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// Sunset Shimmer 
// Story: Colgate's Rants 2:  The Antagonist Edition 
// by StormLuna 
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My next patient has had some rather odd life experiences and she is the first patient that I know from the past.  At one time her and I were in Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns together, Sunset Shimmer.  When she first walked in she rushed up to me, hugged me and said, "Minuette!  Long time no see!"

I smacked her so hard I knocked one of her teeth out.  I yelled, "DO NOT CALL ME MINUETTE!  NOPONY CALLS ME MINUETTE!"

What irks the hell out of me is that she knew that I preferred to go by Colgate.  She looked a bit scared and corrected herself, "Ok Colgate, I'm sorry."

I replied, "That's better.  What brings you in today?"

She told me about how a couple of her teeth were hurting and picked up her tooth I knocked out and added, "And thanks to you, I need this tooth put back in!"

Before asking her how she would pay I took her back.  I guess sometimes a pony will forget the most important things when she sees a pony from her past.  I looked at her teeth and a couple of them were rotten.  I shook my head and asked, "Sunset, what the hell is up with your teeth?  A couple of them are rotten and from the looks of things, I would swear your diet consists mainly of chocolate."

She nodded and replied, "Well at Canterlot High that is what me and the other girls like."

Given that both of us were in Celestia's advanced school I wondered what she was talking about.  I asked, "Canterlot High?  What the hell are you talking about Sunny?"

She had this scared look on her face and acted like she had revealed something that she was not supposed to.  Well I honestly don't care, all I care about is getting her in and out of here and most importantly, getting my money.    Unlike other patients though, she kept on trying to talk about how her life is going while I was trying to fix her teeth, I had to reprimand her, "Sunset, I can't fix your teeth if you keep on talking.  We can reminisce later."

I simply said that to placate her as I honestly don't give a rat's ass about what is going on in her life.  Besides, what the hell could be going on in her life that I would find interesting?  Well I was finally able to get her settled in her chair and I got to work on her.  I honestly wonder about her though, how the hell could somepony let their teeth get in that bad of shape?

Eventually we finished our talk and began to reminisce some more.  Yeah I know it is cheesy as hell but I'll placate the girl nonetheless.   She started to talk about some high school in an alternate world and a statue of some sort.  I'm thinking, what in the hell is she talking about?  The more she talks about this alternate world and the "people" she knew, the more I began to think she must be taking some hardcore drugs.  The only place I have ever heard the term "people" used is in Lyra's My Little Human comic book and I figured she must be a fan of the show as well.

Eventually her appointment was over and up came my favorite part, collecting her payment.  What would happen next tough would really piss me off.   Guess what she hands me?  A TIACARE CARD.  Yep, a damn TiaCare card and to make matters worse, the damn thing was expired!  So even if I did still accept TiaCare, her card would have been declined anyway.   Like I said this pissed me off and as everypony knows, it is not wise to piss me off.  I smacked her and yelled, "Look bitch, I don't accept TiaCare!  Take your card and stick it where the sun don't shine!"  I got in her face and added, "Look, I accept cash, debit cards, EquineCare and most private insurance plans."

Well unfortunately for her she had no cash on her nor did she have any other insurance so she wound up having to work her debt off by being my personal janitor at home and in the office.  Yeah she didn't like it but she figured it beats getting sued.  I would have had her compensate me in other ways but I just didn't find her suitable for that kind of compensation.