The Traitor's Son Chapters 85-87
By Zelamir, adapted by Pueros

This story is intended for ADULTS ONLY

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Herewith are the next chapters of the saga of Marius, son of the traitor, Sejanus. The original story was by Zelamir but, with the author's permission, has been adapted and rewritten for Nialos by Pueros.

The rewrite conforms to Pueros' own style and the text has been substantially expanded, with significant additions and changes also made to subplots. For example, recent chapters, including these episodes, are all the work of the adapter. However, the main thread of Zelamir's original story has been maintained, namely what ultimately happens to young Marius.

Pueros hopes that his rewrite does Zelamir's original story justice!
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Chapter LXXXV

Titus laughed loudly in reaction to his own final insult directed at Quintus and finally turned away, leading his adult slaves from the foredeck, with Glaucus somehow quickly simultaneously redressing as he departed with his master. On watching the men leave, Marius also noticed that Drusus was not now present and realised that he must for some reason have absented himself earlier.

The watching sailors also reluctantly dispersed, having realised that Titus was not to grant them any treats with the two boys on the foredeck and that they dare not grab such pleasures for themselves. The mariners also had some duties to return to in readiness for the anticipated arrival soon at the island of Capri.

Meanwhile, the comprehensively humiliated and hurting Quintus rolled himself into a ball on the foredeck, pulling his knees up to his chest and thrusting his hands between his legs. The still naked boy's body also began to shake again, racked by silent sobbing.

Whilst watching Quintus' display of abject misery, Marius felt rather guilty because he still had an erection. This shameful phenomenon had somehow developed when he had recently been witness to the other boy's suffering.

As well as guilt, Marius also felt immense pity for Quintus for what he had just suffered. His compassion was increased by the fact that the other boy was clearly completely unaccustomed to such humiliation and hurt.

By now, Marius was more accustomed to being punished, although the associated suffering could never be dismissed as inconsequential. After his many months as a young prostitute in the 'House of Ganymede', the boy would also have been little bothered by being made to perform fellatio on Glaucus with others looking on. Modesty and pride had mostly been eradicated from his emotions after what he had recently experienced as a new slave.

Quintus, though, was different. He was just starting life as a new slave and therefore still had the inherent feelings of a free boy.

Marius tried to think back to the time, not long ago, when he too had been free and had those same feelings. However, to his own amazement, he found that he could not do so, such had been the success of his recent fundamental emotional conversion to the servile attitudes of a slave. He assumed that Quintus would soon experience this too, especially as the process had already obviously been considerably advanced by what had just happened to the boy.

Marius contemplated such thoughts for a while, whilst still witnessing Quintus' painful misery. However, the kindly boy eventually could bear his own passivity for no longer.

Marius' previous attempts to befriend Quintus had been dismissively and insultingly rejected by the other boy but he did not care. He now felt that he had to do something to bring his current sole companion on the foredeck some comfort.

In any case, Quintus' earlier dismissive and insulting attitude had been displayed prior to his recent bad experiences with Titus and Glaucus. Marius therefore crept across the foredeck and sat beside the other boy.

After at first momentarily hesitating, whilst fearing another dismissal and insult, Marius summoned the necessary spirit to rest his hand gently on the bare shoulder of Quintus, who shivered in reaction. However, on this occasion, he made no attempt to drive the compassionate boy away but instead eventually sniffled loudly.

"My….father didn't….do that," Quintus subsequently suggested in a muffled voice between further sniffles. "I m….m….mean," the boy added in explanation, "that he d….d….didn't sign

m….m….me over t….t….to be an Imperial s….s….slave, I
d….d….don't care w….w….what they s….s….say. He'd n….n….never
do that to m….m….me, at l….l….least not v….v….voluntarily.

"My father was either f….f….forced to s….s….sign," Quintus went on to protest, whilst sitting up and resting his head on his knees, "or the d….d….document they showed m….m….me was f….f….forged!" Encouraged by the melancholic boy's apparent radical change in attitude towards him, Marius slipped his arm about his shoulder and hugged him encouragingly.

"I'm n….n….not a slave," Quintus went on to declare defiantly to Marius, whilst allowing himself to be hugged and suggesting that Titus' recent determined attempt to break the boy's spirit had not entirely succeeded. "I'm free!" he added.

