Author's notes: this takes place immediately after the TDWT finale.

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The contestants had just escaped into the ocean from a volcanic eruption. Shortly afterward, Chris had sent a boat out and they had all climbed aboard. Heather was now in an isolated part of the boat after making it very clear that she wanted to be alone.

DJ had made his way to where Heather was and was planning to try to cheer her about the financial meaninglessness of her victory. He was scared that trying to talk to Heather in her current state would make him a new target for her crappy attitude, but he decided that he wasn't going to let his lack of a backbone keep him from reaching out to someone who needed it.

"Hi Heather," DJ said.

"Hi DJ," Heather said in a depressed tone. If it had been anyone else, Heather would have angrily told them to go f#k off but DJ was such a nice-guy-to-a-fault, she would see what he wanted before snapping. Besides, she had a tad bit of a respect for DJ since she was like 85% sure he didn't completely hate her guts. That was kind of a big thing considering the many times people had called her the embodiment of all evil over the internet.

"For what's it worth, I'm sorry you lost the million dollars," DJ said.

"Not as sorry as I am," Heather said as she slumped her head. Heather had been holding in a lot of emotion since she got picked up by the boat. She was almost at her limit and was tempted to let all it in front of the one person in the world she almost trusted. She began crying in front of DJ.

"I went through all that crap and have nothing to show for it," Heather said as she continued to cry. "I endured Chris's sadistic jackassery, Alejandro's scheming, Leshawna beating the shit the out of me, and I even won this time only for it to be for nothing."

Heather cried for a bit more before continuing and stopped for a while. "And despite all the shit Alejandro has pulled this season, everyone turns a blind eye to him so they can keep hating my guts. It's not right, it's not fair!" Once she was done with that, she started crying again about how everyone saw her as the scum of the earth and nothing was ever going to change that. As far as she could tell, Alejandro could disembowel a kennel of puppies on live TV and people would still think he was a better person than her.

DJ hugged her as she kept crying. "Heather," he started, "I don't hate your guts."

"Bullcrap," Heather accused while crying. "If that's true, then you would have gone into an alliance with me in Newfoundland."

"Oh that," DJ said as he hugged Heather. "I am sorry about that Heather. If I could do that over again knowing what I know now, I'd have taken you up on that alliance."

Heather stopped crying and the two of them stood in silence for a while as DJ kept hugging her. After a while, Heather returned the hug. They stayed embraced for a couple of minutes. DJ was tempted to tell Heather that he wanted to stop hugging, but he decided not to because the right thing to do was to be there for Heather as much as she needed.

As they embraced each other, Heather was so happy to have DJ try to cheer her up. As she returned the hug, she felt DJ's muscles and enjoyed it. As she fondled his muscular hardness, she began thinking about all the ways DJ was not a terrible person. She would have easily pursued romantic possibilities with Alejandro if it hadn't been for him being so damn evil. She then thought about how DJ was both physically attractive and a decent human being.

They broke apart and looked into each other's eyes. Heather leaned forward and kissed DJ. He was so caught off guard by this that he didn't know what to do. He even more caught off guard when Heather followed through by putting her tongue in his mouth.

DJ decided to play along and the two started making out. He knew that Heather wouldn't be doing this unless it was what she wanted, even if she only wanted it because of emotionally distraught she was. Either way, DJ was going to make out with her right now not because it was awesome but because she needed him. And also because it was awesome, but it was mostly because Heather needed him.