Domination Games The Spring Games - Event 2 "The next event, honored members, is the 100 meter dash. The course runs from the marker over there," he indicated a slave holding up a "Start" sign. The Start was about 25 yards from the front of the stands. "to there.", directing their attention to another slave, about 25 yards on the other side of the stands. His sign said "Turn-about". "The starting line is also the finishing line." The course kept the slaves in full view the entire race. The racers ran directly past the crowd on each leg. "The last two finishers are eliminated. As an additional challenge, our runners will carry the stool that they have won for their owners in the previous event. Since we do not want these gifts soiled or damaged, we will be forced to disqualify any contestant who drops hers. And how shall it be carried? Why, in the very manner the gifts are now held, of course. Touching the stool or any part of it with anything other than their, ahhhh, netherparts will also be grounds for disqualification." He grinned at this witticism, then turned to the Mistress in Charge. "Mistress, please herd the slaves to the starting line." The Mistress acknowledged the order and got the group moving with snapping touches of her crop to their hips and exposed backsides. Normally, any strokes given a contestant were only for show since each owner wanted to win and did not want unfair disadvantages imposed on his slave. However, Mistress Stephanie was a colleague and friend of Rayna, and Gemma felt that she might have gotten just a little more of Mistress' crop than the others on the jog to the starting line. None of the women wanted to move too fast and take the chance of losing their hold on their owners' "gift", so all had gotten at least one stroke along the way. Although the plug's size made movement very uncomfortable, Gemma was now glad she had gotten it. She had seen this particular race run before. The easiest dildoes to get inside an asshole were the ones that came out just as easily. Her competition all seemed to be in comparatively good condition. Slaves aren't allowed to get sloppy. However, only a couple of them looked like they would be any competition for her in a race. Running was her preferred exercise. She often ran twenty five to thirty five miles a week. She even used running in some of her scenes with her slaves. She loved chasing naked slaves through the park, late at night when the chance of being caught was minimal. She had no worries in this event, even though that damned plug felt like it was inflating. It seemed to be stretching and irritating her tender anal passage more with passing second. The women went into the starting blocks. The Cabal's specially designed blocks locked onto the runner's ankles with spring-loaded, steel shackles. The 'starter's gun' triggered them back open to start the race. The other special feature of the starting blocks replaced sound of the starting pistol. Once the women raised their bottoms up into the starting position, matched rattan canes were aimed, cocked and latched. When the starter pulled the trigger, the same firing mechanism as the ankle irons simultaneously released the canes striking each woman just below the saddle stools held clenched in the nine asses, in that sensitive crease between buttock and thigh. "Take your Mark, Get Set, .... GO!". The final word was punctuated by a loud >crack!< as nine canes simultaneously made solid contact with nine tightly stretched bottoms. A starting pistol firing blanks could not have been any louder. One or two indignant squeals were heard, but most of the women did not waste the breath. Gemma's size was translated into a slower start off the blocks than some of the other women, particularly blondie and a very petite Asian woman, both of whom ran like experienced sprinters. Gemma's long legs and strength made up for the slow start and she was back with the leaders before they had passed the stands. The plug, completely unlubricated now, was hurting with each stride, but she pressed on and was solidly in second place at the turn. The slowdown and quick shift of direction at the turn was blondie's undoing. She planted her foot for the turn, momentarily relaxing certain muscle groups. The smooth, small dildo popped free, before she could clamp back down to retain it. Gemma had to hurdle over the fallen stool, but her own plug remained tightly seated. Gemma coasted in from there, taking third place and advancing to the next round. The only event where victory would count would be the last one today and the 'big game' tomorrow. What counted now was not losing and maintaining her endurance for the next event. The two losers included one of the slaves that Gemma knew from past meetings of the Cabal and another of the new members. The Mistress in Charge told them they could remove their saddles. Three male slaves led the losers and blondie off to the holding room to be prepared for the upcoming evening's entertainment. The saddle hurt Gemma more, when she extracted it. Her asshole was very