This story is a work of fiction. If you don't like to read about boys in love who have sex then leave. If you are being abused please let an adult know. Never think that there is no hope, just be strong and ask for help. No one deserves to be abused. I am a willing listener if you need to talk. Email is vtgfof7@yahoo.com or Edward Dufresne on facebook.
Beyond Brothers
copyright 2010
Chapter 9
Twisted Pain
After Peg left Kyle sat in a chair by Justin's bed playing with his gameboy. After another about forty-five minutes Justin woke up. A few minutes later a hospital worker brought Justin's supper tray. The tray was piled high with food and the worker was a local highschool student who worked at the hospital in the evenings. "I sure hope you are hungry it looks like you have enough food here for three boys. Your Justin Blake aren't you?" asked the worker.
"Yes, how did you know my name?"
"My dad is a Major at the base and he told me after school that something had happened to the Generals son this morning. By the way I'm Peter Mendez." he said as he extended his hand to Justin.
"This is my best friend Kyle Russell, his dad is a Captain at the base." said Justin.
Peter reached out and shook both boys hands and then said I hope you get better fast I shouldn't say this, but the food really sucks here."
As soon as Peter left the room Justin said to Kyle, "grab a spoon there is enough here for three of us."
After they had finished eating Kyle brought the tray into the hall where there was a special cart was to take the empty trays to the kitchen for cleaning. They had saved the six cookies that Justin had ordered as well as two cartons of milk which he asked the nurse to put in the ward refrigerator. Justin had turned on the TV and found a music video station. Kyle returned and sat in the chair for a few minutes and turned to Justin and said, "we need to talk."
"What the matter Kyle?" asked Justin
"While you were sleeping my mom came back with your stuff and she told me what you had told Kim and Captain Palmer. She said they didn't believe you and made me tell her what you told Ben and me. You know how she gets when she uses that tone of voice that says cut the bullshit and tell the truth. I'm sorry but I had to tell her the truth. She said she was going to call Kim and let her know. I'm really sorry Justin I hope you aren't mad at me."
"Hey bud I told you and Ben that it was OK to tell the truth, I know that my story can only delay what is going to happen to the General." said Justin.
The two boys watched the music videos for an hour and then a nurse came in to check Justin. She took his vital signs and then changed the ice pack on his groin. Causing Justin to blush deep red. Since Justin couldn't sit up enough to see his groin he was unaware that he had a catheter in that was keeping his urethra open so he could pass urine. Without the catheter his swollen penis would have made it impossible to void. After the nurse left Justin asked Kyle, "how come I haven't had to take a leak all day?"
"Dude they got some kind of tube going inside your dick and it drains into a bag hooked on the side of the bed." answered Kyle.
"Yuck that gross." said Justin.
"Are you still having as much pain as you were earlier?" asked Kyle.
"It's hard to tell. There is a lot of pain still down there and I am having sharp pain in my left nut that is running all the way up into my stomach. But, it probable is just because of being kicked this morning." answered Justin.
After Penny had called Justin and told him that the General had agreed to all of his demands. She had gone to the kitchen to make dinner. The General sat at his desk seething with anger over what he had agreed to. He thought about what his life would be like now if he had to retire; at the same time he knew that if he was found guilty of child abuse he could lose everything he had worked for in the last thirty five years. As he sat there brooding, he remembered his best friend, retired General Tim Shannon. He dialed his friends phone number.
"Hi Tim this Phil how are you doing being retired?"
"It's great I get to play all the golf I want and I am a consultant to an arms company all I have to do is give my opinion on their new weapons and they pay me one hundred grand a year. Last year it only took me probable eighty hours to earn that pay. And that is a hell of lot better than what the Army was paying me. What's up with you?"
