"You don't know what's happening to you, do you?" The woman in the mint green dress didn't look at Caitlin when she talked. She stared out the window instead, leaning on the railing and gazing out over the darkened New York City skyline with a disinterested expression reflecting onto the glass.
Caitlin shook her head ever so slightly, relieved to admit that she didn't really understand what was going on. "No, ma'am," she added, realizing only after the silence stretched a little too long that the other woman couldn't see her, wouldn't notice any visual cues. And she hadn't turned to face Caitlin since... since... the young woman's flushed, ruddy forehead furrowed in confusion, a bewilderment that also showed in her glassy hazel eyes. She couldn't remember the stranger turning to face her at all. If not for that pale, ghostly reflection in the glass, Caitlin wouldn't even know what the statuesque blonde looked like at all.
The faint red lips quirked in an even fainter smile. "No, of course you don't," the other woman murmured, a not-quite-cruel amusement tinging her melodic tones. "That would mean thinking, and you don't really want to do that right now, do you?" Her body swayed ever so slightly in place as she spoke, as if she was slow-dancing to some unheard music. Caitlin didn't need to hear it, though; she could feel it in every heartbeat, in the faintest pulse that fluttered against the black ribbon around her throat. It was a bump-and-grind rhythm that had become as familiar to her as breathing over the course of following the stranger--
Following the stranger. Why. Why had she. Why did Caitlin want to. Why would Caitlin follow someone she didn't. Where had she. Why couldn't she.
Somehow every question seemed to hit that exact same wall of indifference, twisting around in Caitlin's head from an interrogative to a flat, reflexive statement of utter disinterest before she could even summon up the energy to finish posing it. She couldn't really think about any of it--no. Not couldn't. She didn't want to think about any of it. "No, ma'am," she replied, a wave of sleepy relief washing over her as she finally answered the only question that really mattered, the one the blonde had asked her. Caitlin's brow smoothed out into placid indifference, and her eyes locked on the motion of the other woman's silent dance once more.
It had a captivating, metronomic quality to it, keeping perfect time with the silent rhythms of Caitlin's body... or maybe it was the other way around, she mused silently. Maybe Caitlin's heartbeat, her breathing had settled just as easily into the pulse of the stranger's motions as her footsteps back on the pavement outside the club. Maybe she was taking her cues from the blonde, following the other woman now with only her eyes. It felt good to follow. It felt good to... not think, of course. Caitlin didn't want to do that. To understand, though. To accept.
The memory of the club slipped past her, drifting by almost unnoticed as Caitlin stared vacantly at the sway of the blonde woman's hips. She couldn't focus on it, she couldn't concentrate on it. But she could see it for that tiny moment when it came to mind unbidden. She was leaving Madame X's, still high on the energy of the crowd and barely even feeling the lateness of the hour or the cocktails she'd downed, and a woman walked past. Taller than Caitlin, over a head taller, with a body that had the most amazing curves. Caitlin didn't have much interest in women, not when there were so many lovely gothy boys in the bars on a Saturday night with painted nails and black lipstick and tongues with the most interesting piercings, but something about the stranger's ass snagged Caitlin's gaze and reeled her in. Before she knew it, she was tottering along on platform heels, desperate not to let the beautiful woman out of her sight. She needed to, she wanted to....