This is part of the third act of Invasion of the Pussy Snatchers that focuses on the character Cassandra. I recommend you read Acts One and Two, the Intro to Act Three and Cassandra's Day before beginning this story. If you haven't read the parts focusing on Anna and Sherri yet, don't worry. Their stories all occur simultaneously to Cassandra's, so they may be read in any order. Once again, I have provided a cast of characters to help readers get up to speed if they haven't read this series in a while. Based on the length of this overall Act, I think readers understand why I broke this into five separate parts. In writing Cassandra's story I soon realized that just her part would end up being longer than Acts One and Two combined. Fearing that a single story would be too long and bloated to be enjoyed properly I have also decided to split Cassandra's story in Cassandra's Day and Cassandra's Night. Be sure to read Cassandra's Day first or Cassandra's Night won't make as much sense. Enjoy!
NOTE: Yes, I know that the governor of New York is not an attractive older woman. This is a fictional story set in an alternate universe, just roll with it and the story will be much more fun to read.
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Invasion of the Pussy Snatchers: Act Three (Cassandra's Night)
Setting: Albany, New York (Present Day)
Cast of Characters:
Cassandra: The protagonist of this series is a young professional in her late twenties. Cassandra has pale skin along with long brunette hair and brown eyes. She has a handsome face and a skinny, desirable body though she has always felt self-conscious about how small her breasts are in proportion to the rest of her. Cassandra doesn't fit the mainstream definition of attractive or sexy but there is something about her that both males and females find alluring. Cassandra works as a copy editor at a fashion magazine run by Catherine O'Hara. Cassandra fell under the sway of the Pussy Snatchers after resisting longer and harder than any of the other women that were converted. The Hive, which includes Cassandra's boss and coworkers, entrapped Cassandra and led her to being mind controlled by her friend Sherri. Under Sherri's influence, Cassandra is made to have sex first with Sherri and then with Cassandra's younger sister Anna. Sherri delivers the sisters to a mansion deep in the country wilderness where the Hive has its secret lair. Cassandra tries her hardest to resist again, but becomes filled with lust at the sight of the Hive's Queen. She has sex with the Queen and this act of copulation causes her to be assimilated into the Hive. Cassandra's mind and body belong to the Hive now. The Hive is a collection of women who have had their minds altered by the Queen to do her bidding. The process of Cassandra's assimilation is more involved than what her fellow Hivesisters experienced however, having had sex with the Queen multiple times rather than the one time her Hivesisters underwent. This has done something odd to Cassandra, something that makes her different from the others. She doesn't understand it yet, but she is changing. Becoming something more than human.
Catherine: Cassandra's boss at Fashionistas, a fashion magazine publication. She has long dark hair and green eyes, with a face that constantly looks sulky and irritated. Catherine O'Hara was once an internationally famous beauty model but now thirty years later she is the editor-in-chief of a highly respected fashion magazine. At fifty-five, her beauty has long since passed her by and she has added several unsightly pounds of fat to her body. Despite her age, Catherine dresses as if she were still a twenty year-old sexpot. Sherri uses Catherine's low self-esteem and painful loneliness to lure her to Hive while also promising that if Catherine joined them she would possess great power over other women. Catherine takes the Queen in her mouth and swallows the Queen's seedpod, changing her into a willing thrall to the Queen and her Hive. With an initiative to convert as many women as possible, Catherine manages to turn several women in her office to the Hive by threatening to fire them and then forcing her desperate employees to perform sexual favors for her so they can keep their jobs. Cassandra is able to resist Catherine's initial advances when Catherine offers her young copywriter a promotion in exchange for oral sex. But Catherine later sets her employee on the path of indoctrination into the Hive by tapping into Cassandra's BDSM fantasies and giving her employee a good, hard spanking as punishment for being late to work. The secretly kinky Cassandra was unable to resist bending over Catherine's desk and letting her boss turn her ass red and raw. With her position of power and influence in an industry that employs several women, Catherine is one of the Hive's most important and influential members.
