Month Two : Part One
That night as the campers slept, Chris McLean stayed up preparing for tomorrow. It would mark the 100th episode of Total Drama, so as one could guess, he was pretty excited about it. As he sat in the control room he went through the day's footage to see if anything had gone on that he hadn't witnessed. Cameras were everywhere, and Chris liked to know everything just to see if there was any possible drama to stir up. The footage played through the day; Chris payed particular attention to Gwen when the hidden cameras caught her getting sick all of a sudden. The footage stopped once she was in the infirmary, seeing how the doctors on staff had requested no cameras in there while they treated patients. He fast-forwarded through the footage until Gwen rushed quickly out of the infirmary about ready to cry. He turned up the volume to hear better as she went into the washrooms.
"What the heck happened to her?" The host mumbled to himself as he skipped through more footage, going over the parts of just Gwen crying. Finally, he reached the part where Courtney came in and stopped skipping. "Maybe now I'll get some answers..."
"Gwen what's the matter? Did they figure out what was wrong with you?" Courtney asked. Gwen nodded. "Well what was it?" Chris watched intently as he munched on some popcorn he'd brought with him, awaiting the answer.
"I'm pregnant." Chris nearly choked on the popcorn as the goth girl spilled her secret. When he calmed down a devious grin crossed his features, watching as Courtney attempted to calm Gwen down.
"Huh-wow. Didn't see that one coming! Hmmmm... This is gonna make the 100th episode just a bit more interesting..."
The next morning felt so surreal. Gwen lied in bed for as long as she could, barely able to comprehend that a human being was growing inside her. Chris's voice came over the speaker system requesting that everyone go to the McLean Spa Library for their challenge and a special announcement. Her dark eyes shifted towards her stomach as she caught up with the rest of the group. 'I can't stay on this damned show for much longer.' She thought. 'If I stay here too long I could put the baby at risk.' She knew that she couldn't stay on the show after today, especially with Chris's love of dangerous challenges. She was so close to the end of the competition and yet she knew she couldn't go on. Hopefully she'd survive today in one piece before she left.
"Where's Chris?" Courtney asked as she stood beside Scott; her new boyfriend as of about ten minutes ago. Gwen especially thought it was kind of weird. What happened to all those standards Courtney had set for guys two seasons ago? Didn't Scott pretty much go against them all? Gwen caught Cameron glaring at her from the side.
"Umm, are you okay?" Cameron turned, crossing his arms as Chef turned on the monitor. Chris popped up on screen, with a large cake in the background.
"It's Total Drama's 100th episode!" The host smiled blowing out a party favor. "I hope you guys are ready for your challenge! But before we get started, I have an extra special announcement concerning one of you." Gwen's face turned pale as fear swelled in her chest. She could feel Zoey and Courtney glance at her as Chris continued. "Last night, I went through the day's footage and I found out something verrrrry interesting that I think you all should know ...about Gwen." A tiny squeak escaped her lips as she felt all eyes on her. 'Oh god, I should have known Chris would find out somehow. Please, not like this!' She pleaded to herself as Chris began to speak again."You all are not gonna believe this, but it turns out that Gwen is-" A bag flew overtop of him as a still feral Ezekiel came on screen. He growled viciously taking out the camera. Chef was so surprised that he spilt soda all over the control panel, taking out the surveillance cameras. Gwen was relieved, Chris hadn't finished, her secret was still safe for now. If anybody was going to announce to the cast and the world her secret, it would be on her terms.
"New challenge: FIND CHRIS!" Chef told them, rather worriedly.
"You want us to hunt for Zeke? No way, he's psycho crazy!"
"No Chris means there ain't no show, which means no winner and no million dollars!" 'It's not like it matters for me much longer anyways.' Gwen thought as they all headed towards the mines after working out a deal with Chef; whoever saved Chris got the spa hotel and picked someone for exile.
"Let's do this!" Gwen said to Courtney who was smiling at Scott.
