"What do you think you're doing, little girl?" Olivia walked up behind Alex and trapped her pretty blonde wife in her arms.
"Stealing candy from babies." Alex giggled, holding up the piece of chocolate that she had just taken from the candy bowl for the trick-or-treaters in the apartment building that would start coming around any minute.
"Stealing is illegal, you know. Punishable by a long, hard bottom warming." Olivia gently patted Alex's bottom.
"Oh, please don't spank me, detective. How about a trade? One piece of chocolate for a kiss?" Alex offered, blinking innocently.
"Are you trying to bribe an officer of the law?" Olivia raised an eyebrow.
"Yes." Alex smiled.
"Good. Come here." Olivia ordered.
Alex turned in Olivia's arms and it was several minutes before the two women came up for air. When their lips finally parted, Olivia smiled and gave Alex's bottom another gentle pat.
"All right, fair is fair. Enjoy the candy." Olivia kissed Alex's forehead.
"I will." Alex grinned triumphantly, taking an exaggerated bite of her prized chocolate bar.
"Sassy." Olivia reached underneath Alex's shirt in search of Alex's tickle spot.
"Hey! I'm eating here!" Alex squealed through laughter.
"That's okay, I know the heimlich." Olivia chuckled. She looked up when there was a knock on the door, "And so Halloween night begins."
Olivia picked up the bowl of candy and opened the door, smiling down at a group of three kids; one dressed as an angel, one as a cat, and one as a clown.
"Trick-or-treat!" The kids chorused happily, holding out their plastic pumpkin baskets expectantly.
"It's your turn to answer that." Olivia stated about an hour later when there was yet another knock on the door.
Alex stood from the couch, picked up the candy bowl, and opened the door. After the child left, Alex noticed that the bowl was empty, so she placed their sign on the door informing anyone who walked up that there was no candy at this location, locked the door for the evening, and took the empty bowl to the kitchen where Olivia was sitting at the table looking through a stack of bills.
"Liv?" Alex bit her lip.
"Yeah?" Olivia looked up.
"Never mind." Alex hesitated.
"Are you okay, baby girl?" Olivia inquired with loving concern.
"I'm fine. I just… nothing. It's silly." Alex sighed.
"Come here." Olivia guided Alex out to the couch where she sat down and settled Alex to cuddle on her lap, "I can tell that you are not fine, so don't even try that. Talk to me, baby, you can tell me anything."
"Even if it happened over thirty years ago?" Alex asked.
"Even then." Olivia assured her.
"It's silly." Alex said again, "I don't know what even made me think of it. It was so long ago, I shouldn't feel guilty about it anymore. But then I saw that little boy dressed as a mummy and I remembered."
"It can't be that silly if it's bothering you this much, sweetheart." Olivia said kindly, knowing full well that her wife had a conscience that would tear her apart if she felt even remotely guilty about something, no matter how small.
"It was the Halloween when I was sixteen. I had my first car and my parents let me go to a party at the home of one of the girls from my high school. We… there was a lot of alcohol. I had three drinks, and then somebody had an idea to go TP the house of a crabby old woman that none of us liked. When… when we were done, I drove home and my parents were already in bed."
"So you drank underage, TP'd some innocent old lady's house, and drove under the influence, and you got away with it because you didn't get caught. Is that right?" Olivia inquired.
"Yes." Alex sighed.
"And you're feeling guilty." Olivia concluded. Only her Alex would dig up such a memory simply by seeing a kid wrapped in what looked like toilet paper.
"I told you it's silly." Alex looked down, and Olivia gently lifted her chin.
"Nothing you tell me is silly to me. What do you think needs to be done?"
"Well… since I've been with you, whenever I act out I get a spanking…"
"That's right, you do." Olivia agreed.
"So… maybe I need a spanking." Alex admitted.
"Would getting a spanking help you not feel guilty anymore?"
"Yes, Ma'am."
"Okay, then that's what we'll do." Olivia kissed Alex's forehead, nose, and lips, "Go find a corner for your nose. I'll be there in just a few minutes and we'll take care of that guilty conscience of yours. When I come in, I expect to find a naked woman waiting for me."
"Yes, Ma'am." Alex stood from Olivia's lap and disappeared down the hall. The pretty blonde walked into the bedroom, stripped out of her clothes, and stood in the corner with her hands on her head to wait for her loving disciplinarian.
Olivia walked into the bedroom and was pleased to find Alex standing naked in the corner exactly where she was supposed to be. Olivia debated in her mind for a moment before she went into the bathroom to retrieve the bath brush and then went to the closet to retrieve the heavy prison strap.
"Come here, Alex."
Upon hearing Olivia's voice releasing her from her captivity in the corner, Alex turned from the corner and walked over to where Olivia sat, immediately noticing the implements Olivia had chosen to use on her tender bare bottom.
"Over you go." Olivia patted her lap.
Alex obediently draped herself across Olivia's lap, her breasts hanging down. It hadn't been that long since Alex's last encounter with the bath brush on her tender bare bottom, and she vividly remembered exactly how much the wicked implement hurt.
