Gwen, yawning, walked over to the guy's side of the Killer Wolves cabin and knocked on the door. After not getting an answer, she opened the door herself. Gasping at what she saw, she ran in and yelled, "Trent! What happened?"

The entire cabin was splattered in vomit, from top to bottom. Trent, clothes and hair covered in vomit, was alone and curled up in the fetal position on the floor, a sleeping Gabe lying in the carrier next to him. Rocking himself back and forth and muttering to himself, he stared fearfully into space, eyes wide as saucers.

Gwen kneeled down and shook him gently. "Trent… Trent!"

She shook him more violently and he didn't move, but at least he acknowledged her presence. "It… It was horrible, Gwen. So much stuffcame out of this baby last night." He shut his eyes tightly and whispered, "So… much… barf…"

Gwen lifted him up so that he was sitting upright and commented, "I figured you'd be used to all this baby stuff. Didn't you ever help your parents with Grace when she was younger?"

"Yeah," Trent said, nodding and calming down. "But… When Grace was a baby, she wouldn't have even dreamed of doing half the stuff Gabe did last night."

"Oh…" Gwen rubbed his back sympathetically, but cringed when she saw her hand was now covered in barf, too. Wiping it off on a clean patch on his pants, she told him, "Well, at least he's finally happy." She grinned. "Barfing on Daddy must have been fun."

Trent cracked a smile and chuckled. "Yeah, I suppose so." He got up on his feet and pulled his girlfriend up with him. "I'm gonna go take a shower."

"Yeah, you do that," Gwen said, waving a hand in front of her face. "You stink." Picking Gabe up out of his carrier, she waved goodbye. "I'll handle things from here."

"Thanks, babe," he called out to her as she left. Trent grabbed a towel and a bottle of shampoo from his suitcase and headed toward the door. Before he could, he stepped in a puddle of vomit, slipped, and landed in it, making himself even messier.

*T*S*R*

Zoey, holding London, walked into the mess hall, approached Grace at their table and whispered to her, "Did you find Fluffernutter?"

Grace shook her head. "No, but I saw her under your bed. She must have snuck back in last night."

"Oh." Zoey shrugged. "Smart doggie."

Gwen walked in, still carrying Gabe, and saw her brother, still with Danny, trying to eat with one hand. There was a tray in front of the empty seat next to him, so it was safe to assume he was saving it for Selena.

"Zack, where's Selena?" Gwen asked, approaching him.

"Gwuh?" Zack sleepily muttered, barely able to keep his eyes open. "Oh, she said she'd be here soon…"

The Goth cradled Gabe in one arm and put her free hand on her hip. "Where'd she go?"

"Dunno," he answered, shrugging.

She sighed and took Selena's saved seat. "Zack, we need to talk." Placing a hand on his drooping shoulder, she told him, "I haven't seen Selena with Danny very much. I think she's taking advantage of you for an easy win."

"W-what?" Zack looked shocked by this. "N-no, Selena wouldn't do that." Even he didn't look convinced.

"When was the last time she took care of him? Fed him? Even held him?"

Zack looked crestfallen for a moment, but his expression immediately flashed to anger. "Gwen, I think you're right." He stood up and started walking off. "I'm going to go find her."

"I didn't want to believe it, but I knew it must have been true," Zack mused, looking crestfallen again. "Selena wouldn't be spending so much time trying to ruin the challenge for Courtney and Duncan unless she was just trying to get away from me and Danny." Crossing his arms, he added, "She had better at least apologize to me…"

*T*S*R*

Candace, wearing Geoff's hat, was seated al by herself at the Rabid Wolves table, quietly nibbling on her burnt toast. As she peeled the charred crusts off, Geoff sat down next to her, a smile on his face.

"A certain little lady wants to see her mommy," he cheerfully said, holding Kylie out to her.

"Aww!" Candace took the hat off and held it out toward Geoff. "And a certain hat wants to be back on his daddy's head!"

They traded said items. Candace held her pretend daughter and Geoff put his not pretend hat back on.

"What's for breakie?" Geoff asked.

"I think it's cereal," Candace mused, poking the substance in the bowl on her tray with her spoon. The spoon would not go through it. "Whatever it is, I got you a bowl, too." She handed him the extra bowl of solid cereal that she had gotten.

"Thanks, Candy," he said, grinning.

"No prob. So, did you sleep okay last night?"

"Not really." Geoff shrugged. "But I'm cool. I'm used to little sleep after some of my all night shindigs back home."

"Oh, those sound fun!" Candace perkily said.

"When we get off the island, you should totally come to one!" Geoff slung an arm around her. "Since you won't know any of my buds back home, you can hang with me all night, if you want."

