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The Burden of Man

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Jordan lives in a world with no women where you can only top someone if yourdick is bigger than theirs. His dick is unusually small

Chapter 4: Hole Conditioning

The following week passed in a blur of soreness and oil. Jordan obeyed. Each night, in the dank privacy of the barracks latrine, he followed Theron’s drill. His fingers, then the smooth, polished handle of his toothbrush, then the thicker base of a salvaged tool handle. He worked himself open with a detached, mechanical precision, his eyes closed, imagining not pleasure, but a lock being picked, a sealed compartment being breached. He was mapping the interior geography of his own violation, learning its capacity for pain, its threshold for stretch. The shame was a cold rock in his gut, but it was separate from the work. The work was just data collection.

The summons came on the eighth day, not to the obsidian chamber, but to a part of the compound Jordan had only heard rumors of: Theron’s private gym.

It was a cavernous space of echoing noise and gleaming surfaces. The air smelled of sweat, testosterone, and industrial disinfectant. Chrome-plated weight machines gleamed under harsh fluorescent lights, and along one entire wall, floor-to-ceiling mirrors reflected the grotesque, exaggerated musculature of the men training there. They were all Alphas, or high-ranking Betas aspiring to the title, their bodies sculpted into caricatures of power. Their grunts and the clang of iron plates were a symphony of brute force.

Theron stood near a set of parallel bars, watching a man with a back as wide as a door struggle with a colossal deadlift. He was dressed in simple grey training shorts and a tight black tank top, his own physique less bulky but etched with lean, efficient muscle. He saw Jordan and gestured him over with a slight flick of his fingers.

“You reported diligent practice,” Theron said, his voice cutting through the grunts and metal clatter. It wasn’t a question. “Demonstrate. Here.”

He pointed to a cleared space of matted floor before the wall of mirrors. On the floor lay a small, unassuming duffel bag. Theron nudged it with his foot. “Open it.”

Jordan knelt. He unzipped the bag. Inside, nestled in foam, was a series of silicone shapes. They were dildos, varying in size and color, from a modest thickness to objects that were frankly obscene, veined and intimidating. They were not tools of pleasure, but of calibration.

A few of the nearby lifters paused, their weights settling with a definitive clank. They watched, amused, predatory smiles on their faces.

“Start with the blue one,” Theron commanded, his arms crossed.

Jordan’s hands were steady as he withdrew the blue silicone cock. It was cool, slightly larger than the tool handle he’d graduated to. He felt every eye in the vicinity on him. The mirrors would give them all a perfect view. This was not just training; it was a spectacle, a reaffirmation of the natural order.

He lowered his trousers and shorts, letting them pool around his ankles. He took the bottle of oil from the bag—the same sharp, botanical scent—and coated the blue shaft generously. He didn’t look at the mirrors. He looked at the mat beneath his knees, at the porous black rubber.

“On your back. Legs up,” Theron said, his tone that of a coach correcting form.

Jordan lay back on the cold mat, the rough texture scraping his shoulder blades. He pulled his knees toward his chest, exposing himself completely to the room, to the mirrors, to Theron’s evaluative gaze. He guided the tip of the dildo to his entrance, which was already softened and loosened from his nightly drills.

He pushed.

The stretch was immediate, a familiar burn. He worked it inward slowly, his breath puffing out in short clouds in the cool air. His own cock, small and soft, lay ignored against his stomach. In the mirror, he could see the reflection of his own spread legs, the blue silicone sticking out from between his cheeks, the cluster of amused, hulking men watching. He was a diagram. A lesson.

“Deeper,” Theron said, taking a step closer. “Take it all. Let them see you take it.”

Jordan pushed until the fake balls of the dildo rested against him. He was full, stretched. He held it, breathing through the sensation.

“Now,” Theron said. “Reps. Ten. Show me your rhythm.”

Jordan began to move, sliding the dildo almost all the way out, then pushing it back in. The slick, sucking sounds were hideously loud in the space between the clangs of weights. His hole, well-practiced, opened for each intrusion. The pain was there, a blunt background noise, but it was secondary to the sheer exposure. He was a machine performing its sole function. He counted in his head. One. Two. Three.

The watching men muttered. “Fuck, look at that little slot open up.” “Built for it.” “That’s all an 8.2 is, a hole on legs.”

Jordan reached ten. He stopped, the dildo buried inside him.

