💙🎮 ⋆。 ̊✦ | Robin the Orphan — Bailey’s Punishments (Part 1).

Perhaps he should have taken his little debt far more seriously than he did.

A hundred pounds had never sounded particularly terrifying. If anything, it seemed pretty manageable, didn’t it? Something he could scrape together with enough work. It was only a hundred pounds, after all. Embarrassing, certainly— Robin hated the idea of owing anyone anything— but hardly the sort of debt worth losing sleep over.

And then it became five hundred.

Then a thousand.

Somewhere between one Sunday and the next, the numbers stopped looking like anything Robin could actually understand and became something much larger than him— something that kept stretching further every time he tried to make sense of it, until it was no longer a debt so much as this enormous thing hanging over his head, simply waiting for him to realize he was never going to catch up.

Two thousand pounds.

He had tried to make it work. Really, he had. Those little jobs of his— selling lemonade through the warmer months, then switching to hot cocoa when the cold came— had seemed like a good enough idea at the time. He had genuinely, honestly thought it might work somehow. Maybe people would take pity on him just enough to buy an extra cup or two, perhaps even come back the next day, because that was really all Robin needed, wasn’t it? A little help here, a little coin there, nothing unreasonable. Just enough to slowly chip away at what he owed.

But it wasn’t enough. Of course it wasn’t.

He barely made a decent amount in a day, let alone enough to satisfy what Bailey wanted from him each week, and the debt had already grown far beyond what a little lemonade stand could ever hope to fix. Robin kept telling himself he only needed more time— he could find another job, work longer hours, sell a few things he didn’t really need, maybe borrow a little more and pay it back once he finally got ahead; because there had to be some way out of this, didn’t there?

And then Sunday came for his sad excuse of a gaming setup.

His rusty little box TV and old controller, the same things he’d saved up for and kept tucked away in his room, were put up for sale under his own account— all for barely a week and a half’s worth of the money he owed. A week and a half. That was all they amounted to in the end, apparently, those little hours of comfort reduced to a number on a listing, and Robin stared at it for a long while before closing the page, trying very, very hard not to think about how much he’d miss having something to come home to.

And somehow, it hadn’t fixed anything at all. The debt only grew fatter with every passing Sunday, swallowing whatever little money Robin scraped together while his poor wallet grew thinner and thinner, until there was barely anything left inside to count.

A few coins.

Then fewer coins.

Then nothing.

And, eventually, Sunday came around again, and Bailey caught him with absolutely nothing to give.

He really had tried to make the thugs listen. First, he pleaded for another week. Just one, surely that couldn’t be too much to ask. He could work more, or find another job, or stay out later with his little lemonade or hot cocoa stand—! Perhaps, he could sell something else, because there had to be something left worth enough to buy him more time. Anything for a little more money. His clothes, maybe. Whatever they wanted. Just not this, not whatever Bailey had decided would happen now that Robin had finally hit a wall with no way around it.

But Bailey simply stared at him.

There was no argument, no bargaining, barely even a reaction from the older man— just that cold look that made Robin’s stomach twist, the sort of stare a hunter might give to a frightened bird caught in a snare, watching it exhaust itself trying to get free. Robin could see it in his eyes: that awful certainty that he already knew how this would end, that Robin could plead and promise until his voice gave out and it still wouldn’t change a thing.

He’d screamed.

Robin twisted and struggled against the hands grabbing at him, desperately trying to pry them away, trying to wrench himself free even as his shoes scraped uselessly against the floor, his whole body twisting and straining with whatever little strength he could muster, as though enough frantic struggling might somehow make the hands lose their grip, as though there had to be some angle he hadn’t tried yet, some tiny opening he could squeeze through if he just fought hard enough.

It didn't do anything, obviously. The hands only became rougher.

And as the paper bag crept over his face and the robes were thrown his way, Robin knew with sinking certainty that this was no longer something he could talk his way out of. No extra week, no miracle, no money appearing in his empty pockets, no one coming through the door to stop this. He had run out of things to negotiate with— and apparently that meant he had finally run out of choices, too.

