Laura palmed the chime to Orla's quarters and waited for the door to open. She wore her blue cotton pyjama trousers with a matching blue vest, a white towelling robe and slippers.
Orla opened the door exposing her blue pyjama's dotted with… yellow bears. Laura tried to stop herself from laughing but being Laura, lost the battle easily.
"You own those?" Laura continued to giggle.
"No, they belong to someone from one of the lab's, we're the same height but that's about it," Orla flapped the arms of her pyjama's as if to emphasize the generousness of the material. On her feet she wore slippers much like Laura's. Orla grabbed her robe from the bed put it on and tied it securely at the waist spinning around to strike a pose adding, "Am I covered enough?" Causing both girls to enter fits of giggles.
"I can still see you're head," Laura mocked with a giggle.
Orla grabbed at a small bag containing make up, nail polish and nail files. Both women turned to leave when Jennifer and Teyla came to a stop at Orla's door. Teyla wore a sleepwear set of dark blue, its top and trousers had lace detailing scattered about the silky material, it was beautiful. About her shoulders was a silky robe with matching slippers on her feet.
Jennifer wore an outfit in pink. Her legs clad in candy cotton pink cotton trousers with a pretty pink spaghetti string vest top. Around her shoulders like Laura and Orla Jennifer wore a white cotton robe and slippers.
"This isn't fair, I get to wear teddy bears and you all get silk and spaghetti string tops," Orla sighed.
"Teach you to wear something to bed other than Ronon when you get older," Laura teased watching her friend's horrified face break into laughter and blush at the same time.
"Come on they're gonna start the movie in ten minutes," Jennifer encouraged walking toward the accommodation block exit.
A procession of twenty two girls in women's bodies wearing various night apparel headed toward the movie room. Marines walking down the corridor didn't know if they could or should look at the women, they were women but girls too. The volume coming from the crowd of girls heightened in excitement at the prospect of a proper girl's night. As the crowd entered the movie room they headed for the seats spread out about the room.
Looking about the movie room they spotted Colonel Sheppard, Major Lorne, Major Teldy up front and Ronon leaning on the far exit sure he really wanted to be anywhere but the movie room.
"Ladies, can I have your attention please," Sheppard announced to the room. "In five minutes we're going to be showing, "Naked Gun 33 ½. Sorry if you've seen it but we're limited on our movies. At the back you'll see some tables; you'll find plenty of popcorn and sodas. Share nicely ladies. At the end of the movie the room will remain yours for a few hours if you want to… do… girl stuff," Sheppard stuttered, "One more thing ladies, Major Teldy will be here in case someone has a problem. Try to keep the noise to a reasonable level," Sheppard nodded toward the Satedan at the back of the room and the two headed for the exits quickly.
As Sheppard caught up with Ronon the Colonel sighed with relief, "Wanna grab some beers buddy?" Sheppard asked looking at Ronon.
"Sure, but… is it wise, they might… I dunno… start chaos," Ronon nodded back to the movie room.
"I don't care Ronon, let Major Teldy cope with it, she is a Major after all. All I want is to relax without worrying what our St. Trinian's are up to next. Is it too much to ask for a simple Wraith attack?" Sheppard mumbled hearing Ronon chuckle.
"What's a St. Trinian?" Ronon asked looking puzzled.
"Naughty school girls, ask Rodney for the DVD," Sheppard smiled knowing Rodney would be upset at Sheppard telling anyone he actually owned the film.
"Okay, beer sounds good," Ronon replied relaxing after seeing Orla had put on the pyjamas. He wasn't sure how she could still look sexy in such odd clothing but at least she was covered.
Outside the movie room Lieutenant Stephen Wilkinson was on duty, he wasn't sure why. Major Teldy was in the room with the women, he didn't think they'd need a guard but orders were orders. Colonel Sheppard had told him to watch for any impending disaster, all the man could hear were whoops of laughter and excitement coming from the women watching the movie. It was such an old movie but the only safe option they had on Atlantis. The women… girls he kept reminding himself, had probably never seen it and judging from the laughter he thought he was right.
