Someone once told me that they were actually disappointed that the mothers didn't get dunked like the daughters original wanted. So here we are, in a different universe. With a new, bonus celeb story at the end. Enjoy and let me know what you think!
The Grand Finale – The Mum Dunker
The camera panned slowly over the gunk dunk. The thick, putrid purple gunge bubbled and shifted in the huge vat, releasing a strong, sweet-rotten smell that drifted across the studio – a mix of artificial fruit, wallpaper paste and something faintly chemical that made the front row wrinkle their noses. Through the swirling surface the words ‘Mum Dunker’ glowed in big, white, swirly letters. The camera pulled back to reveal the two daughters already seated on the metal chairs at the bottom of the ramp.
Emma, was clean once again. Her short hair uncontaminated by the horrible gravy and beans from the last game. She nervously looked down at the gunge as it bubbled. She had been so messy today already and she was dreading what was inevitably going to happen. She rubbed her hands over her bare, toned legs and took her familiar position, scrunching herself into a ball, trying to make herself as small as possible. She knew that this dunking would be horrendous and the feeling of the gunge over her would be worse than the feeling of having her bra filled by the gravy and beans.
Charmaine leant forward and rubbed the tattoo on her ankle with her hand, as if for luck. She smiled to herself as she looked over to her mum. She knew that all Charlotte had to do was answer one question correctly and Charmaine would be spared the dunking. She looked at the gunge that sat above her mum’s head – although she thought Lucy would enjoy the gunging, it didn’t stop her wanting to inflict it on her. She sat up straight once again, her big boobs bounced as she pushed out her chest. Her long blonde hair was loose and down – beautifully styled by her mum before the game. She examined her long perfectly manicured nails and placed her hands on her bare knees, drumming her bare toes on the platform.
‘Welcome to the gunk dunk!’ Dave warmly said, ‘One of our mums, Charlotte or Lucy is going to get their own back on their daughter – will it be Charmaine, our messy daughter who takes advantage of free services at her mum’s beauty salon?’ the audience cheered loudly. ‘Or will it be Emma, the gym loving daughter who loves to be the centre of attention at the gym where she goes with her mum?’ Once again, the audience cheered. ‘We will find out in a mo! Ha ha! Or will we?’
Both Charlotte and Emma looked quizzically at Dave.
‘Now then… I’ve had a little think. You’ve both had a brilliant time covering your daughters in mud, blue gunge, mushy peas, gravy and beans… and frankly, I reckon the mums have been having far too much fun. So I’ve decided to switch things around! Mums – you’re going on the ramp! I think I’m going to give your daughters the chance to do what they really came here to do!’
The cheering from Charmaine and Emma was deafening. And they couldn’t move themselves off the seats fast enough!
In a strange change of events, it was not the mums sat above the rancid bubbling purple slime. Charlotte sat on the blue side, arms folded tightly across her chest, bare feet planted firmly on the cool platform. Her short blonde hair was still neat, her face fresh and almost makeup-free, athletic legs stretched out, toes already curling and uncurling against the metal as if trying to grip something solid. She looked competitive even now, jaw set, but her eyes kept flicking down to the bubbling vat and the smell made her swallow hard.
Lucy sat on the yellow side, bare legs swinging freely over the edge. Her long blonde hair was still perfectly styled, makeup immaculate, bronzed skin glowing under the lights. She drummed her perfectly pedicured toes against the platform in an almost excited rhythm, a big smile already spreading across her face. The strong smell of the gunge didn’t seem to bother her at all; if anything she leaned forward slightly, breathing it in.
Dave bounced into frame, grinning wider than ever. ‘Now how does that look to you ladies?’
Charlotte’s competitive face faltered for the first time all day. ‘Dave… you’re joking? I can’t believe you’ve done this to us!’
‘No joke!’ Dave declared. ‘Charlotte and Lucy, you are now sitting above my nasty and slimy pride and joy. And your daughters get to decide who takes the full trip!’
Lucy just laughed and waggled her bare toes, the movement making a soft slap against the metal. ‘Oh I love this show!’
Emma and Charmaine were ushered over to the big levers at the side of the tank, still in their GYOB t-shirts and shorts, barefoot, and looking extremely pleased with the new arrangement.
