"Jonathan?" Sabrina called from her bedroom as Jon entered her apartment.
"Yes," he called out to her, sensing a tired vibe permeating the air from how quiet her space was and the way she sounded. "Long day?"
"Long enough. Something kept nagging at me all day, couldn't wait to get into bed after it," Sabrina admitted with a yawn. As Jonathan passed by the usual-talkative ball of fur yawning on her couch, Jon smirked.
"You ladies really are tired today, aren't you Loqui?"
A small mewl was her reply as she sank into a cat-nap.
"What kept nagging at you? Mark again?"
"Heh, no. He's incapable of nagging at me."
Jon laughed at that, past the point of worry about his friend's conduct with his girlfriend's corrective proclivities.
"No, it was a word that was getting to me all day. Are you familiar with the word 'vacillate'?"
"Uhh....I think..?"
Sabrina quietly chuckled from her bedroom. As long as she'd known him, she didn't have to peer out of her room to know that he wasn't looking it up on his phone or reaching for the dictionary on her shelf right away; Jon actually made an effort to recall things like that directly from memory, an effort she always admired about him, for a multitude of reasons.
"I think it's got something to do with...uncertainty?"
"I think you're close. But thinking about it today was an odd strain, and got me right into bed."
After putting some groceries away for her in the proper places, he quietly made his way to her bedroom, half-expecting to give her a kiss goodnight.
"Well, before I tuck you into bed so early, what does va-"
He finally stood at the opening of her room, a deceptive, lewd smirk across her face, belying the sleepy voice greeting his arrival. If her face didn't spell things out, the wearing nothing but a white buttoned shirt, thigh-high stockings, and her blue azure pendant around her neck.
"Vacillate," she intoned in a perfect bedroom voice. "The word has been on my mind all day. Such a fun word, just as fun as saying 'disrobe.'"
His limbs were a half second ahead of Jon's conditioned need to obey, even when something wasn't an established trigger. The thought about fighting or questioning the command for foreplay vanished as a pile of discarded clothing was left behind at the bedroom entrance. He fell to the floor as her finger pointed downwards, and he crawled his way to her bed like Loqui would.
"You know one thing we have in-common that I really like? We like to use our own brains ahead of reaching out for the closest resource to answer a question usually. It would've been a simple to just reach for my phone and look it up. But I love it when you stretch those mental muscles for me, which may or may not make you easier to converse with at times..."
He nearly smirked as he found his way between her stockinged legs, one beneath him, and one above him, the heel of her foot dragging the silky material over his skin.
"And when I do it, it ends up stretching my imagination a bit, exploring avenues I wouldn't have thought of at first."
"Imagination is more important than knowledge...according to Einstein at least."
"Excellent quote, my smart boy," she tapped his nose with his index finger, loving knowing that his smarts and knowledge would dwindle soon from his face at the rate of her speech pattern.
"In the middle of work, the word came up, and the first thought I had was 'why does this word sound so damn sexy?'"
Brown eyes trailed in absent directions as he queried the same question, getting slightly distracted by Sabrina's face, her pendant shimmering a little from lamp lighting across the room, or the finger waving it's way around his face.
"Vacillate. Vacillate. Vacillate...the way it rolls your tongue, or the way it hits your ears to let your mind wander towards pleasurable dimensions..." The way her toes bent to drag themselves along the small of his back prompted memories of foot worship, and the want to create fresh memories.
"Just because of pronunciation, I thought about the word 'vassal,' a holder of land, or more accurately, a person in a subordinate position to another. For the life of me, I have no idea why that came to mind..." She touched his face several times with her finger before leading him to find the cleft of her breasts, the deep blue of her pendant, or the arguably deeper blue of her eyes. As the hand moved to play with the skin on the back of his neck, Jon's eyes stayed open, verily unsure of where he wanted his gaze to rest.