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Chapter Eight | The Violation of Men

Arthur was beaten unconscious, Peter had a bag placed over his head as he was dragged into a chicken coop. And with no hesitation, he was thrown headfirst into a wall as he felt blood leak from his nose down his face.

He heard the unmistakable laughter of O'Driscoll's, not unlike the sound of cackling hyenas.

Peter opened his eyes and looked up at the enraged face of Henry Stein. Stein was the most disturbed of the O'Driscoll boys. He had a sick glee in abuse. Sexual abuse. There was a dark yellowing bruise around his left eye and a dried split in his lip.

Stein was not laughing like his friends. There was nothing but pure unadulterated evil in his eyes.
"S-Stein..." Peter started but was interrupted by the bigger, angrier man grabbing him up off the floor and slamming him back against the coop wall as if he weighed nothing.

"Henry!" he tried again but was met with a fist right into his solar plexus. All of the wind left Peter's lungs and he hunched over, trying to drag a breath into his traumatized lungs. He raised his hands to try to forestall any more of a beating, but there was no stopping this pissed-off psychopath.

Henry grabbed Peter's hand and smashed it against the edge of a bucket. Peter's mouth opened to scream in pain but it was choked off by the overlarge hand of Ron Huggins, who then grabbed Peter and yanked him off the stall wall and back against his chest.

At the same time, Peter felt his hope drop into the pit of his stomach when he heard the door to the coop click shut, seeming as loud as a gunshot.

Henry laid into him, hitting him over and over again in the abdomen and chest. Peter closed his eyes, hoping for this beating to end soon, but things took a darker turn when Stein suddenly went for Peter's pants. He yanked them and his boxers off Peter's legs, baring him to all of these sick people.

Apparently, this wasn't part of the plan, as the action was met with questions.
"What the hell, Henry?" Ron asked, his grip on Peter loosening a little.
"Shut the hell up!" Henry screamed in his face. "Hold him!"

Ron held him tighter, putting an end to Peter's renewed struggles.
"You gonna do some queer shit?" Damien Hasslebeck piped up, not sounding at all against the idea. "Cause if ya are, I'm interested. I've been wantin' to wreck this guy since he was thirteen!"
"Ew, really?" Victor Palt asked.

"Tell me he doesn't look girly enough to be fuckable!" Hasslebeck said, apparently talking about Peter. He was only answered with a noncommittal hum from Palt. Worryingly, it wasn't a denial.

"You're goddamn right he does," Henry agreed, through clenched teeth. "And I think he deserves to be put in his place."
Peter stared wide-eyed at the nasty sneer on Stein's face as he stepped up and wrapped his hand around Peter's throat, tight enough to make breathing difficult.

"You're my bitch now, Charlton," Henry said, smirking in his face. Hasslebeck giggled from behind him. This wasn't right, this couldn't happen. It wouldn't happen.

Peter opened his mouth and bit hard on Huggins's palm, making the bigger of his assailants shout in pain and pull his hand away from the gnashing teeth.

There was blood on Peter's mouth when it was freed. Before he could say or do anything, Henry's hand tightened around his throat, so he couldn't breathe at all. Henry's other hand came around in a fist and hit Peter in the side of the head.

Peter's world went off-kilter, his vision graying out at the edges, his ears ringing in his head. He felt Stein shake him and pull him forward. He felt the spittle hitting his face as he spoke.

"You bite again, and I'll knock all of yer teeth down your damn throat!" Stein hissed at him, grinning as he shoved Peter down onto his knees.

He finally let go of Peter's throat so the smaller man could breathe. Peter coughed hoarsely, absolutely sure that there were going to be finger bruises on his neck. He heard the sound of a belt and looked up, to be met with Henry pulling his half-hard member out of his jeans.