Phobia Factor, let's do this! Thanks for reviewing, Madison Wooten and Ali6132.

We'd gone to the campfire, because we got some extra dessert from our tuck shop spree and were feeling like we should offer it to the Bass.

"So what, you're just being nice now?" Courtney said suspiciously.

I folded my arms. "Why wouldn't we be nice? Courtney, seriously, it's not like you have to have anything. So we came here because we have to air out our cabin because of Owen and the effect junk food has on him, but that's it." I plopped myself down next to Sadie. "So I see you guys voted Katie off."

Beth offered the green jelly with the gummy worm to Courtney.

"No!" Courtney said, sounding worried for some reason. She quickly calmed down and said "I mean, no thanks, I'm good."

"What, are you on a diet or something?" Duncan asked her.

"No, I just don't like green jelly."

Beth took the jelly further, but before anyone could touch it, DJ screamed. "SNAKE!" He accidentally knocked the dish out of Beth's hands.

"Chill, dude." Cody said, pulling the worm out. "It's just a gummy worm."

"Sorry for tripping." DJ apologized. "Snakes just freak me out."

"I feel you." Tyler said. "Chickens give me the creeps, dude."

This set everyone off, and we started all sharing our fears. Believe it or not, no one had the same one at first, and no one really made fun of most of them.

Beth told us that she was scared of being covered by bugs, Harold was afraid of ninjas, Leshawna feared spiders, and Heather admitted that she was scared of sumo wrestlers.

"What's my worst fear..." Gwen mused, "I guess being buried alive."

"Walking through a minefield...in heels." Lindsay said. Wow, that was actually a good one. I thought hers might've been not being pretty any more...I know, that was mean, but it's not like I was going to say it to her face and hey, complimenting her fear was still a compliment.

"Flying, man." Owen said. "That's some crazy shit."

"I would never go up in a plane. Never!" Izzy added, clasping her hands.

"I'm scared of hail." Geoff told everyone else (I of course, already knew). "It's small, but deadly, dude."

"Being left alone in the woods." Bridgette said.

"Bad haircuts." Sadie sniffled.

"Okay, I change mine!" Lindsay said. "That's so much scarier than a minefield!" I'm losing some respect for her again...

"Blood tests." I admitted. I was okay with getting cut, but they jab the needle into the inside of the elbow, then leave the cold metal in for a while and you can actually see the blood filling the tube.

Cody looked like he was debating, but finally said "Having to defuse a time bomb under pressure."

"I'm not really afraid of anything." Courtney claimed.

"Baloney!" Duncan pretended to cough.

"Oh, really?" she said. "Well, what exactly is your phobia, Mr Know-It-All?"

There was a pause.

"C-Celine Dion music store standees."

SERIOUSLY? Did I just hear Duncan say that? I wasn't sure whether that was unexpected or a cliché. I mean, Duncan may not have been the strongest guy on the show, but he was definitely the toughest. Cardboard cut-outs were pretty much harmless.

Everyone else was surprised, too. "So if we had a cardboard standee right now..." Courtney teased.

"Shut up!" cried Duncan. "What about you guys?"

Trent was pretty much the only member of our team who hadn't said anything. "Well, I hate mimes," he said, "Like a lot." He looked at the only person who hadn't said it. "All right, Courtney, you're afraid of something."

"No, nothing!" Courtney insisted.

"That's not what she said last night." Duncan muttered. I couldn't help giggling. What had happened last night?

"Duncan, did you ever consider the fact that maybe I was just humouring you and your stupid story?" Courtney asked.

"Sure, sure, princess, whatever floats your boat."

Oh no, I had to ask now. The stuff they just said sounds incredibly suggestive.

"Um, Courtney?" I said. "Do you have aphensmphobia?".

Courtney stared at me, blushed bright red, and snapped "Of course not! Nothing happened last night!"

We should've guessed the challenge. Chris announced the next morning that we'd all be facing our worst fears. We didn't take him seriously, until he explained some of them.

"Now, for our first victims...Heather. Meet us all in the theatre. It's sumo time!"

Heather, who had taken a sip from her cup, immediately choked.

"Gwen." Chris called out. "You, me, the beach. A few tons of sand." Gwen gasped.

"Wait, how did they know those were your worst fears?" Lindsay asked.

"Because we told them."

I realized what they meant. "I can't believe it! Now the entire world knows what I'm scared of and the only one here with no problems with that is Courtney!" The last person in the world I'd want to have that advantage. She was smiling calmly.

