Author's note: If you are here now, you need to read Frat House Troopers by Xavier Mayne first, otherwise this story will make no sense at all. The characters and storyline in this series are made to fit together with Frat House Troopers.
The characters and story are used with Xavier Mayne's permission. Thank you, XM, for letting me borrow Brandt and Donnelly :)
Please be warned, this series contains scenes of a graphic nature involving male on male sex. If this is not for you, don't read and don't complain. I did
warn you :) This story is purely fictional, in real life safe sex is critical and essential! Any scenes without the use of condoms are not intended to promote unprotected sex but to maintain the flow of prose.
Enjoy!
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Donnelly left Brandt's place feeling shaky and upset.
Oh my god, what did we get ourselves into?
He'd never seen his partner so unhinged before and Donnelly was way beyond worried.
"
Don't fucking touch me!
" Brandt had screamed. The cry echoed in Donnelly's head. He had seen victims behave like that in his career. Rape victims.
Oh god. What did they make him do? Was Ethan lying about it? Did they hurt him or rape him?
Donnelly had to see that video. No matter how disturbing it might be, he had to force himself to watch it.
For Ethan
, he reminded himself, trying to settle the uneasy twisting in his gut.
All the way home in the car, Donnelly berated himself for his attitude over the last couple of days. His reaction to viewing the website for the first time. His behaviour at Camp & Dragg.
All
of it. He'd been so absorbed in the misery of having gay culture forced on him, made to look at it in all it's glory, he completely failed to see the signs of his partner's meltdown. Even now, on the drive home, Donnelly was so focused on having let his partner down, that he was doing it yet again. It didn't once occur to him that Brandt might not want his partner to see what happened. All Donnelly knew was that he needed to understand so he could be there for Ethan.
He
had
to see that video.
When he got to his place, he made a beeline for his work laptop sitting on the kitchen bench in front of a stool, hastily pulling the login details from his pocket. Donnelly wasn't looking forward to this but it was the very least he could do as far as he was concerned.
Booting up the laptop and browser, he navigated to the Str8FratDudes website and when the home page loaded, his blood ran cold. There. In the new featured section.
Oh, Ethan
.
With shaking hands, he typed in the user name and password and hit submit, then clicked on the link to Brandt's video, terrified of what would come up.
For Ethan, for Ethan
... was the litany in his mind that pushed him to go on.
Before Donnelly was ready to face it—if he ever would be—a video frame loaded and there was his partner, fully dressed in one of Bryce's ridiculous outfits, standing in a luxurious bathroom.
It wasn't obvious to anyone except Donnelly but Brandt was shit-scared. It was in his eyes, in the set of his spine. Donnelly had only seen his partner that way once before and that was when the two of them had been pursuing a child-killer and they were breaching the suspect's house, guns ready, apprehensive of discovering the mangled bodies of kids. Brandt looked exactly that way for the first few seconds of the video.
Then suddenly, Brandt's composure changed, transformed into something else Donnelly had seen before, many times. Raw, grim determination. As if a decision had just been made in his mind, Brandt took a deep breath and was all business, all the job in front of him. Donnelly's heart raced in admiration.
If he can do this, then so can I, dammit. Besides, it's not like I haven't seen him naked before.
Slowly, much slower than he did in the locker rooms at the gym, Brandt peeled off his shirt, revealing rippled abs and hard pecs, smooth, tanned and hairless.
Nothing I haven't seen before
, Donnelly reminded himself. Nonetheless, he felt a weird humming sensation at the base of his spine.
Damn, boy has got a body on him alright.