Marius was young but he had learnt much in the last months, often in anguish, and he now replied to Quintus' defiant assertions with the benefit of the wisdom gained from such lessons. He wanted the other boy to accept his situation in order to avoid further trouble with Titus and so decided that he had to be cruel to be kind.

"Quintus, you were free," Marius suggested, "but I'm sure that you are no longer. An important man like Titus, a senior Imperial official, would not forge and would not need to forge a document such as the one enslaving you. Your father might have been forced to sign it for some reason but sign it he undoubtedly did."

"Consequently," Marius continued firmly, "you are now lawfully a slave, just like I am, and, for your own sake, you must accept the situation. If you don't, you'll only experience even worse at Titus' hands than you've already suffered."

There was a subsequent silence between the pair because Quintus did not reply. However, Marius felt the other boy's body tense in potentially rebellious annoyance at what had just been suggested.

"Quintus, can I tell you a secret that you promise to keep?" Marius consequently urgently asked. After receiving an affirmative nod from the other boy, he subsequently told him "Not long ago, I too was free. My father was rich and powerful and I lived mainly at one of our country estates with many slaves to look after me. Then, the situation changed dramatically and disastrously. My parents, brother and sister died and I was enslaved."

"Your own situation has also sadly changed dramatically and disastrously," Marius added, "and you too have been enslaved. Like I did, you must accept your new position in order to survive!"

Quintus, however, remained silent in the face of this sage advice, although his head slumped a little, hinting that his earlier potentially rebellious annoyance at what was being said had dissipated. Marius consequently decided to say no more for now in order to allow his sage counsel fully to sink in to the other boy's consciousness.

The two boys therefore just continued to sit quietly for a while on the ship's foredeck. Marius' arm was still wrapped in attempted comfort around Quintus' shoulder, whilst the only noises were the lapping of waves against the hull, the squealing of seagulls above and the sounds of sailors at work nearby.

Chapter LXXXVI

The prevailing winds were now not only light but also generally coming from the direction of Capri, making the sailing ship's progress towards that island very slow. The voyage was consequently taking much longer than anticipated. However, the delay in arrival afforded Marius the opportunity to assess Quintus' state of mind after they had sat together in silence for a while.

"If Titus returned," Marius enquired of Quintus to break the silence between them, "and asked you, as he did before, what you now are, how would you reply?" The other boy's body stirred on hearing this question, as if he was about to provide a momentous answer.

Quintus sat up straight, attempted to rub some of the grime from his face in order to make himself look a bit more dignified by wiping with the back of his hand and stared into Marius' own eyes. His compassionate companion subsequently initially thought that he detected more defiance in the other boy's fresh expression but then quickly realised that he was mistaken.

Quintus was instead trying to exhibit brave fortitude in the face of the calamity that had befallen him, as he answered "I would tell Titus, as I did before, that I'm now just a common slave, completely subservient to my Master's will!" In response, Marius asked "But would you mean what you said?"

Regardless of any beliefs that Titus might earlier have harboured about Quintus reaching a critical point in his acceptance of his fate, the astute Marius realised that the boy's answer now to his latest question was truly the defining moment. He therefore waited with bated breath to hear the reply.

Quintus' attempt to show steady courage in the face of adversity now faltered a little, as his face momentarily lowered in shame at what he was about to announce. However, the boy quickly recovered his composure to stare again at Marius whilst declaring "Yes, I would mean what I said!"

"I'm now just a common slave, completely subservient to my Master's will!" Quintus went on to repeat in realistic confession.

Chapter LXXXVII

Subsequent to Quintus' momentous confession, he and Marius chatted amiably for a while. The main topic of conversation centred round questions by the former addressed to the latter and asking about aspects of life as a slaveboy.

Such questions represented to Marius another symbol that Quintus had finally truly accepted his fate. This revised attitude was a relief to the former because the alternative might ultimately have been fatal for the latter.

The questions eventually came to focus on the topic of potential, if not actually inevitable, future sexual duties, after Marius had reluctantly but candidly confessed about his time spent as a boy prostitute in the 'House of Ganymede'. He related his experiences to that just endured by Quintus with Glaucus.

"I know that you didn't want to lick and suck that horrible Glaucus," Marius came to comment on the subject, "but, when Titus simultaneously tickled inside your bottom, your own cock became excited, didn't it?" Quintus could not deny this or the fact that this very topic of conversation was somehow causing his penis, which was currently hidden within his uplifted legs, to harden once more.

