The Monster Loose in His Home

John closed the hatch hanging from his shirt, and in the darkness of the closed closet gave it a scan with Gamer's eye.

Parsed barrier lvl10
Creator: John Newman
User: John Newman
Population: 0

So she's not in there after all. "Tsk." He closed the barrier with a wave of his hand, and cautiously walked into his real bedroom. All around, John eyed the trappings of his life... and those trappings disturbed. His computer and consoles remained unmolested, as were most of the drawers full of clothes, but notably his dirty clothes hamper was wide open, and half its contents were left dumped on his floor. Nearing a pair of wet-looking boxers, he identified the essence splattered onto them without even touching it.

Did she...? He saw it on another pair of boxers... and a third. They were all stained in the front. Almost as if she was... The idea of Lily taking a moment of her escape to masturbate with his underwear made him giddy.

But Lily had clearly moved on...and he could tell even now that some clothes had gone missing with her. Angrily he went into the hall, moving quickly past each door as he scanned for the little devil, too distracted to appreciate the natural grace and speed with which he now moved.

He was already near the stairs when he heard it. Laughter. His mother's laughter.

John bolted down the stairs, running along the wall of the turn before launching himself past the second-half of the stairs. He had to hurry up and find her: what if she was hurt, or poisoned by the succubus? There was no guarantee Lily's life-draining powers couldn't still be used; that giggle he continued to follow might well be the **** throes of his so-called secretary's first mortal victim-

"John!" Mrs. Newman laughed. "We were wondering where you were hiding!"

He stared at his mother as she leaned onto the kitchen island, her breasts spilling inside her shirt without a bra. They pooled onto the polished counter-top as she leaned forward towards her guest, and her smile seemed healthy enough.

John's eyes glided over to that guest, who could be nothing short of a human re-skin of the succubus he was ready to hunt and capture a moment ago. She was wearing his dirty uniform from Monday, the shirt and jacket obviously too big for her and his pants pulled up to her belly and strapped to her lithe body with his normal belt (and on the last hole it had). Her visible skin was an untanned shade, her eyes were a plain brown, her lips were glossy but natural; she looked like nothing more than a regular, petite teenager of some vaguely European origin.

Her bangs, slightly disheveled hair, and thick glasses only looked cuter in her human form. She smiled toothily at his mother, as if ignoring him, and it took a moment for John to remember what he had feared. This could still be it... no... this must be it... His mother didn't realize the danger, but he knew it... and of course the demon would, too.

This was a hostage situation, and the last thing he could do was explain that much.

"Sorry mom, I uh... I didn't mean for Lily to bother you-"

The succubus said nothing. Mrs. Newman was happy to retort for her, however. "John! I understand that you wouldn't tell me about your first girlfriend," she lectured, nearly breaking the weak poker face he managed, "but mind your manners, young man!" She turned back to his secretary-girlfriend, and smiled gently. "Of course, you're always welcome here Lily... even if you just want to come talk to me about anything at all."

John glanced between them: Lily, the perceived predator he let loose, and her prey, a mother already drowning in lust, no doubt ready to perish to a demon's hunger. No... that's not quite right, is it? Something here isn't adding up... He continued to look between them, feeling unsure about how to react.

"T-Thank you, Mrs. Newman," Lily stammered.

Huh?

"Please... call me Brenda."

John started to notice the small tells in rapid succession: his mom cradling her breasts, as if to entice; Lily's arms held in front of her, defensively; his mother boring holes into the succubus with her eyes; the latter keeping her eyes closed even behind those massive glasses; Mrs. Newman leaning a bit more forward across the island ever so slightly; Lily's smile trembling.

No... mom isn't the prey...

Lily looked at John with the corner of her eyes, and he read what her mind screamed.

SAVE ME!

Mommy Newman licked her lips.

... she's the predator!

"U-Uh, Lily and I really gotta go study, mom, so-"

"YES," Lily added in a wildly stiff fashion, and slowly, awkwardly, and quite unnaturally side-stepped towards John. If Brenda took note of it, she made no indication.

"Alright... well you two kids stay safe, OK?"

"... Yes ma'am-" "YES, MISTRESS!"

A silence.

Brenda hummed a little tune as she turned back to her dishes, and John took the moment to grab Lily and drag her out of sight and into a tunnel leading right back into his bedroom. Stepping through after her, he made sure to close it before quietly yelling, "What the Hell?!"

