"We are talking about anger here, Fraser, a human emotion. Are you human? Because if you are, human beings feel things. Okay? They feel anger. They feel love. They feel lust and fear. And sometimes, I know you don't want to hear this, sometimes they even cry."
[ He was never going to say "Please," but then Vecchio would have been disappointed if he had. Turn it off was more than close enough; at least it was a request, which was almost an admission of the fact that he couldn't take it. But wasn't that what torture was? Still, it came close enough to begging that - considering he had a finger up the guy's ass, and Ray had by no means woken up this morning thinking the day was going to go south so quickly - he was inclined to take a certain amount of pity, at least where it was admissible to do so.
But he stayed, worked in a second finger beside the first, and withdrew it as quickly as he'd pushed it inside, bringing his hand to the ring to press the switch down on the vibrate function. He was swollen and hard, that lovely length of him, purpling, and now trapped that way for as long as Armando deigned. Even without the vibration it was probably enough to drive Ray loopy, but that was good too. He could build on the pleasure, make him delirious with it, make it matter less if only because he couldn't think through it all. If he did it right, the entire process would blur together; the cocaine would help with that, twist it into some sort of unreal nightmare.
Vecchio wouldn't be so lucky, but he should have to live with this; with every single crisp second. It was his penitence.
Fuck, he was coming down already. He could fix that, but first he pressed his first finger back inside again, as though he were starting the process from scratch, but with the way Ray was resisting it was almost like doing exactly that. Muscles clamped around him like vices, because fighting back that way was all Ray had to do, all he needed to focus on. It made his blunt fingernails dig in more than necessary, but every time they did Ray just snarled again, and what could he say? "Relax, let me do you up the ass"? Those two things didn't really go hand in hand.
So he kept fighting this battle which neither of them were equipped to fight, and after managing to get his second finger back in there and giving it a real good go, Vecchio gave up again, slipping his fingers free and propping his hands under Ray's thighs as he leant into his belly. He'd dropped white powder there, and most of it was still all over him, even though some of it was ruined by blood. Still, there was enough that he could press his tongue into the cracks, lapping up enough of it to bring his heart back to racing, sharpen his senses, lower his inhibitions. He needed the boost for the sake of his self esteem, but then of course he'd been doing this for months. It always seemed to take a little more, and it was hard to fight the urge to let it when there wasn't enough in the world for him to spend Armando's money on as it was.
He'd given up with his fingers, but that didn't stop the onslaught. Now that he had surrendered to the idea that loosening Ray up the good old fashioned way was the sexual equivalent of leading a horse to water and forcing it to drink, he admitted that the other methods, the props he'd been more or less dismissing out of some urge to somehow be less impersonal, were probably in fact vital. He'd been stupid, even inconsiderate, to think otherwise, drawing this out like they were two teenagers bumping uglies in the back of a car when that wasn't what this was about at all.
So in went the soft, fingerwidth steel of the spreader, coated with lubricant, and maybe he hadn't warmed it up, but he applied the requisite pressure little by little, his chin on Ray's stomach, his other hand testing the gap as he stretched metal apart. When there was enough room, he fed four of the string of beads into him, smallest first, before pulling the stretcher free, letting muscle snap back down. He could feel it, lube slick fingers sliding against bare skin, sensing the stretch around the bead just underneath the surface. God--god, he was fucked up to find that hot. He pressed up, fed in the next slippery bead slowly, then drew it back out again, panting against the wet trails he'd licked on Ray's belly as he did it. He didn't think Ray would mind, or even notice, how much this was driving him crazy. And he looked back up. Imposter. And felt the most inappropriate flare of superiority rising in his chest. ]
[It was as close to begging as Ray was going to manage and it seems to have done the trick, at least in getting that vibrating hum switched off, but not before there's another finger pressing in and causing a hiss of resistance from him even if it doesn't last long before being pulled away. Every part of him is tight, muscles shuddering under the pressure and his knees, closing around Armando thanks to the tightness in his thighs. There's no attempt at pushing the gangster back, but the squeeze is there like a solid embrace and it gives Ray something to focus on beyond the discomfort he's feeling.
Even without the constant buzz of that cock ring, Ray's still squirming as those fingers press back in, just as tight as the first time around and just as resistant to them. It doesn't feel like Armando's going to get anywhere with him any time soon without causing some serious damage, and perhaps the mobster picks up on that because yet again he withdraws, leaving Stanley panting out heavily through his nose, teeth dug into his bottom lip. He watches because it's all he can do, visual clues at least giving him time to mentally prepare himself.
At first he's not entirely sure what's up with the licking, but then he remembers that spill during the bite, sees the dusty layer of powder down his torso, contrasted by the sticky trickle of blood around it, and suddenly he gets it. It's the search of another high, a top up of cocaine, and Ray's glad it's only a personal thing because any more of that for him and he's pretty sure his heart actually would explode. Or his dick. His mind's already a mess as it is, even if that confidence has waned slightly with his current position, and his body is a ball of energy even without much space to move in.
But maybe more coke would have been a good thing. Maybe totally fucking his mind up would have at least made the sight of that metal spreader just a little more tolerable, instead of causing his instincts to scream out for escape. There wasn't an escape though, not with his binds as they were, and the mafioso between his legs, and the risk of Fraser's safety. Jerking away and escaping now would be a poor choice anyway, considering there's cold metal pressing into him that he really doesn't want to test pulling away from. The spreaders slip in easier, but they feel like a far greater danger than a few fingers, able to cause more damage.
It's the pressure of the stretch that has him groaning, a lengthy consistent noise that's only broken by the occasional desperate inhale for air, face still twisted into a snarl even as he drops his chin to his chest. He was going to kill this fucker. What he wouldn't do to at least get a hefty punch in right now, let some of that anger out, maybe drive his fist in a few more times for the fun of it. Ray hates this fucking contraption, hates that it's virtually impossible to resist or fight against, that even clamping down didn't stop it's relentless tug.
It pisses him off to realise that it's the fight that makes the pain twice as bad, and that tightening around it was only making matters worse. But he doesn't stop, even as those beads push in between the jaws of the stretcher, and even as the metal withdraws. He could feel everything, those beads inside even as his muscle snapped tight between the fourth and fifth, Armando's questing fingers against him, the hot breath against the cooling wetness at his stomach. Every bit of his senses were still far too alert, all his nerve endings singing, and he can almost, almost see the appeal of the combo of coke and hookers. This drug feels amazing, too much so. Not something a cop should be thinking, but fuck it, the coke high was a thing of beauty, even with some fucker taking advantage, and if you can love a drug even when there's someone trying to abuse your ass, that must be one hell of a drug.]
Ngh, you d-done this before, huh, you fffucked up piece of shit?
[There's too much knowledge of how this shit works. And unless he's just a total fucking natural, or sits and watches this in porn, this can't be a one off. Especially not as he gets Ray moaning out at the pressure of the next bead pushing relentlessly until his muscles give way and it slips inside, barely given time to recover before the stretch is pulling outwards. This. This was getting his muscle far more worked over than fingers ever could.]
[ It's good to get the metal gone, tossed aside. The stretchers are too clinical for him, although a necessary tool as far as this situation was concerned. Without them Ray would never be stretched wide enough, because he sure as hell wasn't going to deliberately relax, that was for sure. At least not manually.
It's deeply satisfying, though, when Ray - his breath hitching - snarls down at him. They're almost dirty enough words, he could figure them for real sex talk, like they were lovers who liked it rough; that this wasn't the kind of situation where Ray would have choked him to death with his bare hands if he got them free. It was a nice, if unrealistic, daydream, and it lasted half a second, because Vecchio realised almost immediately that he wouldn't enjoy that sort of sex talk ever again, and that sort of took the edge off the fantasy. He couldn't imagine, right now, ever wanting to have sex again, let alone have it any way that wasn't straightforward and vanilla in a nice dark room.
It was over.
It was over because this - everything about it; the power, the wrongness, the toys, Vecchio and Vecchio, the situation with Fraser, the cocaine - was all turning him on. He was high on it, head in the clouds, and sex was just going to be a minefield of things that reminded him of this moment. After pride and lust, he'd feel guilt, shame, disgust--all the things he ought to be feeling right now, but wasn't because of the coke; wasn't because he simply wasn't letting himself. He knew that at the end of the day this was impossibly far from the person he really was: that he was gentler than this, that he'd never deliberately damage a person the way he was breaking this man in front of him. But some dark part of him was enjoying this. Some dark part of him would still hate himself for enjoying it years down the line, and he felt like it was taking him over. In fact, he'd let it. He'd been letting it in since this assignment started, and yes, he'd heard all the horror stories about people going undercover and forgetting who they really were, knew that there were usually tragic repercussions.
He knew he was at risk of doing just that.
But if he didn't, he had to be this person while also being Ray Vecchio, and that was patently impossible. Ray Vecchio was the man in the chair with his legs spread. The world fucked Ray Vecchio, and Ray Vecchio had to grit his teeth and let it, because his hands were bound by the law, by morals and ethics and decency. He couldn't fight back even if he wanted to.
Ray moaned - not in pain - and Armando knew he had him. One moan opened the floodgates for more to follow, he just had to keep the sensation up. At the very least he had a secret weapon as far as that was concerned, but not yet. ]
What do you think this room is for? I got half a dozen of Vegas' finest on their backs for me if I want it. [ You done this before? He hadn't specified the beads. Fucked a cop, though. That was even actually true.
But then so was the kinky stuff. It was just that it had been consensual last time. A last ditch effort to spice up his relationship with Angie as their interest in each other waned.
He pulled the beads out again, one, two, three this time. Back in, one, two, three. Out, twice as fast. In, slowly again. He leaned back, pressing his nose into Ray's pubes and inhaling the dusting of cocaine that had fallen there. When he drew back, it was to flick the tip of his tongue, again, over the engorged head of Ray's cock. If anything would ache, that would be it. ]
Every time you hear a slot machine chime, you're gonna get hard thinking about this. You're going to remember being filled by me and it's gonna come down on you in the night like a weight on your chest, like a ghost fucking you into the bed. You're gonna wake up thinking about this with your fist around your cock, you dirty little slut. You can't even help it. Three hours with me, bleeding and moaning like a bitch, and it's gonna be the best sex you've ever had. You're going to hate yourself for that, aren't you? [ His voice dropped an octave, he looked up through his dark lashes, green eyes almost black thanks to the red lighting. ] Hey, Ray. Try not to scream.
[ There was a vibrator in the anal beads. He turned it on. ]
[He had moaned. Fuck. He'd actually moaned. That really didn't bode well for his ability to hold back the noises for the rest of this if he's moaning from a tiny bit of push and pull. He can't help it. It's not that he's enjoying himself, but with his nerves as they are, his body is more responsive than ever.
Not to mention, depressing as the thought is, this is the most action he's had in years. This queer ass mafioso has been the first to touch Ray this intimately since Stella and that's a really fucked up thing to consider for too long. He hadn't even got laid in almost a year, which goes towards explaining why he feels excessively blue balled and like his dick might explode at any second. Worst part of it is he finds the struggle a turn on, like the adrenaline spikes of a good fight that leave you buzzing but in pain by the end of it. All this roughing up and shit talking, it's all part of it, and he thinks he could almost get on with this guy if he wasn't pressing beads into him.
There he is with a straining cock and no ability to give himself any satisfaction or blow his load, and yet his frustration is restrained well enough by Armando's attention. Even through all this his dick isn't forgotten, licked once again (but sadly only once) and getting his hips jerking upwards. The shift causes some movement below and he's grunting as he stills himself, still trying to adjust to the feeling of having them pressing inside him. It's an odd sensation to have something filling him, unusual and not what he'd ever expected he'd be experiencing in his lifetime. And yet here he is, and he'd just have to fucking deal with it because it's not like Armando's just suddenly going to stop for him now.
With each bead tugging against him, Ray's huffing out a sharp breath, resisting too much noise beyond low grunts as the pull is replaced by pushing them back in before the process is repeated all over. With his mind unfocused, his muscles start to relax of their own accord, self-preserving to make that movement just that little bit easier. He's not accepting it, not mentally, but he sure as hell didn't want to tear anything.
The little speech has got him grinding his teeth, words like slut and bitch chipping away at his pride and making him want to quickly fill it back in. The temptation to lash out again is high, a better kick, a knee, perhaps even just a spit to the face, anything to fill that shame, but his consideration is cut short by that last comment.
Scream?
What--
And then his whole body jerks upwards as one, every single muscle in him tightening so suddenly that he surprises himself. He's clamping back down on those beads and that just heightens the buzz emitting from them, vibrating deep within him where nothing has ever touched before. The scream doesn't come, his throat tightening as he strains out a breath, the sound coming out as a pathetic sounding;] Aah!
