Photograghic Memory

Photographic Memory
No Warnings
Word Count: 1928
Disclaimer: Fiction, not real. Don't own them. No profit being gained.

Chapter 10
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It wasn't hard to convince Sean or Billy to meet at Elijah's house before the "party". Both seemed pretty eager for this reunion. Sean picked Billy up at the airport and they went directly there.

Just sitting around the living room, enjoying a few beers, and relaxing. They spent the first couple of hours covering all the usual topics, what they were doing, what everyone else was doing, how everyone else was doing, who everyone else was doing. The room cluttered with empty beer bottles and every topic exhausted by the time Elijah worked, (drank), up enough courage to bring up the topic of Viggo's party.

"We haven't gotten together in ages, shame the others won't be there. Why do you think he only invited us?"

Sean took a deep drag off his cigarette before answering, "Well, he did mention doing something later with everyone, just wanted a small group this time."

"Like that other Halloween Party."

"No, everyone was invited then, we just happened to be the last to leave, Lij."

"Yeah. When you talked to Viggo, did he mention his latest pictures?"

Dom sat there, giving his beer bottle his full attention, picking slowly at the label.
Billy froze, drink half-way to his mouth.

"Exactly what pictures are you talking about?"

"He said he had more pictures.. From New Zealand."

"Viggo did take a lot of pictures there." Sean responded while casually watching the smoke he exhaled.

"No," Elijah continued, "More of those pictures." He watched Sean for a reaction.

"I'm not surprised." Not quite the reaction he was expecting.

"Well, it sure as HELL surprised me when I found out!"

"Nothing concerning Viggo surprises me, Dom."

"When did he take more? Who.. who?" Billy's drink was still frozen in mid air.

"Bills, you sound like an owl. Who is simple enough. Who, in this room didn't make it to Viggo's bed, at least once?" Sean paused for a response.

"He didn't, I mean.. I never, uh, never went in, um, into his bedroom." Elijah managed to get out.

"Lucky you. That's were he kept his toy box." Sean took a long drag off his fag before he continued, "He also had a camera in the book case and a video camera behind a mirror."

"What!" Dom was suddenly very scared. "How do you know that?"

"Found them when I was looking for the pictures. You didn't think I left that up to Orlando, did you?"

"Toy box?" Elijah, for the first time, was suddenly very glad his "encounter" occurred in the kitchen.

"Toys, Lij, whips, chains, handcuffs, you know, the stuff at the party. Remember, The Party, where you most certainly were in his bedroom?"

"Fuck. I wasn't counting that time."

"I didn't know you looked for the pictures." Billy realized as he spoke that he was still holding his bottle and set it down.

"I didn't find them, not much point in mentioning it."

"You could have mentioned the cameras!" Dom was extremely upset.

"By then they were Orlando's problem, not mine. I couldn't exactly tell him about them, now could I? What was I suppose to say, "Gee Orli, while I was sneaking through the house you share with Viggo I found some cameras hidden in the bedroom?" Right."

"Did he say how many pictures there were?" Billy had seen the inside of Viggo's bedroom quite a few times, he really needed to know.

"Sixty-eight."

Sean looked confused for a few minutes, then started laughing.

"What's so damn funny?" This really pissed Elijah off. He saw nothing funny in this situation.

"Viggo once asked me if I knew what sixty-eight was."

"Huh?" Elijah had a very confused look on his face as he spoke.

"Sixty-eight. Well Lij, you know what 69 is, right? Sixty-eight is.. You do me and I owe you one."

"Do you think maybe he's bluffing? Maybe there aren't any more pictures." Dom spoke with a hopeful tone.

"Knowing Viggo.. No. He doesn't bluff, but it definitely means something." Sean finished his beer and got up to get another. They sat there, absorbed each in their own thoughts until he returned. Sean handed each a bottle then sat back down.

"I don't get it, what's he up to?" Elijah pondered as he opened his beer.

"I might as well tell you now," Sean calmly said, "The photos are generally kept in a locked box in his safe."

"What? How do you know that?" Billy said it as he reached for Sean's cigarettes.

"I saw them. I couldn't get them. it was just too risky. I didn't dare let Viggo know I was there."

"You sneaked in!?" Dom and Elijah both said it at the same time.

"Viggo's security system has flaws, they all do. You just have to know where to look. Slipped in with a delivery truck; bedroom furniture, I guess for the guestrooms. Slipped out when Orlando got there. That is one spooky-arse house at night, let me tell you."

Billy lit one of Sean's fags and immediately started coughing. "Give me that! You don't smoke!" Sean snatched it from his hand.

"Seemed like a good time to start." He mumbled when he stopped coughing.
Sean just scowled at him.

"Sean, Dom and I invited you guys here so we might be able to put our heads together and come up with something."

"Something?"

"A way to get those pictures."

