Hearth's Warming had come and gone and before she knew it, Twilight's second trip to the practice in ten days had arrived. While she was fairly confident that her followup with the doctor would be fine, it was her appointment with Colgate that had her scared. She had never had any cavities before and worried that getting fillings would hurt.

There was a horrible blizzard striking Ponyville as Twilight headed into the practice. She was tracking snow into the lobby. When Sea Swirl saw this she cleared there throat and said, "AHEM, could you please go stomp the snow off of your hooves. If you don't, you'll be the one to clean up the mess."

Twilight replied, "But I'm a princess."

Sea Swirl's glare deepened and she pointed her hoof towards a sign that asked customers to please clean the snow off their hooves before coming in. Twilight got a sheepish grin and headed out to clean her hooves.

Once she got in she headed to the receptionist's window to let Sea Swirl know that she was there for her appointments. She entered some information in the computer and said, "Alright Twilight, take a seat. Twinkleshine will be out to get you shortly."

Twilight sat down and began to read an article in a magazine about health and fitness. The article she was reading involved intense training for racing. She was only able to read a couple paragraphs before Twinkleshine came out to get her. "Hi Twilight, how was your Hearth's Warming?"

Twilight replied, "Oh it was ok. Spike wasn't overly thrilled over the book I gave him but he sure loved the blanket Applejack made for him. He hugged her and thanked her probably twenty times."

Twinkleshine said, "Awww, how adorable.....well come on back. Let's see if things have changed any."

She led Twilight back to the exam room where she took her vitals. Twinkleshine said, "Are you ok Twilight? You are running a bit of a fever today."

Twilight replied, "Well I feel alright."

Twinkleshine wrote down the princess's vitals and headed to get Whooves. When he came into the exam room he saw Twilight tapping her hooves together impatiently. He had her chart along with an envelope. Twilight saw this and asked, "Doctor, what is in that envelope."

Whooves replied, "The results of your tests. Let's take a look, shall we."

He opened the envelope and pulled the papers out. The first to be listed was her bloodwork. He said, "Twilight, this really concerns me. Your LDLs, your bad cholesterol, are through the roof while your HDLs, good cholesterol are low. It also bothers me that your triglycerides are as high as they are."

Twilight asked, "Is there anything I can do to fix that doctor?"

Whooves replied, "Well I am going to prescribe you some medication to lower your cholesterol. I would advise you lay off of the fried daffodils and fried cupcakes. That is probably what has your cholesterol in the shape that it is in."

The doctor looked at the second page of the report regarding her kidney function and things looked fairly good. He said, "Princess Twilight, your kidney function looks normal for the most part but some of your numbers are off a bit, but it's nothing to really worry about."

Twilight replied, "Well that's good, I guess."

The doctor then looked at the third page of the report. While he was adamant to everypony at the practice that Twilight would never take steroids he had the lab run a test for them anyway. He saw the results and initially didn't react negatively. He wanted to get it out of Twilight in another way. He asked, "So Twilight, I have noticed your wings are more muscular these days and that you are wanting to fly faster. Why is that?"

Twilight replied, "Well ever since I became a princess, Rainbow Dash has always beat me in races, I mean always. It has been frustrating me so much because Alicorns are supposed to be able to fly faster than regular pegasi."

He asked, "So have you ever won a race against her?"

Twilight replied, "Well up until just a few months ago I had never beat her and now I beat her all the time. It is so funny to see her with that dejected look when a pony she always called an egghead beats her. Now I know why she loves winning, being better than somepony else makes me feel like the truly superior pony I am!"

The doctor rolled his eyes and continued, "Well I suppose Oxabolone would help anypony fly faster."

Twilight's jaw dropped when she heard this. She wondered how in the world the doctor could even know about it. He glared at her and continued, "I know about the performance enhancing drug Twilight. When I saw your wings had almost doubled in size since last summer I knew something was going on so I ordered a drug test on you."

