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Season 1 Episode 1 Part 1
Just because it's laying the groundwork chapter, it is a bit long. Sorry for that. The next ones will be shorter.
As stated in the description. I will be following the series, but also be writing outside of it.
Hope ya like it.
"Did you talk to Katy?" Topanga asked as she watched Auggie do his puzzle.
"Yes, and she just seemed relieved to not have to deal the Maya." Cory said grudgingly.
"She's still young Cor, she could probably benefit for more time with us as well. We should invite her over more often." Topanga cautioned. She looked over to the front door for the millionth time that day waiting for hurricane Riley to come through. Cory had asked her to come home early so they could discuss options and face the girls together.
"What if Maya doesn't respond well to this?" Cory asked, anxiety about really stepping in to the girls life, crept into his tone.
"She already does respond well, this is just a natural progression." Topanga assured him, ruffling their sons hair.
"WHERE IS HE?" Riley shouted, bursting through the door with a nervous Maya.
After standing in front of them and giving a speech about her civil war both girls stood there uncertainly. "What happens now?"
Topanga stood up, "I'm going to take Auggie down to go see Mrs. Svorski. Riley and Maya go wait in Rileys room, we will be in to talk about next steps in a few minutes."
A couple minutes later she meet Cory in their livingroom, "Ready?" He asked.
"Honestly, we probably should have had this conversation sooner." Topanga told him.
"It's never taken too much more than a disappointed look or a couple swats to reel Maya back in, but 7th grade seems to be a whole new ball game." Cory justified as they walked back to Rileys room.
When they walked in both girls looked up from their spot at the bay window. Cory walked around and pulled out Rileys desk chair, and sat down and Topanga sat on the girls bed.
Riley bit her lip, that was never a great sign for her bottom. One parent when she did something wrong, typically meant a pretty normal spanking or a grounding. Both parents usually meant a harder spanking AND sometimes a grounding. Maya scooted closer to Riley sensing her tension. "Whatever happens it's okay." She assured, thinking her friend was upset that her parents were about to kick her out.
"Yeah, let's see how you feel about that in like twenty minutes." Riley told her, wondering if after 6 years her parents were going to give Maya a real spanking. Part of her worried for Maya, but it would be a lie to say that part of Riley wasn't happy that it wouldn't just be her getting her butt busted for their hijinks. Maybe Maya would be less likely to rush then into trouble in the future.
Topanga smirked at her daughter. Cory opened his arms and his daughter dutifully stood up and fell into his lap. Topanga held hers open and Maya hesitated the briefest second before falling into her arms. Topanga situated Maya so that they were both facing Cory.
"You asked what happened now, Riley, and we are going to tell you." Cory told her. He kissed the top of his daughter's head. He always felt proud of how she looked at him with so much trust. He looked over to see his wife resting her chin on Maya's head and he could see the emotions shifting under the girls mask of a frown. He hoped that Maya would look at him and Topanga with that same unyielding trust someday. "I spoke to Maya's mother about today's incident and her homework..."
"Do I need to go home? Am I grounded?" Maya asked. She didn't usually mind being grounded because it typically took Katie less than 3 days to forget that she had even been in trouble.
Topanga felt her little body tense in her arms, "shhhh...just listen." She squeezed a little tighter until she felt Maya relax.
"We've decided that a change in routine is a good plan." Cory started again.
"I told you they would want us not to be friends anymore, Riles. I'll just go..." Maya tried to stand, but Topanga wouldn't let her move.
Riley watched her friends outburst, but after a lifetime with her parent knew better than to interrupt her dad when she already knew she was in trouble. Topanga moved Maya slightly so that their faces were inches from each other, "Maya, I told you to listen, right?"
"Yes ma'am." Maya whispered. Usually when Riley's parents started to get worked up it was her time to split, sure they had given her a swat here or there but not usually as serious as the family meeting they were having now. She wasn't used to seeing Topanga be this upset with her, and felt like that was her que to try and sneak out the window. Topanga wasn't giving her any room to move though.
"The next time you interrupt, there will be trouble, got it?"
