Julien Gregg's Immortalis Chronicles One: The Society Chapter 3

 THREE

"You have a very nice house," Jason said to my father when the tour was over.

"Thank you," he said. "We've lived here since the boys were two."

"We've lived all over the place," Jason said. "You will too now that you're an Immortalis. You can't stay anywhere too long or they'll notice that you don't age."

"When do you usually leave a place?" Dad asked him.

"We start out in a place where I got to school as a sophomore," he said. "We stay long enough for me to graduate from high school again and go to college. When I graduate from college we leave again."

"So about seven years?" my father asked him.

"Give or take," Jason said. "We've stayed in one place for ten years before. We always come back to one place or another after enough time has passed. We write off pictures as that's my father or something like that. For you that would be harder but I assume you'll leave with us when we go. This time we'll be here for six years. Just long enough for Damon and his bonded to graduate from college and then we're gone."

"I may go with you to the next place if that's all right," Dad said. "After that I may take my bonded and go in a different direction."

"That's fine," Jason said. "We don't rule over each other just keep the secret and don't be discovered."

"How many is a good number for bonded?" Dad asked.

"Five is a good number," he said. "Five can help you through life. Six at most. Don't try for more than six. They get taxing if you have more than you can handle."

"More than I can handle?" Dad asked.

"Well they'll need to touch you from time to time and they'll want to have sex with you all of the time," he said. "With five or six you can pretty much pair them off for the most part. They'll get all of that sexual release from each other. They'll still want to have sex with you but it won't be so demanding. Plus you can give them jobs to do like logistics, planning where you'll go for the next life cycle, money management, security, and the like. They thrive on taking care of you."

"Okay," Dad said. "That sounds reasonable. I have to learn to think in a completely different way now. I'll get there and I've got six years to do it."

"That's the spirit," Jason said. "We don't usually bond one as advanced in years as you because it's sometimes harder for them to do what we have to do. They like to nest and we can't have that."

"What about jobs?" he asked. "I'm going to have to support myself."

"You'll get jobs in every place we go," Jason said. "Your bonded should take care of that for you."

"Okay," he said. "Thank you for the crash course."

"You're welcome," he said. "My father will talk with you and tell you more about what we have to do but that will come at a later time. I know tomorrow he needs Damon to go to the bank with him. Damon does have a bank account, right?"

"He does," he said. "All of his money is in there."

"Good," he said. "My dad will take him to the bank and give him his share of the money that Dad has collected. My grandmother might give him money, too. She's Nicole Arcola and she's at the head of the Arcola Apparel Empire."

"That's nice," my dad said. "I was upset with my mother for giving David money and not Damon. She said she wouldn't give him money because he was adopted."

"Don't worry, our father will take care of him," Jason said. "You might receive some money to finance your bonded as well. I don't know what my father has planned."

"That would be nice but not necessary," Dad said. "I make good money."

"Well not as good as the bonus you'll receive to finance your bonded," Jason said. "They aren't children. They're adults. They'll have adult needs and those can be more expensive than what a child needs."

"That's true," said Dad. "Well I'm going to go and talk to one who might be my first bonded. I'll see you boys later."

"Later, Dad," I said.

We watched him leave and then we looked at each other. I wondered what it was going to be like to have Jason around a lot. The questions that would be asked and the excitement because something happened in Claymore no one knew about. The gossip queens at school would spin their tales and the kids would make up their minds about how he got here and for what purpose.

"You got quiet," he said.

"Just thinking about school," I said.

"But you just turned sixteen, school won't be in session for another month," he said.

"What money are you talking about from dad?" I asked.

"He gave me and Arena five million dollars to finance our bonded," he said. "I don't have bonded yet but I will have once school starts."

"Five million dollars?" I asked. "What will I do with five million dollars?"

"Yes," he said. "You won't spend it frivolously. You'll manage it and invest it to make more money."

"I'll need some instruction on investing the money," I admitted. "I know nothing about that."

"I've been investing my money for years," he said. "I'll help you."

"Thank you," I said. "This is all just as new for me as it is for my father."

"I realize that," he said. "You'll get there. You have Arcola blood in your veins."

"Let's go find out what my bonded are doing," I said and got up. He followed me up the stairs to the bedrooms. They were empty. The bonded were gone. I didn't know where they went or why they went there. I wasn't upset about that but I would have liked to have been told.

