"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.