[Readers will likely find this story more enjoyable if they have read the earlier chapters. This story takes place in the Women's Republic of the future where women are in charge. You can read more about it in my series, "A Very Shameful Punishment". These stories include subjects such as bodily functions and sometimes severe discipline. Those who do not want to read about those topics should read no further. All characters are over 18. My thanks to Susan Greenway for graciously permitting me to use some of her characters in this series.]
Jan had Kate with her when she returned to the local re-education center to pick up her own punishment uniform. She realized she was setting herself up for some major embarrassment—even right now—when she had allowed her 18-year-old stepdaughter to discipline her.
When Jan married into the family, she learned soon that Steve's late wife, Gloria, had ruled the roost. Her husband, Steve, and the three grown children, Deirdre, 25, Steve Jr., 23, and Kate, 18, had all been dominated by Gloria, a flashy blonde who obviously was a natural take-charge type. Kate was the only one who had some strong backbone and an incipient tendency to take charge.
Jan liked seeing this characteristic for while she herself was dominant, she didn't want to always be the one doling out the discipline, as Gloria apparently had been doing for a long time. Kate had just been initiated into the family formal discipline meeting when she turned 18. Jan also learned that after the punishment was carried out, the family moved en masse into Gloria and Steve's massive bed for sex galore.
Kate was new to that, although she showed no reluctance to join in. Jan, too, had only been dimly aware of this before Steve and she were married. She liked it but again, didn't want to always be in command. Under the Women's Republic, she was of course the "responsible woman" of the household and thus in charge formally.
However, she had brought Kate to the center to receive disciplinary training and now would involve her as she had in letting her handle Deirdre's disciplining earlier. They arrived at the center and oth CPL Georgia, who had assembled the punishment uniforms for the family on Jan's first visit, and SFC Linda, the noncom in charge who had conducted Kate's training, were present and smiled at seeing Jan and Kate.
"Back so soon?" CPL Georgia greeted them with a smile. Jan kept smiling herself, but then managed to respond, "Yes, we've decided that I should get one of the uniforms, too."
"You're the responsible woman, right?" CPL Georgia asked, somewhat confused.
"Yes," Jan responded, "but sometimes I need to be taken in hand, and my stepdaughter here was well trained by the Sergeant and will be able to deal with that."
"That's quite admirable," the auburn-haired and highly attractive SFC Linda chimed in. "We all do well to recognize that we do all have the need to be corrected on occasion."
SFC Linda drew on her own experience. She had been disciplined in the Correctional Service on more than one occasion but now had risen to where she was a ranking noncom and was the highest-level one here. 1LT Susan was the center commander and placed great reliance on SFC Linda, especially since she had been in the cadre of the special unit at Correctional Service headquarters that dealt with service members who earned discipline as the price of their continuing to serve.
Kate handed CPL Georgia the measurements she had taken for Jan and the corporal disappeared to gather the clothing.
"Have you been disciplined yet?" SFC Linda asked Jan.
Jan blushed but manage to answer that she had just that day allowed Kate to take charge of her.
"I behaved badly," she said, "so I decided to submit to a spanking. It evolved into my being caned as well. I think I benefited from the experience, because now I have more awareness of what it feels like to be in that position."
"It's good," SFC Linda told her. "You know that I served at the special unit that corrects Correctional Service officers who are in danger of being cashiered. Well, I was taken on staff there after having earlier been sent there by a center commander who felt I had earned that award."
Jan looked surprised. "I didn't realize that the Service had its own system for that," she said slowly.
"Yes," SFC Linda responded. "It is quite serious and those sent there know that it is their last chance before being ousted in disgrace. Most fear and dislike it, but I now appreciate that it gave me the correction I needed, and since then, I have advanced without further interruption.
"I know that you do training here, as you did for Kate," Jan said, "and of course you deal with men who have been sent for re-education by the responsible woman in their household. And then I've known one woman who sent her husband here to be placed in a re-education camp. But do you provide anything for women in my position?"
"Yes," SFC Linda answered. "I can put you through the senior advanced training. We don't get asked for it much but I can assure you that you will benefit if you do it."
Jan discussed it a bit more and Linda put her down for a two-day stay at the center in three weeks' time.
CPL Georgia returned with the punishment uniform for Jan, all packaged neatly.
Jan and Kate both thanked her and SFC Linda, and Jan smiled as she said she looked forward to her training.
After they left, Linda told CPL Georgia that getting the chance to train Jan was going to be good for the center because if she emerged pleased, even after undergoing the rigorous two-day session, word would spread among other responsible women in the area with whom Jan socialized, to the benefit of the center.
