"That's an awfully big book for such a silly boy," Ro purred as he walked into the room, his dark curly hair still tousled with sleep. He hadn't bothered getting dressed from his nap, and Cai couldn't help noticing the way his lover's half-erect penis bobbed and swayed with every step the younger man took into the room. It almost seemed like the more he stared, the more it swelled and throbbed its way to full mast. And the harder Ro's cock got, the more trouble Cai had looking away. "You aren't tricking yourself into thinking you can think again, are you?" Ro asked, gesturing at the medical textbook in Cai's lap. Cai felt a sudden, absurd urge to hide it behind his back.
He straightened up instead, glaring defiantly at his lover despite the blush he couldn't hide and the growing erection he was very glad he could. "I--I can think if I want to," he spluttered, the heat on his cheeks reminding him just how very untrue Ro could make that statement if he felt like it. "You, um, you were asleep, and I wanted to catch up on immunosuppressant reactions for next week's conference in Rome. It, um... it doesn't mean that I, that--that I was... was...."
Ro put one of his warm, tan fingers to Cai's lips. This close, Cai could smell the intoxicating nearness of him; often, his lover didn't even bother with a shower during their weekends together, and the musky scent of his sexual exertions this morning still clung to his tawny skin. "Of course it doesn't," he said, his slight Israeli accent lending his voice a warm, husky burr. "It doesn't mean you can really think. Not really. It just means you can stare at the pretty pictures, pick out some of the little words on the page. I understand completely, my good boy. You don't need to explain yourself to me."
Cai took a slow, shuddering breath, the urge to guide the hushing finger between his lips so he could suck on it almost overwhelming for a moment. They'd been dating for almost a year now, but between Cai's duties as Chief of Surgery at Oslo University Hospital and Ro's law career they only ever really saw each other on weekends. There was still something incredibly precious and potent about Ro's physical presence, an intensity to being in the same space with him that made even the lightest touch incredibly sexually charged. Cai's dick was practically lifting the medical textbook off his lap, he was so hard right now.
But aroused or not, Cai had too much self-control to simply slip away into a lust-filled haze just because his lover presented him with something to suck. At least, that was what he told himself. "That wasn't what I meant," he mumbled, his lips dragging sensuously against Ro's finger with every word. "I meant, um...." He trailed off into silence for a long moment, his fingers unconsciously playing with his long white hair as he groped for the initial kernel of thought that had led into his torrent of babble a few moments ago. It was surprisingly difficult.
Any of his colleagues would have been astonished to see him reduced to such naked bewilderment. Cai was used to heading conferences, delivering lectures on complex surgical procedures to medical professionals around the world. But even a few hours with Ro was enough to soften his mind, to dull his wits with hypnotic bliss and leave him struggling to form even the simplest of thoughts. It would have been embarrassing--it was embarrassing--but it was also so, so fucking hot. By the time Sunday evening rolled around, Cai knew he'd be fractionated into bubbly, giggly vacancy for his mesmerizing lover.
"I meant I could, um, I mean I can. Think," he finished weakly. "I can think. I just don't always want to."
Ro chuckled condescendingly. "Of course you can think, darling," he cooed, his finger tracing over Cai's pale pink lips as he spoke. "Whenever you want to. And of course it just so happens that the times when you can't are the times when I don't want you to, isn't that right? It's just a pure coincidence that the times when you decide to take a break from using that soft, fuzzy mind are the times when my words pour into your ears like a drug and sap your will into deep, drowsy ecstasy for me. Isn't that right?"
Cai wanted to give an intelligent answer, really he did. He wanted to say something clever to show that he still could, that just because he allowed Ro to plant triggers in his brain that controlled his intelligence and gave the younger man eager and enthusiastic consent to use them to bend his willpower back and forth until it snapped like a cheap oyster knife, that didn't mean that he couldn't choose to shake off the trance if he wanted to and think for himself. He didn't want to fight it, but he wanted to let Ro know that he could fight it if he wanted to.
But goddamn, those three little words. 'Like a drug'. Just thinking about them made Cai's whole body throb with lust so hard that it drowned out everything else in his head for a moment and made his eyelids flutter in deep, drowsy, sensual heat. It was what first drew them together that warm afternoon in Tel Aviv, a chance conversation that led to a long lunch that became a steamy evening in a hotel room with Cai trembling on the bed while Ro hypnotized him and traced spirals all over his naked body. Cai understood more about the effects and interactions of different medications than practically anyone alive, and Ro could make him experience them without any risks or side-effects.
They'd long ago progressed beyond real, plausible substances into the kind of imaginary concoctions Cai read about in comic books as a child. Ro could paralyze him, numb his brain and fog his thoughts while leaving his body impossibly sensitive to sensation. He could dose him with powders and potions that existed only in Cai's mesmerized mind, or simply suggest a deep, inexorable descent into confusion and sweet, hazy compliance and watch Cai's own medical expertise connect all the necessary dots. It never failed to sap Cai's resistance and make him almost impossibly aroused. And of course Ro knew it.