Chapter 1
Sam inspected the demi-card in her hands. She glared at it suspiciously
wondering who had sent it - and why. At first glance it was an innocuous looking
card. At first glance. It was a piece of white card, about 4 inches by 6 inches
with gold border and writing.
Major Carter,
Your mission is to attend a fancy dress ball. You will come dressed as a 'Teeny
Bopper'. We look forward to seeing you.
The rest of the card was taken up with details of where and when the part was
being held. Sam glared at the card suspiciously again - it had to be someone's
idea of joke.
Sam sighed and looked around at the clutter in her lab. It would almost be nice
to have some kind of a break from the everyday monotony of the SGC. She
half-smiled to herself at the thought that anyone could call visiting a new
planet about once a week monotonous.
"What are you smiling at I wonder?"
Sam turned around to find Janet standing in her doorway.
"Hi Janet."
"He-ey." Janet came into Sam's lab and stood next to her, "So what were you
smiling at?"
"I was just thinking that I was getting a little bored of my job - and I found
it amusing that anyone could ever find 'gating boring."
"Too right, I'd kill to get to be on one of the teams."
"I know."
"So what made you think of that?"
"This." Sam said, flapping the card in her hand.
Janet giggled
"What?" Sam asked
"You got one too?"
"Well it certainly seems so." Sam replied, not getting the joke.
"Me too. Jack and Daniel have as well."
"Really?" Sam asked incredulously
"Yup - seems at least half the SG teams got them."
"I don't know if I'll go. It's probably just a joke someone is playing on us.
Besides…I don't think I'd look good as a…" Sam trailed off
"What did you get?"
"Teeny Bopper." Sam muttered
Janet tried her best not to laugh but her mirth got the better of her.
"Oh shut up." Sam said, "What did you get?"
Janet tried to be serious.
"Dominatrix." She said with a grin.
"And are you going to go? As that?"
"Sure, why not? It sounds like fun."
"You have a strange concept of 'fun' Janet" Sam said, rolling her eyes
"Aaw c'mon Sam - lighten up. I think it'll be fun. Besides, you'll get to have a
good laugh at Jack."
"What's he going as?"
"No idea - he refused to tell me. Daniel just blushed when I asked him what Jack
got, so all in all it sounds like it could be an interesting night. You really
should come."
"I don't know…"
"I'll be there." Janet wheedled.
Sam pondered for a moment. She didn't go out much and lately it had been even
worse. She hadn't left the SGC for about a month apart from going off-world, and
that hardly counted anyway. Maybe she should go. After all, if everyone else was
going to be dressing up stupidly then she wouldn't look so out of place.
"I think Dominatrix suits you" She said finally, "You're getting just a tad more
pleasure out of this than you should be."
"Don't be like that Sammy." Janet said, grinning again, "Come along, you know
you'll have fun."
"Fine. You win. I'll go."
"Excellent!"
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The party was a night away and Sam was having second thoughts. She'd gotten all
the accoutrements for her costume, but she didn't know if it was such a good
idea to go along. It could be oh so embarrassing. Then again - if Colonel
O'Neill was going to be there, and according to the rumour mill he was, then she
could probably pluck up the courage to go along as well. She' faced Goa'uld
worse than this, she could handle a simple costume party.
Her mind decided conclusively, Sam went to visit Janet. When she got there,
Janet was busy mending an Airman who had gotten a little too friendly with a
coffee pot and had scalded himself badly. Janet saw her and nodded towards her
office. Sam went in there to wait until Janet was finished.
After a short while, Janet joined her.
"He-ey Sam. What's up?"
"Nothing. Just wondering if you wanted a lift to this thing tomorrow."
"You driving your car?"
"No…taking the Indian. I thought it might be a blast to drive along the open
roads dressed like an idiot - prepare myself for the embarrassment of the real
thing." Sam grinned.
"Yeah I'll be in on that."
"Excellent. I'll pick you up at 1900 hours."
"See you then."
X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X
True to her word, Sam was at Janet's door at 7pm exactly. She nervously rang the
doorbell and adjusted her leather bike jacket. She heard the door open and
looked up to see Cassie trying not to laugh at her.
"What?" She asked the girl.
"Nothing." She replied, desperately trying not to laugh, "Come in. Mum is still
getting ready but she won't be long."
Sam stepped inside and Cassie closed the door behind her. Sam was sure she heard
a faint sniggering coming from Cassie as she went to the lounge room to wait for
Janet.
She didn't have to wait long. Janet's entrance into the room was announced by a
gasp from Cassie. Sam slowly turned around and gaped at Janet. She was wearing
tight black vinyl mini-shorts, a black vinyl corset, knee high black boots and
was carrying a small whip. She looked exactly like what Sam envisioned a
Dominatrix looking like.
"Hey Sam. What do you think?"
"Wow. You look…perfect."
"Thanks." Janet said smiling
"What about me?"
Janet took a quick glance at Sam's outfit. Under her leather jacket she was
