Alejandro soon joined Geoff, Bridgette, and Heather at the front desk of the inn. Heather was the first to notice him back.

"So how did it go with your parents?" Heather asked.

"Well, my papa wants me to find a wife and my mama is happy that I'm fine," Alejandro explained.

"Well, we have to go to Ciudad to share the news with everyone that we found Bridgette," Heather explained. "So farewell. Geoff! Bridgette! Come on! Let's go home!"

Heather started to walk to the door, not noticing the disappointment look on Alejandro's face. Bridgette followed with Geoff's in her own, but Geoff noticed the look on the princes. He stayed which didn't go unnoticed by Bridgette.

"What's wrong, Geoff?" Bridgette asked, concerned for her best friend.

"Tell Heather I'll be there in a minute," Geoff replied.

Bridgette nodded and went in the direction that Heather went.

Geoff walked up to Alejandro.

"Prince Alejandro," Geoff said.

"Please call me Alejandro," responded Alejandro, putting his hand of his chest.

"Alejandro, is something wrong?" Geoff asked.

"N-no! Why would you ask something like that?" Alejandro stuttered.

"Alejandro..."Geoff droned, raising an eyebrow.

"Fine, I'm sad that Heather didn't asked me to go with you guys," Alejandro give in, looking down.

Geoff smirked. "You like her."

"W-what? No I don't!" Alejandro denied.

"You liiiiikkke her..."Geoff teased, continuing to smirk.

"She's someone I just met," Alejandro responded. "Sure, she's smart, and funny, and beautiful with the way her hair frames her face. Or her eyes matches perfectly with her personality. Oh, and don't get me started on her figure..."

Alejandro stopped when he saw Geoff's smirking even more bigger than the moment before.

"Fine, I like her," Alejandro grumbled. "How did you know?"

"I was like that when Bridgette went missing," Geoff explained, with a shrug. "So if you like Heather and you need to find a wife, pick Heather to marry."

"As much I hate to admit it, I can't," Alejandro groaned.

Geoff's eyes widened. "What? You just told me you like her and you can't marry her? Is it because she doesn't have a nice, loving family like you?"

"No! My father told me not to marry Heather which is strange now that I think about," Alejandro explained, before thinking with a finger on his chin.

"Oh! Now that I think about it, the king was kind of mean to Heather when we first met your parents," Geoff pointed out, thinking also. "Anyway, why do you even listen to your dad?"

"Honor thy mother and honor thy father," Alejandro quoted.

"Oh," Geoff replied. "Well, we got some good-looking girls back at Ciudad. Why don't you come with us?"

Alejandro smiled and nodded.

"Hey, you even get to know Heather more," Geoff said, swung an arm around Alejandro's shoulder. "Just don't tell Bridgette about the good-looking girls part, please."

"Alright, but what about Heather not having a nice, loving family?" Alejandro asked, thinking back to what Geoff said.

"Oh, let Heather tell you that story," Geoff explained, leading him and Alejandro out of the inn and to the stables.

Heather and Bridgette were already on their horses.

"Hey, what took you so long, Geoff?" Heather asked, ignoring the fact that Alejandro was there with Geoff.

"Well, I offered Alejandro to go with us," Geoff explained.

"But shouldn't he search for a wife in a different, perferably this one?" Bridgette asked.

"Well, I already been here before I got captured and the town is pretty boring," Alejandro explained.

"Fine he can come," Heather delcared. "Now let's go before it gets dark. Ciudad is not far from here."

Alejandro and Geoff nodded and walked to their horses. Geoff got in behind Bridgette while Alejandro got on his own.

The three horses soon rode out of the stables and out of town. Soon, it was nothing but wilderness. Geoff whispering on the things she missed over the past ten years. She sent Heather a couple of sympathetic looks when she heard about Heather's broken up family.

The three continued to rode slowly on their horses until...

"STOP!" someone screamed as four figures popped in front of the bunch. The four surprises startled the horses and they stopped, neighing scaredly.

Two of the figures were toned, one more than the other, obviously males. The other two were curved and shaped in a way that said female. All four figures were dressed in black ninja clothes, hiding their faces and only their eyes showing, glaring at our heros.

Geoff and Heather glared at them.

"Who are you?" Alejandro asked.

"Alejandro, they're the Bad Bunch," Geoff explained, while still glaring at them.

