Inspired by Total Loud Reunion by Victor2120.

Great Lakes City in the US and our story starts in the apartment complex ran by the Casagrande family who also owns the Bodega Market that is run on the bottom floor; the apartment is home to many families and that includes Bobby Santiago one of the oldest grandchildren of Rosa & Hector Casagrande as well as having taken over running the Market; he lives with his wife Lori and their young son Leon. Also staying at the apartment is the middle child of Lori's family as well as their only son.

White haired 24 year old Lincoln Loud was in his bed in the apartment he stayed with two special women; embracing a gothic woman his age as well as a blonde haired woman a little younger than them who was embracing them both in a clingy way.

The morning alarm went off and Lincoln had awakened and nudged the goth woman to awaken as well as they had to wrestle out of the arms of the blonde haired woman. "Come on Dawn; we have work to do and we have to get ready..." the gothic woman called Gwen smirked as she managed to get out of the blonde haired woman's arms but Lincoln was still trying.

There was an alert on a phone at the bedside table and the woman smirked to Lincoln and said that "Lincoln; the editor has called and said that our pitch for the David Steele story has been approved." Lincoln's eyes widened as he managed to wrestle the strength to get out of Dawn's grips causing her to sigh as he had a look and cheered as he embraced the woman.

The both of them were working at an independent comic book studio that does partnerships with bigger studios and through them Lincoln had managed to get work drawing issues of Ace Savvy his all time favourite comic book series and now they had their pitched accepted for a David Steele comic book miniseries story penned and drawn by both Lincoln and Gwen.

"With 2 amazing women; engaged to one of them and I get to work on my fave comic books... Could my life get any better Gwen?" Lincoln asked the woman as she embraced back with a smile happy for her. Lincoln having proposed to Gwen rather recently and she accepted; them both having been dating eachother and Dawn in a polyamorous relationship.

"So happy for you; living the dream... Just like I get to live my dream of a nice career with you 2... Managed to have a normal life..." Gwen told Lincoln daydreaming of the day that she had met Lincoln and it led to him and Dawn helping her get over the big regrets and traumas of her teen years. No use dwelling on it now...

"It could always get better; I can imagine one morning waking up to find an extra Aura or 2 in bed in my midriff or your's Gwen." Dawn said with a big smile as she got up rubbing her eyes and giggled at the red on the faces of her boyfriend and girlfriend.

"As good as it can be... You know that I don't want my fiance and my dad's first meeting being him trying to kill Lincoln if he got me knocked up before marriage. Not that he's old fashioned by any stretch but I don't want to take the chance." Gwen replied with a sigh knowing how she hadn't got to see her father as much ever since her parents got divorced and he moved away. Still he was happy for him and would be arriving in the US along with Gwen's mother and brother for the wedding when it comes.

They started getting ready and dressed with Dawn humming as she was watering the plants by the window; Gwen pulled her shirt over while looking on the emails on her phone; "Dawn; it seems that our fundraising has been going better than we already expected..." Gwen told Dawn looking at the emails of charities and groups of enviromental and climate change causes that they were part of; something that helped them bond over after a weird first meeting.

"More good news; wait, I sense a dark cloud going to ruin the mood..." Dawn replied and gasped sensing something with her abilities to sense the supernatural or people's 'Auras'.

"For ****'s sake! How does these messages keep evading my spam block!" Gwen demanded with an exasperated sigh as she got yet another message from representatives of Fresh TV the Canadian TV studio responsible for the popular and infamous Total Drama reality TV franchise of which Gwen was a first generation contestant; there was going to be very soon a reunion TV special that was bringing together the original contestants as well as others from other seasons in celebration of a new season.

Gwen kept turning down the invitations with hatred and vitol; sure she had met some good people and had good times with them but they were overshadowed by the bad times and that included all those sole crushing challenges. She swore that the franchise was dead to her and said as much on her final blog video made after she had gotten home from Total Drama All-Stars.

Lincoln and Dawn saw the message in the folder before Gwen deleted it; Dawn began instructing Gwen on the deep breathing excercises that really helped Gwen relax as well as got her into lotus position to meditate which certainly helped. "I can only imagine what I would do if I didn't have you to to help me bare through it..." Gwen told them as they embraced her.

They got downstairs and were up to the Market area when there was a young toddler running up to them and hugging Lincoln's leg as they laughed and Lincoln picked him up. "Uncle Lincoln! Aunt Gwen! Aunt Dawn!" the boy told them as they smiled at the young child; Leon Loud the so far only child of Bobby & Lori and Lincoln's only nephew.

"Leon; sorry but your aunts and uncle have work to do; I am so sorry about that... He is a handful..." Rosa Casagrande apologised as she collected Leon; acting as Leon's babysitter while his parents were at work and then lightly chided her great grandchild.

"No problem at all Mrs Casagrande..." Gwen replied as they were quite fond of Leon; not minding at all that they were already considered aunts to the young child as they were already dating when he was born. Rosa then began tutting and shaking her head.

"Once again; it's just Rosa. You're pretty much family to me Gwen as well as you Dawn; being with Lincoln who is family through my granddaughter in law." Rosa informed them as they then began going down the stairs.

They went to the marketplace and waved to Bobby in the counter; "Leon got away from Rosa again Bobby; I don't know how you and Lori can keep up with him." Gwen told him as Bobby greeted them with a wave.

