Chapter Ten – Don't Tempt Me!

Bridgette sits under the dock, looking out toward the lake, when she hears footsteps and voices coming towards her. They stop almost directly above her.

"Seriously, Chris! Just a few hours! I don't think you understand how important this is!" Heather says.

"Like I told you before, you're not leaving this island for any reason, unless you don't want to come back." Chris responds.

"And I told you, if something goes wrong, it will be your head on the chopping block because I can afford very good lawyers!" Heather stamps her foot.

"Look, Heather, I don't make the rules, I just enforce them!" Chris shrugs.

"You do make the rules! I know you do, so stop giving me that bull crap and let me go!"

"No." Chris starts to walk off.

"We are not finished with this!" Heather calls after him, before sitting down on the dock and bursting into tears. Bridgette quietly removes herself from the area, making sure Heather doesn't notice she overheard the whole thing.

CONFESSIONAL: Bridgette

"That thing I overheard between Heather and Chris was so weird. I wonder why Heather needs to leave the island. It must be pretty bad if she was crying about it. I don't think I've ever seen Heather cry."

"It's challenge time!" Chris proclaims. He is standing next to a plane which actually looks like a pretty nice plane. "Today's challenge is simple really. All you have to do is resist temptation. This plane will be leaving for civilisation at exactly one o'clock. Waiting there will be a sale," he looks at Lindsay, "a totally rockin' party," he looks at Geoff, "with an all you can eat buffet," he eyes Owen and smiles. "There will be Noah's favourite author Donald Goodman-Williamson," Chris continues.

"Oh, that's my boyfriend!" Izzy says.

"Your boyfriend is Donald Goodman-Williamson?" Noah asks incredulously.

"Yeah, his next book is going to be about the time we…"

"Not now Izzy!" Chris interrupts. "As I was saying! DGW will be there to sign books and also to make-out with his girlfriend if she so wishes to join him there. He plans to take her lion taming. Harold's idol Steve Stevenson will be there and he has an award to give Harold. And last but not least Alejandro will be there to take a certain person to a certain appointment." Chris raises his eyebrows at Heather. "If Lindsay, Geoff, Owen, Noah, Izzy, Harold and Heather don't get on the plane, they will have successfully resisted temptation and their team will get a point for each person who resists."

"What about the rest of us?" Courtney asks.

"Well you and Tyler are not allowed to go anywhere near your fiancés," says Chris.

"Lindsay and I are not engaged!" Tyler says angrily.

"So all I have to do is not see Noah for the day and I get a point?" Courtney asks sceptically. Chris nods.

"Dawn and Bridgette have to go and sit on the dock and look out at the lake. They'll know their temptation when they see it! Justin, there is a full length mirror being put in your cabin. Don't look in it all day and you'll get double points for your team, since the Gophers have fewer competitors. Duncan, you have to resist being arrested by these two cops!" Two cops get out of the plane.

"What? But that's not temptation! I don't want to be arrested!"

"That should make it easier then!"

"But I didn't do anything wrong! I am not going back to prison!" Duncan protests.

"Don't worry they won't take you to prison. Off you go guys!" Chris says to the cops and they chase after Duncan who turns and runs away. Dawn and Bridgette head to the dock to await their temptation, and Courtney and Tyler go to the Bass' cabin to get away from Noah and Lindsay. Chris leaves the others to decide whether or not they will get on the plane.

CONFESSIONAL: Heather

"Great! Just great! I really need to go to that appointment, and Chris is making a game out of it? I hate that guy!"

CONFESSIONAL: Dawn

"I'm kind of worried about what mine and Bridgette's temptation is going to be. Everyone else knows theirs…"

Heather, Lindsay, Noah, Owen and Izzy stand by the plane, discussing if they should go or not.

"There's plenty of food here Owen! You don't need to go!" Heather orders.

"Not an all you can eat buffet though! This is a once in a lifetime opportunity!"

"We can't all go and that's a fact. I need to go, it's a matter of life and death!"

"Oh my god, do you like have a life threatening illness or something, 'cause my cousin did once and it was like the worst thing ever but luckily I was able to give a bone marrow transplant and saved her life!" Izzy says.

"No I don't have a life threatening illness!"

"Heather, it isn't very fair of you to say we can't go if you get to go. I really want to go to that sale!" Lindsay points out.

