(A/N So I kind of decided to completely change the story, after I got inspiration from headcanons on Tumblr about the total drama people being in college. Those headcanons were also quite realistic so I just went with it, made some changes and hope you enjoy how it came out. Also, a few people were following the first version of this story and I wanted to say sorry for not continuing it and I hope you like this version too)

Though it was no secret that the first-generation Total Drama-contestants generally hated each other with a passion, going through humiliating, disgusting and life-threatening challenges together did create some kind of 'bond'.

And that's how they ended up in front of a house somewhere in Toronto, impatiently waiting for Courtney to open de door.

"How difficult can it be to put a key in a lock?" Heather complained, checking out her nails and laying her head down on Alejandro's shoulder. The two had arrived together, earning a few raised eyebrows and smirks from the others, which Heather had kindly answered with a murderous glare.

Courtney sighed, clearly annoyed. "Well, it's not like you even try to help, do you?" she scoffed, stepping away from the door, making way for Heather who rolled her eyes and still didn't make any attempt at helping her.

"Would've been a lot easier with a screwdriver" Duncan mumbled, earning himself a glare from Courtney. "Yeah because who needs an intact lock on their door anyway, right?"

"Courtney, if you just step away from the door," Bridgette said as she took her friend by the hand and guided her a few meters away from the door, "then now let me try it." Bridgette, who was actually calm as opposed to Courtney, easily got the key to turn and thus the door to open.

Bridgette turned around and looked at Courtney triumphantly. "Whatever" the other girl mumbled, picking up her suitcases and stepping into the house, for which everyone had laid in some money to pay for.

The building, an old boarding school, had 12 bedrooms (which was rather convenient given the fact that there were 24 people), 2 bathrooms, a kitchen, a living room and a laundry room. There was also a small backyard. All in all, they had nothing to complain about. Except for each other.

"Sooo, are we supposed to make bedroom arrangements or something?" Katie suggested, stepping closer to Sadie rather unsubtly to show that she wanted to room with her best friend. Bridgette answered with a shrug, "yeah sure."

That was all it took for Katie and Sadie to run off squealing, in search of a room. Mumbling, the others that had already arrived followed suit. Since they were adults and not under supervision, they figured the couples could room together, resulting in Bridgette and Geoff, Heather and Alejandro and Tyler and Lindsay sharing bedrooms. Duncan and DJ were an obvious pair too.

The others arrived soon after and soon almost all rooms were complete. Noah and Cody, despite some glares from Sierra and a desperate attempt to get Cody to share a room with her, ended up rooming together, just like Harold and Ezekiel. The room next to theirs was now Justin and Trent's.

For some reason, and despite not having gotten back together, Izzy and Owen insisted they share a room too. Poor Sierra and Beth ended up next to them.

LeShawna, as everyone assumed, intended on rooming with Gwen. However, barely 5 minutes after she had started unpacking, the door was slammed open by Eva.

"Hey. Is this bed free?" she asked, although the tone made clear that it wasn't intended as a question but as a statement.

"Uhm, I actually figured I would room with Gwen" LeShawna admitted.

"She can room with that stuck-up lawyer girl then, because she is driving me absolutely insane."

"You think it's a good idea to have Gwen and Courtney share a room? Have you even seen All-Stars?" LeShawna tried to convince Eva but the latter wasn't affected. "No, I haven't but they can just deal with it. Gothie's fault she wasn't here on time."

Gwen, having arrived an hour or so later than the rest (due to public transport between Montréal and Toronto being a bitch at the moment), was met with an unlocked but closed door with behind it an empty hall.

The unlocked door indicated that there were clearly other people in the house already, so she knocked on the first door she saw, which happened to be the one to Heather and Alejandro's room. The door was opened by Heather, whose annoyed look (because of the interruption) quickly faded and was replaced by smirk when she saw it was Gwen. Alejandro appeared behind her, wearing only jeans.

"You decided to show up after all? You're the last one here so you can't really choose your roommate, you sleep in the room at the end of the hall" she informed Gwen, who just nodded, suspicious of why Heather was being so nice. Well, in a Heather-way.

"I gotta see this" Heather whispered to her boyfriend as soon as Gwen had turned around. The two of them slipped out of their room and tried to casually pretend they were heading to the living room.

Gwen knocked on the door and as soon as it was opened she understood why Heather had been so amused. Courtney was equally fazed by the fact that it was Gwen in front of her. The two hadn't talked since All-Stars and things were clearly awkward between them as they hadn't parted on good terms.

"Hey" Courtney managed to mutter, biting her lip and looking down to avoid having to look at Gwen, which would make the conversation even more awkward. Less than five seconds later she felt two arms wrap around her. "I missed you. I'm sorry" Gwen said, voice muffled because she had buried her face in Courtney's shoulder.

