Author's Note: Hey I'm back with another chapter, hope everyone had a good Christmas while I was away. I think your really going to like this next chapter. Enjoy.
Survival of the Sickest
Chapter 4
Making a Splash
Little did anyone know one of their own had gone AWOL during filming. While everyone else was busy watching the battle between Geoff and the Peacemaker, Justin had snuck off to do his own research. Breaking into Chris' trailer the teen sat down at his desk and went through files on the host's computer.
"It's got to be here somewhere." He said scanning his personal files.
"Let's see, plans for the contestants, who's up next…who's likely to advance…who might get killed…immunity bracelets. Come on Chris where is it? Where could he have put that?" he asked as he continued sorting.
"Wait here's something." He said pulling up an icon of a silver suitcase.
The doorknob to the trailer turned behind him. The teen jumped and closed out the program, someone was here. Thinking fast he dove under the bed next to the trailer as Chris and the two Peacemakers climbed the steps into the trailer. The host sat down at his desk with the two guys standing behind him.
"All right for doing such a bang up job today, here are your paychecks. $1000 Canadian Dollars as promised." He said handing them two checks.
The two men took their checks. Justin pounded his fist on the floor. How could he miss those?!
"What was that?" Chris asked. Mitchell and Smith looked around not sure what made the sound. Justin lay still with his hand cupped over his mouth. The guys shrug it off as nothing.
"Thanks Chris." Said Mitchell.
"No problem, come back anytime." The host said before turning back to his desk. The two men turned to leave.
"Hey who opened up my files?" he asked noticing the minimized box on the bottom of the screen.
Justin cursed inwardly he was certain he closed it out. Chris opened it up and typed on his computer for a bit making sure everything was in place. As fate would have it this was the one place where he didn't have a camera in place. After messing around on it for a bit he shut down the computer and got up to leave. As soon as he was gone Justin came out from hiding sticking his head and arm out from under the bed, when the door shut and locked he got up and went to the computer and quickly turned it back on. It didn't take long for the computer to boot up and in two minutes he was back in business. After sorting through the files once again he found the suitcase icon from earlier. Taking a USB drive from his pocket he jammed it into the port and downloaded the program ejected it shut down the computer again and snuck out once the coast was clear.
A while later he was back in the guys cabin taking out a laptop he hid under the bed and opened it up. Once it was booted up he installed the flash drive to the side of his computer and began examining what he had taken off of Chris'.
"Just as I thought, there is another suitcase on the island. I gotta hand it to you Chris, you've done a masterful job of screwing with us." He said to no one.
"Now, let's see where you hid this little gem." He cracked his fingers and went to work.
Chris was nobody's fool and encrypted what was on the file. It would take a while for him to figure out its location. Justin may not be a computer genius but even he knew how to hack a system. Despite what everyone else thought He wasn't just a self-absorbed pretty boy; he was a self-absorbed pretty boy with a plan.
Back outside Bridgett was getting ready for her contest. Chris had supplied her with an additional surprise her own Aquagirl costume. As Bridgett came out of the trailer Geoff and the others were stunned by her new suit.
"No way." He said.
"Wow." Duncan said.
Bridgett's costume came in two pieces, the bottoms where form fitting deep blue pants with black streaks and a white top that showed her midriff with dark blue sleeves that came up to her biceps with a splash of white between the sleeve and shoulder. The front of her uniform was white with a blue crescent line hugging the outside of her bust, from the neck to the collarbone and just above her bust was the same deep sea cameo design that finished off the look. Another noticeable feature was that she was barefoot.
"How do I look?" she asked. The guys' jaws hit the ground.
"We'll let you know as soon as their brains start working again." Heather commented.
"Bridgett…wow, just wow!" Geoff said.
"Yeah!" said Owen.
"Guys!" yelled Heather. The bass snapped out of their trance.
"I'm sorry you were saying?" Duncan asked. Courtney rolled her eyes and shook her head.
"All right, whip up the wave generator and let's see what she can do. We're going to make this a little easier for her. Aquagirl, your job is to rip the curl for the longest time and make it all the way to the end of the tube when you do, your to retrieve the stuffed animal that lies on the platform inside the shark infested pool without getting eaten. Think you can do that?" asked Chris.
"No problem." She said with her surfboard in hand.