"The only person on our team whose temptation doesn't involve getting on this plane is Justin. If we all go, we'll lose."

"I'll stay!" says Izzy. "I've already been lion taming so I don't really need to do that and Don won't mind. Noah, I can introduce you to Don some other time if you like?" Izzy says, sounding weirdly normal for once.

"Uh, okay, thanks Izzy?" Noah responds. The rest of them continue to argue over who should stay and who should get to go.

Dawn and Bridgette sit on the dock, nervously awaiting their temptation, when Chef glides by on a fishing boat.

"What is he doing?" asks Bridgette curiously. Chef pulls out a harpoon.

"Oh no!" cries Dawn, as she sees some dolphins swimming nearby. "Surely, he can't mean to kill them?"

"He wouldn't…" Bridgette says hesitantly. Chef aims the harpoon at one of the dolphins.

"No!" Dawn and Bridgette scream, standing up. Chef looks up at them.

"You wanna save 'em, you gotta swim out here and get 'em," he calls. Dawn and Bridgette look at each other and immediately dive into the lake to save the dolphins.

Courtney and Tyler sit in the boy's part of the Bass' cabin.

"I miss Lindsay," says Tyler sadly.

"You saw her literally ten minutes ago," Courtney says incredulously.

"Yeah but it feels like much longer! Thanks for agreeing to help me stay away from her by the way."

"No problem. I wish we were in the girl's dorm though…" Courtney says, looking around at the messy floor.

CONFESSIONAL: Courtney

"Tyler is an idiot, but he's actually not that bad. He pretty much won us the last challenge so I'm grateful for that. I just hope I can keep him away from Lindsay long enough to win this one too."

"Maybe we should do something to take your mind off her," Courtney suggests.

"Like what?" asks Tyler.

"We could… play a game?"

"What kind of game?" Tyler asks, intrigued. Courtney shakes her head, thinking how this is kind of like keeping a child occupied. She looks around the room for an idea.

"A game where every time you pick something up from off the floor and put it in its correct place, you get a point and whoever gets the most points wins!" Surprisingly Tyler agrees to this game and they begin to clean the cabin.

Duncan is hiding in a tree while the cops look around the forest for him.

CONFESSIONAL: Duncan

"I got the stupidest temptation. Cops chasing me? Real funny Chris. Obviously it was not a great idea to blow up Chris' cottage, but I was a dumb kid. I did a lot of dumb things."

The cops look up the tree and spot Duncan sitting up there.

"Aw crap," Duncan says as they begin to climb the tree. Once they're halfway up he jumps down and runs away.

As one o'clock approaches, the people whose temptation lies outside the island gather around the plane. Heather, Lindsay, Owen and Harold all get on the plane, while Izzy, Noah and Geoff resist temptation and stay on the island. Chef gets into the pilot seat and Chris shakes his head in disappointment at those who choose to get on the plane.

"So far the Gophers have two points and the Bass have one! Dawn, Bridgette, Harold, Heather, Lindsay and Owen have all been unable to resist their temptation. Duncan, Tyler, Courtney and Justin still have a chance to resist." Chris announces.

Courtney looks over at Tyler to see how he is going with the "game". He has made a big pile of dirty clothes on one of the beds.

"Uh, Tyler, that is not how this game works!" Courtney scolds.

"Sorry. Lindsay will be on the plane right now. I wish I was with her." Tyler sighs.

"At least you can't see her while she's off the island. The worst part will be the hour between when she gets back and when the challenge ends." Courtney reasons. Just then Duncan bursts into the room.

"Hide me!" he whispers frantically. Tyler and Courtney look at him in surprise before Courtney grabs him and pushes him onto an empty bed. She then starts grabbing the dirty clothes that Tyler had piled up and covering Duncan with them. Tyler gets the idea immediately and helps her. Duncan protests for a second but Courtney just glares at him till he shuts up. The two cops burst into the cabin and Courtney and Tyler spin around and sit on the bed, causing Duncan to groan in pain. Courtney elbows him to shut him up.

"Where's the criminal?" asks one of the cops.

"Who?" asks Courtney.

"The punk. Duncan," says the other cop.

"I haven't seen him sorry!" Courtney says with a smile.

"Me either!" Tyler agrees.

"Don't give me that, we just saw him run in here!" the first cop narrows her eyes and shakes her head slightly, as if to say 'I'm not stupid!'

