2X

Don't Say A Word

"We need to talk."

"About what? And why the hell did you chain me up like some fucking animal?!"

"Calm down and let me-"

"LET ME OUT NOW!!!"

Cain was taken aback, for the first time ever he'd seen real fear in Hei's eyes as he struggled against his chains.

"Hei...come on stop that, you'll hurt yourself."

Hei wasn't listening though, instead he was trying to slip out of his binds and didn't care that he was breaking open his skin to do so.

Cain couldn't take it anymore and rushed forward to embrace his boyfriend.

"Just stop...please.."

Hei snarled like an animal but slowly began to calm down and relax in his arms.

"What happened to you?"

"..."

"It's okay, you don't have to go into detail. But please-"

"I was thrown out of my home because I was different from the rest of my family. I had a mom, a grandma, and an uncle who...they just worked as a little trio and had no room for a fourth.  So I was kicked out and sent away because of my issues. My only issue was that I didn't comply with everything they said like a fucking slave."

Cain stared at him wide eyed while Hei kept his head down and eyes to a corner.

He unfastened the chains and sat back as he watched Hei rub his wrists.

"I didn't do any better in boot camp. And honestly beating the ever loving snot out of that bastard wasn't my best moment but I'd found out he was raping one of the younger boys so I had to handle that. Of course no one believed me. Then that's when I was locked away like an animal and that's what you have to become to survive in places like that. I was recruited not long after my eighteenth birthday and my team and I were subjected to tortures that no man should be. In the end, we became stronger and more efficient than the average platoon. Failure was never an option. If you failed, you were chained up and thrown in a deep hole. Your only hope for redemption and freedom was to climb back up still completely chained. That was my fate three times. Once with a broken leg."

Cain wiped both of their tears and lifted his chin up to make him look at him.

"Is that why you snap like that?"

"We all developed alternate personalities that could take over for us if our normal psyche couldn't handle it. Mine is called Fox. That's who you saw earlier."

"I'm so sorry, I had no idea."

"Why would you? I keep that part of me a secret."

"Your secret almost murdered my- our child."

"Your ex did too."

"We're not talking about her."

"Yeah well we need to. Did you kill her?"

"...No."

"Of course you didn't."

"That is my son's mother!!"

"Who used him as a human shield!!"

"Look, I don't want to talk about this."

"Oh but I have to talk about dark past?! FUCK YOU!!"