If you haven't read both of the Emperor x Drake stories, then this one might be confusing or very strange!
There is a suggestion that tells you what happened in the second part, but nothing graphic happens in this one.
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The emperor finished locking the hybrid's neck in chains, making sure that it was a perfect fit. Drake grabbed it, and lightly pulled on it to feel it choke him. It had been four months since he was brought to the palace as a prisoner, but this chain wasn't to keep him captive; he didn't know why the emperor had wanted him to wear it. It brought back unpleasant memories.
The collar he had worn for months. It was something the emperor liked to have him wear at almost all times. It was something that reminded the hybrid of his place, and remember that he now belonged to the royal tyrant.
Since the night that he was brought to the palace, and realized that he couldn't escape, he chose to stay with the royal man and began to live like a noble. Of course, there was a price to pay, but he had grown used to it. Give his body to the emperor to keep Grayson safe if he was ever captured. It was something that Drake literally couldn't refuse. Either way he was stuck here, so he figured that agreeing to the deal would at least keep him from being locked in a cell, and maybe keep Grayson from dying.

"Why do I have to wear this, master?" Drake asked, using the name the emperor preferred the hybrid to call him by.

The emperor smiled. "Remember that I told you of a prisoner that was brought in the other day?"

  "Yes master, but what does that-" Before he could finish, the emperor pulled him forcefully by the chain on his neck.

  "You'll find out in due time." The emperor finally replied.

Drake growled as they walked down the hall. Why did he have to have a crush on this jerk? He let out a sigh, looking down at the red carpeted floor as he was pulled along. He had grown used to his life here, but sometimes he would remember the freedom he once had. He didn't like being used, but he had grown to become hopeless with escaping the emperor's hold on him. But, this place kept him from feeling alone.
He wore a blue military jacket, with purple trims. His pants were the same shade of blue, with a black leather belt and long black boots. He also wore gray gloves, with a grey cape. He liked having new, clean clothing, as well as being able to clean his hair properly. His brown and black locks were no longer greasy and now a more natural fluffy. One of the many benefits of living in the palace.
They entered the throne room, where the emperor sat down, letting Drake stand by his side. Drake looked at the man in the corner of his eye, noticing the smile and look of satisfaction and anticipation on his face. Drake blushed, wondering what thoughts were going through his mind.

"Now, don't do anything stupid, darling." The emperor said to him.

Drake gave a slight bow of his head. "Yes, master. Why would you assume I'd do something like that?"

The emperor never gave a reply. He looked back at the golden doors, waiting for the prisoner's arrival. Drake looked down at his side, grabbing the hilt of the diamond sword that rested within it's sheath. If this prisoner was dangerous, then he had to be prepared to protect the man he had grown to love. Even if he was held back by a collar and chain.
Sure, the emperor was cruel, but he knew no other way to describe how he felt. The emperor was the only person he had truly been around and treated him somewhat kindly in the four months he was here. Even the magi guild didn't treat him too kindly unless the emperor was around. To everyone, he was a monster. No one seemed to understand why the king had any affectionate feelings towards him.
Though, he had felt those strange feelings like love the first night when he was bought here. When he...
Drake was pulled out of his thoughts when the large golden doors suddenly swung open, the guards pulling in a struggling prisoner. His skin was bruised and scarred, with his lip bleeding. His clothes were torn, with some spots covered in blood. Drake gasped and his mis-matched eyes widened, recognizing that blonde hair and that black jacket.

  "Grayson!"

The hybrid's old friend looked up at he stopped struggling against his bounds. His emerald eyes became wide with shock. He never expected to see his best friend here, at least not in clothing like he was wearing and his flesh still as healthy as ever. Why wasn't he in chains, or at least more than he already had on? Why he so close to the emperor's side? So many questions swarmed in his mind. What was going on?

"Drake!" The ex-commander called out, before he was forced onto his knees before the throne.

Drake lunged forward in attempt to get to his old comrade, but choked and was held back by the iron collar on his neck. He felt a strange feeling on his neck from wearing the collar for so long. His gloved hand touched the metal, cursing it for keeping him from his old best friend. His heart was now racing; his chest feeling heavy and causing him to breath unsteadily.
The emperor stood from his throne, walking up to the bound ex-commander, pulling the hybrid along behind him. Grayson and Drake barely ripped their gazes apart from each other as Drake was bought closer to his captive friend. Emerald green eyes starred up into his white and purple eyes, filled with disbelief.

"Drake, stay." The emperor commanded, and out of a new force of habit, Drake obeyed.

Grayson continued to stare at Drake, muttering the hybrid's name under his breath. Why was Drake listening to the man? What happened to his friend while they were separated to make this happen? This...betrayal? His eyes teared up, not knowing what to think.

"Drake...how could you? I..."