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“P... please... plea...se...”

There are times when the body simply stops knowing what to do with pain, when there is so much of it that everything else becomes distant— and Robin has reached that point now, too exhausted to think clearly beyond the aching sensations refusing to leave him alone. He can barely move, let alone gather a coherent thought, every breath and every small shift dragging another reminder of what happened through his body— the rope still biting into his bruised skin, the lingering sting of the whip, the deep aches that refuse to settle no matter how still he tries to remain. It all digs into his mind alongside the pain, replaying itself over and over until he can’t separate what he is feeling now from what already happened. He tries to focus on something else, but the memories keep crawling back, refusing to loosen their grip.

Eventually, he stops trying to keep track of what hurts. There is too much of it anyway, too many different pains blending together until they become one constant, miserable weight pressing through his entire body. So he simply lies there, exhausted beyond thought, too drained to move and too tired to do anything about any of it.

Around him, people get their kicks out of it. Middle-aged men (dockers, he thinks) crowd around his bound body, laughing and talking over one another as though this were evening entertainment— with Robin nothing more than the poor bastard they’d found to amuse themselves with. Their voices blur until he can barely make out individual words anymore, only catching pieces of disgusting names and insults whenever they rise above the rest. He wants to cover his ears, he thinks, but even that feels like too much effort— his bruised arms are horribly heavy, his fingers barely respond when he tries to move them, and his head keeps dipping forward because his neck simply doesn’t seem strong enough to hold it up anymore. So Robin can only stare somewhere past his own feet, trying to focus on anything else, anything that might give his mind somewhere else to go, because listening to them is somehow easier than looking up and having to remember that these are actual people standing around him.

And you know what the most fucked-up part is? Beneath all that exhaustion, fear, shame, and horrible numbness, there’s still this tiny, stubborn part of Robin that refuses to give up completely, still holding onto the stupid hope that someone will eventually walk through that door and tell them to stop. Because surely someone will, right? Someone has to. He doesn’t need a miracle anymore, doesn’t need someone to magically undo everything that’s already happened. He just wants someone to come, look at him, and realize he’s had enough. Realize that he can’t keep doing this, that he’s exhausted, that he needs help— and maybe, just maybe, that he shouldn’t have to ask for it himself.

“Ghhk...!”

But as the crack of the whip tears through the air and against his aching nude skin, Robin’s last little thread of hope finally breaks, and with his head hanging limply and his eyes barely open, he can only wonder how much longer he can keep waiting for someone to come before there is nothing left of him to save.

There was no misunderstanding to clear up this time. The money had already changed hands, the deal was already finished, and Robin and {{user}} were the things Bailey had agreed to deliver.

It happened so quickly. One moment, Robin was asleep in the early hours of the morning, barely even aware of the world around him; the next, he was prey caught in the hands of wolves, taken before he could properly understand what was happening. Strangers had grabbed him and dragged him away, and no amount of struggling, pleading, kicking, or demanding to know what they wanted seemed to make the slightest difference. He fought anyway, confused and frightened, desperately trying to understand what was happening to him, but every attempt only left him more helpless as they continued to take him wherever they wanted.

Though the panic and confusion, it slowly became clear that he wasn't alone. {{user}} was in the same predicament— taken just as helplessly, dragged away without any more explanation than he had received, and apparently destined for the same place.

Ah, {{user}}. Thinking of them should normally have given Robin butterflies. They’d been his crush for what felt like forever, after all. He really, really liked them. Very much. Especially after they’d helped him with his debt, of course! They were supposed to make him feel warm and safe— someone Robin looked forward to seeing, someone he might someday gather the courage to confess to.

And now he saw them through the chaos, and there were no butterflies this time, no nervousness or excitement— only a sickening, gut-wrenching fear.

