Into the future - Anna's adventure (for Renton)

[justmedk]

Anna didn't know when she realized it was over. It was certainly some time after the actual point in time when Angel stopped, but for several moments that felt like an eternity, Anna was not present mentally in the real world. She was in an alternate dimension, one of pain and tears, but also one of relief and catharsis, somehow. It wasn't until she felt herself being lifted off Angel's lap that she found herself transported back to the present, just in time to feel the horrible sting of the impact of her sore bottom on Angel's lap.

She howled again, but made no effort to get up. Quite the contrary, she almost threw her arms around Angel and clung to her like a shipwreck clings to a piece of driftwood, as she cried and blabbered apologies in a mixture between Danish and English.
When Angel started to gently rock her, Anna instantly relaxed more. It wasn't something she could control, and in her more "cool" moments would probably be embarrassed about having "acted like a baby". But right now, she didn't care much about "cool". All she cared about was whether or not she was back in Angel's favour. And when she heard the sincerity in the woman's reassurances of that fact, Anna sobbed again, somewhat louder, but a different kind of sobbing: That of relief and cleansing.

It took a while, but eventually, Anna did calm down enough to come back to her senses, and realize that not only was she bare from the waist down, but this woman had seen her....everything, basically.... And she blushed crimson.

"I...I'm...I'm sorry for...*hickup*...for being a baby", she said whimpering, more than a little embarrassed at how she had taken her first spanking.

That's when it struck her: They weren't even at home, where they would have had privacy - she didn't think about the AI at the moment - but in a hotel.....

"E...everybody heardddd", she sobbed with embarrassment as she buried her face against Angel's shoulder, the thought of the entire hotel overhearing what had just happened simply too much for her to bear at the moment.

[Renton]

Angel hushed Anna as she sobbed about the hotel hearing. "These rooms have plenty of soundproofing. No one heard a thing. And I turned the AI's privacy mode on. No need to be unduly embarrassed." The woman could only shake her head as Anna apologized for crying during her spanking. "Don't be silly," she said in a tone much more warm than critical. "You should have seen me the last time I got spanked. I was 18 years old, and I cried more than you did! You needn't apologize for crying during a spanking. It's natural and expected."

It didn't occur to Angel that the thought of an 18 year old being spanked would be unusual to someone from Anna's time; Angel's assumption as it was was that it was unusual that a girl Anna's age had never been spanked before. While it wasn't common for spankings to be given at 18 in the present age, it wouldn't usually raise eyebrows, especially among Filipino families.

Once Anna fixed her clothing, Angel put her hands on the girl's shoulders and looked her in the eye. "All that happened before is behind us now. I'm not angry with you, and I fully trust that you will have learned your lesson." Angel gave Anna another hug and then saw the time. "Would you like to order in room service?" she asked. "It might be preferable to going out. There will be plenty of time to see the sights on Luna tomorrow."

[justmedk]

Anna quieted down eventually, wails turning into sobs turning into sniffles, and finally she gingerly got off Angel's lap and started rubbing her bottom before she realized that she was naked from the waist down.

She blushed crimson red and quickly pulled her panties and pants back up, letting out a quick sharp yelp of pain when the fabric covered her sore bottom, before continuing to rub as Angel looked at her, trying, and not quite succeeding, to avert her eyes, too embarrassed to really look Angel in the eyes at the moment.
But when Angel said that she was sure that Anna had learned the lesson, Anna quickly and eagerly nodded in a way that made her look younger than her 13 years, and she melted into Angel's hug, clinging to her tightly for a few moments.

Anna nodded when Angel asked about room service. She WAS getting hungry, but also didn't really want to go out now. She was certain she'd never, ever, be able to sit down comfortably again, and she didn't want to stand up and eat at a restaurant or something like that. That would be too embarrassing.

Anna lay on the bed until room service arrived and gingerly got up, looking at the chairs at the dining table in the room, and gulped. She didn't think they looked very soft, and she was right, as she carefully lowered herself onto one of them, and let out a hiss of pain when her sore bottom touched the chair.
She turned red as a tomato in the face and said

"S...sorry", as whispered as she, very, very carefully, pulled the chair with her on it towards the table, to eat.