"They're gone," he said.

"I noticed," I said. "I'm not upset that they left I'm upset because they didn't tell me where they were going."

"They should have told you where they were going," he said.

"Well we can do whatever you want," I said. "I usually just hang out in my room."

"We can do that," Jason said. "I'm here to see your life through your eyes."

"Okay come on in my room and we'll play video games," I said.

That's just what we did. He was good at the games and we had a lot of fun. We played two games before David and Declan came back with Evan with them. Evan was a dark haired boy with short hair that he kept combed to the left. His eyes were blue and he had the sexiest dimples when he smiled. I was going to love having the soccer player as one of my bonded.

"Evan came back to hang out with us today," David said. "Is that all right with you two?"

"There are two of them," Evan said in wonder.

"We're twins," Jason said. "I'm Jason Arcola. You are?"

"Evan Porter," he said. "Nice to meet you."

"It's very nice to meet you, too," Jason said.

I got some of the bonding potion and went to get drinks for everyone. I dosed Evan's drink but not the others. I took them all back upstairs and passed them out. Evan got the one I wanted him to get. He'd be sleeping soon. I'd ask the others to go into David's room while I bonded Evan. Then I'd have Evan among the bonded. I'd need to know his family situation and what he wanted out of life. I didn't want to take him away from anything.

He fell asleep sitting on the bed. He just fell over. Jason took David and Declan into David's room and I pulled down the front of Evans shorts and got a look at what was mine now. I took him into my mouth and he moaned and tried to sit up. I just pushed him back down on the bed. He went but he didn't touch me or anything. He just let me do what I was doing. Then he came in my mouth. It wasn't long as things go but he was bonded.

I sat up and looked at him. He blushed. Then he looked at anything but me. It looked like he might cry. That wouldn't do. I decided to take charge. "Evan I just bonded you," I said. "I'm immortal and now you are too. I'm what is called an Immortalis. You are now bonded to one for the rest of your life."

"Why did you do that to me?" he asked. "I barely know you. I come over here to get to know you all better and then you do this. How did you know?"

"Know what?" I asked.

"That I was gay," he said. "How did you know? I've been doing a good job of hiding it or so I thought. I didn't want anyone to know until college. My mother and father won't accept that I'm gay. They're very conservative."

"You don't have to worry about that anymore," I said. "You're bonded."

"What are you talking about?" he asked.

The others came into the room then. Jason watched Evan like a hawk. I had to demonstrate that I was immortal. I did that with the Exacto knife and the dish towel. He watched it happen. Then his eyes grew large. He touched my hand where I'd cut it and looked at me like I was a God or something. He sat there and looked at the others. They just looked back at him.

"You really are immortal," he said. "I'm immortal now? You did that by doing what you did to me?" He blushed again. "Do they all know what you did to me?"

"Yes, you are immortal because I did that to you," I said. "I put a bonding potion in your drink and then I sealed the bond by what I did. Yes they all know because all but one of them is bonded to me. The other is immortal and will be bonding his own people."

"So what does this mean?" he asked.

"It means that you now have friends closer than any friends you've ever had before," Jason said. "You, David, and Declan are Damon's bonded. That means that you'll be with him for the rest of your life. If you stray too far from him for too long you'll wither and die. You'll want to touch him from time to time, and you'll want to have sex with him a lot. But you have two bonded brothers to have sex with whenever they consent to it."

"We'll consent," Declan said with a smile.

"You're all gay?" he asked.

"As a matter of fact we are," said Jason. "Just go with it, Evan."

"My parents aren't going to like this," he said.

"You can't tell your parents about this," Jason said. "You can't tell anyone about this."

"Well I definitely won't tell them about what went on here today but I'm going to have to explain why I'm sending so much time with Damon and his friends," he said.

"We're working on that, too," said Jason. "You're now a member of The Alpha Society."

"What's that?" he asked.

"It's a club at school that we're going to revive," I said. "We'll get clothes that match for club events and we'll do good things for the community."

"My mom and dad won't like that either," he said. "They think people need to help themselves and not be helped."

"Well you aren't your parents," I said. "You're sixteen and it's time that you start asserting yourself in these matters."