The Queen: An extraterrestrial being of extraordinary power. Though her body is not human, she identifies as a female. Her true form is unknown because she is a shapeshifter who appears to humans as a middle-aged woman with dark hair. Her body is absolutely flawless, with perfectly geometrical curves calculated to stimulate the most desire in humans and enough flesh on her breasts, thighs, and buttocks to appear shapely but not overweight. Her face and skin has not a single blemish or imperfection. Through sex, she releases a pod that embeds itself in her partner's bodies. The pod that the Queen produces bends the minds of women to her will and connects their consciousness to an overall hive mind. The assimilated women generate their own imitation of the Queen's otherworldly allure called the Essence. It is this dangerously addictive secretion that lures unsuspecting women into the clutches of the Hive. The Queen's goals are currently unknown, but she has been assimilating every woman she can get her "hands" on and her only clear aims are for expansion.
Day Eight: Evening
Cassandra looked out the window as the limousine came to a stop outside of the Governor's Mansion. Bright yellow Christmas lights hanging from the balconies and red brick rafters illuminated the dark autumn evening. Yellow, red, and orange colored spotlights pointed from the grounds to the house, providing an ample amount of light with colors befitting a Fall night. While a few attendees stood outside conversing while drinking cocktails and smoking cigars, most of the activities were taking place inside. Celebrities, politicians, and the wealthy elite of New York had all gathered at the governor's annual charity gala. It was $5000 just to get in the door, but thankfully Catherine had covered the cost for both her and Cassandra.
Catherine and Cassandra had dressed to the nines and hired a limousine for the three hour drive to Albany. While their hair was being done, Catherine sent Naomi to Cassandra's apartment to pick up her things and a dress that been purchased and fitted just for Cassandra to wear tonight. Cassandra had been surprised to find the Queen selected the green dress herself. It looked exquisite, and it was easy to see why the Queen had chosen it with the way the material separated and then wrapped around Cassandra's arms like tendrils. The three hour drive to Albany had ended up closer to four hours after all the traffic they encountered and the party was well under way before they arrived. Cassandra seethed inwardly; almost an hour of potential progress lost because of something out of their control.
During the interminably long drive that Catherine spent drinking and trying to convince Cassandra to make love to her again, Cassandra used her link to seek out those dearest to her. Anna was still in New York City, Cassandra was sure of that based on the direction of their connection. Cassandra was within just enough distance of her sister to sense her emotional state. Anna almost seemed... triumphant. Cassandra could feel Sherri far to the north; she must be in a whole other state. She was too far for Cassandra to determine anything more than her general location.
Cassandra tried to discover her Queen's whereabouts but the link had been fuzzed out so that Cassandra couldn't quite determine the Queen's location. This occurred from time to time when the Queen didn't want to be disturbed or to have her location known. Cassandra didn't know if the ability to block others from linking to you was unique to the Queen or if she just hadn't shared how it could be done. Cassandra prayed to the Queen that her sister and best friend would find success tonight and keep themselves safe.
After the limousine came to a stop, one of the young men in red suits working as a valet opened the passenger side rear door for Cassandra. Cassandra placed one black high-heeled foot on the ground outside the limo, displaying a generous amount of leg through the slit in the side of her dress before stepping out of the vehicle. Cassandra had decided on dangling emeralds that belonged to Catherine to wear for earrings that would go with her stunning, sparkling green dress. One of her Hivesisters who worked as a stylist at the same hair salon as Sherri came to the Fashionistas offices to make Cassandra and Catherine's hair look extra fancy for this evening. The skilled stylist curled Cassandra's hair into tresses that fell about her in layers before gathering the hair into a gorgeous updo that had strings of tiny pearls and emeralds running through it. Cassandra had never felt sexier or more beautiful than she did tonight. Cassandra's body language and the way she carried herself exuded a confidence she had never displayed before that only made her appear more attractive. The valet actually gawped at Cassandra as he looked over her body. The cut of her bodice was tight so that it emphasized Cassandra's small breasts and the slits in the sides of Cassandra's dress showed off her shapely thighs. The teenage boy had to shake his head to snap out of the spell Cassandra had cast upon him when he held out his hand to help her out of the vehicle. Cassandra gave him a winning smile and a generous tip before going on her way. Cassandra had a feeling she would haunt the boy's dreams for weeks.
