"We will break for lunch and reconvene at 3:00 pm." Lena Petrovsky banged her gavel.
Alex picked up her briefcase and strode out of the courtroom, her blood boiling and her throat clogged with emotion. Deep in thought, she walked through the halls of the courthouse and out the front doors into the fresh air. As she began to walk the few blocks back to her office, Alex pulled her cell phone from the pocket of her jacket and dialed a number. She pressed the phone to her ear and listened to it ring once, twice, thr-
"Hey, baby girl!" Olivia's loving voice came over the line. The brunette detective was at home enjoying her day off from work.
"Hi, Ma'am. Can you come down to my office?" Alex phrased her request carefully to ensure that she got her point across.
Olivia immediately went on alert. Alex wasn't crying but she clearly sounded distressed and for Alex to call her 'Ma'am' anywhere other than in the privacy of their own home meant that something wasn't right. Alex was in her submissive headspace where she felt the safest and needed her Top to make her world okay again. She wasn't merely asking her wife to drop by to say hello. This was a submissive craving attention from their Top. Whether Alex was simply in need of a hug and verbal reassurance and praise or something more was yet to be determined, but Olivia was more than willing to give Alex the attention she was seeking and was proud of Alex for asking for the attention she needed properly rather than bratting Olivia into giving her the wrong kind of attention as Alex was often prone to do when she felt anxious and stressed. Olivia stood and picked up her car keys.
"Yes, angel, I can do that. I'll be there in ten, maybe fifteen minutes. Have you eaten lunch?"
"No, Ma'am."
"I'll swing by Neilson's on my way and bring you a sandwich."
Alex arrived back at her office and set her briefcase on her desk, which had somehow magically accumulated a stack of files in her absence. Alex ignored the stack of files and took off her jacket and her heels to make herself more comfortable. She wandered over to the small sofa in her office and sat down to wait for Olivia and remind herself to breathe calmly. True to her word, Olivia arrived fifteen minutes later with the promised food in hand, closing and locking the door behind her to give them privacy.
"Hi, sweetheart. How's my girl?" Olivia spoke lovingly as she approached and sat beside Alex on the couch, setting the sandwich and bottle of raspberry tea aside for the moment.
"Better now." Alex instantly dropped to her knees at Olivia's feet and laid her head in Olivia's lap.
Olivia listened patiently and gently stroked Alex's long blonde hair while Alex told her about the frustrating morning she'd had and the frustrating afternoon ahead of her.
"I just needed you here. I know that if I act out in court this afternoon, you will have to punish me tonight and I don't want that." Alex concluded after venting all of her emotions, picking her head up from Olivia's lap with tears welling in her baby blue eyes.
"I certainly don't enjoy punishing you. I'm proud of you for calling me. You were a very good girl to do that. Do you need me to give you some stress relief?" Olivia offered kindly.
"No, Ma'am. I need you to give me a reminder." Alex replied.
"What do you need to be reminded about?"
"I need you to remind me to stay calm for the rest of the afternoon so that I don't lose my cool and act out in court."
Olivia took Alex's chin in her hand and kissed her forehead, nose, and lips.
"If that's what you need, then that's what we'll do. But first you are going to eat. Come here."
Alex sat on Olivia's lap and was lovingly fed by hand. Alex laid her head on Olivia's shoulder to signal that she was full and Olivia spent several minutes cuddling Alex on her lap, gently rubbing her satisfied belly.
"All right, sweetheart. Go to your desk and bring me your wooden ruler." Olivia instructed with a kiss to Alex's forehead.
"Yes, Ma'am." Alex stood from Olivia's lap to do as she was told.
Olivia set the ruler aside and guided Alex across her lap with Alex's feet on one end of the couch, her head resting on the other, and her middle slightly elevated by Olivia's strong thighs. Olivia lifted Alex's skirt and pulled down her panties revealing Alex's tender bare bottom. Without being told, Alex relaxed her bottom muscles.
"Do you understand why you're getting a spanking, precious?" Olivia rested her hand on Alex's bottom.
"Yes, Ma'am. As a reminder to stay calm for the rest of the afternoon."
"Do you think a sore bottom will help you remember?"
"Yes, Ma'am. Please give me a sore bottom as a reminder." Alex requested as per their ritual. Part of her thought that she must be crazy asking Olivia to send her back to court with a sore bottom where she would have to sit still for an extended length of time. But Alex knew that this spanking was going to help her.
Olivia raised up her strong right hand and brought it down sharply, peppering Alex's bottom with hard spanks. Alex winced at the sting but forced herself to lie obediently still and let the spanking teach her. Alex soon began to cry as her bottom was spanked from pink to red. When Alex's bottom was a uniform shade of cherry red and Alex was crying freely, Olivia paused and rubbed Alex's heaving back for a few minutes.
"Are you listening to me, honey?" Olivia inquired when Alex was a little calmer.
"Yes, Ma'am." Alex choked out amidst her cries. Olivia picked up the ruler and tapped it against Alex's sit-spots.
"You're being very good, sweetie. I'm going to give you twenty extra hard spanks on your sit-spots. You're going to count each one and tell me that you are going to remember to stay calm this afternoon. Do you understand?"
"Yes, Ma'am." Alex whimpered.
SMACK!
"OWWWWW! O-one, Ma'am! I w-will s-stay calm!"
Alex earned one extra spank for miscounting, but when it was over Olivia set the ruler aside and very gently pulled Alex's panties back into place and smoothed down her skirt before turning the distraught blonde face up on her lap, cuddling Alex close to her heart, rocking slowly, stroking her long blonde hair and kissing her head. Alex clung to Olivia for dear life and sobbed on her shoulder.
"Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. There, there. That's my good girl." Olivia cooed lovingly to her sobbing submissive in her arms.
Olivia held Alex until she stopped crying and sent her to the bathroom with instructions to wash her face. When Alex returned to her office, Olivia was standing by her desk waiting for her and welcomed her into her arms for another embrace.
"I love you." Olivia told her.
"I love you too." Alex smiled.
With a final kiss, Olivia left to return home while Alex left to return to the courthouse. She took a deep breath as she slowly sat down on her chair and managed not to wince, whimper, or do anything else to bring attention to herself, though it was difficult. Throughout the rest of the afternoon, Alex's sore bottom was a constant reminder both of the importance of remaining calm in the courtroom and of Olivia's love. Alex was especially grateful for her sore bottom at the end of the afternoon when the defense attorney had the nerve to request a continuance, which meant that what had already been a two day ordeal would drag into the next day too. Alex wanted to wring the defense attorney's neck.
Alex let out a tired sigh as she walked into her apartment, kicked off her heels, and set down her briefcase. She found Olivia in the kitchen making dinner and wrapped her arms around the detective. Olivia smiled and kissed Alex's forehead.
"Can I have your lap?" Alex asked hopefully.
"You go change your clothes while I pop this in the oven, then I will absolutely hold you." Olivia promised.
Alex changed into her pajama pants and tank, having no intention of going anywhere for the rest of the evening. Olivia put dinner in the oven and then brought Alex over to the couch where she sat down and settled Alex on her lap, cuddling Alex close to her heart. Rocking slowly, Olivia showered Alex with praise and rhythmically patted her still sore bottom until Alex drifted off to sleep in her arms.