tender. It would be a vulnerability for her, at least for the rest of the day. She'd have to be careful during the other games to ensure none of the women exploited that weakness. She looked up to see the slut who had not lubricated her watching her and smirking at her discomfort. She'd have to watch that one, Gemma thought. She may have purposely not lubricated Gemma's ass to gain the advantage. Memories 2 The women were each given a squeeze bottle of tasteless green fluid and were told to rest in the grassy area near the finish line while the next event was set up. Gemma's remaining opponents were quick to take the offer. Gemma remained standing, stretching her muscles to relax them from the strain of the sprint and the butt plug. Her fellow players seemed no worse for wear, although a couple were still breathing relatively hard and were slick with sweat. Gemma considered entering Alex in the Fall Games, the counterpart to these games for the males. His knee was far stronger now than it had been, and would be as close to fully recovered as it would ever be by then. Besides, it wasn't as if it was the purely athletic aspects that would challenge Alex. She could still remember the first times with Alex. Each of those personal, intense milestones: the first therapy session, the first spanking, the first date, the first session in her dungeon. Each was as clear in her memory as if those two years had been only two days. They'd been good years. He had arrived early at the center and had been directed to her office by the staff therapist on duty. She had reviewed his record, discussed the original therapy plan and his extraordinary progress to date. Alex had sat quietly throughout the meeting, answering direct questions in a respectful manner, meeting her gaze directly and openly, but without offering anything of his own to the agenda. When she asked if he had any questions, he replied, "When do we start?" She remembered asking why he did not ask the standard question which was when would he be fully recovered. His quiet, confident response "Because I already know. I will finish healing when I have hurt enough and worked hard enough to finish healing." That therapy session had been grueling. He should not have been able to tolerate what he was doing to himself. He'd grimaced in concentration to control the pain, he did every exercise she asked without complaint, until she ordered a stop for the day. She'd asked if he enjoyed the pain and he had responded negatively. He lived with pain from the injury regardless of what he did. That being the case, he wanted to benefit from the pain rather than simply suffer with it. She promised him that he would always benefit from whatever hurt him in her charge. They progressed steadily over the next months. Friendship grew between them outside the confines of the therapy room, but when they entered those doors, the relationship changed. Gemma became more demanding, more stern, more bitchy. She would pummel him verbally, sometimes screaming in his face to get one more exercise repetition from him. If he minded, Alex never said so and it had never affected him outside of her "lair" as he came to call the room. About four months after she'd taken the case, a session went sour. She had bullied and driven him, but exercises he had been doing easily were beyond him that day. "You can't do it, Marino, I know you can't. I will even bet you that you can't do it." He'd snarled back at her "Name your stakes." She saw her opening. "Your pretty pink ass, little man. You lose and I give you the paddling of your life right on your bare butt." She watched him and waited to be told to go to hell, at the very least. She had acted in the emotion of the moment and the careful effort of four months could have been lost. He'd given her that long, considering look. "And if I win?" She tossed her head disdainfully and looked down at him from her height advantage. "I named my prize, you name yours." she'd snapped back, instantly regretting those words, too. Alex was a very powerful man for all his youth and lack of stature. She did not know if she wanted to trust his control and his inexperience if he decided he wanted to whack her bottom if he won. "I want to go out with you on a date." Her dismayed response amused him. "You really didn't know, did you? I am quite taken with the woman outside this den of horrors. I'd like to find out if there is something more there for us. I want to go out with you if I win. That's my prize." She had no choice but to agree. She wanted her chance at his tight bottom. In the end, she had won that bet. He had not been able to complete the exercises and she had told him to present himself at her home in the country that night for his spanking. As always, Alex was on time. Gemma had decided not to play the bitch goddess for that session. She had dressed casually, in jeans and a sweatshirt, for his arrival. She did not want to lose him on the first go-round if he overreacted to full latex or leather regalia. She was not yet that sure of him that she'd endanger