Gwen, Lincoln & Dawn had fully attended to just go down to where the market is to speak to their guests but there was something holding them up: getting messages from family members (mainly parents) on their phones who were freaking out after having gotten the news or seen the Reunion. Gwen knew that her mother was busy but would watch the Reunion on record and she had spent some time reassuring her after the first offer; that nothing would happen as she had no intention of playing along. Plus her brother wanting confirmation that she would sort it out without them both needing to involve themselves.

"Mum... I promise that I don't need you to do anything... I know that we should have been more alert since we knew that Chris would have a scheme planned but we are going to fix it..." Gwen was doing her best to try and reassuring her mother who tended to overreact; she remembered her reaction of horror when she got the video message from home during her time on that first season where she found out that her mother had hired a neighbour to pretend to be her.

She finally hung up and watched shaking her head as it looked like Lincoln was trying to do multiple text discussions with his various sisters and Dawn was on the phone with her own parents who had seen the Reunion on record as well. "...Okay I swear on the Earth Mother that if we can't handle that then I will call you both to help... Love you too mother and father..." Dawn sighed as she hung up and Gwen brought them all in; she knew that Dawn's folks had a strong reaction to seeing that episode of Revenge where Dawn was eliminated and they couldn't be happier when she came home and swore that she wanted nothing to do with Total Drama anymore.

They got down to the market and sure enough the crowd inside was massive and they had no doubts that they weren't there to be customers; as Lori said at the door there was Rosa with fire in her eyes fighting off the crowd with her boom shouting to scamper away if they weren't there to buy something. "Bobby, Rosa... I am so sorry that you have to deal with this mess that's our's..." Gwen apologised with the three looking to the Casagrande matriarch and Bobby at the counter but she looked back at them with a smile.

"Don't say another word about this Gwen, Lincoln and Dawn... You're part of the family practically and you shall have our support and besides you should place the blame on where it belongs: a demon behind a handsome face and five o'clock shadow!" Rosa told them and the three shot her and Bobby who was smiling at them also with grateful looks.

"I sense the auras of our guests..." Dawn stated as Bobby pointed to the corner where there was Bridgette, Trent, Mike, Zoey and Courtney; all of them looked quite apologetic and especially Bridgette with Gwen finding it especially hard to look Trent's way which he noticed.

"...I suggested keeping our space but Bridgette especially wanted to give you all her apology and I went to try and make sure things didn't escalate... Plus Chris gave everyone your address so I wanted to warn you." Courtney answered and the trio sighed at Chris deciding to cause more potential problems. However Dawn's eyes then widened and looked serious. They weren't able to ask what was going on but she went to a vent and opened it up; pull out Sierra who was hiding in there with her phone and everyone glared at her for helping cause all this mess.

"Look; I just wanted to get more details for scoops and for my various blogs and... Okay I was upset along with my Gwuncan crowd but seeing some posts gaining traction from some GwenxDawn supporters who were going with the crack ship since Revenge and were vindicated... I began seeing the merits and so were other followers and some are taking more of a liking to this mysterious Lincoln Loud who snagged 2 Total Drama alumni..." Sierra started to explain and Dawn was holding her by the collar of her shirt as she took her to the door and Lincoln and Dawn joined her as the 3 then threw her roughly outside the door with Rosa making space for them.

Satisfaction for that did help as they got in; "I began wondering ever since I finally saw the show... Why was Sierra a Heroic Hamster? My best friend Clyde had a huge crush on my sister Lori when we were kids but even at his most obsessed; I bet that even he would have been utterly horrified and disgusted by how stalkerish she was to Cody." Lincoln ended up asking out loud and just about all of the Total Drama alumni agreed with him.

"Believe me; I was too focused on winning the competition and being angry with Gwen but in my head during All-Stars: I was questioning her placement on the Heroes team as well." Courtney admitted with a nod of her head. "In fact Cody has a restraining order against her which has relented a bit as long as she keeps her distance and I am willing to bet that it's only a matter of time before she breaks it. However it's still nothing compared to the 9 restraining orders that Izzy has against her from ex-boyfriends that she skirts the lines of breaking." Courtney explained and the 3 way couple couldn't help but think of how happy they were of Cody for actually going with a restraining order considering the time he did got against Sierra: she faked sadness to make him seem like the party in the wrong.

"If you want peace then the backroom is all yours'!" Bobby offered opening up the door for them and the 2 groups thanked him as they went through and sitted themselves up at the table.

"So your landlady with a broom and her grandson seem pretty cool; not driving you away for this whole mess and letting us use this room." Mike said as Lincoln, Gwen and Dawn smiled and nodded.

"Bobby is pretty cool and a good friend/brother in law. He's married to my oldest sister Lori and they were dating when I first met him. His family would always make us all feel welcome whenever we would visit. Especially as Bobby's sister is one of my best friends." Lincoln explained as they thought that it sounded nice.

"Though with the expectation that you would get together with Ronnie Anne and her disappointment when that didn't happen. Had to deal with the first meetings of her asking why I thought I was better than her Ronalda." snarked Gwen and Dawn giggled along with Lincoln groaning at her pointing that out as their guests found that funny. Still not as funny and more serious when Gwen first met Ronnie Anne...