"Yes ma'am." Maya gulped.
Topanga looked back at her husband and Maya followed suit. "We don't mind if you guys go out and have a bit of fun after school still, but we want you both back home by 6."
"But...my curfew is 7." Riley said, not able to help herself. It wasn't often that a consequence came with something like an indefinite early curfew. Her parents were all about trying to build trust back if it was lost.
Cory frowned down at his daughter, "We are going to try something new for a little while. Maya do you understand?"
Maya looked at Topanga to make sure it was okay, she smiled at the girl and nodded. "I can have Riley back here by 6, Mr. Matthews but I don't have a curfew."
"You do now." Topanga said firmly, "It's six o clock at our house."
"At six the two of you will do some chores, set the table for dinner, we will eat together, and for now, you will bring your homework to the table and do it there while your mother and I work. That way we are close if you guys need any help." Cory told them. Riley didn't love that she couldn't do her homework in her room, it felt like everything was changing.
"Are you adding to our chores?" Riley cut in again. "Why are do we have to be home a whole hour before dinner? And why can't I do my homework in my room?!"
"Riley, stop interrupting your father." Topanga scolded.
"I don't understand why we are being punished indefinitely with more chores and an earlier curfew. Did we mess up that badly?" Riley asked.
"The curfew isn't a punishment, Riley, we are just trying to see if this is something that works better for everyone in our family. And same amount of chores, but we are going to try and eat half an hour earlier." Cory told her.
"It doesn't work better for me," Riley pouted.
Topanga wondered how much lip her husband was going to take from the girl before he acted. "Riley, you are on the thinnest ice."
Cory met his wife's gaze, he understood where she was coming from but also knew these changes would be hard for all involved. "Let's just try this out, let's say for the next six weeks, and then we will all sit down and reassess what is working, and what is not. How does that sound?" Riley relaxed into her fathers arms and nodded, slightly molified. Maya nodded to.
Topanga shot her husband a thank you look before plunging on. "After your homework is done you are free to do whatever around the apartment until Katy gets off work to come get Maya." Topanga said.
"That's a real sweet family moment you have created but my mom gets off really late." Maya told her. Thinking to how some nights she was left with her grandmother but usually after she left Rileys, she went home to her empty apartment and watched TV or talked to neighbors out her window.
Topanga stood Maya up and landed two swats on the girls backside. Maya instantly reached back but Topanga pulled gently on her arm, "No Maya no rubbing. And you need to watch the sarcasm." She pulled the girl back on to her lap. "As Cory said, we spoke to your mother today, who spoke to her work, they gave her a set schedule so she will be off at 830 Tuesday through Thursday, and only work until Midnight on Friday and Saturday. You usually spend the night here those nights anyway. So at 845 when she comes to get you, Riley will get ready for bed, and when you get home with her you will get ready for bed."
"I don't have a bed time either." Maya said.
Riley rolled her eyes at her friend, "It sounds like you have a bedtime and curfew now."
"Yes. 930, both of you in bed." Cory said.
Maya smirked, "and how are you going to make sure that happens?"
"I also spoke to your mother about how you might need a little more structure in your life, and she has given us permission to discipline you as we do with Auggie and Riley." Cory told her, frowning at the girls lip.
"We have also encouraged your mother to step up in that department too, so one of two things will happen if you don't go to bed when you are told. Either your mother will handle it, or she will let us know, and we will handle it." Topanga told her. Ideally Katy would step in, but if it needed to always be her and Cory being the heavy in order to ensure the girls teen years weren't too wild, they would do that.
"So you guys are going to...what keep spanking me? Don't you think I'm too old for that? And it's been forever since you did that." Maya said, trying to understand.
"Riley do we think Maya is too old for a spanking?" Cory asked.
"No way!" Riley said, thinking about the upcoming spanking she knew they were both getting.
"And we've swatted you, but you've never had a real spanking, it has been a while since we swatted you, but we are going to fix that today with your first real spanking." Topanga told her.
"I uh...no thank you." Maya said slowly.
Cory laughed at the girl trying to get out of the situation. "Let's go over the rules so we are all on the same page and we can get the hard part out of the way."