[There's just something over all pathetic about a lightly gasping, jittering, scrawny assed cop shivering his way through this like some lost or misplaced pet.
This is more unbearable than the ring. Set deeper within him and resonating throughout and impossible to counter, any tightening against it only increasing the feeling. It shouldn't feel so appealing, not something like this, but it hit every part of him too well.]
I've ha-ah-d better. [Sex, he means. Because he's not going to let this scumbag try and flatter himself with tales of amazing sex.]
[ The buck against his tongue is particularly rewarding. He's almost inclined to stay down there and keep it up, see how much stimulation he could visit on him before Ray was begging for release. It'd be gorgeous to watch. He could just leave the beads inside and suck him, and the movement would make him squirm, and there'd be more movement, and more squirming, and he'd melt into a writhing mess of stimulation. It'd be easy. Ray was relaxing now, he could feel it with the pop of every bead in and out, and his breathing was becoming more ragged, more helpless with arousal.
That's the moment when he turns on the beads, and Ray snaps shut like a steel trap. The wires of his body all tense at once, and he's rising out of the seat on instinct as though to escape that vibration, using Vecchio's body for height, hands and arms and legs and neck and stomach as though every muscle in him runs through the same place. He breathes out "Aah", and it's not a scream, but it's as close to one as he's gotten in the last hour so fuck it, it'll do.
Vecchio doesn't find it pathetic. Every second of fight that Ray puts up, the fact that even in the middle of this he's still holding strong to his own sense of self, endears him to his replacement by the moment. Armando will undo him, but not in a way he can't spring back from, because this guy could take on the world.
So he's powerful, he's strong, and even when he's bucking and trembling at that jackhammer going off inside him he's still himself; he hasn't retreated from reality yet, blocked out the world, let it wash over him. There was something impossibly attractive about it too. Wiry and wild with all his jagged edges, his hair limp from exertion, his eyes burst to pinpricks by the coke. Maybe he's no Marlon Brando, but he's got his own heat, a certain kind of rebellious attractiveness like Sid Vicious or something, pouring out waves of sex and potential violence like it was going out of style.
Sensing the change, everything shifted gear. Vecchio moved up so that those vice like legs were forced to clutch his hips instead, slid his arm around Ray's back, and as he turned off the vibration he supported him, lowering him back into the seat with his arm behind him, his body pressed close, his own erection nudged against the other man's.
His voice was a soft murmur; it had a lighter edge to it that wasn't there before. In another world, it might even have been mistaken as apologetic. ]
Al Capone, right? He learned all his best moves from me. Breathe out, Ray. Long and slow.
[ And even if he didn't obey, he tried to catch him on the exhale anyway, pulling the string of slippery beads out with a single jerk of his wrist. They were unnecessary now. He tossed them down on the floor and then drew his hand back up, rubbing his knuckles against his own eyebrow and leaving a fresh smudge of blood there. His hand was raw with it, but he couldn't feel it any more, couldn't feel anything except arousal, and Ray's legs, and the hot erection nudged against his own.
He was holding back, he realised. He hadn't even touched the lube yet - and yes, he did very much want to reach for it, plunge inside, get this part moving. He was holding back for some reason, though, and he couldn't put his finger on what it was. What did he want? Permission? Forgiveness? He wasn't going to get them. Vecchio licked his lips, ran his free hand back under their bodies, and for a moment he simply stood there on the brink, his thighs aching from holding his weight at the odd angle against the chair, massaging Ray's balls tenderly in the palm of his hand. ]
You ready? [ He said at last. Fuck, he was asking anyway. ]
[Ray is overwhelmed. There's no other explanation for it. Every bit of him squirming and jerking and craving more. Even this, with his senses on fire and the speedy thrum of those beads surging through him wasn't quite enough. Never quite enough to get him reaching his pinnacle. He needs something more and it's that thought that makes him wonder if maybe he is some dirty little slut, that is this is all it takes to get him squirming and moaning then maybe there's some truth behind it. Surely a better man would be able to resist and endure, rather than tied down, achingly hard and gasping for air.
He can't stop it though, not when every part of him is tense and wired, shivering and straining around the unrelenting waves of pleasure deep within. It's hitting something deep within that he can't quite explain, and without being able to explain it even to himself, he turns to frustration and annoyance, snarling, legs still clamped around Armando even as he starts to shift upwards.
It comes as somewhat of a surprise at just how careful the mobster is as he shuts down that vibration, a supportive arm on Ray to lower him back in the chair as he collapses thankfully back down, sweating and panting from the exertion of it. His head drops backwards, resting at the seat back as he distantly listens to the voice, that mafioso aggression seemingly gone from the tone. There's instruction there, and while Ray doesn't want to obey on principle, it's difficult not to when his huffs for breath turn into deep inhales and long, heavy exhales. Armando catches him perfectly on one of the exhales, the beads slipping from Ray like some bizarre and exceptionally personal massage, causing his exhale to morph into a low, lasting moan, while he his muscle contracts and loosens in it's wake as if still grasping for them.
God, he needs release. He needs to get out of this somehow, especially out of that ring that's still clinging to the base of his cock like a rubber band gradually cutting circulation from a limb.
He's expecting something else to come, waiting with an anticipatory snarl, and yet instead he's met with a pause while a too soft palm cups around his balls. It's a ridiculously tender moment and Ray's half expecting pain to follow but never quite getting it. Not yet, anyway. For the moment he's just left to stare down his noses at Armando, panting.]
No.
[He can assume what he should be ready for. Whatever it is, it won't be pretty.]
[ Fighting right up to the last; Vecchio could certainly respect him for that. Armando would too, probably, if he wasn't dead (he hadn't gotten a clear admission out of the FBI as to whether that had been an accident or not, but he suspected the answer was probably not).
He soothes for a moment longer, very aware of the edge of confusion that's slipped in in the meantime. This isn't natural behavior, it's creeping Ray out. Still, outside of that he's panting, gasping, jerking, moaning; a positive wreck. Even if he isn't willing to beg, if he maybe never would be, that's fine with Vecchio, his trembling body is communicating all those things for him.
Releasing his hand, Vecchio reached for the lube, not making a show and dance about it, in fact trying to hold Ray's glare in the meantime so that he didn't see what was happening between their legs. ]
Come on, Ray. Spit in my face and tell me that you love me. They make 'em hard in Chicago, don't they? Hard, hard guys. Yeah, I can see just how hard.
[ And soon enough - too soon and not nearly soon enough - he was nudging just the tip of his cock against Ray, slathered in as much lube as he could get out. Vecchio shifted back, put a little distance between his body and the other man's so that he could look down between them, so that he was far enough away from the detective's teeth that he didn't lose an ear or get his throat ripped out for the invasion. Using his hand to guide himself, he pressed into muscle, breached and slid deeper, guided by the path he'd already beaten into submission with the beads.
He'd expected it to be harder than it was, but that wasn't to say it was easy either. His hand pulled away soon enough though, and while one of his arms was still wrapped around Ray - not that he had anywhere to go - the other flattened itself in the middle of his chest, as though a reminder to himself that he was supposed to keep his distance.
And he watched, positively enraptured - and this at least was probably due to the cocaine - by the sight of his cock disappearing inside, embraced by that wonderful tight heat, that glove of knotted silk that pulled taut around him, working like iron cables snapping in a high wind.
Vecchio fell still, let Ray adjust to the sensation--though not for too long. He didn't want him to think he'd gone soft. He was panting, aching for friction, driven near crazy himself by waiting. ]
[That massage feels good. Too good considering the situation. That palm rolling against his overly sensitive skin, already taught and full and ready to go and yet no respite thanks to the ring.
He needs that off and he needs pleasure. What he doesn't need is some other guy's cock, but it appears as if he's going to get that no matter what he was hoping for. Ray would consider it a selfish fucking move, but then he remembers this isn't his lover and this isn't some scenario for him to get his rocks off to in some creepy ass sex dungeon. This is punishment. This is sending a message for him to think twice before he ever tries to invade in the families business again, and it works. Right here and right now, even without Armando removing his grip and lining himself up, Ray can safely say his lesson is well and truly learned.
After this he could get Fraser and get the hell out of town. After this. All he had to do was endure. And jesus, what a thing to endure.
Armando tells him to spit and he holds off because maybe that's some weird kink this guy has got going on. Some rapey little love to get spat at, just like his apparent enjoyment for getting his hand ripped to shreds. Ray does spit words though, trying to drag some sense of control back into his world as his arms strain up against the two ties.]
See how hard my fist is when I punch you a knew asshole, cocksuker. I'll tear ya to shreds. Rip you to pieces. Your boys are gonna come down here to find me fucking a new hole in your head. They'll have to drag me off your lifeless fuckin' corpse. I'll-- fuck.
[That distance between them is a good job, because right as he feels that breach, he gets the sudden urge to bite into something and not let go. Without the other nearby, he's forced to bite down on his own bottom lip, grunting and growling around it as Armando presses in. With the aid of all that lube, and the beads that had come before, the pressure is less intense than before, but it still hurts like hell.
It's the stretch that gets him, pushing wider than what had come before until he's pretty sure he's going to tear something, if not internally, then one of the hundreds of muscles in his torso that are currently keeping him almost lifted off the chair again. This isn't like before, where there was a relenting pause between each bead. This is solid and thick and determined.
Tempting as it is to kick out, it's difficult for Ray to control himself much as it is, and so instead of a solid side kick to the side, his legs stay tight around the body between them, one uselessly wrapping around as if that'll somehow prevent it all. It can at least try and keep Armando where is is and not moving back, but even that doesn't seem too helpful in the current situation, especially not considering one leg can't match up to the other's entire body moving.
But there's a pause. Almost like a moment for adjustment but that can't be right. Maybe the mobster is so coked up that he just needs time to think; he sure does seem fascinated just by looking. Fucker.
Dick in him or not, Ray still pushes against the hand on his chest, snarling like a rabid dog as he acts like he's lunging for a bite. Entirely impossible, held back as he is, but still worth the visual attempt, even if the lean does cause a shift below that sends a shiver up his spine.]
[ Every single vitriolic word is like a pulse of pleasure in itself, and he shouldn't find it so good, but Vegas had obviously fucked up more than his sense of perspective if the last hour was anything to go by. It's like it reaches in and twangs some part of him that needs to be punished too, that's desperate for some sort of retribution where this is concerned because he's just such a deplorable human being.
And yet it is sort of like that. It's like he's taking this out on himself, because this guy is Ray Vecchio in a manner of speaking. He's his replacement, the stand-in; he has to take whatever shit Ray Vecchio would take in the same situation, and right now Ray Vecchio deserves, more than anything, to be punished, beaten, pushed beyond the brink for what he was doing.
It was messed up, but he was messed up. He couldn't be blamed for a little of that after everything he'd been put through out here in the desert.
So he held still once he was inside for a little longer than he meant to, and tried to pay attention, but ended up not flinching as Ray tried to take a bite out of his arm or something. It ended up paying off, making him look invulnerable rather than just stoned, and that was fine too. The bite to Ray's lip, that would work out, would swell like a balloon by the time his guys came back. All of this, all of it, was working out better than he'd thought.
So what if he was unwilling, if this was all yet another part of the Armando mask that was infecting Ray? He was hot and horny and high, and the world, and this cop detective, were his for the taking if he wanted it. He was a nasty mobster, an all around bad guy. He could have anything and anyone he wanted and he knew it. He didn't owe the world anything, he just steadily fucked it and laughed while it bled. He was Armando Langoustini, cruel consigliere, ruthless killer, insane and beautiful and--
Bleeding, he was bleeding into it--
Ray was trying to hold him still with his leg, but he couldn't keep him there forever, although Vecchio changed his grip first, moving both hands down to grip the other man's hips. He held him as he pulled out, then wrenched hard down on them, tugged Ray's hips toward his own and pushed back into him. Again.
God, he didn't care any more. He'd done everything he could to make sure it wouldn't hurt, and if Ray wanted to keep it up then so be it, he didn't give a shit if he was walking round sore for weeks after. If he tore something. It wasn't his concern any more--all he wanted, all he cared about was that glorious friction, the heat, the racing of his own pulse, and the flat out vicious race to orgasm.
It had been much more than a year, and he was high, and turned on from the verbal jousting and what equated to gangster foreplay. He wasn't going to last long. But that was fine, neither was Ray. Huffing, his breath ragged pants, but none the less keeping his moans restrained to low throaty noises that gargled in his chest, he kept moving, a slow but rough pace now. He unclamped one hand back from ray's hip, gliding it - still wet with lube - over the head of his restrained cock. ]
Say the word. You know the one I want. Say the word and you can come.