"That's sweet," Candace muttered, blushing at his arm being around her. "But I don't think I can wait that long to spend more time with you…"

Geoff looked down at her, grinning even wider than he had before. "Are you… asking me out?"

Candace bit her lip shyly and nodded. "I know you just broke up with Bridgette, so if you aren't up for it yet, or just don't want to-"

"No, I totally do!" Geoff eagerly cheered. "How about tonight?"

"Really? Yay!" Candace happily cheered, throwing her arms in the air. Unfortunately, she had still been holding Kylie and flung her in the air, too.

Both parents screamed like little girls, but Geoff luckily caught her.

Nudging him, Candace complimented, "Nice catch, Geoff!"

"This. Is. AWESOME!" Geoff yelled, pumping his fists. "I've been so bummed ever since the break-up, this is exactly what I need to get me back in the partying mood!" Resting his chin in his hand, he sighed, "Candace is so sweet and happy… She could make Chef feel like partying. "

"Yes, yes, yes!" Candace squealed, squirming like crazy. "I got a date with Geoffy!" Realization struck her and she frowned. "I just hope one of us isn't voted off tonight…"

*T*S*R*

Zack finally found Selena, who was walking away from the Bears cabin and giggling like a madwoman.

"Selena!" Zack harshly yelled.

Calming down a little, she waved. "Hey, Zack. Wait, I thought you were saving my place at the breakfast table…"

"I know what you're up to, you manipulative… manipulator!" Zack was too mad to think up any better insults.

"Oh, yeah," Selena giggled again, pointing to their cabin. "I just suggested to Duncan and Courtney that they let Michelle have a play date with Malik. Duncan was all for it, but Courtney blew up. It was a riot."

"You did that instead of helping me take care of Danny?" He held him up and spat, "He's your son, too, you know!"

Selena looked angry, now. "Well, ex-cuuuse me for trying to help my brother out. I thought you were a team player, Zack!"

Zack gaped, then screamed, "You're accusing me of being a lousy teammate? You've neglected Danny for the past few days and I'm sick of being stuck with all the responsibility!"

"I didn't ask for this kid, you know!" Selena screamed. "I had dreams, dreams that didn't involve being a teen mother!"

"Oh, would you shut up?" Zack screamed, spiking Danny in the ground with fury. He screamed like the dickens, but his father was too angry to care. "We only had to take care of these things together for three days, and you couldn't even do that for me. You were too busy doing what you wanted," he spat.

Selena's face fell. "Oh, my gosh… You're right, Zack."

"Heck yeah, I'm right! I'm just glad this is almost over, so I don't have to deal with you anymore!"

Selena gasped at that remark, tears brimming her eyes. "Z-Zack… You don't mean that, do you?"

"Yes, I do! I'm fed up with you and your crap! God, you are so freaking annoying, I don't know why I've put up with you for this long!"

Selena finally started crying as Zack continued to yell such hurtful things to her. She had never seen him so mad. He had always been so sweet to everyone, including her. She must have really pushed him over the edge.

As he kept on yelling at her, Chris walked up to them and looked down at Danny, who was by Zack's feet. He shook his head, ashamed of their poor parenting skills. The host picked the wailing baby up and walked off without another word. Zack was too blinded with fury to see him and Selena was too blinded by her own tears.

*T*S*R*

"I've gotta admit, Cody," LeShawna started as she walked to the cliff alongside Cody, "but I had my doubts when it came to you taking care of the baby. You did a pretty good job!"

"Really?" Cody asked, Ty in his arms. She nodded. "Thanks, LeShawna. I was really nervous last night. I mean really, really nervous. I was sure I was going to screw something up!"

"Why are we going up here, again?" LeShawna asked. "It might not be the best idea, with a baby and all…"

"Oh, relax!" Cody nonchalantly said, waving his free hand at her. "I proved what an awesome dad I can be. I can handle having him up this high." Cody stopped at the very edge, looking down below. "Ty'll like looking at the crashing waves."

LeShawna was still walking, not looking where she was going. "Yeah, but what if-" She bumped right into him, making him almost lose his balance. Luckily, he didn't if he flailed his arms around. Unluckily, it meant he had to drop Ty.

Cody blanched as he watched the simulator fall, his tiny screams echoing against the cliff.

When LeShawna backed away from him and he turned around, she didn't even ask what happened. "I hate you," she growled.

Cody sighed and looked down at his feet. "I don't blame you…"

"What is up with you kids throwing your babies off of cliffs?" A voice that sounded like Chris' yelled from the shore below them.

*T*S*R*

"Why can't we let Michelle play with Malik?"

"Look at the kid's parents! He's got to be a horrible little monster! I don't want my daughter to hang out with such bad influences!"