[Renton]

Angel heard Anna's yelp as she sat down. "Oh, sorry dear. I have the seats set to firm. One sec. AI, privacy mode off. Can you seat Anna's seat to soft?"

Out of nowhere, a soft pad inflated on the chair, giving Anna a place to sit with significantly more cushion. "Is that better, sweetie?" Angel asked.

Angel ordered two servings of Pad thai for dinner, and they arrived just ten minutes later. Angel opened their hotel door and took the bag of food from the delivery bot. "Sorry for the wait. Thai food can take a bit of time to make. But this stuff is worth it, trust me."

The food was delivered, not in foam cartons, but shrink wrapped in vacuum sealed plates. Angel peeled off the seal, revealing a plate of noodles that was steaming hot and looked as if it had just been taken out of the pan, freshly made. She unpacked her own meal as well and sat down to eat. "I hope you like it. The only places that serve better pad thai than this on Earth are actually in Thailand."

Before they finished dinner, Angel checked the hotel room's bathroom and found they had a bottle of cooling moisturizer that would likely help make Anna's well-spanked bottom feel some relief, at least for the night. She made sure it was front and center on the bathroom sink so Anna would see it, but decided not to mention it; the spanking was in the past and Angel didn't want to call undue attention to it any longer in conversation.

After dinner, Angel suggested that Anna get ready for bed. Angel was more drained than she'd expected, and she hoped to have a good time with Anna the next day, so a lot of rest was necessary. When Anna was ready for bed, Angel helped tuck her in and sat on her bedside. "Let's have a great day tomorrow. There's so much to see up here and I'm really looking forward to showing you," she said. Angel smiled at Anna and nearly found herself stroking the girl's hair, like she was her own daughter. But Angel didn't allow herself to show that sort of maternal affection, not with Anna so closely removed from her separation from her real mother. But still, Angel couldn't deny that she felt a closeness to Anna, one that was unmistakable. If Anna was going to be in the... present, for the long haul, Angel knew after today that she wanted to be her guardian, in every respect.

[justmedk]

Anna couldn't help but blush crimson as Angel apologized, and then issued an order to the computer. But she also couldn't help but feel MUCH better when she felt the seating soften. She happily ate her dinner, though. It had been a long, and groundbreaking day in more ways than the literal one.

"This is awesome!", Anna said happily. She hadn't forgotten her sore butt, of course, how could she, but it was as if it didn't really matter right now. She could tell that Angel had meant it when she had said it was all in the past now, and that lifted Anna's spirit as much as anything. It was clear that she was back to her old cheery self, even if she still did reach back to rub her butt a few times, when she thought Angel wouldn't notice.

When she went to the bathroom after Angel had told her to get ready for bed, Anna noticed that bottle almost instantly, as if she had zoomed in on it, and took it and looked at it. She blushed crimson again.
It wasn't actually as if she had been "told" to go to bed, but in her present state, Anna didn't dare argue with Angel. She was quickly, albeit subconsciously, coming to see the woman as the mother figure she had never really had, and she did want to please her. So she had gone to the bathroom to get into her pyjamas, when she had seen the bottle on the sink.

Anna cringed, though why she couldn't tell, but did take her pants and panties off and start to apply the moisturizer to her sore hindquarters, feeling its effect instantly, and letting out an "aahhh" sigh of relief that was louder than she had thought it would be, which made her blush again.
It took her longer to "change into PJs" than it normally would have, and when she exited the bathroom she pretended that nothing had happened at all, before she crawled into bed.

Anna smiled up at Angel as she spoke to her, and nodded, instinctively grabbing a hold of Angel's hand as she stroked her hair, and as Anna started to relax completely. It didn't take long before the feel of Angel's hand in hers, and the gentle touch of the woman's other hand against her hair and head, made Anna slip away into the Dreamlands where all manner of things happen.

