Betty lay in the warm water, eyes closed, working her pussy to the sounds of Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 (the Pastoral, her favorite after "The Faun" ). Her fingers slid in and out, tickling her clit, bringing her to climax. Her juices mingled with the scented water. The scent of perfumed soap filled the room and blended with the aromas from the garden.
Betty took great care with her garden, making sure it was stocked with her favorite flowers; roses and lilacs, adding lavender (after Bill's introduction), plus a couple of cherry trees. The lavender scent seemed strong tonight, not just from the bath: "More intense than usual," she thought. She heard a slight rustle, almost a slither, but attributed the sound to the cherry trees, swaying in the mild summer breeze.
"Ouch!" A sharp pain in her right shoulder shattered her calm. Startled, she opened her eyes: "What the...?" It took Betty several seconds to notice the tiny needle stuck in her shoulder, just where it curved into the arm. She thought, at first, "A bee sting?", a hazard given the number of plants around the house. She tried to remove it but only succeeded in embedding it deeper into the skin. She began to feel strange; a slow, creeping lethargy spread from her shoulder, to her neck, and down through her body. That's when she noticed the Thing at the garden entrance.
Imagine a caterpillar; a thick, fat, caterpillar: "A thick, fat, great, big, giant caterpillar," she thought with numb horror; give it six boneless, snake arms, unspooling, wormlike, from the holes which dented its body; taper each of them into six, extraordinarily long-fingered hands; top it off with a beach ball-sized neckless head as its upper segment. Two large pupiled black eyes, a thin, wide slit for a mouth, two dots for nostrils, and two tiny gills on the sides made up its face.
The Creature's body did not move so much as undulate, the way a long-bladed plant moves under a slow running brook. Its skin was bleached bone white. This was as close a description of the unbelievable vision that confronted her. It was completely hairless and featureless, other than segmented ridges running along its length. The Creature's skin had an oily sheen that glowed in the setting sun. Betty was too shocked to make a sound; her mind too busy trying to process the sight.
The lavender aroma intensified; Betty was startled to find the scent was emanating from the Creature. "Oh my God! It smells like lavender! This is the sweetest smelling monster I've ever seen!" She almost laughed, whether from humor or hysteria, she never knew.
The Thing crawled and slithered toward the tub. "I have to scream," Betty thought, "I need to scream. Come on Betty, scream!", but the only sound she could utter was a faint "guh". "What's wrong with me?! Scream Betty! There's a slithering alien monster coming towards you, getting ready to eat you or something and you can't scream?!", but try as she might, she could barely make a sound.
She tried to move but, to her horror, her body refused to respond. Unable to climb out of the tub, Betty watched, helpless, as the creature slithered toward and behind her. "I'm going to die," Betty thought. She slowly, and with great effort, turned her head to stare at the wall, so she could not see what painful death the Thing had in store.
The Thing propped itself against the tub. She felt it place two of its hands on her shoulders. Strangely enough, the hands felt warm, if oily; the lavender scent calmed her somewhat. She prepared herself and closed her eyes. "It's going to rip my head off!" she thought, bidding a silent goodbye to Laura and Bobby. Instead, to her shock, the hands slid down her chest and began to squeeze and massage her breasts.