Lilo and Victoria can only spend their very final moments together down in the belly of the beast.


Chapter 3: One Last Sleepover

Lilo felt the sticky innards of the python tightly engulf her almost as much as its coils did but without all of the strangling. This time she felt herself being moved through the dark fleshy tunnel by the esophagus's strong muscles. It was a slow crawl that soaked Lilo from her skin to her clothes but hardly fazed her by this point. The python's constriction'd just sapped too much her strength to kick up a fuss and whittled away at her spirit. There was no point fighting the inevitable.

Lilo's despondency was disturbed when she found a pair of sneaker come into view. It took a second for the esophagus to shove her face into them and get a grunt of discomfort out of her before she recognized the pair in her despair. As if on cue, she saw the sneakers wriggle about while hearing wake-up moans. "Lilo...?" Victoria yawned after waking up. "Where are you?" The shoes began to struggle in front of the little girl when her BFF attempted to so much as budge.

"Right... behind..." Lilo strained to speak, only able to wheeze after being strangled. She could still feel the coil gripping her throat nice and tight around her neck. "I can't see you or anything really," Victoria spoke up, her sneakers shuffling in her growing panic. "Why can't I move?" She let out a grossed-out groan. "Why's it slimy?" Lilo hesitated to answer any of these questions. She didn't have the heart to break it. "All I remember is that huge snake coming at me and..."

A few second of silence followed before Lilo heard Victoria gasped in growing shock. "No..." she quivered in denial. "Lilo, please tell me that monster didn't... didn't..." It broke the little girl's heart to hear her best friend trying to choke back her tears. "It... ate us..." Lilo strained to answer, her voice returning to her slowly but surely. "It... made you... loopy and... swallowed you... before me." Saying it for herself was hard enough but hearing her crush crying out was worse.

"My... fault," Lilo confessed in her growing shame. "W-what'd you mean?" Victoria asked, barely able to stop sobbing. "The truth was... Stitch didn't... have a... food coma..." the little girl went on, feeling the guilt worsen. "I just... wanted you... with me..." Lilo could hear Victoria still sniffling and began to wonder if she hated her now. Not that she'd blame her. "I really... love you..." she choked out with tears. These were words she wished she said under better circumstances.

"You mean... love as in," Victoria replied in an unsure tone of voice. "I know... it's weird." Lilo went on, pouring her heart out without anything to lose. "I'm... suppose to... crush on guys... but... you really... make me... happy." She teared up in knowing these would be among her final words. "You... liked me... for... being weird... and... even... stood up... for me." Despite everything, she smiled for what it was worth. "I wanted... tonight to be... when I... told you the truth."

Lilo sobbed more and more in waiting for Victoria to lash out at her in well warranted anger. It was the least that she deserved. "I really like you too," Lilo heard Victoria reply warmly to her surprise. "You had such an exciting life with Stitch and all these cool aliens," she went on, praising her best friend. "Some of them nearly got us but it was all so fun when I was with you." The little girl felt her face go all red over this surprising claim. "Plus, that long hair is so beautiful."

Lilo teared up once more out of happiness when she heard Victoria's compliment. "If I had to go out as a python's meal, then I'm glad it was on one of your crazy adventures," her best friend finished. "I only wish it swallowed me feet first so I could see your face once more time." The little girl sighed wearily while imagining how romantic that'd be. "Yeah..." she claimed, her throat becoming better. "My first kiss in a snake's stomach would be totally on brand for me by far."

Lilo and Victoria both shared a giggle like this was just another day in the park before it died down into a semi-awkward silence. "It's weird," the little girl began to confess. "I should be scared of dying but it doesn't feel so bad when it's with you." Victoria snickered in reply. "I know what you mean," she softly spoke. "I read that python's digest their meals slowly over weeks but... I think being with somebody makes it all easier." They both sighed very deeply together.

"How metal would be it be if we stuck it out until somebody cut us out?" Lilo suggested, her morbid fascinations coming to mind. "Our flesh would be melted off like cheese in the sun." Victoria chuckled at her girlfriend's usual macabre mindset. "I bet Jumba could figure out a way to help us, maybe even make us like Stitch's cousins," she put in, hoping to make light of their horrible situation. "We'd be Experiments 630 and 631." There was something comforting about all of it.

Who would've thought that being swallowed alive would make for such a good sleepover?


Being digested alive always feels better with a friend around.