"Courtney, you are such a nut case!" Duncan yelled, cradling a screaming Michelle in his arms.

"Well, maybe if you ever took me out anymore, I wouldn't be!" Courtney snapped, tears in her eyes.

Duncan calmed down, realizing something. He held up his hand and said, "Whoa, whoa, whoa… Court, can we stop? We sound like an old married couple."

Courtney gasped, then glared at him, pure hatred in her eyes. "So now I'm old, am I?"

Duncan threw an arm in the air, feeling defeated. "I can't talk to you when you're like this!" He roughly shoved Michelle at Courtney, which only made the simulator wail even more.

"Where do you think you're going?"

"Out!" Duncan walked out of the girl's side of the Bears cabin and slammed the door.

Looking absolutely infuriated, she screamed, "Duncan Caliver, you'd better not come home drunk!"

*T*S*R*

Heather watched carefully as DJ fed Essie her bottle. "You're really good with her, DJ."

DJ looked up and grinned. "Thanks. I've seen you with her, too, and you're not half bad yourself."

Heather looked saddened by this, but still said, "Thank you… I tried to start babysitting to earn some extra money after TDI…" She looked out the mess hall window to avoid looking him in the eye when she finished by adding, "But after their parents saw me and my horrible ways on the first season, they wouldn't let me within ten feet of their kids."

"Oh… Sorry that happened."

"It's fine," she sighed. "I was still bald then, so I would have scared them, anyway."

Both laughed and DJ tried to comfort her by adding, "Don't worry, girl. After everybody sees how cool you are this time around, nobody's gonna be able to stay mad at you for long."

"You really think so? Even LeShawna and Gwen?"

"Those two are too nice to stay mad forever," DJ soothingly said.

Heather smiled. "Thank you, DJ…"

*T*S*R*

Duncan mumbled to himself, trying to blow off some steam. "Nerve of that woman," he muttered.

Before he could talk to himself any more, he heard some crying. He looked around, seeing his sister bawling her eyes out and Zack screaming his head off at her.

The miffed off and slightly sad feeling Duncan had before turned into one of pure fury. He stormed over to Zack and stood behind him, glaring at the back of his head.

"-but what should I expect from you? I should have known after how you freaked out during the Phobia Factor that you'd be nothing but a pain in the butt!"

Selena, still sobbing, finally noticed that Duncan was there. Even though Zack was saying some mean things about her, she still felt that she should warn him, by the fiery look on Duncan's face. "Zack, please st-"

"I'm not gonna stop!" he screamed, red in the face. "You're gonna shut up your gigantic trap for once! I don't want to hear whatever obnoxious thing you have to say! But at least you're not as bad as your brother. He's ten times more annoying than you are! With him as your example, it's no wonder you're such a total freak!"

Before Selena could try to give him another warning, Duncan shoved him to the ground with his foot and kept it on his back, limiting his possibilities of escaping. "You wanna keep insulting me and my family?" he growled.

Zack turned his head and gaped when he realized that Duncan had heard a lot of what he said. "Duncan, this isn't what it-"

"-looks like?" Duncan finished for him. He sneered, "That's you answer for everything, isn't it?" He pressed down harder on his back, making him yelp in pain. "You've got a lot of nerve, kid. My sister's nothing but nice to you, but disrespect her every chance you can get."

Wiping away her tears, she whimpered, "D-Duncan, no! I-I-It's all my fault. I-"

"Selena, I'm busy," Duncan said, still glaring at Zack. "I'm going to give this little freak what he's got coming to him…"

*T*S*R*

Keith sat down on his bed, next to Marilee. "Am I doing this right?" he asked her as he fed Jackie her bottle.

Marilee inspected his actions and nodded. "Yeah, looks about right. I'm not a baby feeding expert or anything." She looked down bashfully at her feet and added, "Keith, I usually hate little kids, babies being what I hate more than anything." She finally looked into his eyes and said, "But I've had a great time these past three days. I think it's because I'm taking care of her… with you."

She smiled at him and Keith happily returned the smile. "I've had a great time, too. I'm glad Chris paired me up with you instead of Izzy or somebody even crazier than you."

"Yeah, I-" Marilee caught what he meant, yelled, "Hey!" and slapped his arm. She was, however, smiling.

Keith laughed and Marilee giggled, both turning away from each other at the moment. When they turned back around, his dark brown eyes met her crystal blue ones. They stared at each other for a while. Keith had a strange urge that he need to fulfill, and he needed to do it before Marilee went back to her snappish self.

Keith sat Jackie down in her carrier and turned towards Marilee. They leaned closer to each other, so close that their noses were practically touching. As their lips parted and they leaned even closer to each other for a kiss, the door flung open and Marilee gasped, pushing Keith on the floor.

