[Fic] poisontaster: A Kept Boy
[Invited Reccer: Jeff/Jensen]
Title: A Kept Boy
Writer:poisontaster
Alternate links: A03. Link above also leads to pdf and podfic. The verse was opened by the author to other writers and their tales can be found at whatwekeep
Status of work: Complete
Characters and/or pairings: Jeff/Jensen, multiple other RPS pairings
Rating:NC-17
Warnings, kinks & contents: [Click to read]RPS AU involving slavery, abuse (adult and child) in all forms (verbal, physical, mental), inequalities of power, and dark, adult concepts regarding same.
Length:200,365 words in 88 chapters
Summary: Set in a version of our world, where slavery exists, Jeff Morgan has bought Jensen as a body slave. Neither Jeff nor Jensen gets what they expect, and that's just the beginning. From the author "At heart it's a love story, but it goes through some bad, dark places to get there."
Reccer's notes:This extraordinary story, written over two and a half years, is a story that defies expectations, especially of what you might be expecting in a slavery AU. Imagine how our world might look if slavery has become embedded in society and then think about what it would mean for an owner and a slave and their relationship. What does consent look like? How does desire play out? Most of all this tale is an intensely intimate and insightful look at love and relationships, which anyone can relate to. The author skill is in making these characters feel so real and inhabit a world that feels be liveable. There's also humour, and warmth, and hot sex, and friendship.
Unusual for a fanfic written as a WIP, each chapter reads as a complete short story within the novel as a whole. There are also "outtakes" which focus on some of the many other characters, as well as a dozen meta essays, in which the author reflects further on the characters, the writing process, as well consent and sex in the story.
I have read this story and listened to the excellent audiobook a number of times. It's a book that makes you think, and feel, and want to talk to people about.
[Short excerpt]
Jensen wakes up to the sound of the shower running, a gravelly scrawl almost like rain. He always liked the rain. He doesn't have time to indulge in reminiscences and fantasies; if Jeff's in the shower, he's already overslept.
He doesn't know what to make of Jeff. He's held mastery over Jensen's contract for more than two weeks now and the most strenuous thing Jensen's had to do is cut vegetables for a dinner that Jeff went on to cook. Jensen wears his collar, sleeps in his bed. When they have company, he's allowed to kneel, but not serve. Jeff has other servants for the housework and he prefers to serve his guests from his own hands, old-fashioned courtesy that Jensen's only heard of and never seen.
Jensen has no purpose here. And he's seen before what happens to bond-slaves who outlive their purpose.
Even with Jeff gone, the bed is seductively warm. Jensen's tired from hours spent next to Jeff, tense and waiting for Jeff to turn to him, touch him.
Fuck him.
But Jeff hasn't fucked him. Jensen doesn't know what to make of that either.