"I am going to spank you with my hand for TP'ing the old woman's house. Then you are going to get in position on the bed and I am going to use the strap for drinking underage and driving under the influence and putting your life in danger in the process, and then I am going to use the bath brush and wash your mouth out with soap for keeping your behavior a secret for over thirty years, which is a form of lying. Do you understand?" Olivia laid her hand on Alex's bottom.
"Yes, Ma'am." Alex replied, laying her head down on the bed.
"Relax back here, little girl. You know better." Olivia gently patted Alex's bottom, and Alex forced herself to relax her bottom muscles.
Olivia raised up her strong right hand and began to pepper Alex's bare bottom with sharp spanks. It didn't take very long before Alex was whimpering, doing her best to lie obediently still as Olivia spanked her bottom to a healthy shade of pink and delivered a short lecture on kindness. When Olivia was satisfied with the color of Alex's bottom, she paused.
"Get up when you want to and get in position on the bed."
Alex caught her breath for a brief moment and then she pushed herself up from Olivia's lap. Olivia stood from the bed and picked up the strap while Alex draped herself across the bed with two pillows under her hips elevating her pink bottom.
"OW!" Alex yelped when the strap connected with her tenderized bottom, and the pretty blonde began to cry almost immediately as her bottom was whipped into flames of agony.
"You will never so carelessly put your life in danger again." Olivia scolded.
"I promise I won't! I'm sorry!" Alex wailed.
"I know you're sorry. It's my job to make sure your bottom is sorry too."
Alex gripped the bed sheets until her knuckles were white to resist the urge to reach back and cover herself. Olivia continued to bring the strap down on Alex's bottom, knowing that the guilt Alex felt wouldn't start to drain away until she had been whipped to the point of acceptance. Finally, Olivia saw Alex reach the point of acceptance as Alex went limp on the bed, and Olivia immediately threw the strap down. Alex didn't even realize her strapping was over until she felt Olivia's gentle hand underneath her shirt lovingly rubbing her heaving back. When Alex was a little calmer, she pushed herself up from the bed. Olivia picked up the bath brush in one hand and with the other hand she gently guided Alex into the bathroom. Instead of making Alex sit down on the closed toilet seat lid the way she normally would, Olivia simply prepared the soapy cloth and then spent several minutes scrubbing Alex's mouth. After several minutes, Olivia placed the bar of soap in Alex's mouth.
"Put your elbows on the counter." Olivia tapped the countertop with her finger, "If you drop the soap, we start over."
Alex bent over with her elbows on the counter, sticking her bottom out to receive Olivia's loving discipline. Alex soon began to sob as the bath brush spanked and punished her naughty bottom, but she was careful to keep the bar of soap in her mouth and not spit it out.
"It isn't healthy for you to carry guilt around inside of you, all it does is tie your belly in knots and make you feel miserable. From now on, if there is behavior you need to confess, I expect you to tell on yourself as soon as possible, not thirty years from now." Olivia scolded as she spanked, "I understand that you were only sixteen and you were afraid of getting in trouble. But you aren't sixteen anymore, and no spanking I could ever give you could be as bad as sending yourself on an unnecessary guilt trip. Bottoms heal, guilty minds live in fear."
A few minutes later, Olivia heard the sound of Alex's sobbing change, and the spanking was immediately over.
"Drop it and rinse, baby angel." Olivia said kindly, and Alex willingly opened her mouth and let the bar of soap drop into the sink. She spent several minutes rinsing her mouth with water until the awful taste of ivory was about as diluted as it was going to get and she turned the water off. Alex straightened up and immediately fell into Olivia's open arms.
"That's my good girl." Olivia soothed, "I'm right here, lovey, it's all over. Let's go get you settled on my lap for a nice cuddle, my good girl definitely deserves it."
Guilt no longer bothered Alex as she snuggled down into Olivia's arms to be cuddled, comforted, and babied and sobbed on Olivia's shoulder. Olivia slowly rocked Alex in her arms as she lovingly stroked Alex's face and long blonde hair and showered Alex with praise and reassurance that she was a good girl. As she slowly calmed, Alex listened to Olivia's gentle voice and was overwhelmed with a sense of peace. Now that her bottom had paid the price for her behavior, she could forgive herself and move on with a clean slate.
Ten minutes turned into thirty minutes, and thirty minutes turned into an hour. Still, Olivia cuddled Alex close to her heart. It would completely be Alex's choice when she was done getting cuddles and was ready to get up and get dressed. Alex had long since stopped crying when she finally decided to get up. Olivia retrieved a pair of Alex's pajama pants and matching tank and assisted Alex in covering her nakedness, being extra gentle as she carefully pulled Alex's pajama pants up over her punished bottom. They wouldn't be going to bed for a while yet, but Olivia wanted Alex to be as comfortable as possible for the rest of the evening.
The two women settled on the couch with popcorn and a stack of scary movies, getting lost in the suspense and haunting storylines of each movie. Olivia's cell phone rang and Alex let out a blood-curdling scream, sending the popcorn bowl flying as she latched onto Olivia for protection. Olivia laughed and wrapped her arms around her frightened wife, gently kissing the top of her head.
