A/N: I changed the name because the story didn't seem to revolve around the drinking game as much as I'd planned when I started writing this, so I thought it would probably be a good idea to change the name.
Rules for playing Blind Poker:
This is a crazy game of drinking and daring... A real good way to see who the craziest bastard in the room is. You need a deck of cards and plenty of drinks for everybody.
To start the game, deal out one card (face down) to everyone. Make sure that nobody can see their card when it is dealt out. Each person then takes their card and presses it to their forehead so that everyone else can see it. Make sure though that nobody can see their own card.
The person to the left of the dealer starts off the bidding. For example, that person can say: "1 drink", which means, "I'm betting one drink that I don't have the lowest card."
The next person has three options: Drink, See, or Raise. If you don't want to take the chance of being the lowest when the number of drinks gets really high, you can Drink... So if the current level is one you can get out of the bidding by taking one drink.
If the second person does not believe that their card is the lowest, they can raise the level to two (or more) drinks, or they can say See (say the same number that the person before them did.) The next person has to raise, see, or take two drinks.
Play progresses until every one at the table has stop raising the level. Then everybody puts their cards down, and the person with the lowest card takes however many drinks the bidding was up to. In the case of a tie for lowest, all players with that lowest card have to drink.
Of course, if any players "drank" out of the biding earlier, their cards are not counted and they do not have to drink at the end of the round.
Upon returning to the room the five men all collapsed in various places around the room. Busy downing their drinks nobody said anything for a while.
"I got it!" John semi-shouted, causing the others to jump. "We should play that drinking game, Blind Poker."
"Why would we do a thing like that?" Rodney questioned from where he was sprawled out on the floor.
"Because it's fun." Xander answered. "I'm in."
"Yeah me too." "I'm game." Carson and Aiden agreed dragging themselves over to where John and Xander were sitting.
"Well have fun. I'm just going to lay here dying."
"Fine by the rest of us. You'd probably be the first one passed out any way." John mocked Rodney.
"I'll show you first. Deal the cards." Rodney hauled his butt off the ground to join the others.
"Ok I assume you all know how to play blind poker, and I don't need to go over the rules." The others all nodded their heads yes at John.
After getting confirmation that they all knew how to play, John dealt each player one card, face down. Each of the five men took their card, with out looking at it, and held it against the forehead for the others to see.
"Let's see I'll start the bidding with one drink." Carson who was on John's left started.
"I raise one drink." Aiden went next.
"I raise four drinks." Rodney bet, not wanting the guys to think he was a pansy.
"I raise one drink." Xander upped the bet.
"And I raise one drink." John finished the first round of betting.
"I see one drink."
"I see one drink too."
"Me too I see one drink.
"I see one drink as well."
"And I see one drink. Alright everybody cards down."
John placed his card on the table it was the king of spades. Next Carson went he had the nine of clovers. Aiden had the three of spades, Rodney had the jack of spades and Xander had the ace of clovers.
"Drink up Aiden, you got the lowest card. 8 shots." Without complaint Aiden downed all 8 shots of moonshine. The game went on for several hours, well into the early hours of the morning, till eventually John, and Rodney were the only two not passed out or damn near close.
"Alright Rodney I raise 6 drinks." John slurred out, almost falling over.
"And I see your 6 drinks." Rodney also slurred. The only thing keeping the two from passing out was that they didn't want to give the other the satisfaction of winning.
"And I too see 6 drinks." Both men put their cards down and stared in stunned silence as they saw that both cards were worth the same amount. "Shit what are the odds of that?"
"I couldn't really tell you at the moment, but how many drinks were we at again?"
"Twenty." A voice came from the doorway, a distinctly female voice. Both men whirled around so fast that they succeeded at finally falling over. There standing in the doorway with her arms crossed over her chest was one Elizabeth Weir, a very pissed off looking Elizabeth Weir. And standing behind Elizabeth was a slightly amused Teyla, not that she would let Elizabeth know that, not with the way she was glaring at the men.
"Shit." "Fuck." Were the last two things Rodney and John said and thought right before they passed out.
Elizabeth couldn't believe it, here she was looking at some of her best people laying passed out drunk on the floor. This was the last thing she'd expected to find when she'd returned from the mainland.
After returning from the mainland Elizabeth had been a little surprised that John hadn't been there to greet her and tell her how boring things had been. Thinking maybe John was busy working on some paper work or something Elizabeth had made her way to the control room. When she'd arrived she'd been informed that no one had really seen or heard from the Major since she'd left.
What made things even odder was that no one had really seen or heard from Aiden, Carson, Rodney, or Xander for most of that same period of time either. One of the scientists had reported that he'd seen the aforementioned men briefly the night before and something had seemed a little off about them but he couldn't put his finger on what it was exactly.
So with the help of Teyla and a couple of volunteers, Elizabeth started checking around the city. They'd decided that since no one had seen or heard from the men all morning and since none of them were in their rooms, they were probably in one of the lesser-explored areas of the city. And sure enough no more then 30 minutes after starting their search the two women had found their missing men.
"Sergeant I want a couple of men posted here and as soon as Major Sheppard wakes I want him brought to my office immediately and as for the rest, confine them to their rooms." Elizabeth ordered one of the people who had helped search for the technically AWOL men.
"Yes ma'am." The Sergeant replied. As he carried out his orders Elizabeth returned to her office to think about what she was going to do with one John Sheppard.
A/N: One more chapter and I think that'll probably be it for this story.