"Tim I'm in deep shit. You know how I have never related to my younger son Justin and after Jeff's death I have developed a real hatred for Justin. Every time he did anything wrong I completely lost control and have beaten him several times. This morning I lost it again after I discovered he had scalped my putting green while mowing it yesterday and I broke a couple of his ribs and kicked him in the balls because I caught him playing with himself in the shower. I have been able to cover up my abuse of him in the past, but somehow his friends found out. When he got back to his room this morning he called a friend whose father is the Sargent-Major at the base, he called a Captain who is a Psychologist at the base and whose son is Jason's best friend. They showed up at my house after calling the Provost- Marshall as well as the police, child protective services, and an ambulance. I wouldn't let them into my home, but then his two friends arrived with one of their mom's. While I was busy trying to keep them out of my home with Penny standing by me.
His pals snuck around the back of the house and went in through the patio door and found Justin unconscious on his bedroom floor still naked from when I had pulled him from the shower. The cops took one look at him and put me in a car and took me in to the station. My wife called our lawyer and I told the police that he must have fallen while in the shower. But, the officer got a report from the doctor who treated Justin at the hospital and they found where some of his hair had been pulled out of his head when I dragged him back inside after kicking him in the balls he had passed out and I just grabbed him by his hair and dragged him back into the house. He came to and crawled up stairs and must have made the call then. He was still on the phone when he became unconscious.
The doctor found grass in his hair and grass stains on his back and legs where I dragged him across the lawn. As soon as my lawyer heard that he ended the interview. I was arraigned on charges of child abuse, and assault. I posted bail and my lawyer drove me home. Meanwhile Penny had gone to the hospital to see Justin and made a deal with him to lie about what happened only if I resigned from the Army and go to a counselor with her on Friday and that Justin goes to live somewhere else so that I can never hurt him again. What to hell am I going to do Tim?"
"It sounds to me like had you better do what Penny says, or you could lose everything you have worked for all these years. As far as the counselor is concerned as your oldest and best friend I telling you to go, it is long past due for you and Penny come to terms with Jeff's death and stop blaming Justin. He is the only son you have left, and I'm not sure if you haven't already destroyed that relationship. You know what I did to David when I found out he was gay. While it has been more then ten years, he won't have any thing to do with me. I was wrong, and I hurt him too bad for him ever to forgive me, and I will go to my grave regretting what I did to my own son.
You should understand what it is like to lose a son. Before it is too late make it right, then you won't have to spend the rest of your life regretting what you did or didn't do, like me. When I caught David an Jordan having sex he was just seventeen, I beat that boy within an inch of his life and then I dragged him naked into the street and told him he was no longer my son and I never wanted to see or hear his voice again. Do you know that he and Jordan are still together twelve years later. They have adopted a young brother and sister whose parents were killed in South America. I have never seen those children. I listen on the speaker phone when Martha calls and talks with David and the children. Several times David has called and I answered, he will not say a word to me and has told Martha that I am not allowed to see or talk to the children. I have tried to tell him how sorry I am for what I did. But he won't listen and no matter how much Martha tries to tell him how sorry I am and how much I love him and fully accept him and Jordan, he has told her not to ever bring it up again if she wants to continue in his and the kids lives.
Phil there is only one thing that you can take beyond your grave and that is your children. If you have an ounce of sense you will do everything in your power to put things right with Justin. I've known you for more than thirty years and you have always been a hard but fair man. But in Justin's case you are dead wrong and I believe in your heart you know it. So my friend for your own sake make things right."
The General thanked Tim for his advice and hung up the phone. Everything that Tim had said about making things right Justin had passed over his head. In his mind all his problems had been caused by his worthless spawn. He sat at his desk thinking about what his best plan of action would be. After a hour he called Dillard's office and found that he was still there. He told him about Penny's plan and that he had no choice, but to agree in order to cover his abuse of that evil spawn.
"Phillip I need you to tell me everything that you did to Justin this morning and an other abuse in the past, of course everything you tell me is lawyer privilege."
Phillip told Dillard all that he had done. "Do you think I should do what Penney said I had to do."
