Title: Agreements over Pizza
Author: Stargirl888
Word Count: 2500
Spoilers: None
Pairing: Brittany/Santana
Rating: T
WARNINGS: Consensual Maintenance Spanking
Disclaimer: Not mine, never has been and unfortunately never will be :(
Summary: Brittany and Santana go over the rules of their relationship and end the evening with Santana's first maintenance spanking.
A/N: I missed you guys! It was great to see all those familiar names in the review list and know you guys are still following along! Thanks for all your feedback, and look, you didn't have to wait a whole year for another update ;)
To the anon reviewer who pointed out the Chinese characters thanks for letting me know; it wasn't because I didn't edit but a problem with the doc upload – I edit before uploading so I didn't read over it in the ff doc editor because that's never happened before. Apologies; have repaired it now and checked this chapter so it shouldn't happen again.
Hope everyone enjoys!
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"Okay, so lets do this." Santana announced as she walked into the room, pizza box in hand.
"You're unexpectedly enthusiastic." Brittany observed, shuffling over from her spot on the bed to make room for Santana and the pizza.
Santana shrugged "I'm in a good mood." They settled down on the bed, each helping themselves to pizza and Brittany positioning a notepad and pen next to her.
"So shall we start?" Brittany suggested, and at Santana's nod, she began writing.
Agreements made between Brittany Pierce and Santana Lopez.
We will not knowingly partake in reckless behaviour that endangers ourselves or others.
Brittany passed the pad to Santana to read and she nodded approvingly, her mouth full of pizza. Taking the pen, Santana wrote:
2. We will always be honest with each other
"Definitely." Brittany agreed as she read the item. Adding the third and then passing it back to Santana for the fourth
3. Bad moods will be expressed in an acceptable way
4. Disagreements, whether between ourselves or with others will always be 'above the belt'
"I know that's a pretty short list but I think it covers most things," Santana said after a moments thought "They're pretty broad and I can't think of much else, unless we go into more specifics for each point."
"Yeah, I'm happy with it. We can if you want to but I think it's pretty self evident. Obviously the first one is thinks like drunk driving, and honesty includes not lying by omission. We know each other well enough to know what is meant by each one."
"Mmm, so that was quicker than expected, now what do we do with it?"
"Hang on," Brittany began to write again
We will hold ourselves and each other accountable to these agreements.
Should one of us break an agreement, we agree to accept the consequences thereof; these consequences, where appropriate, may include punishment as determined by the other partner.
Finishing it with a flourished signature, she handed it to Santana who nodded her approval and signed her own name, adding a date to the corner. Then, tearing the sheet from the notepad, she stood up.
"And now?" Brittnay asked.
"Give me a sec." Disappearing from the room, Santana returned a few moments later, this time with two pages in hang. "I made a copy." she explained, folding the one sheet up and pocketing it, after handing Brittany the other.
Brittany got up and going to her closet, she pinned it to the inside of the door.
"Did you talk to your Professor?" Brittany asked as she sat back down.
"Yeah, he's given me a paper to write on Skinners Behaviourist theory for extra credit,"
"Oh good. When's it due?" Brittany reached for her phone to enter it onto her calendar.
"27th."
"Okay." She typed it in. "Anything else due?"
"I can just share my Google calendar with you, it's got all my planning and due dates and stuff."
"That'll probably be easier." Brittany agreed. Their conversation turned to other things after that and it did them good to just hang out and relax together over pizza, talking over whatever came to mind.
It was quite a while later when Brittany said "I was thinking that we should try a maintenance spanking tonight." Santana gave her a penetrating look.
"You were planning this all evening and didn't say anything." she accused
"I didn't want it looming over us."
"B, it's been a really nice evening, do we really have to ruin it with that?"
"It's not going to ruin anything." Brittany refuted "And if anything I think that now's the right time,because of how the evenings gone."
"So because it's been good, you want to spank me?" Brittany rolled her eyes.
"No, because it's felt like Us, and we're in a good place, and I think it will enhance that. You agreed that a lot of the reason for this was because it makes us feel closer. Also, we went over the rules, have a plan for your studies and are moving into the next phase; it feels like this would be a good symbolic start to thar."
Santana bit her lip, trying to think of a decent argument beyond that she just didn't want to get spanked. She was still thinking when Brittany reached across to take her hands and caught her gaze.
