His Origins

Life in all of its glory had gone wonderfully for the young man thus far. Every other day he was called in to work, mostly to do solo shoots, other times he was partnered with James. Mid-stripped, wet t-shirts or full nudes, it didn’t matter to him what the set up was or what he was asked to do during it he always did what was asked of him. Runi also found time between the busy days to write to his aunt and told her all about his modeling career. Not everything, only that he did modeling for a small company and had once enclosed a plain photo of him wearing leather pants and a loose wine red shirt with a collar while leaning back in against a couch. It was safe at least he didn’t have anything hanging out or having to be on his hands and knees while giving a loving blow job to his lover James. He hand always wondered after each sent letter, if not telling her that he was gay was the right thing to do. But his mind was made up; he wouldn’t tell her until he was sure she would be able to handle that fact. He was always happy to see that he got a letter from her in return. His responses where usually sent out by the next morning since he would usually stay up late to write his letter. But that was only if he was at his own to to do so.

His love life with James had also felt to him as if he found someone who had really loved him. The pair had been on several dates from since that first night and was slowly approaching the fifth month of being a happy couple. They had gone to clubs, fancy restaurants and simple days out at the beach or an amusement park. Runi enjoyed going to all of those places with James and showed it each time they went. But going to the clubs had been his favorite place of all, simply because of what he got to wear to them. Leather shorts, only vests as a tops, skirts, knee high boots and other assortment of items where worn. To him being there gave him the chance to dress differently, to be more exposed then he felt doing the nude photography at the studios. He also loved to dance; dancing in a club for him meant he was the center of attention. James always kept him close and pressed against his body while nipping at his ear lobe and it made him tingle all over. It was the security among the eyes that watched his body on the dance floor. He didn’t mind getting the attention so much, but he did not try to provoke it from the people he usually found himself getting it from.

He knew that James loved to have him close since that first night. He could feel it around him and felt safe and protected from all forms of harm because of it. Everyday since that night their bodies had been pressed together if they had been together in the first place. Whether it was on the streets, in a store or in the clubs they visited. James kept Runi close to him and at his side usually with one hand on the smaller boy’s waist. Runi adored the attention from his lover and he knew that James was equally happy when they came together in the bedroom of the older model’s apartment. Their lovemaking was a bit rougher then as well on those days. He didn’t mind he felt more excited when they did it like that. To him the rush and excitement meant it was a good thing. The rush caused him to feel safe and secure even more so then before, to Runi it felt like things where going to be alright and that loneliness would never enter his world again.

On the first Friday in the month of May, Toni had recently added a new flock of models to the company. The flock had been a total of about five or six, their ages and looks varied from each person. Two out of the group had been runaways from different locations in the Midwest. The others had been either too naïve or simply looking to experiment with their sexual preferences. Toni entrusted the guided tour to Runi, who at the time had finished his photos early and was still waiting for James to head out together and get dinner. The youth gladly accepted and guided the small group around keeping them away from the adult video shoots and shoots in progress. He laughed and smiled at the group in a casual easy guy style of flirting. It wasn’t as if he had been interested in any of them; he simply did so to keep them calm and laughing at his comments. They did laugh which caused Runi to smile brightly and talk with them as if he where talking with old friends. The laughter soon came stopped once he felt the hand at the back of his throat.

Runi looked passed his shoulder and saw James there. He blinked in surprise then smiled softly trying to speak up, but only to have James start applying pressure to his neck. The older man was stronger then he was as he found himself being forcefully moved to an empty changing room. His tour group watched in shock, possibly one of them ran off into the studio, hopefully for help and not out of fear. Once inside the room, James threw Runi back into the room causing him to crash into make-up counter behind him. The force from the throw was enough to break the table in half as Runi found him-self now on the floor between the pieces of the table. His lover turned slamming the door shut then locked it behind them as he entered, wanting no one else to follow in after them.

Coughing harshly and trying to get air back into his lungs, Runi looked up at James in shock, “…. James… w-what’s wrong? Why are you so upset?”

