Interlude: Lulu and Grandma!

Rita sighed as she fumbled for her glasses.

No, not those- too light for reading.

Those were her Sunglasses, though why she kept them around in the first place was beyond her at this point. It had been years since she could see anything without a prescription and wearing Sunglasses over another set was just uncomfortable.

Finally, her fingers found her heavier set and neatly perched them upon the bridge of nose.

"Buh?"

The little voice caught her ear, and she turned to see a certain bewinged grandchild of hers looking up at her with curiosity from her bedroom wall.

"Lulu dear, you know you're not meant to climb on the walls." Rita sighed.

Lulu raised her hands and much to Rita's surprise revealed little suckers as opposed to her usual plaster-ruining claws.

"Well I suppose that's fine," Rita issued a bemused sigh, then opened her arms. "Come over here my little monster!"

Lulu shook her buttocks like a cat preparing to pounce upon her prey, then did exactly that! Her suckered back legs pushed off and the bat like wings sprouting through her onesie flapped as she flew across the room.

"Ooof!" Rita gasped as the little abomination landed upon her chest with a bit too much force to be comfortable. "I think you're getting a bit too heavy for this!" Nonetheless her arms wrapped beneath Lulu's backside to stop her from slipping.

Lulu stared up and blinked.

Then there was a high pitched squeaking sound, like air escaping a balloon and Lulu started to shrink.

"No!" Rita hurried. "You're fine, you're fine- please don't deflate again!"

Lulu gave another head tilt, then plucked out her pacifier (whose effectiveness seemed to be increasingly circumstantial, Rita dryly noted) and stuck her thumb in instead. She made a bodily motion as if she was blowing into it and she started expanding again… and regained her previous weight.

"All right, stop before you get too big!" Rita interjected "you're just right now."

The abomination pulled out her thumb and gave a smile. A human one no less.

"Well isn't that a sight to see?" Rita gasped, then looked a bit closer. "And is that a tooth!?"

Sure enough, set in Lulu's gums was a new tooth just poking it's sharp white tip through the pink flesh.

"Gah!" Lulu affirmed.

"Well I'm sure Mommy already knew, but be sure to let her know okay?" Rita requested.

Entirely so that her beloved and well behaved little genius would experience the joy of her progeny's milestone of course. Not at all because Rita Loud was still sour over her many grandchildren's cause of conception, or the many wails her own children had provoked from her lips during their own breastfeeding thanks to their sharp new teeth.

Not at all.

Lulu gurgled in a vaguely approving tone before raising her hands to Rita and batting in the direction of her face. "Buh!"

"What's this?" Rita drew her head a bit closer.

"Buh!" Lulu's fingers reached out- normally for once- and touched at Rita's reading glasses. "Gagh?"

"Ah, my glasses?" Rita laughed a bit uncomfortably, she supported Lulu with one arm and used the other to push her glasses a bit further up. "Sorry to say it but these are something Grandma needs to read, my eyes aren't as good as they used be after all."

Lulu blinked.

And then she smiled.

Her smile.

Rita repressed a shudder as her most terrifying grandchild exposed her abominable orifice and her tendrils reached out, quickly snaking behind Rita's rims and subjecting her a closeup of the fleshy tips she never would have wanted. They were vaguely oval shaped things with some kind of meaty 'hairs' on the bottom that pulsated with Lulu's heartbeat, and extended further towards Rita's eyes.

"Lulu, honey… c-could you stop?" Rita gasped. "You're scaring Grandma!"

The hairs stopped their advance, then suddenly the tips grew transparent little orbs like fresh dew. The orbs filled with light, and Rita was subjected to a series of colour-coordinated flashes that would surely have resulted in a fit for an epileptic. Rita let out a yelp, closed her and eyes and pulled way her face- letting her glasses clatter down to the floor as they were drawn against the still present tendrils.

"Gah…" Lulu said to herself, ignoring Rita's decidedly less than pleased glare.

"Lulu…" Rita groaned as she knelt down and grabbed her glasses, and replaced them onto her nose- just in time to witness what was to come. Whatever Rita might have said next was lost as the infant looked up, sucked her face back to her human configuration and her eyes bulged.

The brown pools so reminiscent of her mother's and just a shade off of Lynn Sr's stretched and expanded. Her eyelids peeled back, revealing red veins pulsing under strain as the eyeballs pushed forward and-

Pop!

Her left eye suddenly hung from it's cord, dangling upon her cheek.

Rita gaped in horror, "God in heaven-"

POP!

Her voice was cut off however as a viscous fluid sprayed over her, Rita gagged as something semi solid hit the back of her throat and she quickly spat it out. She opened her own eyes to find herself covered in bits of clear jelly and looked back with dread to see the ruined mess where Lulu's right eye used to be.

