Some money and some clever talking later, Brendon manages to extract from the owner the name of the guy who bought Ryan, and some questions around town later, follows this lead up into the mountains, travels on horseback and finally, nearly five years after Ryan was torn away from him, rides up to Spencer's estate.
And here we encounter my Spencer imaginings. They are a little (a lot) out there :P And a product of my violently massive love for 19th C Spencer XD (well, any Spencer :P) And, like, long and way too in depth :P So just...you know, if they sound totally insane, that's cool XD It's just my brain :P I couldn't help myself :P
So, years previously. Spencer is finally making this awkward headway with Ryan. There is still the massive issue of Ryan being raped repeatedly by Spencer's dad, but Spencer's working on ideas, he's *going* to find a way to get Ryan out, and all his efforts to help Ryan cope seem to finally be gaining ground. They've been making out for idk, a few weeks (so a few weeks after the commentfic), and a few days ago, in the commentfic I'm going to write you tomorrow-ish :P, Spence has ended up giving Ryan a blow job. It's not something Ryan really understands--it's something he has SUCH bad associations about, and the idea that Spence wants to do that is just baffling to him, but Spencer's patient, and Ryan is trying to readjust his brain. There's progress. Ryan trusts Spencer. He's clinging to this shred of control he has with Spencer, he's slowly coming to believe that he can heal, a little, maybe, if he holds on. Spencer loves him so, so much, and that, slowly, is returning the tiniest sense of self-worth to Ryan.
And then. Idk if Spencer tries one of his plans and is caught, or if he's caught with Ryan, or if his dad treats Ryan particularly violently one day and Ryan's sort of stumbling back out to his empty shed thing broken and bloodied and Spencer loses it and yells and goes off, or what happens, but *something* happens, and Spencer's dad seizes Ryan, rides off out the gates with Spencer desperately chasing behind on foot, and Spencer, obviously, can't keep up, and loses them in the trees. Spencer loses it. He paces around the estate freaking out all night, until finally, in the morning, his father returns, without Ryan, and says he's sold him.
Spencer *really* loses it. He knows what that means. He promised Ryan he'd save him from this, he needs Ryan, he *loves* him, Ryan was getting better, he was going to be okay, and--and he's been sold back to probably a brothel. No saving. No getting better. He would have been better off if Spencer had killed him when he asked. Spencer grabs a kitchen knife (or a gun, or whatever he can get hold of here) and threatens his father. The desperate pounding in his head is screaming that if he can just find out who Ryan's been sold to, he's armed, he can make his father give him the horse, and Spencer knows the way to town, he can ride, fast, and find Ryan, and buy him out, and...his father doesn't know who he sold Ryan to. He just wanted to get rid of him, sold him to the first person who'd give him decent cash. Didn't give a shit to ask names or details. Spencer threatens him, then hurts him, injures him, pushes as far as it's possible to push and--and nothing. He doesn't know. Maybe he says something about Ryan. Maybe he says something about picking up another one and making sure the new one's locked up. Maybe Spencer's just been pushed too far. He takes the last step and kills his father, right there and then, hopelessly certain that he really does know nothing about where he's sent Ryan.
With his father dead, everything belongs to Spencer. He takes all the money he can find in ten minutes, enough, he thinks, to buy Ryan, mounts his father's horse and rides his fastest into town. His only lead is *where* his father sold Ryan, and he starts there. He stays in town, searching, asking until his money runs out. He rides back to the estate broken and desperate and hating everything. He loads all the saleable goods he can find, all the banking documents, all the rest of the money into his father's cart, hitches it to the horse, and heads back into town.
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And here we encounter my Spencer imaginings. They are a little (a lot) out there :P And a product of my violently massive love for 19th C Spencer XD (well, any Spencer :P) And, like, long and way too in depth :P So just...you know, if they sound totally insane, that's cool XD It's just my brain :P I couldn't help myself :P
So, years previously. Spencer is finally making this awkward headway with Ryan. There is still the massive issue of Ryan being raped repeatedly by Spencer's dad, but Spencer's working on ideas, he's *going* to find a way to get Ryan out, and all his efforts to help Ryan cope seem to finally be gaining ground. They've been making out for idk, a few weeks (so a few weeks after the commentfic), and a few days ago, in the commentfic I'm going to write you tomorrow-ish :P, Spence has ended up giving Ryan a blow job. It's not something Ryan really understands--it's something he has SUCH bad associations about, and the idea that Spence wants to do that is just baffling to him, but Spencer's patient, and Ryan is trying to readjust his brain. There's progress. Ryan trusts Spencer. He's clinging to this shred of control he has with Spencer, he's slowly coming to believe that he can heal, a little, maybe, if he holds on. Spencer loves him so, so much, and that, slowly, is returning the tiniest sense of self-worth to Ryan.
And then. Idk if Spencer tries one of his plans and is caught, or if he's caught with Ryan, or if his dad treats Ryan particularly violently one day and Ryan's sort of stumbling back out to his empty shed thing broken and bloodied and Spencer loses it and yells and goes off, or what happens, but *something* happens, and Spencer's dad seizes Ryan, rides off out the gates with Spencer desperately chasing behind on foot, and Spencer, obviously, can't keep up, and loses them in the trees. Spencer loses it. He paces around the estate freaking out all night, until finally, in the morning, his father returns, without Ryan, and says he's sold him.
Spencer *really* loses it. He knows what that means. He promised Ryan he'd save him from this, he needs Ryan, he *loves* him, Ryan was getting better, he was going to be okay, and--and he's been sold back to probably a brothel. No saving. No getting better. He would have been better off if Spencer had killed him when he asked. Spencer grabs a kitchen knife (or a gun, or whatever he can get hold of here) and threatens his father. The desperate pounding in his head is screaming that if he can just find out who Ryan's been sold to, he's armed, he can make his father give him the horse, and Spencer knows the way to town, he can ride, fast, and find Ryan, and buy him out, and...his father doesn't know who he sold Ryan to. He just wanted to get rid of him, sold him to the first person who'd give him decent cash. Didn't give a shit to ask names or details. Spencer threatens him, then hurts him, injures him, pushes as far as it's possible to push and--and nothing. He doesn't know. Maybe he says something about Ryan. Maybe he says something about picking up another one and making sure the new one's locked up. Maybe Spencer's just been pushed too far. He takes the last step and kills his father, right there and then, hopelessly certain that he really does know nothing about where he's sent Ryan.
With his father dead, everything belongs to Spencer. He takes all the money he can find in ten minutes, enough, he thinks, to buy Ryan, mounts his father's horse and rides his fastest into town. His only lead is *where* his father sold Ryan, and he starts there. He stays in town, searching, asking until his money runs out. He rides back to the estate broken and desperate and hating everything. He loads all the saleable goods he can find, all the banking documents, all the rest of the money into his father's cart, hitches it to the horse, and heads back into town.
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