A Very Shameful Punishment Ch. 44
By Leslie Jones
[You can read this story without having read the previous chapters. This chapter does recap a good deal of background but after you've read it, you might wish to return to read earlier chapters as you will then have fuller understanding of the characters. This story features significant disciplining and involves bodily functions. If you find this bothers you, please read no further. All characters are over 18. My thanks to Susan Greenway for her kind permission to use one of her characters.]
Eleanor realized that she had never felt quite the way she did right now. She understood that she was too old for crushes. But when she had seen Kate, now a Major in the Corrections Service, she felt herself becoming wet instantly. Ever since her court-ordered shameful punishment which had occurred some years ago, Eleanor had engaged in spanking and caning play, but it had been just that. This was different.
She found herself thinking of Major Kate standing near her in her crisp uniform outlining her shapely frame, holding a disciplinary cane which would soon be applied to Eleanor's bare bottom. It seemed to be impossible for her to get this image out of her mind. The more she tried, the more it insisted on dominating her consciousness.
She decided she had better confront it head on. She sent Kate an e-mail asking her if by any chance she was free for lunch that day. She added somewhat cryptically that she had something important to discuss with her.
Kate was working hard in her large corner office she had inherited from LTC Rachel as chief of the Corrections Service's internal retraining unit. Kate had risen amazingly quickly through the ranks of the service. Entering through Officer Candidate School, she had been initiated by this very unit she now commanded at the tender age of 21. When she graduated, her outstanding performance had attracted the attention of LTC Rachel, then commanding both the unit and the OCS.
Rachel obtained the approval of GEN Annette, the chief of staff, to create a new deputy position in the unit and to name Kate to fill it. It already was unprecedented to have a raw First Lieutenant as the deputy chief of this important unit, but Kate rose to the occasion. Annette had originally been a bit skeptical of the young woman's suitability for higher rank and positions but had come round to recognizing her ability. Kate had originally been chosen by her stepmother to be the "responsible woman" in their family, which gave Kate as a 19-year-old the authority in the family over her father, brother, older sister, and even her stepmother. She had exercised that authority as needed to make the others recognize that they could not assume her consent to the many life decisions for which her signoff was now needed in the Women's Republic.
Kate had also had to discipline one of her OCS friends and had been suspected of showing favoritism to that friend. For this, she had submitted to being disciplined by Rachel, with whom she still maintained a strong working rapport and friendship. Rachel was now elevated to the position of roving inspector of the entire service with the rank of full Colonel.
When the e-mail from Eleanor arrived on her computer screen, Kate immediately wondered what Eleanor needed to speak with her about in person at a lunch date that day. She e-mailed back that she would definitely be able to meet Eleanor for lunch and asked where they should rendezvous.
Eleanor was delighted to receive the response and e-mailed back that Kate should join her at the exclusive women's club to which Eleanor had been introduced and sponsored for membership by her boss, Janet, at Goose Cookers. All the movers and shakers of the Women's Republic either belonged to the club or were striving hard to be nominated and elected. Eleanor knew that she had bypassed many on the waiting list owing to Janet's huge influence.
Before leaving her office, Kate checked her uniform and made a quick stop in her own rest room. She even bothered to dab a spot or two of perfume, not something anyone ordinarily did in the service, which was characterized by a utilitarian, more than quasi-military atmosphere. She drove her own car over to the club and parked in the lot provided behind it. Eleanor had sent her name to the attendant to guarantee her admission.
The charming attendant, Antoinette, whom everyone called Tony, had already become enamored of the smart-looking young woman in the officer's uniform of the Corrections Service. She waved to her, and Kate smiled as she drove in and thanked Tony, using her nickname, for providing her with a choice space near the entrance from the lot.
Once in the clubhouse, she made her way to the lobby and without having to identify herself as a guest, was greeted by Eleanor, who walked over to the desk officer and introduced Kate as her guest. The officer, always spoken to respectfully as Miss Branson, smiled and shook hands with Kate, which Eleanor knew was an unusual show of respect. Eleanor thanked Miss Branson for her help.
They proceeded to the dining room and were seated at a choice table. Eleanor sometimes reflected on how far she had come since she was convicted of adultery with a married man and sentenced to a year's infibulation. Even though she was later cleared when it was learned that the man had not been married at the time, the sentence was carried out and Eleanor suffered from having small metal rings placed in her labia to close it except for a small opening for urination and menstruation. She had even been shamed by having to use pads that year since even a small tampon could not be inserted in her tiny opening.
This was when Eleanor first encountered Annette, then the Senior Correctional Officer at the Supreme Court, who had administered the punishment by overseeing the surgeon who inserted the rings but also had tried to make Eleanor's pain and shame manageable. Then Annette took steps to end the punishment exactly one year after its imposition.
The punishment rankled both Annette and Janet, the executive vice president and de facto chief executive of Goose Cookers, who had hired Eleanor for her creative brilliance. Janet arranged for the three justices who had sentenced Eleanor to visit the Republic's second city, where Goose Cookers was headquartered, to be caned and humiliated in a private room at the Victoria Club, formerly the elite men's club in the city and now populated entirely by high-profiled woman. Annette, who was the court's administrative officer, administered the punishment in front of Janet and Eleanor as witnesses.
Kate knew about most of Eleanor's history and had visited the luxurious apartment Eleanor shared with Annette, to whom Eleanor was now married. Kate had been disciplined at a dinner party there and had been also invited to spank or cane some of the others. She found that being involved in these kinds of social situations turned her on. She had managed to smooth over her relationship with Annette, and LTC Rachel seemed to like Kate's consorting with these powerful women. Rachel even thought that her being invited for dinner there had been Kate's doing.
They sat down at the table and ordered some of the club's renowned salads. Neither had a cocktail because they did not indulge during the workday. Eleanor smiled and told Kate how pleased she was that the Major had been able to pull herself away from her office to have lunch with Eleanor. Kate smiled in return and said she was always delighted to get to see Eleanor and asked what Eleanor had been referring to in her e-mail.
"I'm a bit embarrassed, oh hell, very embarrassed to tell you this, Kate," Eleanor began, "but something has happened that has occupied my mind entirely and, in a way, I hadn't experienced since my unfortunate court case some years ago."