Natalie unlocked the door to her house and Adrian Monk behind her still begging. He told her she had to bathe him tonight after last night's horrific encounter. He dropped the washcloth in the tub and as he quickly went to catch it ... he saw himself. His bare manhood. After that he washed his eyes for five minutes, enduring the hot water and eye-friendly soap to bypass the stinging; though he felt he should endure the stinging for having such an event to have had happened. He finished bathing himself with his eyes closed.
"Mr. Monk, I am not going to bathe you." Natalie said wishing he would drop this. She couldn't believe this. It's one thing to hand him wipes, brush dirt or whatever off of his shoulders or back of his coat, attend crime scenes and be in some life endangering situations, not to mention all the other phobias and inhibitions. But bathing him! she kept playing the suggestion over and over in her mind.
"Natalie!" Monk followed her like a lost, hungry puppy, hint of plea in his voice. "You don't understand! I can't take that risk again. You don't know the trauma of me seeing myself, in such -- such a degrading, pornographic way. I was naked!" Monk whimpered.
"You were in the bathtub just as everyone else does when they bathe. It isn't degrading." Natalie faced him and stood her ground about this.
"But I saw myself naked, my, you know. . .it." He whispered the last word, hoping she knew what he meant and would do this for him now.
"No!" She said again for the umpteenth time. "Think about it, it is clean for being in all that scalding hot water and bacterial killing soap. See? It's actually clean!" She tried her best to persuade him off of the subject.
"No, Natalie. No. You don't get it," slumping down on the couch in Natalie's living room. "It's always dirty. I can feel it on me, on my eyes when I see it. I washed my eyes for five minutes!" He yelled out to her in the kitchen where she is fixing herself leftovers. "I'll just stop bathing!" Natalie put everything back in the refrigerator and stormed in the living room in front of Monk.
"Get up and get in the bathroom now!" Pointing her slender finger in the right direction for him. "Hurry up, before I open the vacuum bag and throw dust all over you!"
He quickly got up and went to the bathroom as directed. Waiting for Natalie to get in. She came in right behind him and closed the door, turning the water on to allow the tub to fill up. "Strip down!" Natalie told him.
"In front of you? Natalie --" he was cut off.
"Take your clothes off now!" Figure if he is going to have hang ups about all this she will rid him of it. "Don't make me ask you again. I will do it myself." Swallowing hard, Monk slowly took his coat off, following his shirt. One slow button at a time. "Hurry up, you have until the tub fills up and I will be doing it myself."
Right before the water was near the top Monk was naked in front of Natalie. Holding his hands where he cannot be seen by her. Natalie bent down to turn the water off and pointing at the tub full of water. "Get in now. And, I mean it, do not make me say it again."
Monk stepped in the hot water and, still covering himself, he sat in the water. Staring up at her, he asked, "How are you going to start this? I usually pour the water on my head ten times, because you know ten is--" being cut off by Natalie again.
"I know, I know! I am going to pour water on your head one time, and one time only! I will then proceed to put shampoo and wash your hair. After that I am pouring water on your head until all the shampoo is out of it! Not ten times. Not twenty times. As many times as it takes!"
"Natalie, I think you are being ridiculous here."
"Me!?" Natalie dumped water over his head.
Natalie finished washing his hair and any time he was near saying something she would shoot him a glance that could freeze the very hot water he is sitting in. Right before she began to wash his body he once again stopped her for instruction, despite her stares.
"Natalie there are those yellow rubber gloves you can use to wash my body with in the kitchen. Just put rubber bands around them to keep from the bathwater going in and out of them."
"Nope," was all she said, squeezing the bottle of liquid body soap in her hand.
"W-What about the washcloth?"
"Nope."