» ( @cajunxsassâ ;  cont.
      â Shhh â donât you worry âbout a thang, cher. Iâm right heâe. â   The question never was did Deane want it. If it were left up to him, heâd be back home, under the assumption he was safe in that giant house. His cop buddies canât help him now. But he doesnât need help. Tom can keep him safe enough. Not a damn thing can touch Deane here. Nothing but the fox. If Craig so much as tries, thatâll be the end of him.
     This isnât a means of punishing Deane. Itâs all about Tom rewarding himself. For months, he stayed in that house, close enough to be noticed and rarely ever was. Took that goddamn pig to set Tom off. Blew his cover. If it werenât for him, Deane would still be home. Dry eyes, at least.
     The fox is seated on the foot of his own bed, leaned forward with his elbows resting on his knees. Eyes focused on Deaneâs hands, and his own hands locked together under his chin, this may be the least threatening heâs been since he lodged that blade in whatâs-his-nameâs jugular. He got stuck in his roll of  n o r m a l  too damn long. Thatâs all it is.
      â Enât NO ONE gonâ hurt you now. â
         Words ripple through to the Cajunâs core -- shakes him more so than his trembling form ever could. Heâs close to sobbing as tears leak from the corners of his eyes but there isnât much he can do. There is nothing Deane Dixon can goddamn do. He is trapped in this place -- his own personal form of hell and terror because he just had to become the infatuation of someone mentally unstable. Why couldnât Tom just be the nice, sweet man Deane thought he was? This wouldnât be an issue -- this wouldnât be happening. He could stay in pure bliss, fucked out almost every night without a care in the world if only his...whatever the other Cajun was to him (boyfriend maybe thought once or twice), was just a normal guy.
But he is far from it and those words make Dixon want to vomit. Wish that he was in Georgia with his brothers or even had one or both of them here with him. Theyâd keep him safe -- or theyâd be dead. The idea makes him cringe. Dead like the cop the always keeps an eye on him and the Cajun canât have his brothers on his conscious like he does with Sean. Changes his mind almost instantly and Deane is left to pull at the hem of his shirt finally. Itâs up and over his head in a matter of seconds, left to be held tightly in shaking fists that never could do much. Heâs always been to terrified of Tom to manage anything. He tried to fight but itâs just not who Deane is -- heâs no damn good at it and it only got him hurt worse. So...accepting all of this would just be better, right?
            Just pretends itâs Tom -- like how he was before.
Hiccup passes lips and the Cajun didnât realize he was downright crying buckets at this point. Silent as they fell, rolled down his cheeks -- his chin, neck. All the way down his bare chest before he paws at it like a scared little boy that is lost at a fair. Even if that were the case, Tomâd pick him up and tell him the same thing. Those eyes are watching him but they donât look the same and Deane knows it. Close to a predator waiting for itâs prey to align just right. He sniffles, tries not to think about the fabric he finally lets go to fall on the ground. Jeans are next and he doesnât want to. Doesnât want this -- wants to be home but heâs trapped.
       âYâre gonâ hurt me worse.âÂ
Mumbled out in between soft crying noises before Deane pops open the button of the denim he dons. Shy isnât the right word here to begin with but his gut twists and jumps like it is. Deane Dixon has never been shy about who he is, what he has, or any of the like. This is different. Teeth worry over lips again as fingers hesitate at the zipper.
                            âPlease donâ make me. Ah donâ wanna, Thomas.â