Olivia let herself into the apartment and was greeted by the delicious smell of dinner cooking in the crockpot. She grew concerned when she found Alex sitting in a flood of tears with a blank piece of paper and a pen on the table in front of her.
"Oh, baby, did I scare you? I'm sorry, it's just me. You're safe, I promise." Olivia cooed lovingly, tossing her things aside, quickly removing her badge and gun from her belt, and rushing to comfort her seemingly frightened little one. Alex was easily startled these days, and it suddenly occurred to Olivia that the sound of her keys in the door could have been very frightening to the submissive blonde.
"I'm so sorry! I can't do it! I'm sorry! Don't beat me!" Alex sobbed, hanging her head in shame as Olivia squatted down next to her and gave Alex several tender kisses to her temple.
"Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Calm down, lovey. I promise there won't be any beating for my good, sweet angel. You know I don't believe in that. Can you tell me what's wrong, please? Maybe we can figure it out together." Olivia said kindly.
"I'm so sorry! Please don't be angry!" Alex sobbed.
"I promise I'm not angry with you, little one, not even the least little bit. Come here, let's have a nice cuddle on my lap and see if we can get you calmed down."
Olivia sat down on the couch and Alex continued to sob as she draped herself across Olivia's lap.
"No, baby, get up. We're just going to cuddle right now, that's all. As soon as you calm down, we'll figure out what's wrong and we'll fix it together. You aren't alone, princess, I am here to help you."
Olivia settled Alex on her lap and Alex melted into Olivia's arms, clinging to her Mistress for dear life as she sobbed on Olivia's shoulder while Olivia gently rocked her and soothed her with tender words of love and praise, gently stroking Alex's long blonde hair and heaving back. Alex sobbed for a long while until she finally calmed down and snuggled deeper into Olivia's arms, seemingly trying to hide away from the world as Olivia continued to rock her.
"My poor baby, you had a good cry. Will you come out and talk to me, please?" Oliiva asked kindly, noticing that Alex had her pretty face hidden between her breasts.
Olivia's request was rewarded with a pair of hesitant baby blue eyes. It was phrased as a question, but Alex knew an order when she heard one and was too well trained to disobey.
"There's my beautiful girl. What happened that made my sweet love so upset?"
"Please, Ma'am, I'm so sorry." Alex's lower lip trembled.
"Okay, I understand that you are sorry, sweetheart, and whatever it is, you will absolutely be forgiven, but I need to know what made you so upset." Olivia gently stroked Alex's face.
"I promise I tried so hard. I just couldn't do it. There aren't ten good things about me. They don't exist."
"Oh, sweetheart. There are millions of good things about you. Is that why you were crying, because you didn't finish your list?" Olivia asked kindly and Alex nodded on her shoulder.
"Everything else is done, I promise. I did everything else you told me to do. Please…" Alex's lower lip trembled again and she looked as if she might start crying again.
"Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I am so proud of you for getting so many things done today, little one. You worked hard and you were such a good girl. Now, before anything else, let's sit down at the table and work on your list together."
Olivia took Alex back over to the table where Alex sat down miserably and Olivia pulled up a chair to sit down beside her.
"Okay, baby, let's just take this nice and slow, we have plenty of time. First things first, I just want you to write down the numbers one through ten." Olivia tapped the paper with her index finger.
Alex picked up the pen and hesitantly obeyed.
"Good girl. You listen very well." Olivia praised, tapping the space next to the number one. Alex was momentarily confused until she realized that Olivia wanted her to write down that she was a good listener, and she wrote it down, not believing it for one second
"Dinner smells wonderful. You are a good cook." Olivia tapped the second space and Alex wrote down that she was a good cook.
Olivia guided Alex through the next three items until there were five spaces completed on Alex's list.
"Good girl. Now it's your turn. Can you think of the next one?" Olivia encouraged kindly.
Alex looked down at her hands and thought hard. She tried to focus on the memories of her life before her six weeks in captivity, but all she could seem to focus on were the memories of the countless insults that had been thrown at her by countless men on a daily basis. She had been called a slut, a bitch, and a worthless whore so many times that she had started to believe those things about herself, but she knew that she couldn't write any of those things down.
"What was your job before you decided to become my collared submissive?" Olivia asked, breaking into Alex's negative thoughts.
"Law." Alex replied, startled by the rather strange question.
"That's right, you were a lawyer. You were in law school while I was at the Academy. And if I remember correctly, you kicked ass and graduated with flying colors. That shows that you are intelligent." Olivia tapped the next empty space on the paper.