"You can do it Bridgette!" yelled Geoff. The others cheered her on as she made her way over to the lake.
"All right ready?" Chris asked. She gave the thumbs up.
"Bring that puppy up to max velocity." He told the crew as they fired up the wave generator and didn't take long for it to start generating 10-foot waves.
Bridgette held her balance as she sailed through the curl; she gained momentum as the board raised up. Leaning to the inside she ran her hand through the water cycling around her, her friends cheered her on. She was reaching the end as the wave collapsed behind her. Seemed as though it would be an easy win for the girl. As the guys watched Justin rejoined the group without anyone noticing, watching her compete. A second later she came out of the tube as it collapsed and headed towards the shark infested waters where the stuffed dolphin lay. Shark fins cut across the surface and made their way towards her. A shark finally surfaced bearing its teeth at the girl. Bridgette stared down the animal as she continued towards him and jumped in the air. The shark devoured the board Bridgette ran across the shark's back, missing it's massive jagged dorsal fin and leapt off the mighty beast as two more surfaced bearing their fangs at her. Never flinching she leapt and used each of them as stepping stones and flipped through the air catching the stuffed toy upside down and went under. The sharks swam after him. Geoff and the other teens were dead silent fearing the worst, in the next second she emerged in the shark's mouth and brought her to the shore seemingly sitting in it's mouth where she stood up and the shark retreated, and held up the soggy toy triumphant. Their stunned silence suddenly erupted into applause as Geoff ran up and hugged her spinning her around in his arms as the rest of the team gathered around her.
"And Bridgette wins! I don't believe it!" Chris yelled.
"Wow, damn I gotta say that's pretty impressive. Seems as though I got a bigger challenge in these guys than I thought." Justin thought to himself.
"That is incredible!" Harold said.
"Yeah you can say that again." he replied.
"Now that is one badass chick!" LaShawna said.
"She is pretty good." Courtney said.
"Pretty good? Are you kidding me?! Did you not see her take on those sharks?!!" LaShawna yelled. The guys continued celebrating as she came up to the rest of her female teammates.
"Great job out there Aquagal." Gwen said high fiving her.
"Thanks, it's nothing really." She said nonchalant.
"Yeah but the part with the sharks was really awesome." She said as Chris approached her.
"And Bridgette advances to the next round, seriously that was aw-ha-ha-some!" he said.
"Thanks Chris." She smiled.
"And that's all the time we have for today, tune in next week for another thrilltastic episode of…Total. Drama. Island!" he said.
"Another love letter?" Gwen asked.
"Yeah." She said.
"I thought you broke up with Harold?" she asked.
"I did. I told him it wasn't going to work, but he won't take a hint. Still, little guy's determined." She said.
"Well maybe you should give him another chance? I mean it's obvious he likes you. He just has his own weird way of showing It." she told her.
"Yeah I guess your right." moaned LaShawna.
"I'll go think about It." she said excusing herself from the table. And threw her food in the trash before taking off.
"Bye." Said Gwen.
A while later she was in the woods thinking to herself seemingly lost in her thoughts. She'd been through a lot the past few weeks, of all the people she'd hook up with she never thought it'd be Harold who was practically the second coming of Napoleon Dynamite. I mean this guy was like the epitome of nerddome. Always going off about his skills when he has next to none, at least it seemed that way on the surface. There was certainly a lot more to him that meets the eye, especially during the dodgebrawl tournament all that time she thought he was just bullshittin' about his made up skills. But he meant what he said, it's true he's not the most athletic dude but…the guy's got talent. But what probably surprised her the most was when he wrote the love letter to her. Who knew the guy had such depth? Such passion? Guess all that pent up sexual frustration will do that to a man. And who knew she'd be more jealous of Heather when she flashed her goodies to Harold during that race? That…that really caught her by surprise, yeah she hated Heather, but that night she had never been redder. And after what she did to Heather in the woods, well let's just say it's a good thing the cameras weren't there to see it.
Still this string bean of a man stirred up all kinds of feelings inside her. Some she weren't sure she was ready to deal with. She hadn't really dated a white guy before, and Harold seemed so far removed from the guys she was use to seeing. She wasn't racist, she was just use to dating guys that were strong and confidant and had serious B-ball skills and Harold…most certainly wasn't. Actually he was pretty confidant for a nerd so one out of three wasn't bad. Maybe she should give him another….