"Sorry, but it's our one hour anniversary and three's a crowd." Scott said proudly, Courtney giggled gave an apologetic look to Gwen, saying sorry before the couple headed off.
"Alejandro?"
"No, only one person can win this challenge and that will be me!" The Spaniard said before heading off by himself. Gwen then ran to catch up with Mike, Zoey, and Cameron. The latter of which shunned her again.
'Seriously, what is up with Cameron?' The four of them worked their way around the mine, looking for an entrance as they came across a bunch of holes in the ground. 'Oh hell no!'
"I bet this hole leads down to the mine." Mike said.
"There's another hole here, and here too!" Gwen gasped shaking her head.
"No no no, I can't go down a hole! I've got a phobia about being buried alive, no way I cou-" Gwen was cut off short, she screamed as the ground beneath her feet gave away, sending her plummeting down into the mine. "GWEN!" She faintly heard Zoey shout from above her she fell down hard onto her back as she stopped falling. She clutched her flashlight trying to turn it on as she got back to her feet. "Come on work! Ughh! Okay calm down, you can do this." The flight flashed on, before shorting out, leaving Gwen in complete darkness. "AAAHHHHH!"
Breathing heavily, she tried finding her way through the darkness, before a light flashed on next to her. She screamed again before seeing who it was; Zoey. "Zoey!" She gasped for breath holding on to her friend's shoulder.
"There you are!"
"You scared me half to death! Thank you so much! Never do that again! You're the best!" 'Wow, mood swings. I may have been scared but I am never this...animated about it.'
"I'm here, I'm here." She said patting her on the back. "Take a deep breath." Gwen did so. "Blow out the candle." The indie chick held out her finger as Gwen let out her breath. "Better?" Gwen nodded. "Good. Are you okay? You sounded like you landed pretty hard." Gwen's eyes widened. 'What if that hurt the baby?!'
"Zoey, do you think it hurt the baby?" Zoey put her arm around Gwen's shoulder.
"Did you land on your stomach!?" Gwen shook her head no.
"Phew, I think you're okay, besides, the baby is supposed to be like really small at this stage, I'm sure it's fine."
After another twenty minutes or so in the mine, Gwen hadn't calmed down much. Zoey led the way with her flash light as Gwen trailed behind. There was a slight growling sound echoing through the tunnel that made her freak out.
"Did you hear that? I heard that! Did you hear me hearing it?" She sputtered out as Zoey gasped. Gwen turned around to see her friend gone, the flashlight on the floor. She grabbed it and made a run down the tunnel, trying desperately to find an exit. 'Forget Chris! I'm leaving this show while I still have a chance.'
After navigating through the mines hopelessly for who knows how long, Gwen came across Cameron who fell into the river in the mine. She quickly dragged him out to safety as he coughed up a lot of water.
"Gwen? Y-you saved me..."
"Well yeah, why wouldn't I?" Cameron threw his arms around her.
"I'm so sorry I doubted you! Mike had me going but from now on, I'll trust you no matter what."
"Cool, so you wanna get out of here or stop hugging or something?"
"We can look for Chris together!" Cameron stood up taking off down the hall. "Yeah...great." 'I need to get the hell out of here, especially with Zeke around, it's not safe!' "Look! Streamers from the party, Zeke and Chris must be down there." Cameron pointed out.
"Which is why we should go the other way!" Chef ran past the two of them as Chris screamed out for help. They ducked behind a rock formation as Chef knocked the rats chewing on Chris's ropes away. Zeke grabbed Chef's spaghetti canon that he'd brought with him from season four and fired it against him, sending Chef to the floor. Cameron distracted Zeke while Gwen made a run for the discarded canon. Zeke buried Cameron under a bunch of rocks before Gwen took him out.
"This is for Cameron!" She got Chris down from over the pool of acid and helped pull Cameron injured body from the rubble.
"Quick let's get out of here before Zeke-" Chris gasped as they discovered that Ezekiel had escaped from the blast Gwen had given him, he was gone.