Silence was his answer as the he felt the sting of James’ hand across his face. Reaching up he touched the reddening cheek and felt the tears slowly run down his face. His lover continued to say nothing as he was slapped from the other side. Shock slowly took over his slender body and he felt as if he had been watching from behind a mirror, unable to do anything at all. James moved back from him and turned up a radio that was on the floor. The small room filled with the sounds of ‘Symphony of Destruction’ by a band called Metallica.

“James… Please stop…” he heard himself beg out in fear his body shivered while looking up at James. He saw the dark look in his lovers once gentle eyes and it caused him to feel sick all over.

James moved over and lifted the boy up buy his arms and looked deep into his eyes, “Did you enjoy your group… God you’re just a slut aren‘t you…” His eyes held a deeper rage that flicker as he watched Runi closely. Reaching down the older man fondled the youth’s erection through his pants and squeezed them painfully. Runi cried out then moaned finding himself oddly excited by all that was happening to him. James saw and heard the boy’s soft moans as he continued to fondle him the rage inside of him soon exploded as jerked the boy roughly and threw him into one of the mirrors on the wall. The glass cracked and shattered against his back cutting his skin. He hit the floor hard still covered with the broken glass of the mirror hearing another crack. Runi screamed feeling his body hit the ground first and the pain shoot up his side.

Runi couldn’t even hear himself scream over the music, but he knew he had been doing so since his mouth was open. Another crack was heard as he felt his body fall through the second make-up counter on the opposite side of the room. It had happed so fast he couldn’t remember that James had even picked him up to do so. He could only feel the pain in his left arm as it broke; it was so painful that he could have sworn he saw white for a moment. He begged for this to stop for his lover to stop hurting him, but deep with that it wouldn’t. The sword and shield that once thought had returned since his parent’s death to protect him, was gone once more. Now his protection had turned on him like a rabid dog ready to strike and go for the finishing kill. Somewhere passed the noise he heard someone pounding on the door, or at least he inwardly thought he did. Runi thought he screamed out for help but his head was starting to feel dizzy. He did however know more pain as he felt his head collided with the wall of the room from having been slammed into it once more. Dropped onto the glass-covered floor face first, his arms where painfully pulled behind his back and tied off by his shirt that James had some how removed from his body. His black pants ripped off violently and discarded somewhere in the room. He felt the glass pierce his skin as he continued to lie there on the floor face down on top of the glass. The sharp pain from behind him that followed the removal of his pants caused him to nearly howl out in agony. Each thrust more painful then the last only felt worse as his face and exposed flesh continued to scrape against the glass-covered floor.

The events that soon followed became a blur to him. From the last sharp pain that his body felt his world became dark. Vision left him; his hearing could barely make out the screams in the background. Soon even that last bit of consciousness failed him as he drifted off into the gentle lull of cold and dark oblivion.

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“He’s very lucky to be alive… Mr.?”

“Mr. Fynlan. I’m the boy’s guardian… Now please tell me how bad this was…”

The doctor nodded and looked back at his charts frowning a bit. “A light concussion to the head… left arm broken… rib cracked… multiple scratches and gashes… and then there is the torn muscles of the anal area that coincide with a rape… His arm has been set the rib mended, wounds dressed and taken care of…. But I can’t say sort of mental trauma this will have on him…”

“Thank you Doctor… I’ll go in an see him….”

“I’ll warn you now Mr. Fynlan… he’s been pumped full of pain killers and out like a light… He won’t know you’re in there…”

“Doesn’t matter…” the figure replied while focusing on the door of the room. “I still need to be there for him…”

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Lisette watched the boy wrapped in bandages that almost covered his entire face. His red hair was pulled back and tied off. Inwardly the woman was thankful they didn’t need to cut his hair off to deal with the situation. It broke her heart seeing him painfully breathing in and out as he was. The machines inhuman way of breathing and the steady beeps that filled the room was the only way she knew he was alive. Her eyes burned slightly as she rubbed them for the god knows how many times that day, all she could do was sit beside the fallen boy and softly speak words of encouragement in hopes that he would recover.

