The river water was flowing like it always did, a powerful rush that made it hard to cross. There was a reason that no one swam there. The river on the other side of the town was better to swim in.

This one was the one that entranced Evan, though. He wasn't sure why it did, but he loved to sit on the edge of it and dip his feet into it and let the water rush by him. The fish in there were bigger than the fish on the other side, so this was the one that everyone fished from, but not from this area. There were too many rocks at the bottom here that snagged the lines and made it hard to do any good fishing.

Evan rubbed at his eyes and hated that it affected him as it did; his parents did not care about him. He was at the age of majority now, and he hadn't had a single person wish him a happy birthday. It was like the whole of the town followed what his parents wanted. The baker was closed for the day, so that was the only place where someone would have wished him a happy birthday.

The water started to bubble, and Evan just stared at it. There had to be a fish or something doing that. He scooted closer to the edge and got his legs more wet. He didn't care about his clothes getting wet. He looked at the water again, and he wondered what was under there. Whatever it was, it had stirred up the silt at the bottom, and the water was cloudy, and it wasn't clearing up as quickly as it should, so it was a big fight of some kind. If he weren't afraid of death, he would slip into the water and see what was going on. The water was good and fast for that. He didn't have that kind of death wish.

The water calmed down, and there was nothing to see. He could see down to the bottom again at the edge closest to the bank, beyond the rapidly moving water. The rest of the river was too dark. It was super deep. The poles that were used to spear fish were not long enough to go into the deep parts of this section of the river.

"I just want someone to want me," Evan said. He scooted back to make sure that he was safe.

Maddie was gone; her husband had moved her to a different town where he was needed more than he was here with his education in medicine. There were bigger towns that had people who needed them more. Maddie had trained as his helper for things, and she had to go with him, not even because they were married, but she loved him. She hadn't left him on purpose, but once in the bigger town, she didn't write as much, moving on with her life while Evan was stuck here.

"Evan," a voice called out.

Evan looked around, and he tried to see who would be calling out to him. No one really came to this section of the river. There were suspicions about people who came here and never came back, but no one had ever been able to tell him who had disappeared. It was always just something stupid. He looked back at the water, and he swore that he saw two eyes looking at him. He braced his feet on rocks in the water and braced himself. He stared at those eyes and tried to figure out what was in there that could look at him like that. The thing didn't blink, and then the water was parting to allow the thing up.

It was a man, but the man didn't come all the way out; instead, he beckoned Evan closer. He wore no shirt on his upper half, and Evan could not see what was under the water. Evan debated it for a few seconds before he did it. He slipped into the water and found that it was so cold on his body. He was careful as he moved, finding that the water wasn't as strong as it looked, but the rocks he was walking on were slick. Then he was in front of the man, they were nearly eye to eye, and Evan's lower half of his body was fully submerged.

"You come here a lot. Why?" the man asked.

"It's the only place that I can get away from everything. I love watching the water move, feeling it move over my feet and legs."

The man chuckled, and then there was something touching him. Evan tried to look down, but the man's eyes were entrancing, and he couldn't look away, even as he felt more things touching him; his clothing did little to stop the feeling. Two ropes wrapped around his hands and held him in place as the man stepped just a little closer, pressing them together. "You want to feel it around you even more? The water caressing your naked skin and the river giving you more pleasure than you ever thought?"

Evan wanted to say yes, but he felt like his mouth was stuck. He thought about it. He had been dallying with some of the girls in the town, but none of them had ever let him go all the way. They had gone down on him, and he had gone down on them, but there had been no penetration because they wanted good marriages. It had frustrated him, but in the end, he understood that they wanted someone who was going to take care of them. Their town was small but not that small, and some men came through this area for trading and the like.

"Hmm, Evan? Do you want all of the pleasure that I can give you?"

"Yes," Evan finally said. He did want it. He really did want it.

"Then kiss me to seal the deal."

Evan leaned in to do just that. He had thought about a few of the boys he had grown up with this way, but never once even thought about trying to kiss any of them that way, as he kissed the girls. The man held onto him, holding his face in place as they kissed, and the river just held onto him even tighter. Whatever it was that was touching him and holding him tightened its grip, but it didn't hurt, and then they were moving, the man was backing up and taking him down into the water even more.