That night around the campfire, Chris announced that since Gwen won she got the spa hotel and got to choose someone for exile. As it so turned out, no vote was needed because Cameron was to injured to continue with the competition. He was wrapped in bandages from head to toe, you could barely make out what he said because of the bandages around his face.
"As much as I would love the spa hotel, I can't stay. I'm leaving the show!" The guys all seemed confused at the goth's statement while Courtney and Zoey sent supportive glances.
"Oh yeah...I nearly forgot all about today's special announcement. Turns out -" 'Not a chance McLean!' Gwen blurted out the words before Chris had a chance to do it for her.
"I'm leaving the show because I'm pregnant!" All the guys and Chef audibly gasped.
"Que?!"
"What?"
"Yrrrr Whaaaa?"
"Huh? Uhhhh congradulations?" Scott added in awkwardly. Courtney face-palmed at her now ex-boyfriend, at some point in the mines her and Scott had broken up after a mere two hours of dating...just wow.
"Huhuhuh, sounds like you and Duncan had some fun eh?" Chris laughed as the girls glared at him.
"Up yours McLean! I just want to leave."
"Yeesh, fine." Chris's cell phone rang. "Hold on, gotta take this."
"So...you are really pregnant?" Alejandro asked.
"Yeah, why?" Gwen grumbled in response.
"Oh, I mean no offense, it's just I never figured you'd be the in this situation this early." Gwen rolled her eyes.
"Don't remind me..."
"So are you gonna be okay? Courtney and Zoey were at her side. Giving her some comfort. Gwen nodded. "Sure, at least I'll get some relaxation time at Playa Des Losers before I have to go home. Hey, I was wondering...would you guys be interested in maybe, being the baby's godmothers?" The two girls gasped before hugging her.
"Of course!" Zoey beamed. "I love kids!"
"Yes! I'll send you some lists that you'll probably need. I'll see you after I win!" Courtney hugged her friend as Chris rejoined everyone.
"Okay, the producers said you can't use the flush of shame in your condition because they don't wanna risk you or the baby getting hurt so you'll be exiting via the old boat of losers. Ready to go?" Gwen nodded waving to everyone. "See you guys later." She waved goodbye to Cameron and headed towards the dock where Chef stood waiting with the boat.
"Get me the hell out of here Chef."
"Will do." The two spent the boat ride mostly in silence. Until Chef finally cracked. "Soooo...it's Duncan's kid huh?"
"Yeah."
"Well, I hope everything goes okay when you tell him...you know. If he can't take this, then he isn't a man. You'll be fine, aside from this...you seem to have a good head on your shoulders."
"Ummm wow, thanks Chef. I appreciate that."
"This stays between us, got that gruesome chick?"
"Deal."
Arriving at Playa Des Losers went about as she expected. All the contestants from this season - sans Duncan - were all there. Before she could make it to her room, she was greeted by Heather and Sierra.
"You know Gwen, I always thought that if this happened to anyone on this show, I figured Bridgette would be the first. Looks like you proved me wrong." Heather smirked at her, her grey eyes flicking to Gwen's stomach.
"Eeeeeee! OMG! I can't believe this! You're pregnant with Duncan's baby! The fact that he's in jail and doesn't know makes this all the more interesting! You have to tell me everything while we're here, wait'll the Gwuncan fans hear about this!" Sierra squealed before running off with her phone. Heather rolled her eyes.
"What a freak..."
"As much as I would love to stick around and have you mock and belittle me, I need to sleep." Gwen turned towards the resort just as Heather called out to her.
"Have fun telling your convict baby-daddy." Gwen slammed the door behind her and went down the hall to her room. She would call Duncan first thing tomorrow morning...maybe...
A week passed, and Gwen hadn't picked up the phone. Her nerves had gotten the best of her. Alejandro had gotten eliminated next and spent most of his time trying to win Heather over. The rest of the cast stopped talking whenever she went by, except for Sierra, who would constantly love to beg for an update on the baby.
Finally, apparently, it had been long enough. Gwen was startled by a rough knocking on her door. Jo.
"What do you want?"
