There were voices, exchanging quick words in the back and a rustling from plastic bags as a door was being closed and locked. The distant sound of the tv came to Gerard's ears, and the flickering lights, that darted over his closed lids started to bug him. He must have fallen asleep while watching a movie, snuggled up on the couch with Frank.


The sound of rustling plastic came closer and with it a delicious smell of vegetables and noodles, that made Gerard's stomach growl.
Frank had gotten them take-out, and now he was coming back over to Gerard, lifting his head up onto his lap softly. Gerard smiled and nuzzled his head further in Frank's stomach, he felt cosy and warm, except for a stinging in his head he couldn't put his finger on.
Frank put an protective arm over Gerard's shoulder, fondling his body.


"It smells so good in here Frankie, what did you get us..?" Gerard's sleepy voice broke the silence.

"Chinese." William said with an amused smile in his voice, wondering when Gerard would notice that he actually wasn't his boyfriend.

"Ok that's good...I'm starving." Gerard yawned loudly and opened his eyes slowly. The first thing he noticed was Frank's arm, draped over his shoulders, but even in his sleepy state he processed that something wasn't right. The skin was naked and totally lacking of tattoos, and his arm seemed a bit bulkier and even longer too.
Questioningly he turned his head to look at Frank's face, just- it wasn't Frank...

Gerard almost jumped out of his skin and was immediately wide awake as he saw William sitting on the couch looking back at him with an amused grin on his face.

"No...not you!" Gerard's face had turned red with embarrassment at the fact that he had just snuggled up to the man that abused him earlier, and he stumbled backwards, successfully tripping over his own feet and colliding with the floor.

"Oooww... My ass" Gerard whimpered from the carpeted floor, and rolled to the side. He was just so tired and hungry and suddenly everything hurt, and all the nasty memories he had pushed away flooded his brain at once.

"What's all this fuss about Gerard, you seemed pretty relaxed for the last two hours, snoring in my lap" William couldn't suppress a laugh at the other man's shocked and disgusted face.

"Don't you fucking laugh at me you piece of shit!" Gerard spat at William who seemed to enjoy this rude awakening a lot.


"I'm sorry, but it's just too funny." William giggled and wiped a tear of laughter out of his eye.
"Ok, I'll help you up" William smiled and walked over to Gerard, who scrambled backwards until he hit the wall.

„Hey, be a bit more careful or your wound will start to bleed again!“ William admonished in a motherly tone, while reaching his hand out.

At the mentioning of the wound Gerard raised his own hand slowly up to the throbbing sting at his forehead. Right at the eyebrow he could feel the buffed surface of a patch that stuck to his skin. He wondered how messed up his face already was, probably enough to scare every normal person around him.
His sudden movements however had caused his sight to swim again and he felt a headache coming…

"I don't need your help! Don’t you dare touch me!" Gerard spat while slapping William's reached out hand away, like he had in this fateful night when he knelt shivering and crying in front of the pub. He should’ve run then.

"Aren't you hungry?" William asked teasingly.

"...."

Gerard only stared at him with hateful eyes, suspicious of the man's offer of food.

"Come on, you can still hate me later, Gee, just get something warm inside your belly.“


Gerard thought for a while, he hadn't eaten since the small plate of chilli cheese fries he had shared with Frank, and that was a day ago. He needed to gain his strength back, maybe he could stick the chop sticks into William's eyeballs, Gerard pondered…

"Fine, but I can stand up on my own.“ Gerard grumbled and slowly came to his feet, clenching his teeth at the pain that shot through his sore body, caused from all the slaps and kicks he took earlier. He kept a safe distance to William.

Just yet he noticed, that he wasn't naked anymore, his hands were freed, though red imprints left by the harsh metal cuffs were clearly visible on his wrists and even the stupid collar was gone. William must have dressed him in these comfy sweatpants and fresh shirt…

Fully clothed and on a full stomach, his escape couldn't be that impossible, could it?

"Where's your goon?" Gerard asked hatefully and mischievous, while scanning the apartment thoroughly as they had taken their seats again on the couch.

Gerard had placed himself on the last tiny bit of it and with as much distance as possible, while William sat boldly in the middle picking up his box of noodles.

"I've sent him home." William answered shortly and pushed the other box with noodles which was placed on his new couch-table in Gerard's direction.

"Eat. It'll get all cold." He spoke through a mouthful and fixed his gaze on the tv again.

