Long Distance Therapy
Madison stepped into the airport. She looked around and took a deep breath. She made her way to the luggage area where she spotted Jason Gideon, aka Uncle Jason. With him was his fiancé of seven years, Lizzy and her 16 year old daughter, Kat. Madison had met them a couple of other times throughout the years. She greeted them with a warm smile which met theirs.
Jason immediately kissed her on the forehead before speaking a word. He moved her hair off of her face and cupped her soft perfectly structured jaw line in his hands.
"How was the flight?"
"Fine."
"Are you hungry?"
"A little but mostly I'm tired."
"Okay, we will take you home and you can nap while I make breakfast. How does that sound?"
"Sounds great."
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"I can't believe you actually let her go," he pouted.
"Spence, you know it is the best thing for her."
"Best thing for her or best thing for you?"
"Spencer, you are not too old to put over my knee. Watch what you say next," warned Dave.
He couldn't think of anything really nice to say so he just sighed and walked into the kitchen to fix his self a sandwich. Dave took a deep breath as he watched his son mope into the other room. He noticed the time on the clock, soon he would have to take Bailey to her tri-weekly therapy session. He called upstairs.
"Monkey, 20 minutes then we have to leave."
"Kay daddy!" Bailey called back down.
He smiled at the sound of her sweet little voice; and walked into his office to write what he could on his newest book in the allowed time.
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Spencer was in process of fixing his lunch when he saw little fingers holding onto the edge of the counter next to him. He glanced over and saw big hazel eyes staring up at him.
"Are you hungry?"
"No."
"Thirsty?"
"No."
Silence.
"Spwencew?"
"Yes?"
"Where's Mawdy?"
"She's in L.A. getting better, remember?"
"Oh."
Silence.
"Spwencew?"
"Yeess?"
"Will you put my hair in pony tawls?"
"Pony tails? Oh, umm.."
"I can do it Monkey," Dave smiled.
They both turned around to see their father standing not far behind them. Bailey grew a huge smile and ran over to Dave with her hairbrush and two rubber bands. He lifted her onto the counter and proceeded to fix her hair. Silence.
"Daddy?"
"Yes?"
"When will Mawdy come home?"
"In two months maybe three."
"Oh."
Silence.
"Daddy?"
"Yes?"
"If I get real sick will you send me away too?"
"Ohh no Monkey, it's not like that…"
"Yeah, unless you do everything you can to cope here but it isn't good enough then watch out!" Spencer spouted as he stormed in the other room.
Bailey began to cry. Dave had just finished fixing her hair. He put her down from the counter.
"It's okay baby. Your brother didn't mean to scare you."
"Is he mawd at me?"
"No. I promise he isn't mad at you. He's upset with me."
"Oh," sniffle, sniffle.
"Do me a favor and go back up to your room. I need to talk to Spencer before we leave, okay?"
"Okay."
Bailey ran upstairs as Dave walked out of the kitchen with hairbrush still in hand. He found Spencer sitting on the couch in the front room.
"Spencer, I have had enough. You have been walking around with a bad attitude for the past two days. I thought you would have cooled off on your own by now; but, apparently I was wrong."
"Ooo where is the calendar? Dave Rossi admitted he was wrong."
Dave's eyebrow instinctively rose from surprise at Spencer's very snide comment.
"Alright, that is it. If you want to act like a child then you will be treated like one."
Dave sat down next to Spencer and without notice pulled him over his lap.
"What are you doing? I'm too old for this! You can't!"
"I'm giving you the spanking you deserve. You are not too old and yes I can."
Dave reached under Spencer and unbuttoned and unzipped his pants. He pulled them down and began to spank his misbehaved son with nothing more than his hand. He didn't hold back on his strength. Spencer gritted his teeth and held onto Dave's leg doing all he could to bare it. After a solid minute, Dave pulled down Spencer's underwear and picked up Bailey's hairbrush. He finished the spanking with 75 smacks from the brush. After only 20 Spencer finally gave in and began to cry. He let go of his anger he was holding onto. Dave could hear the shift in the tone of his voice. He finished with the spanking and pulled his underwear back up. Spencer stood up trying to stop himself from crying further. He pulled up and buttoned his pants then carefully sat back down. Dave waited for Spencer to speak first. He didn't say anything for a few moments but he did start to cry harder and leaned in to Dave. He took his son into his arms and just let him cry.
"I'm sorry Dav…dad," sniffle, sniffle, "I really am."
"It's okay; we'll all get through this together. I promise."
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"It's been two weeks, how do you think she is doing?" Dave asked Jason.
"I think it's too early to really tell. She is still just acclimating to everything. She and Kat have gone to the beach a couple of times but other than that; she has been pretty quiet," he paused, "I have also noticed Maddy never cries. Have you seen her cry after the incident?"