Geoff ran in, looking uber excited. "There you guys are! Guess what?" Keith didn't guess as he got back up and rubbed his head and Marilee was too busy blushing furiously to guess. "I got a date with Candace tonight!"

"Uh… Yay…" Marilee muttered, waving a hand in front of her face to cool herself off.

"Just wanted to give you guys the heads up. Heck, I'm giving everybody here the heads up! Later!" He ran back out the door, shutting it behind him.

Marilee let out a breath she didn't know she was holding in and Keith sat back down next to her. "Now…" He sexily cocked an eyebrow at her. "Where were we?"

Marilee scoffed and pushed him back on the floor.

"Thank goodness Geoff came in when he did!" Marilee exclaimed. "I almost… Kissed Keith!" She hissed the last two words, like just saying it made her skin crawl.

"I hate Geoff for coming in when he did," Keith mumbled, pouting. "I almost… Kissed Marilee." He said the last two words with such longing.

*T*S*R*

After Trent had cleaned up, Gwen met up with him so they could take care of Gabe together again. "You okay now?" she asked.

"Yeah, the shower woke me up and now I don't smell like puke," he said, nodding.

"At least one of us feels decent…"

Trent looked worried by this statement. "What's wrong, Gwen?"

"Zack went off to find Selena a while ago and I haven't seen him since. I'm kind of worried."

"I can take care of Gabe if you want to go look for him," he told her.

"No, Trent, you were up all night with him and-"

"But I'm fine now," Trent argued. "Besides, I know you'd do the same for me if Grace went missing. Go find him."

Gwen smiled and gave him a kiss. "Thanks, Trent. I can always count on you." She ran off, leaving her two boys alone.

Trent looked down and Gabe and grinned a little. "Looks like it's you and me again, huh, buddy?"

Gabe responded by barfing in his face.

"Oh, come oooon!" Trent whined, his face dripping in baby barf.

*T*S*R*

"Izzy, are you sure this is a good idea?" Owen asked as he handed Malik to her.

"Sure, it is!" She tied some string around his little waist. "I wanna teach my son to be adventurous and to try new things!"

"I just don't think this is the best thing to do, when we're so close to winning," Owen told her, tapping his fingers together nervously.

"We got away with letting him play with that family of raccoons," Izzy pointed out. "Why would Chris take him away for letting him do this?"

"Well, it's just that… Seriously, Iz, bungee jumping? Off the mess hall roof? With yarn?"

The camera panned out to show that they were, indeed, sitting on the roof of the mess hall. Izzy had tightly tied some yarn around Malik and had the rest of the yarn wrapped around her hand for extra grip.

"Relax, Owen! Everything will be just fine! I'd use a bungee cord…" She lifted Malik up to her face and cooed, "But that might hurt his widdle bewwy…"

Without another word from either parent, Izzy tossed the baby off the side of the roof. "Bounce back to Mommy, little guy!" He didn't listen to her. "Malik?"

The couple peered over the edge and screamed in terror when they saw their baby plummeting to the ground. There must have been a frayed part that finally snapped when he bounced.

Before poor Malik could face plant in the grass, Chris, Danny tucked under his arm, caught him before his untimely demise. He looked up at Izzy and Owen and shook his head. "Good golly, what is up with you kids chucking your babies off of high surfaces?"

He started to walk away, but was kicked in the back by a flying Izzy, knocking him to the ground. Malik went flying and Izzy caught him. "You ain't taking my baby, government man!" She tucked Malik under her arm and bolted away, laughing manically.

"Izzy, wait for me!" Owen yelled, gently trying to squirm his way off the roof. He fell off completely and landed on Chris.

Chris shoved the large teen off of him and got up on his feet, running after Izzy. "You already failed the challenge! Why the heck are you resisting?"

"Because I wants to keeps my baby!" Izzy yelled back, now up in a tall tree.

Chris and Owen ran over to the tree, Chris looking very mad and Owen looking very hungry. "Either get down from there or give me the baby!"

"Never!"

"… Which one? You'll never come down or you'll never give me the baby?"

"Both!"

Chris, grunting a little, tossed his clipboard in her direction. It only went up about three feet in the air and came back down on his head.

"Darn it, Dad, why didn't you teach me how to throw when I was a kid?" Chris angrily asked, an ice pack on the place on his head where the clipboard had landed. "Why, Dad, why?"

"Oh, snap!" Izzy flinched in fear. "That clipboard of death nearly got me! I could practically feel its body heat!" Frantically looking at Owen, she tossed Malik at him. "Keep him away from Chris, Owen!"

