Either Tara or Faith was about to find that out for certain. Normally, Tara would have been the most nervous as they made the card draw. But Faith still had a stinging butt from the paddling Cordelia had just given her. Tara wasn't 100% certain she could take a bare slippering, but it would have taken a bomb strike to stop her trying. She admired Buffy and liked the idea of being over her knee.
The two initiates repeated their method of picking up some of the deck but hiding what they had drawn so they could show their card together. Fred said "And the loser is..."
Tara's king trumped Faith's ten. Buffy moved to the spanker's chair and beckoned to Faith. "Looks like you lose the bottom half of your clothes now!"
Faith stripped off her pants. Half-naked again (this time the other half) she prepared to place herself over Buffy's lap. This was going to be a reckoning that had been a long time coming. Whenever they had fought during Faith's evil past, Buffy had won. But since the last time, Faith had tried to kill (or to steal) Angel. Buffy knew Faith had reformed, but still felt she had a score to settle.
Faith assumed the position over Buffy's knee. The blonde looked at the bare bottom, well deserving of punishment, being presented to her. "I hope that lotion is working well" she remarked, "because I'm going to give you a good hard slippering, well overdue".
Fortunately, the cold cream had indeed done a good job, and Faith's butt was settling towards a warm tingling. But that changed very quickly. The first whack of the slipper onto her bare skin confirmed its effectiveness as an instrument of discipline. With its thick sole, it was almost as heavy as a sports shoe, and it stung like blazes! Faith gave a groan whose tone was like an "Oh no!" as she became fully aware of the difficulty of the penalty she had to undergo.
"Fifty smacks" said Buffy. She decided to make one concession to her victim's sore butt, namely to spank quickly so it would be over soon. But with another slayer over her knee, Buffy felt no reason to hold back her full strength. Fred called out the numbers as the slipper fell.
Whack, whack, whack! As Buffy kept up the pace with the slipper and Faith gasped and winced, Buffy began to hum a tune happily. "Isn't this fun?" she asked her unfortunate victim.
"Yes. Ouch! But it'd be more fun.. Oww!.. the other way round. Oooww!" Faith appreciated the fast spanking, since she wanted that fiftieth whack to come ASAP. But now the sting of each smack was merging into the next, and her bottom was hurting continuously - and quite a lot. She began to writhe around and made a continuous high-pitched growl through gritted teeth.
As the slippering reached the 35 mark, she thumped the floor with a fist, willing herself not to roll off of Buffy's lap or put her hands back to protect herself. It was a great show for the others, watching this strong young woman enduring her penalty, especially in the childlike over-the-knee position.
When Fred called out "Fifty!", Faith made no attempt to leap up, but just relaxed exhausted over Buffy's lap and said "Thank God!"
Buffy called out in mock alarm: "Medic, medic! Emergency!". Willow laughed as she ran forward with more of the soothing cream. Cordelia looked at the color of the victim's bottom and joked "Hmm, a dark super-hero with a red butt! Maybe you should fight that way all the time. Didn't you tell us about fighting vampires naked one time?"
"Really?" asked Tara eagerly. She was gaining confidence in the other women, and knew they had already seen enough evidence to guess that her sexual preference was absolute. "Hmmm, maybe you should both fight in the buff, Buffy." She paused dreamily for a moment, then said "OK, I'm back!" Amid the laughter, even Faith grinned in her upended position.
Buffy took Faith's stillness as willingness to have the lotion applied by someone else this time, and tended to her old rival's backside. Then she helped her victim up off her lap. "You can have a rest now" she said soothingly. "Since you've taken two penalties in a row, there'll be no card draw. Tara must take the next test, from Willow."
Tara looked at Willow and swallowed. They had said the initiation tests would get stronger each time. Tara had seen enough to know these kinky but fun-loving women could be trusted. She had met Willow at a Wiccan meeting, and that had led to Willow inviting her to join. "Willow is very nice", she thought, "but what painful thing is she going to spank me with?"