Dave continued, ‘Here’s how it works. I’m going to ask the daughters some very easy questions. Every correct answer lets that daughter raise her own mum one notch up the ramp. First mum to reach the top… slides straight into the gunk dunk! But don’t worry, the other mum gets a special messy consolation prize from above, as a special treat from me! Ready, girls?’ he looked at the two grinning daughters.
Emma and Charmaine nodded eagerly, buzzers already in hand.
‘All today’s questions are very easy, and start with the letter: s. However, your answers cannot start with the letter: s. Are we ready for the first question? The Mediterranean, North and Baltic are all types of…’
Emma slammed her buzzer. ‘Bodies of water!’
‘Correct! Seas! What do we do with Charlotte?’
‘Crank her up!’ Emma and the audience roared.
Charlotte’s chair rose with a low mechanical whir. The platform lifted under her bare soles. She felt the cool metal move, her toes instinctively spreading for balance. One notch higher. The vat looked bigger already. The smell stronger. She swallowed again.
‘Next question. What is the big bright thing in the sky called?’
Charmaine buzzed first. ‘The moon!’
‘I’ll take it! Crank Lucy up!’
Lucy’s chair rose. She cheered, swinging her bare legs happily, toes pointing and flexing in the air. ‘Higher, higher!’ The movement made the soft skin of her soles flash under the lights.
‘Next one. What do you call a lunchtime food that consists of meat, cheese, jam or anything else between slices of bread?’
Emma again. ‘Butties!’
‘Brilliant! Crank Charlotte up!’
Charlotte was now two notches up. The drop looked serious. She could see the thick surface of the purple gunge clearly – the way it slowly folded in on itself, the heavy bubbles that rose and burst with a soft, wet plop. The smell was richer up here, almost syrupy. Her bare toes gripped the edge of the platform hard. She could already imagine how cold it would feel.
‘Final deciding question…’ Dave paused dramatically. ‘What is the name of the superhero whose arch enemy is Lex Luthor?’
Both girls hit their buzzers at almost the same moment, but Emma’s light came on first.
‘Clark Kent!’ she shouted.
‘That’s the one! Oh dear, Charlotte…’
Lights flashed. The audience chanted ‘Crank her up!’ and Charlotte’s chair climbed the final notch with a heavy clunk. She sat there at the very top, bare feet dangling over the edge, staring down at the bubbling purple gunge. Her heart was hammering. The air felt colder. The smell was intense – sweet and chemical and thick. She could hear the low, continuous bubbling beneath her, like a giant pot of something foul on a slow boil.
‘Emma,’ Dave said, voice full of mischief, ‘the lever is yours. You brought your mum on today to do just this, dunk her in the gunge for being so annoying in the gym and all your mum has done today is win every single game and make you messy in the process… and now you can get your own back on her! Do you want to pull it?’
Emma didn’t hesitate. Her voice was bright with triumph and a little revenge.
‘I came here to dunk you, Mum. After the mud, the blue lake, the gravy and beans… this is for everything!’ She yanked the lever hard.
A sharp klaxon blared. The chair gave a sudden, sharp jolt. Charlotte’s hands flew to the sides of the seat. The platform began to tip forward with a slow, deliberate hydraulic hiss. Her bare feet left the metal. For one long second she hung there, legs stretched out, toes pointed, the entire studio watching the glamorous, competitive mum balanced on the edge of disaster.
Then gravity took her. Charlotte shot forward with a proper, unguarded shriek – half shock, half disbelief – and cannonballed into the gunk dunk.
The sound was enormous, wet and heavy. A massive wave of thick purple gunge exploded outwards in every direction, splattering the walls of the tank then slopping over it and raining down in heavy, sticky droplets. Charlotte vanished completely under the surface. The wet, cold mess hit her like a physical blow – dense, clinging, almost syrupy cold that wrapped around every inch of her at once. The gunge forced its way under her blue t-shirt, flooding the fabric, sliding across her stomach and the undersides of her breasts. It rushed into her shorts, filling them, cold and heavy against her bare skin and the thin material of her underwear. It poured between her bare toes, thick and resistant, coating the soles of her feet and forcing its way under her toenails. The smell was suddenly everywhere – inside her nose, on her tongue, rich and artificial and overwhelming.