[Renton]

Once Anna was fast asleep, Angel smiled at the girl and leaned over, kissing her on the forehead. She then went to change into her own pajamas. That's when a message came over her comm unit.

It was her sister, Ariel. Angel pulled up holographic chat and a completely lifelike facsimile of Ariel appeared in her room. Ariel was 16, and unlike Angel she was fully Filipino; they were technically half-sisters. Angel's father had never married her mother, after all, and had eventually married a woman in his home city of Manila. Ariel was their only child, and Angel had gone out of her way to be in her sister's life as much as possible. She'd been a mentor and a friend and a full-blooded sister to Ariel all the girl's life, and even a disciplinarian from time to time. Numerous times over the years Ariel had ended up bare-bottomed on Angel's lap on the receiving end of a good spanking. From Angel's teen years as Ariel's babysitter to the last time she'd spanked Ariel just two months ago for getting too sassy and disrespectful during a visit, Angel was sometimes a parental figure to Ariel as well as a sister in that respect.

Ariel had long dreamed of following her sister's footsteps into the Navy. Like Angel, she was passionate about athletics, but whereas Angel's lean frame showed her passion for running, Ariel was curvy, with stout thick legs, the result of her love of competitive weightlifting. In fact, she'd gotten so good at weightlifting that she was being touted as a contender for the Philippine Olympic team in 2320 Games in Nova Atlantis (even though there was technically one major country now, the Olympics still used the older nationalities for tradition's sake).

"Angel, where the hell are you?" Ariel said.

Angel couldn't believe it. She'd forgotten her weekend with her little sister completely.

"Ariel, I'm so so sorry! I'm on the moon. Had to come here on... duty..." she said, not wanting to lie to her sister.

Ariel rolled her eyes but smiled. "It's OK. Next weekend will be better I hope."

"I promise you, I won't miss it. I'm so, so sorry!"

"It's okay, sis," Ariel said. "I know you're busy. Next Saturday morning, OK?"

"OK. I love you."

"Love you too."

Ariel signed off, and Angel bit her lip and fought off tears. She hated letting her sister down. She wiped her eyes and lay down in bed. She pulled out a book that was just a plain, undecorated hardcover with blank pages. "The Garden of the Reaper," she said, and suddenly the book transformed into an exact copy of that book, one of this year's bestsellers, was in her hands. The blank book had transformed. Angel still liked to read old-fashioned print books, but her portable reader was great for travel. Angel read for an hour before the drifted to sleep, her book still in her hands.

[justmedk]

Anna dreamt one of those dreams that seemed absolutely real while she was in it, and would so for a few moments after she awoke too.

She was in her own apartment back in her own time, but her parents weren't there. She was lying on her bed in her room reading "Hottest guys of 2017" in some magazine, but she thought that none of the guys pictured, fully clothed, were something to write home about.
It was then, that she heard Angel's voice from somewhere outside her room, and she couldn't help but smile as she heard it.

"Anna?", it called, and Anna got up and answered in Danish:

"Coming mom"

She exited the room, leaving the magazine behind, and came out into the kitchen where she was suddenly faced with her parents. For a moment there was a bit of panic in her, as she was preparing mentally for another shouting match with them, but she felt the panic instantly disappear when they faded from sight with looks of anguish and hurt on their faces.

Anna felt her panic change into anger, briefly, and then sadness.

"They...they don't know what happened", she says, and Angel appeared behind her

"Don't worry", she said, in a way that made Anna instantly relax. "I'll help you now".

Anna smiled, first sadly, then genuinely, and wrapped her arms around Angel pressing herself closely against her.

And then she woke up.


Anna yawned, and sat up in her bed, only to jump out of bed with a little yelp at the unexpected sudden sting as she sat on her still slightly sore bottom. It didn't have the burning intensity of last night, however, and a little rubbing made the sudden sting go into retreat. She wondered, though, when she'd be able to sit comfortably again. And she vowed never to do anything to earn her another spanking.

It was, she knew now, the most horrible thing that could happen to someone.

