Chapter 8: Key To My Heart

A/N: Thank you all so much for the lovely reviews! I just love reading them! Anyway here is chapter 8 and I hope you like it!

Disclaimer: I do NOT own the Total Drama Series.

Duncan P.O.V

It's been 2 weeks since Gwen said she liked me again, and I couldn't be happier. When she said that I immediately broke up with Courtney. At that point I didn't care if she got revenge, or if she told her lawyers on me. I was done with all the shit she's put me through and I finally had my true love back; good thing too considering the Total Drama Season was almost over.

It was 5:00 in the morning and the remaining 6 campers where outside waiting for Chris. I was talking to Gwen, Courtney was talking to Trent, and Heather and Alejandro were plotting an evil plan together. Gwen and I were about to leave and get some food but just as we were walking away Chris came.

"Where do you think you two are going?" He said.

"We were hungry." Gwen said simply.

"Well anyway for your challenge today we'll be doing some disgusting things. Kind of like Fear Factor style, but with some changed." Chris said with a smirk.

As soon as he said that everyone's smiles turned upside down. Are you serious! Fear Factor is one of my favorite TV shows but the things they do are hardcore! I don't know if I'll be able to do this.

"You'll all start off on your own and then some of the challenges will require having a partner. Instead of having the choice to back down from the challenge, you will be forced to do it. If you don't you will face a horrible consequence and still have to finish your challenge. At the end of the day you will all chose who you want to be sent home for whatever reason." Chris said walking away.

We all nodded, unsure of what else to do and started following Chris. When he reached his destination we were confronted with a bowl full of worms, spiders, and baby snakes.

"You see this bowl? You're going to be blindfolded and while you're blindfolded you are going to reach in here 3 times and eat what you pick out." Chris said. "Alejandro, you're up first!"

Alejandro slowly walked up the bowl and looked into it. His eyes widened looking at the hairy, huge spiders, the long, slimy snakes, and the small, dirty worms. His cheeks puffed up holding in the barf and he closed one eye swallowing it back down.

"I, I um, can't I just, you know isn't there anything else I can do?" He stuttered.

Chris glared at him and Alejandro quickly closed his mouth. Chris tied the blindfold around his head and Alejandro slowly reached into the bowl. As soon as he had his hands on a hairy, huge spider, he pulled his hand out and screamed like a little girl. He ripped the blindfold off his head and backed away from the bowl.

"Ughhhh, I can NOT do this!" Alejandro yelled.

"What do you mean you can't do it! If you want to win you better do it!" Heather screamed in his face.

Alejandro looked shocked at her sudden outburst at him and handed her the blindfold so she could put it back on him. He reached into the bowl for the second time and pulled out a fat, juicy snake. He raised it above his mouth and bit the head off. He did this 2 more times and finished off by throwing up and falling to the floor.

Heather ate what she picked out like it was no big deal and Courtney did the same. Trent did what he had to do but threw up 3 times after eating what he picked. Gwen luckily picked 3 worms and ate them slowly. Now it was my turn and I picked up 2 worms and a baby snake. I pierced the worms and the snake with my teeth and to my surprise it didn't taste half bad.

When we were all done with this challenge we walked over to the beach. Inside the water, there were 5 nets put up and at the end of the nets there were 5 small glass boxes with keys inside.

"You will all climb up these nets and then back down on the other side. Once you're at the bottom you will swim into the boxes and try to get the keys that are inside. Those keys will unlock the box where the timer is in and then you have the chance to stop the timer." Chris said. "Trent you are up first."

Trent stripped down into his swimming trunks and swam over to the nets. Chris signaled for Trent to start and the timer started counting. Trent raced up the nets, occasionally getting his feet stuck, and finally reached the other side. He stuck his head into the box but realized that the hole was too small. He stuck his hand in and reached for the key. It was only inches away so he tried stuffing his shoulder in. He picked up the key and raced up the other nets. After a while he was at the finish line with a time of 7 minutes and 12 seconds.

Alejandro did the same thing but he was also to big to fit into the box, so as Chris promised there was a consequence. A HUGE intern shoved Alejandro into the boxes so he could grab the keys and once he had a hold of all of them he yanked him out of the boxes and threw him towards the finish line with a time of 9 minutes and 2 seconds.

Heather ran up the nets and by doing so she lost her balance and fell backwards getting her foot caught in the net. She tried everything to get loose but nothing worked. The same intern that 'helped' Alejandro 'helped' Heather by pulling on her leg. She got lose and the intern suddenly let go of her which made her fly into the air and fall head first into a box. She grabbed the key and went up the rest of the nets very carefully. She finally finished with a time of 7 minutes and 29 seconds.

Courtney just walked past the nets and glass boxes acting like she was better then us. When she got to the end she pushed the button stopping the clock.

"I'll call my lawyers if I have to." she said.

