I don‘t know if my question was eaten by tumblr, so I decided to send it again or if you didn’t come to it yet (if that‘s the case feel free to ignore and don‘t feel pressured into answering pls🥺❤️)

It is Oc question time🥳

How does one usually end up as Volkovs Slave? (a.k.a. Bens position)? And for which character traits/body appearances does Volkov look for/ which spark his interest the most?

Was there someone who held out longer than Ben or who came close to him in any way? If yes, who was it and how?

This is a complicated question and I don't know if I have the answer. I'm ashamed to report that Tumblr didn't eat your question, I just didn't know how to answer it.

Volkov is a human trafficker who masquerades as a philanthropist. So he hides his cruelties well. The only people who know how cruel he truly is are the handful of minions he lets in close. And it's not a big group. He hires like minded people. If they're not like minded, then he ropes them in so they're essentially stuck with him and can't leave (Like Andrei). People don't cross him and live to tell the tale. But he learned a long time ago, you don't have to kill someone to destroy them. And he specializes in that.

Volkov likes being surprised. I think he fully intented to take Ben and do what he did, get bored and ship him off to a buyer. BUt Ben looks pretty when he's abused and I think Ben's faith and how he holds on to it intrigues him. He puts no stock in religion himself, but he likes to hollow people out and Ben has this otherworldly spark inside of him that he never fully quashes.

Ben is indeed one of his longer lasting captives. The longest? I honestly don't know. Volkov is driven by power and cruelty so he doesn't necessarily have a type. He'll take anyone that will let him play out his sick games. Male or female. He goes for guys more often because their bigger stature and strength means they're more likely to survive the abuse longer. BUt he's take women when it serves him or is convenient. You can bet that when he goes off on his business trips and leaves Ben alone, he's not actually alone. He's garanteed companionship on his trips by a network of people he does business with. None of these people chose it or enjoy their time with him. But they're also not going to say anything because that's the nature of human trafficking. Who's going to listen to them, and who's going to believe them?

Until Jake supplied his phone and all the evidence from it that the FBI was able to gather, there was never any proof that Volkov was directly involved with anything. The FBI only thought he might have been a money man. The Russians certainly weren't going to look into it. Their's has been a system run on corruption and bribery for years. And the sad thing is, Volkov isn't the only person out there like this. There are countless people just like him.

Where ever money is, traffickers are not far away. It also seems to go hand in hand with drugs and prostitution. Jake would NEVER have been involved in human trafficking. He finds it abhorrent, but drugs didn't seem like that big of a deal to him. Infact, when he initially took the deal, he didn't realize how much he was getting into. And by the time he did the cops were raiding and it was too late and too big to get out of.

Maybe random question from someone who has been rereading your main story and just finished chapter 19-- If Ben would have not known about Andrei drugging him OR if he would have continued denying that he knew about it, what would the bastard have done? How different would it have gone?

It was really fun rereading your story. Seeing Ben's thoughts slowly getting more and more scrambled with the hurt/only a bit of comfort trope is awesome. He barely gets to catch his breath when the bastard really starts and it's just so good.

I have a long list of thing I'd like to do to each of the characters

Thank you!

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Volkov would never have believed Ben didn't know, even if that were true. My guess is that Volkov would have given him a very long tongue piercing so that he couldn't use his mouth very well as a punishment. Or perhaps something like this... (below the cut for implied noncon)

I think he would be delighted! And then absolutely brutal with Ben. I could see him having Ben’s feet beaten again, maybe burning them again, and then chaining him by his wrist and the only way he can get any relief in his arms would be to push up on his abused feet. No letting him kneel this time. Poor Ben.

Just wondering if there was an evolution/permission given, because it’s delicious.

Volkov swirls the vodka in his glass. He thinks for a moment, not really wanting to answer the question, lips pursed.

"I don't think I've ever really loved anyone. I've had plenty of sex. I love fucking people, especially when they don't want it." He smiles broadly as he thinks back over all his conquests. "I crave the power of it." He's still smiling, but he's quiet again, contemplative. "But actually loved someone. No. No I don't think I've ever really loved anyone. Perhaps I can't. It's no real loss. I'm quite happy with what I have achieved in my life. And I have people around me that serve as companions, some by choice and others..." again he smirks, "Others not so much. But I enjoy myself, so I suppose it's a wash in the end. I mean, do you really need to love someone to be truly satisfied in life?"

As a kid, what did Ben wanted to be as a grownup. What about the others? Andrei? Zoe? Jack? Volkov?

Feel free to ignore. Thank you!

- 🐢 anon

Ben has wanted to do something in the science field since he was a boy. He loved rocks and dirt and experimenting with things he probably should not have been. He was always taking things apart to try and see how they worked. It’s just always been a part of him.

Zoe wanted to be an astronaut at one point, but then she discovered the cello and she fell in love. It was something she could put her hands on and create. In Zoe’s head, she sees the music. Like she sees the notes float off the page and take on shape and color. It’s just something she gets and she’s never looked back.

Jake wanted to be everything. A fireman, a race car driver, a mechanic, a boxer, he cycled through a lot of dreams. None of them ever worked mostly because he didn’t stick with them long enough. He is a pretty good mechanic though just not a great employee. If he could ever get his head on straight, he’d could make some good money as a self employed mechanic.