[ Single syllables were so much more functional when it came to restraining his own moans. He couldn't afford to break the illusion now. ]
[Uncomfortable or not, Ray was panting and groaning his way through this. Slumping further into chair as his head rolls back, eyes glazed and staring at the mirrored ceiling to watch their reflections. It was an odd sight, to watch another man drive into him as he stared back at himself, bloodied, wired and ragged, sneering at each jerk of the hips. Armando had the control with his hands at Ray's sides, power to fight against the tightened leg around him, even if it's attempts at stilling him are half-assed and more like an embrace than a resistance. It was hard to fight back like this, when his body is exhausted yet desperate, restrained from too much action by his own hand.
If he could just get an arm free, just to jerk himself off and tug that ring off. If only. Maybe after that he could use that free hand to actually escape, but right now he can't focus on anything but blowing his load. Priorities are difficult to get in order when all the blood he's got has rushed to his swollen cock or is coating himself and the floor, and the coke has got him seeking a constant high no matter what the costs. Sure, coming sounds like a great idea, even if it does mean doing so while he's being quite literally fucked by some Vegas gangster. Come now, worry about the consequences later. If he could just get through this, it might get easier. He hopes it's be easier.
His grunts mingle with throaty moans after each thrust drives into him, hitting deep inside and causing his already shivering muscles to twitch and jerk against his restraints. He can tell Armando's not far from it, not after spending all this time rock hard and ready and only just getting his fill, and yet still the cocksucker is trying to get some level of obedience, even now he's trying to get Ray pleading. And Ray's not far from it at this rate, not when he feels like his cock might explode if he doesn't.
The slick, too hot touch of that hand at the tip of his cock has Ray whining out a frustrated noise, unable to help trying to roll himself up into that touch and then- because he's pissed off and desperate for some sort of satisfaction- grinding down and into those thrusting hips, rolling slightly against them.]
Just- hnn- take it off. I need to...
Fuckin' do it! Asshole!
[It's painful how much he wants it, teased for too long beforehand. He's probably a freak for wanting to come at a time like this, for getting turned on at it all, but right now he doesn't give a shit.]
[ He could pretend 'Asshole' was the word he'd been waiting for, but fuck it, Ray's put himself in this position now. He'd been given the opportunity--do what he's told and he could come. He'd disobeyed. So this is what he gets: he gets to wait, wait and wait, and maybe if he was lucky Armando would take pity on him.
But Christ, to look at him now. Sweating with exertion and need, thrumming with it like the vibrator was still turned on, because - Vecchio knew - he was hitting that spot inside him that made sparks fly, and Ray probably didn't even know why it was happening. He jerked with every snap of Vecchio's hips, tugged and twisted against the restraints like he was desperate for purchase, or to get his hand free. His hair was plastered to his forehead now, his lips swollen and red, and the noises--god, the noises...
He couldn't identify his own, but he knew he wasn't making most of them, mostly because he was still much more in control, less out of it thanks to his longer term exposure to the drugs. Control was life out here in the desert, and Vecchio couldn't afford to let that one slip. So those deep growling moans were his own. They were rhythmic and steady, animalistic, possessive.
The other noises were all Ray. Whimpering, grunting and moaning almost on every thrust, his breathing beautifully ragged. He was coming undone, and the thrill of victory was pushing in on Vecchio now: he'd set out to make Ray come, make him delirious with it, and that was what he'd achieved. All he had to do was take that ring off.
Delirious with it, yes--delirious enough that he was rising into his hand, thrusting down into the pounding jerk of his hips, reciprocating despite himself, out of his mind with it. Good. Good, there was no way in hell he'd think this was him. Only the drugs could have made him do this; only the drugs could have made him into this panting, broken wreck for the cock of a made man, someone who had beaten and humiliated him. There was no other explanation.
Ray stopped being so pretty, or rather Vecchio stopped noticing, because as he came closer, climbing toward that summit, all the reason for him being here sort of bloomed into one blurry mess. All he knew, all that mattered, was that he was going to come, and he had to throw himself into his own ragged, exhausted thrusting, take this welcoming anonymous body under him for all it was worth. His muscles were burning like he'd run a marathon, aching, and yet he kept just ahead of the pain, reaching for the taste of pleasure that was just over the next hill.
He clawed Ray's hip, inadvertently digging his fingertips into the deep cut he'd made there, and then he was reaching bloodied hands for the tie on Ray's left hand, yanking the knot open.
Oh, he was going to lose it--he was going to-- That glorious, overwhelming burn of friction spread out, overwhelmed him, swept rushing into his ears, and Vecchio kept pounding, thrusting, out of his mind with the full width of orgasms edge as pleasure snapped around him, tightening, insistent--yes, yes, yes. And he didn't care. He'd let Ray's hand go, but he didn't care what he did with it.
And then he was coming, coming and coming, it felt like forever, driving just as deep as he could as he spilled hot into that clamping tightness. His exhausted muscles gave way as he strained for just one more thrust, and he found himself falling into blackness and heat, and fuck it, he was probably going to get a knife in the throat but he couldn't move. ]
[So those weren't the words Armando had been looking for. Ray already knew that. He also knew that a simple moment of politeness might have got him coming already rather than stuck with blue balls and frustration as he gets slammed into over and over. But this was all about enduring, lasting until the very end without every giving up, no matter what that asshole had in store. Granted, Ray had initially expected something a little more torturous to his physicality and involving much less sex, but this was still something he wouldn't forget in a hurry, something he'd need to rest and recover from, and it was definitely a successful deterrent, perhaps even more so than any physical beatings.
Ray's overcome with it all, at least self aware enough to realise he was writhing and bucking into this, and aware enough to be entirely ashamed at himself. But he can't help it. Every part of him was tingling like static, shivering violently despite the heat in the room, and craving more of that amazing sensation of just being touched.
It wasn't his fault that he needed more. It wasn't. The drug had fogged his mind and his senses, had wired and wound him up until he needed to bounce off the walls. But left bound and stuck where he was, he was trying to lose that excess steam by writhing and grinding against the body before him. If only he could have some form of release, just once, right now.
There's fingers in that slice against his hip and Ray's hissing his discomfort, jerking away from the hand even as it moves towards his left hand and-- yes, yes, yes. Even with the obvious sight of the knot tugged free, Ray's mind takes a second or two to catch up, distracted as he was by that incessant pounding of hips.
But then he catches on. Then he realises that he's free! Or one hand is, even if he still had the weight of Armando to deal with and his other bound hand. This was a start, this could work, this could get him out of here... except... except his left hand shoots straight for his own cock, thumbing at the ring in the desperation. It's not an easy thing to get off when he's as swollen as he is, but with a final grunt of pain, he flicks it free and immediately curls his fist around his erection.
Armando's still thrusting away, even in the height of his orgasm, and Ray uses that movement to bring himself along, grimacing against the hot spill pushed deep inside. He's been so close for so long that it only takes a few rough jerks to push himself over he edge, hips suddenly jerking sharply into his own hand as comes over himself. He arches and groans his way through it, eyes snapping shut to avoid having to look at himself in that mirror ceiling, and muscles clamping tightly underneath Armando and around him. But Ray doesn't have the liberty of collapsing into a boneless heap at the end of it all, not if he wants out. So, still on the last few twitches of pleasure, he reluctantly releases his grip, drawing his hand back and trying to drive that still stickied fist into the side of Armando's skull. And again. Two swings that don't have Ray's full weight behind them, but make up for it in determination.
With those attempted he's quickly scrambling for the other tie, trying to one handedly get his right arm loose so he can do something. Maybe throw himself at the guy. Whatever, he's not really thinking about what he's going to do, just focused on freedom. Freedom first and then assault or murder or whatever he could get away with.]
[ Okay. So blearily, in the back of his mind, he'd known this was a really fucking bad idea, but he'd been completely out of his head at the time, riding that wave, Ray's muscular body squeezing, squeezing it out of him until the very last, until they're both just covered in blood and come and sweat, and the world is still spinning sidewards thanks to the pure pleasurable agony of release.
He should have been the one paying attention, but instead he'd gotten cocky, figured he'd fought and fucked Ray out, beaten him into groggy submission. Forgot he'd gotten him high too. Wham, and then again, and maybe they weren't prize fighter blows to the head considering Ray had been straining against him for most of the last hour and had the disadvantage of Armando's closeness to contend with, but they were a good effort anyway. They made his head spin, gave him enough of an incentive to pull back, staggering, his legs wobbly underneath him.
Two ways out of this. Get the knife, and probably end up stabbing him in a fight - not what he wanted - or get control of the situation. He got himself more distance first, even though that would let Ray get up, and did a mental assessment of the room. The door, up the stairs, was too far to bolt, and besides it'd leave Ray down here with dozens of lethal weapons not limited to but including his gun. Guns. He'd put them into his jacket pocket, and that was in the neat pile of clothes he'd left when he'd changed into the kimono. Quick thinking, good thinking. Now if only his legs would cooperate enough to keep him steady, crossing the room and digging his hand into the inside of his jacket.
Ray would get free, but he wouldn't go far, he reassured himself, and Vecchio didn't hesitate this time, threw off the safety and brought up the muzzle of the gun. He fired, shot Kowalski's sidearm at him, embedding a bullet in the wall, fracturing mirror glass so that it fell in a rain on the floor behind the torture chair, and then he tried to hold steady with both hands on the gun and his spent cock still half hard between his legs, tried to unleash some kind of level of intimidation even so. ]
Just you fucking freeze, o ti ammazzo tu cretino cazzo di merde! Che cazzo fai, asshole!? The hell d'you think you're doing!? There's no fucking way outta here but through me.
[ His throat felt ragged. Maybe that added to the effect, because he was snarling, blurring into fast Italian he hadn't used between childhood and Vegas and spitting everything he had out in an effort to slow Kowalski down. He'd shoot him if he had to, to save his own life, but fuck. Fuck, he was an idiot. He should have known better.
The gunshot was still ringing in his ears. In the relatively small, enclosed space of the dungeon - even with its soundproofing - it was like being punched in the head all over again. ]
[This wasn't either of their finest moments, they could both admit that. Armando was a fool for releasing Ray without some sort of precaution in place, and Ray... well, he was stupid for even attempting this in the first place. Even if he got himself free, then what? He'd already mentally been through this a hundred times; he didn't know where he was, he was naked, there were probably cameras and goons everywhere and he still didn't have any solid method for getting Fraser back beyond threatening the Feds until something happened. But he couldn't help it. He couldn't resist the opportunity to get out of those bounds that had kept him down for so long, and certainly couldn't resist socking that mafioso in the head.
In one move, or technically two punches, he'd managed to possibly screw it all up, but that still didn't stop him from fumbling with the other tie as Armando staggers back. All through the fiddling of the knot his gaze flicks back and forth, switching between the task and whatever the mobster is up to. He can do this, he's got this, he can still take this guy down, escape the mansion and get back to Fraser. It'd be easy. He was better than this guy and-- shit, he was going to die. Or Fraser was. The coke was wearing far too thin to install the sort of confidence he had at the start of all this, leaving him panting and exhausted as covered in blood, even as he manages to release his right hand and drag himself to his feet.
His legs feel weak, almost collapsing under him for a second as he stumbles forward a step, but then he sees Armando grappling for his jacket and the last thing Ray needs is that dick raising an alarm or getting his hands on a weapon. And so he sucks it up, forgets the pain and exhaustion to try and charge forward, hoping to clear the space and get on top of the other. Except he only manages a few charging steps forward before Bam, his ear drums feel like they've exploded and there's a shattering behind him.
Ray freezes, stopping dead the moment his mind processes that it's a bullet that was just fired, and for a panicked second he has to look down at himself as though he's not quite sure if he's been shot. There's blood everywhere, it's virtually impossible to tell, but no, there's no pain beyond the numbness of those old cuts, and at this range he would have felt the full force of that gun, even with it's size.
Armando knows how to handle a firearm, he already knew that. That shot wasn't a miss, but merely a warning, and it worked. Ray knew better than to argue with a coke fuelled mobster with a gun. One twitch and he could get it.]
Easy, scumbag. You wanted Chicago hard guy. I was just givin' it to you.
[Ray sounds raw, his throat dry from too much growling and coke. His hands lift just above his hips, tiredly weighted in the air, which is a ridiculous gesture in hindsight because he's naked. There's no hidden gun he'll be reaching for in a hurry, but it's an ingrained movement, one that somehow makes him feel safer, like he can tame a beast just by a few carefully placed hand movements.]
[ He felt stupid, his pride hurt, but the stupidness was mostly exhaustion because this whole situation was insane. Maybe if he was the cop he could swim through it on autopilot, but he was trying to use intelligence circuits that at the moment he just didn't possess, and it had been amazing he'd managed to remember the gun let alone use it to stop Ray's attack.
