Then There Were Two
By now the strain on JT’s arms was getting a bit much even for him but, even so, he didn’t really want the longest and weirdest tie-up in which he’d ever been involved to come to an end too soon. Being the one who had been tied for the longest, he could really have done with a loo break but he’d even come to accept that he might have to go on the garage floor. However, the consequences of having to sit in the result for goodness knew how long afterwards made him decide to try to hold it as best he could. At that point Matt brutally snatched the clips from his nipples. That nearly did it.
By now what Max had previously believed about JT had become blindingly obvious to both him and Matt: he wasn’t too concerned about being released. That made them feel better about the fact that they had used an innocent boy to help imprison Max’s brother.
So, to business.
“Hello Karl.” said Max as he lifted his brother’s head by the chin, “You might think that it’s your turn to be released now. Wro-ong! When Matt has finished with you, I’ve got a long list of grievances to avenge. Sorry JT, you can’t go yet but it’s about time you took a break.” Was that a happy or a despairing sigh he heard?
“Now, if you promise to be a good boy and not to try to escape, Matt will take you to the loo. Agreed?” The nodding of JT’s head (and his attempt to scrunch his knees as close to his abdomen as possible whilst rocking back and forwards as much as his restraints would allow) implied a strong affirmative answer. Matt cut the rope round JT’s wrists with a resultant cross between a sigh and a scream that could be heard distinctly through the layers of his gag. Matt allowed him quite some time to shake his arms and massage his wrists before ordering him to put his hands palm to palm. JT felt cable ties being fastened to each wrist and then joined together presumably by another. Matt didn’t tie him too tightly but JT was highly unlikely to try to escape in any case. Next the rope tying Karl’s left ankle to his thigh needed loosening before the two prisoners could be separated at the waist. Matt made a note that using the same rope for both jobs was a strategic mistake. Both prisoners heaved enormous sighs of relief. If you’ve never seen someone sigh with their whole body, you should have seen those two. Before Matt unstrapped their necks, Max tied Karl’s left ankle tightly to his right knee. He forced the free end of the rope between both Karl’s elbows, pulled tight and secured the end back down by his left ankle again. With the removal of the strap joining Karl and JT at the neck, the prisoners were separated and Max just let his brother collapse in a ball on the garage floor.
Placing one foot on his brother’s helpless body, Max stepped over him to help Matt with JT. While Matt cut the tape around JT’s ankles, Max looped the belt that had previously been joining the two prisoners together round the tie joining JT’s wrists and hauled him to his feet. Both boys supported him while he regained his equilibrium. That took quite a few minutes. Matt then took hold of the end of the belt and led JT out of the garage. He’d noticed earlier that the cottage retained the ancient outdoor privy at the back.
“Does the outdoor bog still work?”
“Mmm mmm.” answered JT feeling grateful that relief was that near and nodding his head rapidly.
“OK. I’m going to lead you in there and close the door. You’ll have two minutes for a piss then I’m coming in for you. Understand?”
“Mmm mmm.” affirmed JT even more frantically.
The deed done rather noisily and quite copiously, Matt reclaimed his captive who had managed to readjust his Speedos just in time.
“Better?
“Mmmmm mmmm mmmm!”
Prisoner and escort headed back to the garage. As they did so, they heard the phone ring inside the cottage. After a few rings, the answer machine cut in. Matt thought it would be wise to listen to the message so he led JT into his own home through the back door that he had not bothered to shut when Karl and he went outside for their wrestling match. By the time they got to the phone the message was well underway. It was obviously JT’s dad. The message finished and Matt replayed it.
“Jason, it’s your dad. I’m not going to be finished by ten o’clock tonight so I’m staying over ‘til tomorrow. You know what I think about driving on these crummy British roads. Their freeways, or whatever they call them, are OK but all those roundabouts before I get to them and after I get off them are not my favorite at night, especially driving on the wrong side of the road. Sorry son, but you’ll have to phone for a take-out. I’ve left some cash in the usual place. Sorry and I’ll see you tomorrow. Love you, Jason.”
“Yes, there IS a God!” shouted Matt, rejoicing and he led JT back to give Max the good news.
Having been relieved, JT was strangely ambivalent about the news. He could guess what Matt and Max would decide to do. He was right: they both rang home and made arrangements to sleep over. Max told his mother that Karl said he was sleeping round a friend’s place but that he wouldn’t say which one. She’d go ape-shit when he got home!
Matt told JT to sit and he forced his knees up between his arms. A broom was used to stop him withdrawing his knees.
Max and Matt needed to re-plan so they had a drink about things courtesy of JT’s fridge again.