Drake's eyes widened again, that aching feeling rising in his chest that he hadn't felt in months. That feeling that he had betrayed his best friend. His knees grew weak, making him stumble back but he didn't fall. He hated seeing Grayson so beaten and that look in his eyes. His emerald orbs filled with hurt from Drake's treacherous act.
Suddenly, there was a rough tug on the chain around his neck. He was pulled until his chest hit the emperor, their lips crashing together. Drake's cheeks grew red, jumping with surprise, but he didn't pull back. The emperor forced his tongue into the hybrid's mouth, looking at Grayson from the corner of his eye to ensure that he watched with horror.
He remembered the ex-commander's confession to loving the Mage hybrid, something he decided to use to his advantage.
Grayson watched with shock as his mortal enemy kissed the one he loved, feeling emotionally hurt when Drake showed little resentment. His best friend, his love, was stolen from him by the man that loved taking everything he had away from him. First he killed his family, and now took his new love as his own.
The emperor pulled away from Drake, looking at Grayson with a sinister smug on his face. The blonde growled, pulling at his restraints with boiling loathing for the emperor.

"Let him go! Get your filthy lips away from him!" Grayson screamed.

The emperor laughed, sliding his thumb against the iron chain in his hand, enjoying rubbing his romantic relationship with his love right in the thief's face. That pain in Grayson's emerald eyes of having his love being taken was priceless! It had been so long since he he seen that in his teary orbs. That was another reason he had the hybrid stay with him in the palace, so he could torture Grayson with the fact that his best friend, and love interest, was now his alone.

"Guard! Take Drake back to his room."

He has his own room?! Grayson thought, watching as one of the men walked up to the emperor, taking the chain to Drake's collar out of his hand. The hybrid didn't rip his gaze from his old friend as he was pulled away, the iron choking him whenever he stopped in his tracks. Grayson watched as he was pulled out of the golden doors, his love vanishing from sight. His gaze shifted back to the emperor, his eyes becoming filled with nothing but rage.

"Drake would never stay with you on his own will! What have you done to him?!"

The emperor stepped closer, chuckling as he bend down to get to Grayson's eye level. "It's what you've done to him. He was hurt, and I was there to heal his wounds. You weren't there for him when he needed you."

Grayson's became wide. He shook his head as he growled in denial. What did he ever do to hurt Drake? He would never hurt the man he loved. His heart thumped in anger, the memories of his enemy kissing Drake causing disgust and rage to boil over inside of his body.

"I never did anything to him! You f*****g brainwashed him!"

The emperor chuckled, his amusement unsettling. His head tilted, with his hazel eyes looking into Grayson's green one's. He loved making the blonde jealous. It would be fun to keep him as a prisoner and constantly remind him the Drake was his lover, and would never be his. He wanted to shatter Grayson's heart. Then maybe he could have fun with Grayson too...

He laughed. "Well, Grayson. Think about it this way..."

His hand roughly grabbed the ex-commanders chin, forcing them to look eye to eye. He spoke before demanding Grayson to be taken to his cell down in the dungeons.

"Drake is all mine, and he'll never love you like he loves me."

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Grayson hung in the cell with his arms suspended over his head that slumped over. His breathing was heavy from strain on his chest and recovering from holding back tears. He couldn't believe that his best friend, the one that he loved, had sided with that vile man he despised. He couldn't understand why Drake would do such a thing, even when the hybrid knew that the emperor wanted him dead. What lies did that son of a b***h feed into Drake's head?
The blonde looked up as he heard the door unlock then slowly creep open. His heart started beating rapidly in his chest as he saw the tall, slender figure that always seemed to make his pounding heart skip a beat, even when he was mad at him. He didn't know how to feel. To be angry, happy, confused or what. Of all the people in the earth, the one person he trusted the most and cared for more than anything, was the one to bring him this pain of betrayal.

  "Grayson? Are you okay?" The hybrid's deep voice asked as he stepped into the cell, no guards to keep the ex-commander in check.

Grayson felt himself choke and his eyes tearing up. "Why..? Why are you on the emperor's side now? After everything that's he's done to me, and everything that I've done for you? Why would you do this to me?!"

Drake's mismatched eyes grew wide as he swallowed a lump in his throat. His cheeks grew red as he rubbed his arm. "I-I..."

  "I trusted you... I lo-" He stopped himself there. Can he really say that he loves him, after he had done this to him?

"What did he do to you to make this happen? Is it something that... I did?"

"It's not..." Drake mumbled before sighing, finding it difficult to speak.

Drake slowly walked up to the blonde as he limply dangled against the wall. He wanted to answer, but every time he opened his mouth he began struggling to breathe. The guilt of everything he had done was killing him slowly. He pulled out some keys, and unlocked the shackles around Grayson's wrists. Grayson's body fell down, falling down onto his feet. Drake didn't expect it when Grayson lifted up his arms and forcefully pushed him away.

  "Answer me!" He demanded, tears running down his face.

Drake took a step back, his mouth opened but no words came out of his quivering lips. Tears were forming in his eyes as saw Grayson's seething anger within his teary emerald orbs. He put the keys back onto his belt, feeling his tears begin to drip from his eyes and fall onto the stone floor below.

He was finally able to get himself to speak, his stomach aching from guilt. "It's nothing that you did... He captured me and... I couldn't stop him from...I-I never wanted to betray you! I felt trapped and helpless, and I didn't know how to stop him!"

