperate, tried as he often had in the beginning to imagine that this was a place other than Hell, and that this was consensual, even if he'd never for a moment imagined sleeping with another man.
Orgasm was a little more halfhearted than he'd hoped it would be, but he spilled across Eliot's fingers, finally, his legs locking as he tried to keep himself in place, made sure he didn't fall forward. The cuffs and collar would slice into him if he lost his balance now.
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Even though Eliot had been on the verge before, he held on for the sake of the man beneath him. There were little that he could do for Sam right now except to try to make this almost bearable and take onto himself to do everything so Sam didn't have to. That included keeping his arm around Sam while his hand held his cock so he could stroke the other in time to his fucking.
It wasn't only for the sake of what they were doing that Eliot made sure Sam got off, but Eliot was a man who made sure he pleasured his partners too. Given, most of the time he pleasured women, but now was not the time for differentiating. This made things awkward at first, but he got the hang of it quickly, establishing a rhythm that took him back to the edge. Except Sam wasn't ready, so he tightened his grip and pumped him faster until Eliot felt the man shudder and spill, weak as the orgasm was, across his hand. Quickly he changed his grip to holding Sam up across his stomach, taking the weight off the man as best as he could without actually pressing into the slashed back.
I've gotcha, he had said, and he kept his word.
Then and only then did Eliot groan and follow suit, releasing himself deep into the depths of the man beneath him. Panting lightly, Eliot stayed in place until he was sure Sam could support himself before he let go and pulled out, his spent cock slipping easily from Sam's channel.
Without looking towards the Devil, Eliot asked, "There, was that what you wanted?"
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Lucifer didn't change the rules on him this time, either. He reached out and stroked Sam's hair back, almost comforting, before he bent away, not so much as laying a hand on Eliot as he retreated a step or two.
He stopped, though, bouncing on his heel and looking back on Eliot. "For now. I knew you could do what you're told. Now all you need to do is transfer that over to people you could care a whole hell of a lot less for. Simple, really." He made a clucking sound with his tongue, then turned away again, and a moment later the door was closed.
Sam had to do everything he could not to slump right over. Eliot could choose to do anything at this point, help him free or leave him tied up, but he hoped it was the former, no matter that if he was alone he would have waited it out. He hadn't been beaten like this in so long, it was more the shock of the pain than anything else.
All he said, though, was: "Are you okay?"
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Eliot didn't answer, he didn't move and barely even breathed until the Devil left the room. It wasn't until then that he sprung into action, moving around to Sam's side to see if there was a way to remove those damnable chains.
Sam's question made him grit his teeth but he didn't look up as he tried to look for a lock or a way to open the spiked cuffs. He couldn't, he didn't think he could face Sam right now. Sam was just forced, by Eliot no less, yet against all logic Sam asked Eliot if he was fine. Even busy running his hands over the chains for weak spots, he paused to take a deep breath. "I should be askin' you that."
Running his fingers over the edge, he concluded that there was no actual opening. The chains were as magical as everything else and he couldn't open them by normal means. "How do I get these open?" But then they suddenly opened and Eliot was working to throw them off. "Are you okay? How can I help?"
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"There's nothing to worry about. I'm fine." His voice shook a little. It was the most he was going to betray, the most vulnerable he'd admit to being right then and there. He looked right at Eliot. "I get fucked all the time. Trust me, you did me a favor. That thing--" He glanced at the wicked looking dildo. "He'd have used it. You don't need lube after."
The voice of experience. He shifted, flinching again, reaching across to touch Eliot's knee, still clammy from the warm water. "You're the one who had to...to be something else. You gave up something. I didn't. But if you're feeling that guilty about it, you can help me back to the bath. Hell or not, it's going to take a couple of days for these to heal, and they hurt like a bitch."
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When Eliot met Sam's gaze, his eyes were sullen and disturbed, but remained determined and strong. He was hurting from his actions, but it wasn't something he would talk about or that he couldn't push on from. This would remain with him, like all the other things that he did that ended him in hell, and he would remember it, but he wasn't going to let it freeze him here.
Which was how Eliot made himself move, helping Sam up, sweeping the dildo and chains onto the floor in the meanwhile. Some of the spikes scratched him with the action, but he didn't even seem to notice as he stepped in to give Sam his arms for support should the other man need them.
"I didn't want--... I thought it'd be worse if I let him know it mattered. He wants me to submit, I can take that, but now he knows it'll work, and you're..." Eliot trailed off, it not needing to say the rest. Sam was going to be the leash around Eliot now, the whipping boy to his resistance, but no matter how effective that will be, the hitter wasn't ready to submit. The only thing he felt he needed to add, as he carefully helped Sam back into the still hot water, was, "M'sorry."
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When he could think again, speak again, he looked right at Eliot, intensely.
"No, I'm the one who's sorry, Eliot. If I hadn't made you care about me... Honestly, I don't even know why you do. I rape you. Every day. I don't deserve your compassion."
His back was aching now, the muscles complaining, going rigid in an effort to prevent movement and therefore continued pain. Sam was trying to get them to relax in the hot water, but it was hard. He hurt all over. He looked back across to Eliot.
"There's no way out of this, for either of us. I'll condemn you, whether you're willing or not."
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"You didn't make me do anythin'," Eliot corrected as he took in how uncomfortable Sam looked. He was bleeding into the water still, causing the hot water to grow pinkish with blood. If this was anywhere but hell, Eliot would be alarmed by how easily lethal that could be.
Whatever Eliot had decided to do, it definitely wasn't because Sam made him do it. Their time together simply showed Eliot the truth, that Sam was as much of a victim as he was, and that he suffered things only of Eliot's nightmares. Once that was established, it all went from there. He meant what he implied to Lucifer about respecting Sam too, the man had survived more than he could ever imagine, he witnessed it with his own eyes. If Sam had tried to actively convince Eliot instead, then things wouldn't have gone this way at all.
"It ain't your fault either. I know that. You wouldn't be apologizin' if it was." Eliot let his gaze slip away, jaw clenched. Although the ordeal was over, neither of them were relaxed, and taking note of that, Eliot carefully touched Sam's shoulder. "Turn around," he said softly, "I'll clean your back."
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