As she came back to the campground she saw him in the hot tub, bubbles flowing scented mini candles lining the ridge and finally…
Are you going to take me home tonight?
Ah, down beside that red firelight
Are you going to let it all hang out tonight?
Fat bottomed girls
You make the rockin' world go round
Her jaw dropped when she saw him and heard the music. The woman smiled, closed her eyes and shook her head good-naturedly.
"Mmm-mmm-mmm, Harold you are something else." She smiled.
"Hey LaShawna, wanna join me?" he asked holding out his hand.
"Well sure, Sugar let me go get changed real fast." She smiled and sauntered off.
"Yes!" he said and pumped his arm back in triumph. The scene later cut to the confession can.
"I knew I'd win her over with my manly charm." He said flexing for the camera.
"I said it before, and I'll say it again that Harold is something else." LaShawna said before cutting out.
A while later she had rejoined him in her bathing suit as she seemed down in the water, which ran over a little bit as she entered. Harold just smiled as he reached behind and handed her a Coke can.
"Thanks Shug." She said.
"No problem." He smiled as the song continued in the background.
Hey I was just a skinny lad
Never knew no good from bad
But I knew life before I left my nursery
Left alone with big fat fanny
She was such a naught nanny
Heap big woman you made a bad boy out of me
Hey hey
They smiled, as they got closer to each other. He couldn't believe it actually worked, actually he knew all along but still this was awesome.
"So what drew you to me?" she asked.
"Honestly I can't say for sure, I guess it's because you're so different from the other girls I've seen. I mean you got personality and you don't take crap off of anyone. That's an admirable quality if I've seen one. Plus you don't care what others think of how you look. Not many girls are like that." he said, the pop tab hissed as he opened it.
"Aww. You know, you're all right. And that means a lot coming from you." she smiled and pinched his cheek.
I've been singing with my band
Across the wire across the land
I seen every blue eyed floozy on the way
But their beauty and their style
Went kind of smooth after a while
Take me to them dirty ladies every time
Oh wont you take me home tonight?
Oh down beside your red firelight
Oh and you give it all you got
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round
He smiled and rubbed his cheek after she let go of it. The heavyset girl rested against the back of the Jacuzzi and smiled at him.
"You know, I gotta say Harold you're a lot different than when I first met you. I mean you're not the guy I thought you were. When I first met you I thought you were just this awkward teenager that didn't interact much with anyone and had your own little quirks, I was right about that. But after reading your letter I saw there's a lot more to you than that. You're a real cool cat you know that?" she smiled.
"That's what I've been telling people all along, but nobody ever believed Me." he said.
"Well I believe you sugar bear." She said. Harold smiled and blushed.
Hey listen here
Now your mortgages and homes
I got stiffness in the bones
Aint no beauty queen in this locality (I tell you)
Oh but I still get my pleasure
Still got my greatest treasure
Heap big woman you gonna make a big man out of me
Now get this.
His blush became brighter as he made his way towards LaShawna; the heat from the Jacuzzi was steaming up his glasses, as he got closer to her, she leaned forward and closed the distance kissing him.
Oh you gonna take me home tonight (please)
Oh down beside your red firelight
Oh you gonna let it all hang out tonight
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round
Get on your bikes and ride.
As they broke their kiss, she gently kissed him on his brow as he gazed upon her massive melons.
"You mind?" he asked. She nodded as he put his arms around her and rested his head on her chest.
"Boooya!" he said softly. LaShawna chuckled as she held him.
"Boy you are something else." She told him.
"I know it!" he replied still hugging her breasts.
Oooooh yeah them fat bottomed girls
Fat bottomed girls
Yeah, yeah yeah
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round
Yes, yes.
Author's Note: All right, what'd you think of that. It's funny I was thinking of that song earlier and when the image of LaShawna hit, I knew I had to do a Harold impressing LaShawna hot tub scene. I honestly never thought I'd do Harold/LaShawna but there are times when I suprise even myself. Hope you guys liked it. I know what your going to say, 'can you please do Duncan and Courtney next?' I guess we'll have to see what happens. Well that's all for now. Let me know what you think. Also any thoughts on DJxKatie? I'm just curious cuz I heard that pairing's been floating around some.
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