((Collab Post between Vulkan and Letter Bee))
The next day, Par would get up from his bed, still naked. His first instinct was to keep himself covered with the blanket, but he knew that while that would be comfortable for him, that would also show that he was afraid, ashamed, and intimidated. And so he got up and sat down on the side of the matress, his stomach rumbling. When will Alex feed him?
Alex walked into the room, making sure not to leave the key in the lock. He gave Par a hard look, before gesturing with his head for him to get up. His face was completely blank, giving no emotions away.
"Get up. You are getting food now." He drew his compliance laser pistol, and gestured again for Par to get up.
The 19-year old stood up, preparing to follow Alex, who, as instructed by Alan, had been asked to lead him to the Cafeteria used by the Enclave's soldiers, so that the slave can be paraded before the various personnel; shown off as a symbol of the Colonel's power. There, Par would sit on an out of the way table while Alex got him some food. He would then get a lot of looks, some hateful, and some even pitying.
Alex stood a few metres away from the boy at the table, keeping both eyes on him at all times even as he picked at a packet of potato chips. He had been very quiet today. Obviously, he had realised that he wasnt just some idiot grunt...
"Hey Roniel!" said one soldier from a distance away. "Maybe the colonel will let you have him once hes done!"
The cafeteria was punctuated by a series of laughs. Alex gave absoutely nothing away apart from the corner of his mouth tightening slightly. He wouldnt say a word. Sometimes he was tempted just to either shoot one of these idiots in the chest with his compliance regulator, or just find a way to lose his virginity to stop all these ridiculous rumors flying around.
After a set amount of time passes, Alex walked up to Par, slapping him around the head to get his attention.
"You have had enough time here. Get up."
Par got up, and would be escorted to a washroom in order to brush his teeth, before, once he had finished, saying, in a mild tone of voice that was meant to sound sympatethic:
"Your friends don't really respect you much, don't they?"
Alex didnt answer again, waiting for Par to finish in the washroom, before walking up to him and pulling him roughly out of the room.
"I don't have friends. I do not need them. I am a soldier of the united states of america, and that knowledge is all i need. No more. No less."
Par stared at him, turning his head to the side yet again.
"Everyone needs friends. Mutie, 'Pure' Human, everyone does; and I'm not saying that to be sappy - it's a proven need," the naked 19-year old said, not caring that he was in a corridor where people can hear.
"As for the United States of America...what does it mean to you, personally?"
Alex paused for a moment, and grabbed Par by the throat, pushing him against the wall.
"It. Means. Everything. Something a mutie like you cannot understand. An ideal."
As Par tried to speak, to place more doubts inside Alex's mind, a voice called out over the comlink.
"It's Dr. Jose Barre speaking. Corporal Roniel, bring the Colonel's Naked Slave over to my office so he can get his shots."
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Timeskip
Dr. Jose Barre's office was sterile and clean, with pure white beds and other furnishings, as well as a lot of medical instruments that Par only recognized from the old tapes. Right now, he was being injected with vaccines by the doctor himself, a middle-aged black man.
"You know," said Dr. Barre as he stuck another sryinge into Par's skin, "your parents, Corporal Roniel, would never have approved of this; I know - I knew them. I want all Muties dead as much as you, but all this business of harems and naked slaves? Alan has gone too far." Alex had been informed beforehand that the room was clear of bugs. He then looked at Par, then Alex, staring at the latter with a hard gaze.
"You know, your mother and father...they were both 16 when they had you, you know that?"
Alex looked at him. "Yes. Its common for us to breed early, to repopulate our new country. Why would you ask such a question?"
"Just updating records," Barre said off-handedly. "Speaking of records, Alan's been doing this sort of thing ever since he was in training. What a little monster." Another hard gaze.
"If you want to take a break from seeing naked men, you can leave the room - no, the entire medical wing - for a while; I'll personally take full responsibility for anything that happens."
Alex got up. "I could use a drink. Ill be back in twenty." He walked out the door, working out a crick in his shoulder while he went. He closed the door behind him.
"So," Dr. Jose Barre would say to Par, "do you want to get out of this place?"
"Yes," Par nodded. "I don't want to be naked any longer than necessary." Alex won't see it, but the merchant's gaze turned flinty-eyed. "What's the catch? How do you know you won't shoot me in the back just to get back at Alan?"
"You don't." Jose Barre was plain. "That said, though, if you believe I'm genuine, take this," he would then hand Par a holotape. "It doesn't contain any military data, and can only be unlocked once it stops taking a signal from a transmitter I installed from my own heart."
"You're blackmailing your boss, aren't you?" Par would say.
"Yes, now let's get out to the medical wing; I need to get you prepared for your escape - the boss is returning here via Vertibird."
Outside the room, Alex's ear pulled itself from the door. For one second, he was shocked, horrified, then he thought again.
And he smiled.