"Rule one. Nothing dangerous." Riley cut in.
"Right, and part of that is us always knowing where you are. So sneaking out to get on the subway was not good." Cory said pointedly at his daughter.
"We didn't actually get to sneak out." Riley defended.
"That's true, count yourself lucky thats not on your list of today's offenses." Cory told his daughter teasingly.
"What else could be considered dangerous Maya?" Topanga asked, looking into the girls face.
"Walking the streets in the middle of the night...?" Maya asked.
"Yes..." Topanga said, but that wasn't what she had been looking for.
"Are you doing that Maya? If you are that stops now." Cory said, panic filling his voice at what could happen to the girl, his girl.
"Well yeah, I will either be here or in bed now." Maya told him.
"Right." Topanga confirmed. "What about taking the sparklers from Farkels project and trying to set everyone's homework on fire, was that safe?"
Maya gulped, "No ma'am."
"Rule 2?" Topanga asked.
"We need to be respectful. Of ourselves, others and our things." Riley said dutifully.
"Were you respectful of your teacher today?" Topanga pressed.
"No ma'am." She looked over at Cory. "I'm sorry Mr. Matthews."
"We will address it in a minute and then it will be over. What about the school, were you respectful of the school when the sprinklers went off?"
"No sir." She looked down at her lap.
"What did the principal say?" Riley asked, remembering that her dad had told Maya to speak to him.
Maya looked back up, "He said your dad went in and convinced him it would be delt with, so that he would leave my punishment to him. Thanks for that."
"We love you lots kid, and we will do whatever we need to protect you, even if you hate it and we sometimes hate it." Cory told her.
"You love me still?" Maya asked.
Topanga snuggled the girl as close as she could, "We could never stop, Maya, you are our girl too."
"Alright, 3 is obey." Riley said.
"Right, that Rule Applies to who?"
"You and Mrs. Matthew's, and our teachers..." Maya said.
"And your mother and grandmother, Maya." Maya made a face at that. "I'm serious, Katy will tell us if you are having a problem with that, and we can send you off to school with a sore bottom if we need to."
"That's okay, I will listen." Maya assured her.
"4. If you get in trouble at school, you get in trouble at home. But really if you are following the other rules, you won't get I trouble at school." Riley said.
"Five?"
"We need to be honest always, and that includes with our thoughts and feelings instead of running away." Riley recited. That had always been a struggle for Topanga truth be told. Cory had a hard time knowing his, and she had a hard time telling him hers when she did know them.
"Good. And last one?"
"Be responsible."
"What does that include, Riley Olivia?" Topanga asked.
"Doing my chores..." she offered lamely.
"And?" Cory asked.
"Being home by curfew and in bed by bedtime."
"Riley..." Topanga warned. It was never good when her mothers patience wore thin.
"My homework." Riley said softly.
"Did you do that today?" Cory asked his daughter.
"She did, Mr. Matthews and mine, but she just didn't turn it in." Maya rushed.
"Is that true Riley?" Cory asked, shaking his head in disbelief at his daughter's stubbornness.
"Well it wouldn't have mattered anyway, all the homework got wet." Riley defended.
Topanga knew that her temper wouldn't hold out through her daughter trying to shake off accountability, so she kissed Maya's temple and turned to the other two in the room. "Maya and I are going to go have a talk in our room, and leave you two to it in here." She stood up and held her hand out waiting for the girl to take it. Maya reached out and took the hand of the person she trusted second in the world to her best friend. Topanga lead her down the hall to her and Cory's room and stood the teen in between her legs. "Do you understand what went wrong today?"
"Yes ma'am. I went too far, and it was dangerous and disrespectful..." Maya told her.
"Did Cory tell you to stop?" Topanga pressed.
"Yes ma'am so it was disobedient too. I did technically do the homework though, and I was honest." Maya said quickly.
"Before everything blew up in your face today, were you honest about why you weren't doing your homework? Cory and I didn't know that you were home alone so often before speaking with your mother today, so I find it hard to believe your teachers knew."