"How?" Owen yelled, panicked.

"I don't know, just make sure Chris will never be able to get to him!"

Chris slowly approached the hefty blonde, a welcoming smile on his face. "Just hand me the baby and no one gets hurt, big fella…"

"Uh… Uh… Uh!" Owen panicked and did the first thing that came to mind.

He ate the baby.

Letting out a loud burp after swallowing poor Malik, he rubbed his full belly and sighed happily. "There you go! You'll be nice and safe in there, buddy!" He belched again, and Chris could have sworn he heard a baby's cry mixed in with the burp.

Sighing, he muttered, "Whatever. One less baby for me to carry back to the production set, I guess."

*T*S*R*

"Zack?" Gwen called out. "Zaaaaaack?"

She wandered closer to the cabins, where she saw three figures. One of the figures, a blur of black and green had a hard grip on another one of the figures, and a pink and black figure was trying to keep the black and green figure off of the figure in his clutches. Upon getting closer, she saw that it was Duncan trying to throttle Zack, but Selena was holding back his curled-up fist.

"Duncan, stop it!" Selena screamed, more tears streaming down her face than ever. "Please, just let me explain!"

"Let go of me," Duncan harshly said. "I'm doing this for you!"

"How would knocking Zack's teeth out help me? That'd make me feel even worse!"

Zack just whimpered in fear, eyes shut tight as he prepared for a pounding.

Gwen gasped and ran over, grabbing Zack and shoving Duncan down. "What the heck, Duncan? Are you crazy?"

"No," Duncan grumbled as he got up and dusted himself off. "But you must be, if you're sticking up for that little jerk!"

"You're the jerk in this situation!" Gwen yelled, pushing Zack behind her. "You tried to hurt my brother, and I'll bet he didn't even do anything to deserve it!"

He clenched his teeth and growled, "So yelling at my sister doesn't earn him a punch or two?"

"Whatever he said to her, she probably deserved to hear!" Gwen spat back. "She's barely helped him during this challenge at all!"

"Uh…" Selena looked around awkwardly. "Maybe we should go…"

"Stay," Duncan barked, still glaring at Gwen. "So I was gonna hit him, big deal! The weakling's probably used to it by now!"

Gwen looked absolutely furious now. "You mean you've picked on him before?"

"He deserved it for groping Selena while she was drunk on that weird elixir!"

Gwen gasped, then turned to Zack. "Zack! That's just disgusting! I thought you were better than to do something like that!"

"Gwen, you don't understand!" Zack yelled, blushing in embarrassment at his sister knowing that. "I-I-I…"

"Everybody just SHUUUUUT UUUUUUP!" Selena screamed at the top of her lungs. The three others turned to her. "Duncan… You think Zack did that?" She looked down at her feet. "Oh, man. Man, oh, man…" She sighed a very ashamed sigh and muttered something under her breath.

"What was that?" Zack asked.

She muttered it a little louder, but still barely audible.

"I still can't hear," Gwen told her.

"I did it," she whispered.

"What?" Duncan asked, cocking his unibrow.

"I did it, okay?" She hid her face in her hands. "I was acting all wacko and made Zack do that to me. He tried to get away because he knew it wasn't right, but I… I wouldn't let him."

Duncan looked almost emotionless, if he didn't look so shocked. "And I just can't believe you've been doing stuff like this to him before." She removed her hands from her face, revealing how hurt she looked when she thought about it. "I knew you can be a little harsh sometimes… But for you to do something like this? To my friend? To a guy as sweet as him?" She looked down at her feet. "I… I expected better from you…"

"Uh…" Gwen grabbed Zack by the shoulders and shoved him away, knowing the siblings needed some space. "We're going to give you guys some time alone now…"

After they were gone, Duncan sighed and admitted, "Okay, it was probably wrong of me to wail on him so much without getting both sides of the story… But that doesn't give him the right to treat you like he just did!"

"It was my fault! I basically ignored Zack and the baby and pushed him over the edge! If you should be mad at anybody, you should be mad at me!"

"And why is that?"

Selena looked down at the ground guiltily, then muttered, "Because I've been using the past three days to sabotage you and Courtney."

Duncan's expression angered, but he was silent for a moment. After what seemed like an eternity to Selena, he gruffly asked, "What?"

"You heard me," she said, eyes narrowing. "I don't like Courtney at all. If you weren't such an oblivious dunderhead, you would have figured that out."

"Dropping Michelle? Starting that argument between us this morning? Wait, were you the one who drew that skull on her neck? Courtney blamed me for that!" Duncan's fists clenched. "How could you be so selfish?"