her standing at the college. He might report her to the administration if he thought she'd gone too far. She was far enough out on a limb as it was. She decided she'd tackle that concern before they went any further. She thought she knew her man, thought she could trust him to keep his mouth shut, regardless of what happened tonight, but she had worked too hard at the college to lose it all. She offered Alex a drink and sat him down in her den. "You really don't have to go through with this, Alex. If it is going to come back on me later, it's not worth it no matter how much I may want to do this." "Want to do this?" His tone was amused and questioning. "What an interesting choice of words. Am I to infer that this is not something you regularly do to encourage your patients to greater efforts?" His tone was sardonic and it irritated her. In her best grand dame, Oxford tones she returned "You may infer whatever you please.", then in a more normal tone, "It is something I want to do and that I specifically want to do to you. Yes, I enjoy corporally correcting men with my hand, a strap, a paddle, even a whip. I am sexually dominant with all my partners and if you expect to be with me, to get to know me, you will have to get to know and learn to deal with that aspect of my personality." Her eyes turned black and her voice became husky. "The thought of your tight little butt turning pink then red under my hand and paddle, the idea of your eyes overflowing with tears excites me, thrills me. I want that and if we are going to go any further outside of my lair, I will have it." She stood up and walked to the fire place that was in front of his seat. "The choice is yours, really. You can finish that drink and leave now and we will have no further contact outside of the therapy room." She played what she thought might be her trump card. "Even that contact will end soon. You are far enough along that a less demanding therapist will be all you need to keep you from overdoing. If you want me, you have to take all of me, and this" She picked up a long, brightly shining black leather paddle with a polished wooden hand grip from the hearth and held it up for his inspection, "This is a very big part of me. Are you man enough to take what I want to give you?" Surprisingly, Alex merely smiled. "There is no need to prod my ego, Dr Thomas. I would not have come if I wasn't ready to pay my debt in the currency you demand. I think that you know me well enough to know that I will not betray you regardless of how this turns out tonight." Setting his drink aside, he stood up. "I am ready when you are." She set her own drink down. "Then strip from the waist down, to the skin, Alex. Fold your clothes neatly and put them on that chair in the corner. Since you can't kneel with that knee, I want you to go stand in the corner over there like the bad little boy you are. When I come back, I expect that you will be standing there with your shirt tail up and your pretty ass presented for my inspection. If you aren't in that corner in the condition I have just specified when I return, don't be in the house at all." With that she whirled and stalked from the room, without looking back. Her heart was pounding wildly. She hoped against hope that he would still be there when she returned. She was dismayed to realize just how much she wanted him to stay, how much she wanted him to learn to challenge her and the pain she would give to him. For the first time in her life, she did not honestly know if she could exile him from her life and that bothered her, too. She changed into a tight, short skirted lycra dress and four inch tall high heels. Sexy, eye catching, maybe even a little risque, but not so fetishistic that he would be turned off or frightened, but still giving her the freedom of movement she hoped that she would need. Taking a deep breath, she walked regally into the room. He was there, standing in the corner, his bare butt colored by the dancing light and shadow of the nearby fire. She nearly crowed with exultation at seeing him there, waiting for HER! The scars on his right leg seemed to glow blood red in the firelight. She picked up her paddle and walked to the chair in front of the fire, and seated herself. She called him to her. It was the first time she had seen his penis. He was partially erect, a very respectable specimen, she thought. He was not unaffected by the sexuality of humbly presenting himself to her. To protect his injured knee, she bent him forward over the back of a large, overstuffed easy chair, his face in the seat. The position brought him up on tiptoe, his skin pulled tight across the hard muscles of his buttocks. She seated herself on the arm of the chair, the paddle languidly swinging back and forth between the arm of the chair and his face. She reached behind him to stroke his scrotum teasingly, and began to speak very softly, very gently. "This is a first spanking for you under the loving guidance of a strong woman, Alex. There are some rules. First, when I correct or dominate you, you will refer to me