Like Marius prior to his arrival in the 'House of Ganymede', Quintus had not previously encountered sexual orgasm. The temptations of the flesh, including masturbation, did not yet permeate his young soul and so the recent unusual reactions of his body, especially his cock, were strange to him.

"That suggests to me," Marius next maturely remarked, "that our inherent natures are not entirely innocent but actually share some frankly impure aspects. I mean no malice in saying this. I'm just being bluntly realistic, which might actually stand you in good stead in future. You see, if you begin to gain some pleasure from being forced to have sex with a man, like I confess that I did, you'll find that such duties become less distressing."

"Forgive me for asking such a personal question," Marius subsequently requested before shamelessly enquiring "but have you ever played with your own cock to give yourself pleasure?" Quintus did not answer but rather naturally blushed fiercely instead in embarrassment.

Marius noticed Quintus' embarrassment and attempted to comfort him by reassuring "I'm only asking because, if you've never enjoyed sexual pleasure, you probably won't really understand what I'm talking about. I also believe that, if you want me to help you to become accustomed to your new life, we need to be frank and truthful with each other."

Marius' reassurance worked, encouraging Quintus finally to confess, in answer to the question, but whilst still fiercely blushing, "No!" "Well, then," was the reply from the other boy, "perhaps it's about time that you did experience sexual pleasure!"

Marius next glanced around the foredeck, which was empty apart from the two boys, and whispered "Perhaps now is as good a time as any!" "W….W….What do you mean?" a shocked Quintus stuttered in response.

Marius' free hand had already rather instinctively drifted, without either of the boys really noticing, towards one of Quintus' bare knees, upon which his palm current gently rested. In answer to the latest question, his fingers now began to slide down the inside of the other boy's thigh.

The naked Quintus initially contemplated resisting such an intimate intrusion towards his genitals. However, the touch of Marius' fingers gently brushing his thigh on their way downwards to their target was giving him such pleasurable tingling feelings that he quickly chose instead to do nothing but literally sit and await developments.

Marius' fingers eventually reached and gently stroked their first target, which was rapidly becoming even more erect, before moving on to cup and feel the underlying completely smooth scrotum. "Your cock is nicely hard," he subsequently commented, whilst brushing his thumb along the shaft in verification.

"Mine is as well," the clothed Marius then confessed, "as you can probably guess from the bulge at the front of my tunic." "I've learnt," he continued, "that it's no good struggling against such reactions, as they're natural to natures such as ours!"

Quintus again stirred and Marius felt the other boy's hand reach out towards his tunic to disappear under the hem in order to explore his crutch and check the accuracy of at least part of his statement. The two boys subsequently sat together for a while, with their hands resting on each other's stiff little cocks.

Marius then took the initiative in beginning to rub the cock in his own hand. Quintus happily reciprocated, whilst the first infusion of real sexual pleasure started to tingle his naked body.

As Marius was rubbing, he appreciated that what he was doing was punishably wrong, at least in the eyes of his new masters. The strict rule in Scyrax's house and Fabius' brothel was that the slaveboys were not allowed to enjoy each other sexually without permission, and both Drusus and Titus would undoubtedly expect similar restraint.

Marius had been taught that slaveboys' bodies were the properties of their masters and so were the pleasures that could be derived from them. This lesson had been driven home when he and Narcissus had been forced to beat each other harshly and publicly in the 'House of Ganymede' after the Major Domo had discovered them indulging in forbidden sexual activity. However, alone on the sailing ship's foredeck, hidden from the rest of the vessel by an intervening rail, and so unseen by any beings other than the seagulls wheeling overhead, they would surely not be caught.

Anyway, for Marius and now increasingly for Quintus, the temptations of the moment, in particular the immensely pleasurable feelings running through their cocks to pervade their bodies intensely, were too much to ignore. The boys' eyes also closed, as they inexorably brought themselves towards ecstatic climax.

The boys subsequently both became too engrossed in what they were doing to hear the sound of footsteps approaching. The first that Marius then knew about anyone else joining them on the foredeck was a boot thudding into his bottom.

Marius immediately released Quintus' cock and opened his eyes in pained shock, to discover Drusus glaring down at him, with his face distorted in rage.

(To be continued)