".....Yeah....." It's so easy to assume. After years and years of submission and obedience, of knowing that control was absolute--and even after that, knowing even his hard-fought sanctuary could possibly come tumbling down around him at any second.....
The insecurity and paranoia could suck him down like quicksand, if he allowed them. There's never anything truly solid to hold onto.
Most of the rules don't apply anymore, not really. But the one obvious chain that still binds him, the one lock he's never found the strength to open even now..... Wouldn't that be proof enough? Will might not understand him or what he wants, but--he's always been proud. Possessive. He'd learned very quickly to never deny that claim.
It's slow and reluctant, and his hands are definitely shaking, but Will reaches up to untie his mask. He's already violently clamping down on the rush of panic as he pulls it off; there's a momentary glimpse of fine features and brilliant purple eyes before he looks away. This is enough, right? Verstael is there to see him, so surely that's proof? Can he put it back on yet?
Hot stripping and hardcore nudity, TOTALLY NC-17 all up in here /clutches pearls
The insecurity and paranoia could suck him down like quicksand, if he allowed them. There's never anything truly solid to hold onto.
Most of the rules don't apply anymore, not really. But the one obvious chain that still binds him, the one lock he's never found the strength to open even now..... Wouldn't that be proof enough? Will might not understand him or what he wants, but--he's always been proud. Possessive. He'd learned very quickly to never deny that claim.
It's slow and reluctant, and his hands are definitely shaking, but Will reaches up to untie his mask. He's already violently clamping down on the rush of panic as he pulls it off; there's a momentary glimpse of fine features and brilliant purple eyes before he looks away. This is enough, right? Verstael is there to see him, so surely that's proof?
Can he put it back on yet?