“… James…” she growled softly remembering who had done this to the boy, “You bastard I would kill you myself if you weren’t already arrested by the police…”

“Lisette… thinking that way won’t help in this situation,” replied a voice from behind her.

Swiftly turning in her seat Lisette snarled a bit before calming down, “… Toni… don’t scare me like that…”

Toni moved around the chair and stood beside Lisette. “… The doctors said he would make it… He’ll get better… Thankfully the cuts weren’t bad enough that they would leave permanent scars… the Kirsches aren’t going to be happy about this….” The o man man sighed and lightly ran his hands across his face rubbing at his eyes. “…. I feel so foolish for letting him get involved with James like that…”

Lisette watched as her employer personally blame himself in this matter. She observed the fact that he wasn’t in his usual attire of a silk dress, make-up and wig. His face was it’s natural fair color and his short ash blonde hair was combed back and slightly gelled in place. For her to see Toni wearing a business suit andk sek serious meant that the situation was gravely serious. Her eyes flicked back towards the bed were Runi currently laid and knew that for this child her boss was ready to be deadly serious in anything related to him. She paused for a moment and looked back at the Toni when she heard him speak.

“I was looking over the voting polls from the last magazine….”

“Good news I hope?” Lisette asked watching his face remain neutral but his eyes shone with deep sadness.

Toni looked back at Lisette and sighed, “Runistis was voted as the model they want more pages of… He beat out James in popularity………” He looked at her with a slight smile.

The photographer blinked then narrowed her eyes, “Did James know? Is that why he did this to Runi?”

“No… no James had no idea about the votes… they had been dating Lisette… Runi told me so about a month after they started dating…. but apparently James has issues with possessiveness….” Toni sighed lightly touching the boys bandaged face. “ As of today… James is fired… I had him arrested shortly after you came here with Runi…. On his behalf I put a restraining order as well…”

“I see… So now… It’s just up to Runi to want to wake up…”

“Yes… That and the judge to send James away for almost killing him…”

Lisette brushed her hair back and stood up, “Let’s just hope that this doesn’t go to trial…”

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Consciousness slowly worked its way back to the boy as he awoken the next day. He found himself in the hospital he knew from the soft beeping sound as the doctor looking over his patient charts. The doctor had look to be in his later forties possibly early fifties, with short graying hair and deep brown eyes. The older man looked up and noticed that his newest patient was staring at him. He didn’t move from his spot since the on staff therapist advised him not to do so since they had still been unsure of his condition upon waking up.

Clearing his throat he spoke up, “Ah… Mr. Gustavia it’s good to see you awake at last…. How do you feel?”

Runi carefully swallowed and felt his throat to be far too dry for his li. He. He slowly looked around and carefully reached over for a glass of water. He struggled a bit but finally managed to get the cup towards him to sip at the cool liquids. Deeply he sighed and spoke up, “… numb… I feel numb….”

“That’s understandable… the medication we gave you hasn’t fully worn off… if you feel any pain don’t hesitate to call for a nurse…” the doctor replied then slowly went over to Runi to look at him, “You’re a lucky young man to have survived all that…. Anyways… There are some officers outside that would like to speak to you… And your lawyer… would you like to see them now?”

Runi blinked then slowly nodded wondering why he would need a lawyer but in his slightly hazed state it came back to him. He could feel his eyes burn with tears remembering how James had hurt him. Quickly shutting his eyes he nodded again and waited for them to enter.

The Officers stood off to the side and let the lawyer speak first. Runi glanced at for for the moment and noted that one was a taller with a 3 o’clock shadow on his face, deep hazel colored eyes and a slight tan that went well with his auburn colored hair. His partner was a bit shorter, a slight bit more heavy set. His complexion was fair in skin, green eyes and black hair. The lawyer was thin with almost a bird like appearance with brown eyes and blond hair. Runi noticed all of this as he listened to what was being said slowly following it all. They asked him questions and also to remember what had happened that day. He told them what he knew, who had attacked him and shuddered remembering how he begged the older man to not hurt him. The lawyer took notes, paling slightly at the description, as the two cops had remained professionally in an unemotional state the entire time.