Twilight started screaming and yelling at the doctor for doing that. She was yelling so loud that everypony else in the practice had to come in and subdue her. Colgate even had to put a horn cap on her to prevent any discharges of energy. Twilight continued to scream in anger. She screamed, "You don't understand doctor, I had to show Rainbow Dash I was better than her and steroids were the only way to do it!"

Doctor Whooves stared the belligerent patient down and she stopped screaming and yelling. Whooves asked, "Twilight, do you know how bad performance enhancing drugs are for you?"

Twilight puffed her chest out and boasted, "Well, they haven't done anything bad yet. Hey, I'd say beating Rainbow at her own game is really good!"

The doctor continued, "You do know that if you go off of this steroid that your muscles will deteriorate very quickly and you will become very weak." He raised his voice and finished, "Now I know why your blood pressure and pulse are so high. Steroids will do that to a pony."

Twilight started to cry, "But all I wanted to do was beat Rainbow."

Doctor Whooves looked at the clock and said, "Just go. Right now I can't stand to even look at you and besides, your appointment with Colgate starts in ten minutes."

Twilight headed out to the lobby to discover that Colgate was waiting for her. She had a concerned look on her face and said, "Come on back Twilight, we need to fill those cavities."

As Colgate led Twilight back she asked, "Twilight, I saw how angry you got with the doctor. I'm not going to need everypony in here to restrain you am I?"

Twilight replied, "No, you won't."

Colgate took one more look into the princess's mouth before getting the needle to inject the numbing agents into her mouth. Twilight saw this and cringed. Colgate saw her reaction and said, "Why are you so scared Twilight? I wouldn't think needles would scare you."

Twilight screamed, "They do if I'm not the one using them on myself."

Colgate replied, "Just let me numb your mouth. I don't think you want to get fillings without a numbing agent. You'd be howling so loud in pain that the whole town would hear you."

Twilight realized that she was right and allowed her to numb her mouth. The rest of the appointment went on rather normally as Twilight laid there with her mouth open while Colgate filled the cavities. When she was done Colgate said, "Now Twilight, I would advise you stay away from cold foods for a while."

Twilight asked, "Is there anything else I should avoid?"

Colgate replied, "Yeah, avoid fried daffodils and fried cupcakes. Those will cause excruciating pain." Colgate gave the princess an intense glare and asked, "So, where do you get this unhealthy crap from anyway?"

Twilight replied, "Well the Cakes make them for me. Don't tell anypony but it is something they do for me and nopony else."

Colgate said, "Don't worry Twilight, nopony will hear a word of this."

Twilight asked, "When will I......"

Colgate interrupted, "You should be able to resume normal eating habits in two weeks. Now go get checked out."

Twilight headed to the front and paid her co-pay. Sea Swirl asked, "So Twilight, do either one of the doctors wish to see you again anytime soon?"

Twilight replied, "They didn't say anything about it. If I need to see either one of them I will schedule an appointment."

Sea Swirl smiled and replied, "Alright your Majesty, you have a good day!"

Twilight rolled her eyes and slammed the door on the way out. Given that they had no more appointments that day they closed up shop and began to discuss their anger towards their royal patient. Dr. Whooves had a fury burning in his eyes. He said, "I had a feeling she was doping but I never imagined it would actually be true!"

Twinkleshine asked, "Whooves, you said last time that she was here that she is a lady and would never take steroids. Why did you order a test?"

Whooves replied, "A nagging voice in the back of my head just told me to. I really wish there was a way to punish her for this but there just isn't. It's not like we can torture her or anything."

Colgate's eyes lit up when he said this. She said, "Come on everypony, let's head over to my house. I'll fix us dinner and we can make plans for what needs to be done to put the overly competitive princess in her place."

Her co-workers had no clue as to what was running through her mind but unlike the others, Whooves has seen Colgate's angry side. She motioned for them to follow to her house so that is what they did. They knew she had something in mind, but none of them would ever have imagined what Colgate's plans were.

Author's Note

oxabolone ---------- performance enhancing drug