Disclaimer: I do not own any part of the Total Drama Island franchise.
A/N: I felt the need to write something for St. Patty's Day. It's only going to be a two or three-shot. I'm only writing it like that because I don't have the time to finish it tonight. Have fun reading it! I think it's on of the better things I've written recently.
After Total Drama Action, the contestants happily went back to civilization where most of them hoped to put the Total Drama Island experience behind them. No further seasons had been announced and so far, it seemed that it would stay that way. However, their contracts still existed and legally bound them to doing pretty much anything the network wished them to do. Thus, when they received word that they had been invited to a St. Patrick's Day special, it was less of an invitation than an order. The contestants had gradually arrived at the set of the old Aftermath specials and most of them were hanging around on stage. Only two had yet to arrive, but for some reason those on the set had seen neither hair nor hide of Chris Maclean.
"Who has a TV special on St. Patrick's Day?" Gwen grumbled. Cody moved to pat her on the arm comfortingly, but she shot him down quickly with an annoyed glare. He gave her a sheepish smile and retracted the offending hand.
"Chris wanted to be the first," Geoff said lazily. He pulled off his signature cowboy hat and ran a hand through his hair. "I think I feel fly-aways coming on," he muttered. "Make-up!" A tired looking woman with messy brown hair and an assortment of tools for beautification strapped around her waist scurried towards the party boy turned diva king. Bridgette shot him a look that was a mixture of anger, pain, and sadness. Geoff didn't notice, as he was too busy examining his nails. "Could you buff these?" he inquired.
The party boy had quickly reverted back to his diva ways after Total Drama Action reached it's conclusion. After a high profile breakup with Bridgette that was rumored to have been just for publicity, he had left her heartbroken and continued on what Star Stalker magazine called "a meteoric rise to the top." After signing on with Network 21, the teen had already been on several hit soap operas, secured a role in the new movie Goodminton 2 alongside Chris Maclean, and was negotiating a contract to host his own show. He even had his own line of hair products coming out, an honor that the network hadn't yet given Chris. Of course, Chris wasn't quite thrilled about Geoff's success. In fact, he was downright bitter. But Geoff was finish using Chris as a stepping stone and didn't really care what Chris thought of him.
"I'm sure he's just using this whole shebang as a giant pretense for announcing a new season," Noah said frankly.
"He better not be planning a season without me on it," Eva growled. Ezekiel, who was sitting next to her, scooted as far away from her as he could be on the small couch.
"I think a new season would be awesome!" Owen cheered. "There are awesome challenges, an awesome prize-"
"Which you promptly gave away when you won the first season," Noah muttered.
"And I'd get to spend some time with you guys!" Owen continued, "It'd be awesome!"
"Spending more time with you freaks?" Heather commented. "Sounds like a nightmare."
"You know, your hair grows really slowly," Gwen said off-handedly. She grinned wickedly at Heather, who simply scowled and ran a hand through her short hair.
"Ouch!" Leshawna hissed. She held up a hand for Gwen to high-five, which Gwen did promptly.
"Leshawna!" Heather said, irritated that the bootylicious sister hadn't taken her side.
"Whoops, sorry girl," Leshawna said apologetically. "Just so used to being your enemy."
"I can't get used to you not being her enemy," Gwen said, annoyed.
"C'mon, Gwen, she's not all bad," Leshawna protested.
"I beg to differ," Gwen shot back.
"I agree with the chocolate goddess," Harold said. "She's not always heartless and cruel." He smiled and stared into Leshawna's eyes lovingly.
Leshawna bit her lip nervously. "Boy," she started to say. She stopped and sighed. Leshawna wasn't sure exactly what her relationship with Harold was exactly. He had made it pretty obvious that he was besotted with her, but her own feelings remained a mystery to her. She knew that she had forgiven him pretty easily when he voted her off TDA and had even given him a hug. There was also that one kiss….. But no matter what, he was still a skinny little string bean of a boy and she had gotten enough teasing at home about her "loverboy."
Gwen gave her a sympathetic look but was quickly distracted by her own problems. Namely, one musician that was determined to get her back. He flashed her a crooked smile, hoping desperately that she would at least smile back. He had no such luck, as she quickly looked down at the ground unhappily. Cody smiled at her unsurely, hoping to reassure her.
Not everyone in the room was having relationship problems. Tyler and Lindsay were a blissfully happy couple. They were currently making out happily on one of the couches.
"Awwwww, they're so cute!" Katie cooed.
"I know!" Sadie agreed. "I wish I had a boyfriend!" She eyed Justin and the hunk stared at her nervously.
"I'll find you a boyfriend!" Katie declared, staring at Justin pointedly. Justin started to look decidedly nervous, suspecting that the two were about to jump him and force him into boyfriendhood.
"Katie, that's so sweet! You should have a boyfriend too!"
"You're sweet too!"
"Congratulations," Noah said. "You two are officially the most insipid duo ever."
"You don't mean that," Katie protested. She frowned at the bookworm, who didn't even look up from his book.
"Oh, but I do," he retorted.
"You're a meanie sometimes."
He rolled his eyes. "You've mortally wounded me. Never have I ever been called something as terrible as…… a meanie."
Katie made an angry noise and crossed her arms across her chest. Sadie frowned. "What does insipid mean?" she asked Katie quietly.
Noah didn't bother to hide his laughter.
A green flash streaked across the stage towards the bookworm. "OW!" Noah bellowed. "Izzy!"
