In the Enemy's Fortress

In the Enemy's Fortress

Chapter Five: Reflection


I want to make a confession about this fanfiction.. I think you all should know that there was no planned storyline for this at all (except something to do with Skulker). I have been pulling all of this thus far from out of nowhere.. So, I'm sorry if things start to get bad/boring. If you give me a review with suggestions, I may use them.

I realize that the characters aren't exactly in character.. For one, Danny isn't quite himself. He'd probably be more apt to kick ass and take names and Vlad probably would have more sence than to risk everything by raping Danny (he'd probably try to mold him without him realizing it). The actual Vlad is a thinker. He makes situations that people walk into and act just as he plans. Lol, though sometimes he doesn't think things completely through (Example: Phantom Planet)

I apologize for Danny's tactlessness in this chapter. He's a bit too bunt, but only to show his contempt to Vlad.
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Danny looked lazily at the wall of his room. Vlad had kept his promise thus far, coming in later that evening to give him something to eat.

The young boy did not have the urge to eat and the man reprimanded him for not touching his breakfast. Danny didn't care, however. He knew he wouldn't have been able to keep anything down.

He didn't realize how much weight he was beginning to lose until he noticed how his jeans began to slide down his hips everytime he stood. He had to tighten his belt to keep them up. His shirt also became much more baggy than it had been before as well.

A knock on the door came and a moment later, Vlad entered.

"I have come to see if you've eaten. Which you have not. You better give me a good reason as to why."

Danny looked at the man with a glare. "Because everytime I try to put something in my mouth, I think about putting your dick there and I nearly get sick."

Vlad rolled his eyes. "Have it your way, don't eat. I just worry, you're loosing a lot of weight, Daniel."

"Don't worry about me. I'm just a toy to you...you shouldn't care about my person well-being."

There was a loud sigh, and Vlad sat on the bed next to the younger man.

"I'm not as bad as you make me out to be...I wanted you to be my son, Danny. You, Maddie, and Jazz...I was ready to take all of you in as my family."

"Son?! Family?! This is how you'd treat me if I were your son? You sure have a warped sense of family."

"Don't be silly. I wouldn't have touched if you came along quietly in the beginning. It wasn't until I was denied by you that my interest grew. Daniel, you have no idea how valuable you really are."

"If I'm so valuable, why do you seem so intent on breaking me? If something is worth something, shouldn't you treat it with care?" Danny said with eyes narrowed.

Vlad was quiet for a moment. He laid back on the bed, next to Danny, who shuffled away from the man. He didn't want to be closer to the man than he had too. Too bad their deal did not also include Vlad staying away from him.

"Would you like to add another day of no violence towards you?"

Danny cautiously looked at the man. "What do you want?"

"To hold you," Vlad said without a breaking a beat.

"W-what do you mean? Our deal was that you wouldn't touch me for two days!"

"Exactly, that's why I'm willing to add another day to the agreement...Is it a deal, Daniel?"

Danny was quiet for a moment before answering, "how long?"

Vlad grinned. "An hour for a whole 'nother day of not seeing me longer than a few minutes, a couple of times a day."

Danny gave a sigh, another day seemed like an ideal exchange for an hour of being held by someone else. However, this other person was the man who had raped and beat him. Danny didn't think he could trust the man.

Danny shook his head, bringing himself out of his thoughts. He didn't want the man to touch him. Touching him was nearly as bad as raping him. The closer the man, the dirtier he felt. He could already smell the man from their short distance as it was and if they got any closer, Danny would be engrossed with the arouma of the older man.

"I...I don't know," Danny said finally. "Why do you want to?"

Vlad sighed loudly. "Daniel, you don't seem to understand the situation that you're in. I'm giving you a choice; I have to explain nothing. Now, last chance, yes or no?"

Danny sighed dejectedly, "Okay..."

Vlad smirked at the boy. "Now, come closer."