"To get those pictures." Sean didn't mean to be mimicking Elijah, he was just stunned. Nobody, but nobody, takes anything from Viggo Mortensen that he doesn't want them to have. He had thought about grabbing the damn things when Viggo had left them on the bed, incurring Viggo's wraith, especially when there may be copies, wasn't worth it. "Do you even realize what you are saying?"

"I want those damn pictures!" Elijah yelled.

"Welcome to reality, he's not going to give them to you!"

"I wasn't planning on asking!"

"You have the combination to his safe?"

"Orli does."

"You don't know that! And if he does, how do you plan to make him give it to you?"

"I'm working on that." Elijah conceded.

"You have a point." Billy said, "Viggo wouldn't give them to us, never. But, Orli would if he had a good enough reason."

"You want to make Viggo mad, fuck with Orlando." Sean warned them.

"What if we had pictures of Viggo? Orli would do anything to protect Viggo."

Sean rubbed his temples; he felt a headache coming on. "Before this goes any further, there are a few points I need to make. So listen carefully. Number 1; you aren't going to walk in there and take those pictures from him, even if you could get to them, that would only make him mad. Number 2; you don't know how many copies he might have."

"He either gave us the negatives or destroyed them." Elijah interrupted.

"You never heard of a scanner, boy, now let me finish! Number 3; we were all legal consenting adults and nobody was forced to do anything. Taking the pictures was fucked up, I'll agree, but nobody was forced or raped. Number 4; I'm not laying a finger on Orlando! Viggo would very likely kill anyone who did. I'm not speaking metaphorically here, he would literally kill anyone who hurt Orli!" Sean looked around, "Is this understood?"

Three heads nodded at him.

"Sean?" Dom was the first to speak, "Why do you think he took those pictures?"

Sean looked thoughtful as he inhaled deeply on the cigarette he had taken from Billy. "It's complicated and rather warped, but it definitely had something to do with Orlando." He looked around to make sure he had everyone's attention.

"I think he wanted the elf from the moment he laid eyes on him. Wanted him to keep. He went through us first, because, well, I think we were like a last fling or something. You were the first Elijah, you showed him age was not issue."

"Orli is only four years older than me."

"Right and Orlando had never been with a bloke before, more appeal for Viggo. Hell, I'm not even sure he had ever been with a girl either. Maybe, that party was to scare Orlando. Show him he didn't want to hook up with any of us, a virgin could be plenty scared of the things that went on there that night."

"Wait a minute," Billy said, "He owned the bondage stuff, he used it on us, then he used that against us? He took a mighty big risk don't you think? It was early in the shoot, it could have affected the movie."

"But it didn't, and do you know why?" Sean looked around the room as he spoke, "Because Peter had just replaced Aragorn, and nobody wanted to be next. Or, maybe it was because he didn't actually force us to do anything, we were quite willing. He just took the pictures. When he showed them to us, he treated it like it was a joke. Never threatened anyone with them, never blackmailed anyone over them, never mentioned it again during filming. He hosted that party to get Orlando, he was his protector all night. I'm really not sure why he took the pictures unless it was to make sure Orli saw them, in case he was too drunk to remember or maybe so he wouldn't forget."

"Control." Elijah's voice was just above a whisper.

"Maybe," Billy added, "We just never gave him a reason to have to use them."

"Only Viggo knows for sure." Sean commented as he stubbed out his cigarette.

"I want to show you something. It's in my bag, I'll be right back." Billy got up and headed up stairs.

When he came back he had a folder with him. He pushed aside the junk on the coffee table and opened his folder.

"Bloody hell!" Sean leaned over to spread the contents out.

"Oh, my, God." Was all Elijah managed.

"Where did you get these?" Dom said while staring at them.

"They aren't real." Sean said as he picked up a photo of him and Viggo, naked.

"Photo manips, I got them off the Internet. People make them."

"Why?"

"Why do you think, Elijah? You have heard of slash. Hell, I know for a fact you read it. Well, sometimes when they write those stories, they make pictures to go with them."

Dom picked up one, grinning, "Hey Sean.. handcuffs."

Sean snatched it from him.

"The point is, only the people who made them and the subjects know for sure if they are real or not. Especially with the better ones." Billy said, "Viggo could set up a web site with our pictures, no one would believe they were real."

"If they were linked to Viggo they would know." Sean finished his beer before he continued. "Do you actually have any ideas for getting those photos back? Anything that might work, that is."

"Well, everything would hinge on you Sean." Elijah moved over to the sofa to sit next to him before he continued. "You are the only one strong enough to handle Viggo."

"Have you ever seen Viggo in a rage? I have. I couldn't "handle him" as you put it. Let me hear what you have in mind, if it sounds feasible, I might know a couple of people who might be willing to help."

"Who would be willing to help us, and more importantly, why?"

"Billy my lad, do you think we were the only ones Viggo caught on film?"

~Continued~