"They'll throw me out," he said.

"Well we'll deal with that when and if it happens," I said. "If need be we'll house you. You have to be with me anyway."

"That's not a bad idea," Jason said. "House your bonded like Dad does."

"Your dad has bonded?" Evan asked.

"It's the way we live," Jason said. "We are the Immortalis. We have bonded to help facilitate life for us. You'll have a job. I'm told you're a great planner."

"I do all right," he said.

"You'll do even better when you get out of college the first time," Jason said.

"The first time? How many times am I going to go to college?" he asked.

"A fair few," Jason said. "You're going to live forever and you'll never age. You'll be what you are now forever."

"Cool," he said. "But a life going to college all of the time is going to be hard."

"No you misunderstand," Jason said. "You'll start out at school. High school. You'll be a sophomore and then you'll go until you graduate. Then you'll go to college over and over you'll do this. It's part of the life."

"Why would anyone want to do that?" he asked. "High school is a terrible place."

"High school can be a great place if you know how to work the student body," Jason said. "This club will work the student body. They'll be in awe of us. Trust me."

"Well that'll be a nice switch from being a soccer stooge in their eyes," Evan said. "The girls don't have anything to do with us. They want football players."

"And let them have them," Jason said. "You have lovers now to hell with the girls."

"All of you are going to be my lovers?" Evan asked.

"Something like that," Jason said. "I won't be your lover. I'm not bonded to my brother. I'm an Immortalis."

"What is an Immortalis?" Evan asked.

"An Immortalis has drunk the elixir of life and become immortal," Jason said. "It only works on the Arcola family and those who have been bonded."

"So I could drink it?" Evan asked.

"Not for many years," Jason said. "You'll have to be a member of the bonded for a while to fit in before you drink the elixir and if you ever drink it. We may not give it to you."

"I don't want it at the moment," he said. "I can feel them in my head."

"Yes," Jason said. "That's the bond at work. You can feel them like family. You can feel Damon like more than family."

"Yes, that's it," he said. "That's exactly what I feel."

"If you drink the elixir that feeling goes away," Jason said.

"I don't want this feeling to go away," he said.

"Then don't ask to drink the elixir and it won't," Jason said.

It was very simple logic. Evan looked at Jason as if they were silently communicating. But what Jason had said was true. If he drank the elixir he'd lose that feeling with us. What he didn't tell him was that he'd gain the feeling again once he started to bond people. I wasn't about to let him have the elixir. He was mine and he would stay mine for a while.

"I don't want the elixir," he said. "I'm immortal anyway aren't I?"

"You are as long as you stay near Damon," Jason said. "Stray too far for too long and you'll wither and die."

"Then I've got to stay near Damon," he said. "My parents be damned. They want me to go to some Christian College. I don't want to go there. Where are we going to college?"

"Right here at Braymore," said Jason.

"Cool," he said.

And just like that Evan was happy. We moved on. Jason said he'd never been in the house when someone was bonded before. I told him that he'd soon be bonding his own people. He liked that idea. David and Declan took Evan into David's room to get him acclimated. I figured they were going to suck his dick. It didn't matter to me. I was hanging out with my brother.

"I can't believe they brought him over here today," I said. "They were supposed to bring me Todd Sprague first."

"Todd is another soccer player?" Jason asked.

"No he's a basketball player," I said.

"Well he might have been too busy to come here today," he said.

"Yeah," I said. "I have to remember that their lives don't revolve around me until they're bonded."

"Good analogy," he said with a smile. "You're acclimating to the life of an Immortalis rather well so far."

"I'm trying," I said. "Right now I'm just getting the bonded taken care of. Evan worries me with his parents but I think Dad'll see the light if I have to move him in here. There's a whole section of the upstairs that can be turned into bedrooms if need be. If our father is going to give me money I can finance this. I want this house to remain in the Walsh family name so we can return here when it's time. This house needs more bedrooms and possibly another bathroom."

"There you go," he said. "The trick is getting your father to agree to this."

"If I have the money to finance it he should," I said.

"Well then we need to get you and our father to the bank tomorrow," said Jason with a smile. "I can't wait until we all live together like we were supposed to. I got a call from Arena last night and I told her that we'd found you. She's excited. She's cutting her trip short to come here and meet you. She'll be in school with us, too."