"I can't breathe underwater," Evan said.

"Don't worry, Evan. You'll be fine."

Evan didn't think so, but there was no fighting it, and he couldn't look down. He was stuck looking at the man. Then they went under the water. Evan took a deep breath, and he held it as he went under. Then there was a world of light under there. He could see the bottom, like there was a bubble that was protecting the area from being hidden. It looked like a small house or a big house, given how big the river was. He was just so far away from it that it looked small. They didn't go down to it, and instead, the man just held him in place there just under the water. Evan tried to exhale slowly, but his lungs were already aching.

He opened his mouth but found that the water didn't rush into it. He felt like he was in normal air, so he took a small breath. There was just air around him, even though it looked like water.

"I don't drown those who give themselves over to me," the man said.

A God, Evan realized. He had known that the river was said to be protected by a God who never showed himself. They only knew that they were there because of kids who fell in the water who came back and were found on the edge of the water talking about the water playing with them. It was more than enough to make them worship the God. They left offerings at the opening and closing of each season, whatever was bountiful. It all disappeared, so they knew that the God was pleased.

"You don't need these."

Evan wasn't sure what the God was talking about until the things holding him started to strip him. The boots came off first, followed by his socks and pants, and then his shirt was ripped. He was there, naked in front of the God who was also just as naked.

"You are blushing, why are you blushing?" the God asked.

"I've never...not with a man."

"Hmm, that's a little bit of a lie, Evan. You haven't done much at all with a man or a woman. You've gotten pleasure from the flesh, but nothing has entered your body. You are a worthy sacrifice for the season."

Evan knew that the God wasn't going to kill him. Yet, there were other ways to sacrifice. He thought about what he wanted. No God of theirs would take what wasn't willingly given. He thought about what he wanted. He hated the town but had no way to leave that wouldn't leave him moneyless. He wanted adventure and happiness, but had no way of getting it because his parents had never once cared to do a damned thing with him. He wasn't allowed to apprentice with anyone.

The things that were holding him came into focus, like they had been hiding. Evan swallowed as he took in the tentacles that were pulsing around him, like they needed to touch him. He wasn't sure if that was just because he wanted the touch or God wanted to touch him as well.

"What is your name?"

"I have had many names, but the name I was born with was Tommy, before I turned into the God of the rivers of this world.:

"How did that happen?" Evan asked.

Tommy laughed a little bit, and he got closer. The tentacles that were holding Evan moved to allow him to get close. "Do you really want to know that right now?"

Evan shook his head because he didn't. He was feeling like this was the knife's edge for him. He wanted to do what Tommy wanted. There was going to be a lot of something going on in a few moments if he let it.

"What would happen after we..." Evan waved his hand between them, the tentacles letting it happen.

"I would take you to my home down in the deepest part of the river. It is where I live and listen to the people who call for me when they need me, and I come out to check out things."

"And I could live there?"

"If you wish. It would be no different than being anywhere else. You would have access to all the rivers of the world there and could easily go anywhere."

"Anywhere?"

Tommy nodded, and he reached out and touched. He got his fingers under Evan's chin and tipped his face to where he could lean in and kiss him. Evan gave himself over to the kiss, finding it was different than kissing a human because he could feel the magic or power or whatever it was that Gods had.

"So eager," Tommy said when he broke the kiss. He ran that hand down Evan's chest, touching and feeling like he was setting Evan's skin on fire. "So wanting. I've felt your desire for a long time, Evan Buckley."

Evan wasn't able to answer because the tentacles were moving him to where he was lying on his back in the water; there was nothing around him but the water. It was like he was resting on nothing but his tentacles wrapped around him to make him feel safe. He groaned when the first one reached out to touch his cock. He jerked a little when it teased at the slit at the tip of his cock. He inhaled and exhaled, still shocked that no water went into his mouth. The tentacles were touching everywhere. He didn't have a part of his body that wasn't touched by them, even his lips, as they teased him there.

"I don't take this form that often, but knowing of your desires and the way that you want to be treated, I thought this was good for our first time."

"First time?"