as Mistress, because that is what I am, the Mistress of your fate. Second, you will always present yourself fully to the blow, straining for it, welcoming it. If you don't, I will order you to do so. Failure then will incur added penalty strokes. Finally, I will expect you to ask for each blow and count it for me. Do you understand and will you comply?" "Yes." "Yes - WHAT!?" The hand that had been stroking his scrotum latched onto his testicles, squeezing, still gently, but enough to assure him that she could and would squeeze harder. "Yes, Mistress, I understand and will comply." "Very well, since this is the first spanking, we will limit you to only a dozen stokes across the buttocks with one to be good and one to grow on." She smiled grimly at her joke. "If you were more advanced, I might also paddle your thighs, but neither you nor your knee are ready for that. Also, since this will not be a very demanding test, I will not give you a safety word. You either accept the full count without moving or trying to resist me or you may leave as we discussed before. Ask for the first, Alex." He did and she struck. The paddle landed with a loud splat sound. The second's sound was sharper. He had tensed his buttocks in preparation for that blow. She varied the strikes, right - left, top - bottom, swinging the paddle with her considerable strength, covering his ass cheeks with the red splotches that grew together to form one, large mass of red color from cheek to cheek, top to bottom. The last two bonus strokes were the hardest and nearly broke him. She heard him sobbing, muffled by the cushions of the chair. She had to order him to present for the last one, the one to grow on. He met her challenge and took the blow. She had been amazed. Normally a new submissive broke into tears by the fifth or sixth strike on her initiation spanking. None had lasted beyond the ninth before Alex. She ordered him to stay in position and left the room. She brought back a jar containing a soothing cold cream that she rubbed into his flaming bottom, all the while praising him for his fortitude and courage. When she let him up, he asked if he could leave. She gave him back his clothes and left the room to give him the privacy he would need to get the pants back over the painful parts of his anatomy. When she returned, he was gone, without saying another word. She was not surprised, but she was strangely disappointed. It was only after he'd left that she realized she had not made him orgasm. She had been so carried away in the shear high of controlling him that she had failed to give him any reason to return. She always brought a first timer to orgasm after a spanking so that the last memory of the session was one of intense sexual pleasure and not one of the intense pain and humiliation of the paddling at her hands. In her rage at herself, she threw her favorite paddle across the room where it bounced twice and landed in the fire. She stood there, watching the treated leather flare, and burn to ashes that seemed to match the taste of self disgust in her mouth. The next day, he missed therapy for the first time and for three days after that. He still needed daily therapy and would continue to need it for some time to come if he was to fully recover. She decided she had gone too far. She had mixed her business with her pleasure and the result was endangering the recovery of a patient who came to her for help. She would have to swallow her own desires and call him, offer him the option of another therapist to finish his treatment. Her professional ethics demanded that she not be a barrier to him receiving the help he still needed. It was the first time she had read someone so wrong and it hurt. More than she would have expected because she always known she would fail with someone from time to time. The fifth day, Alex was waiting for her in her office when she arrived at the clinic. The sight of him stopped her momentarily and she gaped at him when she realized he was there. She walked past him quickly, beckoning him into her office and closing the door behind him. "I expect that, as a minimum, you've come to demand a new therapist. I've already made the arrangements. You start with her on Monday. I thought I would have to track you down today so I did not plan for her to start today, but we can check to see if she's free, for a meeting if nothing else." Gemma realized she was blathering. Alex lifted a single blond eyebrow. "What the hell are you talking about?" "Why, your reassignment, of course. I went too far, too soon and I guess I'm sorry for that. I understand that you don't want to work with me anymore, but you have to work with someone. I can't have that failure hanging over me, too." "I don't want another therapist. I want you. I had to resolve some things in my head." He gave her the look, again and she looked away. "I had to answer the questions you asked me that night, before you .... well, before you spanked me. I don't know if I can take it. I've slept on my stomach and have done everything else standing up since