AN: So I read some of the reviews, and I'm aware that some of you aren't thrilled with the idea of Charlie punishing either of them. For some reason I think some of you view it as abuse. There is a difference between healthy D/s activity and then there are people who cross the line. There is a line between what is healthy and what is considered abuse. In the middle of an argument if Charlie were to hit Santana or Brittany that would be crossing the line, that would be abuse. Charlie will never do that in this story. That being said. There is spanking in this chapter.


She had put far too much thought into what Shannon had told her. She didn't want to be spanked. Not really, but the idea that she couldn't stop Charlie from spanking Brittany if she wanted to bothered her. Brittany had insisted that she could take care of herself. Shannon said it was different but it didn't seem different to her. She flicked her eyes at Charlie who was playing a song on the piano for them. She glanced at Brittany who was watching some random program on television. It was now or never, before she chickened out and never spoke about this again. "Charlie?"

Charlie turned to Santana. "Yes?"

"I want you to spank me," Santana said bluntly and she felt Brittany sit up immediately and stare at her with an incredulous expression on her face.

Charlie blinked and turned to Brittany confused but she looked shocked, about as shocked as she felt. So clearly it wasn't Brittany who put her up to this. She opened her mouth and then closed it. And then opened her mouth again and then closed it, she was unsure what to say to say about this. She finally settled on a word that hopefully convey her confusion. "Why?"

"San?" Brittany asked in the same confused tone as Charlie's.

Santana shrugged, she would have thought that Charlie would have jumped at this chance to exert her dominance outside of the bedroom but she wasn't jumping at anything. "Shannon said that it was common and I figured that you thought that it was an effective punishment." Charlie just stared at her and Santana gestured with her hands and looked at Brittany. "Have you thought about spanking us at all—Brittany or me?"

Charlie flicked her eyes between the two of them, wondering if this was one of those trick questions. "I have a very vivid imagination?" she throws in but is met with a blank look from both Santana and Brittany, who seems curious. "Well—of course I've considered the idea—" Charlie begins and she winces when she sees a look in Santana's eyes.

"So spank me," Santana says crossing her arms over her chest. "I'm giving you permission, before you go hitting Brittany."

"San—" Brittany begins when she sees slight annoyance flash across Charlie's face. She sighed they were doing so well to.

"First off Santana. You don't tell me when you want a spanking. It's supposed to be a punishment, which I decide. That being said, I can see why you would want to test it out prior to me even considering implementing it. But you can't demand that I spank you. Secondly, I'm not hitting you, I'm spanking you. There is a difference. You hit when you're angry and I told you that I would never raise my hand in anger against you. I'm never going to hit you. I'm never going to do anything that will hurt you."

"Spankings hurt," Santana immediately points out.

Charlie arches a brow. "I'm not trying to hurt you with a spanking Santana." She sighs and looks at Santana. "Santana, I can't spank you if you think what I'm doing is hitting you. I'm not doing it. I can't do it. If I can't spank you. Then I can't spank you."

"Then you can't spank Brittany," Santana says immediately crossing her arms over her chest.

Brittany frowns slightly, "San, we talked about this I can handle myself, and I know Charlie's not going to hurt me. She's not going to hit me there is a difference."

"Not to mention I have no plans to start spanking her, unless Brittany wants me to use that as her punishment." Charlie points out she sighs and looks at Santana and tries to bring examples of people who she knows who are punished but still seem to be okay. "Rachel gets spanked. Puck gets spanked, but it's not a punishment to him. He just likes getting spanked before and during sex and sometimes even after sex, which generally leads to more sex. He's told me about this in great detail."

Santana frowned slightly and looked at Brittany, "I know that you can handle yourself, and I'm trying but I can't. Spankings hurt. I need to know so I can be okay with it."

"Charlie isn't going to hurt me Santana and I trust her, plus she knows I don't really like pain and we're not there yet." Brittany points out gently and reaches for Santana's hand to comfort her. "We can figure something out—"

"I need to know," Santana says stubbornly. "I know that it's not air for me to tell you two what you can and can't do. I know that and if Charlie ever spanks you I'm going to get angry with her for hitting you so I need to know—for me." Santana says her voice breaking just a bit as she looks at Brittany trying to make her understand.