Laura had sneaked stealthily to the back table and grabbed a large bowl of popcorn, Orla was sent to get some sodas. The girls guarded the bowl of popcorn with frightening ferocity. Teyla had never tasted anything like it before and had quickly decided she could become addicted to the food, it melted in her mouth and despite the amount she ate she never actually got full.
The movie played out and the girls laughed enjoying the film, eating their popcorn, periodically getting a soda, the salted popcorn making them thirsty.
The movie credits rolled and the girls all clapped their appreciation letting the odd whoop of laughter follow, it'd been a great success.
The lights came up in the room the women had bunched into groups, the four amigos being one such group.
"I enjoyed that movie very much, the popcorn especially," Teyla almost bounced with enjoyment.
"It was a good movie," Jennifer added.
"What is next?" Teyla asked between mouthfuls of popcorn.
"Girls night, so… nails, make up, hair all to be done," Orla laughed.
Katie Brown walked over to the four girls seated cross legged around a nearly demolished bowl of popcorn. "Orla, here are the packs I promised, thank you for the eye shadow," Katie grinned.
"Thanks Katie, this will be great," Orla replied looking at the packs of face masks Katie had given her.
"No problem, thanks again for the shadow," Katie beamed back in return.
"Okay we have to wash our faces apparently then apply this stuff for fifteen minutes and pull it off, it will leave our skins, glowing and healthy," Orla read a loud.
"How do we wash our faces?" Jennifer asked.
"Wait up," Orla said getting to her feet, she approached Major Teldy.
"Major Teldy? We'd like to put these face masks on but we gotta wash our faces first, mind if we pop to the nearest toilets?" Orla innocently asked.
"Okay Orla, but I'm trusting you. Wash your faces and come straight back okay? You can put the face masks on back here," Major Teldy evenly explained.
"Okay, no problem," Orla responded turning about and headed back to her friends.
"We have to wash up and come back, come on." Orla said already heading for the main exit looking back at the group expecting them to follow whilst slipping the face packs into her pocket.
The four girls scurried along the corridor toward the nearest ladies toilet.
"Would it not have been better to go back to our rooms and clean our faces?" Teyla questioned.
"Yep, but that would've been the sensible thing to do, but we're here now," Laura responded.
Orla pulled the face masks out of her pocket, "I brought these to put on, there's a mirror here so it'll be better, we just got to be quick," Orla stated as she handed each girl a mud pack. "Okay, once your face is clean apply evenly the contents of the pack and allow fifteen minutes to dry then peel off and clean face with cool water, pat dry. Simple enough I suppose," Orla finished. Orla handed the girls a packet each as they washed their faces clean in the sinks before them.
The mud packs were being liberally applied to the girl's faces, giggles started at the sight of a green face mask on each girl. Once the girls had applied their masks they washed their hands and headed back toward the movie room, faces hardening along with the face pack.
By the time the four girls had reached the movie room they'd scared a few Marines with their green faces. Lieutenant Wilkinson opened the door for the women shaking his head in wonder at just what women actually do to themselves and why.
"Iz thiz suppozed to be zo zore?" Teyla asked feeling slightly concerned.
"I dunno it doz hurt, ztings," Jennifer added as Laura and Orla looked at the two women not understanding what they were going on about.
"Maybe we should get the Major," Orla looked at Laura watching as Teyla's lips started to swell.
"MAJOR TELDY!!!!" Laura shouted at the top of her voice as she watched her friends faces swell.
The Major ran over to Laura and Orla looking anxiously until she spotted Teyla and Jennifer's face's swell. Teyla's lips were swollen along with her eyes and Jennifer's cheeks swelled and her eyes puffed up.
"Dr. Beckett, this is Major Teldy we have a medical emergency, actually two in the movie room," the Major called out not sure what she could do, the women seemed to be able to breathe they'd just swelled.
"Major Teldy, this is Colonel Sheppard. What's the nature of your medical emergencies?"
"Some of the women appear to be having an allergic reaction to their face packs, sir." Teldy answered watching the women.
"Major Teldy, this is Dr. Beckett I'm on my way to your location with two medical teams," Beckett replied.
Colonel Sheppard put his Budweiser down slowly looking at the Satedan who calmly replied, "Told you, Sheppard. Those women are cursed."
Sheppard and Ronon headed toward the infirmary yet again to see exactly what had happened this time.
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