The Time Roll, part 2

The next morning Ezekiel woke up and went to the mess hall like all the other campers. He sat down with his bowl of… something and started to eat. After taking a few bites without vomiting somehow, he looks at who’s in line. Naturally, the only girl he can really concentrate on is Heather, who seemed to be itchy that morning. He thinks to himself how he’s happy that Justin got voted off instead of her (I forgot to mention this in the last part, see how smoothly I included it in). Then, queasily, he remembers the promises her made, how he’d sabotage his own team. He puts his head down and starts to eat again. “Well, I found out where my ants went.” Ezekiel hears this coming from his right. It was Harold, sitting next to him. “Oh yeah, where?” Harold points to Heather, using a fork to scratch her back. “Well, if my ants had to go somewhere, I’m glad it was for such a good cause.” “What do you mean?” Ezekiel asks. “I mean that after what Heather did, I’m glad something bad happened to her. I don’t think she has long on this show.” A worried Ezekiel does a quick bathroom confession. “Even Harold says that Heather doesn’t have long. I guess that decides it, I’m going to have to make my team lose for her. I don’t know why I’m going to do something so stupid, I just haven’t felt this way before…”
The next challenge was to spend the night in the woods without food. Ezekiel had no clue how to make his team lose in this one, at the same time not getting caught though, so he wouldn’t get voted off (he may have been socially inept, but he wasn’t stupid, if he wasn’t on the island either, he wouldn’t be near Heather). To him, the challenge seemed too easy that it was impossible to mess up: go in the forest, sleep and come back. “Chris just added the term ‘survive’ to scare us,” he thought while walking with the rest of his team mates. Once they get at the campsite, Courtney starts commanding everyone around, giving them duties. Bridgette and Geoff were asked to make a tent, Harold was told to start a fire using only sticks and his scout training, DJ was told to help him, Sadie and Katie were no where to be found, and that just left Tyler and Ezekiel to find some fire wood for once the fire started. They didn’t stick together, naturally, to cover more ground and find more. Ezekiel had a small pile of sticks for the fire and he kept looking on the ground for more sticks. Then, he finds a small piece of round wood and looks at it for a few seconds. Then, he gets an idea, throws the rest of his sticks aside, picks up the block and starts carving away at it while walking back to the campsite. “Where’s the wood?” Courtney asks him the second he gets back. Quickly, he hides his work in his sweater. “Huh?” “The wood. You know, the wood I asked you and Tyler to get?” “Oh… I guess I forgot.” “Ugh! The people I have to work with. Luckily, DJ, Tyler and Harold got enough for the night.” Ezekiel let a sigh of relief, he didn’t get caught and he didn’t get in too much trouble.
After the night, which didn’t change too much, and everyone’s return, it was the Killer Bass that had to vote someone off, and that someone was naturally Katie, since her and Sadie lost the challenge by getting… well, lost. After that, the Screaming Gophers came over claiming that Owen had farted too much and they couldn’t stand it. When DJ got scared of a gummy worm, everyone started sharing their biggest fear. “What’s your biggest fear Ezekiel?” Izzy asked him. “Rats,” he said, “They’re just so unsanitary. My doctor told me all these diseases they can have, not to mention the whole black plague thing…” After a while, people started getting tired since they didn’t get much sleep the night before. “Well I’m going to bed,” Harold said to Ezekiel as he yawned, “You coming too?” “No,” Ezekiel said, “I want to stay and watch the fire a little longer.” Secretly Ezekiel just wanted to be alone, for two reasons: 1) He wanted to collect his thoughts about everything and 2) He wanted to work on his carving. When the fire started to die, Heather came out. They had talked about meeting together every possible night, which was Ezekiel’s idea since he didn’t like having to be separate from her for the one night (aaawww). “Well it’s not like I have anything better to do at night,” Heather says in a stall confession, “and it does give me a chance to corrupt Ezekiel more and to figure out how to make his team lose. Also, he’s not that bad. He’s the only other person on the island that I can actually stand…”
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The next day Chris had surprised everyone by announcing the Phobia Factor challenge, which made everyone regret having admitting their biggest fear. One by one, the campers were asked to do a challenge which involved their biggest fear. Heather was one of the first ones for her team, her challenge was to actually face a Sumo Wrestler (her biggest fear). She unfortunately chickened out and ran out the ring and off the stage. Once more of the challenges were being announced and people were all over the place for other peoples challenges, Heather had dragged Ezekiel into a private area. “Whatever your challenge is,” tells him, “don’t do it: pretend to be too scared, even if you’re not!” “What?” “You heard me! I mean, I wasn’t able to do mine, which is sort of embarrassing. If someone like you doesn’t do theirs either, I’ll feel better.” “Well,” he says, “that does make sense, and I don’t like you feeling bad.” He walks away, ready to find out what his challenge was so he could lose it. “That’ll help MY team win,” Heather says in speedy stall confession.
