So this is the original ending I wrote for Bailey. Part of it would be the ending to this story, but halfway down is the ending if I was not going to do All-Stars. There will be a warning in the chapter where it cuts off and becomes an alternate ending, instead of the sequel.

Oh, and yes, I do reference the movie Anastasia, or at least, the villain song "In The Dark Of The Night". Someone did a video on YouTube with the song and Mal, and it inspired me.

Thanks to queenoftrouble (I've made a plan of everything for each chapter...warning: I'm fixing the elimination order and a few other things) and the guest reviewer (the first chapter is up).

The reality show was okay, to be honest. In fact, I spotted two familiar faces. Duncan was on there, but so was Izzy. Now I remembered her mentioning that she wanted to be on a reality show.

I soon got to know the other cast members. I liked Gwen, the moody goth girl, and Leshawna, the tough African-Canadian girl – you know, token that I would've been if I'd auditioned – but I hated that snobby prom queen Heather, and her totally brainless sidekick Lindsay. I kind of liked Geoff, too, the dim but sweet guy who seemed to enjoy pulling pranks just as much as Duncan and I did – in fact, he and Duncan pulled a lot of things on nerdy Harold on their team (Duncan was on the Killer Bass, Izzy was on the Screaming Gophers). I still rooted for Duncan, of course.

Izzy lasted the first eight episodes, but then the RCMP helicopter swooped down to arrest her at the elimination ceremony that night.

"You mean all that trash you were talking was true?" Leshawna cried, remembering how Izzy had mentioned it.

"No." Izzy told her brightly. "Just the RCMP part. See ya." Then she stood up and screamed "YOU'LL NEVER GET ME ALIVE!" Then she tore off, laughing like the loon she was. Later on, she came back, but only made it as far as the final seven.

Duncan lasted longer, making it to the final four, and we even got to see a video message from home to him – his dad actually wondered whether he loved his son ("Well, the boy's a criminal!"), but his mom obviously did ("That hair piece is what's criminal"). Then Heather and Gwen, the last two girls, won immunity and voted him off for being more of a threat than the other boy, a lovable chubby (to put it lightly) guy called Owen, who ended up winning the season.

Of course, Total Drama didn't stop there. I didn't see Duncan again until after the second season, Total Drama Action, was over. And boy did I have a lot to talk to him about.

"So..."I said, "Are you still dating the preppy chick?" Oh yeah, I forgot to mention Courtney.

As I mentioned, Duncan and I broke up earlier, so I didn't really care that he'd started dating again, but this was the first time I realized what he said was true – girls who argued with him were a turn-on. Even so, I wasn't sure what he saw in preppy, bossy competitive Courtney. She'd been okay in the first season, I guess. She spent most of it denying that she had anything for Duncan, even after the team spent a night in the woods, and in the morning, they were cuddled up together. There was a confessional where you could hear Leshawna yelling at Courtney from outside while she said she would never be with Duncan about five times in different ways. And then they kissed, Courtney was voted off, and she called back that she'd never forget him.

She originally didn't qualify for Total Drama Action, but sued her way back in. She and Duncan were on/off the whole time. They broke up when he eventually voted her off, but then, at the finale, Duncan won and Courtney immediately came back to him. Yes, you heard me, he won.

"We're together." Duncan confirmed. "For now, at least."

"What do you see in her?" I asked.

"She's hot. And has a strong personality. I told you I like girls who'll argue with me."

And then came Total Drama World Tour, which involved every competitor singing in each episode. Duncan actually quit in the first episode and disappeared for some time, until Courtney and Gwen found him in London. Then he kissed Gwen in the confessional.

That was what shocked me. I never thought of Duncan as perfect, and sure, I didn't know why he'd dated Courtney, but kissing Gwen while they were still together? What's more, only Gwen seemed to feel guilty, going on about how she'd betrayed Courtney and that if it happened again, she'd confess.

She didn't get the chance – the newbies of the season found out before her. There were two of them. Sierra was a fan of the show who was unnaturally obsessed with geeky Cody, and she claimed that Duncan and Gwen had had a crush on each other for ages. "There's a whole fanbase dedicated to Gwuncan! I wonder if this year, a new fanbase will start for Siody...no, no...Coderra!"

