It's movie night and Sheldon has carefully selected several possible movies, based on how he's feeling, how he projects Penny will be feeling and the points he wishes to communicate that night.
He crosses to Penny's door and knocks three times. He knows she's home but after the third knock the door doesn't open. He freezes. This is most unusual. Then he hears Penny call "Come in" .
He raises an eyebrow but uses his key and opens the door.
He stops in the doorway, stunned. Penny is waiting for him beside his chair, a vision of loveliness in submission. She is kneeling on a cushion to the side of his chair, naked apart from her collar and leather cuffs on her wrists and ankles. Her knees are set wide apart, her back straight, her shoulders back, chest thrust out. Her arms are up, her hands behind her head. She is looking down at his feet, not moving at all.
She's totally exposed, open and vulnerable.
He realises he's holding his breath. He closes and locks the door, not taking his eyes off her.
he walks toward her, slowly, taking his time. Whole areas of his brain are shutting down, restructuring. Possibilities for tomorrow, stresses from possible confrontations, morning fibre consumption all get filed away for later attention. Instead he's drinking in the sight of the golden tan of her skin, the soft rise of her breast as she breathes, the way her areola are gathered and her nipples hardened, the smooth curve of her thigh. He's entranced by a stray strand of hair that has fallen forward over her face.
He's close enough to touch her, so he strokes the strand of hair away and tells her "Rest".
She sighs and puts her hands down, resting them palms up on her thighs.
She smiles proudly up at him with a sparkle in her bright green eyes and says "See, I found a way to make opening a door a positive experience for you, Sir. "
His face splits in a massive proud grin.
He sits in his chair and leans forward, hooking his finger into the ring on her collar and pulling her up onto her knees, bringing her face up to his. he kisses her gently, a reward for her intuition.
"So, are you ready for movie night?"
"Soda is in the fridge and popcorn is ready to be microwaved, just let me get some clothes on and we can get started."
He smiles "No, I prefer you naked."
"Sheldon?"
"you'll stay naked, I like you like that. Go sort the popcorn, I'll get the film ready"
"erm... " she looks nervous then shrugs "Ok, you locked the door, right?"
"of course. you've kept the thermostat at the required 72 degrees so it shouldn't be uncomfortable for you"
"no, just kind of strange, especially with you still dressed"
" that is the idea"
They curl up on sofa, him sitting upright with her lying next to him, legs curled up, snuggled under his protective arm and clutching a big bowl of popcorn.
It strangely makes her feel vulnerable and safe at the same time.
More MoviesThe Secretary
"Sadly realistic presentations of Dominant / Submissive relationships are rare in Hollywood and usually depicted as perverse, abusive or destructive. For this film Steven Shainberg the director stated that he wished to do for BDSM relationships what 'My Beautiful laundrette' did for normalising homosexual relationships."
"Oh, I like that yoke" She shivers "where can we get one like that?"
"I'm.. you... secretary..." she whispers huskily into his ear, grinning
The Adams family
Sheldon shrugs "Odd choice, but a charmingly romantic couple, in a rather macabre way"
Who framed Roger Rabbit.
"I've not seen this one, is it a cartoon?"
"it's an interesting hybrid, Part live action, part cartoon style animation"
"Damn, I hate to imagine the headache mixing acting work and an animated rabbit"
"Got to credit the Acting skills from Bob Hoskins"
"it's not just enjoyable entertainment but culturally significant as it is the start of the 90s Disney Renaissance which saw the success of Aladdin, Beauty and the beast and The Lion King"
"It's like a Loony tunes film noire"
"Wow, she's build like that and She married a rabbit?
Penny laughs "Not bad, just drawn this way. Who did the voice for her?"
"I think you'll be surprised"
"go on..."
"Kathleen Turner"
"No way!"
Avengers
"He called her a mewling what-now?"
Without turning from the film Sheldon Googles it up on his phone and passes it to her.
"Oh. Oh! He said what! Damn those gods talk dirty."
Penny Laughs "but She still outsmarts the Trickster god though"
The Bandwagon
"A musical? Oh I hardly think so."
"Give it a try. I bet you'll know the songs. "
"Of course I'll know the songs, if I've heard them once I'll know them. Music is even easier to recall than physics due to the rhythmic structure. Sadly that makes me dangerously prone to earworms. Anyway, apparently "That's Entertainment" is a classic comment on how the boundaries between genres in the theatre are artificial and "Dancing in the Dark" is part of the great American songbook"
"How did you know that?
"An article in 'Variety' magazine I read in a Dentists waiting room, 15th march 2007."
"Of course. "
"Interesting. I've just realised how many levels that works on as it's a film about a play with songs and elements of theatre and ballet."
"I always thought the Devil would be smarter, as the obvious loophole in the classic Faustian bargain for knowledge and power is he could just use the knowledge to invent time travel or gain eternal life."
"Is that what you did? As you're sat there with a world of physics in your head and a naked girl in your arms."
"Oh no, if I had a soul my mother bartered it away to Jesus for some magic beans long ago."
Throughout the film he keeps a hand on her side, feeling her reactions to it. Did she just pick this because she liked it or was there a deeper meaning ?
Then Cyd Charisse slid along a subway platform to grab Fred Astaire's leg to wordlessly beg for his protection and he felt her breathe catch. Ah, That's why she chose it.
He strokes her hip, enjoying the feel of her bare skin.
"A wonderful display of female surrender wouldn't you say?"
"Yes, I've never really thought of it like that until now. recently I can't help seeing the power dynamics in all sorts of places "