"Well I don't know how my parents kept up with us all. Lori must have inherited it from our mum." Lincoln then told her and they all laughed as including Lori; Lincoln actually had 10 sisters and Gwen could only imagine the kind of childhood he had from the stories, home movies as well as pictures.

"I sense a dark cloud coming..." Dawn muttered eyes widening as wel the door opened and in came a man in a hat and trenchcoat. The market's TV was on a tabloid news channel talking about a video of surfing champion and generation 1 Total Drama star Bridgette and Geoff who would be hosting the reunion special and it was Bridgette's brainchildren to bring the gang back together so to speak.

Gwen shook her head; she honestly would love to meet up with Bridgette and others from the show again to catch up and clear some bad blood between them. "However all but 1 is confirmed for the reunion from the original cast; the first season runner up and fan favourite Gwen who went out of the limelight after her famous final video disavowing Total Drama. Our sources said that Gwen has been radio silent about requests after being contacted and firmly turning down the first invitation while refusing to reply to follow-up requests. Just where is Gwen..."

Gwen looked down as there was a clip of a statement from Bridgette saying that she was disappointed that Gwen may not be there as she hoped to fix things from las time they had properly met eachother; from the 2nd Aftermath episode of Total Drama Action. Then the host began commenting if there would be any lingering tension with her exes and fellow former contestants Trent and Duncan.

"...Wouldn't exactly help..." Gwen muttered shaking her head thinking of the main reason why she was against agreeing to this special was that no matter how much the messages would say that Chris was only involved as a guest and no had input into it as a producer or anything; she didn't trust any legal document involved with Total Drama and would never sign with them again. She didn't trust Chris not to put in a fine print to sucker her in to take part in a new reunion season; apparently DJ was against it too as it seemed that he needed some persuasion before agreeing as said on the tabloid show.

"Sorry about this Gwen; I will turn it off now..." Bobby apologised reaching for the remote as Gwen started going to the door with Lincoln and Dawn.

"I get what you mean; I have scorn towards the franchise for how we were treated; the environmental disaster that was the season I took part in and how I was sent flying in my own bag..." Dawn muttered as Gwen went to comfort her; the kind new age hippie also had her own bad memories associated with the show even if not as much or as bad as Gwen had it.

"The confirmed alumni taking part have made their flights to the US and are arriving in Great Lakes City; the home of the convention centre where the Reunion Special has been chosen to take place in for an unspecified reason..."

"WHAT?" the three screamed glancing up at the TV in shock; Gwen's eyes were widening. The show was coming here to Great Lakes? In the US? Was there any chance of her fellow ex-contestants spotting her and the show using that to rope her into this. What was going on.

The man that had entered the market started laughing and Gwen glared at the man; that laugh she knew all too well. "Well if we couldn't bring Gwen to the Reunion Special then I figured... Let's bring the Reunion Special to Gwen. Been a long time Gwen; you sure look nice and same to you Dawn. Didn't imagine that you two would find eachother here..." the man said removing his hat to show himself to be none other than the bane of Gwen's existence: the Total Drama host Chris McLean.

"What are you doing here Chris?" Gwen demanded ready to punch him as Lincoln and Gwen glared at him as Chris looked casually.

"Nice to meet you again too Gwen and congrats on the engagement; if you want to be more formal then should I refer to you as Mrs Loud?" Chris asked as their eyes widened; was she spying on them. "Don't be too shocked Gwen; I have hired people to track you down and dig up the details. There if you knew where to look." Chris explained as the stares were stone cold at him.

"McLean; Gwen told me all about how all she went through trying in vain to fight being sucked down Niagara Falls and the long stressful journey to get herself home... After all the pain you put her through; why shouldn't I just drag you to the back and we can beat you up?" Lincoln asked as Chris frowned.

"You can count on me deleting the security footage and I will lie to the cops if I have to." Bobby said with a glare of his own.

"This is what I get after all the strings I pulled getting the Reunion to be hosted here? You know we had to cover the travel costs to get everyone there... I just wanted to make one final offer. A free invitation to turn up; all 3 of you; no agreements necessary. You can show up without any contracts signed; nothing. You show up; catch up with some friends and you will be sent the checks. I bet the Total Drama faithfuls would love to see you again Dawn; a bit of a bummer when you refused to return for All-Stars and I had to settle with Sam." Chris sighed and they glared at him with Dawn shaking her head with her arms folded.

"I made the mistake once; I was more than happy to have my last memory of you being being busted and arrested by the police Chris." Dawn told him trying to remain polite.

"As if I am to trust anything you say Chris? I dealt with you for 4 seasons; you always have an ace up your sleeve." Gwen told him as Chris simply left some cards on the ground and then motioned that he was going to leave.

"Think it over and we will be at the Convention Centre should you change your mind or give a call." Chris said as he went to walk out but then glanced back with a smirk. "One more thing Gwen; glad to see that you got the edge back that you had in the earlier seasons. Wasn't the biggest fan of overly nice you were being All-Stars so I am glad that the true Gwen came back out after your last appearance on TD." Chris said acting as if he was complimenting her before he left to a stormy glare on Gwen's face.

"Gwen..." Lincoln and Dawn asked seeing how upset she was getting and she did some deep breathing.

"Let's just get on with our days; I can use this frustration to finishing the drawings for the final issue of our work. Should help..." muttered Gwen as Lincoln and Gwen were working on the final part of a multi part of a horror action story for an anthology comic.