The young man nodded his head and took a deep breath. He rose up on his hands and feet and swung his hips until they were adjacent with the man beside him. He took a second to adjust himself next to Vlad.

Vlad noticed how stiff and robotic the boy's movements were as he closed the space between them. However, he really hadn't expected the boy to warm and limber.

Vlad reached out the arm he had been laying on and pulled the boy to his chest. He nestled Danny's head under his chin and reached down with his opposite arm to force the boy's lower body forward as well. When he was happy, he wrapped the upper appendage firmly under the boy's arm, around his back.

Being wrapped in the man's arms was not as bad as it had seemed. Danny had honestly missed being this close to someone. He missed hugging his parents, he missed the closeness of his two best friends, he missed being around anyone, really.

Even though the isolation had only been about two weeks, it seemed so much longer since he had human contact. He spent most of his time concentrating on how to get out of the room so he wouldn't have to think about his family and friends. He was continually trying to think of ways to get out of the room, and get back to them.

Danny sighed and adjusted his head slightly to see the man's chin. He quickly turned his head back down, not wanting to look at the man that was forcing him to be in this awkward situation. He closed his eyes and tried to just wait out the hour.

Vlad smiled and began to run his hand up and down Danny's back, feeling the boy stiffen. He furled his face into the boy's clean hair. Danny did a good job keeping himself clean, and he used the shampoo that the older man had left in here. A scented shampoo and the boy's natural smell floated up into his nostrils.

Danny began to relax at the friction the man was making on his back began to warm him. The feeling felt wonderful and warm. The man didn't smell too badly either. He smelled of cologne. He knew the smell, he fell in love with the smell after his family's first visit to his house.. and almost loved their encounters for that sweetfragrance. It would always flood the room when Vlad entered, and it remained in the room after he left.

Only now, the scent reminded him not of the sweet-smelling man that tormented him every once in a while with his "ghostly" antics of world domination, but of the man that violently attacked him on more then one occasion.

Without warning, Vlad flipped Danny over. Danny gasped out and looked back at the man.

"Calm down, I was slightly uncomfortable in that situation," Vlad murmured as he pulled Danny back to him.

Vlad felt the boy calm in his arm as he drapped his arm over the boy. He placed his hand on Danny's chest, feeling the boy take in a deep breath as he did. He chuckled slightly at he ran his hand up and down the boy's chest, placing his head in the nape of the boy's neck.

Danny felt self-conscious when he heard the man chuckle. He felt a cold, shaky sensation float down from his neck, down his spine as he felt the man's chest heave slightly as he breathed. He found his chest heaving in sync with the man's.

Vlad decided to see how far this 'holding' could go. He knew he wouldn't be able to get away with much, but it would be nice to see what he could do.

The man trailed his hand slowly up and down his chest, pressing lightly on the material of Danny's shirt. He began to trail down lower and reached for the edge of Danny's shirt, causing the boy to jump.

"You said only holding!" Danny cried out suddenly, grabbing the shirt from the man.

"Understood. I am merely holding the edge of your shirt, am I not?" Vlad said, adjusting himself to whisper in the boy's ear. He grinned when he saw the boy shiver.

"Vlad, I'm keeping my clothes on, and so are you," Danny said shakily.

Vlad chuckled he hadn't even planned to undress the boy, but he would bounce on the opportunity to cut a deal with him.

"Okay...I'll barter with you. Since we never decided about clothing, I'll change my mind about taking you're shirt off if I can kiss you," Vlad whispered.

"Vlad...no, you said just holding me! I--" however, he was interrupted. He was reasoning the missing shirt versus the kiss. If Vlad was able to touch him, he might be able to make him moan, and that wouldn't be bearable. However, if he were to kiss him, then he could just block it from his mind, think of something else.

"5...4...3...2--"

"Fine!" Danny cried out, obviously frusterated. "Just...just for a minute though..."

