Criminal Crisis chapter 1

Disclaimer: I don't own TD or anything of the sort!

Bold indicates Duncan's inner thoughts.

Italics indicates a flashback, but will be noted regardless.

I stepped off the boat and on to the dock, Gwen's hand in mine.

"I can't believe we're back on this god forsaken show." I said.

"I know, but let's just try to make the best of it." Gwen said a she stood on the tips of her toes to give me a kiss.

I leaned back and gave her a look of disgust, and she started pouting, I smirked and gave her a kiss, and we continued walking, a few people passed us up, a jock with white hair, and a ginger. I didn't really know who they were although I did remember seeing them when Chris forced me on the island back when it was a mutated hell hole, it seemed normal now, but still a hell hole.

"Aww you guys are so cute." A voice that was obviously Lindsay said from behind us, as she walked up an gave us both a hug. "It's just too bad Catherine lost her mind because of you two, she used to be okay, but now she's just mean."

"It's nice to see you too Lindsay." Gwen said

"Well I'll see you guys at the campsite, bye."

"Looks like trash always sticks together." a voice that seriously creased me said.

Gwen looked pissed. "What do you want Heather!?" She said "Why don't you and that robot boy toy of yours leave us alone." Gwen was referring to Chris's Robot, that housed a punk ass spaniard in it. "Haven't you done enough damage?" Right when Gwen said that the robot started shooting steam from out of its side and opened up revealing a normal looking Alejandro, he was pretty much the same except he was now sporting a buzz cut and looked scrawny like Cody.

"He looks a lot weaker that's for sure. I could probably pick him up and launch him a few yards."

"Hey Alejandro did you stop working out?" I asked him.

"Well being stuck in a machine for a year can do that to you mi amigo" Alejandro said

"I'm not your amigo, and why we're you still in the machine if you were obviously healed?" I asked.

"It was added into his contract to fool his dads lawyers into thinking he won't be competing in this season, just spectating, but as you can see that was a load of crap." A voice we all new too well and hated so much said from behind us."He needed to stay in it until he got to the island, so as to throw off any suspicion that he would actually be competing."

Chris McLean, the reason we're all here, the reason we're all majorly screwed up.

"So how've you all been? Good I hope." Chris said with a shit eating grin. God I'd like to punch that guy.

Without even letting us answer Chris walked away, I didn't even bother to look at any of the other people passing us up.

"I'm not the only one who's done damage." Heather said as she smirked at something behind us and walked away, with Pussyjandro in tow.

Gwen and I started walking again trying to shake off what Heather said, we already knew what she meant. I suddenly felt uneasy, and I couldn't help but feel like someone was watching us, well watching me that's for sure and as soon as I turned my gaze I saw a certain girls' head shoot down, and I could've sworn I saw a tear fall from her face.

"Courtney?" I said as I let Gwen's hand go.

"What?" Gwen said and looked over. "Oh crap what is she doing here?"

Courtney picked her head up raising her nose in the air and walked off.

"I can't believe she's still an uptight bitch" I thought to myself but then I felt bad about it. "I shouldn't be feeling like this. I hate her, I hate the way she acts, I hate that she tried to change almost everything about me, I hate how there's still a very small place in my heart for her, and I hate how soft she made me."

Courtney walked a different route to the campsite, I think she tried to get as far away from us as possible without going into the woods.

"Welcome back campers!" Chris said enthusiastically like it was the first time again even though he's been doing this for the past four seasons.

"Do we really have to go through the whole introduction again?" Heather said with a bitchy look

"Yes." Chris said. "As I was saying welcome back for Total Drama Ti-Ti- uhh All Stars. Make your way over to the cabins and put your bags and luggage in there for the time being and be back here in an hour."

I was a little confused, Chris always knows what to say, and never stutters for no reason, especially if it's for the show, I'm sure the little speech he made was being recorded, so why would he let himself stutter.

He's hiding something.

"Duncan are you okay?" Gwen asked.

"He stuttered."

Gwen gave me a confused look.

Heather and Alejandro came over by us, and gave me a knowing look.

"Chris always knows what to say, and never thinks twice about it, something's up and I think it would be in our best interests to find out what that is." Alejandro said

I nodded and Gwen grabbed my arm.

"It's probably nothing, Chris is insane, so I'm sure it's finally starting to take its toll on him."

I chuckled a bit but then I got serious. "Is something wrong?" I asked

"Why would you ask that?" Gwen looked at me with a pout.

"Because you've been acting a lot clingier than usual, it's a bit of a turnoff babe." Gwen had always been clingy ever since World Tour ended, but now it was like she had the clingy factor turned up to eleven.

"Is the goth girl a little too loving, huh Duncan?" Heather said with a smile."Because I know how to make her become less clingy." Then she looked at Gwen. "Dump her ass."

"Shut up Skank!" She yelled at Heather.

"Gwen calm down." I said

"Oh you want me to calm down? Then tell me how have I been clingy?" Gwen said with a scowl.

"Great, now she's pissed. But what's her deal? She didn't act this crazy before, up until about a few months ago she seemed fine. Well, as fine as she could be."

Flashback:::

"So are you excited?"