"I thought you said that I wouldn't get any" Gerard mocked as he quickly pulled his box with take-away closer and stuffed the first bite of the still steaming and delicious noodles into his hungry mouth.
He kept his eyes cautiously on William, not leaving the other male out of sight, like a bird, who found an extra big crumb of bread protecting it from the flock.

"I've changed my mind, that happens."

"Uhh, so generous." Gerard said in a sarcastic voice while wolfing his noddles down.

"A box of noodles, for being beaten, raped and publicly humiliated- and the best thing, for the whole world to see, forever, because the internet doesn't forget!" He spoke bitterly through a mouth of food.

"Got a guilty conscience, huh?"

William sighed and put his box down, then turned to face Gerard.

"Listen, I didn't want it to be that bad in the first place, you know that I proposed we'd act the whole thing? But you had to be so stubborn and didn't play along, and I just couldn't afford losing my face on this website!“

"Poor you..." Gerard scoffed.

"I am sorry that we were so hard on you, really I apologise deeply. The next time won't be anything like today."

„No, no next time. Let me go!“ Gerard said sternly.

"You know I can't do that." William answered calmly.

"You can't keep me here forever! I'm sure Frank will find me sooner or later and then you'll be fucked.“

William snorted in disdain "Sure, how should he find you? He doesn't know where I live, you don't have your mobile with you, with which he could have tracked you maybe, we don't even have to leave the house if we don’t want to.
Maybe he isn't even looking for you and is still pissed that you cheated on him again." William smirked at Gerard.

"You bastard..." Gerard growled, his appetite had left him quickly and he tossed the still half full box of food at William's face.

In a split second Gerard was on his feet and rushed over to the door, pushing down the handle several times, but it was locked of course. "Help!" Gerard screamed desperately and banged loudly with his fist on the door that it must have been pretty audible in the whole stairwell.
William however remained totally calm, wiped a noodle and tiny pieces of broccoli out of his face and got up slowly walking over to the door.
With a schooled and quick movement he put Gerard in a wrist-lock turning the fussing boy away from the door.

"Calm down Gerard, I really don't want to hurt you anymore today. Don't make me!" William almost pleaded the other male as he lead him back to the couch, which was now littered with leftovers from Gerard's box.

William forced him to kneel before it while he stood behind him, keeping a tight hold of the desperate boy beneath him.

"Breathe... And calm down.“

"Why don't you kill me and safe me all of this torture..." Gerard sobbed into the sticky leather, his face was now pressed in.

"Stop the nonsense." William scolded, "Don't you even wanna know how much money we earned today?“

"I don't care..." Gerard snivelled.

„Almost 1.500$! Let that sink in, Gerard! And that's a lot for the first video! Of course we have to cede some of it to the owners of the website, but the rest is our money.“

"You mean your and Dan’s money…"

"No, I mean our money, we'll share it all equally.“

"And why do I need money in the first place when you keep me here locked up? I can't spend it anyways.“

„Look, things don’t have to always be this way, Gee. We could move in a nicer apartment, go out on weekends and save some money until we have enough so we don’t need to make those movies anymore.
We could move in another state or another country, if we’d like to. We’d make a great couple, you know? I just…I think it would be the best if you just drew a line under your old life. There’s nothing holding you back really.“

William loosened his grip on Gerard’s arm, which had been bent to his back and went into the kitchen nearby.

Gerard slumped down in front of the couch and rubbed his watery eyes with the shirt’s hemline.
What the hell was going on with William? Could he really be so stupid to think Gerard would want to be together with him, after all the violence and the tricks he played on him?! Slowly he got up again, supporting himself on the couch for a safe stand.

„I don’t even know what to say. I mean… maybe, just maybe, I don’t want to be together with a rapist! And do you really think I could forget about Frank just like that?!“ Gerard spoke up.

„Frank, Frank, Frank- is that the only thing going round in your tiny brain?!“ William growled as he strode over to the couch with a wet rag and threw it at Gerard.

„Clean this mess up, and if there’s a single noodle left you’ll spend the night tied to the balcony’s rail!“

Gerard stared wide eyed after the fuming man, who marched angrily to the bedroom.

Obviously somebody here was a bit jealous. But that was the understatement of the year, Gerard thought, all in all William had kidnapped him, to have him for his own, had gotten almost into a fist fight with Frank and was now freaking out at the single mentioning of his name. Maybe he could work with that…

Notes

Short filler chapter, because I felt like it :p

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