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Re: [FILL] Howard/Tony, the name of the wolf, part 3/7

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"I want his hands tied," Howard says, and doesn't linger on it. He doesn't care, really, if the guy's hands are tied or not, but the woman is looking at him like she expects something from him, and Howard suddenly doesn't quite know what he's doing here. He thinks of Maria, of how he should go visit her grave, and he almost turns around and walks out. "And I want him gagged," he says instead.

"Four ninety-three forty-seven," the woman says without pause, her expression the same, her tone no less bored. Howard hands over five hundred in cash and steps back. She doesn't offer him change, just slips the money into her drawer and picks up the phone to say something quick and harsh into it; Howard's stopped listening, is distracted, running blueprints in his head to keep Maria's smile away. He's waved forward again after a moment. "All right. Nicky -- Nicky!" the clerk calls, and a young man appears, bleached-blond with a cigarette dangling from a corner of his mouth. "Nicky will take you back. Room eight."

Howard is led through the room on the left. It stinks of sex and cheap cologne, and someone's fingers dip into Howard's pocket. When he glances back, there are three men watching him, their eyes glittering invitingly.

But he's not here for them.

"Room eight," Nicky says when they arrive. "Enjoy." He winks and slips away, his hips swaying.

Howard sets his hand on the knob. It vibrates against his skin, pulling him into the room, and the room is humming.

The engineer in him -- which is all of him, really, but here Howard is stripped away, and he's a new monster -- wonders at soundproofing, how he could do it and how it could improve. The newness in him doesn't care about soundproofing, and is staring instead at the boy naked and kneeling on the bed.