Armando. He had to be Armando. God, Armando would shoot him in the belly and call his guys to take him out to the desert. He couldn't be Armando. He had to be sharper about this, had to get his mind back in the game and stop thinking about how hard it was to hold his shooting stance when his aching legs wanted to collapse underneath him.
But the sense is coming back now. He can see it in Ray's face too, in his submission: he realises what a dumb fucking move he's made. Good. Fuck. God, that had been amazing, amazing sex, nevermind that one of them hadn't wanted it. He hated himself for it, but that orgasm... If only he'd been able to enjoy it for a few seconds longer.
He jerked the gun up carefully, maintaining his control, keeping his finger off the trigger since he was trembling and didn't want to set it off accidentally. The last thing he wanted right now was to shoot Ray by accident. ]
Yeah, sure that's what it is. Not you wanting to rip my cock out through my throat and fuck me with it. Not that at all.
[ He shuddered. It was taking everything he had to keep his arm up, but little by little the wakeful feeling and surging adrenaline of almost getting beaten to death with the nearest object was giving him back all the feeling in his limbs, letting his racing heart return to normal. The music was still playing. ]
Listen. This can be over; done; you and me. We both know beating isn't gonna fuck you up more than you already are, and there's enough surface scratches to make you look real good for Mikey too, so how about you be a good little piece of ass and get in that cage. [ He cocked his head over to one side, indicating it. ] We can have a little chat about how this rescue is going to go down and then I leave you be, let you sleep it off, shower your come off me and maybe even give you back your clothes.
[ Maybe it was too lenient considering the attack on his person, but Ray was exhausted and Armando was too. He could pull it off as mercy. ]
Then you leave. You get to tell a nice story about how I tortured you for three hours and you didn't break, I get to tell my guys how I fucked you with an Italian sausage and then fed it to the state's attorney. Cause the alternative, right now, is I shoot you and leave you to bleed to death. I can't deny I'm thinking about it.
[Armando's trembling, but so is Ray. It's nothing to do with fear (although he won't deny a certain amount of self-preservation shivering through him), but the cumulation of the exhausting hour they've just had, mixing itself with coke and adrenaline were making his senses go haywire. It really didn't help that Ray was an anxious enough guy as it is. Yeah, nerves. He gets them a lot. Especially when bleeding and exhausted in some mafia sex dungeon with a gun pointed at him after he's just decked the guy in the head. Twice. The coke was starting to have the opposite effect from earlier, or maybe that's just sheer tiredness on his behalf, but right now all he wanted to do was lay down and give up.
Just do what you want, just make sure to tuck him into bed afterwards.
He's half expecting some drastic ultimatum or a bullet to some not immediately lethal part of his body, but it never quite comes, and he knows he should probably consider himself lucky that he's not already writhing around on the ground with a shattered knee joint or some such, but he can't help the roll of his eyes as the negotiating happens. Well, hardly negotiating considering Armando has the upper hand in all of this, which is why this still seems a little too surprising that Ray isn't already dead or seriously injured.
But he'll go with it. He'll stand there on jittering legs as he doggedly tries to ignored all the blood and come stuck to his body, and the far too discomforting feeling of that same sticky warmth dribbling down the inside of his thigh. He'll forget all that for the sake of keeping the rest of himself intact and bullet free, and assume this Armando guy must really, really want Fraser out of the picture with Ray's aid.]
The cage?
[Oh, so not only does he have to endure being cut, fucked and objectified as a 'piece of ass', he now has to sit in some cage that looks like it belongs in a kinky strip club. But hell, who is he to argue with a guy who's got a gun shakily pointed at him? Perhaps the next shot from it won't be a miss.
So that obedience creeps back into him, still an obvious reluctance even as he tiredly moves towards the mass of bars, placing himself inside and shutting the door behind him. It's okay, he can cope with this. No different than catching some Z's in the slammer, even if this was much more confined than that.]
Just don't expect any dancin', cause you can go fuck yourself with that.
[Mumbled, like he'd rather be asleep right now, but that might just be humiliation as much as anything. He already hates himself enough as it is, he'd just really rather chick his clothes back on and crawl into a corner somewhere. He needs to forget this, put it out of his mind and focus on why he originally came.]
[ Down sucked. Down was awful. Down was paranoia and pain and the detailed world getting all crummy round the edges. It was exhaustion as the adrenaline wore off and a sick queasy feeling, but that was what the buttermilk was for. When the cage clinked shut, the electronic lock automatically activating, he allowed himself to relax, and his body did the rest. His legs folded underneath him, and he sat on the floor, the gun on the ground in front of him, and just for a moment demonstrated he was human, exhaling tension, running his hands back through his almost-hair. ]
Other than blue balls? You really know how to ruin an orgasm, huh?
[ He was almost too tired to be a smartass, let alone a wise guy, but there was business to do, and he scrubbed all the feeling back into his eyeballs, then dropped his hands onto his knees, looking back at Ray through the bars. ]
The FBI run out of the Royale. They have a thing where they look the other way or something, don't ask me what it is, but they operate out of Vegas, so they're going to put up somewhere, and they switch it up sometimes, pretend they keep us on our toes. Idiots. If they were real smart they'd get on the housing market, there's a boom going on in these parts. Land; they ain't making any more of it.
[ He scrubbed at his nose. It was running, but when was that ever a surprise? Really, this job had its perks but it was ruining him for being a regular human being. ]
They have him in 1507. That's up on the penthouse level--which is actually three penthouse levels, because people come to Vegas to hemorrhage money, and they start on the hotel room. Now they have two guys guarding it; they take turns, but your guy is real regular about sleeping. There's at least one more works at the front desk, but their operatives are out working most of the day, following us around town wasting government money.
So that's where I come in. Me and a couple of mine, we'll go shake up the guys at the Royale, make a scene. It's a big deal to the Feds, and if something goes down they'll want all hands on deck. They won't be thinking of your cooperative Mountie friend. Joe Casey or whoever it is gets called off guard duty, and you slip in, open the door, and then you get right out of town; they won't even know you were there.
Now you can do that, right? Cause if I have to disappear him it's gonna be less pretty.
[ It was a simple plan, really. Couldn't go wrong. So long as Ray didn't bring Fraser back through the lobby as he was escaping. He wouldn't be that dumb, though; that'd mean having to slip him out right under the noses of the FBI. Fraser, though--well, Fraser was that dumb. He was the loose cannon in all this. ]
You got any questions? And if you say "what does Langoustini mean" I'm gonna keep your tongue as a fucking souvenir.
[Down was exactly where Ray was headed, and that really didn't seem like a great place to be when locked in a cage in a dark and dreary dungeon with stifling heat and blood congealing all over him. If paranoia was going to hit him, then he'd get hit with it hard. He gets nervous, that can't be helped, but it's just nerves and anxiety didn't always mix great with drugs, especially the after effects of them. Shit, as if things weren't bad enough already.
As the door clangs shut behind him, and he watches Armando drop to the floor almost immediately following it, Ray considers that to be a pretty good idea. He's weak and exhausted, especially with the added bonus of the kick of adrenaline slowly leaving his body, so he finds the furtherest 'corner' away from the gangster that he can and settles down into it heavily.
Despite the heat he's shivering, staring reluctantly back at the other as he listens to the proposed plan. It's not something he can argue with. This guy already had it planned out and he knows it far better than Ray ever could. Ray doesn't know Vegas or the Vegas Feds.
He'd just have to suck it up and go along with it for Fraser's sake. Anything to get the Mountie back to Chicago and out of the hair of both the Feds and all the Vegas families, because of course Benton had managed to stir up trouble here, of course he had. That's what he does wherever he goes. Nothing is ever simple when Benton Fraser was involved.]
I got it. Go have yer fuckin' shower and leave me in peace.
[Because right now Ray just wants to curl up in a ball and preferably sleep. Or just ride out the downer that could be days. It's going to be weeks before he's right again, and that's not even counting mentally.
The curling up happens, the sleep? Well, that might come. Or he might just lay there for the next few hours and wait.]
[ Vecchio pauses, droopy eyed, watching for just a few moments as Ray curls up in the back of the cage, and he feels a stab of pity for the guy. Hard as he might be, this is just another thing he's going to be carrying around with him, a scar that nobody would ever see, that he'd never talk about or confront. Just for a second he looked really broken, and Ray had to worry that he'd done too much, pushed too far. As he stood, he looked down at him quietly, and for a moment - since Ray was curled up tight - he let his expression become unguarded.
Fraser would help. He didn't know how, but Fraser would notice something had changed. He could be a pain in the ass sometimes, he could suck when a friend was hurting just as much as he could step in to be strong for them, but he was at least perceptive, and hell, maybe he knew this guy better than Vecchio had let Fraser know him. His replacement did seem to wear his emotions on his sleeve, no matter his efforts to hide them. If anything, his hard guy act only made his soft side easier to see through to.
He scrubbed at his neck, then became aware of his throbbing, aching hand, and decided to go ahead and get out of there. A shower would be a good start. He'd call his doctor first, clean off the filth and then get his hand seen to and stitched up while the pain was still all numbed out.
He saw to it, turned off the music on his way out so that Ray might stand a chance of sleeping, and two hours later was escorting his guys into the pool room, sharing stories with them, laughing and mocking the ravaged cop in the downstairs dungeon. At last he gathered up Ray's clothes, waving his hand for them to stay. ]
Nah, enjoy your drinks, I'll deal with this.
[ And he slipped back downstairs, heading over to the cage and dropping the clothes in through the bars. He fetched a washcloth too. ]
Wash the come off, leave the blood. And when you come out keep your head down, don't try and hide how much it hurts. It's in your best interests if they think I'm the baddest, meanest mafankulo you've ever had the displeasure of meeting. I don't want to have to strip you down and do it again in front of them just to make my point.
[ He reached in through the cage bars, brushed his good hand briefly through Ray's hair and just as quickly snatched it away. ]
They'll drive you out and put you on the side of the road somewhere, you'll have your firearm returned to you. As for your friend, watch the lobby tomorrow morning. Alright.
[ He swung open the cage door and backed up a step. He wasn't armed, not this time, except with a sausage, but then he didn't need to be. There were guys waiting upstairs, and Ray really needed his cooperation now. With the drugs at least worn off, he oughtn't to be wired enough to attack just for the sake of it. ]
Come on. Sooner you get out of here, sooner I can get back to making money. Oh, and hold this. [ He passed him the sausage. ] When we get upstairs throw it to the short shifty looking one, make sure he catches it. I'm gonna tell him I fucked you with it.
[ He really hated that little bastard; it'd be worth it. ]
[Once on that flat surface, Ray didn't move. Didn't even care what Armando was up to behind him or whether he was tempted to approach yet again. If that cage door opened, he may well try his luck one last time, but for now, curled up in a ball on the floor seemed like the most comfortable and irresistible spot in the world. His ears are still perked, listening for movement, but there's no reaction as Armando, and only the vaguest lifts of his head as he hears footsteps retreat upstairs, only to check he was left alone, head dropping heavily back down the moment he's assured he's alone. There could be cameras, he doesn't discount that, but it doesn't really matter when he's not going to fucking move no matter what.
Briefly he considers checking over his wounds, but the lighting wasn't good enough for it and there was no point agitating wounds that were already sealing themselves up quite effectively. Moving was just going to aggravate them. Might as well just lay still.
There's nothing to register how long he's been there, or if he even fell asleep, but after Armando leaves, the next thing he recalls is him arriving again amidst a distant murmur of voices. Ray doesn't move at first, teeth gritted as he half expects something to happen, skin cringing just slightly as he hears the rustle of fabric pushed through the bars but staying unmoving until that brush of a touch through his hair.
He wishes he'd been ready for it, really, just to be able to sink his teeth into a hand again, but instead he's left slowly uncurling and pushing himself to his feet just in time to witness the cage opening. Freedom. A chance to escape. But what the fuck was the point in 'escape' now when he was being released anyway? The worst of it had already come, and if they did intend to kill him on the drive back... well he could sort that out when it came, but it seemed counter productive considering Armando's need to get rid of the Mountie.
After staggering on his feet for a second and trying to readjust his bearings to being vertical again, Ray slowly reaches for the wash cloth and then his clothing, dabbing himself slightly cleaner and then dressing himself with all the delicacy of someone who's got plenty of injuries to show for themselves. He avoids bending down when he can and refuses to face the other as he moves to hide any obvious instinctual flinches or winces. He's fine. He's good. He'd heal, but that mobster had a point. No point trying to act the hard guy in front of those men if the entire point was to portray three hours of agony.
Slowly he steps out of the cage, grunting as he moves his arm just a little too quickly to catch the thrown item, and then pausing to look down at it and register just what the point of it is.]
You're a sick fuck.