"You must be mistaken," says Courtney pleasantly.

"What are you sitting on?" the second cop asks.

"A bed." Tyler says.

"What's on the bed?"

"We are!" Tyler says like it's obvious. The cops huff in frustration.

"On the bed, under you!"

"Ohhh that. That's a pile of dirty clothes." Tyler smiles and nods as if he finally understands what the cops are on about.

"Ma'am, sir, please step aside," the cops start to get businesslike. Tyler and Courtney stand up with their arms folded.

"I don't think so." Courtney says.

"Don't make us use force!"

"Don't make us use force!" Courtney repeats. The cops advance and Courtney high kicks the female one in the chest. Tyler punches the guy one and before long the four of them are engaged in a brawl on the floor of the guys' dormitory. Courtney finally gets the female cop pinned beneath her and she looks her in the eye.

"Duncan isn't here so you better leave and not come back!" the cop nods in fear. Tyler has the male cops arm twisted around his back and he twists it harder until he agrees to leave as well. Tyler and Courtney let them go and the cops hurry out of the cabin. Duncan sits up and clothes go flying everywhere.

"That was so hot." He says to Courtney. She frowns at him in disapproval. "Good teamwork guys!" Duncan high fives Tyler and goes to high five Courtney but she refuses. He shrugs. "What are we doing now?"

"Cleaning up this mess!" Courtney demands.

Justin stands outside the washrooms debating whether or not to go in. It has been a long time since he's been able to look at his fabulous body in a full length mirror.

CONFESSIONAL: Justin

"This is like a really tough challenge for me. Who knows when I will get to look at myself in a full length mirror again? I could be on this island for weeks! The other people on my team got to go do what they wanted, so why shouldn't I?"

Justin finally gives in and goes into the bathroom where his full length mirror is waiting.

"Oh yeah, that's the stuff!" Justin says as he flexes his muscles.

CONFESSIONAL: Lindsay

"When Heather got back from her appointment she was really happy and nice. It was so strange!"

Heather, Lindsay, Owen and Harold get off the plane at 4 o'clock and are greeted by Chris, Noah, Izzy, Geoff, Bridgette and Dawn.

"Hello losers!" says Chris.

"Hey Chris!" says Heather.

"Good news then, huh?" Chris asks her. She nods happily. The other look at each other in confusion.

"Just so you guys know, the Gophers are on two points and Justin did not resist temptation. The Bass are on one point, with Tyler, Courtney and Duncan having an hour left to resist their temptations. If two of them manage to resist, the Bass win!" Chris informs the group.

"Justin was worth double points! This is not a great development…" says Owen, who is extremely glad to be back on land after the plane ride.

"It's not surprising though, that guy thinks of nothing but himself." Noah says.

"It is unfortunate, but we can still win guys! Think positive!" says Heather.

"What happened to you?" Noah asks.

"Nothing, I'm just in a good mood!" Heather shrugs.

CONFESSIONAL: Noah

"I'm guessing Heather's "appointment" was a few hours alone in a hotel room with Alejandro, if you know what I mean. Why else would she be so happy?"

"I heard the plane land!" Tyler says, standing up.

"What are you doing?! We still have an hour before we're allowed to see them. You have to stay here!" Courtney reprimands.

"But I need to see her!"

"No, you don't! I haven't seen Noah and I'm perfectly fine."

"Well obviously you don't love Noah as much as I love Lindsay!" Tyler pouts. Duncan laughs.

"He's mean when he misses Lindsay!" Duncan says, still laughing. Courtney throws a pillow at him.

"It's only an hour! Come on!" Courtney turns her attention back to Tyler. Tyler goes to run out of the cabin but Duncan grabs him and holds him down.

"You're not going anywhere!"

An hour later Courtney, Tyler and Duncan come out of the cabin and their team cheers for them.

"The Bass win again!" Chris announces.

At the campfire ceremony Chris hands out the marshmallows.

"Noah, Izzy, Lindsay, Owen aaaaaand…Heather! Sorry Justin, please head down to the dock of shame!"

"What? This is ridiculous! How come I'm the one going home?"

"Because no one likes you and you cost our team two points today!" Heather has returned to her usual self, obviously her mood had dropped when they'd lost the challenge.

"Ugh, whatever! You haven't seen the last of Justin! Now goodbye, forever!"