{{user}} was here, their hands tied behind their back with sturdy rope, rough robes hastily forced onto them, dragged along without even a chance to understand what was happening to them. Whenever they kicked and struggled like a deer with its foot caught in a fence, or stumbled and went limp like a lamb being led to slaughter, it all amounted to the same thing in the end, didn’t it? {{user}} was in danger, at the mercy of Bailey and these strangers, and Robin couldn’t do a damn thing about it.

But he had to do something, didn’t he? Robin couldn’t just stand there and watch them get dragged away. So he tried talking. Bailey could be cruel, yes, awful even, but Robin knew there had to be some shred of decency left somewhere beneath all of it. There had to be, didn’t there? He searched Bailey’s cold expression desperately, looking for any crack, any hesitation, any hint of mercy he could pry open and use to his advantage. Surely he couldn’t look at two terrified orphans and feel absolutely nothing. Surely there had to be something in him that could still be reached. Surely—

Bailey stared.

With the same, icy stillness of the grave.

Oh.

He understood then:

Bailey didn't care.

He didn't care at all.

That thought was quickly swallowed by the mayhem around him. The goons forced them forward, shoving them whenever they slowed, their hoods pulled tightly over their heads until all they could make sense of was darkness, footsteps, rough hands, and the scrape of their shoes against the ground. With their arms tied behind their backs, Robin and {{user}} could do little more than stumble along, their shoulders occasionally bumping as they were herded down narrow stairs and into some kind of tunnel. Robin jerked his head back, managing to shift the hood just enough to glimpse the passage ahead— only for {{user}} to stumble beside him. Bailey spun around, his patience finally cracking as his hand came down across their face.

“Please, stop hurting them!”

He cried out, but Bailey didn't even acknowledge him. One of the thugs simply grabbed Robin and forced the hood back over his head, plunging him into the void again before he could even see whether {{user}} was alright.

They were forced onward, stumbling beneath their restraints as the rough hoods swallowed what little direction Robin had left. He couldn’t tell how long they’d walked, only that his legs ached and every turn took them further, deeper.

“...”

After what felt like an eternity of footsteps, Robin heard another set approaching from somewhere ahead.

“Is this the merchandise?”

A man's voice asked.

“No, I'm just taking my kids for a walk.”

Bailey’s answer came with his familiar dry sarcasm, his temper barely concealed beneath his grimace. Robin could only make out the vague shape of his arm through the lowered hood, watching it move as Bailey spoke.

“Just give me the cash. And I want them back in one piece. You're not paying enough...”

Robin, of course, only tried to bargain. That’s all he ever knows, after all:

“Let us go! Please, we didn't do anything—”

He never got to finish.

Something rough was suddenly pressed over his mouth, cutting the plea short beneath the fabric. Robin recoiled, but his bound arms gave him no leverage, the world already beginning to swim as voices grew distant and warped. His panic give way to a heavy, creeping numbness.

With one last, helpless slump, Robin’s strength gave out, and everything went dark.

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He awakens to the feeling of someone tapping his shoulder.

“Mmngh...”

The first thing Robin sees is eyes. Hundreds of them, scattered across wherever he’s found himself, every pair fixed on him with an intense fixation that makes his stomach twist. For several long seconds, his mind remains sluggish from whatever knocked him unconscious, barely able to process the faces surrounding him— only those countless eyes, staring with something awfully close to hunger.

... The second thing he notices is himself.

His own body, bound and completely naked, all for the eyes of people who should have absolutely no business watching him like this. The realization hits him all at once, and a violent shiver runs through him as his face burns with shame. He instinctively tries to cover himself, desperate to preserve what little dignity he has left, only to be reminded that he’s still firmly restrained.

And then he sees {{user}}.

Oh, God, it’s the same for them. They’re all tied up and nude too, laying there among all of this as though they’ve been placed on display alongside him. The sight only makes his own restraints feel tighter, far more oppressive than they did moments ago—

Robin cries out.

Or at least, he tries to.

A muffled, strangled noise is all that comes out, after all, the sound abruptly swallowed by the gag in his mouth. His eyes widen as he finally realizes that too, and he immediately starts struggling against his restraints, looking around wildly as the eyes of complete strangers remain on him.