[Renton]

Angel spent the early hours of the next morning working out in her room. Siobhan had provided a portable treadmill, which folded into the size of a notebook for easy storage, allowing Angel to get her morning run in without leaving Anna alone in the hotel room. She was done by 6 am Standard Luna Time (same as Coordinated Universal Time, as well as Greenwich Mean Time). She then showered and went to the kitchen to make breakfast.

She had groceries delivered to that end and by 7 am she was working on a traditional Filipino breakfast: Fried rice, eggs, longganisa (a sweet, spicy Filipino pork sausage that she'd asked Siobhan to procure the evening before), and pandesal (puffy, golden brown bread rolls). It was quite a feast, the sort Angel rarely ate, given how pork sausage and fried eggs can hamper one's diet. But she felt like giving Anna a treat when she woke up, and before the girl had emerged from her room, Angel had laid everything out on the table in a picturesque display.

Once Anna came out of her room, Angel smiled and said "good morning." She'd set all the chairs around the table to extra soft; given how scarlet Anna's bottom was after Angel had spanked her, she'd still be feeling the sting this morning.

As they tucked into their meal, Angel decided to bring up her sister, Ariel.

"So, my sister called me and is planning to visit this week," she said. "She's 16, and as delightful a person as you'll ever meet. I... haven't told her that you're staying with me. And, well, if you aren't comfortable with visitors yet, I can put off her visit." Obviously, Angel loved her sister and wanted badly to see her, but she didn't want to make Anna more stressed than she already was.

[justmedk]

Anna exited the room she was sleeping in, and yawned again, pretending to not feel a thing, that...the thing....that had happened yesterday was old hat to her from the point of view of feeling the after-effects.
That illusion failed, though, when she sat down and winced visibly, though it wasn't anywhere near as bad as yesterday. She blushed and returned Angel's "good morning" with a shy smile, before she looked at breakfast on the table in front of her, and was unable to help herself smiling wider.

"Looks delicious!", she exclaimed happily and dug in. She listened to Angel talk about her sister, and could tell, just from the tone of voice and body language, that Angel loved and missed her sister. She swallowed a bit of breakfast and shook her head.

"Of course not!", she said, and then heard her mouth add before she could stop it "I've never had a big sister before".

She stopped herself, eyes widened in horror, her hands clasped over her mouth. "I..I mean....that....that'd be cool", she said, trying very hard to salvage the unsalvageable, turning red in the face like a tomato, before averting eye contact, not able to look Angel in the eyes at the moment.

But she also thought that simply running out would be rude.

[Renton]

Angel bit her lip when Anna slipped up, more out of concern for the girl's obvious embarrassment. Of course, it felt strange to be referred to in a familial context, but Angel was well-trained enough a soldier to hide it when she felt strange about something someone said.

"I think you two will get along beautifully," Angel said, hoping to move past the awkwardness quickly for Anna's sake. "Now eat up, sweetheart, we have a long and full day ahead of us!"

That morning, Angel checked her virtual itinerary and to her delight Siobhan had secured them reservations at just about every attraction they could cram into a day on the moon. There was the Moon Gravity Fun House, where the the moon's natural gravity was in place and you could bounce around on bungee cords to absurd heights.

There was also the beautiful Luna Botanical Garden, a lush indoor garden that was considered a wonder of the word on par with the Gardens of Babylon, humankind's greatest feat of botany, with lush plants from all over the world and a glowing "river" that you could ride on a tour of the entire facility.

And then there was Angel's favorite exhibit: Earthrise. It was simply a large, high capacity tower with a perfect view of the earthrise on the moon. Few things could completely take Angel's breath away, but watching the Earth rise from the moon was one of them. She'd seen it several times and every time it moved her to tears.

She described the planned events for the day to Anna and hoped the girl would be happy with her choices. She also showed Anna a list of other significant attractions, and told her to pick whichever she wanted. Angel was the sort of guardian who felt somewhat guilty about giving a spanking, no matter how well-deserved it was; whenever she'd spanked her sister, she always spoiled her the next day. She was happy to do the same for Anna.