"Excited about what babe?"

"Duncan! You know what I'm talking about."

"Alright, no need to get angry woman, but no I'm not excited."

"Is it because of her?"

"What? That's kind of out of left field don't you think? I'm just not into it anymore, I'm starting to find this whole reality show thing pretty boring."

"Duncan?"

"Yeah?"

"Can you promise me something?"

"Uhh sure."

"Promise you'll stay away from her."

"Why does it matter? It's not like she's gonna try to talk to me."

"But what if she does?"

"Can you just stop being paranoid, I'm with you now, and I don't care if Courtney wants to talk to me, I hate her, she means nothing to me, so quit your griping."

"...You said her name."

"Gwen, I won't talk to her okay."

"Stop lying to me."

End Flashback:::

And then there's the trip to get here.

Flashback:::

"Duncan can we talk?"

"About?"

"Why don't you ever tell me that you love me?"

"You've asked that everyday this week, what the hell is wrong with you? You're really starting to sound like a cliche girlfriend."

"You always told her that."

"Why are you comparing yourself to Courtney?"

"Why do you keep saying her name!?"

"What the hell does it matter!?"

"..." She stayed silent.

"Fine. I love you. There, you happy?"

"You sound like I'm forcing you to say it."

"You kind of are."

She stayed silent again.

"Gwen, I love you."

"Whatever, Duncan."

End Flashback:::

I grimaced remembering my lies to Gwen. I think she knows I still care somewhat about Courtney, but I don't think she even realizes that I don't actually love her, I care about Gwen, but sometimes I get the feeling that our relationship was only born out of spite, spite that I had for Courtney, because she was trying to change me, never mind I do know why I get that are a lot of other things that have happened that would prove she is clingy but I decided I didn't want to piss her off anymore or make her cry. We've broken up so many times, you'd need a baseball field to hold them.

"Well?" Gwen said. "Are you gonna tell me how I'm clingy?"

"Just forget it." I said coldly as I walked away

"Duncan, wait don't leave!" She said as she grabbed my arm again and tried to snuggle me.

I tried pushing her away but she held on to me and I snapped."This is exactly what I'm talking about, you always argue with me but as soon as I turn my back, you come running and pleading for me to forgive you, even if I'm not mad at you! Even if you did nothing wrong!"

Gwen's head dropped and she let go of me. I looked over my shoulder at Heather, and Alejandro, who both looked a little freaked out over my shouting. I looked past them and saw Courtney with a shocked expression, she noticed me staring at her and looked away.

"Let's go" I said. "We gotta figure out what Chris is up to."

I don't really like Pussyjandro or the queen bitch, but I need to figure out what Chris has in store for us, so I can prepare myself, I hear this is supposed to be the last season.

As we were walking aimlessly through the woods, we started talking about why Chris stuttered.

"Supposedly this'll be the last season, so I'm betting Chris is probably going to kill us all at the end of this." I said with my arms stretched behind my head.

"Why did we have to come to the woods?" Heather asked upset.

"Because we need somewhere to talk in private, being at the camp site is a guarantee that we are being watched, at least out here there's less of a chance." I said.

"What could he have mistaken as the title of the show?" Alejandro said.

"Maybe Total Drama All Stars isn't the name of the show." I answered.

"Then what could it be?" He said back."The true title obviously has something to do with the show, since he was so quick to correct himself."

"True." Heather said. "And if we all know Chris, it's that he's always hiding something."

As Heather and Alejandro talked to each other I started thinking about the look Courtney had on her face when I yelled at Gwen, and how she probably thinks I didn't see the smirk she had on her face after she turned away.

"What's wrong with me? Why can't I stop thinking about her?"

"Amigo? Are you alright?"

"Huh?" I stared at Alejandro who was waving his hand in my face.

I smacked his hand away.

"I'm not your friend." I said irritated that he messed up my thoughts about Courtney.

"What the hell!? Why would that irritate me!?" My head spun with that thought.

"Tienes una problema?" He said in Spanish and an agitated tone. ((You got a problem?))

"Sì, lo faccio e il suo nome è Alejandro!" I said in Italian, I know he'd understand what I said, since Italian and Spanish are sister languages that's the only reason I know what the hell he's saying even though I only understood a few words of each sentence, and the fact that he's the son of a diplomat or something so he probably helps. (( Yeah, and it's name is Alejandro.))

We glared at each other.

"Will you idiots stop!" Heather yelled

"Duncan there's someone here to see you."

"Oh great, now I have to suffer through Gwen's apologies." I thought to myself

I looked over at Heather and was surprised to see who it was, it was Courtney.

"What do you want?" I said harshly but immediately regretted it.

"Heather I am not here to see that jackass, I'm here to speak with you and..." She looked over at Alejandro and scowled. "...and that skinny jackass over there."

"I didn't know the princess could be so harsh." I whispered to Alejandro.

"You don't even want to know the things she said to Heather amigo." He said back.

"Everyone hates your girlfriend dude, so it wouldn't surprise me." I said.

"You insult my love, but you don't even know what I'm talking about." He snapped at me. "Heather and Courtney have become very close over the past year."

