"Computer, delete characters and resume program. Re-seal the doors and override Holodeck safeties, authorization Janeway-Alpha-Six."
"Holodeck safeties are offline," the computer chimed as the classical music that had been playing resumed.
"Undress," Kathryn commanded.
"I will comply," Seven said, reaching for the clasp of her biosuit.
Kathryn gasped softly as Seven peeled off her biosuit. She kicked off her heels and removed the garment. Then she stood, hands clasped behind her back in her usual pose, naked and unabashed in front of her captain.
"God, you're beautiful," Kathryn murmured, trailing the leather flogger tails over Seven's breasts. Pale pink nipples hardened and the Borg felt a rush of heat between her legs.
"How do you feel knowing the safeties are offline?" Kathryn asked, her voice husky and low. "Does that scare you?"
"No, Captain."
"I'm not your captain right now, Seven... You will say 'yes ma'am' or 'no ma'am', understand?"
"Yes ma'am."
Kathryn was still teasing her nipples with the flogger, sending jolts of electric energy through the Borg.
"You're not scared?" Kathryn asked, circling one nipple with her free hand.
"No ma'am," she answered and gasped when Kathryn pinched her nipple lightly between her thumb and forefinger.
"How do you feel then, Seven?"
"...Excited," she said, inhaling sharply as Kathryn pinched harder. "Aroused..."
"Good," Kathryn whispered. "Very good... Do you ever experience fear?"
Seven did not answer right away and Kathryn pinched her nipple hard, causing the blonde to yelp in an all-too-human way.
"I asked you a question," Kathryn commanded. "Are you ever scared?"
"Not of pain, Cap- ma'am," she corrected as Kathryn squeezed her nipple.
"What are you afraid of, Seven?" Kathryn murmured, trailing the flogger along her stomach to her thighs. Seven hesitated and in one swift movement Kathryn struck her thighs with the flogger. Seven let out a cry of surprise and her knees threatened to buckle. The strike stung and a flood of information was sent to her cortical node. She almost missed the command.
"Answer me, Seven. What scares you?"
"Being alone," she said on an exhale. "Ma'am. Losing...Voyager. Losing you. The Borg."
"The Borg scare you?"
"Yes ma'am."
"Good girl," Kathryn whispered, trailing her flogger lightly over the sensitive flesh of Seven's thigh. A fresh surge of excitement threatened to buckle Seven's knees.
"Come here," Kathryn commanded, walking over to the wall where she'd had the holographic woman chained.
"You do not have to chain me. I will not move unless you tell me, ma'am," Seven said, following her over.
"I know you won't but I don't want you focused on remaining upright. Face the wall."
Seven quirked her ocular implant and obeyed. Kathryn set the flogger aside and took Seven's wrists, raising her arms above her head.
"Seems a shame to have those gorgeous breasts of yours pressed against the wall," Kathryn said as she fastened the cuffs around Seven's wrists. "But it's temporary. I want to see what I can do to you."
When the cuffs were fastened, she stepped back.
"Of course your ass is gorgeous, too," she murmured and Seven let out a cry of surprise as Kathryn brought her hand down across her butt.
"Did that hurt?" Kathryn murmured.
"No ma'am," Seven said truthfully.
It had been surprising, but it hadn't hurt.
"Did you like it?" she asked, her mouth close to the blonde's ear as she squeezed the soft globes of Seven's ass.
"I think so," Seven answered.
"You think?" she asked, digging her nails lightly into the soft flesh.
"Yes. Yes ma'am," Seven said, inhaling. "I liked it."
"Good...that's so good..."
Kathryn brought her hand down again on the Borg's backside, then again and again... Seven did not make a sound as the captain struck her repeatedly. Her cortical node registered nine strikes before Kathryn moved away. Seven could feel the flesh of her ass was heated, could already feel her nanoprobes correcting the insignificant damage.
She turned her head to see Kathryn picking up the flogger.
"I didn't tell you to look at me, did I? Face the wall," the redhead commanded.
A slight shiver went through Seven as she turned her face back towards the brick. She closed her eyes and tried to use her Borg-enhanced senses to determine Kathryn's movements. She could hear her captain's light footfalls, smell her familiar scent. Lavender mixed with the scent of sweat, like when they played Velocity together, only stronger. It invaded Seven's senses, made her dizzy. She felt a fresh flood of moisture between her legs and was unprepared for the strike of the flogger against her back.
She let out a cry more of surprise than pain. It had hurt but as her nanoprobes swarmed to the site she understood how it was pleasurable. The release of endorphins in her brain was quantifiable. She liked it.