Dashing. Handsome. Eloquent. He spoke like a trained orator, his silky tones as delicious to her ears as the food he ordered for her was to her palette. His blue eyes sparkled as he listened to her speak and his manner never once allowed the mature, polite attitude he upheld to falter.
Nearly two hours after he had tucked her chair in behind her and settled across from her to accompany her meal with his attractive demeanour, he took her home. And, like the young woman that had gone too long without a man's company, hopped up on wine and food and his devilish looks that she was, she felt she didn't
quite
want to let the night end there as she looked into his eyes.
So, she invited him in.
Forty minutes later, she was sprawled on her back across her couch, unable to move a muscle as a slim rivulet of drool slowly distended from the corner of her mouth, reaching for the cushion beneath her head and eventually pooling there. She jerked and moved slightly as someone further pulled at her lower half, but she was too numbed to feel it and too far under to cognise what was happening to her. She just lay there, staring off into subspace, the foggy glow of her living room swirling and misting as her pants were pulled from her legs to reveal a pair of panties that were a little wetter than she'd have thought they'd get that night.
She'd never even known it, a part of her brain dully mused, a part that lacked the ability to move her body or bring emotional importance to a moment, a part that simply considered and pondered things, somewhere far away from the conscious woman that thought and felt and acted each day of her life. She'd never known - she'd just stared into his eyes like the docile little schoolgirl she'd felt all night, letting him talk to her and listen to her own talking as if it had all been just the charming actions of a cultured man. Not even when he'd started issuing orders to her more directly had she realised what had truly happened to her - she'd just been so head-over-heels with the masculine form and dominant voice and authoritative words that she'd felt like she agreed with everything he said--even though, in a sense, she had. Of course, she vaguely knew what hypnosis and brainwashing and mind control and all that stuff was - she'd seen it in movies and read about it in books - but she'd always assumed it was some magical craft involving spirals and dark rooms and tick-tocking pocket watches, not fixating eyes and soft speech, not gentle suggestions to look closer or listen carefully, spoken almost incidentally as part of a topic of conversation, and certainly not something a man could do to a woman in public, at a crowded restaurant, after they'd just met.
But, then again, they
hadn't
just met - they'd been talking online for two weeks now. And to further the point, he'd been talking to her all the way home, as well - plus for the best part of the last hour in her house, free from other noise and distractions, where only his dark hair and soft face remained, his bright blue eyes staring intently into her own as he slowly drew closer to her, closer until his fingertips slipped against the underside of her jaw, cupping her face, helping to relax her backwards until she was--
With an internalised start, she realised she was imaginatively replaying the scene that had just played out, allowing her brain to become wholly distracted by the act all over again. It was not the first time she had gotten caught in this loop. Returning to the present, she realised something was softly scratching the insides of her thighs, moving downwards, and realised disconnectedly that it was the crotch of her panties as they were being withdrawn from her body. Absently, she recognised that this was an innately sexual act, and knew that such an undressing likely led to only one next step - but for all her life, she couldn't find it in herself to do anything more than smile dumbly and shrug inwardly. She didn't care - the parts of her brain that would do so for her were long gone beneath the surface of a murky, watery lake that had offered to soothe their worrying and thinking for them, and she knew that they were far, far out of her reach now.