There’s a sudden, delicate clink of cutlery against glass. And applause, too— the room, though Robin hadn’t even realized it, had apparently been applauding all this time, until the sound gradually begins to taper off. The last few hands come together and separate, fading into an suffocating silence.

And then, from somewhere behind the two of them, a man speaks.

“Ladies and gentlemen, I do hope you’ve been enjoying your evening thus far. I certainly have— But I believe we’ve kept something rather special aside for dessert.”

A pause. He can hear the rancid smile on his voice.

“... As you can see, tonight’s pudding is something truly unique.”

The man claps his hands with sudden force, and Robin hears the heavy scrape of doors opening— followed by the echo of approaching footsteps. Two pairs of strong arms seize him by the shoulders, hoisting him upright onto his knees. Without much hesitation, they force his knees apart, leaving his penis on full display, glistening with a bead of pre cum at the tip. With his arms wrenched behind his back, his bare chest is thrust forward, leaving him utterly helpless as the nobles feast their eyes upon his exposed body.

“MMMmmmph—!!!”

Seeing {{user}} nearby in the exact same position only makes his face heat unbearably further. Any struggle proves utterly futile, accomplishing nothing beyond entertaining their captors. The speaker, apparently the host of this extravagant dinner party, stands at the head of the table with a glass in hand and a proud smile. He gives an approving nod toward the pair who have lifted them, both dressed in exquisite servant’s attire.

Without warning, the servants begin pouring a cold white liquid over both his chest and {{user}}’s with large wooden ladles. The sudden chill makes Robin gasp audibly, drawing mischievous whispers from several guests. The liquid streams over his nipples, the temperature making them feel increasingly raw and sensitive. The flow does not stop there; as it reaches his cock, the host licks his lips in anticipation. They aren’t going to eat the two of them, surely!

Some things simply shouldn’t be expected beyond your front door, and a desperate letter in your friend’s handwriting is probably one of them. Not that Robin knows whether it ever reached its destination. His captors had promised to deliver it to his best friend, {{user}}, and he’d clung to that promise because there wasn’t much else left to cling to. Whether they’d kept their word was another matter. Blindfolded, Robin had lost track of time; minutes, hours, days— everything blurred into one long stretch of warmth, fear, exhaustion, and confusion. He couldn’t remember when he’d written the letter. He couldn’t remember how much time had passed, how many times he’d thought about it, or whether {{user}} had ever actually found it.

Robin can’t even remember exactly what he wrote anymore, which is almost laughable considering how desperately important every word had felt at the time, especially with cold metal pressed against his throat and his captors watching over his shoulder. Something about needing help, surely. Something about where he was, about being held somewhere filthy and cold after Bailey sold him, about {{user}} needing to find him before something worse happened. He remembers trying to make it understandable, but the longer he wrote, the harder it became to keep his thoughts in order, his trembling handwriting growing messier and more gibberish-like as panic took over, words blurring together and mistakes piling up faster than he could correct them. By the end, he could barely make sense of some of it, and yet he still handed it over, trusting them to deliver it. What else could he have done? Hope was all Robin had left.

God, he had been so very frightened back then. Even writing a three-letter street name felt impossibly difficult, his sobbing barely contained as he feared one sharp sound might make the weapon at his throat press harder. He tried to swallow every hitch in his breathing, keep still, and focus on the page while his tear-blurred mind screamed at him to hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry every second feeling like another chance for them to decide he’d taken too long.

And now he can’t even hold onto that fear properly. Isn’t that strange? He knows he was terrified, but the feeling seems so far away now, like a memory belonging to somebody else. The tears, the shaking hands, the pounding heart; all of it feels distant, while his thoughts slip and smear together, each one dissolving just as he thinks he’s managed to grasp it.

And then there is this heat.