"San, do you trust me?"
Santana nodded, wanting to point out that that was not the issue she was having right then, but also not wanting interrupt sincel clearly Brittany had more to say.
"This is new to me too; it's different because it's not a punishment, but it's also not for fun; it's something else. I feel like this is the right time for it though, and it's only a trial so if it doesn't work for us, we change it; but we can't wait for you to want to do this in practice, because it's unlikely to happen if we do. I know it's been a nice evening, and I know you don't want to be spanked right now, but I feel we're in a really good space to trying something new like this; together. And I won't spank as hard as I normally do if that's what you're worried about."
To Santana's surprise she found she was nervous. Not nervous in the way that all punishments made her nervous, because she knew they would be unpleasant, but nervous because this was different to those and she didn't know quite what to expect. She felt almost like this was her first spanking all over again. "Okay" Santana agreed and Brittany leant over to give her a soft kiss.
Pulling back, she ordered gently but firmly, "Take off your pants."
While Santana did that, Brittany got up to lock the bedroom door since Rachel was home; though it was unlikely she'd interrupt since she knew they were having some couple time. She probably wouldn't hear either, being sequestered in her own room that left two closed doors and a hallway between them. Though living together that was probably going to become unavoidable at times. They both cleared the napkins and pizza box from the bed to make space and Brittany sat down on the one side. Holding out her hand to Santana, she guided her over her lap, surprising her girlfriend with the positioning choice. Brittany never spanked over the lap because she always found it too intimate a position to be in when she knew she was going to cause her girlfriend pain; it made it hard for her to keep her resolve, but this time she decided to try it, figuring that since tonight wasn't about punishment, but rather connection and intimacy, it was the right position to choose.
"Alright" Brittany said as a way to start once Santana had settled, and she lowered her girlfriends panties to her knees. Santana shifted slightly to get more comfortable. In some ways the childish position embarrassed her more than leaning over the bed or sofa did, but there was also a comfort to knowing she was supported by Brittany that the other positions lacked, but it did nothing for Santana's pride. Resting her left arm on Santana's back, Brittany began to rub Santanas bottom with her right hand; though it served the practical purpose of warming Santana up, Brittany also wanted to take things slow and emphasise their connection rather than the painful aspects, as she would with a punishment. She also knew Santana loved the intimacy of having her ass rubbed and massaged; though they never really did it in this position.
After a fair bit of time, Brittany stopped, leaving her hand resting where it was as she spoke. "I'm going to start spanking now. This is only a mild reminder of what will happen if you break our agreements, or fall behind in your work again; okay?"
"Yes ma'am." Santana wasn't sure if the formality was needed in this situation but she normally used it and decided to go witth it. Brittany began absently rubbing again as she spoke
"If we decide to continue with these; when you have a generally good period between maintenance sessions, this will be what you can expect, but if we decide there were things left to be desired over that time, the following session won't be as light."
"Okay."
"Also, and I know this will be hard for you, but if you feel like you need me to keep going, that you want to get to that point to release, you just need to say; no judgement." Santana nodded and mentally prepared herself as Brittany raised her hand.
Brittany started to spank with a medium strength. Enough to sting, but not more. It was almost relaxing...almost. Santana supposed it was only because of the memories she had for comparison. Because Santana's mind wasn't focused on the pain or guilt like she normally was, she had the opportunity to actually experience the nuances of the spanking in a way she hadn't been able to in the past. Once Brittany had raised a light blush, and the smacks were starting to sting in that annoying painful but not way, Brittany paused.
"Okay, these are the last few; they're going to be harder than the others as a reminder of what could be" Raising her hand, she brought it down rapidly 5 times on each cheek, using much more power than she had previously. She waited a moment to allow Santana to fully experience them before starting to softly rub circles on her backside once again.
"Okay. You can get up."
Santana stayed there for a moment, her ass still tingling but it wasn't bad. She took the seconds to consider; she knew soon they would need to discuss if they were going to keep going with this, or not and she was trying to evaluate what she felt. She was surprised to find she actually wouldn't mind continuing; physically it wasn't bad, and though she wasn't about to admit it, Santana liked being in that submissive role for a while. Letting go of that control was something she couldn't often bring herself to do, this setting made it easier for her because she had been spanked by Brittany before and it was something she was used to, and with the maintenance it let her experience the submission without the guilt and emotions that would normally be there were it a punishment and without the pain element overwhelming it. Brittany had also been right about the connection and intimacy of the act.