then. All I do know that you have become very important to me, far beyond what we do in the lair. I have to try and accept the rest of you, just like you said. All parts of you. I think I love you and I have to find out what that means." Gemma stared at him. "You don't want to love me, Alex. I am almost ten years older than you and I can be the most thorough going bitch. That night is just the merest of samples. Men suffer at my hands. I challenge their most basic strengths and weaknesses during my tests and sessions. My man, the man I accept as my mate, well, he will suffer more. He will continually challenge me and prove himself to me. I will prove myself to him. I am a dominant and I like it that way, so don't expect me to change." Alex gave her a lopsided grin. "Kinda figured that out for myself, lady. The age doesn't matter. My right leg is effectively twenty years older than you right now. I know that loving you is not the most intelligent thing I have ever done in my life. I spent the last few days with the same argument, trying to talk myself out of my feelings. Didn't work. I have to try. Are you willing to help me? I figure this is something I have to learn, just like wrestling. You have to fight the pain out there on the mat, too." Gemma nodded as she swallowed to regain control of her voice. "If you are sure." He gave her a quiet nod. "Well, if you are going to be trained, you will need a safety word so that you can tell me when the session is going too far for you. I can tell you right now that some will. A safety word stops the activity in progress, sometimes the session, Alex. Sometimes, with someone like me, it can also end the relationship. Use yours carefully. I think "white tail" will do nicely." She smirked at the thought. "It will be the only 'white tail' you'll have so long as you are with me." She saw him frown and hurried to fill in the silence. "We'll go at a pace you can stand. I won't hazard your recovery. And I will always explain. I am severe, Alex. This is not a game with me. I will cause you pain so that you can challenge it, overcome it and defeat it. We will be great together." Her eyes glittered at the thought. "Now, let's go hit the lair. You have work to make up." Their first date occurred shortly after that. He won the bet that time. She agreed to go as long as they went into the city where she wasn't known. When he arrived, she was a walking object lesson in what he could expect when she was put out with him. She was in full form. She wore a black leather mini dress over a see through black blouse that showed the white lace bra beneath. She wore black seamed stockings and her highest heels, giving her an almost ten inch height advantage over her suitor. She expected him to stammer or blanche when confronted by her. He did neither. He took her to a nice little Italian restaurant and then dancing at a club. They drew stares, but only because she was so tall and striking, and through it all, Alex was the perfect gentleman. Attentive, interesting, intelligent and he intrigued her. He insisted on dancing all the slow dances with her (his leg was not up to the faster ones, yet) and showed no indication of embarrassment at being towered over by his date. He took her home, escorted her to her door and asked her if she wanted him to check the house for her. She declined, pointing out that she always came home to an empty house. As she turned to go in, Alex scooped her up into his arms, balancing most of the weight on his good leg, so that her head was at his level. Then he kissed her hard and deep, set her back on her feet, and left a very confused dominatrix behind him. She accelerated his therapy because she wanted him in her dungeon, kneeling at her feet. He could not kneel for any length of time until almost a year after she had first met him. The first session in the dungeon included a twenty minute strapping, kneeling over her whipping block. Alex could not drive home after that session, could not sit for almost a week. She had been afraid that she had gone too far again, but still he had stayed. She had kept him in her bed so that he would not sneak away. It was the first time they had slept together and the first time they were in any way sexually intimate outside of the clearly defined boundaries of a scene. Sexual release had been a part of their sessions for a long time. He had performed extended cunnilingus and she had either masturbated him or overseen him performing the deed himself. This was the first time they had been together without the impetus of the dominance and submission that marked their only other experiences. Alex had been in no shape to make regular love. His backside, hips and knee were too sore. But, as Gemma had been quick to point out, his tongue wasn't hurt. Merely inept, she had told him afterwards. He still had a lot to learn about the subtleties of proper oral worship of a woman. She looked forward to overseeing and benefiting from the instruction. So did he. She also looked forward to administering the penalties for faulty service.