A few hours later, Ezekiel is asked to go to the stage. “Alright, Ezekiel,” Chris says preparing him for his challenge, “you’re afraid of rats. So, you’re going to have to stick your hand, in this!” Chris pulls off a blanket that was covering a change filled with lots of swarming rats. “You just have to put your hand inside, let a couple dozen of them run over your hand, and then your challenge is done.” “Have these rats been tested to make sure they don’t have any diseases?” “Absolutely…” Chris says. Ezekiel starts to move his hand towards the cage. “…not!” Chris ends. Ezekiel jumps with fear into Chris’ arms. “Dude, don’t worry about it,” Chris says while dropping Ezekiel on his butt, “cats eat rats all the time, they don’t get sick or die or anything…” Ezekiel gets up and dusts himself off. After getting up, he notices Heather glaring at him, and he remembers what she told him. He looks at her, then the cage, then at Chris. At her, then at the cage, then at Chris again. “Can’t do it…” he says, “I’d prefer not to get sick and die while on this island.” “Being afraid to die is not something that’s going to help you with everything we have planned this summer,” Chris comments. All of the Killer Bass spectators started booing and Ezekiel had to walk of the stage with his head hung low. “I probably could have done it,” Ezekiel admits in the bathroom cam, “I just didn’t want Heather to feel bad like she said she did…”
“Alright, Bridgette, Tyler, Courtney and Ezekiel,” Chris said that night at the bonfire ceremony, “You four are the only ones who didn’t complete their challenge and got the most amounts of votes. The first one to get a marshmallow is… Bridgette!” Bridgette gets up and gets her marshmallow. “If I had seen or smelled Cody like that, I think I would have run too. The next marshmallow goes to… Ezekiel!” Ezekiel is happily surprised and picks up his marshmallow. “Now, all that’s left is Tyler, the big chicken, and Courtney, who could of won the entire competition for her team. The last marshmallow goes to… … … Courtney.” She gets her marshmallow.
After Tyler’s pun filled send off, Ezekiel went to meet Heather in the spot they planned to meet every night until one of them got voted off. “I made it back!” Ezekiel says while holding up a marshmallow. “Cute,” Heather says, slightly sarcastically, “Thanks for losing the challenge for you team. Like I’ve said, no one really likes me, and since I didn’t do my challenge, who knows if I would have come back tonight.” “Oh, I forgot about that,” Ezekiel says, “and now that I think about it, my team would have still lost. Let’s see… Bridgette… Tyler… Courtney… Yeah, we would have still lost.” “Well then, you basically didn’t do it for no reason, other then risk getting voted off.” “No I didn’t,” he says to her, “I did it because you said you were embarrassed for not having done your challenge, remember? I just wanted to make you feel better.” Heather is speechless for a moment, she didn’t remember saying that, she had just made it up on the spot. “I didn’t… I mean, I can’t believe you… You didn’t do…” she tried to say something, but this incredible show of affection Ezekiel had done was so powerful and new to her that she really didn’t know what to say. The two just kind of stared at each other for a few minutes, until finally Ezekiel yawned. “Well, it’s late. Didn’t sleep much last night and this has been some crazy day. I think I’m going off to bed. Good night Heather,” Ezekiel turns around and heads for his cabin. “Goodnight. Oh, and Ezekiel?” Heather stops him. “Yes?” “Thanks, you really did make me feel better…”
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The next day, Chris announced the challenge that was a race to Boney Island and back. Ezekiel naturally teamed up with Harold for a canoe team, and they let Sadie come along since they were an odd number and she didn’t have Katie anymore. While paddling to Boney Island, Ezekiel couldn’t stop thinking about Heather, he wasn’t even paying attention to where he was paddling to. Without noticing, he accidentally hit into Sadie’s paddle and let go of his. Watching it, he realized that would help with his and Heather’s plan to make the Killer Bass lose. “Way to go Ezekiel!” Sadie screams at him, “Now well be even slower…” “Don’t talk to my friend like that,” Harold tells her, “besides, it was an accident. Right?” “Right,” Ezekiel answers. He turns around and sees Harold giving him a thumbs-up and a smile. He returns the gesture without really knowing what it meant.
