Current Interaction: Heather and Alejandro.

Heather knew Alejandro didn't respect her, and it infuriated her.

Heather could not stand being disrespected. She had gotten enough of that when she was younger, and still got more than her share at home from her bratty younger siblings, to say nothing of Gwen or Leshawna or any of the other losers she had to deal with here on the show. But this was where she drew the line—she was not going to let some wannabe loser come in and take away everything she had worked so hard for, let alone let him treat her like a pawn to advance himself in the game.

Who did he think he was, anyway? Who did he think she was?

And he was so annoying. He was too perfect—everything came easily for him, for every challenge he had some kind of a sudden, ridiculous talent and a queue of other challengers willing to become idiots in order to serve him. It ticked her off so much, how he could just breeze through everything, flash a smile and get farther ahead than she had in three seasons of actually working to win this game. She hated it, and she hated him.

But what infuriated her even more was that deep down, she also had to respect him—his callousness, his deviousness, his skill at finding everybody's weak point and exploiting it for all it was worth, however maddeningly easy. Even her.

She was falling for that sneaky bastard. She was turning into a moron around him, just like Bridgette, just like Leshawna, Lindsay and Courtney.

And she was losing a lot of self-respect in the process.

Then, when they were in Drumheller, it finally happened. She was trapped, helpless. And he was the only one around who could help her out of it.

It was the most humiliating thing that had happened to her in years, more than Gwen's stupid blog video, more than her haircut at the end of Island, any of it. And oh, was he relishing his power over her right now, just as much as she had relished mocking him for losing the dinosaur challenge...here he was, mocking her, leaving her, disrespecting her, and there was nothing she could do about it but sit in the whole she had dug herself into and listen to him sing his own praises like the arrogant little jackass he was.

So she begged. She didn't have much of a choice, unless she wanted to wait around for an intern to save her long after the others had already finished and Alejandro somehow convinced them to vote her off. So she begged, she pleaded, she asked him to spare her dignity, and even appealed to his own over-inflated sense of self-worth, anything just so she wouldn't be stuck here helpless while he went on to steal everything from her and finally defeat her once and for all.

And he fell for it. In the end, Alejandro gave in and helped her out of pity.

But of course, pity was the exact opposite of respect, at least as far as Heather was concerned.

It really wasn't a hard choice to betray him in the voting. Finding out about the whole "picture" thing didn't even make her mad, really—it was a ridiculous ploy, but one rather brilliantly used when it came to Sierra, she had to admit. In the end, though, all it did was get her two more votes in favor of Alejandro's elimination.

Heather exited the confessional, smirking to herself. Alejandro saw her and smirked right back, the poor, oblivious idiot. Heather had to work hard not to laugh.

Heather was not like Bridgette, not like Leshawna or Courtney or any of the other girls dumb enough to give into Alejandro's charms. She had too much self-respect to just throw herself at some guy with a cute face and a massive ego.

She wasn't going to hook up with Alejandro, whatever anybody else said.

Or at the very least, she was going to make sure that he respected her first.

A/N: A couple of things bugged me about Alejandro throughout the season. One was that he was so ridiculously overpowered, especially in the early episodes; he could charm anyway, won in every episode, and beat Heather even though she was putting in a lot more effort. And it also bugged me that the only person who realized he was the villain (and not instantly get voted off) was Heather, when it was increasingly clear she was going to fall for him.

Then came the Drumheller episode, and their whole dynamic became a LOT more interesting. ;-D Anyway, hope the A/H shippers and non-shippers alike enjoyed this one.

Next Interaction: Tyler and Sierra, because Cody's already been in three of these stories.