"B-bad B-bunch?" Bridgette whimpered.

"A gang of thevies who steal people's most valuable items. Most of our cases are where they were the culprits," Heather explained, still glaring at the 'Bad Bunch'.

"Sooo nice for you to remember us, Heather," one of the figures sarcastically said, one of the females.

Heather got off her horse and walked up to the leader.

"Reveal yourselves!" Heather demanded.

The four laughed at her attempt to get them to give up their identities.

Geoff then realized something. Their laughs sounded familar...

"Heather, don't they sound familar?" Geoff asked.

Heather listened to their laughs.

"That was pathetic!" the leader laughed.

"Yeah it was!" the other female chuckled.

"Yeah, like we're going to do that," the first female laughed.

"We're not that stupid," the last figure laughed.

They did. Heather looked at the leader's eyes. Teal like...

"Duncan?" Heather asked sternly.

The leader's laughter ceased as did the others. At this point, Alejandro, Geoff, and Bridgette were behind Heather.

The leader pulled off his mask revealing a young man in his twenties with fair skin and black hair with a lime green streak running down the middle. His features include a unibrow to match his black hair and goatee, too.

"Hi Heather," Duncan said sheepishly, realizing he was caught. "Hi Geoff."

"Why are you doing this?" Geoff asked. "And who is the rest of your group?"

Duncan narrowed his eyes, "Guys, the gig is up. Take off your mask."

Slowly, the rest of the group takes off their masks. The first female, the one behind Duncan, had pale skin and black hair with teal streaks. She had onyx eyes and teal lips.

The next female, the one near the first female and the last figure, had mocha skin and brown hair to match. Freckles sparkle on her nose and cheeks. She had onyx eyes and pink glossed lips.

The last figure, in the back of the group, was a young man with fair skin and black lazy hair. He had green eyes and a cleft chin.

Heather's and Geoff's eyes widened as they recognized a few people their age from Ciudad.

"But why?" Geoff asked.

"Huh?" Duncan asked, getting confused as well as the others besides Heather and Geoff.

"Why do all those crimes?" Heather asked, clearing up Geoff's question.

"Oh, it was a practical joke set up by my cousin," Duncan explained.

"Mirissa told you to those crimes?" Geoff asked, getting more angry than confused than ever.

"No! She told me to surprise you guys when you came back," Duncan clarified. "Because you guys left in royal carriage somewhere."

"Oh..."Geoff said in realization.

"Yeah, the real bad guys are in jail somewhere in another town," the pale skin girl explained.

"Okay," Heather said.

"Ahem, aren't you going to introduce these guys to us?" Alejandro asked.

Heather forgot that he was here.

"Actually, I remember some of these guys from when we were little," Bridgette explained, remembering her childhood before her disappearance.

The pale skin girl's and mocha skin girl's eyes widened in recognizition of Bridgette.

"Bridgette?" the two girls said in unison.

"The one and only," Bridgette replied.

"Oh my gosh! Everyone thought you were dead!" the mocha skin girl shouted, apalled.

"Well, Mirissa did," the plae skin girl explained.

"No, I wasn't dead. I had wondered into an Aphrodite cave and the top Ahprodite made me work for them guarding the cave from trespassers," Bridgette explained. "I was there until Heather found me while she was on a case."

"Is that where you found this guy too?" the black hair boy asked as he got up with the mocha skin girl.

"Yes, this is Alejandro," Geoff explained.

"Alejandro, the green haired man is Duncan, the pale skin girl is Gwen, the mocha skin girl is Courtney, and the black haired man is Trent," Heather explained.

"Nice to meet you guys," Alejandro said.

"Uhh...I don't want to ruin the introduction, but it's going to get dark soon," Duncan said, pointing to the sky which was the color of a sunset.

"Maybe we should set up camp, Heather," Geoff suggested.

"Hey, you guys can stay with us at our camp," Courtney suggested.

"As long as it is okay with you guys," Bridgette said.

"It's alright but we don't have any food," Duncan explained.

Heather smiled, "But we do."

"Huh?" Bridgette and Alejandro said in unison.

"That's great! Follow us!" Gwen exclaimed.

"Since when do we have food?" Alejandro asked, grabbing the rein of his horse's saddle.

"Since your mother gave us supplies," Heather explained.

Alejandro nodded his head in assurance.

