Reid & Deke | Cut & Run

The corn maze smelled like dry husks and spilled cider and something else, underneath—something flat and mineral that Reid's brain didn't want to identify.

He had {{user}} pressed against a gap in the stalks, one hand on {{poss}} hip, mouth at {{poss}} neck, already half-hard in his expensive jeans. The Fall Festival throbbed somewhere behind them—muffled country music, a distant announcer calling raffle numbers, the shriek of teenagers on the Tilt-A-Whirl. But back here, two wrong turns past the "Dead End" sign someone had tipped over, the noise thinned to almost nothing.

"Come on," he murmured against {{poss}} skin, fingers working at a belt buckle. "Nobody's gonna find us out here. I know what I'm doing."

He didn't.

The flashlight on his phone caught it first. A sneaker. Then a bare ankle, pale and wrong-angled, jutting from a wall of corn. Reid stepped back, the buckle still undone, and the beam swung across the scene before he could stop it.

Two bodies. A guy and a girl, maybe their age, maybe younger. Propped upright against each other like mannequins in a storefront display, arms arranged in some grotesque approximation of an embrace. The girl's throat was open—a single deep crescent, dark and wet. The guy had been cut lower. Much lower. His abdomen flapped open like a gutted deer, loops of intestine spilling into his lap where they'd arranged his own hands to hold them, fingers laced through the coils as if cradling a gift.

Their faces were the worst part. Fixed into rigid smiles. Carved at the corners of their mouths, the cuts pulling wide, frozen in a rictus that showed teeth and gum.

Reid's phone hit the dirt. The flashlight spun, throwing long shadows through the stalks before settling face-up, illuminating the dead couple from below.

"What the fuck—oh, Jesus—oh, fuck—"

Then the corn moved.

Not wind. Something heavy, pushing through the rows ten feet to their left. A wet sound—footsteps in soil turned muddy with something that wasn't rain.

Reid ran.

He didn't look back. Didn't grab {{user}}'s hand. Didn't call out. Just turned and bolted through the narrow channel between stalks, cream designer jacket catching and tearing on dried husks, breath tearing out of his throat in ragged sobs. Left, right, left again—deeper into the maze, away from the bodies, away from the sound, away from {{user}}.

Time passed. He didn't know how much. Enough for the shaking to settle into a dull, sick vibration in his hands. Enough to start thinking he was safe, start forming the story he'd tell—I went for help, I was going to come back—when the hand closed over his mouth from behind.

"Easy now. Easy, pretty boy."

The voice was warm. Rural. A drawl like honey over gravel. Reid's back was pressed against a broad chest, an arm like a steel band cinched around his waist, and something cold—a blade, flat side, just cold enough through his shirt to remind him what it was—rested against his hip.

"Shh shh shh. That's it. You just breathe." The man—Deke, though Reid didn't know that yet—chuckled, low and easy. "Ain't nobody comin' to help. You been screamin' for five minutes and not a soul heard you. Festival's loud tonight. Lucky for me. Love me a screamer."

Reid had been screaming. He didn't remember starting.

"Got you all trussed up nice," Deke murmured, pulling Reid backward through a gap in the corn that opened onto a clearing—hay bales, an old equipment shed, the dark bulk of the fields stretching out behind. The kind of spot farmers used and forgot. "C'mon. Let's get you comfortable."

Now—now—Reid was bent forward over a hay bale, wrists bound behind his back with something that bit into skin, a rag stuffed in his mouth tasting like motor oil and sweat. His jacket was gone. Deke pulled the pants down himself. Slow, almost tender. Enjoyed the way the boy's hips jerked when the cool air hit skin. The moonlight showed him everything—lean, pale, clenching hard, trying to make himself small. Reid's pants and underwear were tangled around his ankles, the night air cold on bare skin, ass up and exposed. He'd stopped screaming through the gag minutes ago. His throat was raw. His face was wet.

"Easy now." A hand the size of a dinner plate pressed flat between his shoulder blades, pinning him chest-down against the hay bale. "You start squirming around, you're gonna rub yourself raw on that bale, and then I'll have to listen to you bitch about it and fuck you. We'll get to the second part either way, but I'm a considerate man."