The redhead cackled uproariously and ran towards the other side of the stage. "It's St. Patty's Day so you get a pinch!"
"Who let the psycho in?" Noah complained, rubbing his arm.
Izzy flew around the room, leaving angry people rubbing their arms in her wake. She only stopped when she reached Owen. She leaped onto his shoulders and sat their happily, surveying the mayhem and distress she had left behind.
"Izzy!" Owen cheered.
"Owen!" Izzy yelled, equally happy.
"Izzy!"
"Izzy!"
"Huh?"
Izzy laughed maniacally and leapt off his shoulders gracefully. "Izzy's happy to see Owen!"
"Owen's happy to see Izzy!"
The two stared at each other for a moment before falling onto the nearest couch to make out.
"I love you more!" Beth said into the phone as she walked onto the set. She paused and then shook her head, as if the person on the phone could actually see her. "No, I love you more Brady! I've got to go, I'm here." She smiled as Brady responded and nodded happily. "I love you too……. No, I love you more….. I love you more……" She continued on with the endless conversation while she sat on one of the couches.
"I still can't believe he's real," Courtney muttered.
"Believe it, Princess," Duncan said. "He's obviously not just a figment of her overactive imagination."
"Those are some big words you just used there, Duncan," Courtney said.
He smirked. "You must be rubbing off on me, Princess."
"Don't call me Princess."
"Sure, Princess."
"I said-" She abruptly cut herself off and sighed unhappily. She wouldn't allow herself to argue with him now that he was rich. After all, rich men shared their money with their girlfriends, right? And that was the only reason she was being so nice to him, she reassured herself. The fact that he was rich now was also the only reason her parents would allow her to date him. Not that she was dating him. She didn't even want to. Or did she? She shook her head violently, shaking the thoughts out of her head.
Duncan was watching her out of the corner of his eye. In his opinion, Princess hadn't been herself after he won the money. She was just being way too nice. It was actually kind of bugging him. At least when she was lecturing him about something or other (he wasn't normally listening) she looked a little happy, even if she tried to hide it. Recently, she'd been looking nothing but miserable and Duncan didn't like it. But sadly, he had no real idea why she was like this much less how to fix it.
At that moment, DJ walked onto the stage. He stroked Bunny and smiled at all the contestants.
"My brother!" Leshawna said excitedly. She hurried to him and gave him a hug.
"Deej!" Duncan called out, happy to be distracted from his thoughts. He got up and gave DJ a fist-bump. "What's up?"
"Nothing really, dude," DJ replied. "How's it going with you?" Duncan frowned and glanced at Courtney. DJ gave him a sympathetic smile. "Sorry to hear that dude."
Duncan shrugged. "Well, what about you? You were named the number four most wanted guy on Total Drama Island. Right after me, of course."
Noah scoffed. "What magazine was this?
"It was… It was…" Duncan stuttered.
Lindsay quickly pulled out of her kiss with Tyler with a wet sucking noise and clapped her hands excitedly. "Ooh! I know this! It was totally Star Stalker wasn't it? Colby was number one, wasn't he?"
"You read Star Stalker?" Noah said derisively.
"I don't really," Duncan muttered. "It was just the only thing to read that one time and my sisters were squealing about it. I don't read it on a normal basis. It's not like it was even my magazine. It was my stupid sister's." He continued on in this vein for a while before trailing off uncertainly, annoyed at the blow the knowledge of something so girly had caused his manhood.
"Wait, Colby was number one?" Gwen questioned. "As in, Cody?"
"That's what I said right?" Lindsay said cheerfully.
"Nah, babe, you got the name wrong," Tyler corrected her.
"Awww," Lindsay said sadly. "Was I close?"
"Yeah, yeah," Tyler reassured her. Lindsay regained a sunny smile and leaned in to start kissing again.
"Wait, I was number one?" Cody said incredulously.
"Really?" Gwen said, just as incredulous.
The two of them received no answer, as Lindsay's lips were busy. Gwen stared at Cody in disbelief while he smiled his gap-toothed smile at her unsurely.
"Eh heh," he laughed hesitantly. "That's unexpected."
"Hey, everyone!" Chris said loudly. He strolled onto the set wearing a pair of sunglasses and carrying a cup of coffee. Chef trailed behind him and looked angry to be there. "We're on air in thirty seconds. We're going to be streaming this live, so don't be too nervous everyone." He gave them a grin and quickly took a seat on the center couch. He glared at Geoff, who was also sitting there. "Dude, you can't sit here," he said forcefully.
"Whoah, chill," Geoff replied calmly. "Lemme just get my touch up done real quick."
"No, get off my couch," Chris insisted.
"Whatever dude," Geoff said. He sauntered over to another couch and sat next to Bridgette, who looked like she was going to be violently sick, run off stage, or punch him in the face. Or maybe all three at the same time.
"We're on air in five…." the cameraman said. "Four…. Three…. Twoo…..one."
Chris smiled brilliantly. "Hello and welcome to the Total Drama St. Patty's Day Special!"
"That's a dumb name," Noah muttered under his breath.
A/N: What do you think? I'm planning on making some new couples, resolving some of the stuff TDA left unresolved, etc. This was a load of fun to write, I had a great time trying to understand what some of the characters might be thinking after TDA. I tried to adress that both Leshawna and Harold had kind of had a moment where they decided to tolerate Heather. They don't exactly love here, but they're putting aside their differences in this story. For now.
Review! It'll make me really happy.