As Stubborn As They Come
"Come here," Greg said.
"No," Jen answered, defiantly.
"Come here NOW. You're just making it worse for yourself," Greg said sternly, with that LOOK in his eye, as he moved toward her just a bit.
"I won't. You can't make me! So there!" Jen stuck her tongue out at him, immediately wondering what made her do it.
Greg grabbed Jen's arm and pulled her to him. "That's it, you're getting spanked, good and hard, and there's nothing you can do about it!"
"No, no, no! I won't and you can't, and I don't care," she exclaimed, wondering who had taken over her mouth.
Greg pulled her over to the bed and all but threw her over his lap. He ripped her pants and panties down, revealing her naked, quivering, and for the moment, pale bottom. Jen kicked, flailed, and yelled, making controlling her a real ordeal. Greg wondered what possessed her. She usually wasn't this defiant once a spanking was inevitable.
Greg started spanking Jen, hard, as she fought. She squealed and thrashed, forcing him to put his leg over hers to keep her in position. She fought with everything in her, not understanding why she was doing it, but feeling compelled. She knew it would make the spanking much worse, but she couldn't stop herself.
He spanked and spanked her. He switched from hand to hairbrush, hoping that the much harder spanking would break through her defenses. Her bottom was red and becoming darker with each smack. He wondered how long she could hold out.
Jen wondered what forced her to fight him. It wasn't like her to be this way, but she felt this NEED to do it, to be very, very punished. She could barely stand the resounding painful spanks, and knew that her bottom must be a never before seen shade of red. She just couldn't give up yet.
Greg picked up the paddle and started spanking her thighs. Jen yowled at the new assault. She thought the spanking would never end, and she'd be over his knee for eternity. She was frustrated and felt so helpless. She couldn't escape his grasp, no matter how hard she fought. She pounded her fists on the bed in a fit of utter frustration, and let out an exasperated bellow. She finally gave in, defeated, allowing him to spank her into complete submission. She cried then, and was under control once again.
Greg spanked her for a while longer, wanting to make sure that she really was over her fit of obstinacy. Then he helped her up, and held her in his arms as she cried.
"I'm sorry," Jen sniffled into his shirt.
"That's okay, I think I took care of that little stubborn streak of yours. You just tend to forget that I'm even more stubborn than you are, and I'll keep spanking you till you decide to let go."
"Promise," Jen asked in a small voice.
"I promise. I'll ALWAYS be more stubborn than you," Greg said with a big grin.
Emma Jane email
Like the description of her internal struggle to submit, something that resonated very much with me. And it reminded me of the importance of trust between people playing in that head space. She trusts him to be patient with her, giving her what she needs, and he trusts her to eventually submit. A really nice story.
Barrister
While not a big fan of bratting in real life spanko relationships, it does have its place. The author is clearly a master at bratting and I would love to witness her being broken of her stubbornness as the character in the story was. There is something beautiful about the struggle between a brat and his/her top that is fun to watch.
Crimson Kid email
A very superficial reading of this story might result in the conclusion that it features the most primal 'imbalance of power' of all, that of a physically more powerful person imposing his will upon a resisting but weaker one via the pure application of superior strength--in this case that the male spanker (Greg) was chastising the female spankee (Jen) against her will, something demonstrated by her spirited but nonetheless ineffectual verbal and physical resistance to being corporally punished.
However, this narrative is actually about a playful spanking-oriented dominance/submission game, one that ironically only the female bottom can initiate--so in a sense it's her prerogative as to whether the 'resist/overpower' scenario is played out or not. (The male top may decide that he's going to spank his romantic partner, he controls that decision--obviously as part of a voluntary power exchange between the two of them--but if she chooses to cooperate then their 'resist/overpower' interaction with its foregone conclusion doesn't occur, although the spanking still would.)
I would quibble semantically that not much is proven about relative stubborness when the physical situation is so clearly one-sided--in both RL and spanking-oriented literature, the person wielding the instruments of corporal correction (hairbrush and paddle in this story) has an overwhelming advantage over the bare-bottomed recipient of the punishment. Reverse the top/bottom roles and I'd figure that Jen, even being physically less imposing than Greg, wouldn't have much trouble eventually 'breaking him down' and therefore proving her supposed superior stubborness. (I'll concede that there may be extremely rare exceptions, but IMHO overall the spanker in a situation like this is going to be proven "more stubborn" at least 98% of the time.)
Of course it's really a consensual game, not an effective and objective test of individual will power (stubborness), and the spanking roles are one-way (M/F) so that the male disciplinarian will invariably 'overpower' his 'resisting' female victim. Is such a voluntary understanding still an 'imbalance of power' situation? I don't see why not...
sarah nada email
I'm not sure how I feel about the bratting element of this story, but the spanking is very very nice. I like the buildup to the seemingly inevitable conclusion, and the obvious affection between the characters. Well paced and satisfying.