My eyed widened, I could feel it, and he smirked at me.

"Why would Heather and Courtney be friends?"

"Ella no deja de hablar de tu traición durante meses, pero después de un tiempo, ella se abrió a Heather." He said in Spanish.

((She did not stop talking about your betrayal for months, but after a while she opened up to Heather))

"Davvero?"

((Really?))

I already knew why he was speaking in his native language, Courtney had noticed us talking, and focused on us to try and hear what we were saying.

"You know she's Mexican right?" I whispered.

"Yes, but she isn't very well skilled in the Spanish language and she struggles to keep up, when I try to converse with her. Did you teach her any Italian?" He said with a grin to look like we were just talking about something random to throw the her off.

"So that's why she doesn't like you, and yeah I did but not enough for her to understand us." I whispered while looking at Courtney's confused face.

"I've never known anyone who could be mad over someone knowing a little more than she did." He whispered back. He flexed his arm in my face, showing off what little muscle he had left. "Ella sólo vino aquí porque quería respuestas. Heather convenció para venir. Cuando ella tiene sus respuestas, que se cerrará total drama."

((She only came here to get answers, because heather convinced her, but once she has her answers she will leave total drama.))

I flexed my arm as well, and I could feel Courtney staring.

"Rispondere a che?"

((Answers to what?))

Alejandro looked at me with fake anger. "Ella quiere saber por qué lo hiciste? ¿Por qué la odias? Pero lo más importante ¿por qué no estás arrepentido?"

(( She wants to know why you did it. Why you hate her. But the most important is why you aren't regretful after everything you had together?))

"Lo vorrei che non l'ho fatto."

(( I wish I never did it.))

I don't know why that came out of my mouth but it did. Alejandro looked at me with as much confusion as Courtney did a minute ago. By now both girls were talking amongst themselves, but I could hear Courtney mutter something about a "jackass" and then point a finger my way. I looked back at Alejandro and he grinned at me.

"What?" I asked agitated by his grin.

"Usted y yo sabemos lo que hay que hacer." (( You and I both know what you need to do.)) He said still grinning. I looked down at the floor when he said that.

I really don't like this guy, but he's right, I do know what I need to do. I need to make amends for the things I've done, but the person I have to make amends to, is the same person who wanted to change everything I was, the same person I used to love, the one who made me less angry, less intense, and more "nice". I cringed at the word, but it was true she did all those things, and it made me angry at first but it didn't last long. I looked up, both Courtney and Heather were walking away.

"Hey jackasses let's go!" Courtney screamed.

I scowled. "Where we going prince-"

BOOM!

"OW! What the hell Courtney!?"

She threw a rock that was about the size of my fist, and hit me right in the head before she screamed at me.

"If you even think about calling me that name, I will not resist the urge to kill you with my bare hands jackass!"

"Would you stop calling me that!" I screamed at her, and she flinched, she actually flinched because of me, I wanted to hit myself for doing that to her.

"Why am I feeling like this?"

"Courtney, where are we going?" I said calmly but she didn't say anything she just walked away. Heather walked up to me and Alejandro, while Courtney was off being pissy.

"Courtney said she saw a cabin at the edge of the woods on her way to the campsite" Heather told us.

"And?" I said back.

"And it's a cabin, that wasn't there before, she said she even saw some people go in there." Heather said giving me an agitated look.

"What does that have to do with us, mi amor?" Alejandro said winking at Heather while I gagged beside him.

Their love is seriously weird, but then again, it's probably the same as what me and Courtney had. Crap, there I go thinking about her again.

"It means that's the first place we need to search to find out what the hell Chris is hiding." Heather said. "Oh and stay ten feet behind us at all times." She added. "Courtney doesn't want to be anywhere near you."

"Fine lead the way, bitchy and bitchier." I would've smirked but Pussyjandro elbowed me in the gut with his bony arm.

As we were walking towards this cabin that hadn't been there before, Alejandro started talking.

"If we are going to find out what Chris is hiding, we need to stop this fighting amigo." He said.

"Why are you so nice now? Everyone knows how you are, you can drop the act." I said to him while he was rubbing his elbow. The dude couldn't hit something without hurting himself now.

"Actually being with Heather has had some positive effects, I've become nicer to counteract her almost bipolar fits of anger, and her being friends with Courtney definitely has kept her bitchiness in control, but being nice to people has actually become quite enjoyable." He said with a smirk. A few seconds later he was laughing.

I knew he was full of shit.

"In all seriousness Duncan, the four of us need to stick together."

"What about Gwen?" I asked him.

"Please, with how clingy she has become, I don't think she'll even be able to concentrate on the competition with you and Courtney in the same area." He said giving me a look that said "Are you stupid?"

"I thought you said Courtney was only here for answers?" I asked.

He looked at me with a stern stare.

"Courtney may not mean anything to me, but I know she means something to you, and seeing her willingly leave would probably hurt you, wouldn't it?"

I was left speechless by what he said, because he was right, the thought of her leaving at all made my chest hurt, but why? Why was I feeling like this? Was I still in love with Courtney? I'd have to figure that out later, but for now I'm gonna focus on this mysterious cabin