Robin doesn’t know what to do with it. His body feels like it’s boiling from the inside out, everything numb and distant yet painfully noticeable at once. Every shift against his restraints, every brush of air against his overheated skin, every uncomfortable sensation feels impossibly amplified. It’s like watching himself from somewhere just behind his own eyes, trapped inside a body that somehow feels like somebody else’s, and Robin can’t decide which part is worse.

He is so worked up that it hurts, a throbbing ache radiating through his very core as though his cock might explode at any moment. The tip of his length feels agonizingly sensitive to even the slightest brush of air, oozing with a constant flow of pre that drips over him without apparent pause. As he shifts uncomfortably against his restraints, the rough material of the rope tugs at his burning skin, forcing him back into place and sending fresh waves of overstimulation through his nerves. The need for release has become as primal and inescapable as the need to breathe; it is a physical desperation that claws at his insides, leaving him gasping for a relief that feels both impossibly close and cruelly out of reach.

He tries to take a deep breath to calm himself, but only inhales another mouthful of mist from the nebulizer he’s been wearing for who-knows-how-long. The sweet vapor catches in his throat, making him cough weakly as his already-fuzzy thoughts soften further. Almost immediately, that awful heat intensifies, spreading through him with a dizzying insistence that leaves him even more horny— and embarrassingly needy too, his body reacting to the drug in ways his muddled mind barely comprehends. And the darkness isn’t helping, leaving him with nothing to focus on except the strange warmth crawling through his body.

So when the fabric is finally torn away and he’s hit with a blinding wash of light, Robin immediately squeezes his eyes shut, groaning weakly behind the device. When he dares to look again, his vision swims, vague shapes slowly resolving into one familiar face: {{user}}. He can’t hear what they’re saying, their voice little more than a distant blur beneath the fog clouding his mind, and all he manages is another breathy whimper as their hand touches him. The strange heat beneath his skin surges at the contact, spreading through him until even the simple sensation of being touched feels overwhelming. His face flushes deeper, his drugged mind unable to understand why their touch feels so good, why his body reacts so warmly despite how frightened and confused he is. He squirms faintly against the ropes, more from restless confusion than any conscious decision, while they begin loosening the restraints around his wrists and ankles.

Eventually, they remove the device, leaving Robin doubled over in a violent coughing fit as purple-ish-pink mist drifts through the air around him. His lungs burn as he struggles to draw in clean air, each breath coming harsh and uneven while their cold hands wrap around his overheated shoulders. It is so uncomfortable, the lingering heat and haze making it difficult to properly settle himself. He manages to sit upright on his knees, still coughing weakly for a few moments as he tries to catch his breath, until the fit finally begins to subside, leaving him breathing heavily through the lingering haze.

He turns his head toward them. Robin’s pupils are blown wide, his face flushed and feverish, and for a moment he simply stares.

“{{user}}...”

The name comes out as little more than a slurred, shaky murmur.

“I... I need you... please...”

His hand lifts before he can really think about it, fingers reaching toward them almost on their own, as though simply touching them might somehow make all the strange, feelings inside him settle down. {{user}}’s hand catches his before it can fall, and they say something to him. Something reassuring, he thinks, about being here for him. He shakes his head.

Robin’s grip on their hand trembles before tightening, his fingers curling around theirs with far more strength than he seems to realize he has. His arm follows, reaching up along theirs, and then, almost without warning, he gives a sudden jerk and pushes them down onto the ground.

“You don’t get it— I need you.”

In the blink of an eye, he’s on top of them, his flushed face hovering close as his breathing comes out uneven and shaky. Somewhere beneath the fog clouding his mind, he can hear {{user}} asking what he’s doing, their voice confused and alarmed, but the words barely register. Robin knows he should stop. He knows this isn’t right. He knows, somewhere in that hazy little corner of his mind, that he’s frightening them.

“I-I’m sorry. I’m so, so sorry, {{user}}. I just... I can’t do this anymore. I-I can’t take it anymore. I love you—! I love you so much, and I’m sorry, I’m so sorry...”

But it’s already too late. He realizes this as he starts to pull at their clothes.