Later that night...

Duncan and Trent had succeeded in building a fire. Everyone ate and now sat in their own chat groups. Gwen, Courtney, and Bridgette in one. Duncan, Trent, and Geoff in another. Heather and Alejandro sat near each other, but neither one of them was talking.

Alejandro decided to talk to Heather since the next day he would have found a wife. He still wanted to know why she didn't have a nice, loving family.

"Soo Heather, since we don't know anything about each other, why don't we start?" Alejandro asked.

"I don't want to talk," Heather said, thinking about her family.

She grew even more sad with each memory that entered her mind. She clutched her necklace that her mother gave the night before she died as tears filled the rims of her eyes.

"Is this about your family?" Alejandro asked, worried that Heather will cry.

Heather nodded. "How do you know?"

"Geoff mentioned something back at Gente about you not having nice, loving family," Alejandro explained. "Can you please tell me so I can see if there's something I can do?"

Heather began to explained, "Well, it started when..."

With Duncan, Trent, and Geoff...

"So, Geoff, what that guy's deal?" Duncan asked, pointing to Alejandro.

"He's the prince. So what?" Geoff replied.

"He's the prince?" Trent asked apalled.

"Whoa, calm down," Duncan said.

"Yeah, he's traveling with us to find a wife," Geoff explained. "Only there's one problem."

"What is that?" Trent asked.

"He likes Heather," Geoff explained.

"So he should marry her then," Duncan shrugged. "Problem solved."

"There's another problem," Geoff explained. "His father won't let him."

Both Trent's and Duncan's eyes widened.

"The king?" Trent asked.

"Told him not to married Heather?" Duncan asked.

"Yes and he was disappointed about that," Geoff replied.

"If the king loves his son, he should let him marry who ever wants," Duncan preached.

"Wait, how did he know that Alejandro would pick Heather?" Trent asked.

All three went into thinking mode, wondering about what Trent had asked.

With Gwen, Courtney, and Bridgette...

"So what's the news about those boys? Who's dating who?" Bridgette asked. "Courtney, are you and Duncan dating?"

"What? No!" Courtney replied. "Besides we did dated for a while, but we mutually broke up because we were too different."

"But I'm dating him now," Gwen said.

"Oh, then how come you were on this mission with him?" Bridgette asked.

Courtney bit her lip.

"She said no at first, but she accepted when I asked Trent to join us," Gwen said, smirking at Courtney.

"Oh so it's Trent?" Bridgette asked, also smirked.

Courtney blushed then scoffed. "So what if I like Tren-err liked when Trent joined this mission? Huh?"

"Don't worry, we won't tell him yet," Gwen smirked.

"But we at least have to tell Heather," Bridgette said.

"Maybe we should later," Courtney said, looking at Heather and Alejandro.

"Yeah, she's getting all cozy with fancy pants over there," Gwen chuckled, also looking over there.

Bridgette smiled to herself as she watched the couple talk.

At least Heather will have some happiness...

Back with Alejandro and Heather...

"...then they took Damien and Amanda away later," Heather bawled as a few tears escaped her eyes.

Alejandro felt terrible about the whole story he was just told. He might not know about the losing his parents, but losing his siblings and not know where they are, he did.

Alejandro reached out his hands and put them on each side of her face, wiping her tears away.

"Heather, a woman as beautiful as you shouldn't cry," Alejandro assured. "And I think I know how to find your brother and sister."

Heather sniffled as Alejandro pulled his hands away from her face.

"Really?" Heather squeaked.

"Yeah, we always keep adoption records at the castle. When I find a wife and you journey back with me, you can check the hall of records yourself," Alejandro explained.

"Thanks, Alejandro," Heather smiled.

Alejandro smiled as he nodded. Heather looked at him, probably the first time she's really looked at Alejandro. His green eyes had sincere and generous look in them. Heather wondered why she told him about her family. Maybe there was part of her that trusted him. Or maybe...she might lo-like him? Maybe more than she should?

Alejandro looked at Heather, really looked at her. She had nice, lovely eyes which he loved. Love? He never thought about it til now. He might be in love with Heather? But everytime he would remember what his father said about him not marrying Heather, he felt a sharp pang of pain in his heart. So he is in love with Heather.

"So you have to find a wife tomorrow?" Heather asked, hoping his answer would be one she would enjoy.