"Gwen... Glad to see that you are doing well for yourself. Putting your artistic talents to good use and getting to work with your fiancé." Bridgette brought up with a smile trying to keep this conversation pleasant and Gwen and Gwen nodded. "Didn't expect you to go into comics when you went off the grid after your big video... Got yourself a good fanbase on that part." Bridgette complimented and Trent nodded trying to show that he was happy with her.

"Thanks; cool but not as exciting to me as it is Lincoln as he has been a comics nerd ever since he could practically read. A little kid given the keys to Santa's workshop wouldn't be as happy as Lincoln was when we first got the gig to work on Ace Savvy." Gwen replied and giggled along with Dawn as Lincoln just smiled at the memory.

"That's good and glad you have made a good life and career for yourself Gwen and for all of you but... Sorry can I ask... Never would have expected you and Dawn..." Zoey ended up admitting and the 3 way couple knew that people would have questions about that and Trent looked like he was mixed on the subject. Lincoln and Dawn both held a hand of Dawn.

"... Yeah... I admit that like everyone else I was weirded out after finally meeting her but she grew on me... Her advice on how to calm myself really helped me out more times than I could count and how positive and nice she is... So infectious and with her makes Lincoln and I feel like there's always hope and goodness in the world... Plus how wonderful her smile is, how beautiful she is, her way with animals and nature... We could bond over wanting to help protect this planet and... Plus we could bond over hating Scott..." Gwen answered as the guests were amazed by Gwen's smile and her tone of voice when describing Dawn but then there was Gwen's last part of the statement.

"Please don't ask for clarification... I so wish that after seeing her and Scott's flushing at All-Stars: what happened when she had to go home with him after being sent to Niagara Falls... She had an hour long rant about what they had to go through and Scott's attitude and how he kept getting them lost..." Lincoln told them pleadingly and Gwen had a dark look in her eyes that scared their guests.

"I will just say this: thanks to that rat, it made that I Don't Wanna Be Famous Video a definite decision for me and not just a possible one." Gwen stated and Courtney remembering the small bond that she had with Scott while planning to use him... She thought better than to push this issue.

"I am now kind of wondering about if there were more to you obsessing over fixing things with Courtney at All-Stars if you knew that you were into girls then..." Bridgette decided to break the tension with a little bit of teasing and this caused Gwen and Courtney to be embarrassed with Gwen calling her two loves 'traitors' for laughing. "Sorry if we are asking too much into your personal love lives..." Bridgette said but they did their best to take it in stride.

"We can answer questions as long as you are okay with keeping it to themselves until we say that you can share..." Lincoln said knowing that they wanted to try and keep their romantic relationship and the private details as private as possible despite it seaming like a losing battle at this point. Thankfully the guests nodded at once.

"We can do that and so can we ask how you 3 came together..." Zoey decided to ask and they thought about how to answer that.

"I remember the day that I met my Gwen and Lincoln fondly:: studying art overseas and I came here to the US to attend a highly regarded art school. On my first day: I came across Lincoln and Gwen going into their 2nd years at the school. They were already together at the point." Dawn said with a huge smile shared by Lincoln and Gwen after that.

"So Gwen; you went with Lincoln first... With you swearing off Total Drama, it must have been hard to warm up to Lincoln once he realised who you were and was starstruck..." Courtney asked but Lincoln and Gwen looked at eachother and confused the guests by laughing with Dawn joining in.

Gwen managed to control herself to explain "would you believe that when we first met... Lincoln had no clue who I was..."


"Here I am... A fresh start... Free from the 'Total Drama'... Hope I can keep on the downlow..." Gwen thought in her hooded jumper with the hood up as she got to her new art university after going abroad; her family had a hard time letting her go to the US to study her talents but they couldn't fault it. She wanted to rebuild her life and best that she try and not get herself recognised from her time at Total Drama by staying in Canada as practically everyone there has seen the show

She then noticed noises and there was Vanzilla with Lincoln groaning as he was stepping out of the door with his parents being in tears in him going to college with his 5 younger sisters making their own long goodbyes. Gwen just stared until Lincoln could finally free himself and walked forward and almost ran into Gwen.

"So... You're family?" Gwen asked as Lincoln groaned at the embarassment and nodded. "Don't sweat it; my own mother can be embarrassing. I'm Gwen and I'm new here." Gwen greeted offering a hand and looked closely at Lincoln to see if she was to be recognised by the stranger.

Lincoln smiled and accepted the handshake; "I'm new too... Lincoln and I am here from Royal Woods where I was staying with my 5 sisters still at our home. I moved here to Great Lakes recently and my parents and the 5 sisters all insisted on seeing me here..." Lincoln explained and Gwen was amazed to have such a big family (if only she knew at the time) but Lincoln noticed Vanzilla driving off and waved to the family and there was notice from the sisters. "Great... My sisters saw me with a new girl and they are going to have words about that... Especially Lucy as she's super into goth and it appears you are... No judgement or anything..." Lincoln groaned and Gwen just laughed; she wasn't the super loner she was pre-Total Drama and was preying that she could start anew by first befriending a fellow newbie to the school.


"Wow... Lincoln didn't know who you were?" Bridgette asked shocked and Lincoln shook his head.

"I was on Double Dare and a local game show as a kid but when it comes to Reality TV; my family were more into Dream Boat." Lincoln replied.

"Must have been a shock when you did find out." Mike pointed out and Lincoln and Gwen got the guests concerned as they shared a nervous look with Dawn comforting them with hands on their shoulders.

Lincoln decided to take over and said "well the thing about how I found out is..."