Why does she always bring her lawyers into things! Can she even do that? Ugh! What did I ever see in her that women!

Gwen was up next. She pulled down her shorts and tank top and was left in a black and midnight blue, polka dotted swim suit. As soon as she tied her hair back my mouth dropped open. She looked so HOT right now! Gwen ran into the water getting ready to start. With her small, slender figure, she was able to squeeze her way to the finish line. She would slide through the holes of the nets and drive straight into the boxes. When she finished she had a time of 4 minutes and 17 seconds.

"Nice job pasty." I said while smiling.

"Good luck." she replied back.

I pulled my shirt over my head and dropped my shorts revealing my neon green trunks. I walked into the water slowly and got into a ready stance.

Here goes nothing. When I was signaled I ran up the nets and back down stopping to get the keys. I reached my hand in but it was too big. I tried everything until I just couldn't take it! I was running out of time! I punched the glass box as hard as I could and reached in once more when the glass was gone. I reached the finish line and ended with a time of 6 minutes and 2 seconds.

After everyone was fully dressed we walked over to the dock and found 3 huge metal lock boxes. They were more like gigantic safes.

"For this challenge you'll have a partner. You will both be inside one of these safes and you'll be chained to the floor with your hands tied behind your back. Once you untie yourself you will walk over to the door and try to figure out the lock code so you can leave the safe. To make this even harder, water will be rushing into the safes." Chris said. "Partners are Heather and Alejandro, Courtney and Trent, and Gwen and Duncan."

I smiled at Gwen and she smiled back, but the look in her eyes was a look of fear. I could sense she was scared considering that her dad died from drowning in a trapped car. Ever since that day she has been uncomfortable with water. Sure she was able to do the challenge on the beach but that's only because if anything happened she knew the way out. Inside these metal safes she can't see her way out and that makes her scared.

I grabbed onto her hand letting her know I was there for her and we walked into the safe after changing back into our swimsuits. 2 interns followed us in and cuffed our legs to a metal pole that was attached to the floor. Then they took some rope and tied our hands behind our backs. We heard Chris yell go from outside and we started twisting and turning our arms. Huge waves of water came down from the top of the box and kept crashing down on us. I got loose and reached over so I could grab the key next to me. Once I had it in my hands I bent over and unlocked my legs. While Gwen was still trying to untie her arms, I started putting in codes. I looked back at Gwen to see how she was doing and by now she had her hands on the key. I turned back to the lock and started trying more codes.

"Duncan I dropped the key!" Gwen yelled.

I looked back at her and could see she was worried, but I couldn't give up these codes! If I open this door the water will stop and we might win!

"Find it!" I yelled.

I had gone through all the possible codes except one. This one had to be it. By now the water was up to my neck, and I was standing up! If I was still tied up I would have drowned by now... Gwen!

I looked back at her but couldn't see anything. Not even her head was above water! I looked under water and saw that her legs were still chained to the floor. She was out cold...maybe even dead. I swam over to her quickly and found her key on the floor. I unlocked the cuffs and held onto her while I swam back to the lock. I entered the finale code and the door opened. As soon as the door was open just a crack water came spilling out pushing us against the wall. When it was fully open we were pushed out onto the floor and we slide in the mud.

"Somebody help! Gwen was under to long!" I yelled.

I started performing CPR on her but there was no pulse. When I looked up everyone was standing there worried. Eyes were wide with tears.

"Now!" I cried.

Once they heard the fear in my voice they all came rushing around us. Chef carried Gwen to the infirmary while we all followed behind. When we were inside the small tent Chef hooked up all these machines onto her. The heart monitor was flat so Chef started performing CPR on her once again. He did this for 7 minutes until he stopped and looked at everyone with teary eyes.

"She's, she's gone." he said sadly.

Even though not everyone liked her we all broke down crying. I could have helped her. If only I had uncuffed her when she needed me. She needed my help but all I did was ignore her and focus on something else.

I was about to walk out but then I heard a small beep. I turned around quickly and saw that the heart monitor was making little zig-zags. When Chef noticed what was happening he performed CPR on Gwen for the last time. Water came spilling out of her mouth as her chest violently rose up. She coughed and coughed getting every bit of water out of her body. While doing so her eyes were still shut close. After coughing and hacking up water for 4 minutes she fell backwards like she was a rag-doll. Her head fell to the side as she sighed in relief.

"Gwen's going to need to stay here for a few days. I need to check on her constantly considering she was under water for a really long time. No one could possible survive that, so she needs to stay here just so I can make sure nothing else happens, but I think she'll be fine." Chef said to everyone.

Tears of joy were streaming down my face as well as everyone else's. Gwen was alive, she was going to be okay.

A/N: ='( When I was writing this I couldn't help but not cry! Hope you like it and please review!

Love,

DuncanandGwen4ever