Actually, Beth was the first to face her fear, getting our team a point. She dived into a kiddie pool full of worms. Okay, so they weren't really bugs, but she was covered in them. Some of them were even in her mouth, and we got a point.

Next, Chris put horrible wigs on Lindsay and Sadie. They'd win by wearing them for the whole day.

Chef was going to fly a battered plane with Izzy and Owen trapped inside, but first, I was made to sit down and hold out my arm, with my whole team watching. Yes, they were making Chef give me a blood test. And on top of that, I had to watch every grisly moment of it.

Okay, I didn't have to do any of this, but if I didn't, I wouldn't get the point. So I did it, fear prodding at me every minute to turn away, to scream, to stop, but I didn't. When Chef finally took out the needle and gave me a plaster, my team cheered.

I heard Harold was ambushed by ninjas while he was in the bathroom, and ended up knocking himself out.

Chef dressed up as a giant spider before he took Izzy and Owen for a flight, and Leshawna ran, screaming.

Heather ducked down, covering herself when the sumo wrestler came at her, he fell over her and she got us the point. Say what you like about Heather, she'll do whatever it takes to win.

Bridgette was sent off to spend six hours alone in the woods. Gwen lay in a glass box with enough air to last for an hour and a walkie-talkie. Trent had the other one, and planned to stay by Gwen for the five minutes she had to spend buried under the sand. "Just yell if you panic and I'll dig you right up." he assured her.

"Goodbye, cruel world." Gwen said dramatically as the little space in the glass box was sealed up and the sand was thrown on there.

Gwen was buried under there for two hours. This wasn't exactly Trent's fault, though. Chris sent a mime after him, so once he'd conquered his fear, he forgot all about Gwen until Chris made an electronic hail cloud follow Geoff everywhere, saying "I'm gonna bury him in hail!"

As for the Killer Bass, DJ managed to hold a snake, and Duncan hugged a Celine Dion standee. On our team, Cody failed to defuse his time bomb that covered him in garbage.

Sadie and Lindsay made it through the whole day with the wigs, but when a confused Cody wandered around the woods and found Bridgette, his appearance was enough to send her running back to camp. And Tyler couldn't stand two minutes in a chicken pen.

"Tyler, this is the last challenge!" Courtney yelled at him. "Quit being such a girl! You have to do this or we're going to lose!"

I shot a glare at Courtney. I rarely hated anyone, but Courtney was annoying. She'd yelled at DJ, too, but weirdly enough, she'd not only tried to make things easier for Duncan, but she'd hugged him after he finished his challenge. Now I was starting to wonder if they really had done something when they were in the woods.

But it wasn't the last challenge. Chris had reviewed the video of everyone talking about their fears, and Courtney had accidentally reacted to her fear.

"Is it what I thought it was?" I asked. "I knew it!"

"No, Elle, you couldn't have been more wrong!" Chris laughed.

Courtney's challenge was to jump into a pool of green jelly. Yes, that was her fear. Green. Jelly. And even though we were in the lead, Chris said that if Courtney did it, it would mean her team won, even though we had the lead and Courtney's challenge shouldn't have made any difference.

She climbed up the ladder to the diving board above and looked down fearfully.

"Like you said, Courtney, it's okay if you can't do it!" Duncan yelled up. Yeah, she'd actually said that to him.

"It is?" repeated Bridgette. "But we'll lose!"

Finally, Courtney climbed down the ladder, tears in her eyes. She couldn't do it, meaning our team won immunity.

I was pretty surprised when I talked to Geoff again that night and discovered Tyler had been voted off. "I thought for sure that it would be Courtney." I admitted. "After Chris offered triple points, she still blew it."

Geoff shrugged. "I dunno. Guess Tyler just got more votes."

I sighed. "While we're on the subject, just asking. What actually happened between Duncan and Courtney? They argued last night, and then they were being all supportive today."

Geoff grinned. "Well, okay, Courtney says she hates Duncan, but it's pretty obvious she doesn't. Nothing actually happened, but the other morning when we were in the woods, they were cuddled up together the next morning, and Duncan keeps saying that she's actually really into him."

I grinned back. "Speaking of being into people, how's things going with you and Bridge?"

"Well..." Geoff admitted, "I said something really stupid to her the other night, but I've got a plan to counteract that." He smirked a bit and said "And I'm guessing you want to know if I said anything to DJ. Because I haven't yet, but don't worry, I will."

I had a lot of fun writing that, for some reason. Just to clear things up, Elle asks Courtney if she has a fear of intimacy. I found that whole "that's not what she said last night" line pretty suggestive, so I just had to make a big deal out of it. C'mon, everyone, please, review!