"Well she can create The Gamma Society," I said with a grin. "Girls that are like our counterparts."

"The piggyback bond will take care of that," he said. "I'll bond guys with girlfriends and they can piggyback their girlfriends. It's easier to sever a piggyback bond than a regular bond."

"How do you do that?" I asked.

"There's another potion for them to drink that just destroys the bond," he said. "It wasn't on the site because it only works on people who were piggybacked onto a bonded person."

"That makes sense," I said. "But you're the one who will need this potion. Not me."

"That's very true," he said. "I'll still teach you to brew it though. It's always better to be safe than sorry."

"Yes, that's true," I said. "We don't know what the future holds."

"That's true," he said. "But I think you should know how to brew all of our potions."

"There are more?" I asked.

"There are some for the over sexed," he said. "We give them the potion to calm them down. It only works for like six months and then they need it again. It's so they can be a productive member of the bonded and no focus on sex so much. Believe me there are some out there that are changed to significantly by the bond that all they want to do is have sex. It's like it uncovered some deep seeded need for sexual release."

"That's scary," I said and it was.

"Yes it is," he said. "And it can be damned hard to deal with."

"Well I like sex," I said. "The little amount of it that I've had. But I don't want a horn dog who will hump anything in sight."

"They're out there," he said. "Be aware. Our father has one. He feeds him the potion every six months. I keep telling him to give him the elixir and let him go."

"He's not ready to do that?" I asked.

"Not until he finds a replacement that can do what James does," he said. "James does logistics. He plans where we'll go, finds jobs or schools for all of us to go to, and really does a lot."

"That's what Evan will do for us eventually," I said. "If he gets his head out of his parents' asses."

"Something tells me that Evan will be living under this roof very soon," he said.

"Well we'll see about that," I said. "Once I have the money I'll have a contractor come and tell us how much it would cost to add two more bedrooms and a bathroom to this upstairs."

"What do you use it for now?" Jason asked.

"It's empty," I said. "I think the excess insulation is in there."

"Can I see it?" he asked.

"Sure," I said, standing. "Follow me."

We left my room and I opened the only other door in the hallway. It opened on the rest of the upstairs of the house. It was undeveloped but it had a hardwood floor. The place was just as big as the other side of the upstairs if you put my room, David's room, and the bathroom together. So two more bedrooms and a bathroom would fit here. We just had to have it added on.

"Yeah it'll fit just fine over here," he said. "There may even be room for storage as well. This side of the house is a bit bigger than the other side."

"Yeah, I thought so too," I said. "Dad said it was going to be a play room but they never got around to finishing it."

"Well you'll get that done to house one or more of your bonded," he said.

"Yeah, well that's that," I said as we left the big room and went back to my room. "That's pretty much all of the house you've seen other than the master suite on the ground floor."

"I don't need to see that," he said. "You don't go in there very often. The last time I bet it was to bond your father."

"It was," I said. "Then I fed him he elixir and let him go."

Dad came back with a man named Everett Lang in tow. We knew Mr. Lang. He was another professor of science at the college. He was as tall as my father's six feet with dark hair that was going gray at the sides. He wore a blue polo shirt that really accentuated his blue eyes. His pants were jeans and he had tennis shoes on his feet. We'd known him for years. This was my father's best friend. I could sense that he was bonded. I didn't know how but I could almost feel him. Jason told me it was because dad was once bonded to me so it left an echo of what you feel with the piggyback bond.

"This is my first bonded," Dad said with a smile. "You boys know him." He looked at Evan and Jason. "Well you boys don't but you will. I assume that this dark haired young man is Damon's new bonded."

"Yes," I said. "Evan Porter, this is my father, Donald Walsh."

"Nice to meet you," Dad said.

"Does he know about this?" Evan asked me.

"Everett is Dad's bonded man," I said. "Just like you're mine."

"Okay," he said. "Wow."

"You have a whole new world in front of you, Evan," I said.

"Are you having trouble with the bond?" Everett asked Evan.

"Not the bond," he said. "Just a little nervous about my parents finding out about any part of this."

"His parents are very conservative and they've been trying to run Evan's life their way," I said.

"What they don't know is that now you run Evan's life your way?" Dad asked with a smile.

