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Archive: Certainly on Boys in Chains, M&A, The Nesting Place, Wayward Inn.Others please request.

Pairing/Category: Q/O; O/B; angst; H/C; BDSM.

Rating: NC-17

Warnings: It squicked Kirby! Dark. Dark. Dark. Oh, very dark. Nasty. Rape, torture, some borderline non-con. Worse, excretions! Not pretty. Beware. Don't go here if you don't like seeing any of the Boyz hurt. Here be Dragons. Abandon all hope, etc. Really! I'm not kidding...

Disclaimer: The characters are George Lucas's, bless him for having such a fevered imagination, even if it's not as fevered as mine. I should be so lucky as to make any money from writing stuff that's this much fun to write. Unfortunately, I'm not. At least not yet. Don't sue. Not my fault. It's the drugs.

Notes: The title is a quotation from a Smithsonian magazine article about collegiate boxing, which I loathe as a sport, pro or amateur.

This story is as much Kath Moonshine's as mine, at least the ideas, though the prose is mine. If not for her willingness to gnaw on this particularly tough bone, sharing her wide reading in the training tactics of special forces personnel and prodding me to look into the dark and nasty corners, I'd have never gotten to the marrow of this story. So blame the errors on me, and the verisimilitude on her.

This story takes place about two years into Obi-Wan & Qui-Gon's relationship.

Another piece of the Warrior's Heart series, the correct order of which is as follows:

"Rightful Owner"
"Crime and Punishment"
"Ecstasies"
"The Anger Exercises"
"The Geometry of Desire"
"But For Grace"
"Give and Take"
"Meditations"
"Master & Apprentice"
"Nomenclature"
"The Fear Exercises"
"Willing Vessels"
"An Accident Waiting"
"Cold Feet"
"The Sweet Science of Bruising"
"Silk"

Bruck Chun, Obi-Wan's former (?) tormentor appears here. I don't own him, either. However, if anybody'd like to sell me Qui-Gon, slightly used or otherwise, I have a platinum card waiting to be broken in.Atrussed-up Obi-Wan wouldn't be amiss either. Home delivery requested. I'll even share. (Well, maybe not...)

Thoughts in italics (or */*); telepathy in //.

Summary: Obi-Wan reaches a turning point in his training, with consequences for Qui-Gon and Bruck, as well.

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