Got Your In My Grip

[envious_shadow]

There were few things more foolish than one thinking they were strong enough to face a great lord of darkness in his own domain. Sending in only two people to stage this great strike was just laughable. Subduing them had been far too easy. Jasper had not even had to step in himself to see that it would be done.

He was glad he had left the dungeons intact. The former Luminary was still bound in one now. But the great guardian knight of Cobblestone? Well, there he was, sitting on the throne while there was Hendrik, chained before him. The man needed to wake up. How could he ever begin to gloat if the guy does not wake up?

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[unswervingcompanion]

Hendrik hadn't known what hit him. There was a huge racket and he had at least taken the blow that would've surely killed the one destined to bring back the light. Thoughts of how things might have gone from bad to worse had he actually struck down the boy as he'd vowed worked through his mind.

The last thing he'd recalled was a bright light and one that had taken him down. Hendrik had made out Jasper's dark laughter but couldn't move due to the effects of the spell. His mind screamed when he heard chains but was unable to move.

Now though it seemed a little bit of him was working again, and his blue eyes blinked open. He went to move but found himself unable to do so as he felt the weight of the chains upon him.

"Where..am I?"

[envious_shadow]

Jasper had to laugh. Surely it wasn't so confusing, where he was. The man smiles, leaning forward to smile at Hendrik. Don't be so foolish. Jasper rises to his feet and moves down the steps to Hendrik. Until he's right there, until he can curl his fingers under the other knight's chin to raise his eyes.

"All our years of service and you cannot recognize your home? Or perhaps you're not accustomed to viewing from such a lowly position."

[unswervingcompanion]

The taller knight was dealing with a massive headache and his body ached all over, due to the weight of the chains on him. But then he heard Jasper's laughter and found himself face to face with the man as the other had lifted his chin.

If he was free from these chains, he'd show Jasper what he could do even if somewhere Hendrik knew the other knight was very well versed of his 'brute strength'.

"Why have you done this?" Hendrik asked, snarling his words and his tone. He was truly in no position to even be like this, but he was angry and very confused.

[envious_shadow]

Power. Glory. Recognition. So many possible answers. But there was always another one.

"Well, the prizes granted to my new vaunted status are... rather wonderful," Jasper said with a smirk as he looked Hendrik over. "But of course you have never thought of personal reward, so I suppose it is not possible for you to fathom such things. Do not worry, I will teach you to appreciate rewards in time."

[unswervingcompanion]

"Prizes and status." Hendrik sneered, disgust clearly in his tone at what he was hearing. He tested the chains as if he could break them and found that he couldn't. "There will be no rewards for your betrayal Jasper. You've already sold your soul to the darkness and that will be where you are banished to."

He wasn't sure what to make of Jasper looking him over so he wasn't going to bother with that.

[envious_shadow]

No rewards? He laughs, reaching out to curl his fingers under Hendrik's jaw to lift it.

"Don't you understand?" he asks, a wicked smile curling at his lips. "You are the reward."

And he was going to enjoy this quite a bit.

[unswervingcompanion]

There was a time, a long time ago that Jasper had done this very gesture to him. However there'd been no anger on either side and Hendrik had blushed so hard that he'd been convinced his entire body had turned red as well.

The knight seemed to recall this sweet memory against his will and he pulled at his confinements, in a very feeble attempt to wipe that memory from his mind.

His eyes stared hard into the other knight's and shook his head.

"You have truly gone mad."

[envious_shadow]

"The world went mad," Jasper counters, "the moment that false hero was born. I'm the only sane one left!"

How can Hendrik not see that. Look upon his power. This was what he was meant for!

[unswervingcompanion]

Hendrik struggled again because he wasn't noted for fast learning from experiences.

"Sane." he echoed, with snarl to it.

"And what are your plans now?"

[envious_shadow]

"The false hero will be tendered to my master at his convenience. And you..."

Jasper smiles and runs his fingers over Hendrik's cheek.

"You will be as you were always meant to be. At my side."