"The first day yes but after that, no, I really don't think she has. I know she is holding a lot inside."
"How is Bailey doing?"
"She is actually doing very well. She had a play date yesterday and got through the day without any anger towards her friend. It certainly seems the younger they are the more resilient. She misses Maddy a lot. Well, we all do."
"Hey, speaking of which, there is Sleeping Beauty now," Jason smiled, "I'll talk to you later Dave."
He handed the phone to Madison and got back to fixing breakfast for everyone.
"Hi daddy," she greeted with a smile then yawn.
"Hi Princess, did you sleep well?"
"Yeah, those sleeping pills helped a lot. I didn't wake from any nightmares last night."
"That's great, I'm glad they are helping."
Madison stood in front of the huge bay window that gave the perfect view of the city of Los Angeles. Jason brought over a cup of coffee and handed it to her. She gave him a smile in substitution of a thank you. She then let out a sigh.
"What's wrong?" Dave asked hearing the sigh.
"Oh nothing, I'm still just tired I guess. Hey daddy, I think breakfast is ready. I'll talk to you later okay?"
"Sure Princess, I love you."
"Love you too. Kiss Bailey and Spence for me okay?"
"Will do. Bye."
"Bye."
She hung up the phone and continued to look out the big bay window for a few moments. She was starting to feel restless. She wanted to really escape her thoughts. She could only do that with music and drinking. She was still getting to know Kat but she had a feeling that she might be a bit of a party girl.
"I'll be right back," said Jason, "I'm just going to get the newspaper."
"Okay," Madison smiled as she sat down with Lizzy and Kat.
Madison looked at the red headed, slightly freckled but very cute girl sitting across from her. She decided to take a chance. She poked at her over easy eggs.
"Hey, umm Kat, do you have any official plans for tonight?"
"No, why, do you want to go out?"
"Yeah, maybe we can go to that museum downtown?"
"Oh yes, that's a beautiful place to go. The art is exquisite," interrupted Lizzy.
"Cool, so Kat, what do you think?"
Kat knew museum was code for dance club.
"Mmm, yeah, let's do it. Do you mind if I invite a couple of the other girls? Maybe we can have a girl's night?"
"Perfect!"
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"Where are they going?" Dave asked.
"They said out to a museum. Both girls know exactly what will happen if they do anything they are not supposed to. In fact…"
Jason was distracted when his soon-to-be step-daughter walked in. She had her hair down, curled at the ends, smoky black eye shadow, red lipstick which complimented her natural strawberry hair very well; black designer jeans, black form fitting long bell sleeve top and black mid-calf high 3 inch boots. Before Jason could say anything Madison walked in. She looked older for her age as well. She was wearing tight designer low cut stone washed blue jeans with a black sheer button down top that only had two pockets in the front to barely cover any skin. She wore a small black exercise bra over her black lace push up bra which made her look a cup size bigger. Her outfit was completed with a princess cut short black leather jacket and 4 inch heel ankle high black boots. Jason's instincts told him these two together would be trouble tonight.
"I really am not too crazy about what either of you are wearing," exclaimed Jason.
"What are they wearing?" Dave asked on the other end of the line.
"Hold on, I'll show you."
Jason took a photo of the girls and sent it through to Dave.
"Did you get it? Ya, what do you think?"
"Well, she is dressed within our dress code agreement."
"Dress code agreement? Maybe that's something I should have been alerted to?"
"Oh, it's simple. If she wears a short skirt, she can't show cleavage. If she shows a bit of cleavage then she has to be wearing either a long skirt or pants. The outfit she is wearing now, she isn't showing any leg or really any cleavage."
"But you can see though her top and her jeans are practically painted on."
"You can only see her waistline and Jason, pick you battles."
Jason sighed, "Fine, I want you both home no later than 11:00. I mean it."
"Okay, 11. Got it."
Jason gave them each some play money.
"Alright, be on your best behavior and stay safe."
"We will."
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"So where are we really going?" Madison asked once in the car.
"There is this great club downtown and it plays the best music."
"I don't have a fake I.D." Madison confessed, "My dad found it awhile back."
"No worries. I know a guy. We are going to see him first then meet the others at the club."
Madison smiled, "I knew you would be cool. My instincts are generally pretty right on. Well, with girls that is. Boys..sigh, that's a whole other story."
Kat saw the sad look on Madison's face.
"Hey, as of right now, the past is the past. We just look forward."
"Wow, okay, Dr Kat," Madison laughed.
"I know it sounds cliché but as you know my mom is a therapist. She has been feeding me lines like that since I was conceived."
Both girls laughed.
"Okay, well, I'll try it. Right now, let's get those I.D.'s."
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