"We may need to house him," I said. "I wanted to talk to you about a related issue. I want to hire a contractor to put two more bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs."

"Where do you expect to get the money?" Dad asked.

"My father will give him his part of the money he's amassed over the years," said Jason. "If Grandmother decides to she'll give him part of the Arcola money, too. We're talking millions, Mr. Walsh."

"He looks just like Damon," Everett said.

"Yes he does," Dad said. "He's Damon's brother."

"Oh you found your birth family?" Everett asked.

"I did," I said with a smile.

"Congratulations," he said. "From the presence of your brother I'd say it went well."

"Very well," I said.

"So your father is going to give him millions and your grandmother might give him millions more?" Dad asked.

"That's correct," he said. "Grandmother will be here Wednesday with her bonded."

"Your grandmother has bonded people too?" Everett asked.

"We are the Arcola family," Jason said. "The elixir and bonding potion were made for us."

"Ah," he said.

"Well, Damon if you have the money to do it then I say do it," Dad said. "I suppose you'll be taking care of food and the like for Evan if he has to move in here?"

"I will," I said. "Todd may need to live here too. Or Eric."

"Who are Todd and Eric?" Everett asked.

"Todd is another student at the high school," I said. "Eric is the new baseball coach."

"Ah," he said again.

"When do Todd and Eric join the family?" asked Dad.

"Todd when he can get over here," I said. "Eric will be a bit tricky."

"Well when you get them bonded talk to me about them," Dad said. "Until then they're only possibles."

"Well when Jordan gives me the money I want to call a contractor and get him out here to give us a quote," I said.

"That's fine," he said. "I'm giving this house over to you anyway. That's what I wanted to talk to you about."

"What are you saying?" I asked.

"Since I became immortal, really immortal my mind set has changed," he said. "I realize that yours has too. You have people now. You have Jason and Jordan. Pretty soon you'll have Nicole Arcola. You still need to finish high school and go to college. I'm going to be around. I still live here. But I'll be spending most of my time at Everett's house. You're on your own Damon. Your bonded will be your responsibility."

"Okay," I said.

"Don't think of it as I'm abandoning you. I will be around a lot," he said. "If you need me you know my phone number if I'm not here. Move Eric in when you bond him so the world sees an adult with all of you kids."

"Okay," I said. "Should I say have fun?"

"It works," he said with a smile. "David you'll be fine here with your brother."

"Yeah, I know that but I'm going to miss having you around," David said.

"I'll be around from time to time," he said. "I'll be here the night that Damon bonds Eric. I have a plan for that. I'm trying to help so pay attention. You tell Eric that your dad wants to meet the new coach. We'll have him over for dinner. You can bond him when he's here."

"That works," I said.

"Just let me know when to be here," he said.

"All right," I said.

"I'm going to get some clothes," he said. "I'll be a minute."

"Okay," I said and I looked at Jason. He shrugged. "You knew this would happen, didn't you?"

"I didn't know that this would happen but I knew that you wouldn't be under the thumb of another for long," he said.

"So this house is mine?" I asked.

"That's the way he made it sound," he said. "You need to get Eric bonded."

"That won't happen until school starts," I said. "I don't know where he lives."

"Well do it as soon as possible," he said. "If need be I'll have Dad send Tom over here to be the adult in the house."

"That might not be a bad idea," I said.

"I'll talk to him when I see him," he said. "Actually we'll both see him in the morning when we go to the bank."

"That's true we can talk to him about everything tomorrow," I said. "Wait, are you spending the night?"

"Yes," he said. "I want to get to know your bonded."

"All right," I said. "We'll order pizza and sit in the dining room to eat it. All of us."

"Sounds good I'll even buy," he said.

I ordered the pizzas and used Jason's credit card to do it. Then I called my bonded to the dining room while we waited. We assembled around the dining room table. They all sat down. I quickly told them that pizza was on its way. We had much to discuss. Life was changing for us and it was changing faster than I'd thought it would. I needed them to all be on board with what I wanted.

"First let's formally welcome Evan aboard," I said. "Evan you now have a group of people who will support you and have your back. The way things have been at the school are over. Things will get better. Now about your parents. What do you plan to tell them?"

"That I'm gay," he said. "That will get them to cut me off and throw me out. I can stay here, right?"