For two full seconds she was completely under, the sound of the studio muffled to a distant roar, her body suspended in pure, heavy slime. She could feel it moving against every part of her, slow and deliberate, seeping into places she hadn’t expected.
Then she pushed upward with a powerful kick of her bare feet.
Her head broke the surface with a gasping, wet cry. Purple gunge sheeted down her face in thick rivulets. Her short blonde hair was plastered flat to her skull, heavy and dripping. She stood up, waist-deep and the full weight of it registered at once.
She was coated. The thin blue t-shirt had become a second skin, completely saturated, clinging tightly to every curve of her athletic body. Gunge had run inside it and was now cold against her skin, sliding slowly downward. Her shorts were heavier, the slime having soaked straight through and filled them; she could feel it squelching against her underwear with every tiny movement. Thick purple strands hung from her elbows and the tips of her fingers. When she shifted her weight the gunge between her toes made a loud, wet squelch. Slippery and slimy she shuffled her feet making her topple backwards and splash back into the gungy pit. As her bum hit the bottom of the tank, one bare foot appeared clear of the surface and with a long, glistening strand of purple stretch from the arch of her foot all the way back down to the vat before it snapped with a soft plop. Her toes were completely purple, the slime slowly sliding off them in lazy drips.
Her foot disappeared under as her head reappeared, unrecognisable through purple goo. Her head and shoulders appearing just as a second, even bigger torrent opened above her.
This time it was mixed – purple, yellow, blue and white – and it hit her like a waterfall. Charlotte tipped her head back with a helpless, breathless laugh that was half shock and half surrender as the fresh gunge poured over her already soaked hair and face. It ran down her neck in heavy sheets, over her shoulders, down her arms. She felt it find every place the first dunking had missed. The weight of it made her t-shirt cling even tighter. Fresh slime spilled over the waistband of her shorts and slid down the backs of her legs in thick, cold rivers as she tried to stand up under the torrent of slime, thrashing around and waving her arms comically. Her bare feet slipping and sliding under the rising surface as she stood there and simply took it, toes curling and uncurling in the dense slime, feeling every sticky, resistant movement.
When the flow finally stopped, the studio was a mixture of cheering, laughter and the soft, continuous sound of dripping. Charlotte stayed still for a moment, dripping from every part of her. Every small movement made a wet sound. She wiped her eyes with both hands, smearing the gunge rather than removing it, then looked down at herself.
She was glistening from head to toe. Thick strands hung from her chin and the ends of her hair. Her bare legs were completely submerged and covered, the slime slopping around her feet with every movement of her body. She wiggled her toes under the surface and felt the cold, heavy resistance of the gunge between them, the way it pushed up under her arches and coated the soft skin of her soles. When she lifted or move her feet, the slime slopped under her bare soles and between her toes, the sound disgustingly loud in the sudden quiet.
Meanwhile, Lucy was still only one notch up, watching intently as Charlotte thrashed around and received her second gunging from her prime, front row seat. Dave turned to Charmaine with a wicked grin.
‘Your mum doesn’t get the full slide… but she does get the special overhead treatment!’
Charmaine needed no encouragement. She pulled her lever with a delighted cry. A massive bucket of thick yellow-and-white gunge tipped directly over Lucy’s head.
The slime hit with a heavy, wet slap. Lucy squealed with pure delight as the cold, dense goo cascaded down, flattening her perfectly styled hair, covering her face, running over her shoulders and soaking straight through her t-shirt in seconds. She felt it flood the fabric, cold against her skin, sliding between her big breasts and down her stomach. It ran over her bare legs in thick sheets and poured between her dangling toes, heavy and sticky. She tilted her head back, mouth open in a huge smile, and let it come, the smell rich and sweet-chemical in her nose. When the flow slowed she rubbed it in with both hands, deliberately smearing it down her arms and over her already coated legs, laughing the whole time. The gunge made soft, wet sounds as she moved, dripping steadily from her elbows, her chin, and the tips of her bare toes.
‘That was amazing!’ she declared, voice thick with slime and pure enjoyment. ‘Can I have another?’
Dave laughed. ‘One dunk and one proper soaking is enough for today!’