“Good,” Theron said, a hint of something akin to approval in his voice. It was more chilling than disgust. “Now the red one.”

The red one was thicker. Substantially thicker. Jordan exchanged the blue for the red, his fingers leaving oily smears on the silicone. He coated it, positioned it, and pressed the blunt head against his loosened entrance.

This was different. This was a challenge. His body resisted, the ring of muscle clamping down in protest. He bore down, pushing with his hips, forcing it. The stretch became a sharp, tearing strain. A gasp escaped him.

“Use more oil,” Theron instructed calmly. “And relax. You trained for this. Your body knows it can take it.”

Jordan poured more oil over the shaft, over himself, the liquid running down the cleft of his ass onto the mat. He pushed again, breathing out, forcing his muscles to relent. The head popped past the tight ring, and a wave of intense, burning pressure filled him. He moaned, the sound ripped from him.

“Again,” Theron said. “Ten reps with the red. Let’s see your dedication.”

The next ten minutes were a slow, brutal marathon of penetration. Each inward stroke was a fight, each withdrawal a relief followed by the dread of re-entry. His vision swam at the edges. Sweat beaded on his forehead, mixing with the oil on his thighs. He stared at the ceiling, at the riveted steel panels, counting each rep as a small death. By the tenth, he felt wrecked, stretched to a searing new limit, the red silicone a grotesque plug inside him.

“Now the black one,” Theron said.

The black one was a monster. It was the largest, its girth approaching the width of a fist. A low whistle came from one of the onlookers.

Jordan’s hands shook as he picked it up. It was heavy, unreal. He oiled it until it dripped. He positioned it, the broad, flared head pressing against him like a challenge. He pushed. It wouldn’t go. He grunted, straining, his hips lifting off the mat.

“You can do it,” Theron murmured, kneeling beside him now. His presence was a physical weight. “This is what you are for. To be opened. To be used. Take it. Show me you understand your purpose.”

With a final, agonizing effort, Jordan shoved back. The head breached him, a sensation so intense it bordered on dissociation. A white flash went off behind his eyes. He cried out, a raw, animal sound. He could go no further. It was lodged, an impossible invasion. He panted, tears leaking from the corners of his eyes, his body trembling violently around the massive object.

Theron watched him for a long moment, his grey eyes clinical. Then he nodded. “Enough.” He placed a hand on Jordan’s thigh. His touch was electric, firm. “Now you’re ready.”

He gripped the black dildo and slowly, carefully, pulled it out. Jordan’s body resisted, then gave way with a wet, obscene pop. He felt gaping, empty, throbbing with a deep, hot ache. He lay spent on the mat, his legs still splayed.

Theron stood and stripped off his training shorts. His cock, fully erect, sprang free. It was thick, heavy, veined, a living version of the black silicone but crowned with a ruddy, vibrant heat. It was the real thing. The source.

He spat into his palm twice, slicking his length with a crude, possessive gesture. He stepped over Jordan, his shadow falling across him. “Look at me,” he commanded.

Jordan dragged his eyes up from Theron’s cock to his face. The man’s expression was focused, intent, devoid of cruelty or pleasure. This was a transaction. A confirmation.

Theron guided himself to Jordan’s wrecked entrance. The head pressed against the loosened, sore ring of muscle. “This,” Theron said, his voice low and deep, “is your place.”

He pushed.

Despite the preparation, the breach was shocking. The living flesh was hotter, more yielding yet more dominant than the silicone. It stretched Jordan’s limits anew, a burning, fullness that transcended the pain of the dildos. It was personal. It was Theron.

Theron sank in slowly, relentlessly, until his pelvis met Jordan’s upturned ass. Jordan gasped, the air driven from his lungs. He was impaled, filled beyond capacity. Theron didn’t move for a moment, letting Jordan feel the complete occupation, the profound violation of his interior space.

Then he withdrew, almost all the way out, and thrust back in. A brutal, piston-like rhythm began. Each stroke was a deep, claiming drive. The friction was immense, a rough, burning drag that lit a fire in Jordan’s gut. The pain was still there, a bright, sharp star, but something else was coiling beneath it, a traitorous, involuntary tension building in his core with every grind of Theron’s hips.

“See?” Theron grunted, his composure slipping into raw physical effort. “Your body… knows.” He hammered into Jordan, his balls slapping against skin with each thrust. “It knows… its fucking place.”

