The Seduction of Colgate

Finally Monday had arrived. It was a big day for not just Colgate, but her two new employees as well. For Colgate, it was her grand re-opening after an explosion destroyed her old office and for Amethyst and Sea Swirl, it was their first day at work. It was a cloudy morning so there was no sun to wake the two younger mares up. Around 0700 there was a loud pounding on their door, which caused the two to jump and scream. Amethyst screamed, "Aaah! Colgate, is that you?"

Colgate shouted, "Wake up you two. We have to eat breakfast and get to the office."

Sea Swirl replied, "Ok, we'll be down shortly."

When they heard Colgate walking back down the stairs Amethyst said, "Well Sea Swirl, now I know that we are going to have to go to sleep at a decent time on nights before workdays."

Sea Swirl replied, "I know. Luckily we will still have Friday and Saturday nights when we can stay awake late and have fun!"

Amethyst said, "Yep." She motioned towards the door and continued, "Well we better get downstairs. I have a feeling Colgate is going to be a bit uptight today with it being her grand re-opening."

When they got downstairs they saw a frantic Colgate pacing back and forth waiting for breakfast to get cooked. She saw that the two looked relatively calm and asked, "How can you two be so calm right now? Don't you know how important this day is?"

Amethyst replied, "Yeah we do. I guess we aren't as stressed because we didn't go through the disaster that you went through."

Sea Swirl added, "Yeah, this is your grand re-opening so I understand how important this is to you."

Colgate said, "Well let's hurry up and eat. I want us to get there early so that everything will be perfect when our first patient gets there."

The two decided not to mention anything further as they had no desire to start their first day with Colgate in a bad mood. After the three finished their breakfast they headed to the office. Colgate was giddy and jumping around like a schoolfilly the closer the clock got to 0800. Sea Swirl asked, "Wow Colgate, you're really excited for this, aren't you?"

Colgate pulled both Sea Swirl and Amethyst into a group hug and replied, "Of course I am! You have no idea how long I have been looking forward to this day." The clock read 0800 and Colgate raced to the door. Just as she unlocked it, the first snow of the season began to fall and her first patient, Applejack, came through the door.

Applejack saw Colgate and asked, "Howdy Colgate, how are y'all doing?"

Colgate hugged Applejack and replied, "I'm doing wonderful and seeing that you're my first patient since re-opening makes me even happier!"

Applejack knew that Colgate was so happy because she has always had perfect teeth. She said, "Well Colgate, you never know, with me being your first patient in the new building, it might be good luck."

Colgate laughed, "I certainly hope so. It would make life a whole lot easier."

Amethyst was standing there and asked, "Well Applejack, are you ready to come on back?"

Applejack replied, "You bet I am!"

Amethyst had a bit of a nervous look on her face as she was about to examine a pony's teeth for the very first time outside of the lab in Canterlot. Applejack looked at her name tag and asked, "Amethyst Star, are y'all ok? Y'all seem nervous."

Amethyst replied, "Yeah, I'm ok. It is just that you are the very first pony I will be examining since starting work and I'm nervous I will mess up."

Applejack said, "Oh y'all will be fine. Y'all ain't going to mess up."

Amethyst began to look over Applejack's teeth and saw nothing out of the ordinary except for teeth that were whiter than anypony she examined in the lab up in Canterlot. She said, "Wow Applejack, your teeth are so white! I take it you take good care of them?"

Applejack replied, "Eeyep, Ah take very good care of them. Ah don't want to lose them like Granny Smith did her's."

Amethyst asked, "What caused her to lose her teeth?"

Colgate replied, "Well back when her teeth were starting to get into bad health, there was no dentist here in town and ponies had to go up to Canterlot to see the dentist. Often times we couldn't even afford the train ticket up to Canterlot, much less the cost to see the dentist."

Amethyst said, "Yeah, I remember when I was a very young filly that there was no dentist here and seeing the dentist wasn't all that cheap."