Charlotte was still standing in the main vat, slipping and sliding slowly through the purple gunge, watching the thick strands stretch and break from between her fingers as she massaged the mess into her skin. Every movement produced a loud squelch. She could feel the slime still sliding inside her shorts, cold and heavy and the way it had completely soaked her underwear. The smell was all around her. She scooped two big handfuls of the purple gunge and, after a second’s hesitation, rubbed it slowly down her arms and over her already coated hips, as if accepting there was no point fighting it any longer. The gunge clung to her skin in thick, shiny layers. When she dragged her fingers through her hair, more of it poured down her back in heavy rivulets.
Emma stood at the edge of the tank, beaming with triumph. Charmaine was busy laughing at her mum, who was already scooping leftover gunge off her own shoulders and smearing it further down her legs for good measure, bare toes still flexing happily with strings of gunge between each digit.
Dave’s voice rang out over the noise. ‘What a finale! Charlotte – competitive winner of every single game – gets the full gunging in the gunk dunk thanks to her own daughter. Completely coated, completely soaked, and still dripping! And Lucy gets a glorious messy soaking because… well, she was clearly enjoying herself far too much anyway!’
Charlotte raised one goo-covered hand in cheerful defeat, purple slime still sliding down her arm and dripping from her fingertips. Lucy waved both slimy hands and blew a sticky kiss at the camera. Emma and Charmaine stood side-by-side. Victorious.
Dave turned to camera as the end music began to swell. ‘So be nice to your daughters out there… or they might end up like Charlotte – taking a dip into me gunge, completely slimy from head to toe! Bye-bye everyone! Bye-bye!’
The credits rolled over lingering slow-motion shots: Charlotte’s bare legs and feet leaving the platform, the massive purple explosion as she hit the vat, her head breaking the surface with gunge pouring off her in sheets, the way the slime stretched and dripped from her head as it emerged from under the gunge. And finally Lucy happily receiving her overhead torrent, both mums laughing as the thick, smelly slime continued to drip from every part of them.
Get Your Own Back: Celebrity Special – Andrea Valls
The mothers and daughters had been cleaned up and taken away from the gunk dunk. But Dave wasn’t finished yet. The gunge was now deeper and more rancid. And he had a plan.
‘Before we finish today, I have a special guest to introduce,’ announced Dave, grinning like a Cheshire Cat, ‘we have a sound technician working here who asked me for a favour!’
A tall, slightly nervous but grinning early twenty-year-old lad walked out wearing the yellow GYOB t-shirt and black shorts. He had short brown hair, an excited smile and the look of someone who still couldn’t quite believe he was here.
‘Hi Dave, hi everyone! I’m Steve, I work for Get Your Own Back as a sound technician, as Dave says. And I really want to get my own back on a TV celebrity who films in this building… Andrea Valls! You may know her as the mum on Waffle the Wonder Dog. Or even the nasty Renee in Ann Droid!’
The crowd whooped and cheered. Then Dave asked, ‘Why is that, Steve? Tell us your story!’
‘Andrea Valls is proper glamorous, right? Big star, always looking perfect, a famous actress, right? Last week, I bumped into her in the café and having worked with her during the filming of Waffle I tried to say hello. Only now, she’s too big and famous to remember me! When I tried to talk to her she said something like, “Sorry, sweetheart – some of us have places to be,” and the whole café heard it. I’ve never been so embarrassed. Little did she know that I now work on this show. And she’s filming next door! Dave… I begged you to please, please get her here and give her a proper messy trip into your gunk dunk!’
Dave turned to the side of the stage as the audience booed on cue.
‘It would be a pleasure to make your wish come true, since you’re such a great worker here! Let’s meet the woman herself – Andrea Valls!’
Andrea stepped out to a huge cheer, looking every inch the celebrity. She wore the blue medical scrubs she wears in the Waffle, but somehow still managed to look glamorous. Her long dark hair was styled in soft waves, makeup flawless, long legs moving effortlessly under the light blue trousers, white crocs on her feet. She gave the audience a practiced wave and a slightly wary smile.
‘So, Andrea,’ Dave said, ‘what do you have to say for yourself?’
Andrea laughed lightly. ‘Look, I was having a really long day. I didn’t mean to embarrass him. And besides… I’m a celebrity. I don’t do mess. Especially not in my filming outfit. You’re not really going to do this to me, are you Dave? I’m in the middle of filming next door!’