"No, I'm sorry" Courtney answered, hugging Gwen back. They stood there like that for a moment until they were interrupted by Heather's voice. "Well, I expected this to be a little more dramatic." And with that she took off, Alejandro following suit.

Gwen now stepped into the room an dropped her two suitcases in the corner. She let herself fall on the bed and sighed. She turned her head to Courtney, who had sat down on the other bed "Really. I'm sorry. I never should've overreacted like that."

"It's okay, I get it. I overreacted about the Duncan-thing too. Let's just forget all about it. Fresh start okay?" "Yeah."

A silence followed, though it wasn't as awkward as they'd thought it would be.

"So, did anything exciting happen before I got here?" Gwen asked, staring at the ceiling.

Courtney shook her head. "Not really. Though Izzy showed me a video of a guy whose girlfriend lives as a toddler."

Gwen turned her head left to look at Courtney again, smirking as she did so. "Does she call him daddy?"

"Are you sure this was such a good idea?" Bridgette asked. She laid next to Geoff on the beds they had pushed together to make one big bed.

"What?" her boyfriend asked, kissing her cheek affectionately.

"This. Moving in together. I mean, the show didn't bring us much good and we bring out the worst in each other. Look at Courtney, she was just preppy when we met her but then she went all psychotic. Trent's a mess and still in love with his ex, even after two years. Then Gwen, she used to be so chill back on the island and now she has become this… pile of misery and emotions. And I'm not even starting on Ezekiel."

Geoff nodded, considering it for a moment. He couldn't exactly deny what she said. "But positive have happened because of the show too! Meeting you, for example," he said, pressing a soft kiss to the corner of her mouth, "we made some awesome friends and, in the end, even Heather found a boyfriend. Heather of all people."

"Hm, good point. I'm just wondering how long it will take before people start fighting again. You can't convince me Courtney will be able to keep giving Duncan the silent treatment for the next few months or years even." "They'll go back to fighting in no time and at some point, they'll end up dating again."

Bridgette lifted her head from where it had been resting on Geoff's shoulder. "You really think so?"

"Yeah, it was kinda obvious that Duncan still has feelings for Courtney, seeing the way he acted during All-Stars and I don't think Courtney's feelings for him are completely gone either."

"I seriously doubt they'll start dating again. He really hurt her." "So did Gwen, but her and Courtney made up too right?" "True" Bridgette admitted.

"But now, enough talking about others. We finally have some privacy here. No cameras, no parents, no one around to interrupt us" Geoff said in a suggestive tone. Bridgette grinned at her boyfriend, understanding perfectly well what he had in mind."

"What do you say we try out how strong this bed is?" she giggled as Geoff started unzipping her sweater.

"Are they for real?" Duncan groaned in annoyance, hearing the sounds coming from the room next to them. They had been here for less than two hours and Bridgette and Geoff were already going at it.

"They haven't seen each other for a while, let them enjoy their time together" DJ said, as he set Bunny down on his bed and took a carrot from his backpack to feed to the animal.

Duncan snorted. "For a while? They saw each other a week ago. Before All-Stars, pasty and I hadn't seen each other for 2 months and we didn't get it on first thing on the island."

"Bridgette and Geoff have always been more… affectionate" DJ reasoned. He didn't really mind Bridgette and Geoff making out that much, as long as it made them happy. Duncan, however, was having none of it.

"Affectionate? I'd personally call it horny. Seriously, this is the kind of stuff you do when everyone's asleep." It wasn't so much that Duncan had a problem with Bridgette and Geoff doing it during daytime, if only they had been a little quieter.

"Shhh," DJ shushed him, "don't use that kind of language in front of Bunny." He then turned back to the little rabbit. "Duncan seems mean, but he is a really nice guy. He even likes bunnies."

"I do not."

"Duncan man, I have seen how nice you were to that bird on All-Stars, you're a good person."

Duncan snorted. "Sure, I was just doing that for the ratings, I'm still a total bad boy."

"You don't have to pretend around me man, we're friends" DJ said, holding up Bunny for Duncan to pet, which the punk eventually did, although reluctantly. A triumphant smile appeared on DJ's face as an annoyed look formed on Duncan's.

"Alright, alright. The bunny is sort of cute," he admitted, while trying to come up with a way to escape this conversation and further assumptions of his so-called 'kindness'.

"I'm going to see if Gwen is here yet."

"They groan even louder than Rafa Nadal!" Alejandro exclaimed in annoyance at the sounds coming from Bridgette and Geoff's room. He stopped playing with Heather's fingers which visibly annoyed her. She raised an eyebrow. "Rafa Nadal?"

"Yes, Rafa Nadal. You know who he is right?" Heather just shrugged, "sounds Spanish."

He now dropped her hand, causing her to turn to look at him, his face was a clear image of disbelief. "Seriously? He's the number one tennis player in the world! How can you not know who he is?"