"Look preggers, I know it's not my business, but you need to call him." Jo said bluntly, getting to the point.
"Every time I've gotten near a phone I freeze up."
"Get over your fear, because we are all sick of Sierra, she keeps wanting to call for you but she keeps having these little debates on how 'since you're the mom, you should be the first to tell him.' As she put it." Gwen sighed and dug out her cell phone, which she'd gotten back after her elimination and dialed the number to the prison...
...\o/...
In all honesty...prison could have been much worse than Duncan anticipated. He'd been here for nearly two weeks now, and it wasn't as bad as he thought it would be. He was in the same prison that Chris had spent a year in before the season had started. As it turns out, the other inmates had hated Chris just as much as he did. So when they found out that he had blown up Chris's mansion, they treated him with a fair amount of respect.
"Anyone who hates McLean is a friend of ours." His cell-mate, Jon, had said on his first day. After arriving in prison, the officers had shaven off his bright green mohawk and removed all his piercings. He thought he looked so weird without them. He had about a year and a half left in here, and it seemed like it was going to go by so slowly.
He wondered if anybody missed him. His mom came to visit him, as she was basically the only one in his family that seemed to care. His dad came once, bragging about how he knew Duncan would end up here. It made him really feel like shit. He wondered if anyone from the show missed him. Geoff had called once with DJ, assuring him that time would fly by, which it hadn't. But the one person he had really wanted to hear from had still not called, Gwen. Did she even miss him? Looking back on it now, he understood that his stupid obsession with Courtney during the blue harvest moon, was what costed him his relationship with her. He didn't give a damn about Courtney anymore, he wished that Gwen could somehow forgive him. Or at the very least just come and visit him.
As he sat sulking in his cell, counting off another day in his head, one of the guards came up to the door and opened it.
"Duncan, come with me." Duncan sat up and followed the guard, confused.
"Where are we going?"
"You've got a phone call." He led Duncan to the prison phone. He expected his mother, or maybe even Geoff or even possibly one of his older siblings. He was way off.
"Hello?"
"Duncan?" His face lit up,eyes widening as he recognized the voice on the other end.
"Gwen?! Pasty is that you? I knew you'd come around eventually." He grinned.
"Duncan please just shut up okay?" Her voice was serious and quiet. His face dropped.
"You alright? You don't sound like yourself." He heard the goth take a deep breath on the other side of the line and continue on.
"I really need to talk to you about something, it's really important."
"What's wrong?"
"Duncan I-" She choked up a bit, not saying anything for a moment.
"Gwen?"
"Duncan...I-I'm pregnant. And it's yours." Duncan's eyes widened so much he thought they'd burst open. The guard eyed him as he clutched the phone box for support. Duncan felt light headed as Gwen remained silent. 'Gwen's...and it's mine? I'm gonna be a...dad?" The thoughts buzzed around in his head as Gwen finally spoke again. "I thought you should know, you don't have to be involved or anything, I just thought..." She trailed off as her voice cracked.
"Gwen, are you serious?" He asked, breathless.
"Yes asshole! I've got your spawn inside me and I don't know what to do!" He could hear her voice raise, light sobs escaping her mouth. Damn...
"Okay, it's okay. I'm sorry Gwen, everything's gonna be okay, alright?"
"How..?"
"I honestly don't know-"
"Well that sure is reassuring Duncan!"
"Gwen, it will be okay. I promise." He knew it was a promise he couldn't keep for sure, but he hated it when Gwen was upset. "I'm excited about it. When I get out of here, I'll turn everything around, okay?" Gwen sniffed.
"Okay."
"Can you promise me something Gwen?"
"Mmmhmm."
"Promise you'll keep me updated, and come visit soon."
"Okay.."
"And...please don't keep me away when I get out, I want to be able to see my child."
"I promise, I'll talk to you later okay?" They exchanged quick goodbyes and hung up. Duncan went back to his cell feeling numb in thought. He plopped down on his bed as everything Gwen told him sunk in.
'I'm going to be a dad...'