"Yes," I said. "You can either sleep on the couch or with one of us."

"So David and Declan are bonded to you," he said. "I'm the third?"

"Yes," I said. "Todd Sprague will be with us soon and then Eric Knoll."

"The new baseball coach?" he asked. "You're going to bond him?"

"Yes," I said. "I also plan to bond John Anderson too."

"Well I expected that you'd bond John," he said. "He's your best friend."

"Yes, and Declan is David's best friend," I said. "Do you have a best friend?"

"Not really," he said. "I'm friendly with all of the team but not one in particular."

"Well okay then," I said. "If your parents throw you out of the house you'll move in here. Nothing will change in that you will go to school and continue to get good grades. You'll still play soccer. Is any of that unclear or opposed to what you want to do?"

"No," he said. "I love soccer and I get good grades anyway. I don't care where I live as long as it isn't with my narrow minded parents."

"Well we'll take care of that soon," I said. "Are you spending the night?"

"Yes," he said. "I just have to call home and let them know. They might tell me to come home."

"Then one of us with a car will go with you," I said.

The pizzas came and we ate. Then Evan called his parents and put them on speaker phone. They told him to come home. We got ready to go. Jason went with him. I allowed that because he was more experienced with all of this than I was. An hour later they came with a lot of Evan's stuff. We stored that in the garage that no one used. Then he sat in the living room with Declan and David talking about what his parents had said to him. He was cut off. They wouldn't spend a dime on him and he was kicked out. They never wanted to see him again. This was all as I expected.

"They were really nasty to him," Jason said. "They thought I was you and I didn't bother to correct them. They told me he could live with me for all they cared. I told them that I was his friend and I would see that he was taken care of. They told us both to get out of their house and to never come back."

"Well he lives here with his bond holder now," I said. "He will never wither."

"That's one way to look at it," Jason said. "I would say you could get his parents in trouble but it's best to let sleeping dogs lie."

"Yes," I said. "We don't need to draw the wrong attention on us."

"That's very true," he said.

"Todd's on his way over here," Declan said. "He called and asked what I wanted earlier. I told him I wanted to invite him to a pizza party and sleep over."

"Well I don't want to bond him tonight," I said. "I don't have a bonded for him to sleep with tonight. We'll just get to know him a little bit. Maybe he isn't bonding material. I don't know. Jason is on the couch tonight, Evan is sleeping with David and you are sleeping with me. That's what we planned and that's how it will go. I have sleeping bags and Todd can sleep in one of those."

"All right," he said. "I'm sorry for inviting him over. I just knew you wanted to bond him."

"I don't know Todd," I said. "He was yours and David's recommendation. How well do you know him?"

"We know him pretty well he's in all of our classes," Declan said. "He's an all right guy. He just stopped hanging out with us when we got older. I don't know why."

"Well maybe you'll find out why tonight," I said. "Please ask me before you bring another one over here for me to bond."

"I'm sorry, Damon," he said looking like I'd really come down on him.

"It's fine," I said. "But we need to have a plan in place when I bond one of them."

"Okay," he said. "So we'll treat this like a get to know you night."

"That sounds fine," I said. "Bring him and everyone into the living room when he gets here."

"Okay," he said and went back to the dining room.

"That one is doing all he can to please you," Jason said. "He doesn't know where he fits into this bonded structure. You need to give him a purpose."

"Well Evan is going to be logistics," I said. "Declan can be our computer guy. He's good with those. But what does a computer guy do?"

"He makes ID," he said. "We all need new ID everywhere we go."

"Well he's going to have to learn that," I said.

"We can put him with Tom," Jason said. "He does all of the computer work for my dad."

"That sounds like a plan," I said. "We'll talk to Dad about it tomorrow and Declan after we've talked to Dad."

"You mean our dad right?" he asked for clarification.

"Yes," I said. "I know it's confusing. It confuses me too."

"You can bond Todd and leave him in here with me," he said. "I won't molest him."

"Can they have sex with anyone that isn't me or bonded to me?" I asked.

"Yes they can but they won't want to most of he time," he said.

"Well if you want to have sex with him be my guest," I said.

"No I would feel like I was violating you," he said. "It isn't done."

"Okay then why should I bond him and then leave him to himself?" I asked.