"T-T-Thank you M-Master...!" Tears began to drip down her cheeks, and her words were half-hiccuped as she tried to explain. "I tried to come to you when you... when you rang the bell, b-but I was so... so scared!"

"What are you-"

"She's like an Alpha Succubus!" Lily held her head as she shook it softly, her eyes wide as if she was remembering some form of terror. "Such hunger... such lust... No one ever told me humans could be so scary-!"

"Then..." John paused, and she ceased her muttering to look up at him, working to catch her breath as he spoke. "... eh, so she... wait, no, you're not getting off that easy!"

<Phrasing, John Newman.>

Did... did you just-

<I did not.>

"I'm sorry, Master," Lily sniffled, hugging his oversized clothes as if for warmth. "I-I just wanted to... to..."

The demon wasn't about to fool him twice. "I know what you wanted-"

"I just wanted to save you, and I was really afraid, and I was-"

"Nice try," he managed. "But saving me from what, exactly? And why would you have to escape my barrier to do it?"

"W-Well," she explained, "w-we had such a wonderful time, for hours and hours... and then you kissed me, and your mouth was so dry... and you looked at me, and you were panting, a-and we were taught that humans die if they don't have enough of something called 'water' that they drink from toilets, so we have to keep them from dying prematurely. We were taught the signs... and I got so worried, but you wouldn't listen when I tried to warn you!"

"... Toilets-?"

"S-So I looked, but all the toilets in the barrier were empty; there's no water in any of them, and no doggy bowl with water either, despite that being a human favorite! I was so afraid that Master would end up dying since he wouldn't stop coming inside the fairy-"

"... doggy-?"

"- so I followed my nose to the exit, to get some water from a real toilet! I was just about to, too... but that alpha... she was..." Lily shivered, and hugged herself tighter.

"... B-But you didn't come back!" John pointed out.

"How could I? She took me to her **** chamber, with all those knives and the slab and- oh, Master! I was sure she was going to use me up and eat me!" She started to bawl like a child once again, and hugged John while burying her face in his chest. "She asked all these riddles, and laughed... her laughs will haunt my dreams, I was s-so scared!"

"H-Hey... hey, it's alright-"

Essence of lust absorbed! Aphrodisiac effect applied! You're immune to the permanent libido increase.

Quickly, he grabbed her by the shoulders and pushed her away. Her face was mostly dried... and her tears spotted his shirt. "... Jesus, even your tears make people horny?"

She sniffled. "D-Doesn't everyone's?"

His stare answered her question, and he started to rub the bridge of his nose as he contemplated why he ever thought this creature was a danger to mankind.

"I-I only... I mean, we were only taught succubus essentials for human sex... b-but I was given a certificate of training for human management, too! I was awake for at least a dozen minutes during it, too!"

"... Right, no more of this." He parsed his bedroom door in the same way he always did to hide it from his mother, and shoved Lily on through it. She stumbled into the hallway that was, this time, nothing but the hallway and his mother's bedroom. He closed the door behind them, and appreciated the windowless, staircase-less edit of his real second-floor hallway, off-colored but otherwise strangely normal in shape. "We've wasted enough time as it is," John explained, tugging the confused succubus behind him, "so we're going to cover everything we actually need to cover from here on out, and with no more... distractions!"

"Y-Yes, Master!" she urgently agreed. They found themselves in the copy of his mother's bedroom, though the false reality's weirdness was apparently concentrated there: the bed was all that was spared from the walls and ceiling, all of which saw fit to begin absorbing the various furniture pieces pressed against or attached to them. He sat on the edge of the bed, and directed Lily before him.

"Alright... how long will this take?"

"Is... is Master..." She didn't finish her sentence.

John contemplated his answer. "You..." She hung on his word, terrified of dismissal. "... you know what a toilet is, but not water?"

She blinked at him, stunned. "Um... well, yes. I mean, we have bathrooms in Hell, of course, but we just put normal blood in our toilets, not this strange, clear blood you humans like to-"

"No, nope, uh-uh," he waved his hands, cutting her off, "I'm not even going to ask; one step at a time, or we'll be here all night. Regular bathrooms: later." He motioned with his fingers. "Extinction Kings: now!"

Lily didn't get her desired forgiveness... but he was asking her to do her job, and that meant she wasn't fired, right? She had been psyching herself up for this for days now, and here was the moment she had been waiting for. She clenched her fists and pumped both arms as she huffed for confidence.