Co-written with AO3 user greyleft
Chastity sends Leo a scathing message about their writing. Leo responds with a challenge.
Warnings: blasphemy, edging, marijuana use, fingering, strap-on sex, tickling, bondage, collar and leash, sexual shame from religion, lack of aftercare, Daddy kink, Sir kink
Notes: Based on a real hate comment. Thanks for the porn inspo, whoever you were.
Chapter 1
Chastity, Monday, 9:53pm
I hit send, my heart rate leveling out for the first time since I read it. Filthy. "Pride." All these gays want is to shove their sex in my face, in public. At least in this story it was restricted to one of those bars. I had to let the author know the depths of their depravity.
SoulfulChristian52794: " Your poor mind must be a swirling vortex of never-ending filth. Rise above your basest instincts and contribute something positive to the human race. You cater to bottom-dwellers and encourage perversion -- you were made for more than this."
Disgusted, I set my phone down. At least I'd said something about it. I feel a hot rage inside me from reading the repulsive thoughts of this sinner. I can feel it in my very core.
My phone buzzes. I'd shared screenshots of my comment with my Faith in Following 🙏✝️ group chat, even though it's late. Maybe Emmylyee will still be up to pray with me after I witnessed this perversion.
But it isn't the group chat. It's Instagram.
Butch4ButchBoytoy: "I'm glad you enjoyed it. I noticed we're both in the same city. Maybe you should come say that to my face."
I flush red hot, my heartbeat rushing in my ears as my eyes scan the screen over and over.
"Enjoyed it"? Excuse me? And this filthy, depraved, nasty... sinner lives here too? I'm disgusted to share a city with them. A bus seat, the same table at the diner, the same air ... I must flee from sin... so why do I feel so drawn to witness to this person? To share my testimony with them?
What do I text back to this... this pervert? I can't back down -- my faith is stronger than their filth. I must stand up for my morals. I'm feeling bold.
SoulfulChristian52794: "I would happily say it to your face. You are living in sin, and someone needs to help you."
I don't know why I sent it. But something inside of me, something at my very core burns knowing this person is near me, dreaming up this stuff -- heaven forbid even doing some of it. Something in me tells me I have to pray with them. It's on my heart to share my witness.
My phone buzzes again.
Butch4ButchBoytoy: "Oh you want to help me? Okay. You can tell me the good news on Friday at 7 at Ruby's Diner."
I panic. Why does instagram tell them I've seen the message?! My heart is pounding and I'm so...mad? Not quite, but my body is burning and my mind is racing in circles. What did I do? What do I do? I know I should reach out to my Faithful Followers — why hasn't Emmylyee texted me back yet?! This is a crisis of Christ!
I open the text thread, then stop. Something in me says this will be better as a story of the triumph of faith rather than my crisis of Biblical proportions. I'll tell my church friends about it when this Butch4ButchBoytoy shows up at Bible Study, reformed from their sinful ways.
Besides, I think, I wouldn't want anyone to think I was reading that disgusting story for fun . I feel a fire in my core again, squeezing my eyes to shut out the images of what I read. But the burning still won't go away.
* * *
Leo, Monday, 10:26pm
Seen by SoulfulChristian52794 at 10:26pm
Dammit, I think. No reply. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted. I put my phone down, laughing to myself, and go back to writing until the clock strikes midnight and I yawn, rubbing my eyes. I gently fold my laptop closed, tuck it away, and crawl into bed. I think about Monday morning at my new job at a civil rights law firm and the week ahead of me, and my mind drifts to the end of the week, Friday night. I wonder...
Three days later, my phone dings for Instagram and I assume it's another message from a mutual. I open my phone on my Wednesday lunch break and it's SoulfulChristian52794.
SoulfulChristian52794: "I'll be there with my Bible, and I'll be praying for you."
I scoff and leave the message unopened, returning to my work researching housing law for our clients who are about to be evicted.
* * *
Chastity, Friday, 6:12PM
I tie my hair back into a low ponytail with a ribbon, then let it loose again. I've witnessed to many people since my rebirth as a Christian in my early teens, but I've never been nervous about what to wear.
Something modest, right? Right. Perhaps a simple blue blouse and a khaki skirt, especially since this Butch4ButchBoytoy is already prone to stumbling. I guess it doesn't matter what I wear with a mind so full of filth anyway. I change into my blue button down, but leave on my skinny jeans. Gays like skinny jeans, right? Maybe if I seem more relatable they'll be more open to hearing my message. Maybe if they're attracted I can get them to listen...
No. Why would I ever want a gay person to feel that way about me? I'm not gay. When I was 12, just before my rebirth, I took a quiz on the internet and it said so. Or, it said I was only 31% gay. That's not gay. I got a failing grade in gay, so I'm not gay. Everyone feels that way a little bit.
I think about putting on some makeup to freshen up, but I'm running late already and the traffic in this city is too bad to leave to chance. I guess I look okay: clean-faced, long straight hair, jeans, button-up. My mom would tell me I look like a boy, but she always says that when I'm not all dolled up.
I sigh at the mirror and rush out the door to Ruby's.
* * *
Leo, Friday, 7:02pm
I'm waiting in the back corner booth, wearing my shiny black Solovairs, freshly polished from the last leather kink event I went to. My chain is itchy around my neck, like I'm nervous about something. I had a lot of confidence in my DMs, but who knows who this person could be? I've met a lot of Christians who don't act very Christ-like. They could be twice my size and ready to bash me with a bible rather than quote scripture at me.
I had a big ego when they insulted me via DM, but now that we're about to be face-to-face, I'm shrinking down and fearing the worst.
The bell tinkles as the front door slams shut behind a woman, small in stature, wearing a light blue button-up with skinny jeans hugging the curves of her body. She's carrying two small books, arms wrapped around herself. She looks around nervously, catching my gaze and looking like a deer in headlights, frozen, wide eyed, mouth open.
She shakes herself out of her shock and checks her phone, scrolling, and finds what she was looking for. She takes a deep breath and stands tall, marching over to my booth and plopping down. I look at the title of the books she's dropped to the table, reading upside down slowly. "The Holy Bible." Yep. I've found SoulfulChristian52794 .
"Hi, Chastity," I say first, sounding a little smug.
"Hello, Leo ," she says, sounding terse, and maybe a little nervous.
"So," I say, motioning to the table where the bibles lay. "What's the good news?" I smirk.
"The good news is," she says, "that you can still be saved from your sins."
"From my sins?" I ask, raising an eyebrow, stirring the straw in my red plastic cup of Coca-Cola.