San stuck his leg through the door, moving quickly to wedge his arm in too, and from there it didn't take much to shove hard and get himself into Hux and Ben's apartment (was it still Ben's? Hell, he was probably still paying for it out of guilt and confusion). "I know," he said. "But you fucking owe me. After what you did to the both of us, but especially me, Hux."
Armitage sneered at San, not trying to get him out again. "So what is it?" he asked. "Revenge? You've come to dress me down, make me pay? To rub it in my face how much Ben's still in love with you, even after the way you treated him all these years, the neglect and heartlessness?"
"I'm not--" San started when Hux brought up revenge, but the rest of it, what he had to say about Ben, made Santiago flush, dropping his gaze. "That's not fair," he said. "I love him too. And I know I wasn't great to him. But it's changed, I've changed." He stepped forward before Hux had a chance to rebut that. "I love him, and I know you do too. Because otherwise why would you have done that to us to try and save his life?"
"You don't know what you're talking about."
"I do. I do, Hux. Ben Diamond told me about it."
The two of them stared at each other. All of their interactions had been around, through, with Ben; San thought Hux was a stuck-up tyrant, and Hux thought San was a thoughtless bitch. Only the truth of what was happening to Ben could make them even able to consider working together.
"Listen," San said, "I don't care if he ever gets back together with you. I hope he doesn't, because you're awful to him and I want him to be with somebody who loves him the way he is instead of making him feel all the time like he's done something wrong. But that's exactly it, Hux. So long as you're mad at him he'll think he's done something wrong to you. And I can't have that."
Giving an incredulous laugh, Hux threw up his hands and stalked a few feet away. "What do you propose, then, San?" he demanded. "I make nice with him and then he bloody dies happy?"
"You do what I tell you." San watched, preternaturally calm as Hux worked himself up. "I'm going to fix this. I'm going to find out from Ben Diamond how to fix it, and he's going to tell me, because I have angel blood in me, Armitage." San smiled slowly, with a cold sort of pleasure, as he watched the penny drop. "That's right. The white light and sound that scared you so much after the mind-palace? That was me. The angelic host, in the flesh."
"Of course. The golden boy, getting everything he's ever wanted," Hux spat, mouth twisting in bitter pain. San let him have it. He wasn't wrong. And if he didn't know the ways San had suffered before getting those things, well.
"Be good to him," San said, and watched Hux falter. "I know you want to. You miss him, how could you not? Sweet Benji." Hux made a strained, suffocated noise, and Santiago surged forward, seeing an opening. "I want him to have everything, Hux, and he wants you to love him and treat him well. He can't be yours anymore, not all the way, but you can still love him. He deserves that."
"Omega bitch," Hux said, strangled, but San could smell the scent of his arousal. He stepped closer, never taking his gaze from Hux's.
"I know," San said. "You're an Alpha, and you need an Omega to fuck, and I just had a baby, Hux." He watched Hux draw in a rattled breath, the front of his trousers getting tighter at the thought. "My husband bred me and made me pregnant and I had a baby, my body's gone through that, swelling up and ripening with it, because I'm a perfect Omega, Hux, and I know what an Alpha needs--"
Hux reached out and grabbed San's wrist, twisting it behind his back and yanking him in close to smash against Hux's hard cock. "We need to force whore Omegas to submit to us," he said through his teeth, and San nodded, breathless, when Hux added, "...whores like you."
"Yes," San said, starting to sink to his knees, but Hux's grip on him tightened to keep San standing, something desperate crossing his face.
"I miss him," the Alpha admitted, in almost a sob. "I wish I hadn't -- I wish it hadn't gotten so out of control, I only wanted to help him and I wanted to -- he was still so in love with you, I couldn't stand it, I--" Hux got himself under control, wet pale eyes fixed on San who was waiting, waiting.
Hux swallowed. "I wanted to punish you," he said, and San said in a whisper, a secret agreement between them:
"--you can punish me, Hux. I know what you want." San's voice dropped to almost non-existent. "You want me to not want it."
He twisted his arm, breaking Hux's grip on his wrist, and slapped the redhead's shocked face. "I knew you'd be a miserable bastard about this!" San said, loudly. "Well, fine -- fuck you, then. Forget it." San turned on his heel, starting to stalk to the door. "Ben's better off without you, anyhow, now that he has--"
San's tirade was cut off with a shriek when Hux's long stride caught him easily, Hux's hand clenched in his curls, the tall Alpha dragging San to the bedroom and throwing him onto the mattress. He hauled the struggling Omega up far enough to lock his wrists into the cuffs and chains at the headboard, stripping open his clothes with fast, rough movements before picking up a spreader bar.
"Everybody coddles you," Hux growled, locking the bar cuffs around San's ankles. "You're spoiled. I'm the only one who can see through you, and I'm going to teach you your place. On your back, taking an Alpha's cock whether you want it or not. You're nothing but a mouth, a pussy, and an ass to fuck, a collection of wet usable holes."
"Please, please Hux, please don't hurt me," San begged, eyes welling up, but Hux only lifted the bar, face implacable, and spread it to its limits.