Vlad smiled and pressed his lips hungrily against Danny's. The boy tried to keep his mind off of the man, trying to think about the bath he would take after this, how he would scrub at his teeth. However, when the man trailed his kisses over Danny's jaw to his ear, quickly finding the sensitive spot behind the teen's ear.

Danny quickly regretted letting the man kiss as he reluctantly cried out in pleasure. He closed his eyes tightly and gritted his teeth as he felt the man reach over and begin to caress his face. Vlad pulled away from the boy's small pleasure spot on his ear and pressed his lips, once again, firmly against the boy's.

He was met with a bit of resistance this time from the boy, but he managed to gain access to Danny's mouth again. However, just licking the inners of Danny's mouth was beginning to bore him. He wanted a reaction.

Vlad moved the hand he had used to caress Danny's back to caress and rested it on his groin, causing Danny to cry out. The teen reacted quickly, grabbing the man's hand and breaking their kiss.

"No...just kiss," Danny said breathlessly.

Vlad smiled and obliged. He didn't want to force the boy to do a thing at that moment.

The older man dived back down and swooped his lips into another kiss, prodding the boy's tongue as he began to massage that spot behind Danny's ear with his fingers.

Danny cried out, his back arching. He felt himself whimper through the kiss as he began to move slightly, giving Vlad easier access to him.

He was unaware at how far away their touching was from just letting Vlad hold him. He turned a blind eye to the fact he was forcefully kissing Vlad back as well. And he paid no mind to the fact that his hands began to wonder and he began to hold the man's face in the palms of his hands, forcing their bodies closer.

Vlad was extremely satified with their progress when he felt Danny's hads begin to slide down and drift beneath his shirt. He was sure that the boy would be angry with him about this later, but for the moment, if Danny wanted to explore, he was welcome too.

However, when it came to unbuttoning his shirt, he stopped him, He had promised to do no more than kiss him, which had progressed farther than he thought it would. Vlad knew Danny was caught up in the moment and it was up to him, for once, to be the responsible party.

"That's quite suffient, Daniel," Vlad said, as he broke their kiss.

Danny blushed brightly as he watched Vlad look at his watch, "There's still about fifteen more minutes to our hour, but I will let you go early," he said with a smile.

The boy watched as Vlad stood up from his spot on the bed and adjusted his clothing. "Now, don't forget to eat...I don't need you to suffer from malnutrition. Promise me you'll eat?"

Danny averted his gaze to the sheets and nodded his head.

"Good boy! I shall see you in the morning with your breakfast," Vlad said as he grabbed the untouched breakfast of that day.

Danny nodded his head. "Okay," he said with a whisper as he watched the man leave and heard him lock the door behind him.

When he was sure the man was gone from that wing of the house, he lazily stood and went to his bathroom. He didn't feel as disgusting as he thought he would after their encounter. He still felt the need to clean himself, but it wasn't as urgent as before.

He looked at himself in the mirror and sighed. He looked a lot thinner than he had two weeks ago, when he had first woken up. His ribs were beginning to show distinctively on his chest.

Danny placed his cupped hands beneath the facuet and splashed water to his face. He shook head and reached over for his tooth brush. He could taste Vlad and wanted to be rid of the flavour.

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Vlad walked into his bedroom with a sigh. He had taken care of the tray before coming up here, something he wasn't exactly used to doing, but he was getting use to it.

The man had fired the entire staff that worked in his manor before he began the alterations to the room in which Danny stayed. The less eyes that watched him work, the better. No one was fully in on his plan, he had thought this through this time. Partnering with people entirely always had been a bad idea.

He awaited news from Skulker.. However, he knew it could be several days before the ghost hunter got back to him with news of his current excursion. He could only hope the hunter could get what he sent him after.

..If he couldn't, his plan could go no farther.


To Be Continued..
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Sorry there is such a fixation on smell in this chapter... I feel like you can draw a stronger bond with someone if you learn their fragrance.. It's weird, because I miss people by thinking of their scent, haha.