Maya looked down at her hands. " I guess not."
"One out of six isn't a great look, Maya and Cory and I expect more from you, am I understood?" Topanga asked.
"Yes ma'am."
In Rileys room Cory also had his daughter between his knees, "you need to help Maya through this transition, then you and Maya need to help each other through these next few years. Undestand?"
"Yes Daddy." Riley told him, resting her hands on his shoulders. "I'm sorry."
"I know honey, let's get this over with." He pulled Riley over his knee and pulled down her leggings and shorts but kept her panties up. She had done the homework after all. He made a mental note to bring up her doing Maya's homework later that night.
SWAT* "The best thing you can do" *SWAT*SWAT* "for Maya is be yourself" *SWAT*SWAT*
"I know Daddy, im sorry!" Riley said.
SWAT* "You know better," *SWAT*SWAT* "then to not turn in your homework!"
"I wont do it again!" Riley promised.
Cory had been planning on keeping this spanking short so he tilted his leg slightly so he had better access to his daughtes sit spots, "I know honey, just a little more." *SWAT* *SWAT*SWAT* *SWAT*SWAT* *SWAT*SWAT* *SWAT*SWAT* *SWAT*SWAT*SWAT*
Cory stood his little girl up and pulled her shorts and leggings back up before kissing her forehead. Riley was lightly crying, but she knew that she had gotten off easy. "I'm sorry, Daddy."
"I know baby, how about you rest until dinner?" He reached over and pulled down her quilt so she could get in. Then he helped her take her shoes off so that she wouldn't have to roll over on to her bottom, even though he knew that it was probably a pretty light sting. He kissed her head and headed downstairs to grab Auggie.
Topanga had the girl over her knees, "Usually something like today would get you spanked on your bare bottom, but since it is your first spanking, I will leave up your panties." Maya groaned as Topanga pulled down her shorts and leggings, knowing what she was about to find. Topanga sighed when she saw the girl in a thong. How did the girl even get that? "Maya, where did this come from?"
"Well you see..." Maya said, blushing deeply and not wanting to admit to stealing. Topanga could tell when Maya put on that fake tone, that she didn't want the answer.
"You know what I dont want to know, but I had better not see anything like this on you EVER again." Topanga told her, punctuating the word ever with a hard swat.
"Yes ma'am! In all fairness, i couldn't foresee this situation."
"Lift your hips." Topanga pulled the girls leggings back up to offer her some protection and then started in fast and hard with her hand. She didn't lecture during a spanking like her husband did, and while she spanked less often than Cory, it was usually the case that she tended to spank harder than her husband, but she was always fair. Maya held a lot of tension in her little body, and was refusing to let herself cry. Topanga didn't want to go too hard on the girls first spanking, so she paused for a second and rubbed the tense back over her knees, "You are safe here Maya. Cory and I love you very much, and you will always be able to express your emotions here." She kept rubbing and felt a little tension leave the girls shoulders.
"Are you done? This hurts more than just a couple swats." Maya whined. She tried to put her hand back to rub, but Topanga pushed it away gently.
Topanga smiled at the back of the girls head, "Does it? I wouldn't know that since you aren't letting yourself cry."
"You want me to cry is that how you forgive me?" Maya asked, not understanding this new process.
Topanga scooped the girl up and had her straddle her lap turning her so that they were face to face, "Spankings are a good release." She brushed the girls blonde hair from her face, "Cory and I already forgave you."
"You did? Then why do I have to cry," Maya asked, not understanding.
"You don't have too, but its something that just usually happens in this position when we forgive ourselves and let go of whatever happened so we can move on. I want you to forgive you."
"So not done?" Maya asked, nervously playing with Topanga's necklace.
"Not yet." Topanga told her. While she personally wanted this over, she was willing to go at the pace Maya needed for her first spanking. Thirteen was probably a rough age to try and sort through the feelings of an all new discipline system.
"Did you get spanked growing up?" Maya asked her.
"Yes." Topanga told her, watching her play with her necklace.
"Did Mr. Matthews get spanked?"
"Very, very rarerly. Definitely not enough," Topanga teased.