It was explained by them that James was now arrested and behind bars, but that the only way he would stay there and away from the young man, was to charge him for excessive force, abuse, rape and he was most likely going to going to get the maximum sentence of twenty-five years to life for this. On top of what the courts would do was also place Runi under the protection of a restraining order. Incase James was able to prove he was no longer a danger to anyone and find himself on parole from the prison he was sent to. Runi listened to all of this and slightly held his head in frustration. He agreed to sign any documents they wanted him to when it came in regards to James and feeling safe. The boy felt his heart crumble at the sudden emptiness that slowly grew from within.

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The rest of Runistis’ recovery had been a well on its way. His arm was still in a sling but his rib healed well and his scars just starting to fade. After going through a session with a psychologist it was determined that he was mentally sound. Though nightmares of that night would occur for a short while, they also found that his reaction to the song ‘Symphony of Destruction’ by Metallica had been the trigger to set off some screaming fits caused by the flashbacks of what had happened to him. Toni made sure that song wasn’t played around the office to keep the boy’s sanity. No one else questioned as things slowly went back to its normal mood. However, due to his unstable depression and mood swings he was taken to see a therapist that specialized in rape and abuse, to deal with what had happened to him. It was for the best since the boy was still coping with being hurt by someone he thought had loved him in return. It started off fairly shaky with him and the therapist he was now seeing but over the week thing slowly progressed for the better.

“Now… Runistis…” the petite red-head woman behind started to say, “We haven’t gotten to the main point of why we are here…”

“I am here to get over my emotional ties to. Him….” he replied sadly.

The woman focused her amber colored eyes at the boy before her then sighed, “No…. I can’t expect you to get over the entire emotional break ups right away…. I’m here to help you come to terms with it… Understand why it happened and how… That way you never have to find yourself in that place again. That is why you’re here Runistis.”

“… There isn’t much to understand… He didn’t love me in the way I thought that’s all… to him I was simply something he could control for his whim…. I was too young to realize it then…” he replied watching the therapist jot down notes.

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Runi kept up the therapy for about a month till he was finally able to accept and deal with his brutal end of his relationship. He knew the internal scars would never heal although the ones on his body did so well enough you could never tell the glass scratched him in the first place. After the month was over the arm sling came off and he was given a clean bill of health both mentally and physically. The first day of the new month the red head returned to Toni’s office on the third floor and knocked on the door.

Toni looked up from the photos he was examining and brushed back the hair of the wig, “Yes? Coming in….”

“Hey Toni…” He replied with a smile, “See…. All better let’s put me back to work…”

“Runistis….” He chuckled softly seeing the boy was ready to get right back to where he left off. “…. Dear boy are you sure this is what you want? I mean you went through something that no one should go through….”

“I’m wiser then…. I won’t let myself fall into something like that again… Plus I got a membership at a gym…. So I’ll be working on my strength so I can fight back….” he replied honestly then closed his eyes, “You don’t think I should work here anymore do you?”

Toni blinked and started laughing, “Runi… dear Runi… You are a beautiful young man… you’ve been voted as the most wanted model for this month’s magazine… Of course I want you to work here…. But only if you, yourself really want too…”

“Well… as they say if you fall off the horse the best thing to do is get right back on and keep riding…” He smirked a bit as the familiar glitter of excitement sparked within his eyes, “So saddle me up a big pony, Toni…”

Toni saw the light in the green eyes that looked at him and smiled brightly, “There’s my boy…. Alright I’ll see what we have available for you… For now go shower and put on your best leather outfit… It’s good to have you back again Runistis…”

Runi blushed a bit smiling, “It’s good to be back to my old self again Toni… Alright I’ll see you within an hour…”