Grayson's eyes became wide, realizing what Drake was talking about. Drake continued, looking at the ground and avoiding eye contact with his old friend. "I couldn't do anything and he...physically did things to me. There was nothing I could do..."

Grayson couldn't believe that the b*****d had done that to his love. It made him feel sick to think about what the man had done to him. His worst enemy had taken his love and violated him in the worst possible way he could think of. The ex-commander wasn't going to let that tyrant get away with doing such a horrible thing to his poor beloved.

His fists clenched together tightly and he hissed through his teeth as his anger turned from Drake to that wretched emperor. "He...ra..." He could barely even finish his sentence. He could not; the word only making him feel disgusted.

"I stayed because I had no other choice. It was either stay with him and give me an opportunity to save you, or stay locked in the dungeon. Either way, he still would...do those things to me."

Grayson closed his eyes and shook his head, growling loudly. "I'm going to kill him!"

Suddenly, Drake unsheathed his sword, stepping back and pointing the tip of the blade at his friend. Grayson stood there in shock, his body becoming frozen in place. What the heck was Drake doing?! The hybrid huffed, not enjoying having to hold a blade to his comrade, but he felt like he had to from the threat. Sure, he felt guilty, but that still did not change the fact that he loved the man Grayson spoke of murdering. He hated to love him, but he was too broken in the mind to give up the life and love he had grown used to. He showed him love, one way or another, and did not let him feel alone. He loved him yet hated him at the same time, but needed to protect his master like he was trained to.

"I'm sorry, Grayson, but I'm not letting you hurt him."

Grayson took a step back. "Drake, he needs to pay for what he did to you, and you need to forget whatever he brainwashed into your head!"

Drake let out a cry as Grayson's hand grabbed the iron collar that was still around his neck. "He treats you like a f***ing dog! You're just his pet!"

Drake batted his arm away and shook his head until Grayson's fingers unwrapped from the object around his neck. The hybrid put away his blade, but his gaze on his old friend became more of a glare.

"But he was there when you weren't! He showed me love when you didn't!"

Grayson slowly shook his head. "That's not love, Drake!... This..."

He once again grabbed Drake by the collar, and pulled him in until their lips collided. His eyes closed as his tongue parted the hybrid's and entered his mouth to rub against every inch and coat Drake's mouth in his own saliva. Drake stood there with wide eyes and a rapidly beating heart. His face grew red, feeling the muscle explore his mouth and play with his own tongue.
His eyes closed, as his hands rose up, one holding Grayson's left cheek and the other gliding freely through his greasy blonde strands. He couldn't help but let a moan rise in his throat. Not even the emperor could kiss him this passionately and this kiss felt so different. It felt less forced and more caring. It felt...loving.
Grayson pulled back, a long strand of mixed saliva connecting between his and Drake's lips. It broke, falling and covering their chins. Both of their bodies were burning up, but not too intensely. Grayson's fingers let go of the iron around the hybrid's neck and swallowed the saliva in his mouth.

"...Is love." Grayson finished.

Drake only stared silently into his eyes, not knowing what to say. His lips continuing to quiver, as well as his hands as they slipped away from Grayson. His shaking legs took a step away from his old friend, still surprised from Grayson's move. Did this mean that he had loved him this entire time? Or was it just a strange way to make him understand that he was in the wrong? He wiped away the saliva, sniffing mucus that tried to leak from his nose.

"G-Grayson... I didn't know that you..."

Grayson sniffed, wiping his teary eyes and chin free from tears and saliva. "I love you, Drake. I have for a long time, but... I never knew how to tell you. I'm sorry for not being there when you needed me. To save you from...this."

The Mage looked away from him, rubbing his arm which was covered by his cape. "None of it is your fault... It's all my fault. I'm sorry for ever joining him..."

His tears started running down his face again. "For ever believing that he loved me... I just didn't want to be alone. I wanted to save you if you were ever captured."

The blonde interrupted, taking his love by his gloved hands. "It's okay, you did save me! I don't care that you were with him, just as long as... you come with me, rather you love me back or not. I won't let you be alone anymore. I'll never leave your side again!"

Drake smiled and let out a choked up laugh. "I... I love too, and... I'll go with you! I trust you and I'll do anything for you, my love!"

Grayson cheered, rushing at the hybrid and wrapping his arms tightly around his neck, but made sure not to choke him accidentally. He began to cry tears of joy onto the hybrid's shoulder, filled with joy for having the one he loved back by his side and to have his love for the hybrid finally revealed and accepted. There was also a mix of sorrow from the knowledge that he wasn't around to keep Drake from being a victim to the emperor's sick game. He was not able to keep him from losing his innocence.

"Thank you! I'll never let anyone do anything to you again, I promise!" He pulled back, holding Drake's hands and quickly kissed him again before he cheered. "Let's get out of this place. Let's leave and truly begin our lives together!"

Drake smiled, pulling one hand away from Grayson to rub the tears from his eyes. "Okay. Let's get out of here, together!"
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Not sure if I'll continue or not. I had fun with this! And I love leaving you guys with cliffhangers. >:)
I'm not sure which ship I'll post next. I have a lot in mind. ;)