"N-yes," Alejandro said, disappointingly.

Heather's heart sank.

"Well, I guess we should get to sleep to save some energy," Heather replied, trying too hard to not sound like heartbreak. "It seems they did."

Heather pointed to five big lumps on the ground with the fire fading.

"Yeah, I guess," Alejandro replied.

The two grabbed a couple of blankets from the horses and laid down side-by-side. They both soon fell asleep.

The next morning...

The eight left and packed up the campsite. The three with the horses grabbed the lead rope of their horse's halters to lead them to town.

Once they did, the eight split into their own two groups. Duncan, Gwen, Trent, and Courtney went to the saloon while Geoff, Bridgette, Alejandro, and Heather went to the town stables to put up the horses.

"Maybe we should bring Bridge to her parents," Geoff suggested, after they got out of the stables.

The others nodded. The four went to the town's seamstress because Bridgette's mother was the seamstress.

Bridgette's mother had long blonde hair like her with fair skin and blue eyes. As the four walked in, Bridgette's mother, Darla, wore a white gown with light brown belt. Her back was facing away from them, looking at a clipboard.

"Hi, Darla," Heather said.

"Heather, Geoff, nice to hear from you two. What can I do to help you?" Darla responded, not turning around or looking up from the clipboard.

"There's someone here to see you," Geoff replied.

"Hi mom," Bridgette said.

Darla stopped looking at the clipboard as she tensed. Slowly, she turned to find her not missing daughter there.

"Bridgey!" Darla exclaimed as she ran to her daughter and gave her a momma bear hug.

The two hugged for a while until someone spoke that made three of five tensed up.

"Oh, Bridgette's back. Let's throw a parade," a familiar voice sarcastically said.

There, standing in the changing room, was a woman in her twenties with fair skin and blonde hair with teal eyes. She wore a teal dress with a brown leather belt. Mirissa...

She noticed Alejandro in the group and decided to flirt. Mirissa walked up to him with seductive look in her eyes.

"Hi, I'm Mirissa. And you are...?" Mirissa swooned.

The way she said it made Heather boil with jealously.

"Alejandro," replied Alejandro, taking her hand with his and kiss it lightly. He then let it down gently.

"Oh, so a gentleman, like a prince," Mirissa swooned like an airhead. "Well, we should get to know each other a little better."

Alejandro thought about the girl's attitude. He decided that she would be second best for a wife because she sounded like she wanted to rule Desembarcar.

"I'm finally choose you to be my wife," Alejandro admitted.

That shocked Heather and Bridgette, but Geoff was so disappointed that he shook his head in disagreement. This, however, surprised Mirissa.

"Really?" Mirissa asked. "And who is asking?"

"The last prince of Desembarcar," Alejandro replied, bowing for effect.

Mirissa gasped. "Me? Must be one of those 'love at first site' deals, huh?" Mirissa giggled.

Heather could not believe it. He chose one of her worst enemies to be his wife! This was not happening!

"Well, then we leave tomorrow so we can have lunch and dinner to get to know each other better," Alejandro explained, offering Mirssa his hand to lead her out.

"I'd be honored," Mirissa giggled, taking the hand that was offered to her.

They both left the shop.

Heather was heartbroken again. She could try to tell Alejandro about her feelings for him, but it would be too late. She knew that she couldn't trust him...

"Soo Heather are you gonna join us for lunch?" Geoff asked, trying to ignore the tension in the air.

"Yeah," Heather squeaked.

What Heather didn't know was Alejandro's father had ordered...

And done!

I'm soo sorry for the late update but I made up for it by making a long chapter!

Guys, there's a reason why Lucinda and Gabriella left! Here's a hint: It has to do with one of the seem-to-be protagonists in the story! And it's going to happened to Heather, too!

At first, I wasn't actually going to use Mirissa again after the first chapter, but it adds to the drama!

I may discontinue my Total Drama Kiddos story because ... it's a secret!

I also mentioned Duncan, Gwen, Courtney, and Trent in this chapter! Every chapter will most likely feature a TD old cast member or TD new cast member or maybe both! I really haven't decided yet! They'll play a huge part in the last few chapters!

Anyway, review!

Luv, Flutejrp

P.S. Be sure to check out Smiles1998's story: "How Long Island Changed my Life For the Better". It's great to read and review!