Charlie studies the situation carefully. Telling Santana that spanking isn't hitting will only go so far and she can understand the need to try it out. She looks at Brittany for a moment who feels just as helpless as she feels and she makes a decision that she hopes doesn't blow everything they've worked for to smithereens. "Get naked."

Brittany turns to Charlie immediately. She can't possibly be thinking of going through with Santana's demand. "Charlie—"

Santana frowns, "You're spanking me I don't need to—"

"Santana, if you want me to show you then you need to do everything I say. You need to trust me," Charlie says ignoring Brittany for now. Her voice is firm and she looks Santana directly in the eye. "Get naked." Charlie repeats. She sees that momentary defiance flash through Santana's eyes but she slowly gets up and begins to comply. Charlie watches as Santana sheds her clothes completely, her brown eyes still focused on her. When Santana finally slides out of her underwear Charlie motions for her to approach her at the piano, turning around on the bench so she has a bit of room to maneuver. She waits until Santana is standing in front of her and she can see the vulnerability written on Santana's face and for a moment she wonders if she's pushing too hard to fast, but Santana hasn't said the safe word. "Kneel."

Santana frowns at this request. "I thought you were—" she's met with a look from Charlie and she immediately sinks to her knees.

Charlie examines Santana's position, every dominant has a certain position that they like their submissives to be in when they order them to take the position. "Good," she says. It's a first attempt and she needs to adjust Santana accordingly. Her touches aren't sexual as she slowly adjusts Santana's body, this isn't that type of fun sexual punishment. Santana wanted to know what she was in for. She finishes and looks up at Brittany who is watching quietly. "This is the position, if you do something that requires a punishment, I will ask you to take the position. This is the position that I want you in." she said before looking at Santana again. "Rest your head on my lap," she says gently her voice still firm.

Brittany swallows and nods at Charlie watching as Santana slowly complies with Charlie's words. She hadn't expected this today. She shifts on the couch so she can get a better look at Santana and Charlie, watching as Charlie gently begins to rub Santana's shoulders taking her time, till Santana relaxes.

There is no hitting. Charlie is simply giving her shoulders a light massage and the action confuses her. This isn't what she had been expecting at all. She had expected to be pulled over Charlie's lap and hit. But this isn't that, Charlie is being extraordinarily gentle and she can't help but relax under her touch. She barely notices that Charlie has said her name a few times before she blinks and looks up at her. "Yes?"

Charlie smiles and sits up a bit, straightening her back now that she has Santana's attention. "You can stop this at any time if it gets too much for you. You can say no or the safe word and I will stop. Do you understand?"

Santana bites her lip but nods, but it doesn't seem to be good enough for Charlie who seems to want to hear her verbally acknowledge that she understands. "I-I do."

Charlie smiles and nods and rubs her back gently. "If this was one of your punishments, the maximum number of spanks that I will ever give you is thirty. Depending on the severity of what you did. Since I haven't made any rules and you haven't done anything wrong I'm only to give you five." Charlie said making sure to look over at Brittany so she understood as well. She waits until Brittany nods before Charlie looks back at Santana. "Are you ready?"

Santana swallows once before nodding and looking at Brittany for a moment and then back at Charlie. "I am."

Charlie leans back, "Onto my lap," Charlie says and Santana moves getting up and sliding onto Charlie's lap. Immediately Charlie moves slowly taking her time as she runs her hand along Santana's back trying to calm her down. "It's okay," Charlie says soothingly. "You're doing a good job Santana, I know this is difficult for you," she says calmly. "Are you ready?"

Santana closes her eyes, "Yes," she says in a breathless tone.

Charlie waits for a moment before she raises her hand slightly and brings it down on Santana's ass. Making sure that the actual spank is firm but not to firm, she's not trying to hurt Santana at all. She feels Santana jerk after her hand connects and she immediately begins to rub where her hand connected. After a moment she repeats the action again and this time Santana lets out a breath. Charlie waits for a moment expecting Santana to say her safe-word to tell her to stop, but she doesn't.