[But whatever, he's moving for the stairs, heading up them with some obvious stiffness that only increases as he approaches the top, just to give the goons a show. There's already blood seeping through his relatively thin shirt, but that couldn't be helped, it'd help add to the sight of him being bruised and battered. By the time he's out of that basement, he's staggering to the nearest wall while flinging that sausage at what looked to be the smallest member. Armando better fucking appreciate the play along, Ray's only doing it for the sake of easy cooperation to get the fuck out of this place.]
[ They emerged back into the bright Vegas afternoon, so little changed from where they'd gone below ground into the depths of sweaty hell. Back in the cool embrace of the Adobe built house with its naturally cooling walls and the blessed reprieve that was central air, Ray let himself exhale some of the tension he'd been feeling. The ordeal really was over. This guy would be taken safely away, his reputation would benefit from the experience, and more importantly he'd sleep well tonight knowing that in the morning Fraser would be leaving Vegas forever.
Ray played along, a real demonstration of cooperation considering where they'd started, and he'd use it as reference later on. Cowed him into submission, terrified of him, and who could really blame the guy? He'd gone in kicking and spitting and screaming, and now here he was following orders like all the other good little Vegas piggies.
The started goon who'd caught the sausage now stared at it, then back at Armando, and Vecchio poured off another stream of clipped Italian and laughed, but the poor guy didn't understand. At last, completing the joke, the older guy - Si - provided a translation in English, and the young man flipped the sausage into the air and jumped six feet away from it. There were laughs all around then, except for from Armando who now looked deadly still and serious. ]
Hey, pick that up. There's little kids starving to death and you're wasting food? For shame. Besides, the States Attorney is coming for dinner and you know how he likes his pork sausage. Kitchen. [ He gestured. ] Then have the driver get the car running.
He's a hothead. [ He went on, when the younger man had left with the sausage in hand. ] I want you with him. Cop's no good to me dead now, I put too much work into him. So you make sure he gets put out on the patrol route. Leave him water and give him his shit back, and make sure that little cocksucker doesn't think he's doing me any smart favors. I need this guy.
[ Si nodded, then stepped out after the other guy, leaving Armando with two nameless thugs he could care less about. He turned back to Ray, stepping back over toward him and clasping his head in both hands, leaning in to press a kiss to his forehead. It was more menacing than remotely sexual. Like it said "I could kill you right now but I choose not to."
He looked him square in the eye, still holding Ray's head. ]
If all goes well, Detective, we'll never see each other again. If it doesn't--well, you'll visit that room once more, and the last thing you'll see is the vultures picking out your friend's eyes right before they peck out your own. You take care now, Ray.
And yet dealing with humiliation was almost as difficult as anything that had come before. Ray hated it. He hated being seen as incapable. Hated having those scumbags laughing and joking about it all.
It was for the best that he was exhausted and stuck on a downer. He could fight this but it felt like far too much effort and something he was barely capable of right now. It'd be a waste anyway. Trying to lash out at this lot now would make the last few hours completely useless. He'd cooperated because he knew it was one of the only ways to get Fraser back to Chicago, and he'd continue to cooperate until that happened.
The vague cooperation didn't stop his lips curling into a tired snarl as Armando got near, teeth clenched at that press of lips, amazed at his own self-restraint. The fact he resists hitting that guy is a miracle, but it's all for Fraser.]
Be seein' you, scumbag.
[He mutters back, barely audible but showing enough physical compliance that he manages to make it look more like a vague agreement than any threat to the audience. Let those idiots think what they will, Armando knows that Ray would rip his head off right now if it weren't for that fucking Mountie.
And it's that fucking Mountie that has Kowalski willingly led away by Si, hunched and suitably injured for the sake of the viewers, but still ready to spring into self defence at a moments notice. There's that temptation to think about shooting the guys the second his gun is returned, or even attacking with fists if it's returned bulletless, but yet again: that fucking Mountie.
Fuck it, he'd stand on some dusty Vegas road and flag down cars if he needed to, all far the sake of Fraser.
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But he stayed, worked in a second finger beside the first, and withdrew it as quickly as he'd pushed it inside, bringing his hand to the ring to press the switch down on the vibrate function. He was swollen and hard, that lovely length of him, purpling, and now trapped that way for as long as Armando deigned. Even without the vibration it was probably enough to drive Ray loopy, but that was good too. He could build on the pleasure, make him delirious with it, make it matter less if only because he couldn't think through it all. If he did it right, the entire process would blur together; the cocaine would help with that, twist it into some sort of unreal nightmare.
Vecchio wouldn't be so lucky, but he should have to live with this; with every single crisp second. It was his penitence.
Fuck, he was coming down already. He could fix that, but first he pressed his first finger back inside again, as though he were starting the process from scratch, but with the way Ray was resisting it was almost like doing exactly that. Muscles clamped around him like vices, because fighting back that way was all Ray had to do, all he needed to focus on. It made his blunt fingernails dig in more than necessary, but every time they did Ray just snarled again, and what could he say? "Relax, let me do you up the ass"? Those two things didn't really go hand in hand.
So he kept fighting this battle which neither of them were equipped to fight, and after managing to get his second finger back in there and giving it a real good go, Vecchio gave up again, slipping his fingers free and propping his hands under Ray's thighs as he leant into his belly. He'd dropped white powder there, and most of it was still all over him, even though some of it was ruined by blood. Still, there was enough that he could press his tongue into the cracks, lapping up enough of it to bring his heart back to racing, sharpen his senses, lower his inhibitions. He needed the boost for the sake of his self esteem, but then of course he'd been doing this for months. It always seemed to take a little more, and it was hard to fight the urge to let it when there wasn't enough in the world for him to spend Armando's money on as it was.
He'd given up with his fingers, but that didn't stop the onslaught. Now that he had surrendered to the idea that loosening Ray up the good old fashioned way was the sexual equivalent of leading a horse to water and forcing it to drink, he admitted that the other methods, the props he'd been more or less dismissing out of some urge to somehow be less impersonal, were probably in fact vital. He'd been stupid, even inconsiderate, to think otherwise, drawing this out like they were two teenagers bumping uglies in the back of a car when that wasn't what this was about at all.
So in went the soft, fingerwidth steel of the spreader, coated with lubricant, and maybe he hadn't warmed it up, but he applied the requisite pressure little by little, his chin on Ray's stomach, his other hand testing the gap as he stretched metal apart. When there was enough room, he fed four of the string of beads into him, smallest first, before pulling the stretcher free, letting muscle snap back down. He could feel it, lube slick fingers sliding against bare skin, sensing the stretch around the bead just underneath the surface. God--god, he was fucked up to find that hot. He pressed up, fed in the next slippery bead slowly, then drew it back out again, panting against the wet trails he'd licked on Ray's belly as he did it. He didn't think Ray would mind, or even notice, how much this was driving him crazy. And he looked back up. Imposter. And felt the most inappropriate flare of superiority rising in his chest. ]
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Even without the constant buzz of that cock ring, Ray's still squirming as those fingers press back in, just as tight as the first time around and just as resistant to them. It doesn't feel like Armando's going to get anywhere with him any time soon without causing some serious damage, and perhaps the mobster picks up on that because yet again he withdraws, leaving Stanley panting out heavily through his nose, teeth dug into his bottom lip. He watches because it's all he can do, visual clues at least giving him time to mentally prepare himself.
At first he's not entirely sure what's up with the licking, but then he remembers that spill during the bite, sees the dusty layer of powder down his torso, contrasted by the sticky trickle of blood around it, and suddenly he gets it. It's the search of another high, a top up of cocaine, and Ray's glad it's only a personal thing because any more of that for him and he's pretty sure his heart actually would explode. Or his dick. His mind's already a mess as it is, even if that confidence has waned slightly with his current position, and his body is a ball of energy even without much space to move in.
But maybe more coke would have been a good thing. Maybe totally fucking his mind up would have at least made the sight of that metal spreader just a little more tolerable, instead of causing his instincts to scream out for escape. There wasn't an escape though, not with his binds as they were, and the mafioso between his legs, and the risk of Fraser's safety. Jerking away and escaping now would be a poor choice anyway, considering there's cold metal pressing into him that he really doesn't want to test pulling away from. The spreaders slip in easier, but they feel like a far greater danger than a few fingers, able to cause more damage.
It's the pressure of the stretch that has him groaning, a lengthy consistent noise that's only broken by the occasional desperate inhale for air, face still twisted into a snarl even as he drops his chin to his chest. He was going to kill this fucker. What he wouldn't do to at least get a hefty punch in right now, let some of that anger out, maybe drive his fist in a few more times for the fun of it. Ray hates this fucking contraption, hates that it's virtually impossible to resist or fight against, that even clamping down didn't stop it's relentless tug.
It pisses him off to realise that it's the fight that makes the pain twice as bad, and that tightening around it was only making matters worse. But he doesn't stop, even as those beads push in between the jaws of the stretcher, and even as the metal withdraws. He could feel everything, those beads inside even as his muscle snapped tight between the fourth and fifth, Armando's questing fingers against him, the hot breath against the cooling wetness at his stomach. Every bit of his senses were still far too alert, all his nerve endings singing, and he can almost, almost see the appeal of the combo of coke and hookers. This drug feels amazing, too much so. Not something a cop should be thinking, but fuck it, the coke high was a thing of beauty, even with some fucker taking advantage, and if you can love a drug even when there's someone trying to abuse your ass, that must be one hell of a drug.]
Ngh, you d-done this before, huh, you fffucked up piece of shit?
[There's too much knowledge of how this shit works. And unless he's just a total fucking natural, or sits and watches this in porn, this can't be a one off. Especially not as he gets Ray moaning out at the pressure of the next bead pushing relentlessly until his muscles give way and it slips inside, barely given time to recover before the stretch is pulling outwards. This. This was getting his muscle far more worked over than fingers ever could.]
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It's deeply satisfying, though, when Ray - his breath hitching - snarls down at him. They're almost dirty enough words, he could figure them for real sex talk, like they were lovers who liked it rough; that this wasn't the kind of situation where Ray would have choked him to death with his bare hands if he got them free. It was a nice, if unrealistic, daydream, and it lasted half a second, because Vecchio realised almost immediately that he wouldn't enjoy that sort of sex talk ever again, and that sort of took the edge off the fantasy. He couldn't imagine, right now, ever wanting to have sex again, let alone have it any way that wasn't straightforward and vanilla in a nice dark room.
It was over.
It was over because this - everything about it; the power, the wrongness, the toys, Vecchio and Vecchio, the situation with Fraser, the cocaine - was all turning him on. He was high on it, head in the clouds, and sex was just going to be a minefield of things that reminded him of this moment. After pride and lust, he'd feel guilt, shame, disgust--all the things he ought to be feeling right now, but wasn't because of the coke; wasn't because he simply wasn't letting himself. He knew that at the end of the day this was impossibly far from the person he really was: that he was gentler than this, that he'd never deliberately damage a person the way he was breaking this man in front of him. But some dark part of him was enjoying this. Some dark part of him would still hate himself for enjoying it years down the line, and he felt like it was taking him over. In fact, he'd let it. He'd been letting it in since this assignment started, and yes, he'd heard all the horror stories about people going undercover and forgetting who they really were, knew that there were usually tragic repercussions.
He knew he was at risk of doing just that.
But if he didn't, he had to be this person while also being Ray Vecchio, and that was patently impossible. Ray Vecchio was the man in the chair with his legs spread. The world fucked Ray Vecchio, and Ray Vecchio had to grit his teeth and let it, because his hands were bound by the law, by morals and ethics and decency. He couldn't fight back even if he wanted to.
Ray moaned - not in pain - and Armando knew he had him. One moan opened the floodgates for more to follow, he just had to keep the sensation up. At the very least he had a secret weapon as far as that was concerned, but not yet. ]
What do you think this room is for? I got half a dozen of Vegas' finest on their backs for me if I want it. [ You done this before? He hadn't specified the beads. Fucked a cop, though. That was even actually true.
But then so was the kinky stuff. It was just that it had been consensual last time. A last ditch effort to spice up his relationship with Angie as their interest in each other waned.
He pulled the beads out again, one, two, three this time. Back in, one, two, three. Out, twice as fast. In, slowly again. He leaned back, pressing his nose into Ray's pubes and inhaling the dusting of cocaine that had fallen there. When he drew back, it was to flick the tip of his tongue, again, over the engorged head of Ray's cock. If anything would ache, that would be it. ]
Every time you hear a slot machine chime, you're gonna get hard thinking about this. You're going to remember being filled by me and it's gonna come down on you in the night like a weight on your chest, like a ghost fucking you into the bed. You're gonna wake up thinking about this with your fist around your cock, you dirty little slut. You can't even help it. Three hours with me, bleeding and moaning like a bitch, and it's gonna be the best sex you've ever had. You're going to hate yourself for that, aren't you? [ His voice dropped an octave, he looked up through his dark lashes, green eyes almost black thanks to the red lighting. ] Hey, Ray. Try not to scream.