Jordan’s hands scrabbled at the mat. His head was thrown back, his mouth open in a silent scream. The overwhelming sensation, the public debasement, the sheer brutal physics of the act—it short-circuited his mind. The coil in his gut tightened, unbearably tense. It was humiliation, it was pain, it was a physiological betrayal so complete it became its own kind of peak.

Theron leaned over him, his sweat dripping onto Jordan’s chest, his pace becoming ragged, urgent. “Take it, you little fucking hole. Take every inch.”

With a final, deep plunge that felt like it reached Jordan’s spine, Theron stiffened, a raw groan tearing from his throat. Jordan felt the hot, pulsing release inside him, a flood of warmth that seemed to fill the empty, aching cavity.

That internal warmth, that ultimate claim, was the trigger.

A jolt convulsed through Jordan. A white-hot surge, completely divorced from any sense of pleasure, erupted from his own small, neglected cock. It spasmed against his stomach, ejecting a pathetic, thin dribble of come in weak, helpless spurts. It was an orgasm of pure, devastating submission, a physical surrender so absolute his very nerves capitulated.

Theron saw it. He saw the tiny, shameful mess on Jordan’s stomach. A grim, triumphant smile spread across his face. He slowly pulled out, leaving Jordan feeling brutally empty, leaking onto the mat. He looked down at the evidence of Jordan’s betrayal.

“See?” he breathed, panting slightly. “I told you. Your body knows its place. It always will.”

He stepped away, wiping himself casually with a towel produced by an attendant Jordan hadn’t even noticed. The other men had lost interest, returning to their weights, the show over.

Jordan lay on the mat, shaking, covered in oil and sweat and his own pathetic release. The ache inside him was a new, permanent landmark. But as the fog of sensation cleared, a cold clarity returned. He had taken Theron. He had taken the black silicone. His body had been broken, yes, but it had also performed. It had endured. It had, in its own twisted way, succeeded.

Theron dressed, looking down at him with that evaluative stare. “Report next week. Same time. We’ll increase the reps.” He turned to leave, then paused. “And clean this mess.”

Jordan was left alone on the mat before the mirrors. Slowly, painfully, he pulled his clothes on over his sticky, aching body. He avoided his own reflection at first. Then, forcing himself, he looked.

A young man, slight, exhausted, stared back. His eyes were hollow, but they were not defeated. They were calculating. In the reflection, he saw not just his own used body, but the gym behind him. He saw the weight rack, the dumbells lined up like ordnance. He saw the security panel by the door, the one Theron had used to enter. He saw the layout, the blind spots, the tools.

The pain was a lesson. The orgasm was a data point. The debt was growing. He had been stretched to fit Theron’s design. But in that stretching, he had also made space. Space for something else. He wiped the come from his stomach with the edge of his shirt, his movements deliberate.

He had taken the biggest thing Theron could give him. He had survived it. Now he knew the dimensions of the container. Now he could begin to plan what to put inside it.

The gym door hissed shut behind Theron, leaving Jordan alone on the mat. The air still vibrated with the clang of weights and the grunts of men who saw nothing. He moved slowly, each motion a fresh protest from his deeply stressed muscles. The inside of him felt raw, a hot, hollow ache where he had been stretched and filled. He used the clean part of his shirt to wipe the oily sheen and the few pathetic drops of his own release from his stomach.

The mess on the mat was another matter. It pooled, translucent and slick, a humiliating testament. As he reached for a discarded towel in the corner, the main door crashed open again. This wasn’t the hydraulic hiss of Theron’s private entrance. It was the bang of the common door, shoved wide by a familiar, hulking silhouette.

Cassius stood there, flanked by two other low-level supervisors from the plant, Goran and Lynx. Their shift must have just ended; they smelled of grease and sweat, their faces still smudged with the grime of the reclamation line. They were Betas, but high enough to revel in any hierarchy below them.

“Well, fuck me,” Cassius boomed, his voice echoing in the now-quieting space. A few of the Alpha lifters glanced over, their expressions bored. “Look what the top dog dragged in and left dripping.”

Jordan froze, the towel in his hand. He was still on his knees, trousers around his ankles. He made no move to cover himself. Covering was an admission of shame, and shame was a currency here. He met Cassius’s gaze, letting his own go flat and empty.