Brittany gave her the time, not pushing for her to get up until she was ready, knowing Santana would need to process, honestly, she also needed a moment. Once Santana was ready she began to push herself up. Realising what she was doing, Brittany stopped rubbing and helped her girlfriend to her feet. They shared a long look and then embraced. They stood like that for a while.
"Okay," Santana said when they pulled apart "We can keep going with this."
"How was it for you?" Brittany asked as she sat back down on the bed, this time climbing on fully so she could cross her legs properly while Santana readjusted her underwear.
"I enjoyed it." Santana admitted, surprising herself with her choice of words. "During it, I felt close to you."
"Me too." Brittany agreed. "And you didn't feel it was unfair or anything that it wasn't a punishment for something specific."
"No," Santana tried to think of how to best explain. "I knew that wasn't the point of it going in, and I think that because I didn't have to think about why I was being punished, and it wasn't severe, it gave me the time to just experience everything; which I've never really gotten to do, except for maybe when we first started DD. What about you, how was it?"
"I also had that 'focus on the experience' going on. It was like I didn't want to get it over with so we could move on, you know?" Santana nodded, and she realised that not just hoping it would be over with had been one of the factors that made a huge difference to the feel of everything. "I think for now we should probably do this pretty regularly; like maybe every week or two, at least for a while then in a few months we can decide if we want to taper them off a bit?"
"Yeah, it's a pity our schedules are so messed up at the moment." Brittany shrugged
"I don't mind." Santana gave her an incredulous look "I mean in regards to this, I don't want to have a set day and time as such; I think we should commit to at least an average of once every week or so but beyond I'm happy to see where life flows; like if either of us particularly feels like its needed on a particular day or that several days have passed without one, then we do it then."
"Fine but if you sit there wanting to do it every day then we're going to have problems; you're still spanking me after all." Santana said it humorously but we a serious undertone. Brittany rolled her eyes
"Like I would do that." Santana gave her a 'I know you' look, but then smiled to show she wasn't serious."Things are going to be changing around here." Brittany informed her, her tone becoming sterner and Santana straightened a bit. "And while our relationship rehabilitation is under way, so will be the Santana rehabilitation project." Santana could feel the blood rushing to her cheeks at her girlfriends choice of words but she didn't say anything, sensing this wasn't really up for discussion "We don't need to go over your behaviour up to this point; and this is the last time I'm mentioning it before we move forward, but I think that because of my lenience a lot of those old habits, snapping at people and cruel jibes and the like have come back out. That's stopping today. All that leeway is gone, and you're going to be on a seriously short leash for a while. Remember how Quinn was with Rachel? How even minor transgressions were swiftly dealt with?" Santana nodded, squirming a bit at her girlfriends words, though she wasn't really surprised. "That's us for the next while. I'm not going to be letting the small stuff go any more, never mind the big things. I'm also going to suggest that you start to get used to the idea that Rachel is going to be aware and probably overhear more than she did in the past. Don't get me wrong," Brittany forestalled her objections "We're still going to keep things as private as we can, I wouldn't punish you in front of her or anything, but we live in the same house now, there's no point in waiting to deal with things until she leaves and stuff like that. Are we on the same page with all of this?" Santana nodded her agreements. "Good, then from this point forward we have a new start."
"Great," Santana's expression turned mischievous then "now that that's all settled, I vote bed." Brittany frowned at the way Santana almost waved off her words, but she knew it was from embarrassment and not because she didn't plan to heed them. So rather than bring it up, she asked
"You're ready to go to sleep already? It's like 8 o'clock."
"I never said anything about sleep." Yeah it was embarrassing when Brittany spoke to her like a child, but there was also something seriously hot about it, and since Santana wasn't actually in trouble, she planned to take full advantage.
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AN: So there you have it, first maintenance spanking, I focussed on the emotionality of it rather than behaviour and reminder because I thought that was what their relationship needed more right then, and I really like the idea of it being a way for a couple to connect – they won't all be quite like that but I thought it was an appropriate first one.
As always, thoughts are appreciated, Reviews mean love! Especially since next chapter ...*drum role*... QUINN IS COMING BACK!