"No time limit tonight, Torquemada," she said, and glanced at me over her shoulder with a raised eyebrow.
"Interesting," I said. And took off my pants.
******
I had noticed a small conference table over to the side, and picturing her bent forward over it gave me several interesting ideas. The trick was going to be untying her and getting her there without getting savaged. I really wasn't quite sure just exactly how angry I was making her, nor what the exact rules of this game were, but she wasn't fitting in with the "submissive" profile I'd read, those few times I'd wandered into fiction that had that theme.
On the other hand, I certainly wasn't conventionally dominant, either. But I was quite comfortable simply talking through my process, being very much myself, and oddly, that seemed to work just as well, if not better, than playing some sort of "master" character. I was pretty sure that anyone who tried to play that artificial "Sir Dom" stuff with Bijou would be shredded within moments anyway. Verbally, if not otherwise.
I moved a bit closer to her, so I could speak quietly in her ear. "I'm thinking I might untie your hands at some point. But I need to check on a couple of things first." I began petting her gently, running my hands over her chest, her thighs, round her buttocks, tracing my fingers up her spine. It was instinctive, I realized, the way one might try to calm a skittish horse. She cooed and her body relaxed into my hands.
"You'd still really like to be able to come eventually, right?" There was quite a bit of an edge to her simple, "Oh yes. I would."
"And the idea of sucking my cock is still sort of motivational as well, yes?" This elicited a small, desperate growl. "Oh good. Because when I untie you, I really have this instinct that you're a little...angry... and you might want to cause some sort of trouble. I mean, I really am very new to this sort of game..."
She knew where I was headed. And she grinned, although her body was still rocking gently to the long strokes from my hands. "Oh, I promise I'll be terribly good." There was an affectionate sarcasm in her voice. "Did you want me to call you sir or anything?"
I laughed, trying to be quiet. "I don't think so. I wouldn't be able to keep a straight face. Bet you wouldn't either." She snorted. "No," I said, "I think we'll just stick with Will."
"Strong Will," she said, and sighed as my hands pressed down on her, stroking her long body, up and down.
I kept one hand moving on her and reached up to begin undoing one of the ties. One advantage to their thickness was that it was being relatively easy to pull the knot loose, although the stress she'd put on it had pulled it somewhat tighter than it had been. I managed to work it open, trying not to think about what kind of damage it had incurred, and then switched hands. This one was harder and I had to use both hands to undo it.
She had left her hands resting on the shelf, either out of some sort of tractability or simple inattention, and I pulled her arms gently down, one by one, massaging her shoulders lightly and drawing the blood down into her hands. She moaned appreciatively, flexing her fingers. I was careful to draw her arms round behind her very gently, but I kept hold of both ties behind her as I distracted her with the massage. I still didn't entirely trust my safety.
"I'm noticing that those pens by your feet didn't shift at all. You're pretty strong willed yourself," I said.
"There was a reward offered for that, as I remember," she purred, with a bit of an edge.
"Indeed. I haven't forgotten," I said as I did my best to subtly knot the ties on her wrists, so that her arms were trapped behind her back. At least temporarily, that seemed like a good idea.
"In fact, if your legs are a bit tired from all that standing, you could kneel for a moment, just right here in front of me," I said. She shot me a look that was undefinable, with equal parts of amusement and suspicion and a small amount of genuine relief. She did seem a little weak from all the exertion, and I had no desire to "break my toy", as she was fond of saying.
She sank to her knees, tugging on her hands and noticing for the first time that they were actually bound behind her. I saw a flash of annoyance, then amusement when she realized what I'd done. She was definitely a little out of it; I hadn't been that stealthy.
I took a moment to enjoy the fact that she was truly a little limp; she did have rather an iron will but she was showing a bit of wear at the moment. I was enormously pleased at the idea that I'd managed to make an impression on her.
"You talk about this energy thing, taking yang from men, that sort of idea. And it occurs to me that you're actually looking a little tired at the moment. Now my impression is that I would have to come to provide you with this energy, and I'm not quite ready to do that yet."
"Not necessarily," she said, smiling. "There's a certain amount of energy available the whole time."
"You know I'd do anything for you," I said, attempting to sound terribly sincere. She snorted.
I was pretty concerned that her mouth could take me over the edge within a very short time, and I wanted to wait for that. I had some ideas as to where I'd like to be when I finally let myself go. And any number of things I wanted to see between now and that moment.
"Here's what I'm seeing. You've talked about the concept of holding completely still as a sort of... thing."
"Stillness practices," she offered.
That's it," I said. "Now I wonder if you're actually capable of holding still, keeping your mouth completely receptive and inactive. Completely."
I thought about the various times I'd tried to get her to stop for a moment, when I was close to the edge. Sure, her head would stop moving, but she'd do something else equally maddening instead. She'd set up a steady, unmoving suction, some crazy throat muscle thing, or else she'd ripple her tongue on the underside, just flexing it in a steady wave without really moving. It was cheating, I'd argue with her. She knew perfectly well what I meant by "holding still," and she'd always get off, as it were, on some technicality. Her only real answer had been that she'd paid more attention in linguistics classes than the normal student.
"Still. I mean it. None of that muscle twitching and stuff. Are you even capable?" Her face had melted into a grin that was not at all mischievous. It was genuinely evil. And very self-satisfied. She attempted to look hurt, but failed.
"I can only promise that I will truly, actually try. But if you keep getting tangible sensations from energy work that has nothing to do with the physical, how can I help that? I'm NOT moving. You just THINK I am."
"I suppose I'll have to try to be fair about that, although I think you're full of shit. Tangible means that something is happening. Something REAL."
"In that sense, we agree," she said thoughtfully, and I realized that the sort of conversation they were having was generally had over lattes in trendy coffee shops, not tied up and buck naked in utility closets. I liked that about Bijou. "But one cannot prove a negative. How can I prove to you that I'm not moving anything physical, when you trust only the evidence of your senses, and your senses interpret sensations as physical, whether or not they are conventionally caused by actual movement or not?"
"For there to be a sensation, there must be a physical cause," I said.
"What about heartbreak? That's quite tangible, quite literal. Actual sensations of pain in the heart area. And no physical cause."
"Well now we're talking about two different things, though..." I said, completely involved.
"Not in this case. One can feel a physical sensation caused purely by an emotional state, or by an action of the will. Or the Will," she grinned. "That's what we're talking about in this case too. Those sensations can be transmitted just like touch can be transmitted, from one person to another. Ideas can in fact be tangible to the senses, at least as much as something like heartbreak can be. I mean, you've HAD that sensation."
I couldn't argue with her on the heartbreak thing. I'd definitely felt that and it was a genuine, tangible pain. But that was a whole different thing from the fact that at those moments I'd been able to actually feel her doing something with her throat, or something with her tongue, or something... Whatever it was, though I could never quite locate the sensation specifically, I could actually FEEL that. That was different. She was cheating, moving something.
"I have, in fact, cheated," she admitted, smiling, as if she had heard my thoughts. "For the sake of this argument, there have indeed been times when I was rolling my tongue on you, or something, when you told me to hold still. I just don't always do things I'm told to do... But I always admitted it. I've never lied when I said I was actually not moving. That's the difference."
"Personally, I don't think you could actually hold your mouth still for thirty seconds, let alone while my cock was in it for a while," I said. "I've seen what you do to pens. And lighters. And water bottles. And cigars." Bijou tended to unconsciously fellate her entire environment, especially when she was bored.
"I could," she argued, "but I'm not sure how to prove that I'm doing so."