[unswervingcompanion]

Hendrik fought the chains again as he contemplated the boy being at the dark lord's mercy. There had to be some way to save him yet.

Still, the gesture of Jasper's fingers over his cheek was soothing and damning at the same time.

"And it is now that you remember our childhood pact?"

[envious_shadow]

"Oh, I do not mean the pact," he says, his voice a purr as he leans closer, forcing Hendrick to meet his gaze. "I mean the whole of you."

And then he forces their lips together. Surely then he cannot be mistaken.

[unswervingcompanion]

The whole of him? Hendrik is really confused and in pain. But he pushed all of that down so that he could focus on his anger to cover those things.

But before more anger could bellow out, Jasper kissed him. And for a moment, just the tiniest percentage of a moment, would he pretend none of this was going on.

[envious_shadow]

Oh but it was going on. And Jasper's tongue brushes over the seam of Hendrik's lips, as if to ask to be allowed in. Be allowed to truly taste.

[unswervingcompanion]

Since he was chained down pretty damn well at this point, Hendrik couldn't shove Jasper away. Nor could he even encourage the kiss by pulling on that gorgeous and yet distracting long blonde hair the other knight insisted on keeping.

With a whimper in defiance of himself, he allowed the other this brief pleasure because once he got free, he intended to turn the tables and get answers.

[envious_shadow]

Oh why would there need to be any answers beyond this one? Beyond what his purpose is. Once the kiss fades he reaches to pull Hendrik to his feet. "Come, let us see you as comfortable as I might wish you to be."

[unswervingcompanion]

Hendrik hadn't expected Jasper to yank his ass up, chains and all but he was secretly impressed. And he'd never openly admit it was a turn on.

Nope not happening.

To cover his confusion, the taller knight scowled. "And what does that entail?"

Somehow he was afraid to find out that answer, but his anger bluff was the only card he could play at this moment.

[envious_shadow]

"Shall we not see?" he says with a smile. He takes the chain coming from Hendrik's collar and pulls the man by it. "I've a room set up for you."

[unswervingcompanion]

Hendrik was half unnerved by that smile. And of course he had to groan when Jasper pulled the collar. "A room. You mean a cage."

Because that was the only thing the other could mean.

[envious_shadow]

"Now now, there will be no bars to hold you."

Just magical wards that Hendrik will have no hope to penetrate.

[unswervingcompanion]

Having dealt with Jasper for almost his entire life, Hendrik wasn't fooled. He knew there'd be some sort of cage or imprisonment because he was being punished for whatever slights the other had made up his mind about.

"We'll see about that."

[envious_shadow]

What a harsh attitude.

"I offer you paradise, and you choose to irk me instead," he says with a sigh as he pulls Hendrik along behind him. "Because of course you do."

That was ever who Hendrik was. Someone who forgot what he owed to Jasper.

[unswervingcompanion]

Of course Hendrik fought the chains that so rigorously bound him so all he could do was basically stumble behind and catch himself before he fell.

Paradise. In a cage.

As ever, the taller knight wondered what Jasper could possibly mean by paradise as bound as he was. The oath he swore with the blonde knight as a boy burned through his mind. Maybe the other only meant to keep it as long as he wasn't the man he had now turned into.

And so he remained silent even if his anger was attempting to get the best of him.

[envious_shadow]

Of course it was best that he kept his temper for now. And Jasper doesn't even seem to notice the fury. Instead he pulls Hendrik along until he gets to a door, which he pushes open.

And it's what used to be the King's chambers. It's been done over in deep purples and blues and reds, and very lavishly appointed. The space of someone who is happy to see to their own comfort and pleasure.

"This is where you will be," he says with a smile.

[unswervingcompanion]

Blue eyes blinked around once he was dragged into the room. And that was when he was really confused. He knew this room even if he had really only been allowed a peek in. His majesty's private chambers.

This was the one room he hadn't been able to get to that night that Jasper had wanted him to, and had to polish all of the armor in the castle due to being caught sneaking out of his bedchamber at wanting to see the Shield of Heliodor.

"Why here?"