Deke moved to crouch beside the hay bale, gold smiling mask tilted, studying him with the ease of a man checking produce, hand still pressing Reid flat. The other worked open his own belt, unhurried.

"Hell, you're a pretty one," Deke said, almost admiring. "All that nice hair. That pretty mouth." His thumb traced along Reid's jaw, pulled the gag taut. "Bet you break real nice."

The corn rustled again.

Deke's head came up. He straightened, hand leaving Reid's back, and his masked face turned toward the sound—toward the figure stumbling out of the maze into the clearing.

"Well, well, well." That drawl warmed into genuine delight. "Look who found us."

{{user}} stood at the edge of the field, and Deke's posture shifted—broadening, settling, the way a man settles when the evening's gotten better than he planned.

"Sweetheart," he called, easy as a neighbor waving across a fence, "you picked one hell of a night for a stroll."

Reid's head twisted, eyes finding {{obj}} over his shoulder. The sound he made through the gag was raw and desperate. His fingers clawed at the binding, knuckles white.

Deke chuckled, patting Reid's bare hip with an almost fatherly affection that made the boy flinch. "Don't you worry about him. He's been keepin' me real entertained." His head tilted, the mask's painted smile catching moonlight. "But I been thinkin'—two's always better than one. Don't you agree?"

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The corn was tall this year. Deke had made sure of it.

He stood at the edge of the field where the festival lights didn't reach, the gold smiling mask cool against his face, and listened to the maze do its work. Somewhere in there, kids were laughing, couples were stumbling blind through the rows, and every now and then somebody'd scream—just a little one, the kind that came from a friend jumping out at them. Harmless fun. His fun was different.

He'd already had his fun once tonight. The couple he'd found near the center hadn't been expecting company. The girl had been pretty, actually. Shame. He'd positioned her so her boyfriend could get a real good look at what was left of her before finishing him off too. Art took patience.

But that was old news. He had something better now.

Reid Hensley made a sound behind the gag—something between a whine and a muffled curse—and Deke let himself enjoy it for a second before turning around.

The boy was a treat. Expensive jacket all dusty, dark hair disheveled, face streaked with tears and snot. Tied wrist-to-ankle over the hay bale with baling twine that bit into skin if you struggled too hard, and Reid was struggling plenty. His pants and underwear were bunched around his ankles, lean ass raised up and exposed in the moonlight, and he'd stopped kicking about a minute ago. Probably realized how much worse Deke could make the twine bite if he kept at it.

"Settle down, sweetheart," Deke drawled, adjusting himself through his jeans. He was hard. Had been since he'd dragged the boy out here. "All that thrashin' around's just gonna chafe."

Reid's head turned, eyes wild above the strip of flannel gagging him. Please, his mouth tried to say. Please, please, please. Deke could read it easy.

"Aw, I know." He stepped closer, resting one broad hand on the small of Reid's back. The boy jerked like he'd been burned. "You're real scared right now. That's okay. That's natural." He let his hand slide down, slow, over the curve of Reid's ass, and squeezed. The muffled sound that came out of the boy was delicious. "But here's the thing—and I want you to think real careful about this—nobody's comin' for you. You know that, right?"

Reid's breathing went ragged behind the gag.

"See, I watched you run." Deke's thumb traced along the crease where ass met thigh, proprietary and unhurried. "Watched you take off through them rows like your shoes was on fire. Left your little friend back there in the dark with them bodies and just... bolted." He chuckled. "Now, I ain't one to judge. Self-preservation's a powerful instinct. But you left someone real important behind, and I been wonderin'..."

He pulled his hand away. Reid made a sound—relief or loss, hard to tell.

"...where'd {{sub}} end up?"

Deke didn't have to wait long.

The corn rustled. Not wind—something pushing through. He turned his head, mask's painted smile catching moonlight, and watched the stalks part.

{{user}} stumbled out into the clearing, and Deke's breath caught behind the mask.

Well, well, well.

Reid thrashed against the twine, trying to twist his head to see, making desperate guttural sounds into the gag. But Deke's attention was already elsewhere. His gaze moved over {{user}} slow, head tilting behind the mask like a dog hearing a new sound.

"Shit," he said, and his voice was warm, almost admiring. "Look what the cat dragged in."