Maya smirked, but went back to playing with her necklace. Her face lit up with a new thought. "Does that mean Josh got spanked sometimes?"
"I can share my own story, and I know that Cory wouldn't mind me sharing his, but Josh isn't my buisness to talk about. If you really want to know, I guess you could ask him."
Maya nodded, knowing that Topanga was telling her to mind her own when it came to Josh. "Weren't your parents hippies?"
"Yeah, spanking was probably the one thing they did outside the traditional hippie lifestyle." Topanga confirmed.
"Did they spank you when you were my age?"
"The last time they spanked me was the week before Cory and I got married." Topanga told her, thinking back to her Moms frustrated face as she warned Topanga to lower her voice when she was talking to her.
"Wow. How old were you?" Maya asked.
"Eighteen." Topanga told her, while she wouldn't change a moment of her life with Cory, she hoped that the girls would see a little more of the world before getting married.
"Eighteen?!" Maya exclaimed.
Topanga smiled at the girl she loved like a second daughter. The girl that she honestly saw so much of herself in. "It worked. And I knew."
"Do you ever wish that your parents were normal and didn't spank you?" Maya asked.
"Well spanking your kids was more common back then." Topanga told her, "but even for normal, it was weird for my parents to spank me past the age of like 8, I think. And there were times that it was embarrassing for sure."
"If you were embarrassed about it, why did you grow up and spank your kids...and...and..." Maya faltered.
"And you?" Topanga asked, lifting up the girls chin so that their eyes met. Maya nodded. "I spank my kids, and you, who I also see as my daughter, because my parents spanking me turned me into a better person."
Maya smirked again, thinking back to earlier in the conversation. "You want us to turn out more like you than Mr. Matthews?"
Topanga laughed out loud at that. "Something like that." She rested both of her hands lightly on either side of Maya's face, "Are you ready to get back to your spanking, lovely?"
"One more question?" Maya asked.
"One more." Topanga nodded.
"Will you stop spanking me when I get married?" As much as Topanga wanted to tell the girl she was being dramatic, this was only her first spanking after all, she knew that Maya needed assurance. The truth was Topangas parents had stopped spanking her because they had sat Cory down after giving her her last spanking, and told him that they were passing on the responsibility to him. They had even given him the hairbrush she had been spanked with growing up, the same one she used to spank her own children, and was about to use with her 'oldest'. She couldn't tell that to the thirteen year old though.
"Hopefully, your head will be less thick than mine, and you won't need to be spanked that long."
"Maybe not even into high school?" Maya asked hopefully.
Topanga laughed out loud again, "Maybe, but probably not, lovely."
Maya nodded, she reached down and picked up Topangas hand, "More spanking?"
She reached behind the girl and showed her the wooden hairbrush she had, the one her mom had gifted Cory 14 years ago. She had given Maya probably about fifty swats with her hand, and while she had debated the idea, she knew that had Riley had the day that Maya had had at school she would have given the girls whole spanking with the hairbrush.
Maya reached out and took hold of the brush, "Are you going to hit me with this?"
"I'm going to spank you with it." Topanga told her. "What happened at school today was very serious, and you could have been suspended, Lovely. Today I am going to give you ten VERY hard swats with this brush, but if anything like this ever happens again Maya, it will be the whole spanking, am I understood?" Maya gulped, but nodded. "Alright back over." Maya set the brush down on the bed and rolled back over into position. Topanga rubbed the girls back for a moment, "I'm going to talk during this part, you dont need to respond to what im saying. I want you to focus on forgiving yourself Maya and letting go of today, okay?"
"Yes ma'am." Maya said softly.
Topanga reached over and grabbed a pillow, handing it to Maya for comfort. Maya quickly buried her face in the pillow and Topanga picked back up the brush.
SWAT* "You will NEVER try to light something on fire in school again!"
SWAT* "You will obey all of your teachers!"
SWAT* "Especially Cory!"