Dave’s eyes lit up. ‘Ha ha! You know me! Of course I am, sweetheart! It’s what Steve deserves for you embarrassing him!’
Andrea stood there giving a glamorous eyeroll, shaking her long, loose dark locks and shuffling from one foot to the other. ‘I can’t believe you’ll let your staff dunk me!’ The emphasis on the work ‘me’ made the audience cheer and Steve and Dave grin widely.
The studio lights dimmed. A low, bubbling sound filled the air as the cameras slowly pushed in on the gunk dunk. The vat was huge, the surface of the thick purple gunge shifting and popping with slow, heavy bubbles. It looked cold. It looked sticky. It looked deep splatted and mixed by the previous gungee.
Andrea, her crocs off and the bottom of her scrubs rolled up her legs, was led barefoot up onto the seat at the bottom of the ramp. The metal was cool under her soles. She sat down carefully, long legs stretched out in front of her, bare feet resting on the edge of the platform. Her pink painted toenails caught the light for a moment before she curled her toes against the metal, already tense. The blue scrubs top clung to her shapely frame, the top couple of buttons undone (not like when she’s filming on Waffle!) showing her brimming large cleavage. The thin material of her bottoms tight against her curvy thighs down her legs to her knees where the material was rolled up revealing her soft tanned lower legs, bare shins and feet. She looked down at the vat only a short drop away and felt her stomach tighten.
Steve took his place beside the big red lever, barely able to stand still. The audience was on its feet.
Dave’s voice dropped into that classic teasing tone.
‘Andrea Valls… big celebrity, always perfect, always in control. You made a young fan feel about two inches tall in a room full of people. He asked me for my help to get you back and I’m more than happy to oblige! And now… he’s got hold of the lever.’
Andrea tried to keep her expression cool, but her bare toes kept flexing and curling. She could feel every eye in the studio on her. The gunge below looked thicker than it had from the side of the set. She could already imagine how it would feel on her skin. ‘Don’t I usually get a way out?’ She pleaded with Dave.
‘Not today, Andrea! You’re going down! But just from how high?’ Dave grinned.
‘What?’ Andrea looked confused.
‘I’m going to ask Steve 3 questions, for each one you get right, Steve, we will crank Andrea up one notch above the gunge!’ Dave grinned at Andrea. Andrea cringed back.
‘Oh yes! Bring it on!’ grinned Steve.
‘That’s what I like to hear. Ok, Steve, here is your first question. What is one plus one?’
Steve laughed and Andrea recoiled. This set-up was getting worse for Andrea!
‘That would be two, Dave’ Steve grinned.
‘That’s correct, what do we do with Andrea?’
The audience cheered and called in unison ‘Crank her up!’
And up Andrea went. Her knees shaking and her hands grabbing the sides of the chair as she realised there was no way out of this and she was going to get a horrible dunking. At least the gunk smelt better a notch away. She shuddered and looked past her toes to the bubbling gunge, smiling and making out like she wasn’t bothered about the fixed situation.
Andrea didn’t even hear the next question or answer, but assumed it was just as easy. Her chair glided upwards again. Her heart was beating hard. She could feel the cool air on her exposed legs. She straightened her back and smiled at the crowd which was now even further away. She shook her head, making her long lock waft around her head. Preparing herself of the inevitable.
‘What is the capital of France?’
Andrea did her glamorous dramatic eyeroll, making her long lashes flutter. She gripped the chair in preparation and drummed her bare feet rhythmically on the footplate. Up she went once more as the baying crowd, led by Steve and Dave shouted, ‘Crank her up!’. Somehow, the cheering was louder even though she was further away from the crowd. And further away from the gunge, which looked even more disgusting and slimy from her elevated position. Andrea’s breathing had gone shallow. She could see the surface of the purple vat clearly now, the way it moved, the slow bubbles, the absolute certainty of what was coming. Her fingers tightened on the seat. Her bare toes curled hard against the metal.
‘Steve,’ Dave said, ‘you’ve manage to answer all three questions correctly and crank Andrea all the way up to the top,’ Another Andrea eye-roll, ‘whenever you’re ready.’
Steve looked straight at her. The excitement on his face was unmistakable.
‘This is for being so rude… and for “sweetheart.”’
