Part One

The reverse tsunami was cancelled. Or more accurately it was postponed for 24 hours. In the wee hours of the morning on which Duke was to depart for Hawaii the Professor, while triple checking his figures, found a mistake. It didn't deny the reverse tsunami, but it changed the timetable and that, the Professor feared, might change everything.

After all Duke hadn't been interested in returning home after meeting Ginger and Mary Ann. It had taken not only rejection by the girls, but a ruse in which they pretended to be romantically involved with Gilligan and the Professor to convince him to get back on the board. With another day to think things over or uncover the castaways trick the Professor worried the brawny surfer might easily backslide.

Immediately he woke up the Skipper, who'd been bunking with him while Duke used his hut, and it was agreed a Plan B needed to be put into action. Skipper would break the news to Duke then stay with him all day to insure he kept preparing physically for the big wave while also making certain he didn't have a change of heart. Meanwhile the Professor and Gilligan would stick close to Ginger and Mary Ann respectively. If Duke should stumble upon either pair they would continue their amorous display by holding hands, hugging and kissing if necessary.

A half hour before departure time Skipper made his way over to the boy's hut. After so many failed rescues he was not about to let anything interfere with this one. If Duke balked Skipper was determined to do everything in his power, up to and including physical violence, to get Duke on that tsunami.

When Skipper arrived he found Duke doing chin-ups on a low hanging beam. He had been awake for hours working his muscles into peak condition. Upon noticing Skipper Duke jumped down drew himself up to full height, squared his broad shoulders, expanded his powerful chest and pronounced himself ready to hit the beach. If the Skipper had any lingering doubts about Duke's ability to withstand the rigors of a second tsunami so close to the first one they quickly evaporated. Duke stood before him like a Greek God in cutoff shorts, leaving Skipper to pray that he didn't have to fight him.

"Change of plans," Skipper announced tentatively. "The reverse tsunami's been pushed back by a day. But the Professor says everything will be a go tomorrow morning."

This was the moment of truth Skipper thought. He looked into Duke's eyes for a clue as to what was going on inside, but Duke, who had proudly proclaimed he was a dropout from the second grade, was about as deep as a kiddie pool.

The handsome surfer brought a hand up to rub his chin and Skipper swallowed nervously as an enormous bicep rolled up in Duke's arm. Then just as Skipper was mentally preparing his best argument for rescue Duke smiled and declared, "No problem, Daddio. Just more time for me to fine tune the muscle machine!"

"Great," breathed Skipper, relieved. "I was thinking I could stay with you today and help with your training."

"Sounds good," replied Duke. "We can start right now with a five mile run."

"A five mile…what?"

Skipper's face dropped, but before he could protest Duke had bolted past him and was off toward the jungle.

"Oh brother," grumbled Skipper as he coaxed his considerable bulk into a slow jog. "This plan better not fail…"

While the Skipper labored to keep up with Duke the girls were hoping to take advantage of the situation to work their own agenda on Gilligan and the Professor.

It was no secret Mary Ann longed for something more than just a platonic relationship with Gilligan. She had always found him sweet, funny, caring, compassionate and even cute in a geeky kind of way. She wasn't looking to get all hot and heavy with the child-like First Mate, but she always thought it would be nice to have him hold her hand, take her on long walks and maybe do some light necking like people their age were probably doing right now back at home. If something blossomed beyond that she certainly wouldn't be against it.

As for Ginger her desire for the Professor was borne out of limited options as much as anything else. After they were rescued Ginger would go back to dating Hollywood hunks while the Professor would disappear into the halls of academia, but that, she thought, didn't preclude them from having a little fun while they were stuck in this sandy Purgatory. Besides she did find the Professor good looking and he had always gone out of his way to be nice to her mixing up lipstick and makeup out of indigenous plants, as well as, coming up with other gadgets and sundry items to make life on the island more bearable for the girls.

So it was with thoughts of romance in their minds and a touch of lust in their hearts that the girls were going to try to use this time together to bring these reluctant men around to their way of thinking. Of course they knew it wouldn't be easy. Ginger had described her kiss of the Professor the night before as having all the passion of licking a postage stamp. While Mary Ann still couldn't believe that a grown man hearing someone reference the "Birds and Bees" could actually think they were talking about…well, birds and bees. It would, they agreed, take all their womanly charms and then some to pull this off.

Part Two…to follow…