wearing a tight red shirt with sequins spelling out 'bad girl', long pink and
red cargos and a pair of tacky plastic earrings. She had even managed to coax
her hair into two pigtails, one on either side - Janet had no idea how she'd
managed to get them inside her bike helmet without them falling out.
"You look tackily great." Janet grinned
"There's something missing though." Cassie commented
"Yeah what?" Sam asked.
"Hang on."
Cassie bolted off upstairs while Janet just shrugged at Sam. She came back
quickly and presented Sam with a piece of fairy floss pink material.
"What…is…this?" Sam said, holding the offending piece of material with her thumb
and forefinger.
"A bandanna. It'll complete your costume wonderfully."
Cassie helped Sam put the bandanna on, her pigtails sticking out the back. Janet
couldn't help but giggle.
"You really look like a teenager in need of some serious fashion advice." Janet
joked.
"Good…I fit the part then."
Sam gave Janet her spare helmet to wear on the bike and they headed off, Cassie
grinning from the doorway and waving them goodbye.
X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X
They arrived at the party to find that half of the guests were there before
them. Major Stan Kovack, Colonel Makepeace and Lieutenant Simmons were there in
costumes. Sam parked the bike and helped Janet off, before balling her jacket up
into one of the helmets and taking them inside to the cloakroom.
Sam quickly found Daniel. He was kind of hard to miss. Daniel was dressed up as
what Sam could only describe as a giant toothpick. It was a comical sight -
Daniel standing awkwardly by himself looking for someone to talk to, his costume
brushing against the decorations hanging from the ceiling. Sam nudged Janet,
pointing out Daniel, and the two of them went to join him.
"Hey Daniel" Sam said, "Nice…toothpick."
"Hey Sam, Janet. You like it? I picked it up from a fancy dress shop. It's
amazing what you can find in those places. So what are you guys?"
"Teeny Bopper." Sam said, "And Janet is a Dominatrix. Suits her huh?" Sam joked.
"Yeah…great whip. Remind me not to hurt myself in the next couple of months. I
don't want to go near sickbay if that's what you're using as your 'bedside
manner" now." Daniel tried to duck a swipe from Janet and only managed in
tangling himself up in more streamers.
"Damn." He said, "I've been doing that all night."
"Seen Jack yet?" Sam asked.
"I…think that's probably him coming in now guessing from the commotion at the
door."
Sama and Janet tried to see over the crowds of people, Janet craning her neck
and standing on her tiptoes.
"Holy Hannah. I've never seen one that looked like that before." Sam muttered
"What?" Janet said, still trying to increase her meagre height.
"You'll see." Sam flapped a hand over the crowd, indicating to Jack where they
were.
"Oh my God." Janet said as he finally came into view, "It's huge!"
"Nice prophylactic gestation avoidance device Sir." Sam teased.
"Eh?" Daniel said
"She was complimenting my condom" Jack informed him
"Oh. Right, of course."
"You get stuck in someone's teeth Danny-boy?" Jack asked
"What?"
"Toothpick."
"Oh, yeah, right. I guess."
Everyone soon relaxed into the roles they'd assumed for the night, and quickly
forgot what funny costumes they were all wearing. Sam couldn't remember when
she'd last had such a good time. Janet's whip got a good work out and Colonel
Makepeace threatened to use Daniel as a limbo stick, while Sam avoided
flirtatious advances from Lieutenant Simmons. All in all Sam had a great time,
got to know the people at SGC better and had fun with her friends. She made a
mental note that to get out of her lab more in the future.
FINI!

Additional Notes: So, I hear you ask, what was this challenge? Well, it is as follows:

Sam has to wear a bright pink bandanna

Janet must wear CFMs

A toothpick must be the focus of at least one paragraph and/or conversation

Sam or Janet speaks technobabble and Jack understands

Sam has to say "I've never seen one that looked like that before"

Janet has to say "Oh my God! It's huge!"

Notes:

I chose a condom as Jack's costume because he always reminds me of Captain Kirk - a different alien babe on every planet. I think he must have a packet of prophylactics as his standard survival gear.

Daniel was a toothpick partly to fit in with the challenge and partly because sometimes I think he gets stuck between people's teeth and they need something to pick him out with

Janet is a Dominatrix because...well...aren't all doctors sadists anyway?

Sam is a Teeny Bopper because sometimes she reminds me a lot like a teenager with the most recent cd of some popular band when it comes to her gadgets, doohickeys and whatsits.

The ending is weak because I had to end it and it wasn't going anywhere.

There was originally a serious version of this (silne said there was no way I could write it without being funny), but it fell by the wayside because my Muses liked that idea even less.

I never mentioned who was responsible for organising the party, but in my mind it was General Hammond trying to give his teams a break from the SGC and bring a little amusement into their lives. What a guy

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