Chapter 2

"C'mon, this is boring! Someone lose already!" Jack groaned. He, Teal'c, Daniel Sam and Janet were at his place for lunch. They'd already eaten, and so had decided to play a game of poker. Except that no-one was winning, and they'd been playing for ages.

I know!" said Daniel, "Why don't we make it more interesting? Something to raise the stakes a little?"

"I have an idea…" Janet had a dangerous glint in her eye "How about the loser has to get their legs waxed at the local beautician? And the winner has to pay!"

"Great idea!" Sam said, confident that she wasn't going to lose. The rest of the team echoed her, with less enthusiasm.

"Uh, sure …" Daniel suddenly wasn't so confident about this 'great idea'.

"I am unaware of this concept," said Teal'c. "What is waxing?"

Sam snorted. Of course he didn't! She didn't think Teal'c even had leg hair!!

In the end, Jack lost the game, and Janet had to pay.

She and Sam had to practically push Jack into the beautician, then, ignoring his protests, sat outside with the others and waited.

20 minutes later, a very upset O'Neill cam out, shooting a glare at Janet and Sam that would have caused anyone else to melt. As it was, they just smiled smugly.

"That had to be the worst kind of torture even invented!" he gasped "And you put yourselves through that willingly?" he looked at Sam and Janet, who both rolled their eyes.

"It's not that bad" said Janet

"Uh-huh. Sure. I think I'd rather face a Goa'uld than go through that again. And that woman …." He trailed off at the thought of the lady who had done it and shuddered. "She enjoyed every minute of that! She was smiling through the whole thing, I swear! You know, she would make a really good System Lord, I mean, Lady. I mean, she even had the nerve to ask me if I wanted my eyebrows done as well!!!"

Daniel sniggered, mainly out of relief that it hadn't been him who lost the game.

Although the thought of a galaxy ruled solely by beautician ladies was a truly terrifying one.

He shuddered.

"C'mon guys, let's go home"

And I shudder with you, Danny-boy… :)

For those of you lucky enough to have never gone through this horrible form of torture that is disguised as a beauty treatment… beautician ladies are some of the scariest people you will ever meet, with the possible exception of a certain few teachers at my school… *shudders again*. Ruthless, too.

But hey, you just go ahead and review. Don't let me stop you…

Go on. You know you want to! :)

:D MSC