They had:
• Revenged themselves on Aiden and Jonny
• Arranged for Aiden and Jonny to be their slaves for quite some time
• Taken Karl prisoner and could keep him overnight
• Made sure that Karl would be found so much to do by his mother that he would be unlikely to have any free time for at least the next three weeks
• Got enough blackmail material to make sure that they were not going to get into trouble
• Got an available house to use as a dungeon
They needed to:
• Take turns to go home and get a change of clothes and a sleeping bag
• Feed themselves (and JT and, probably, Karl too)
• Think of some creative ways to entertain their captives (without being TOO nasty to JT)
• Oh yes, and let Karl go for a piss
They decided to:
• Send out to the brilliant local Kebab shop for a home-delivery
• Take a while to think of ways of torturing Karl. They had no shortage of ideas.
• Not leave JT out; he obviously enjoyed being a captive
• Start torturing Karl as soon as he’d been allowed to go to the toilet.
Karl was getting fed up with being trodden on every time one of the younger boys needed to cross the garage (and one or two times when there was no real need as well) but, being drawn into a ball, he could do nothing to avoid the trespassing feet. Then he heard the most welcome words he had ever heard in his life: “Need a piss, Karl?”
He nodded his head as best he could. They’d have to untie him. Perhaps he could escape while they were taking him to the cottage. It’s surprising how devious younger brothers can be once they’ve gained the upper hand.
Matt checked to see that Karl’s fists were still securely bunched and added a lot more turns of packing tape. All the subtle work that Karl had put into loosening his tape mittens went for nothing. Meanwhile Max released the rope pulling his brother into a ball but his left ankle remained connected to his right knee. Matt helped Max to lift Karl so that he was standing on his right foot supported by his gaolers. Max kept hold of his tottering big brother while Matt took another rope, threaded it between Karl’s tightly bent elbows and pulled it tight, drawing them as close together as possible and putting a great strain on Karl’s arms and wrists. Leaving the ends of both ropes trailing Max and Matt took an arm each and supported Karl whilst forcing him to hop out of the garage and across the lawn.
Karl was wondering why he hadn’t reached the path to the cottage. What was wrong? He soon found out.
“You don’t need a toilet, you can’t wet clothes you’re not wearing and no one else can see you. We’re going to tie you to the clothes post and you can just go where you are.” With that, Max offered to take “the risky part” and looped Karl’s leg rope around the post and tied the end round his left ankle again while Matt threaded the end of the elbow rope through the anchoring ring at the top of the post. A sharp pull forced Karl’s elbows high forcing him to arch his back. The rope was secured once more to itself allowing Karl no relief.
“OK, we’ll leave you to get on with things.” said Max giving his brother a hefty swat on his backside before returning to the garage with Matt. This wasn’t what Karl expected at all! He tried to tough it out for about half an hour before he just had to let go. Perhaps he would be taken down once he had relieved himself?
Once they had returned to the garage Matt and Max thought that an “interrogation” of JT was in order.
Without a word, Matt’s trusty penknife made a repeat appearance. With the extensive job that Karl had made of blindfolding and gagging his TUG buddy, it was difficult to know where to start. At least the foundation of a football scarf had kept the tape out of JT’s hair to a considerable extent. Once all the tape was off and the sweat- and saliva-soaked scarf was revealed, Matt warned JT not to speak except in direct answer to a question. Did he understand? JT nodded.
Matt untied the sodden scarf and draped the unpleasant object over JT’s shoulders.
“Need a drink?” asked Max somewhat redundantly.
“Yes please, Sir” came the rather surprising reply.
Max was already prepared from his previous visit to the Toddmans’ fridge and he offered the straw from a small carton of orange juice to JT’s mouth. JT sucked like orange juice was going out of supply.
“More?”
“Permission to speak, Sir?”
“Speak.”
“Please may I have a glass of water, Sir?”
Max went to the kitchen and drew a fresh glass of tap water. JT was fed the liquid slowly. He hadn’t got used to the chlorine taste of the local water but he wasn’t arguing. The glass was drained and the submissive prisoner said, “Thank you, Sir.”
Matt apologised to JT for the necessity of keeping him prisoner but assumed that, being obviously Karl’s TUG buddy, he didn’t mind being tied up too much. And so it went on. By the end of the “interrogation”, JT knew that Karl would be kept prisoner and tortured in his home overnight and had agreed to remain tied up to keep him “out of the way”. Now that was something like it! Lastly Matt asked JT for his home delivery order and JT told him where to find the money.
Following his interrogation, JT once more thought that this place wasn’t too bad at all.
Thinking about the posture into which their prisoner had been forced, Max asked if he needed re-tying in another position. JT turned the opportunity down without even knowing how he would let his captors know if he did need releasing but Matt told him to try saying his name if he did. The rhythm of, “/Ay - uh,O - u—/“ should be clear enough; then he could be asked if he needed his gag removing.
“Last chance for the bog” offered Matt.