Colgate came around the corner and interrupted, "Amethyst, you need to go get the next patient and bring her back. Besides, I need to take a look at Applejack's teeth."

Amethyst nodded and headed out to the waiting room. Waiting there was her dad, Written Script. She rushed to him, hugged him and said, "Dad! It is so good to see you!"

Written Script replied, "It's so good to see you too my daughter." He knew that her and Sea Swirl both had moved in with Colgate rather than move back in with their parents. He asked, "Amethyst, why did you decide to move in with your boss rather than move back in with your mom and I?"

Amethyst replied, "Well Sea Swirl was going to move in with her and you know how close Sea Swirl and I are. Also, Colgate knew that we wanted to still be able to live in the same place like we did up at the academy so she offered us her upstairs."

Her father sighed, "Oh and how much rent is she charging the two of you? You know you wouldn't have had to pay any rent if you'd moved back home."

Amethyst replied, "Well Colgate lets us live there free of charge. She kind of wanted us to live there anyway so that we could all come to the office at the same time."

Written Script really didn't like that. He grunted, "Oh I see, a controlling boss who wants to make sure you're never late." He looked over at Sea Swirl and asked, "And I take it she is probably making sure you two don't eat any sweets as well?"

Sea Swirl asked, "Why do you ask?"

Written Script replied, "I know how she is. When she had her sister working for her and living with her she did not let her eat sweets except for on one lone occasion when she was really distraught. If Colgate had her way, she would ban sweets altogether and force everypony to drink diet pop."

Amethyst looked up at the clock and said, "Well dad, I better get you back and get you checked out. Colgate despises tardiness even more than she does sweets and if I were to cause her to fall behind schedule, I would be in a lot of trouble."

Written Script followed his daughter back to the chair while Colgate was busy cleaning Applejack's teeth. She began to examine her dad's teeth and everything looked fine. He saw the smile on her face and asked, "I take it things look alright?"

Amethyst replied, "Yeah but Colgate is the one with the fancy spells so she will be able to tell you for sure."

Amethyst realized that Colgate was cleaning Applejack's teeth because she had stayed out in the waiting room talking with her dad. She knew she was probably in trouble but realized that she would need to approach Colgate right away. She headed to her and asked, "Colgate, do you want me to take over?"

Colgate glared at her hygienist and asked, "Amethyst, where were you? How long does it take you to bring back another patient?"

Amethyst replied, "Well you see my dad is our next patient and we got to talking. I just lost track of time."

This did not sit well with her boss. She growled, "Well next time could you bring the patient back on time?" She rolled her eyes and continued, "Good grief, you're going to wind up being as bad as Lyra was, always yapping with patients before bringing them back and causing me to fall behind schedule and you know how I feel about tardiness."

Applejack had never seen Colgate like this before and was becoming nervous. She looked at her patient and continued, "No need to be nervous Applejack. You haven't done anything wrong." She again glared at Amethyst and continued, "Amethyst, finish doing your job while I go take a look at your dad."

Despite falling twenty minutes behind schedule, Colgate was able to get her last patient in and out of the office on time. After she locked the door she gathered her employees together and said, "Well, I think things went by fairly well today. They could have gone better, but hey we finished the day on time."

Sea Swirl asked, "Colgate, how did I do?"

Colgate replied, "Well from what I saw you did fine. You got everypony checked in, you got new appointments scheduled, you got all the payments taken and insurance claims submitted." She then glared at Amethyst and continued, "Amethyst, I know he is your dad but in the future could we please get patients back here on time so we don't fall behind schedule again."

Amethyst looked down and replied, "Yes Colgate, we can."

When they headed home Amethyst felt sad. It really bothered her that she would get talked to in such a matter on her very first day yet she realized that it was her fault. In her mind that evening, she vowed to always get patients taken back on time and if she wanted to have in depth discussions with them, that she would do so after work.