"Me?" Selena scoffed and pointed at herself. "Me? Duncan, I know there's more than one reason as to why you hate Zack so much. It's not just because of the… thing that happened or how he yelled at me before. You just hate him because I like him. Like, like like him. And you apparently hate to see me happy."

Duncan, through clenched teeth, retorted, "You're one to talk. Courtney's the best thing to ever happen to me, and you hate her all the same. You have no right to tell me who I can and can't date. I, however, can keep you away from as many freaks as I want."

"Zack. Is not. A freak." Selena growled, new tears forming. "I'm not a baby anymore. You can't keep telling me what to do."

Duncan leaned down, so that their noses were practically touching, and hissed, "Watch me."

He started to walk away, but Selena wouldn't let him. She grabbed his wrist and yelled, "I'm sick of you pushing me around! My entire life, you've expected me to do whatever you say, like some mindless slave! You think you know what's best for me, but you don't!"

"Let go of me," Duncan demanded, still not looking at her. "I'm sick of listening to your crap."

"You're going to listen to me for once and you're going to like it!" She let his wrist go and did what she had wanted to do to her brother for thirteen years.

She punched him right in the face.

Falling on his butt, Duncan looked up at the girl towering before him, shocked that it was still the little sister who had never so much as dared to do any physical harm to him. There was a huge, red spot on his cheek where she had punched him, and it stung like heck, but no way would he show her that she had hurt him by rubbing it or even wincing in pain. He just looked up at her, shell-shocked.

More tears fell down her cheeks, when she realized what she had done. "I'm sorry," she said, barely a whisper. "But I just need you to hear me out." Rubbing her head, she started, "I'm sorry for trying to sabotage you and Courtney, okay? It was wrong and immature and… like, a thousand other things. Point is, I shouldn't have done it. But you shouldn't have been so mean to Zack."

Duncan got up on his feet, still slightly shook up. "I was just trying to teach him a lesson. I'd be a terrible brother if I let anybody treat you like that."

"Would you stop playing bodyguard, Duncan?" Selena pleaded. "I know you want to protect me and I appreciate that." Tears built up again. "I really do… It just reminds me that you do have a bit of a heart, somewhere deep down under that crusty shell of yours." She looked back up at him, blurry-eyed. "But I can take care of myself, at least most of the time… You understand, bro?"

If Duncan felt any emotion, he certainly was good at hiding it. He was silent for a moment, just looking at her. Unexpectedly, he broke out in a huge smile and picked her up in a bone-crushing hug. "Ah, I knew you had some guts somewhere in that scrawny twig you call a body!"

"So… So you're not mad?" she wheezed. "Not even about Courtney?"

"Naaaah," he said, putting her down. "I gotta admit, Courtney can be a little annoying. I would have been angry, but… Man, standing up to me, even after thirteen years of seeing what I'm capable of… You even had the gall to hit me. That takes some serious guts right there." He punched her arm in a way-to-go sort of way, a look of pride on his face. "Maybe you don't need your big bro, anymore…"

Selena rolled her eyes. "Oh, don't be silly. Of course, I do. I just don't need you as often as I used to."

Duncan brought her in for another hug, a gentler one this time, and it was kind of a nice scene until he remembered something. "Wait, are the cameras still rolling?" He let Selena go and ran off to find the nearest cameraman, who was only several feet away. "Shut those things off, dude! We were trying to talk in peace! Don't you know anything about privacy?"

The poor man screamed, dropped his equipment, and raced off, Duncan close on his tail.

Selena shook her head, a shadow of a grin on her face. "Well… That was almost a nice brother and sister moment…"

*T*S*R*

As Duncan walked back to the campground, he saw Courtney playing tug-of-war with the phony Child Protection Services agent himself, Chris. Instead of a rope, they were tugging on poor Michelle.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, what do you think you're doing?" Duncan asked, yanking Michelle away from the both of them.

"Chris is trying to take our baby away!" Courtney screeched, jabbing a finger in Chris' direction.

"Duh, that's my job!" Chris pointed out, pointing to his CPS cap. "Look, sensors say this baby had basically been crying her head off over the past few days and cameras show it's because you two knuckleheads have been too busy fighting to take care of her."

"We'll stop!" Duncan argued. "It's not even our fault, anyway. Somebody was sabotaging us!"

"What? Who?" Courtney asked. After thinking it over, she didn't need an answer. "Oh, it was Selena, wasn't it?"

"Well, I was trying to be subtle… But, yes, that's who I meant," Duncan admitted.

"Oooh, that little-"

"I'll explain what happened to you, later," Duncan told her before she could let out any insults. He turned to Chris and told him, "Still, you're not taking our baby!"

"You and what army?" Chris demanded.