"Absolutely, you need to submit a letter of resignation to the Army this day and follow through with everything you agreed to do. I know you don't agree with it, but if I am going to keep you out of jail and for you to keep your retirement and other benefits with an honorable discharge you have to do exactly what I tell you and nothing else or I won't defend you. Do you agree?"
"I guess I don't have any other options do I? So I will agree I will submit my letter of resignation to General Sanders this afternoon."
The General hung up the phone and then called the base to speak with General Sanders. "General this is Phil I will be bringing a letter of resignation to you within the hour I would appreciate if you would wait at the base for me to arrive."
"Phil are you sure you want to do this?"
"Yes, I need to take care of my family and deal with these accusations. My son is mad at me because I grounded him. He told my wife he slipped in the shower and that is how he got hurt. His friends just jumped the gun and assumed that I had hurt him because one time last fall I lost my temper and hit him and gave him a black eye and even though we keep him home from school one of his friends snuck into our house and saw the black eye. So he thought I had hit Justin again."
"Phillip I sure hope you are telling me the truth; because from what I have already heard your story doesn't jive with what the CID investigator's saw and were told by the doctor. But your son did tell the same story as you did. I sure hope that story is the truth, for your sake."
Phillip wrote his letter showed it to Penny and then drove to the base and submitted it. Then he asked General Sanders if he would have his personal things packed and brought to his home tomorrow. As he left the base for the last time he realized that for the first time in thirty years he was a civilian. He seethed with anger but knew that at he had no other choice.
Just before nine Ben arrived with Jon and Betty. A few minutes later Don arrived to pick up Kyle. Don pulled Jon and Betty aside and told them about the story that Justin had made up and that Peg and he suspected that Penny had promised Justin something to get him to lie. After about fifteen minutes Kyle and all of the parents left. Ben checked the hall to make sure no one was coming and then gave Justin a kiss.
The two boys held each other Ben said, "oh Justi I love you so much and I wish I could get my hands on that bastard of a father of yours." "I have done something better than you could ever guess. I have forced him to resign from the Army and to go to counseling."
Just then there was a knock on the door and a strange man walked into Justin's room.
"Hi Justin my name is Bill Yeater and your mom and dad will began seeing me this Friday. I'm a family counselor and your mom asked me to stop by and see you tonight. She wanted you to tell me everything that has happened between you and your parents. If you feel more comfortable you can call your mom and check with her. I'm sure your friend won't mind waiting in the waiting room while we talk."
"Ben please call my mom and see if this guy is for real. Let me talk with her please." Ben dialed Justin's home and when Penny answered he handed the phone to Justin.
"Mom there is a man here who says he is Bill Yeater and that you want me to tell him everything. Is that true?"
"Yes, tell him only the truth and don't hold back anything, do you understand me Justin?"
"If that is what you want I will tell him everything." Justin handed the phone to Ben to hang up, and said Mr. Yeater Ben already knows everything and I will only talk with you if he stays."
"Are you sure you want to talk about these things in front of your friend?"
"Yes, that is the only way I will talk with you."
For the next hour Justin told Bill about his life. Bill noticed that when Justin spoke of something painful he would grip Ben's hand. It became apparent to Bill that the relationship between the two boys was much more than just friendship. He asked several questions and by the time the hour was up he had a good idea the depth of the abuse that Justin had suffered.
"Boy's are either of your parents aware of your relationship?" asked Bill.
"I don't know what you are talking about?" Justin squeaked.
"Boys I am a trained family counselor and I know that you two are more than just friends. I won't tell your parents but when you are around others you need to be more careful. Because they may pick up on the little things like I did. You can trust me I have to keep everything between us a secret unless it would endanger your or someone else's life."
"If my father knew he would kill me, Ben's parents know and they are ok with the two of us being boyfriends. We haven't had sex yet we are waiting until we are sure because that is a big step. The only thing we have done is kiss and hug. Ben's dad got us material and gave us a big talk about safe sex. So please don't say anything to anyone else promise," Justin pleaded.