Not to worry, Lulu gave an annoyed grunt before she reached up with one hand and scratched at the gaping wound. She pulled away chunks of a red sack and threw it to the ground before looking up to Rita with…

A Blue eye.

Rita's own shade in fact.

Indeed, in Lulu's left Socket there was another blue orb staring at her Grandmother's horrified visage, only slightly deformed by the optic nerve from the dangling original eye.

"Ahhhhh," a high pitched whine erupted from Rita's throat. Not loud enough to pierce the eternal ruckus outside of course, but enough to express sheer terror.

"Buh." Lulu decalred and pointed at Rita's eyes, then at her own.

Rita's arms were locked in sheer fear.

Seemingly impatient for whatever plan she had, Lulu reached up her right hand to her new eye and her fingernails extended into long, thin white claws. Carefully the little creature opened her eye to the maximum extent her of eyelids and pushed the thin nails from her index finger and thumb in between the eye and socket from exactly above and below.

Then she tensed her fingers

"Oh God please no."

Rita Loud had had her fill of ruined eyes today-

But as Lulu cheerfully plucked out her newly grown right eye, she was getting an extra helping.

The socket this time was distressingly empty, save for a brief glimpse of squirming muscles before Lulu's eyelids fell together. Rita's own eyes then inevitably drew themselves to the new eye held between Lulu's fingernails like a grape between chopsticks.

She held the thing by the white, and the pupil stared blankly at the world but as Lulu moved it Rita realised the blue iris was still contracting and expanding with the change in light. The optic cord was a stubby little thing with a clean cut but it moved on its own, seemingly fishing for its home despite there being no muscles attached to any part of the pristine orb.

"Buh!" Lulu declared and Rita stared at her Granddaughter's pleased little face. None the worse for wear despite her apparent disfigurement Lulu pointed the orb at Rita like she was offering a morsel.

"Uhhhhh," Rita gulped back her bile. "N-n-no thank you dear, I'm um- already ate!"

What was left of Lulu's face seemed to screw up in confusion, then brightened. Her left hand pointed at Rita's left eye.

"… Please don't eat it."

Lulu shook her head, then pointed at her left eye, the one still inside the socket with her empty hand. Suddenly her fingernails expanded like they had on the other hand and within a second repeated the procedure that she had already conducted.

Now the abomination had two live eyes in her hands. Briefly that is as she equally as quickly raised her right hand, opened up the lids and filled the left socket with what had been her right eye. The thing lurched in its new home, spinning wildly before settling in, and focusing upon Rita.

"Tah Daaahh!" Lulu declared.

Rita Loud gazed upon her Granddaughter as she motioned again towards Rita's eyes, and she realised that Lulu was miming replacing her eyes with Lulu's 'transplants'. The Grandmother swallowed and smiled shakily.

"Umm, no thank you dear-"

Lulu's smile dropped.

"-Maybe another time all right?" Rita quickly offered. "I don't suppose you could fix yourself could you? You'll give everyone a scare like this."

Like you did me.

Lulu issued a little sigh, then promptly fished out the socketed eye- POP- and stuffed it back into its original home. The still dangling original left eye suddenly sucked back in and the two orbs briefly spasmed within their homes before locking back into Rita, who not surprised in the least to see the once blue iris had suddenly shifted to Lulu's (and Lisa's) own brown.

"Well all right then," Rita breathed, then spotted the mess around the room. There were little specks of melting vitreous humour making stains in her clothing and bed, and upon the floor was red, white and black remains of Lulu's original left eye.

Also there was still a twitching blue eye in Lulu's hands.

"I think we're going to have to clean up here." Rita declared with pressed lips. "Yep. Just a bit of cleanup before Lynn gets in and has a heart attack."

Lulu looked around and shrugged, before raising her hands to her mouth and dropping the eye inside. There was an audible pop as she crunched down and swallowed

"You know what; good start sweetie." Rita declared with shaking hands as she quickly walked to the door. "But why don't you let me finish things off, your… stuff has been on the floor and we don't want you getting sick now do we?"

Lulu looked up as Grandma opened the door and quite calmly held her out, "gah?"

"Go play dear, please. Anywhere else for the next few hours okay?"

Lulu looked up at Grandma, who was looked like she needed a nap. She quickly nodded and sprouted her wings before fluttering out of her hands. Grandma liked that so Lulu darted forward and gave her a quick face cuddle- not the playtime kind with Short Auntie. One where she just hugged Grandma's head and reached all the way around with her stretchy arms.

"Shank you dreear." Rita mumbled through overly pliable toddler.

"Buh buh!" Lulu popped off and flew away.

Leaving an unsteady Rita to calmly close the door and carefully walk over to her and her husband's bed.

There, she quite happily flopped face forwards into it, grabbed a pillow and started screaming.