"My five-fingered army!" Duncan swung to punch Chris, who flinched in fear of the punk hitting his beautiful face. However, it was just a mock punch to distract him. Tucking the simulator under his arm, he sprinted off, leaving a bamboozled Chris behind.

*T*S*R*

Jovie slipped her bright green headband in her short black hair and took a good look at herself in the mirror. She had gotten enough sleep over those past few days to make a quick recovery. Her sinuses were cleared and she felt better than ever.

"Guess I'd better see how my peeps are doing…"

*T*S*R*

"Go, Duncan, go!" Courtney cheered as her boyfriend raced away with their baby.

Chris was close behind him, waving his clipboard at him. "Don't make me use this!" He flung the clipboard at him, but it landed a mere six feet away and Chris ended up tripping over it. Chris slammed on the ground with his fists and screamed, "Gah, I hate you, Dad!"

"Ha ha, sucker!" Duncan looked down at Michelle and grinned. "Don't worry, kid. Daddy's gonna win this challenge if it kills him!" He was too busy looking down at her to notice the fact that he was approaching Chef Hatchet, who grabbed the punk by his fauxhawk. "…And I'm thinking it will."

"I'll take that," Chef said, grabbing Michelle from Duncan's death grip.

He dropped Duncan and stalked off with the baby tucked under his arm.

*T*S*R*

"Why'd you stop?"

"Because Geoff came barging in, that's why."

"But why didn't you keep going after he left?"

"Because I came back to my senses, that's why!"

"… But why-"

"Because I so don't want to kiss you, that's why!" Marilee screamed as she carried Jackie back toward the cabin. She had left the cabin in the first place to go to the bathroom, but Keith followed her there with all kinds of questions as to the dismissal of the raging hormones she had felt before Geoff had interrupted their little moment. Marilee made the skater boy stay outside the bathroom, but that didn't mean Keith stopped questioning her even then.

"You did before! What made you change your mind?"

"My mind, because it started working again."

"Marilee, look…" Keith sighed, rubbing the back of his neck. "Back in the cabin, I felt something. Something I've never felt before. I could tell that you felt it, too. That thing we felt is an emotion I don't think you're familiar with. The emotion?" He leaned closer to her and whispered in her ear, "Amour."

"What?" Marilee gawked at him, not looking where she was walking. Unexpectedly, she tripped over a rock and fell flat on her back, sending Jackie flying into the air.

"AHHH!" The duo simultaneously screamed.

As Jackie raced through the air, Jovie emerged from the cabin. "Hey, y'all! I'm alive and kicking!" She caught the simulator in her hands and looked at the thing, rather confused. She looked over at Keith and Marilee and arched an eyebrow. "Is this anyway to congratulate me for my recovery? By throwing baby dolls at me?"

"Jovie!" Marilee got on her feet again and ran over to her, giving her a huge hug. "You're a life saver!"

"Way to go, Jov!" Keith cheered, running over to join in the hug.

Jovie looked at the two teammates hugging her, down at Jackie, then back at them again. "Girl misses a lot when she's sick, doesn't she?"

*T*S*R*

"Whoa, that was way harsh," Holly said, gaping at the monitor in the production tent.

"Agreed," Marina said, looking disgusted at what was on the screen.

Tamyra shook her head. "Guys like him make me sick."

"Even I find what he said mean," Mia mused.

Chris walked into the tent, carrying a few of the babies, which he had deactivated so they would shut up. He tossed them on the ground and walked over to the interns. "Hey, ladies. Whatcha watching?"

"Watching what this horrible guy did to that poor blonde girl," Tamyra explained, pointing to the monitor.

Chris looked at the monitor, then back to the girls. "Kanye West and Taylor Swift? What are you guys doing watching the VMAs when you're supposed to be looking over the footage for this episode? Besides, I thought the VMAs didn't premiere until this fall. And in America, at that."

Mia shrugged and said, "Guess they wanted to do them earlier. And you do get some American channels on your TVs."

"Whatever…" Chris looked to the monitor adjacent to him and gasped. "Whoa, check this out, guys." They turned to see footage of Selena being mercilessly yelled at by Zack. The girls reacted even angrier than they did when they saw Kanye's little speech.

"That little creep!" Holly sneered.

"That jerk!" Tamyra growled.

"That cretin!" Marina hissed.

"That genius!" Chris gasped, whipping out a notepad and pen and writing down some of the insults he heard the young man say. When the girls glared at him, he stopped mid-word and dropped the pad altogether. "Oh, I mean…" He put on his angriest face and nodded. "Yeah… What a total jerk."

*T*S*R*

The campers had gathered in the amphitheater, as Chris had ordered them to. It was time for the parents who still had their babies to give them back and for them to see who would win.