[ There was a vibrator in the anal beads. He turned it on. ]
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Not to mention, depressing as the thought is, this is the most action he's had in years. This queer ass mafioso has been the first to touch Ray this intimately since Stella and that's a really fucked up thing to consider for too long. He hadn't even got laid in almost a year, which goes towards explaining why he feels excessively blue balled and like his dick might explode at any second. Worst part of it is he finds the struggle a turn on, like the adrenaline spikes of a good fight that leave you buzzing but in pain by the end of it. All this roughing up and shit talking, it's all part of it, and he thinks he could almost get on with this guy if he wasn't pressing beads into him.
There he is with a straining cock and no ability to give himself any satisfaction or blow his load, and yet his frustration is restrained well enough by Armando's attention. Even through all this his dick isn't forgotten, licked once again (but sadly only once) and getting his hips jerking upwards. The shift causes some movement below and he's grunting as he stills himself, still trying to adjust to the feeling of having them pressing inside him. It's an odd sensation to have something filling him, unusual and not what he'd ever expected he'd be experiencing in his lifetime. And yet here he is, and he'd just have to fucking deal with it because it's not like Armando's just suddenly going to stop for him now.
With each bead tugging against him, Ray's huffing out a sharp breath, resisting too much noise beyond low grunts as the pull is replaced by pushing them back in before the process is repeated all over. With his mind unfocused, his muscles start to relax of their own accord, self-preserving to make that movement just that little bit easier. He's not accepting it, not mentally, but he sure as hell didn't want to tear anything.
The little speech has got him grinding his teeth, words like slut and bitch chipping away at his pride and making him want to quickly fill it back in. The temptation to lash out again is high, a better kick, a knee, perhaps even just a spit to the face, anything to fill that shame, but his consideration is cut short by that last comment.
Scream?
What--
And then his whole body jerks upwards as one, every single muscle in him tightening so suddenly that he surprises himself. He's clamping back down on those beads and that just heightens the buzz emitting from them, vibrating deep within him where nothing has ever touched before. The scream doesn't come, his throat tightening as he strains out a breath, the sound coming out as a pathetic sounding;] Aah!
[There's just something over all pathetic about a lightly gasping, jittering, scrawny assed cop shivering his way through this like some lost or misplaced pet.
This is more unbearable than the ring. Set deeper within him and resonating throughout and impossible to counter, any tightening against it only increasing the feeling. It shouldn't feel so appealing, not something like this, but it hit every part of him too well.]
I've ha-ah-d better. [Sex, he means. Because he's not going to let this scumbag try and flatter himself with tales of amazing sex.]
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That's the moment when he turns on the beads, and Ray snaps shut like a steel trap. The wires of his body all tense at once, and he's rising out of the seat on instinct as though to escape that vibration, using Vecchio's body for height, hands and arms and legs and neck and stomach as though every muscle in him runs through the same place. He breathes out "Aah", and it's not a scream, but it's as close to one as he's gotten in the last hour so fuck it, it'll do.
Vecchio doesn't find it pathetic. Every second of fight that Ray puts up, the fact that even in the middle of this he's still holding strong to his own sense of self, endears him to his replacement by the moment. Armando will undo him, but not in a way he can't spring back from, because this guy could take on the world.
So he's powerful, he's strong, and even when he's bucking and trembling at that jackhammer going off inside him he's still himself; he hasn't retreated from reality yet, blocked out the world, let it wash over him. There was something impossibly attractive about it too. Wiry and wild with all his jagged edges, his hair limp from exertion, his eyes burst to pinpricks by the coke. Maybe he's no Marlon Brando, but he's got his own heat, a certain kind of rebellious attractiveness like Sid Vicious or something, pouring out waves of sex and potential violence like it was going out of style.
Sensing the change, everything shifted gear. Vecchio moved up so that those vice like legs were forced to clutch his hips instead, slid his arm around Ray's back, and as he turned off the vibration he supported him, lowering him back into the seat with his arm behind him, his body pressed close, his own erection nudged against the other man's.
His voice was a soft murmur; it had a lighter edge to it that wasn't there before. In another world, it might even have been mistaken as apologetic. ]
Al Capone, right? He learned all his best moves from me. Breathe out, Ray. Long and slow.
[ And even if he didn't obey, he tried to catch him on the exhale anyway, pulling the string of slippery beads out with a single jerk of his wrist. They were unnecessary now. He tossed them down on the floor and then drew his hand back up, rubbing his knuckles against his own eyebrow and leaving a fresh smudge of blood there. His hand was raw with it, but he couldn't feel it any more, couldn't feel anything except arousal, and Ray's legs, and the hot erection nudged against his own.
He was holding back, he realised. He hadn't even touched the lube yet - and yes, he did very much want to reach for it, plunge inside, get this part moving. He was holding back for some reason, though, and he couldn't put his finger on what it was. What did he want? Permission? Forgiveness? He wasn't going to get them. Vecchio licked his lips, ran his free hand back under their bodies, and for a moment he simply stood there on the brink, his thighs aching from holding his weight at the odd angle against the chair, massaging Ray's balls tenderly in the palm of his hand. ]
You ready? [ He said at last. Fuck, he was asking anyway. ]
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He can't stop it though, not when every part of him is tense and wired, shivering and straining around the unrelenting waves of pleasure deep within. It's hitting something deep within that he can't quite explain, and without being able to explain it even to himself, he turns to frustration and annoyance, snarling, legs still clamped around Armando even as he starts to shift upwards.
It comes as somewhat of a surprise at just how careful the mobster is as he shuts down that vibration, a supportive arm on Ray to lower him back in the chair as he collapses thankfully back down, sweating and panting from the exertion of it. His head drops backwards, resting at the seat back as he distantly listens to the voice, that mafioso aggression seemingly gone from the tone. There's instruction there, and while Ray doesn't want to obey on principle, it's difficult not to when his huffs for breath turn into deep inhales and long, heavy exhales. Armando catches him perfectly on one of the exhales, the beads slipping from Ray like some bizarre and exceptionally personal massage, causing his exhale to morph into a low, lasting moan, while he his muscle contracts and loosens in it's wake as if still grasping for them.
God, he needs release. He needs to get out of this somehow, especially out of that ring that's still clinging to the base of his cock like a rubber band gradually cutting circulation from a limb.
He's expecting something else to come, waiting with an anticipatory snarl, and yet instead he's met with a pause while a too soft palm cups around his balls. It's a ridiculously tender moment and Ray's half expecting pain to follow but never quite getting it. Not yet, anyway. For the moment he's just left to stare down his noses at Armando, panting.]
No.
[He can assume what he should be ready for. Whatever it is, it won't be pretty.]
Go fuck yourself.
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[ Fighting right up to the last; Vecchio could certainly respect him for that. Armando would too, probably, if he wasn't dead (he hadn't gotten a clear admission out of the FBI as to whether that had been an accident or not, but he suspected the answer was probably not).
He soothes for a moment longer, very aware of the edge of confusion that's slipped in in the meantime. This isn't natural behavior, it's creeping Ray out. Still, outside of that he's panting, gasping, jerking, moaning; a positive wreck. Even if he isn't willing to beg, if he maybe never would be, that's fine with Vecchio, his trembling body is communicating all those things for him.
Releasing his hand, Vecchio reached for the lube, not making a show and dance about it, in fact trying to hold Ray's glare in the meantime so that he didn't see what was happening between their legs. ]
Come on, Ray. Spit in my face and tell me that you love me. They make 'em hard in Chicago, don't they? Hard, hard guys. Yeah, I can see just how hard.
[ And soon enough - too soon and not nearly soon enough - he was nudging just the tip of his cock against Ray, slathered in as much lube as he could get out. Vecchio shifted back, put a little distance between his body and the other man's so that he could look down between them, so that he was far enough away from the detective's teeth that he didn't lose an ear or get his throat ripped out for the invasion. Using his hand to guide himself, he pressed into muscle, breached and slid deeper, guided by the path he'd already beaten into submission with the beads.
He'd expected it to be harder than it was, but that wasn't to say it was easy either. His hand pulled away soon enough though, and while one of his arms was still wrapped around Ray - not that he had anywhere to go - the other flattened itself in the middle of his chest, as though a reminder to himself that he was supposed to keep his distance.
And he watched, positively enraptured - and this at least was probably due to the cocaine - by the sight of his cock disappearing inside, embraced by that wonderful tight heat, that glove of knotted silk that pulled taut around him, working like iron cables snapping in a high wind.
Vecchio fell still, let Ray adjust to the sensation--though not for too long. He didn't want him to think he'd gone soft. He was panting, aching for friction, driven near crazy himself by waiting. ]
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He needs that off and he needs pleasure. What he doesn't need is some other guy's cock, but it appears as if he's going to get that no matter what he was hoping for. Ray would consider it a selfish fucking move, but then he remembers this isn't his lover and this isn't some scenario for him to get his rocks off to in some creepy ass sex dungeon. This is punishment. This is sending a message for him to think twice before he ever tries to invade in the families business again, and it works. Right here and right now, even without Armando removing his grip and lining himself up, Ray can safely say his lesson is well and truly learned.
After this he could get Fraser and get the hell out of town. After this. All he had to do was endure. And jesus, what a thing to endure.
Armando tells him to spit and he holds off because maybe that's some weird kink this guy has got going on. Some rapey little love to get spat at, just like his apparent enjoyment for getting his hand ripped to shreds. Ray does spit words though, trying to drag some sense of control back into his world as his arms strain up against the two ties.]
See how hard my fist is when I punch you a knew asshole, cocksuker. I'll tear ya to shreds. Rip you to pieces. Your boys are gonna come down here to find me fucking a new hole in your head. They'll have to drag me off your lifeless fuckin' corpse. I'll-- fuck.
[That distance between them is a good job, because right as he feels that breach, he gets the sudden urge to bite into something and not let go. Without the other nearby, he's forced to bite down on his own bottom lip, grunting and growling around it as Armando presses in. With the aid of all that lube, and the beads that had come before, the pressure is less intense than before, but it still hurts like hell.
It's the stretch that gets him, pushing wider than what had come before until he's pretty sure he's going to tear something, if not internally, then one of the hundreds of muscles in his torso that are currently keeping him almost lifted off the chair again. This isn't like before, where there was a relenting pause between each bead. This is solid and thick and determined.
Tempting as it is to kick out, it's difficult for Ray to control himself much as it is, and so instead of a solid side kick to the side, his legs stay tight around the body between them, one uselessly wrapping around as if that'll somehow prevent it all. It can at least try and keep Armando where is is and not moving back, but even that doesn't seem too helpful in the current situation, especially not considering one leg can't match up to the other's entire body moving.
But there's a pause. Almost like a moment for adjustment but that can't be right. Maybe the mobster is so coked up that he just needs time to think; he sure does seem fascinated just by looking. Fucker.
Dick in him or not, Ray still pushes against the hand on his chest, snarling like a rabid dog as he acts like he's lunging for a bite. Entirely impossible, held back as he is, but still worth the visual attempt, even if the lean does cause a shift below that sends a shiver up his spine.]
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And yet it is sort of like that. It's like he's taking this out on himself, because this guy is Ray Vecchio in a manner of speaking. He's his replacement, the stand-in; he has to take whatever shit Ray Vecchio would take in the same situation, and right now Ray Vecchio deserves, more than anything, to be punished, beaten, pushed beyond the brink for what he was doing.
It was messed up, but he was messed up. He couldn't be blamed for a little of that after everything he'd been put through out here in the desert.
So he held still once he was inside for a little longer than he meant to, and tried to pay attention, but ended up not flinching as Ray tried to take a bite out of his arm or something. It ended up paying off, making him look invulnerable rather than just stoned, and that was fine too. The bite to Ray's lip, that would work out, would swell like a balloon by the time his guys came back. All of this, all of it, was working out better than he'd thought.
So what if he was unwilling, if this was all yet another part of the Armando mask that was infecting Ray? He was hot and horny and high, and the world, and this cop detective, were his for the taking if he wanted it. He was a nasty mobster, an all around bad guy. He could have anything and anyone he wanted and he knew it. He didn't owe the world anything, he just steadily fucked it and laughed while it bled. He was Armando Langoustini, cruel consigliere, ruthless killer, insane and beautiful and--
Bleeding, he was bleeding into it--
Ray was trying to hold him still with his leg, but he couldn't keep him there forever, although Vecchio changed his grip first, moving both hands down to grip the other man's hips. He held him as he pulled out, then wrenched hard down on them, tugged Ray's hips toward his own and pushed back into him. Again.