Andrea gave a small, tight smile that didn’t reach her eyes. Her bare toes kept flexing, spreading, curling again. The smell rising from the vat was rising thicker now, almost coating the inside of her mouth. She told herself she was dreading it. Deep down, something else was waiting.
Steve met her gaze, grinned, and pulled. The klaxon was sharper this time. The chair lurched forward on the tracks, taking Andrea with it on her doomed descent. Andrea’s fingers locked around the side rails. With every inch the chair rolled downward the vat grew larger beneath her bare soles. Cool air moved across her bare legs.
Halfway down, twin nozzles either side of the ramp fired without warning. Thick ropes of bright white gunge shot across her bare shins and feet, criss-crossing her skin in cold, sticky bands. Andrea flinched hard, a short cry escaping as the white slime slapped between her toes and sealed itself across the tops of her feet. It was colder than the purple looked, almost icy, and it clung in rubbery strands up her exposed shins and then her covered thighs. She winced as the cold goo slapped the sides of her body, her protruding breasts but stopped before splattering her grimacing face. The chair kept descending. White gunge now dripped from Andrea’s scrubs in slow, elastic threads that never quite broke. She could already feel the secret thrill starting – the helpless, exposed feeling of her filing outfit being targeted and coated with mess while she could do nothing about it.
Andrea sat frozen as the seat neared the bottom, bare feet dangling, white slime still sliding between her toes. The gunk dunk looked bigger and worse than it had from the top. The purple surface below no longer seemed liquid; it looked solid enough to bounce off. Her heart was hammering, but underneath the panic a quiet, guilty excitement was spreading.
The platform tipped without warning. She tried, for half a second, to push back against the seat. It did no good. Her body slid forward, bare legs first, and she dropped.
The sound when she hit was deeper than a normal splash, a heavy, muffled whump followed by a violent upward surge of purple. The entire surface of the vat lifted and collapsed around her. Andrea disappeared completely. The cold was instantaneous and total, a dense, crushing weight that forced the air from her lungs. The gunge was thicker than she had expected, almost like cold custard mixed with oil. It drove under her top in a single wave, flooding across her stomach and chest, filling the cups of her bra and sliding cold and intimate against her bare skin. It slithered into her bottoms, heavy and invasive, soaking her underwear in seconds and coating the soft skin of her hips and backside. Between her toes the purple mixed with the earlier white, creating a slick, resistant paste that locked her feet together and forced its way in the spaces between every toe and under every toenail. The taste flooded her mouth, sweet, chemical berry and something chalky. The smell was so strong it felt like it was inside her head, thick and inescapable.
She stayed under longer than she meant to, suspended in the slow, rolling movement of the slime, every inch of skin coated and sealed. The weight pressed against her from all sides. The cold had already begun to feel less like a shock and more like a complete covering. Deep down, in the private part of herself she never showed on camera, she realised she was savouring it – the total loss of control, the way the mess claimed every part of her at once.
When she finally drove her bare feet downward and pushed up, her head broke the surface with a ragged, wet gasp. Purple gunge sheeted off her face in a single heavy curtain. Her long dark hair had been driven flat against her skull and neck with thick ropes of goo hanging over her eyes and mouth, completely ruined, heavy and dripping. She stood, waist-deep now because of the displaced volume, and the true extent of the covering registered all at once.
She looked, even to herself, unrecognisable. The blue top was no longer blue. It was a dark, glistening second skin, stretched tight and completely transparent with wetness, her pockets comically filled with goo. She pushed her hands into her pockets displacing and emptying the gunge then rubbing her messy hands up her bare arms, massaging the slime into her soft skin. Gunge continued to slide from the neckline down the inside of the fabric, running in cold rivulets between and over her breasts and then over her stomach.
Her trousers hung heavier, the waistband peeled pulling downwards almost revealing her white thong to the baying audience. The weight of slime that had poured inside had filled the bottoms to her knees where she had rolled them up, blocking the escape route. She could feel it moving against her underwear and the bare skin beneath with every small shift of her hips. When she moved her stance the mixture between her toes made a loud, sucking glorp. When she shifted her weight the gunge between her toes squelched loudly. She felt the slime slither under her bare sole and between her toes, knowing that her painted toenails would no longer be visible under the layer of slime.
