Defiant

The Ryan boys were defiant.

They would not give their kidnappers and sign of fear...

...any sigh of weakness.

The both knew they would be eventually get tied up.

That what happens to people who are kidnapped.

Bound and gagged.

They had already stripped to the waist.

Ropes hurt more on bare skin.

Especially coarse...

...rough ropes.

Young Jacob, 18, turned around and surrendered his arms for roping.

It was torture as the contorted the boys arms behind him.  He made no sound as they pushed his bound wrists up his back, tied them to his neck, forced his elbows together, bound them and his forearms, forced a metal pipe between his biceps and back, bound each upper arm to it, finally winding the rope around his torso, across his pecs, forcing his bound arms deep into his spine.

He opened his mouth and took the rag shoved into it.

The wide black duct tape went around his head several times, both gagging and blindfolding him.

He could feel his sweat streaming down him as he was kicked and landed hard on his chest.

He did not make a sound and they stripped him down to his shorts, and bound his legs and ankles.

Twenty-one year old Josh Ryan watched his kid brother get roped.  He had know he was tough, but never imagined how tough he was as the boy was roped.

They roped Josh up in the same way as Jacob, the two bound and gagged brothers prone on the floor.

Josh heard the squeaky sound of metal from above and felt his body move across the floor as he feet starting to move upward.  "Fuck, they're string us up," he said to himself.  Finally it was only his chin on the ground when with several yanks by his abductors his head was two feet off the floor, his body swinging in the air.

Jacob was then hauled up.

They pushed the brothers bodies like swings, so that they would smash into each other, spraying sweat and they laughed, smoked and drank beer.

Finally, they pushed the two bound men's legs together, tied them at the knees.

Then bound their heads together with tape, cheek-to cheek.

They left them,

Realizing there was no possible way to escape, the Ryan boys hung..

Defiant.

As long as it would take.