Hello, readers! This story is being written as part of the TV Title Challenge...which I made up. The idea behind the challenge: to pick a show (in this case, Total Drama Island) and then write a collection of one-shots/drabbles, each one using a random episode title from another show as the prompt. For example, in this story I'm using ten random titles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes as prompts for ten Cody/Sadie stories. Note, though: this story IS perfectly readable for non-Buffy fans. It's pretty much just the titles and, in some cases, themes of the episode I use; this isn't a crossover or a parody or anything like that. Anyway, I hope you enjoy!
Episode 5---Never Kill a Boy on a First Date (Yes, I actually got this title randomly---how lucky is that?!)
When he picked her up at her house, flowers in hand, she had tripped walking down the stairs and crushed him beneath her.
When they got to his car, she accidentally slammed the door on his hand.
When they got to the restaurant, she knocked over his coffee onto his lap.
When she leaped up to help him, she knocked the table over onto his thin frame and, since there were candles on the table, managed to set his (rented) dinner jacket on fire.
When she pulled him out from under the table, apologizing profusely, she accidentally picked him up too hard and swung him into a passing waiter carrying a tray of food.
When she tried to help him take off his burnt and stained jacket, she accidentally elbowed him in the stomach.
When they had left the restaurant, him leaning on her for support, she stepped on his toes.
When she had offered to drive, seeing how beat up and disoriented he was, she accidentally drove his car into a tree. ("I should probably have mentioned I don't technically have my license yet…")
When the passenger seat airbag simply refused to deflate, trapping him in the car, she accidentally poked him in the eye with the nail file she was trying to pop it with.
And when she called Katie to come get them (she, after all, actually knew how to drive), she accidentally hit him with her car. (Katie swears to this day that he was "totally standing in her blind spot.")
Still, he thought, lying in a hospital bed wrapped in a full-body cast for the second time in his life, Cody had to admit that, as first dates went, it hadn't been that bad.
Okay, this is just the first one, but I already have the second chapter written and will post it tomorrow. Those who've told me they want to try this, hope to see you give it a whirl soon. And anyone else who wants to, feel free!