God, he didn't care any more. He'd done everything he could to make sure it wouldn't hurt, and if Ray wanted to keep it up then so be it, he didn't give a shit if he was walking round sore for weeks after. If he tore something. It wasn't his concern any more--all he wanted, all he cared about was that glorious friction, the heat, the racing of his own pulse, and the flat out vicious race to orgasm.
It had been much more than a year, and he was high, and turned on from the verbal jousting and what equated to gangster foreplay. He wasn't going to last long. But that was fine, neither was Ray. Huffing, his breath ragged pants, but none the less keeping his moans restrained to low throaty noises that gargled in his chest, he kept moving, a slow but rough pace now. He unclamped one hand back from ray's hip, gliding it - still wet with lube - over the head of his restrained cock. ]
Say the word. You know the one I want. Say the word and you can come.
[ Single syllables were so much more functional when it came to restraining his own moans. He couldn't afford to break the illusion now. ]
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If he could just get an arm free, just to jerk himself off and tug that ring off. If only. Maybe after that he could use that free hand to actually escape, but right now he can't focus on anything but blowing his load. Priorities are difficult to get in order when all the blood he's got has rushed to his swollen cock or is coating himself and the floor, and the coke has got him seeking a constant high no matter what the costs. Sure, coming sounds like a great idea, even if it does mean doing so while he's being quite literally fucked by some Vegas gangster. Come now, worry about the consequences later. If he could just get through this, it might get easier. He hopes it's be easier.
His grunts mingle with throaty moans after each thrust drives into him, hitting deep inside and causing his already shivering muscles to twitch and jerk against his restraints. He can tell Armando's not far from it, not after spending all this time rock hard and ready and only just getting his fill, and yet still the cocksucker is trying to get some level of obedience, even now he's trying to get Ray pleading. And Ray's not far from it at this rate, not when he feels like his cock might explode if he doesn't.
The slick, too hot touch of that hand at the tip of his cock has Ray whining out a frustrated noise, unable to help trying to roll himself up into that touch and then- because he's pissed off and desperate for some sort of satisfaction- grinding down and into those thrusting hips, rolling slightly against them.]
Just- hnn- take it off. I need to...
Fuckin' do it! Asshole!
[It's painful how much he wants it, teased for too long beforehand. He's probably a freak for wanting to come at a time like this, for getting turned on at it all, but right now he doesn't give a shit.]
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But Christ, to look at him now. Sweating with exertion and need, thrumming with it like the vibrator was still turned on, because - Vecchio knew - he was hitting that spot inside him that made sparks fly, and Ray probably didn't even know why it was happening. He jerked with every snap of Vecchio's hips, tugged and twisted against the restraints like he was desperate for purchase, or to get his hand free. His hair was plastered to his forehead now, his lips swollen and red, and the noises--god, the noises...
He couldn't identify his own, but he knew he wasn't making most of them, mostly because he was still much more in control, less out of it thanks to his longer term exposure to the drugs. Control was life out here in the desert, and Vecchio couldn't afford to let that one slip. So those deep growling moans were his own. They were rhythmic and steady, animalistic, possessive.
The other noises were all Ray. Whimpering, grunting and moaning almost on every thrust, his breathing beautifully ragged. He was coming undone, and the thrill of victory was pushing in on Vecchio now: he'd set out to make Ray come, make him delirious with it, and that was what he'd achieved. All he had to do was take that ring off.
Delirious with it, yes--delirious enough that he was rising into his hand, thrusting down into the pounding jerk of his hips, reciprocating despite himself, out of his mind with it. Good. Good, there was no way in hell he'd think this was him. Only the drugs could have made him do this; only the drugs could have made him into this panting, broken wreck for the cock of a made man, someone who had beaten and humiliated him. There was no other explanation.
Ray stopped being so pretty, or rather Vecchio stopped noticing, because as he came closer, climbing toward that summit, all the reason for him being here sort of bloomed into one blurry mess. All he knew, all that mattered, was that he was going to come, and he had to throw himself into his own ragged, exhausted thrusting, take this welcoming anonymous body under him for all it was worth. His muscles were burning like he'd run a marathon, aching, and yet he kept just ahead of the pain, reaching for the taste of pleasure that was just over the next hill.
He clawed Ray's hip, inadvertently digging his fingertips into the deep cut he'd made there, and then he was reaching bloodied hands for the tie on Ray's left hand, yanking the knot open.
Oh, he was going to lose it--he was going to-- That glorious, overwhelming burn of friction spread out, overwhelmed him, swept rushing into his ears, and Vecchio kept pounding, thrusting, out of his mind with the full width of orgasms edge as pleasure snapped around him, tightening, insistent--yes, yes, yes. And he didn't care. He'd let Ray's hand go, but he didn't care what he did with it.
And then he was coming, coming and coming, it felt like forever, driving just as deep as he could as he spilled hot into that clamping tightness. His exhausted muscles gave way as he strained for just one more thrust, and he found himself falling into blackness and heat, and fuck it, he was probably going to get a knife in the throat but he couldn't move. ]
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Ray's overcome with it all, at least self aware enough to realise he was writhing and bucking into this, and aware enough to be entirely ashamed at himself. But he can't help it. Every part of him was tingling like static, shivering violently despite the heat in the room, and craving more of that amazing sensation of just being touched.
It wasn't his fault that he needed more. It wasn't. The drug had fogged his mind and his senses, had wired and wound him up until he needed to bounce off the walls. But left bound and stuck where he was, he was trying to lose that excess steam by writhing and grinding against the body before him. If only he could have some form of release, just once, right now.
There's fingers in that slice against his hip and Ray's hissing his discomfort, jerking away from the hand even as it moves towards his left hand and-- yes, yes, yes. Even with the obvious sight of the knot tugged free, Ray's mind takes a second or two to catch up, distracted as he was by that incessant pounding of hips.
But then he catches on. Then he realises that he's free! Or one hand is, even if he still had the weight of Armando to deal with and his other bound hand. This was a start, this could work, this could get him out of here... except... except his left hand shoots straight for his own cock, thumbing at the ring in the desperation. It's not an easy thing to get off when he's as swollen as he is, but with a final grunt of pain, he flicks it free and immediately curls his fist around his erection.
Armando's still thrusting away, even in the height of his orgasm, and Ray uses that movement to bring himself along, grimacing against the hot spill pushed deep inside. He's been so close for so long that it only takes a few rough jerks to push himself over he edge, hips suddenly jerking sharply into his own hand as comes over himself. He arches and groans his way through it, eyes snapping shut to avoid having to look at himself in that mirror ceiling, and muscles clamping tightly underneath Armando and around him. But Ray doesn't have the liberty of collapsing into a boneless heap at the end of it all, not if he wants out. So, still on the last few twitches of pleasure, he reluctantly releases his grip, drawing his hand back and trying to drive that still stickied fist into the side of Armando's skull. And again. Two swings that don't have Ray's full weight behind them, but make up for it in determination.
With those attempted he's quickly scrambling for the other tie, trying to one handedly get his right arm loose so he can do something. Maybe throw himself at the guy. Whatever, he's not really thinking about what he's going to do, just focused on freedom. Freedom first and then assault or murder or whatever he could get away with.]
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He should have been the one paying attention, but instead he'd gotten cocky, figured he'd fought and fucked Ray out, beaten him into groggy submission. Forgot he'd gotten him high too. Wham, and then again, and maybe they weren't prize fighter blows to the head considering Ray had been straining against him for most of the last hour and had the disadvantage of Armando's closeness to contend with, but they were a good effort anyway. They made his head spin, gave him enough of an incentive to pull back, staggering, his legs wobbly underneath him.
Two ways out of this. Get the knife, and probably end up stabbing him in a fight - not what he wanted - or get control of the situation. He got himself more distance first, even though that would let Ray get up, and did a mental assessment of the room. The door, up the stairs, was too far to bolt, and besides it'd leave Ray down here with dozens of lethal weapons not limited to but including his gun. Guns. He'd put them into his jacket pocket, and that was in the neat pile of clothes he'd left when he'd changed into the kimono. Quick thinking, good thinking. Now if only his legs would cooperate enough to keep him steady, crossing the room and digging his hand into the inside of his jacket.
Ray would get free, but he wouldn't go far, he reassured himself, and Vecchio didn't hesitate this time, threw off the safety and brought up the muzzle of the gun. He fired, shot Kowalski's sidearm at him, embedding a bullet in the wall, fracturing mirror glass so that it fell in a rain on the floor behind the torture chair, and then he tried to hold steady with both hands on the gun and his spent cock still half hard between his legs, tried to unleash some kind of level of intimidation even so. ]
Just you fucking freeze, o ti ammazzo tu cretino cazzo di merde! Che cazzo fai, asshole!? The hell d'you think you're doing!? There's no fucking way outta here but through me.
[ His throat felt ragged. Maybe that added to the effect, because he was snarling, blurring into fast Italian he hadn't used between childhood and Vegas and spitting everything he had out in an effort to slow Kowalski down. He'd shoot him if he had to, to save his own life, but fuck. Fuck, he was an idiot. He should have known better.
The gunshot was still ringing in his ears. In the relatively small, enclosed space of the dungeon - even with its soundproofing - it was like being punched in the head all over again. ]
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In one move, or technically two punches, he'd managed to possibly screw it all up, but that still didn't stop him from fumbling with the other tie as Armando staggers back. All through the fiddling of the knot his gaze flicks back and forth, switching between the task and whatever the mobster is up to. He can do this, he's got this, he can still take this guy down, escape the mansion and get back to Fraser. It'd be easy. He was better than this guy and-- shit, he was going to die. Or Fraser was. The coke was wearing far too thin to install the sort of confidence he had at the start of all this, leaving him panting and exhausted as covered in blood, even as he manages to release his right hand and drag himself to his feet.
His legs feel weak, almost collapsing under him for a second as he stumbles forward a step, but then he sees Armando grappling for his jacket and the last thing Ray needs is that dick raising an alarm or getting his hands on a weapon. And so he sucks it up, forgets the pain and exhaustion to try and charge forward, hoping to clear the space and get on top of the other. Except he only manages a few charging steps forward before Bam, his ear drums feel like they've exploded and there's a shattering behind him.
Ray freezes, stopping dead the moment his mind processes that it's a bullet that was just fired, and for a panicked second he has to look down at himself as though he's not quite sure if he's been shot. There's blood everywhere, it's virtually impossible to tell, but no, there's no pain beyond the numbness of those old cuts, and at this range he would have felt the full force of that gun, even with it's size.
Armando knows how to handle a firearm, he already knew that. That shot wasn't a miss, but merely a warning, and it worked. Ray knew better than to argue with a coke fuelled mobster with a gun. One twitch and he could get it.]
Easy, scumbag. You wanted Chicago hard guy. I was just givin' it to you.
[Ray sounds raw, his throat dry from too much growling and coke. His hands lift just above his hips, tiredly weighted in the air, which is a ridiculous gesture in hindsight because he's naked. There's no hidden gun he'll be reaching for in a hurry, but it's an ingrained movement, one that somehow makes him feel safer, like he can tame a beast just by a few carefully placed hand movements.]
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Armando. He had to be Armando. God, Armando would shoot him in the belly and call his guys to take him out to the desert. He couldn't be Armando. He had to be sharper about this, had to get his mind back in the game and stop thinking about how hard it was to hold his shooting stance when his aching legs wanted to collapse underneath him.
But the sense is coming back now. He can see it in Ray's face too, in his submission: he realises what a dumb fucking move he's made. Good. Fuck. God, that had been amazing, amazing sex, nevermind that one of them hadn't wanted it. He hated himself for it, but that orgasm... If only he'd been able to enjoy it for a few seconds longer.
He jerked the gun up carefully, maintaining his control, keeping his finger off the trigger since he was trembling and didn't want to set it off accidentally. The last thing he wanted right now was to shoot Ray by accident. ]
Yeah, sure that's what it is. Not you wanting to rip my cock out through my throat and fuck me with it. Not that at all.
[ He shuddered. It was taking everything he had to keep his arm up, but little by little the wakeful feeling and surging adrenaline of almost getting beaten to death with the nearest object was giving him back all the feeling in his limbs, letting his racing heart return to normal. The music was still playing. ]
Listen. This can be over; done; you and me. We both know beating isn't gonna fuck you up more than you already are, and there's enough surface scratches to make you look real good for Mikey too, so how about you be a good little piece of ass and get in that cage. [ He cocked his head over to one side, indicating it. ] We can have a little chat about how this rescue is going to go down and then I leave you be, let you sleep it off, shower your come off me and maybe even give you back your clothes.