“No, thank you, Sir.” Said JT slipping effortlessly back into his role.
Matt thought better of trying to reapply the wringing wet football scarf to his prisoner’s face and searched his bag of goodies for something else. He found one of his neckerchiefs and bundled it into a roll which he fitted into JT’s unresisting mouth. He didn’t want too much work to undo when the food arrived so he just held the wad in place with one of his straps which was wound twice round JT’s neck and buckled in his mouth. JT wondered if he had made a sensible decision as one of Matt’s hoods, buckled loosely in place, ensured that he was unable to see.
While this was happening, Karl was trying to avoid standing in any newly wet grass and hoping that his discomfort would be alleviated soon. He heard Max approaching; he was evidently on his phone. “. . . and a megaburger, a Hawaiian and a shish. Can we please have garlic bread and three portions of chips? Does that come with free Coke? Thank you, bring it to . . .” Karl noticed that he didn’t seem to have been included in the order.
“Ooo look, baby’s been a naughty boy and wet himself.” This was probably stretching things a bit far but Max couldn’t care less for the niceties after suffering so long under the tyranny of his brother’s blackmail. Any excuse would do. “Naughty baby!” And Max picked up a belt from Karl’s own pile of toys. “I think that requires six of the best.” With that, Max doubled the strap and counted as he delivered six powerful blows “and one for luck”.
Poor Karl, he was stretched tight and hopping on one leg. There was no way he could avoid his brother’s lashes even if he could see.
“Oh, that’s not fair, Max. He doesn’t deserve a beating. He just needs tickling to make sure that he’s “empty”. For the next ten minutes Matt attacked his helplessly exposed armpits, his inner thighs and even the exposed sole of his left foot. Giggling soon gave way to grunting and Karl found breathing becoming increasingly difficult. Tied as he was Karl found even wriggling almost impossible. But he did his best!
“I don’t think we can be really sure yet.” said Max, taking over from his friend. Karl’s body was running with sweat and the pain in his arms competed with the pain of the tickling for predominance. If there WAS anything left in his bladder, Karl would have expelled it just to stop the torture but, once again, he was out of luck. Surely this had to stop soon? Surely they’d take him down from this torture stake before he collapsed? Surely they’d feed and water him? Surely his brother would soon have pity on him? Karl was not enjoying himself.
“I suppose we’d better get him inside before the food arrives, we don’t want to chance his being seen.” suggested Matt.
“You spoil all my fun!”
“Come on, let’s move him.”
Matt released the rope stretching Karl and he fell to the ground with a muffled yell. Max noticed that he hadn’t knocked his head and so made no attempt to comfort him. He did, however, release his left leg from his right knee. The rope was used to hobble Karl to make it easier to move him. Matt thought it was about time to allow Karl to move his arms which had been bent and tied to his neck for several hours. The rope holding them in place was untied leaving the short rope cuff between Karl’s wrists. As he stretched his arms to pass the cuffs over his head, the relief was almost balanced by the pain but slowly the pain and the cramps subsided.
“Say thank you.”
“U---- ooo!”
“That didn’t sound like “thank you” to me. Oh well, back they go.”
Karl felt his wrists being pulled back behind his neck and then he tried to say, “Thank you” in spades.
“That’s better.” said Max generously, not that he could really understand what his brother was saying, and he stopped forcing his hands behind his neck.
While Karl was still on the ground, Matt took the rope that was released when Karl’s wrists were freed from his neck and tied a loop in the end. He threaded the rope onto the wrist cuffs and passed the free end between Karl’s legs, (not being too fussy about avoiding his more tender parts) up his back and fastened it with a non-slip knot to Karl’s neck. That would pull unpleasantly when he was forced to stand.
Max grabbed the rope just below his brother’s neck and hauled him to his feet. Karl really did not want to stand up straight. He guessed, once he felt the path under his feet, that he was being taken into the house. At least that’s what he hoped; it was either that or he was being taken into the road! The instruction, “Step up” relieved his worst fears. Karl felt himself taken through the kitchen and into the living room where he was forced to the floor. He immediately curled up and tried to adjust the rope that was causing him such discomfort.
“Now, now, Boy, no trying to escape or it’s back out to the clothes post.” Karl tried, unintelligibly, to reassure Max that he wasn’t trying to escape, merely (and somewhat vainly) to re-position the rope into a less painful position. Watching his brother’s mitted hands, Max got the message which Matt quickly consigned to video.
“That whining’s getting very annoying.” announced Matt somewhat disingenuously as very little sound was escaping the briefs and the mound of packing tape. “I would suggest you keep much quieter.” Karl gave up the attempt and just tried to find a position in which to lie that took the most strain off his aching body.
Once again Max put his foot on his brother and stepped over him as Matt and he went out into the garage to attend to JT.