Chapter 5:Tomato Bath
Teyla opened the door to the shed and stared inside there was cobwebs, spider webs, and dust everywhere. She stepped into it and looked around for the tomatoes she knew what they looked like from the meals on Atlantis. Cassie soon came in after her to help look.
"Find anything?" Cassie asked from the other side of the shed.
"No nothing yet." Teyla said picking up and old broken radio. Soon Kelley showed up at the door.
"You guy's find them yet?" Kelley asked.
"Maybe if you got in here and helped it would go faster." Cassie said while moving some old tables out of the way to get behind them.
"Ewe no not with all those webs." Kelley retorted.
"Well then can it." Cassie said.
"Found them." Teyla called from the back of the shed.
"K well looks like I found the tube want to give me a hand?" Cassie said as Teyla laid the tomatoes outside. Teyla came back in and grabbed the end of the tin tube 'it looked like an old cow waterier' Cassie thought 'but we wont tell Kelley that' she smirked at her own thought. They got it out of the shed and went behind the building and set it down and went back around for the tomatoes.
"Alright Kelley get in." Cassie said.
"What I'm not going to take a bath in the open, in that thing!" Kelley said upset.
"Yes you are now get in." Cassie said.
"You do not have to take off your clothing." Teyla added.
"Yeah see." Cassie said. Kelley looked between them and couldn't believe what she was about to do. She got in and brought her knees up to her chest wrapping her arms around them.
"Comfortable?" Cassie asked.
"Yes" Kelley said. Both Cassie and Teyla grabbed close hangers and plugged there nose and then slipped on a pair of rubber gloves they found in the shed 'probably used for pluming, oh well.' They then grabbed two tomatoes one for each hand. Teyla placed hers on top of Kelley's head but didn't squeeze yet Cassie placed hers on top of Kelley's legs. Kelley squeezed her eye's shut and scrunched up her face.
"What are you waiting for?" Kelley asked Teyla looked at Cassie, Cassie stared back then they nodded in unison and squeezed the tomatoes. You could hear Kelley's squeals trying to hold in the screams. She did not like the idea of tomatoes in her hair. But she did not like the smell more. Teyla and Cassie started to scrub the tomatoes that were already squeezed on Kelley.
"Are you done yet?" Kelley asked.
"Almost." Teyla said.
"I bet your enjoying this." Kelley said. Cassie looked at Teyla and Teyla looked back.
"Yes." They both said at once.
"Are you done yet?" Kelley said irritated.
"Yes." Cassie and Teyla said. They took off the close pins and inhaled in.
"Well?" Kelley asked if the smell was gone she couldn't exactly smell anything her nose was plugged.
"Well…most of it's gone at least now we can be with in a foot of you without puking but any closer and…" Cassie said and almost started laughing but coughed to caver it up.
"Thank God." Kelley said as she got up and headed for the showers. "Uh where's the showers?" Kelley asked.
"There are none." Cassie answered.
"What then how do we get clean?" Kelley asked. Cassie turned her head and stared at the lake then back to Kelley. "What no, no I already had to bath in tomatoes I'm not going to shower in a lake full of god knows what!" Kelley said.
"Well then I don't know what to do it's up to you, good luck." Cassie said as she and Teyla cleaned up the mess. Kelley stared at the lake.
"Oh man." Kelley said and headed to the lake. Cassie and Teyla finished with cleaning up and headed for the camp site and saw that the men were cooking something. As they started to get closer it smelled like fish. Cassie and Teyla sat down next to each other and John and Dave looked up.
"Hey how was the tomatoes?" John asked Teyla and Cassie just looked at each other trying not to laugh and then answered 'long' John and Dave did not miss the communication between them and also tried to hold in the laughter.
TBC