"Hot Blooded"
"Diane, honey?" Jack called out from the living room. "I think one of your triggers is broken."
Diane came in from the kitchen with a vegetable tray, being careful to avoid getting any dip on her little black dress. "I'd say I don't remember you using any triggers on me in the last few minutes," she said, "but then again, that's not necessarily evidence of anything. Which one is it that you think is malfunctioning?"
"It's a new one, 'Hot Blooded'," Jack said. He paused. "Feel anything different?"
Diane set the tray down on the coffee table. "Not a thing," she said. "What's it supposed to do?"
"Well, if it had worked, it--hang on, let me try again." He looked into her eyes, and Diane smiled. Even after six years of marriage, she still got a quiet thrill out of staring deep into her husband's intense brown eyes, the memories of so many erotic trances making the simple, casual act of looking at each other into an intimate moment. "Hot Blooded," he said again.
Diane shrugged. "Sorry, nothing. You sure this is one you actually programmed me with, and not just one you were thinking about installing?" Not that she'd actually remember, one way or another. She knew some people had trouble with hypnotic amnesia, but Diane positively reveled in it. There was just something so sexy about knowing that some part of her brain was the willing conspirator in rendering her helplessly submissive, that the power Jack held over her was so total that it blanked out conscious thought. Hearing a trigger and realizing she had been programmed without remembering it was like tangible evidence of her complete submission, and...Diane shivered a little.
"I'm positive," Jack said, interrupting her train of thought. "Hot Blooded?" He frowned, watching Diane's face.
"Nothing. How positive is positive? Because I don't want this to be a repeat of that time you walked up to me and said, 'Stupid Girl' because you thought you'd made it into a trigger phrase," Diane said mischievously, squirming slightly with lust as she thought about exactly what 'Stupid Girl' did to her now that he'd installed it.
Jack grinned ruefully. "My shoulder still aches in wet weather, you know." Diane rolled her eyes, his voice snapping her out of her fantasy a bit. "No, I'm very sure I installed this trigger, but...Hot Blooded." He sighed. "Great. Kiki's bringing her new girlfriend over in about five minutes, and your 'Hot Blooded' trigger doesn't do anything."
Diane shrugged, sitting down on the couch. "I don't think it's going to be a big deal, honey. We were planning to take things slow early on anyway, get to know the new girl." She paused, thinking about said 'new girl'. Kiki had sent pictures of Traci, and she looked absolutely adorable, downright melt-in-your-mouth. Diane was really looking forward to the evening, hoping that Kiki and Traci and Jack and her would wind up in bed...or possibly just on the floor, sucking and fucking and trancing and tying and whipping and--
"So, um...slow, like I was saying," she said, forcing herself to get back on-topic. "Which reminds me, you can take the 'Hypnosis Is For Lovers' button off any time."
"You think I should go with 'Lose Thoughts Now--Ask Me How'?" Jack asked with a crooked grin. But he took the button off. "I still think you're underestimating Kiki's sex drive. The email she sent us practically screamed 'foursome'. In fact, I think there was an .mp3 attachment we didn't open that did just that."
"Yes, darling, but there is such a thing as class." Diane held up her hand in a Shakespearean gesture. "Elegance. Holding off on the orgy until after the beef course. Things like that set us apart from the barbarians."
"Oh, I know," Jack responded. "Do you know, the barbarians don't even know that you pass the K-Y to the person on your right?" He chuckled. "I'll go get us some wine." He headed out of the room in the direction of the pantry.