Santana feels her breath hitch, it stings but it's more discomfort than anything. Charlie's not hitting her that hard and every single time that she gives her a firm spank she immediately massages the sting away. She's taking her time. It's not like she won't be able to sit down for a week after this. She'll probably not feel anything two minutes after this is done. She lets out a small sound when Charlie's hand connects again, just two more to go and once again Charlie is taking her time massaging her where her hand connected. It's a tad overwhelming, the feelings that arise in her and she squeezes her eyes shut tighter as Charlie stops rubbing preparing for the next spank.

Brittany watches biting her lip, she wants to go comfort Santana but it seems that Charlie actually does know what she's doing and she sits there. She's not exactly thrilled that Charlie gave into Santana's weird demand. But it's almost over and it's definitely a display of dominance and at the same the care that Charlie has for them. Santana doesn't look to be in any pain and Charlie doesn't seem to taking any pleasure in this. Her face is relatively neutral. Every now and again hazel eyes would find hers and Charlie would look at her, just like now as Charlie's hand connects with Santana's again. This had never been on the table for them, Charlie had never pushed for this, but at the same time she's taking the outmost care with Santana. She's almost jealous of it. She could have easily handled this to and once again Santana is getting most of the attention from Charlie. She understands, she does but it still bothers her to some degree. Once again the sound of Charlie's hand landing on Santana's ass fills the room and Charlie rubs it better and Charlie is no longer looking at her instead she's once again looking at Santana. Brittany swallows as she watches Charlie help Santana off her lap and murmur something to her. Even though she understands it certainly sucks sometime.

Charlie kisses Santana gently, the moment of brief display of dominance over Santana is over and she's quick to move into the aftercare. She wasn't spanking Santana particularly hard but she needs to know that mentally Santana is okay. "Does it hurt?" Charlie questions her immediately and flicks her eyes to Brittany and motions for her to join them.

Santana shakes her head and clings to Charlie for a moment, it doesn't hurt at all and she feels okay. It was nothing like Gunther screaming at her and just hitting her for making a mistake. There had been none of this love that was being shown as well. "I'm sorry I pushed," she finally says after a moment.

Charlie doesn't immediately say anything instead rubbing Santana's back. "I haven't put anything on the table yet Santana, because I'm not sure how I want to handle it. If I ever want to handle it like that. Was it different?" Charlie asks after a moment. She doesn't mention his name, but she needs to be certain that Santana doesn't see her as that man.

Santana nods immediately hearing that plea in Charlie's voice, "It was different," she says quietly. It was different. There was no anger, no screaming just Charlie being as caring as possible. "You were different," She repeats her voice getting stronger after a moment. "I'm okay you didn't hurt me Charlie," Santana says as she slowly returns to normal.

Charlie flicks her eyes to Brittany for a moment, she's unsure if this is one of those submissive moments that the two of them need to have but it doesn't sit right with her to just leave Santana after this. But she finally lets Santana go and watches as Santana slowly puts her clothes back on. "Santana—"

"Charlie—it's okay. We're okay." Santana promises immediately suddenly realizing the position that she had put Charlie in. "I'm sorry Charlie," she repeats again before looking at Brittany. "I just—I needed to know."

Brittany smiles at Santana and reaches for her hand, "Santana, I knew that Charlie wasn't going to hurt me or you. But we've never talked about spanking as a punishment. We have time to explore all the options and Charlie said that if we don't want to do something then we don't have to do it." Brittany points out gently before hugging her tightly. "Are you okay?" Brittany murmurs in her ear as hugs her. She feels Santana nod and hug her back. "Promise?"

"Pinky swear," Santana mumbles against Brittany. She pulls back for a moment and she sees Brittany smile at her.

Charlie studies the two of them for a moment they're having a moment. She isn't going to get much composing done today so she gets up and wraps her arms around the two of them. "Pizza, drinks and ice cream? And we'll watch—"

"Lilo and Stitch," Brittany says immediately.

"Lilo and Stitch," Santana repeats, nodding her head.

Charlie shakes her head, "Alright we'll watch Lilo and Stitch. You two get comfortable I'll order the food," she says giving them both a kiss on the cheek, before going to grab her phone and heading to one of the closets and grabbing the large throw blanket to wrap around them. She debates calling one of her siblings, but discards it for now as she looks at Santana. She's still unsure if she had made the right call. She doesn't want to go back to Santana flinching every single time she raises her hand to just touch her.


AN: Stuff happens, less heavy stuff. Probably. Most likely.