"Oh, Evan, did you think that I would bring you back and not have you every chance that I could get?" Tommy touched his legs and pulled him closer to him, the water moving him with ease. "I am going to teach you all about pleasure and how each of my forms can give you the pleasure you are seeking."

Evan wasn't sure what forms Tommy had, but he wanted to know all of them. He thought about some of the stories he had heard about the Gods and the forms that they took to make humans feel safer. Then there were the ones that were made to make the humans run from them. He groaned when he felt the first tentacle at his ass. He knew how men had sex. He had seen more than enough of the people in the town going at it, even once a woman taking it from behind while another man fucked her from the front. He had gone home and jerked off to that thought.

"Please," Evan begged.

"I'll give you what you want, but first I need your pleasure. I need you to give me something." Tommy touched Evan's cock that time, and he stroked it while the tentacles writhed all over him.

Evan closed his eyes to give in to the pleasure that he was being given. He felt the first tentacle at his mouth, and he opened it again, letting it slip inside for a moment, and then he closed his mouth and sucked, pulling it further in, but also just making it known that he loved it.

"I can't wait to have your pretty lips wrapped around my cock, get you on your knees in my temple, and have you take my seed like that."

Evan could see that in his mind. On his knees, waiting for whatever Tommy was giving him. Tommy was holding his head and fucking his mouth the way that he wanted, not caring about what Evan needed, Evan coming without being touched because of the pleasure he was giving Tommy. He had one once when going down on a woman. It had been a little embarrassing, but she had told him that it made her feel like he actually liked going down on her. She had asked him to do it more than once, and he always did what he wanted, and he got close to that point again and again, but never tipped over the edge.

"I can feel what you're thinking about. You love it, don't you?"

Evan nodded, and he felt the tentacles pulling him just a little closer to Tommy. Then Tommy was fully between his legs as the tentacle pushed inside of his ass. It felt slick, like it had been dipped into a pot of oil. None of the other tentacles felt like they were slick like that when they touched him.

"The ones that are closer to my cock are like that; they make it easy for me to take pleasure in the human form without hurting them. I don't worry too much about it that often. It's been a long time since I've taken a sacrifice like this. No one has ever called me like you have, Evan."

Instead of pulling out, another tentacle pushed inside of his ass, and Evan groaned at the feel of being stretched. He tried to just live in the moment, taking the pleasure, but he wanted to touch. He was held in place by the tentacles, and he wanted to touch. He reached out and found the tentacles weren't stopping him, and then he was touching Tommy.

Tommy leaned over him, and when Evna opened his eyes, he could see that Tommy was right there. The tentacle in his mouth slipped out, and Tommy kissed him again. He took control of Evan's hands, and the tentacles from there slipped away. He could only feel Tommy. He could only see him. He could only give in to what Tommy wanted of him because it was what Evan wanted too.

The kiss broke as another tentacle slipped into his ass, and they moved, thrusting in and out, like they were getting him ready. He hadn't noticed Tommy's cock, even though he knew that Tommy had one, given his own words. He figured that the base of the tentacles had hidden it. He wanted to see it. He wanted to know what was going to go inside of him before it did.

"Let me see," Evan said when he could get his breath in to make words.

"You want to see what I'm going to fuck you with in a few moments?"

Evan nodded. He felt tentacles pushing at his head to tip it to where he could see. The tentacles parted, and there was a cock there that was bigger than his own, not by much, but it was bigger than any cock he had ever seen. It wasn't just thicker but a little longer, too. "Will it fit?"

"Yes, it'll fit inside for you. I would never make you take something that would hurt you. I am not that kind of God."

"Do those kinds of Gods exist? None of our stories talks about that."

"Hmm, they did, and most of them were outed. The ones who get too far from the humans they are meant to protect, that's how Gods like me come into being. We are made, and then we ousted the others and defeated them." Tommy let go of Evan's hands and braced himself like they were lying on something hard right at Evan's head, and then he kissed him.