Chris walked onto stage, next to the box that the simulators had originally come in. "First up is Geoff and Candace. You two were pretty much the only couple to remain level-headed during this whole thing. Your future spouses will be lucky to have you when you have kiddies of your own! Well done, guys."

Candace carried the supplies over to the box and Geoff carried Kylie, looking awfully sad. "I… I…" He sniffled and hugged the simulator. "I'm gonna miss you, baby girl!" He sobbed violently and continued to cling onto her until Chris practically had to pry her away from him. Candace patted his arm for support and offered him a warm smile as she led him off stage.

"Next up, Trent and Gwen. You made it through all the puke that kid launched at you and you still smell sort of decent. Kudos!"

Gwen, with their supplies, and Trent, carrying Gabe, put them back in the box, but not before Gabe gave his father one last goodbye vomit.

"Of course," Trent muttered, wiping the puke off of his cheek as they walked off stage.

"DJ and Heather, nice work. You two work pretty well together."

"Yeah…" Heather mused as she walked on stage with DJ and dropped the supplies and Essie off. "Yeah, I guess we do."

"Zoey and Xavier… I can't believe you actually pulled it off," Chris admitted.

Zoey and Xavier said their goodbyes to little London and dropped her in the box, along with the supplies. They took their seats again and looked to the couple next to them, who were surely up next.

"And last but not least, Marilee and Keith! You barely made it with that last little slip up, but luckily Jovie was there to make sure you all didn't screw up. Still, you make a pretty good team when you put your minds to it."

"We'd make a better team if I got some smooching," Keith mumbled, pouting.

Marilee elbowed him as they walked on stage. She placed Jackie in the box and Keith put their supplies in there with her.

After the two took their seats again, Chris smiled and exclaimed, "And thus ends three of the hardest days of your young lives! I hope you all have learned a valuable lesson from this experience."

"Having a baby is a huge responsibility?" Gwen asked.

"You have to learn to compromise with others?" Selena suggested.

"Always remember to lock the cabin door when you're about to do something…" Keith looked over at Marilee and emphasized, "Important?"

"Baby simulators can give you indigestion?" Owen called out, letting out a big fart that sounded slightly like a baby's cry.

"All good morals, but none of them are the ones I'm looking for." He put his Child Protection Services cap back on, looked at himself in the handheld mirror he pulled out of his pocket and grinned. "I can pull any hat off. Even ugly ones like this black and yellow horror."

The campers rolled their eyes at his vanity and LeShawna yelled, "So, who won?"

Chris snapped out of his trance and tossed the mirror and hat aside. "Well, that's where things get a little tricky. You see, five of the Killer Bears won, but five of the Rabid Wolves also won."

"Oh, no," Gwen muttered, slapping her forehead.

"That doesn't mean there's going to be a tie breaker, does there?" DJ asked.

"Actually, no." Chris grinned. "We've decided to see which team lost the most… The Rabid Wolves have five loses…"

"Oh, yeah!" Owen cheered. "We won!"

"Not so fast, big guy," Chris interrupted. "You Killer Bears, on the other hand, have a total of seven loses. That means the Rabid Wolves are the winners!"

Said team cheered loudly, Marilee being the loudest. "Yes, yes, yes! We won! No Wolves are getting voted off tonight!" She pulled Keith into a huge hug and squealed, "And we couldn't have won if we hadn't worked so well together!"

Letting him go, she practically flung her arms around his neck and did something that made everyone's jaws drop and made Keith's stomach flop.

She had kissed him.

You could literally hear a pin drop, everybody was so silent from shock. Keith, even in his shocked state, was able to flash the camera a quick thumbs up before wrapping his arms around her and returning the kiss.

Marilee pushed him off of her, panting like crazy. Realizing what she had just done, she looked around at the still shocked people around her. All she could think to do was grunt in frustration, kick Keith in the shin and run off. The kick had hurt Keith too much for him to follow her. All he could do was grip his leg in pain.

"Only on reality TV, folks," Chris told the campers, still grinning. "Well, you Wolves will get a super awesome prize tonight, right after the Bears have their bonfire ceremony. Speaking of ceremony… There's a twist to tonight's vote… " He pointed to a few of the Rabid Wolves and yelled, "The Wolves are voting, too!

"That's right, nobody can vote for the Wolves, but the Wolves can vote for any Bears without invincibility. Oh, what a twist it is!"

Chris jumped off stage and walked away from the group. "See you tonight, everyone!

Next chapter will be up by tomorrow. Sorry, this chapter was just getting way too long.

Stuff will make more sense once the ceremony and stuff happens. And boy, is there a shocking twist about who will get voted off… Or is there? You'll just have to find out… ;)