“Got a call to clean the Leader’s gym,” Jordan said, his voice steady. It was a thin veneer, but it was all he had.

“Clean it?” Cassius laughed, a sharp, barking sound. He sauntered closer, his boots squelching slightly in the oil Jordan hadn’t yet mopped up. “Looks like you are the mess, Omega.” His eyes, small and bright with malice, scanned Jordan’s exposed body, lingering on the wet, glistening evidence between his legs. “Oh, sweet hell. Will you look at that?”

Goran and Lynx moved in, their curiosity predatory. Cassius pointed a thick, dirty finger.

“Look at that fucking hole,” Cassius sneered, his voice dropping to a mock-conspiratorial whisper that carried. “See how it’s just… gaping? Like a slapped mouth. Still winking at us, ain’t it?”

Jordan remained still. The air from the ventilation system felt like ice on his overheated skin, on his most violated parts. He felt the stares, not just from Cassius and his cronies, but from the other men who had paused their routines to watch this lesser spectacle.

“Theron really worked you over, didn’t he, little man?” Goran chuckled, leaning in. “Needed the big toys to open up that tight little Beta ass. Probably popped it wide open for good.”

“Bet it’s like throwing a hot dog down a hallway now,” Lynx added, snickering.

Cassius crouched down, bringing his face level with Jordan’s. His breath smelled of stale ration bars and cheap gin. “Let’s get a proper look.” Before Jordan could react, Cassius’s rough hand shot out and grabbed his inner thigh, yanking his legs wider apart. The movement was brutally invasive, stretching sore muscles.

Jordan hissed, his composure cracking for a second.

“Whoa, easy,” Cassius mocked, holding him open. “See that, boys? All red and puffy. Looks well-used. Proper fucking wrecked.” He shook his head in mock pity. “And to think, all that stretching, and you’ve still got that useless little nub of a cock up front. Don’t even need it, do you? Just a decoration. Your real purpose is back here now. A used-up fuckhole for his lordship.”

He released Jordan’s leg with a shove, standing up and wiping his hand on his own pants as if touching Jordan had soiled him. “Clean up your slop, Omega. And make it quick. You’ve got bins to sort back at the barracks.” He turned to leave, then threw a final glance over his shoulder. “And maybe don’t sit down hard tonight. Might fall right through the damn chair.”

Their laughter followed them out, bouncing off the chrome and mirrors until the door sealed shut, leaving Jordan in a ringing silence more deafening than their taunts.

He finished cleaning with robotic precision. He wiped the mat until it was sterile and dry. He disposed of the soiled towels. He dressed, the rough fabric of his trousers abrading his tender flesh with every step he would take. Each movement was a reminder of Cassius’s words, of the pointing fingers, of the grotesque image they had all seen and dissected.

The walk back to the Omega wing was a gauntlet of knowing stares from passing Enforcers. Word traveled fast. He was no longer just an 8.2. He was Theron’s stretched-out fuckhole, a publicly acknowledged receptacle. The label was a brand, searing hotter than any physical pain.

He entered the barren barracks. The plink from the leak was there, constant. He stood under the cold drip from the communal showerhead, letting the water rinse the oil and sweat away. The chill was a shock, but it grounded him. Cassius had seen his wreckage. The other men had seen it. They would all remember.

He dressed in his spare uniform, the coarse cloth another layer of torment. He lay on his cot, staring at the riveted ceiling, the familiar plink a metronome in the dark. His body was a map of pain, a testament to what had been done to him. But Cassius, in his cruel, unthinking mockery, had given him something.

He had confirmed Jordan’s theory. He was beneath notice. He was a joke, a used-up hole. A thing to be pointed at and laughed at on the way to more important business.

That was a powerful kind of invisibility.

Jordan closed his eyes. The plan wasn't a spark yet. It was a cold, hard seed. It needed specific tools, not just the will. He thought of the gym’s polished floor, the heavy dumbbells lined up like soldiers. He thought of the security panel by Theron's private door, the one he'd seen the Leader use. A four-digit code, entered with a confident tap.

He thought of the weight of the black silicone in his hand, the impossibility of its girth. He thought of the greater impossibility he had accepted inside himself.

He had been stretched to fit a specific shape. A container. Now he knew its exact dimensions. Now he knew what it could hold.

The seed began, slowly, to put down roots in the dark.

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