The tentacles were extensions of Tommy's will, so it wasn't a shock that they were used to angle Evan's hips, and then when Tommy slid inside of him as the tentacles left his ass, they were used to direct Tommy inside of him. Tommy didn't stop until he was fully inside of Evan, and the tentacles held him in place to take it; his hips couldn't move up to get into the thrust of the cock inside of him. No, he was kept in place as Tommy fucked him. Only his arms could move, touching and holding onto Tommy as he was taken, losing his virginity to the River God under the same river that had been the source of life in the town.

Evan kissed him, keeping Tommy's head right there as he fucked. It felt so fucking good. Better than he thought it was going to feel, and all he could feel was how full he was when Tommy filled him up, and then when he pulled back, how empty. Time lost all meaning as he took the pleasure given him and tried to hold on for as long as he could.

"Look at you," Tommy said when the kiss broke, and he was staring down at Evan. "Taking what I give you. I can't wait to have you tied to an altar and taking you that way, your body there just for my pleasure. It's so fucking good. I've seen other Gods do it to their consorts. Have them right there and willing, but make it a ritual that bonds the consort to them for the rest of their lives, which is forever unless we become corrupt. Do you want that, Evan? To be bound to me in a way that we can never break."

"Yes," Evan said. He tried to grab at Tommy again, but his hands were grabbed, and he was pinned in place that way; his legs were let go, and he wrapped them around Tommy to urge him into more. He was so close. It was going to take very little to get them off. He hoped that more orgasms were to come later, but right now he wanted this one more than he wanted anything else.

A tentacle wrapped around his cock and stroked it before there was a tease at the slit of his cock again. That sent him over the edge. He groaned and came. It was so fucking good. He blacked out a little, his body bowing in pleasure and not stopping until he felt Tommy coming inside him. Then it was like a second orgasm hit him. That made him black out.

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Evan woke up in slow pieces. He remembered a soft bed, then the next time it was a hand on his back, rubbing, then lastly a body pressed to his in the warm and soft bed. He groaned as he tried to remember what had happened. He remembered being at the edge of the river and then Tommy. He didn't jerk, but his heart started to race. He looked around and saw that there was no water around him. This was just fresh air and the inside of a house-like place. The room was massive, and it looked like it was well cared for. There were a few creatures that Evan had only heard about from the men and women who came trading to their town—the kind of creatures that lived at the edge of the ocean and the rivers.

"Evan," Tommy said.

"I'm awake," Evan said.

"I know you are, but I want you to roll over and look at me."

Evan did as Tommy wanted him to do. He looked into Tommy's eyes and realized that Tommy was worried about him. "I'm fine."

"Hmm, you passed out, and you've been asleep a while."

"I've had trouble sleeping lately."

"So you were taking the sleep you've not been able to find in your own bed in my bed?"

Evan nodded. He was warm, and that was something that hadn't happened a lot lately. His parents hadn't replaced his blanket in a while, and it was thin from washing, getting too cool for him.

"I have others who work for me. I will have them take your things from your parents' place without them knowing it. Do you want to write a letter?"

"You meant it? Do you want me to stay?" Evan asked. He tried to sit up but found that his body was being held in place with Tommy's legs over his and there was a hand on his chest keeping him down. He still felt tired. He wondered if he should just stay where he was.

"Yes, I meant that I wanted you to become my consort. You can write a letter to leave for them to make them think that you ran away to find yourself or whatever you want."

"They won't care, but it will at least give them something to show others when they ask about me."

Tommy's face showed that he was not pleased with that. "I knew that you spent a lot of time at the bank of the river, and it was why I was so close to you then. You were calling to me over and over again. I kept answering the call. It was the reason you didn't fall in that one time a year ago."

"Why didn't you take me then?"

"Age of majority for a reason. I didn't watch much outside of the last year, but I felt the call to your town more and more. Even outside of the season pulls. I knew that I needed to keep my distance or I would end up doing something even I would not like."

"I'm tired, but I want more." Evan tried to pull Tommy to him, but Tommy just chuckled, and he shifted on his own. He was in a humanoid form that had no extra appendages. He was naked, and Evan was as well.

"More what? Another orgasm so you can pass out again? Make me clean you up."

"You will be the one getting me messy."

Tommy kissed him, and Evan knew that they would be together for a long time. Evan would fall in love with time, but for now, he just wanted Tommy.

The End