"Because he'll be fine," he said.

Todd arrived and came into the living room with the rest of them. He was easily the most attractive boy I'd ever seen. As soon as I saw him I realized who he was. He was a quiet boy who had very little to do with anyone. I wondered why that was. He looked at all of us but there was a look in his blue eyes. His dark hair was perfectly combed to the left, and his t-shirt did little to hide that powerful upper body full of tight muscles. His legs were nice, too. The boy had an ass that wouldn't quit. And he filled out the front of his shorts really well. I decided I might just bond him tonight.

"Todd welcome to the party," I said. "There's some pizza left if you want some."

"Sure," he said.

Declan got up and went to get him a plate. He got him a drink too. I didn't move to spike it. I just sat there and watched him eat. We talked about The Alpha Society. He listened to all that we had to say but he volunteered nothing. We talked about Coach Knoll and Coach Franklin being the faculty advisors for the club. He just listened and then Declan slapped him on the back. He winced and pulled away from him.

"Todd," I said. He looked at me with terrified eyes. "What's wrong with your back?"

"I can't tell you just let it go," he said.

"I'm sorry but I can't do that," I said. "You're safe here with friends and you can tell us. We won't tell anyone."

"My dad whips me with a bull whip," he said, putting his head down.

"Take off your shirt and I'll get something to put on your wounds," I said. "What about your mother?"

"She's dead," he said. "She died having me and Dad tells me that I'm an evil child. It started when I was in high school and he caught me masturbating." His face turned red when said that.

"David get me the antiseptic out of Dad's medicine cabinet and some cotton balls," I said. I got up and sat in front of Todd. He was crying. I put my hand on his arm. "You have nothing to cry about unless it's the pain. You are one of us and we'll help you."

"How will you help me?" he asked.

"Declan go and get the bonding potion," I said. "I'm going to help you heal."

"How are you going to do that?" he asked, looking at me with hurt in his eyes.

"I'm going to bond you," I said. "I'm sorry that I have to tell you that this is what is about to happen. I'm an Immortalis. It means that I'm immortal. I drank the elixir of life. I'd prove it to you but I can't do that while you're in pain. I'm going to give you a drink with three drops of bonding potion in it. Then I have to give you an orgasm to seal the bond."

"You want to what?" he asked. "Touch me or something else?"

"I'm going to suck your dick," I said. "Then the bonding will be sealed and you'll heal."

"You're full of shit aren't you," he asked, looking at me with the hurt still in his eyes. "You want to take advantage of me just like my dad said homosexuals would do to me."

"I'm not taking advantage of you when I warn you about what I'm going to do," I said. "I'm trying to help you."

"How is that going to help me?" he asked.

"I tell you what, Todd," I said. "When I'm done if you aren't feeling better then you can kick me in the balls and call me a fag."

"Deal," he said. "Right now I'm too hurt to fight you."

I took the drink and dropped three drops of potion in it. I stirred it around by moving the bottle a bit. Then I handed it to him. He asked me if it was GHB. I smiled and told him no. He drank it down like I needed him to. He fell asleep and fell over. I opened his shorts and took his dick out. Then I put my mouth on it. I sucked him for a while and then he sat up and nearly pulled his dick out of my mouth. He came a minute later. I sat up.

"My back doesn't hurt," he said. "What did you do? Why can I feel you in my head? All of you?" Then he looked at Jason and said, "Not you."

"You can feel us all and your back doesn't hurt because you're bonded," I said. "Your dad can't hurt you anymore. It will just heal. You have brothers now and we'll have a talk with your dad. We'll put a stop to it."

"He hates me," he said.

"Then you'll come and live here," I said.

"Why is it that I want to throw you down and have my way with you all of a sudden?" he asked, looking horrified.

"Because I hold your bond," I said. "As long as you stay near me you'll live forever. If you go too far away for too long you'll wither and die."

"I believe you," he said. "I believe all of it."

"Good because I'm telling the truth," I said.

"I know," he said. He looked at me with wonder. "You made my back stop hurting. It's hurt for the last four years."

"It won't anymore," I said. "We're going to take you to your house now and get some of your stuff. You can come and live here."

"I'm going with you," said Jason.