[ Maybe it was too lenient considering the attack on his person, but Ray was exhausted and Armando was too. He could pull it off as mercy. ]
Then you leave. You get to tell a nice story about how I tortured you for three hours and you didn't break, I get to tell my guys how I fucked you with an Italian sausage and then fed it to the state's attorney. Cause the alternative, right now, is I shoot you and leave you to bleed to death. I can't deny I'm thinking about it.
So do we have a deal or not?
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Just do what you want, just make sure to tuck him into bed afterwards.
He's half expecting some drastic ultimatum or a bullet to some not immediately lethal part of his body, but it never quite comes, and he knows he should probably consider himself lucky that he's not already writhing around on the ground with a shattered knee joint or some such, but he can't help the roll of his eyes as the negotiating happens. Well, hardly negotiating considering Armando has the upper hand in all of this, which is why this still seems a little too surprising that Ray isn't already dead or seriously injured.
But he'll go with it. He'll stand there on jittering legs as he doggedly tries to ignored all the blood and come stuck to his body, and the far too discomforting feeling of that same sticky warmth dribbling down the inside of his thigh. He'll forget all that for the sake of keeping the rest of himself intact and bullet free, and assume this Armando guy must really, really want Fraser out of the picture with Ray's aid.]
The cage?
[Oh, so not only does he have to endure being cut, fucked and objectified as a 'piece of ass', he now has to sit in some cage that looks like it belongs in a kinky strip club. But hell, who is he to argue with a guy who's got a gun shakily pointed at him? Perhaps the next shot from it won't be a miss.
So that obedience creeps back into him, still an obvious reluctance even as he tiredly moves towards the mass of bars, placing himself inside and shutting the door behind him. It's okay, he can cope with this. No different than catching some Z's in the slammer, even if this was much more confined than that.]
Just don't expect any dancin', cause you can go fuck yourself with that.
[Mumbled, like he'd rather be asleep right now, but that might just be humiliation as much as anything. He already hates himself enough as it is, he'd just really rather chick his clothes back on and crawl into a corner somewhere. He needs to forget this, put it out of his mind and focus on why he originally came.]
So what you got, asshole?
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Other than blue balls? You really know how to ruin an orgasm, huh?
[ He was almost too tired to be a smartass, let alone a wise guy, but there was business to do, and he scrubbed all the feeling back into his eyeballs, then dropped his hands onto his knees, looking back at Ray through the bars. ]
The FBI run out of the Royale. They have a thing where they look the other way or something, don't ask me what it is, but they operate out of Vegas, so they're going to put up somewhere, and they switch it up sometimes, pretend they keep us on our toes. Idiots. If they were real smart they'd get on the housing market, there's a boom going on in these parts. Land; they ain't making any more of it.
[ He scrubbed at his nose. It was running, but when was that ever a surprise? Really, this job had its perks but it was ruining him for being a regular human being. ]
They have him in 1507. That's up on the penthouse level--which is actually three penthouse levels, because people come to Vegas to hemorrhage money, and they start on the hotel room. Now they have two guys guarding it; they take turns, but your guy is real regular about sleeping. There's at least one more works at the front desk, but their operatives are out working most of the day, following us around town wasting government money.
So that's where I come in. Me and a couple of mine, we'll go shake up the guys at the Royale, make a scene. It's a big deal to the Feds, and if something goes down they'll want all hands on deck. They won't be thinking of your cooperative Mountie friend. Joe Casey or whoever it is gets called off guard duty, and you slip in, open the door, and then you get right out of town; they won't even know you were there.
Now you can do that, right? Cause if I have to disappear him it's gonna be less pretty.
[ It was a simple plan, really. Couldn't go wrong. So long as Ray didn't bring Fraser back through the lobby as he was escaping. He wouldn't be that dumb, though; that'd mean having to slip him out right under the noses of the FBI. Fraser, though--well, Fraser was that dumb. He was the loose cannon in all this. ]
You got any questions? And if you say "what does Langoustini mean" I'm gonna keep your tongue as a fucking souvenir.
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As the door clangs shut behind him, and he watches Armando drop to the floor almost immediately following it, Ray considers that to be a pretty good idea. He's weak and exhausted, especially with the added bonus of the kick of adrenaline slowly leaving his body, so he finds the furtherest 'corner' away from the gangster that he can and settles down into it heavily.
Despite the heat he's shivering, staring reluctantly back at the other as he listens to the proposed plan. It's not something he can argue with. This guy already had it planned out and he knows it far better than Ray ever could. Ray doesn't know Vegas or the Vegas Feds.
He'd just have to suck it up and go along with it for Fraser's sake. Anything to get the Mountie back to Chicago and out of the hair of both the Feds and all the Vegas families, because of course Benton had managed to stir up trouble here, of course he had. That's what he does wherever he goes. Nothing is ever simple when Benton Fraser was involved.]
I got it. Go have yer fuckin' shower and leave me in peace.
[Because right now Ray just wants to curl up in a ball and preferably sleep. Or just ride out the downer that could be days. It's going to be weeks before he's right again, and that's not even counting mentally.
The curling up happens, the sleep? Well, that might come. Or he might just lay there for the next few hours and wait.]
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Fraser would help. He didn't know how, but Fraser would notice something had changed. He could be a pain in the ass sometimes, he could suck when a friend was hurting just as much as he could step in to be strong for them, but he was at least perceptive, and hell, maybe he knew this guy better than Vecchio had let Fraser know him. His replacement did seem to wear his emotions on his sleeve, no matter his efforts to hide them. If anything, his hard guy act only made his soft side easier to see through to.
He scrubbed at his neck, then became aware of his throbbing, aching hand, and decided to go ahead and get out of there. A shower would be a good start. He'd call his doctor first, clean off the filth and then get his hand seen to and stitched up while the pain was still all numbed out.
He saw to it, turned off the music on his way out so that Ray might stand a chance of sleeping, and two hours later was escorting his guys into the pool room, sharing stories with them, laughing and mocking the ravaged cop in the downstairs dungeon. At last he gathered up Ray's clothes, waving his hand for them to stay. ]
Nah, enjoy your drinks, I'll deal with this.
[ And he slipped back downstairs, heading over to the cage and dropping the clothes in through the bars. He fetched a washcloth too. ]
Wash the come off, leave the blood. And when you come out keep your head down, don't try and hide how much it hurts. It's in your best interests if they think I'm the baddest, meanest mafankulo you've ever had the displeasure of meeting. I don't want to have to strip you down and do it again in front of them just to make my point.
[ He reached in through the cage bars, brushed his good hand briefly through Ray's hair and just as quickly snatched it away. ]
They'll drive you out and put you on the side of the road somewhere, you'll have your firearm returned to you. As for your friend, watch the lobby tomorrow morning. Alright.
[ He swung open the cage door and backed up a step. He wasn't armed, not this time, except with a sausage, but then he didn't need to be. There were guys waiting upstairs, and Ray really needed his cooperation now. With the drugs at least worn off, he oughtn't to be wired enough to attack just for the sake of it. ]
Come on. Sooner you get out of here, sooner I can get back to making money. Oh, and hold this. [ He passed him the sausage. ] When we get upstairs throw it to the short shifty looking one, make sure he catches it. I'm gonna tell him I fucked you with it.
[ He really hated that little bastard; it'd be worth it. ]
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Briefly he considers checking over his wounds, but the lighting wasn't good enough for it and there was no point agitating wounds that were already sealing themselves up quite effectively. Moving was just going to aggravate them. Might as well just lay still.
There's nothing to register how long he's been there, or if he even fell asleep, but after Armando leaves, the next thing he recalls is him arriving again amidst a distant murmur of voices. Ray doesn't move at first, teeth gritted as he half expects something to happen, skin cringing just slightly as he hears the rustle of fabric pushed through the bars but staying unmoving until that brush of a touch through his hair.
He wishes he'd been ready for it, really, just to be able to sink his teeth into a hand again, but instead he's left slowly uncurling and pushing himself to his feet just in time to witness the cage opening. Freedom. A chance to escape. But what the fuck was the point in 'escape' now when he was being released anyway? The worst of it had already come, and if they did intend to kill him on the drive back... well he could sort that out when it came, but it seemed counter productive considering Armando's need to get rid of the Mountie.
After staggering on his feet for a second and trying to readjust his bearings to being vertical again, Ray slowly reaches for the wash cloth and then his clothing, dabbing himself slightly cleaner and then dressing himself with all the delicacy of someone who's got plenty of injuries to show for themselves. He avoids bending down when he can and refuses to face the other as he moves to hide any obvious instinctual flinches or winces. He's fine. He's good. He'd heal, but that mobster had a point. No point trying to act the hard guy in front of those men if the entire point was to portray three hours of agony.
Slowly he steps out of the cage, grunting as he moves his arm just a little too quickly to catch the thrown item, and then pausing to look down at it and register just what the point of it is.]
You're a sick fuck.
[But whatever, he's moving for the stairs, heading up them with some obvious stiffness that only increases as he approaches the top, just to give the goons a show. There's already blood seeping through his relatively thin shirt, but that couldn't be helped, it'd help add to the sight of him being bruised and battered. By the time he's out of that basement, he's staggering to the nearest wall while flinging that sausage at what looked to be the smallest member. Armando better fucking appreciate the play along, Ray's only doing it for the sake of easy cooperation to get the fuck out of this place.]
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[ They emerged back into the bright Vegas afternoon, so little changed from where they'd gone below ground into the depths of sweaty hell. Back in the cool embrace of the Adobe built house with its naturally cooling walls and the blessed reprieve that was central air, Ray let himself exhale some of the tension he'd been feeling. The ordeal really was over. This guy would be taken safely away, his reputation would benefit from the experience, and more importantly he'd sleep well tonight knowing that in the morning Fraser would be leaving Vegas forever.
Ray played along, a real demonstration of cooperation considering where they'd started, and he'd use it as reference later on. Cowed him into submission, terrified of him, and who could really blame the guy? He'd gone in kicking and spitting and screaming, and now here he was following orders like all the other good little Vegas piggies.
The started goon who'd caught the sausage now stared at it, then back at Armando, and Vecchio poured off another stream of clipped Italian and laughed, but the poor guy didn't understand. At last, completing the joke, the older guy - Si - provided a translation in English, and the young man flipped the sausage into the air and jumped six feet away from it. There were laughs all around then, except for from Armando who now looked deadly still and serious. ]
Hey, pick that up. There's little kids starving to death and you're wasting food? For shame. Besides, the States Attorney is coming for dinner and you know how he likes his pork sausage. Kitchen. [ He gestured. ] Then have the driver get the car running.
He's a hothead. [ He went on, when the younger man had left with the sausage in hand. ] I want you with him. Cop's no good to me dead now, I put too much work into him. So you make sure he gets put out on the patrol route. Leave him water and give him his shit back, and make sure that little cocksucker doesn't think he's doing me any smart favors. I need this guy.
[ Si nodded, then stepped out after the other guy, leaving Armando with two nameless thugs he could care less about. He turned back to Ray, stepping back over toward him and clasping his head in both hands, leaning in to press a kiss to his forehead. It was more menacing than remotely sexual. Like it said "I could kill you right now but I choose not to."
He looked him square in the eye, still holding Ray's head. ]
If all goes well, Detective, we'll never see each other again. If it doesn't--well, you'll visit that room once more, and the last thing you'll see is the vultures picking out your friend's eyes right before they peck out your own. You take care now, Ray.
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The worst was over.
And yet dealing with humiliation was almost as difficult as anything that had come before. Ray hated it. He hated being seen as incapable. Hated having those scumbags laughing and joking about it all.
It was for the best that he was exhausted and stuck on a downer. He could fight this but it felt like far too much effort and something he was barely capable of right now. It'd be a waste anyway. Trying to lash out at this lot now would make the last few hours completely useless. He'd cooperated because he knew it was one of the only ways to get Fraser back to Chicago, and he'd continue to cooperate until that happened.
The vague cooperation didn't stop his lips curling into a tired snarl as Armando got near, teeth clenched at that press of lips, amazed at his own self-restraint. The fact he resists hitting that guy is a miracle, but it's all for Fraser.]
Be seein' you, scumbag.
[He mutters back, barely audible but showing enough physical compliance that he manages to make it look more like a vague agreement than any threat to the audience. Let those idiots think what they will, Armando knows that Ray would rip his head off right now if it weren't for that fucking Mountie.
And it's that fucking Mountie that has Kowalski willingly led away by Si, hunched and suitably injured for the sake of the viewers, but still ready to spring into self defence at a moments notice. There's that temptation to think about shooting the guys the second his gun is returned, or even attacking with fists if it's returned bulletless, but yet again: that fucking Mountie.
Fuck it, he'd stand on some dusty Vegas road and flag down cars if he needed to, all far the sake of Fraser.
The Mountie better appreciate this.]