The other newbie was Alejandro, and I personally couldn't stand him. Sure, he was gorgeous to look at, but was it really necessary to manipulate two thirds of a team into getting kicked off? And then work on Courtney when she was at her weakest. It was almost a relief when I watched the finale, when Heather beat him, using the fact that he'd fallen for her against him.

But enough about that. I actually got to meet Gwen, since after the third season, the original cast finally got a break, and everyone got to chill out. A new group of teenagers went in. Obviously, since Duncan was still dating Gwen, I asked if I could meet her, and she turned out to be a bit more distant than she was on TV...but then she had only just met me. I carefully avoided mention of the show (although I did mention that I thought she should've won the first season – she was in the final two), and instead made pointless small talk.

As a matter of fact, Duncan and Gwen had a relationship that was almost identical to the one I had with Duncan, teasing each other and joking around. The only difference was that Gwen wasn't quite as into causing trouble.

But then the fourth season started, and another familiar face showed up. The redhead standing next to him nudged him, asking "Can you believe we're here?"

"Yeah, it's beautiful..." my ex-tormentor murmured, staring at her dreamily. Before my eyes, Total Drama Revenge of The Island had accepted Multiple Mike onto their show. What's more, everyone's audition tape had been leaked, and Mike's one claimed that he was going against his psychiatrist's orders. At least, he seemed okay, that season. Sure, Vito caused a lot of trouble by coming onto that shallow Jersey Shore girl Anne Maria, but he still managed to snag the girl of his dreams, sweet selfless (if totally bland) Zoey. As it turned out, she became Mike's trigger. If she was put in danger when he was someone else, Mike would take control and immediately go to save her.

(A/N: This is where the ending would be, allowing the upcoming sequel. The next part is alternate. You have been warned.)

Then Duncan was called back again. So were Gwen (and Courtney). "I'm only going because Gwen's going." Duncan confided to me.

Later on, when I talked to Gwen, she said "I want to make up with Courtney. I feel so bad about the way things went down, and I know she's probably still mad at me, but we were so close to becoming real friends. I felt so alone after that – I mean, yes, I was probably closest to Leshawna, but I hated feeling that someone who was more alike to me than I realized hated me so much."

"Well," I said lightly, "The editing on the show doesn't show her in a good light, but if you can see the good in her, who am I to tell you not to make amends?" Gwen was probably a better person than Duncan or I, but that didn't stop her from being placed on the Villains' team, with a mix of contestants from both the old and new cast.

And that's where the problems started.

Mike was on the team of Heroes, since he'd shown himself to be heroic and considerate on the show before. Then dirt boy Scott accidentally hit him on the head one day, and at the elimination ceremony, I saw it.

"One by one, they will all fall."

"Huh? Did you say something, Mike?" Zoey asked him innocently.

"No, just sitting here." Mike replied, seemingly oblivious of what was happening.

I didn't know what to think. Mike had said that Mal was locked away for good. But he was starting to come back, episode by episode. I started to fear for Zoey's wellbeing. Sure, even when Mal gained full control, locking Mike up in his mind, he was still nice to Zoey, putting on an act and pretending to be Mike, only manipulating people behind the scenes, but who knew what he was doing when the cameras weren't on him? I couldn't enjoy Gwen and Courtney making up, or feel sympathetic when Gwen dumped Duncan (to be fair, he was being a jerk and becoming obsessed with Courtney again), or feel anything when Alejandro got his revenge on Heather. And then Mal also tried to kill Cameron, the winner of the last season and one of Mike's closest friends. It got worse. In episode 12, he tried to crush Gwen with a pile of debris and made Scott shark bait to Fang, a mutant shark who Scott had made an enemy of in the previous season. And then, he was up against Zoey in the finale. She finally discovered he'd been Mal for a long time and told him to drop the act. Then he tried to drown her during the challenge.

And I knew, I just knew, that if Mal won and came back, he wouldn't have forgotten me. In fact, I was sure there was one confessional that mentioned me. I wasn't sure, but he'd been talking about how he'd use the prize money to live in a tower overlooking a volcano, like a real villain. "And of course, I'd have my sweet slave-girl by my side, willing to do everything, just for me. Not that silly little redhead Mike calls a girlfriend – what does he see in her? No – I know where to find her, and when I do, she'll never escape me again." He'd called me his slave-girl, back in juvie. That's why I was worried when he said that. Was he talking about me?