Heather, not really caring, shrugged again, "is he that vamos-guy? I don't really follow sports." She had more important things on her mind after all. She had big plans for her future and getting admitted into a prestigious management program had just been the first step.

"Yes, he is the vamos-guy. I thought you'd be a little more educated on the culture of my country." Heather sighed, was he actually being serious about this? "Well, I like tapas, does that count?" she faked an innocent smile which, although Alejandro didn't fall for it, did seem to amuse him. "Only because it's you."

Heather smiled and reached over, wrapping her hands around her boyfriend's neck. "How about we offer Geoff and Bridgette some competition?"

Alejandro wiggled his eyebrows suggestively, making Heather roll her eyes. "I like the sound of that, mi amor." With those words, he captured her lips with his and slowly laid her back down on the bed.

"That reminds me, when I was young my mom used to put my hair into those little pigtails" Courtney giggled, remembering the pictures of her young self.

"I used to have pigtails too, but mine were like, up." "Up?"

Gwen grinned. "Yeah. Not even Pippi Longstocking-style up but actually up" she said, taking some hair in both hands and pulling it up to show what she meant. "And I was this really hardcore goth kid, talking about death and stuff. I even had this headless doll."

Courtney looked taken aback. "A headless doll? What age are we talking about?" "I was in daycare, so I guess I was like 3 or 4 years old." "How do you even remember that?" "I don't, my mom just never let me forget it."

The other girl shuddered. "I'm glad I wasn't in your daycare then." "That place was horrible. One time some kids took our goldfish out of the aquarium to paint him so he'd look like the Rainbow Fish, you know that book?" Courtney nodded. "Yeah. Did the fish survive?" "Of course not, poor Ricardo."

"Who'd call a fish Ricardo?" a voice interrupted them. The girls looked and saw Duncan standing in the doorway, grinning at Gwen.

It was only then that he noticed Courtney's presence.

"Hey" he said, confidently. Courtney merely scoffed and turned away so she didn't have to look at him. She was not giving up on the resumption of the silent treatment just yet. Gwen, however, gave him a 'could-have-expected-that'-look accompanied by a shrug.

"Come on, princess. It's been two years; can't we at least be civil to each other? You're even buddy-buddy with Gwen again." "Because I actually apologized. Several times" Gwen reminded him, although it wasn't something she liked looking back on. Even after the whole chart-thing Courtney pulled on her, she still felt guilty about it, which was way she apologized to Courtney for her reaction to that as soon as she had seen her.

"Exactly. And don't call me princess." "What do you prefer I call you then?"

Courtney turned around, looking him straight in the eyes. If looks could kill, Duncan would've been a dead man. "I'd prefer you don't talk to me at all." "Well, you're talking to me too." "Only to tell you off." "This turns me on, if anything." "Must you always be so inappropriate?"

"Yes, Duncan. Must you always be so inappropriate? Where did the soft, bird-loving sweetheart go?" Gwen mingled in.

"You're one to talk, New Heather." "Wow, great comeback. Do you have more?" Gwen challenged him, clearly enjoying this banter. "Lots. You'll get to hear them at some point." "Can't wait."

Courtney let out an extended sigh. "Can you just go flirt somewhere else?"

This made Gwen snort. "Do you really think I'd still flirt with this?" she asked incredulously.

"Yeah, she's more into guitars nowadays."

"That doesn't even make sense, you were the one still obsessed with your ex."

"You're my ex."

"Dude, don't play dumb. The other one."

"Well, your other one is still obsessed with you."

"Leave Trent out of this."

"Look, now you're even defending him."

"What does this have to do with anything? The point was that you were being inappropriate."

"And you're being a little bitch."

"GUYS!" Courtney yelled, interrupting the other two. She wasn't sure if they were still just teasing each other or whether this was turning into an actual fight. Regardless, she was having none of it. "Can you stop this please?"

Duncan was quick to respond. "She started it!"

"STOP! I don't care who started it. Gwen and I were talking and I don't like you, so go!" she demanded, although it was clear that he wasn't going to. Not willingly at least.

Courtney got up from the bed to physically push Duncan out of the room, which wasn't that hard since he didn't try to resist. She closed the door in front of him.

"You still want me" she could hear his voice from the other side of the door. "I do not!"

Her reply was met with the sound of Duncan laughing.

Courtney let out a frustrated groan and turned her attention back to Gwen, with the intention of continuing their conversation. Gwen, however, did nothing but grin at her friend.

"What?" Courtney spat.

"You two make me nauseous."

Later that day, everyone was shaken up by a loud bang. One by one, they all rushed out of their rooms into the direction of the kitchen, where the sound had come from.

Courtney was fuming. Izzy, however, didn't seem to notice this, or completely ignored it, when she came walking out the kitchen. She seemed oblivious to the smoke and the smell of something burned.