Maya started lightly crying at this point and Topanga had to work hard to follow through with all ten swats. Truthfully the swats were pretty mild, more like a strength she would use if she were giving Auggie a couple swats with the brush, but Maya had no experience to compare it to. Knowing the young girl though, Topanga knew that they would be here often enough, especially in this first year.
SWAT* "You will do all of your homework!"
SWAT* "You will be respectful. Especially to your mom."
SWAT* "You will be on time for curfew and bedtime."
SWAT* "You are a part of this family!"
SWAT* "And as such you will follow the rules!"
Sobs wracked Maya's body at that point, and Topanga could tell the girl had really let go. She tempered the last two swats to be more of love pats, not that she thought Maya knew that with how focused she probably was on crying. All Topanga could hope was that her last two statements got through to the girl. Even if they didn't though, she had a lifetime to remind her of them.
SWAT* "You are safe here!"
SWAT* "You are so loved Maya!"
Topanga picked the girl up and walked over to the rocking chair she still had by her window for moments like this with her own kids. She held the girl and rocked until her crying lessened. "I'm sorry." Maya said softly.
"It's all forgiven now, my amazon warrior." Topanga checked her watch, they had about an hour until they would normally have dinner, "Riley is probably resting in her room until dinner. I would like you to rest too. Do you want to do that in here on my bed, or with Riley?"
"Riley please." Maya said.
"Okay, lovely." Topanga reached over and took off Maya's boots before standing the girl up on her feet, "you were so brave. I'm proud of you Maya." She told the girl as she lead her out of her room.
Maya looked confused, "I did the wrong thing, why are you proud?"
Cory had just got home with Auggie and was walking back to check on the girls when he heard the question. "You are growing up Maya, you are going to do the wrong thing a lot, it's how you will learn to recognize the right thing when you see it. The important thing is taking responsibility and accepting consequences when you do the wrong thing, and you did that today." He pulled the girl in for a hug. "We are both proud of you."
Auggie was running to his room with a bag in his hands and halted when he saw Maya. His dad had told him that she had a rough day and would probably be napping with Riley when they got home. Even at 5 Auggie knew that probably meant the girls had been spanked.
"What's in the bag, Aug?" Maya asked, wipping away the tears on her face.
"We went to the toy store really quick, because I had some allowance to spend. Daddy said you had a really really bad day at school, so I got you this!" He reached into the bag and pulled out a stuffed lion. "He's a lion, cuz you're the bravest person I know!" The little boy said.
Tears filled Maya's eyes again and she reached down and hugged the little boy tight. "Thanks Aug!"
He handed over the lion and Topanga took her sons free hand, "come show me what else you got, Maya needs to rest."
Auggie went with his mother into his room, and Cory lead Maya into Rileys room. He pulled back the covers and she got in on her stomach too. He tucked her in tight and kissed her forehead, "she wasn't too hard on you was she?" He asked, squating down so he could whisper at eye level without waking Riley.
Maya smirked at the man's worried face, and as always, he wondered briefly if Topanga could have given birth to Maya without him knowing. The girl seemed to embody half of Topanga and half of Shawn. "I'm in no hurry to be back over her lap, but not too hard, no."
He kissed Maya's forehead as the worry left his eyes, and stood to leave. He turned back at the door, to watch Maya pull Riley and Barry the Bear close with one hand, as she clutched the lion in her other.
Cory meet Topanga in the hall coming out of Auggies room. They both left each door open just a crack in case any of the kids called for them, and leaned back on the walls, smiling as they assessed how lucky they were to have each other. "How many more days like this do you think? Five more spankings each, maybe eight more for Auggie, then never again?" Cory asked.
Topanga smiled wider as she pulled her husband close and then into a kiss. "These teen years are going to be hard, but it will be worth it, Cor."
"I know, I know, but she just looked so broken today." Cory whispered, in case the girl was still awake.
Topanga looked over her husband's shoulder into her daughter's room and watched Maya frown as she pulled the lion closer. "We will get through it. Maya is ours, she always has been."
"Yeah about that," Cory teased, "You and Shawn have something you want to tell me?"
Topanga rolled her eyes as she lead Cory out into the livingroom to relax before they had to decide on dinner.