A line from a movie that was ripping off Disney ran through my head: "My curse made each of them pay, but one little girl got away..."

The image of the villain twisted, and the words changed in my head as I imagined Mal again. "Little Bailey, beware, Mal's back and awake..."

It was a huge relief to see Mike retaking control at the end, and I could finally laugh when that jerkwad of a host Chris hated all the love going on (besides Mike and Zoey, the helpers were Alejandro and Heather who had started dating, and Cameron and Gwen – just friends, but when everyone else started kissing, Gwen kissed Cameron on the cheek) and only managed to stop it by giving the helpers a chance to win. Alejandro instantly let go of Heather and both of them went back to fighting.

And then, the second half of the fifth season had newbies – and that's when I finally saw my cellmate. What was going on? First it's Duncan and Izzy, then Mike, and now Scarlett? Was I next?

Anyway, Scarlett had said it was unwise to annoy her, but it wasn't until I saw the tenth episode when I realized what she'd meant. I had known Scarlett all that time, but I'd never seen her flip the way she did. If she didn't deactivate the island's self-destruct, everyone left on the island – zombie boy Shawn, athlete Sky, insufferable pageant queen Sugar, awesome Aborigine Jasmine, and pathetic-excuse-for-a-villain Max – would explode with it. But did she care? No! If she didn't get the million dollars, she'd escape and let the island explode.

Okay, well, maybe I would've flipped if I had Max tagging along with me, treating me as his sidekick, but you should've seen Scarlett's reveal. She was at the control room, and Max comes in and is all "Enough nonsense, sidekick! Step away."

Scarlett spoke very softly at first, as she reached for her glasses. "I. Am. Not. Your. SIDEKICK!" As she said the last word, she turned around. Her glasses were off and her hair went all spiky, the way it always did when she took it out of her bun. Even Max knew that meant trouble. And for the first time, I saw Scarlett's true colours.

"This is the real me!" she said. "The Scarlett that I've kept hidden until now. Biding my time, waiting to strike...I am EVIL! HAHAHAHAHAHA!" Was I glad she'd never flipped like that while we were in juvie. But what she'd told me she'd done to get into juvie...that moment was what made it believable.

Thankfully, although she trapped the contestants in a roomful of attacking robots, Shawn went into zombie-killing mode and demolished them, and then Sky got Max to use one of them to trick Scarlett into opening the door, when Max's only brilliant idea was that "someone think of something". Sugar hogtied Scarlett, Jasmine suggested the code, and Sky deactivated the self-destruct.

To be honest, all Total Drama really made me do was rethink juvie. Maybe I was luckier than Duncan. Yes, Mal had nearly taken away something I valued, and had destroyed my dignity for a short time, but still. To think, he could have tried to drown me, like he did to Zoey. Or the other things that happened, had I been on the show, instead of him. Heather could've pulled one of her mean tricks on me, Courtney could've killed me in a challenge just to win, Alejandro could've tried to break my heart, heck, Scarlett could have tried to murder me! And all for money. I was just glad I'd never met Heather, Courtney or Alejandro in real life. Now, I better get back to keeping the cops off my back. I'm nearly eighteen and legible to be tried as an adult. I've cleaned up my act some, but that just means leaving the graffiti I do for a couple of weeks before cleaning if off again. It stops anyone from reporting it before it's gone, since most of the ghetto people just think it's cool.

Anyway, let's end this insane story with one last sentence, courtesy of a quote from one of my good friends: "Told you I was a villain!"

And yes, that's the original ending! Hope you liked this story. As for me, it would make me really happy if you just left me one last little review.

And on that note, I want to thank everyone who gave me support on this story. This has been one of the most popular stories I've ever written! You guys are fantastic, so thank you SO much. It means a lot to me that you took the time to let me know what you were thinking about this.

And if you liked this story, PLEASE check out "Centre Of Attention", my Scott/OC story, which features Duncan as the leader of a teenage criminal gang.

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