It took a while, but finally Alex's list was complete and Olivia showered her with praise for a job well done. By this time, dinner was finished cooking and Alex knelt at Olivia's feet to be fed by hand as usual. Alex cleaned up the kitchen after dinner and then followed Olivia to the bedroom and into the master bathroom where Alex drew a warm bath for Olivia. The comforting scent of lavender filled the bathroom as Olivia stepped into the tub and sank down into the warmth. Alex disappeared down the hall and quickly reappeared with a glass of wine for Olivia to enjoy while she was relaxing in the tub. Then Alex sat down on the closed toilet seat lid with Olivia's robe in her hand to wait until Olivia decided she was ready to get out of the tub. Olivia soaked for about half an hour and stepped out of the tub feeling refreshed as Alex helped her slip into her robe. Olivia sat down on the bed and brushed through her hair while Alex dropped to her knees at Olivia's feet and carefully smoothed lotion on Olivia's legs.
"Thank you, baby. Good girl." Olivia praised, twisting her hair into a ponytail and securing it with a black hairband.
"Ma'am?" Alex asked from where she knelt at Olivia's feet.
"Hmm?" Olivia smiled.
"Are you going to spank me tonight?" Alex asked, almost begging for reassurance that her Mistress was going to follow through on her word.
"Yes, I am, baby. Do you remember what I told you this morning?"
"Yes, Ma'am. You said that if I didn't finish all of my tasks you would slipper me at bedtime."
"That's right. Tonight at bedtime I'm going to put you over my knee and slipper your cute little bare backside ten times, to help you remember that there are far more than ten good things about you."
"Can we get it over with now, please?" Alex asked nervously. Olivia smiled sympathetically.
"No, baby, we are going to wait until bedtime. I want you to fall asleep in my arms thinking about how many good things there are about you, because you're going to name ten of them before we go to sleep tonight while you're over my knee, and you won't be allowed to repeat any of the things we wrote down this afternoon. Maybe if we spank it in, that will help you remember what a good girl you are." Olivia explained kindly.
"Yes, Ma'am." Alex agreed submissively, already nervous about having to think of another ten good things about herself.
"That's my good girl. We don't have to think about bedtime for a few hours yet, so let's go snuggle up on the couch and watch TV. Put the lotion away properly, one of us is going to trip." Olivia stood up from the bed and pointed to the bottle of lotion that Alex had left lying on the floor, giving Alex's bottom a sharp warning spank.
Bedtime came too quickly for Alex's taste and she found herself draped across Olivia's lap with her pajama pants pulled down to her knees, revealing her bare bottom for her Mistress's attention. Olivia picked up the slipper and gently rubbed the hard rubber sole on Alex's bottom.
"Only ten, baby. Ten and all done. You are going to count each one and name something positive about yourself, and remember, you can't repeat anything you wrote down this afternoon. Do you understand?"
"Yes, Ma'am."
"That's my good girl. Here we go." Olivia raised up the slipper and brought it down sharply. The slipper wasn't quite as severe as some other implements Alex had been spanked with over the years, but it still delivered a powerful sting that made Alex wince and whimper.
"OW! One, Ma'am. Um… I-I'm intelligent- no, I'm sorry, I used that one. Um…"
"Calm down, baby. You're not on a time limit. We just have to get through these ten and then we'll go to bed and I'll hold you all night. When we wake up tomorrow, we'll say no more about this. Just try to relax, I'm right here. I know you can do this." Olivia gently rubbed Alex's back.
"Um… I'm… uh… I'm… I'm passionate." Alex finally said.
"Good girl." Olivia brought the slipper down a second time.
"Ow! Two, Ma'am. I'm… I'm… I'm kind."
By the time they reached the final spank, Alex was having trouble speaking through her sobs, but she was still lying as obediently still as possible, making sure to count properly.
"Just one more, baby girl. We're almost done. Only one more." Olivia soothed before she raised up the slipper for the final time and brought it down sharply on Alex's cherry red bottom.
"OWWWWIIIIIEEEEE! OWWW! Please! I'll be a good girl, I swear!" Alex choked out through her sobbing as Olivia threw the slipper down as if it had burned her.
"You are a good girl, my angel. You're a very good girl. It's over now, all done. Do you remember what to say?"
"Ten, Ma'am! I'm… I'm… I don't know!" Alex went limp across Olivia's lap and just sobbed helplessly.
"Such a good girl. Just breathe, little one. I know you can come up with just one more, then we can go to bed." Olivia soothed lovingly, gently stroking Alex's long blonde hair.
Alex tried to get up, and began to sob even harder when Olivia gently held her in place.
"I know you just want my lap, little one. As soon as you come up with just one more positive thing about you, I promise I'll let you right up and you can have all the cuddles you want. No more slipper, that's all done. Just try to relax, it's all over." Olivia said lovingly.
Alex just sobbed for a few moments before she choked out her answer.
"I… I'm… I'm a good girl?" Alex whimpered.
It was a fairly generic answer, but Olivia didn't have the heart to make her think of another one.
"That you are, my angel. Up you come now."
Olivia let Alex up and arranged them so that they were lying comfortably in bed, Alex snuggled in Olivia's arms with her head on Olivia's chest as she shed the last of her tears. The last thing she remembered before she fell asleep was Olivia's gentle hand rubbing soothing circles on her back.