"I told you that I won't tell anyone; if that is all I am going to call it a day it is almost eleven and the nurse's will be changing soon and you need to sleep. Justin I'm sorry for what your dad has done to you. I am going to do my best to help him to be the kind of dad you deserve."
Bill left and the two boys talked about all that had been said and how they needed to be more careful about showing affection in front of people who didn't know about them. When the night shift nurse came in to take Justin's vital signs she asked if he would like something to help him sleep.
Justin shook his no but asked, "could I have something for the pain in my left testicle?"
"I will check and see if it is time for you to have your pain med's yet."
When she returned she told Justin you aren't due for another pain med until two p.m., but if he the pain was real bad she could call the Dr. on call and see if she could give him something for the pain."
"I'll try to make it until it's time." answered Justin.
After the nurse left Ben asked, "are you sure you can stand the pain until two Justin?"
"Yea I can make it."
Ben gave Justin a hug and kiss and then turned off the lights, but not before pushing the cot over so it was right beside of Justin's bed.
"If you need anything and I mean anything at all just reach out and wake me ,and I will help you."
The room grew quite and Ben slipped into sleep, but Justin lay in his bed unable to sleep. He couldn't understand why the pain in his left nut was getting worse. It hurt more now then when he first woke up in the hospital. He reached out his hand and found Ben's hand and held it, Ben never even changed his quiet breathing of sleep. Justin could see the clock on the wall opposite from his bed with the help of a night light that was in the wall that didn't turn off. He lay there and watched the clock slowly tick off the minutes. When it got to 1:30 he was in so much pain that he squeezed Ben's hand so hard that it woke him up.
"Justi what is the matter?"
"It's this damn nut it hurts like crazy."
"I'm going to find your nurse right now."
"No wait I'll use the call button."
Justin pushed the button and in about three minutes the nurse came into the room.
"What do you need Justin?"
"His left testicle is hurting real bad, he needs the pain medicine now!" said Ben emphatically.
The nurse saw the sweat and pain on Justin's face and said, "I'll be right back."
She went to her station and paged the on call Dr. When she called back the nurse informed her of Justin's condition. The Dr. told her to give him the medicine and she would be there in about ten minutes to check Justin.
The nurse brought the medicine to Justin and said, "the on call Dr. will be here shortly to check on you. A short time later a woman came into Justin's room.
"Justin I'm Dr. Owings and I know it is embarrassing, but I need to check your testicles."
"It's ok I think by now the whole hospital must have checked them today."
Dr. Owings removed the ice pack and gently examined Justin. After she was finished she put the ice pack back.
"You are still quite swollen, but I don't think there is anything else wrong like a strangulated testicle. If the pain gets worse or if the medicine doesn't work call the nurse and I will write and order for something stronger so you can get some sleep."
After she left the two boys tried to get some sleep. But Justin was still in a lot of pain the medicine didn't seem to be helping at all. At 2:30 Justin let out a scream even though he had tried to not do it. Ben immediately rang for the nurse. When she hadn't come in five minutes Ben went looking for her. It took him a few minutes to find her in with another patient. He told her that Justin's pain was not any better and had gotten worse.
"Ok I'll bring him the stronger med as soon as I am done here."
Ben went back to Justin's room and found Justin with the bedding in his mouth to block out his screams of pain. The nurse came in shortly after that and gave Justin the medicine. "This is strong and should put you out in about ten minutes if it hasn't helped in forty-five minutes call me back."
The nurse left and Ben got a wash cloth from the bathroom wet it with cold water and began to bathe Justin's face with it. The clock slowly ticked off the minutes. Justin's face was now white with pain and the screams of pain were reaching beyond the bedding he had stuffed in his mouth. After thirty-five minutes he suddenly let out a loud scream and then his eyes rolled back in his head and he passed out.