: : Summary : : The story of Rick and the belly dancer mentioned in TMR. The story
starts a few hours after TMR flying in Izzy's balloon
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"Rick, I was wondering something," said Evelyn. "Yeah? What's that?" asked Rick. "What was talking about with you and a- a belly dancer?" "Evelyn, you might want me to tell the story," intrupted Izzy. "Go on then Izzy, tell me."
"It all started after O'Connell here got back from Hamunaptra. I was sitting on a stool at the casbah when he asks me, "What do you people do in this country for a good time?"
"I took him to the airfeild and showed him my airplane. He looked a bit frightend when I told him to hop in-" Evelyn burst into giggles at the very thought of her husband being afraid of an airplane. "Well," continued Izzy, "Until he saw Jasmine smile at him." "Jasmine?" asked Evelyn, sounding a bit jealous. "Who's Jasmine?" "That was the belly dancer's name," replied Izzy. "Oh, please continue then."
"Well O'Connell being the man that he is smiled back at her and jumped into the plane. We rode around for awhile, the sky perfect for flying. We were going to land when these men in black started shooting at us! Now that I think about it, it was the exact moment he was telling me about Hamunaptra. And those men in black must have been- what were they called? Oh yes, Med-jai.
While I was flying the plane he was shooting and goggling at Jasmine! I landed the plane and he handed me a gun. O'Connell ran away to save Jasmine, leaving me alone.
I ran screaming, shooting everything in site. Suddnely I got shot- twice. The first had been aimed right at my spleen, the second right in the ass!
I fell down and was lying there for quite some time. I had no clue where the men in black had went. Then O'Connell here came strolling past me with Jasmine compleatly ignoring the fact that my damn spleen was hanging out!"
"By the way O'Connell", said Izzy finishing his story. "What ever happened to Jasmine?" "Hell if I know," replied Rick. "I only knew her for about a week." "Well that's a relief," said Evelyn, looking at her wedding ring and then to a sleeping Alex. "Evie I never would have loved her, you know that!" "Darling I know that but-" Rick broke off Evelyn's words by kissing her, followed by an "Oh please!" From Jonathan and Izzy.
The End