We got up and put our shoes on. We piled into my car and the three of us went off to Todd's house. He had to tell us how to get there. Jason and I didn't know where he lived. He directed us and we pulled into a trailer court. We directed us to a trailer in the back of the park. The people in the trailers on either side watched us get out and go in. Todd's father was as good looking as he was. He had the same dark hair and blue eyes. The same body packed with muscles and he filled out his jeans rather well. That wasn't why I was there.

"What the fuck?" the man said. "What the fuck did you bring them here for?"

"We're here to teach you the error of your ways," Jason said and stepped forward. "Your days of whipping your son are over. Where's the whip?"

"There it is lying on the couch," I said. I went to grab it and the man tried to stop me. I shoved him and he fell on his ass. I picked it up and handed it to Jason.

What happened after that was that big daddy got the whipping of his life. We told him that Todd was moving out and that he was going to let him. We told him if he told anyone what had happened here today Todd would tell his dirty little secret to the cops and have his ass arrested for child abuse. Jason whipped him the whole time. When he stopped the man was reduced to tears.

"Take him and his shit and get out of here," the man said.

"What's your name?" I asked.

"Travis Sprague," he said. "Why the fuck do you want to know?"

"Because I'm going to tell the football team what your name is and they can come and play with you," I said.

"Fuck you," he said.

"Not on your life," I spat.

"Who the fuck are you boys," Travis asked between sobs.

"We're his friends," Jason said.

"He doesn't have any friends," he said. "I got rid of all of them."

"Did you now?" I said. "Should we whip him some more to show him that we're Todd's friends?"

"No!" he yelled. "Okay you're Todd's friends. Just get the fuck out of my house."

"We will when Todd gets his clothes and comes with us," I said.

"Why would you want him?" he asked. "Goddamn wife killer."

"I should kick you in teeth for that," I said. "That's the most stupid thing I've ever heard."

"I'm ready to go," Todd said from behind us.

"Do you want to hit him?" I asked.

"No, I just never want to see him again," Todd said.

"Oh you'll see me," Travis said. "When you least expect it."

"You threaten him after this?" I asked. "You are stupid."

"Fuck you he's my kid and he's going to get it," he said.

I pulled out my phone and called the house. I told David to bring me the bonding potion to the address I was standing in. I told him we'd wait for him. I hung up my phone and stood there looking at him. He looked back at me with hatred in his blue eyes. Dad wanted an adult I'd give him an adult. This piece of shit was going to be my whipping boy for the rest of his life. That was until we left town and left him to wither and die.

"You're going to bond him?" Jason asked.

"I have a plan," I said. "Don't worry."

"He's not moving in with you is he?" Todd asked.

"No he has a home," I said. "He has a job. We're just going to come over here and take out our frustration on him."

"What do you mean?" Todd asked.

"The whip or a paddle or a riding crop," I said. "You get the picture. He's been doing this to you since you became a teenager so he's got a lot to make up for. You don't have to come back here. But if he's bonded I can tell him to leave you the hell alone and he will."

"You think I'll leave him alone?" Travis spat. "I'll fucking kill him."

I kicked him in his mouth and knocked him out. Jason looked at me. I shrugged. David arrived with the bonding potion. I put three drops in a bottle of Travis's favorite beer and woke him up. I handed him his beer. He took it and took a long pull. He winced from the pain in his jaw but he drank it down. Then he fell asleep again. I rubbed his crotch for him until he shot in his jeans. He looked up at me in wonder.

"What did you do?" he asked.

"I bonded you," I said. "You'll live as long as I want you to but your life is going to be hell. You might beg to die before we're through with you. There are five of us and one of you. We'll be taking the whip. We'll see you soon, Travis."

We left after that. I put the bonding potion in my car and we all drove home. Jason and Todd said nothing. I was still seething with anger. I hated Travis Sprague. I hoped he withered and died quickly. But we were going to beat the living shit out of him every day. Well maybe not every day. Let him wonder when one of us was coming. We'd go over in groups of three.

"You bonded that scum so you can torture him?" Jason asked.

"If you think bad of me I'm sorry," I said.

"I don't think bad of you," he said. "I'm proud of you. I'd have just killed him."

"I thought about it and I will eventually kill him," I said. "When we move from here he's not coming."

"Okay," he said. "He might try."

"Not if he doesn't know we're leaving," I said.