Above her a final, wide nozzle opened. This time the gunge was blackcurrant-red and colder still. It fell in a solid, unbroken column that hit the crown of her head and kept coming. Andrea’s hands rose halfway, holding her head as she simply let it happen. The red poured over the purple, over the white, over everything, running in fast sheets down her face, her neck, her arms. It found the gaps at the armholes of the short sleeved scrubs top, running over her sensitive armpits and down the inside of her top again, down the back, trickling down her spine and flooding over her boobs again. Not to mention down her bottoms again. The gunge found all the gaps in her waistband and flowed down the legs of her scrubs and poured inside, adding another layer of cold weight against her already soaked skin. Fresh slime slid down her spine and into the back of her bottoms, cold and intimate against her bare cheeks. Her bare feet were driven deeper under the rising surface. She could feel the red mixing on the surface, turning the paste even thicker, heavier, more complete.
When the column finally stopped, the only sounds were the soft, continuous dripping from her hair, her fingertips, her elbows, and the occasional wet shift of her feet inside the vat.
Andrea remained motionless for several seconds, breathing hard, dripping from every point. She wiped both hands down her face, only succeeding in spreading the mixed colours into a uniform dark sheen. Then she looked at herself properly.
She was completely claimed. Every visible surface shone. Thick, multi-coloured strands hung from the ends of her ruined hair and the tips of her fingers. Her bare legs looked lacquered. The top clung so tightly it might as well have been painted on; inside it the gunge was still moving slowly against her skin. Inside her bra. Over her bare buttocks. Inside her thong. She experimented with a small movement of her toes and produced a long, explicit squelch that drew a fresh wave of laughter from the audience. The smell rising off her own body was now stronger than the vat itself – sweet, chemical, berry-sharp and inescapable. She could still taste it on her lips and tongue.
And underneath the shock, underneath the breathless laughter she gave the cameras, the private truth settled warmly in her chest: she loved this. The cold weight, the total covering, the way the mess had gotten inside her clothes and her underwear and between her toes and into her hair until nothing clean remained. She loved the helplessness of it. She loved how thoroughly she had been ruined.
Steve stood at the edge, speechless, eyes wide. Andrea raised her head, red-and-purple gunge still sliding off her chin, and gave a short, disbelieving laugh that turned into a cough as more slime ran into her mouth.
‘Right. That’s… thorough. It’s inside everything. I can feel it moving when I breathe. It’s running down my back, it’s in my trousers, my toes are glued together…’ She tried to lift one foot up out of the goo, but it was too deep and thick, so she she stamped and splashed in the slimy mess and watched the heavy ribbons of mixed gunge slop and splash as it dripped from her legs and arms. ‘I can taste it. I can smell nothing else.’
She scooped both hands full of the nearest slime and, after a brief pause as if finishing the job herself, deliberately rubbed it down the length of her arms and across her already coated tummy, involuntarily making mess slither down into the front of her trousers, making her shudder and squirm. The fresh layer clung in uneven, glistening streaks. When she pushed her fingers through her ruined hair, a fresh cascade of dark slime poured down her spine and into the back of her trousers, which hung lower now revealing the string of thing and the top of her gunge covered bum. The cold slide of it against her skin sent another quiet, secret shiver through her.
Dave’s voice cut through the noise, delighted.
‘Andrea Valls, ladies and gentlemen – formerly glamorous, currently unrecognisable, and still dripping! Courtesy of our own Get Your Own Back sound technician!’
Andrea lifted both hands in a sticky, theatrical shrug. Every motion produced new drips and wet sounds. She planted her bare feet more firmly in the gunge, feeling it rise between her toes again, and looked straight at Steve. Outwardly she was the good sport, the celebrity being a great laugh. Inwardly she was already wondering how soon she could feel this covered again.
‘I think I need a coffee,’ she said, voice thick and amused, ‘but first a very long shower.’
Steve laughed, still stunned. Dave threw an arm around him as the end music swelled.
The final shots lingered on Andrea standing waist-deep in the vat: long hair flat, heavy and completely destroyed, her scrubs top moulded to her body like a wet second skin, trousers sagging and filled with gunge with her bare feet shifting slowly in the thick, multi-coloured slime. Every inch of her glistened. And behind the public smile, she was still quietly, thoroughly enjoying every sticky, cold, inescapable second of it.