Chapter 11
Duncan P.O.V.
"No!"
"Yes!"
"No!"
"Duncan!"
"Dad!"
"Look, Duncan, I don't give a damn what Gwen wants or doesn't want! Right now I only care about what I want, and what I want is to get her back!" He brought his hand down on the kitchen table that we were standing near, on opposite sides. He'd been trying to get me to contact all the guys from TD so that I could tell them about what was happening with Gwen.
"Oh, and I don't want that? I've been going fucking crazy all day! It's nobody's business! Why the hell should I tell them?" This man was getting on my nerves.
"Because we need to question them! They might know something!"
"What are they gonna know about her that I don't?" I cocked an eyebrow, challenging him to tell me what on earth any of our other Total Drama cast-mates would know about Gwen that I didn't already.
"Gwen may be your best friend, but that does not mean she tells you everything."
"Yes she-"
"No, she doesn't! She's a seventeen year old girl. No seventeen year old girl tells one person everything."
"Disagree."
"Whatever, Duncan. You are going to call all of your cast-mates over here. What if one of them does know something, huh? Are you going to risk losing a chance to find her because she doesn't want people knowing? The more you argue with me, the longer Gwen stays with that maniac! So shut your goddamn mouth and get them over here!"
I watched my dad storm out of the room and rubbed my temples. He was right. I was wasting precious time fighting with him. I shot a text to all of the guys and then started heading back up to my room.
I stopped when I caught my dad pacing back and forth in the living room, discussing how they would question the guys, with his other officers.
He looked pissed and worried at the same time. If this had been any other time, under very different circumstances, I would've been very entertained by his pacing and worrying. It's not every day I get to see my dad so worked up. Normally I would've mocked him for letting himself be so affected, but this was about Gwen.
Dad loves Gwen, although you wouldn't picture my dad loving anything much. He didn't really like her at first when I brought her over to meet him and Ma. He took one look at her and scowled. It was the whole "you look like trouble, so you must be trouble" thing. She greeted both of them with a smile and gave my mom a hug. After she pulled away she extended her hand to him. He took it and she smiled her innocent smile and told him to, quote, "Wipe that scowl off your face, and stop being such a judgmental ass. You may not be fond of Duncan's delinquent ways, but, I promise you, I'm much more mature than he is. And an all-around better person." That made Dad laugh and she won his respect. Not many people had the balls to call him an ass.
I made my way up the stairs and stopped to check on Ms. Hartzler. She was sleeping in my guest room. She'd been crying and worrying all day and I was relieved that she was finally getting some rest.
I found a very tired looking Dylan sprawled across my bed when I walked into my room. "Hey, how you holding up, little man?" He was quiet for a sec and then he murmured something that I didn't catch. "What'd you say?"
"I said it's my fault! It's my fault that she got taken!" He yelled, bolting up into a sitting position. "If I'd just kept washing my clothes every few days, I would've been fine! Hell, Derek offered to let me borrow some of his clothes, but nooo-I just had to get some of my own! And now she's gone! You have no idea how shitty I feel, dude. God, I'm so fucking stupid."
"Hey!" I said sitting next to him on the bed. "This is not your fault. You didn't knock yourself out with a gun, you didn't take her, and you're not obsessed with her. You did nothing wrong! Now stop beating yourself up because you know Gwen would be pissed if she found out you were blaming yourself for her being kidnapped."
He snorted and rubbed his hand over his face. "It's that not easy, man. I can't help thinking that I could've saved her by changing any small thing. I could've texted Mom. I could've waited for her outside. I could've made the cop go in with me. I could've been more careful when I went in."
"I could've not let her go; I could've met you there instead. I could've went with her. I could've gotten that asshole when he totaled my car." I said shaking my head.
"It's not the same thing!"
"Yes, it is. She was staying with me to stay safe. I was supposed to take care of her, and I didn't. Now she's with a crazy person, doing God-knows-what. There are so many 'could have's and 'what if's, but thinking about them isn't going to bring her back."
The doorbell rang and I groaned. "We'll finish this discussion later. I gotta go tell all the other Total Drama people what's happened so that they can be questioned." Messing up his hair, I walked out of the room.
Everyone was talking in my kitchen, wondering why the hell I insisted that they all get there asses over here, lest they want me to hunt them all down and drag them over.
I'd just let DJ and Geoff in-they were the last to show up-and we made our way back into my kitchen. My dad and his guys were waiting in the game room. They didn't want anyone freaking out by seeing cops in the living room.
I took a deep breath and started, "Okay, I know you're all wondering what the hell you're doing in my house, so-"
"Hold up, Danger Boy! Where's Gwen?" LeShawna interrupted.
"Yeah? We thought she would've been the first one here," Surfer Girl added.
"What, did Gothie up and leave you for someone with more piercings and tattoos? A biker maybe? Bassist in a death-rock band?" Heather scoffed.
Everyone started talking, speculating on where Gwen could be.
"Shut up, you idiots!" I heard Courtney shriek. She already knew what I was about to say.
I sighed in annoyance. "Look, the reason you're all here is because Gwen's been taken and you are all here for questioning. Just to see if you know anything useful, none of you are being accused of anything."
Then there was silence.
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A/N: Okay, so I thought that I uploaded this last week. But I guess something went wrong when I uploaded it, because as I was about to upload this next chapter, I noticed this wasn't here. My computer was attacked by some sort of virus-thing, but I got it to work without any problems for a while, so I wrote this chapter. My computer started acting up again as I was finishing up this chapter and then started doing other weird stuff so I hurried to try to upload it, and I thought it worked. I guess something went wrong though, because the chapter obviously didn't upload. I looked through my email and noticed that I didn't have an email telling me the chapter was added. So, I apologize for my computer's stupidity.
Anyway, computer's all better, and I'm sorry I didn't notice it was missing sooner!