Peeking into the kitchen, Courtney couldn't believe what she saw. "You put an egg in the microwave? An EGG? Why would you do that?" "And where did you even get that egg from?" Bridgette added.

Izzy shrugged. "I wanted to see what would happen. And I got it from the chicken outside."

Tyler stiffened. "There's a chicken outside?" The jock started shaking but was calmed down by Lindsay telling 'Taylor' that it was going to be okay.

"Courtney, calm down okay? We're not going to let Izzy back into the kitchen unsupervised" Bridgette proposed, trying to keep Courtney from lashing out at Izzy. "Who's in favor?" Apart from Izzy, Owen and Ezekiel, everyone raised their hand in agreement.

"See? Problem solved" she said, however looking at Geoff as if to indicate that this was exactly what she was talking about earlier.

"No. The problem hasn't been solved. She IS the problem" Courtney exclaimed, pointing at Izzy, who in return enthusiastically told everyone what she would be studying. "But I need the kitchen, I'm going to follow courses in culinary arts!"

"Culinary arts? You? You're going to be surrounded by knives and fire? Did they even watch the show?" LeShawna asked with a judgmental look. Izzy shrugged, not even slightly offended. "No idea."

"They should ban you already" Courtney shot back. How could anyone in their right mind even think of letting Izzy into a culinary arts course? That girl was a danger to humanity, not to mention the dangerous objects she'd have access to.

"Courtney, why don't you and I go grocery shopping? Let's make a list and then get far away from Izzy, okay?" Bridgette led Courtney out of the kitchen by her arm. "Gwen, are you coming too?" "Sure, whatever."

"Can I come too?" Owen pouted, though not much convincing was needed. "Sure, why not?"

"Did you see her face? I was convinced she'd either explode or kill Izzy right there and then" Heather laughed. She, Alejandro, Sierra and Cody were sitting on and in front of the couch in the living room. Miraculously, they hadn't gotten into an argument yet, though that was mostly thanks to the fact they were discussing Izzy's antics.

"Maybe we shouldn't be so hard on Courtney. She's been through a lot and she is clearly stressed" Alejandro reasoned. He may not always have been the nicest of them all, but they'd have to live together and fighting wasn't going to bring him anything now.

His girlfriend was clearly surprised by his sudden change of heart. "When did you become Mr. Nice Guy?"

"I didn't, but it's no use starting an argument or ridiculing anyone now, we're not exactly doing this for a million dollars." "I intend to become a millionaire one day." "Well, not through a competition then."

Sierra cooed. "Aww, we're all gonna become such good friends. My followers need to know this!" She grabbed her phone out of her pocket and started typing like a maniac, completely oblivious to Heather's mutter of "and we thought Izzy was the crazy one" and the sounds coming from the hallway of Izzy herself trying to convince Courtney to come along.

"Yeeees, I think I'm gonna see what Noah is doing" Cody mentioned, seeing his chance to escape, since Sierra was paying attention to her phone and not to him.

A few meters away from them were Beth, Lindsay, Katie and Sadie discussing Lindsay's plan to set up an Instagram account dedicated to makeup that she would try out on Katie and Sadie.

"That's like, the best idea ever" Katie exclaimed enthusiastically, followed by an "eeeeee" from her best friend.

"Aw really? Thanks guys! I had this thing in mind about starting off with Halloween looks. Would you girls be my models?" Lindsay asked, to which Katie and Sadie obviously agreed.

"Maybe you could transform Heather into the Wicked Witch of the West" Beth joked, though Lindsay seemed to seriously consider it. "Maybe I could turn myself into the Good Witch then? Because then I can use a lot of glitter." "I love glitter" Sadie squealed, to which Katie nodded heavily. "Me too."

"It's a great idea Linds," Beth encouraged her best friend, "you're gonna rock this!"

"A guy grabbed Courtney's butt so Gwen grabbed his dick!" Izzy told the others first thing after walking into the living room. She was soon followed by Gwen, who actually bother to carry in some of the groceries. "He didn't appreciate it but that was the point" she finished the redhead's story.

"How do people think that's okay?" Heather said angrily. If anyone would every try that on her she'd give them the same treatment she gave Alejandro on top of that volcano.

"I don't get it" Ezekiel admitted, looking confused. While some of the others groaned, Bridgette actually took the time to explain the concept of 'consent' to him. The home-schooled boy nodded while Bridgette told him why this was not an okay thing to do. "Okay. So why would he touch her if she doesn't like it?" he asked, which was answered by a shrug from Bridgette. "Because he's an idiot."

Courtney herself didn't even look at the people in the living room when she walked in, as she walked straight to her and Gwen's bedroom. It was clear that she was upset about what had happened. The others looked concerned, Bridgette and Duncan mostly so. However, Gwen was the only one who moved to follow her.

"I'll go check up on her."