After they get to Boney Island and walk across it, they had to build a fire. This was a little harder for the Killer Bass in this time line, since Duncan wasn’t there with his lighter. It was up to Harold (the one with the scout skills) to try to get it started. Eventually he did, just took a little longer then Duncan took. After it was finally going everyone was looking around for stuff to burn to make their fire bigger. Then, Ezekiel sees the paddles. He looks at Heather and gets an idea. He fakes to be panic stricken then grabs all the paddles then burns them. “Great,” Courtney yells at him, “Now how are we going to get back?” “I-I-I-I-I…” Ezekiel stutters. “Leave him alone,” Harold steps in, “he panicked, and it did make the fire bigger, which is what you were demanding us to do! I probably would have done the same thing!” “Ugh,” Courtney responds, “Fine, just try to think of a way to get back!” Courtney walks away. “Thanks for that,” Ezekiel says to Harold. “Yeah, just be more careful next time,” Harold answers him, “seriously though, I don’t think I’d ever do anything as stupid as that!”
Afterwards, Courtney continued to freak out about how they were going to lose. She would have been right if Izzy didn’t give them the idea to have DJ swim behind the canoes and push them. So, that night it was the Screaming Gophers to vote someone off. But, before that, everyone had a few hours to relax after their strenuous challenge, so everyone went their own way and did their own thing. Ezekiel went off on his own and took out the piece of wood and his knife again, and starting carving away at it, hoping to finally be able to finish his project, which he actually did. With the time he had left before his arranged nightly meeting with Heather, he found Geoff, asked him more about girls and asked him to teach him more “teen speak.”
That night, Izzy was chased off by the RCMP, which left many people staring in shock for several minutes. After it was finally over, everyone started heading off to their cabins, except for Heather how tried to sneak into the woods, until Lindsay caught her. “Aren’t you going to bed?” she asked her, “I’m tired from having to run and paddle so much…” “No,” Heather replied, “I’m just going to go for a walk in the woods.” Then, she left. After walking for a bit, she found the spot where she and Ezekiel had been meeting all the time, but Ezekiel wasn’t there yet, so she sat down on a rock, stared at the moon and played with her hair a bit. When Ezekiel did show up, he didn’t say hi, he just sat next to her and looked up at the moon with her. “So, your team almost did lose…” she said, neither of them taking their eyes off the moon. “Yeah,” Ezekiel said, “I burned all the oars but the whole Izzy and DJ thing was out of my hands.” “Excellent,” Heather says looking down, tapping her fingers together very Mr.Burns like, “I mean, thanks, I like how you’re doing all this stuff for me.” Heather hugs him from the side. When she does, he turns red a bit and looks at her. After she lets go, she looks at him. He’s shaking like heck, but manages to reach into his pocket and pull something out. “I-I m-m-m-made this f-f-for you…” he says nervously, while presenting her what he made. He had carved the piece of wood into the shape of a heart, and on it, he had written “Heather + Ezekiel”. “Ezekiel, that’s just so… wow…” Heather says, taking the heart in her hands and looking at it, speechless. Ezekiel had returned to looking up at the moon while she continued to stare at the gift. It was silent for a little while, until Ezekiel started getting up and broke it. “Well,” he said, “I guess aughta hit the hay…” “No,” Heather says sitting him back down, “I think he can stay a little while longer. Huh, is it just me, or is your speech patern changing?” “Yeah,” he says, “Geoff’s been helping me with that. He’s been really nice about…” They continued to talk for a little while. That night, was the first time that they just talked to each other. They didn’t plan or scheme after that, they just talked. And both of them enjoyed it.
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The next day, Chris had given half the campers antlers and tails, and the other half were given paintball guns and goggles. He informed them that they’d be hunting members of the opposite team. On the Killer bass, Harold, Bridgette and Ezekiel were the hunters, and Geoff, Courtney, DJ and Sadie were the prey for the Screaming Gophers. When it all started, Ezekiel had followed Harold and Bridgette in, with the plan of sticking together. Suddenly, he was yanked by the back of his collar into some bushes. It was Heather. “Shoot the members of your own team,” she commanded quickly. “What?” he asks, still not quite knowing what was going on. “Shoot the members of your own team,” she repeated, “and not just the deer, shoot the hunters too, and yourself to make sure you team loses.” “But… won’t it…?” he goes to asks. “Don’t you trust me anymore?” “Y-Yes…” he said, not quite sure about all of it. “Alright, fine. I gotta go hide. Seeya!” She takes off to join Beth and Lindsay and order them around too. Ezekiel walks out of the bush and joins Harold and Bridgette again. “Where’d you go Zeek?” Bridgette asks him. “Yeah, aren’t we going to stick together?” Harold continues. “I just tripped and fell into some bushes. Yeah, I know we were going to stick together, but if you think about it, it’s stupid,” he answers, “If we stick together, we cover less ground and are easier spotted. You two stick together though, I’ll head off by myself.” Harold and Bridgette just shrug and head off to find some Screaming Gophers to shoot. Ezekiel slowly walks in the opposite direction, and looks at his gun. He remembers that he is a good hunter, and especially at shooting people (LeShawna, his mom…). But, was he really going to shoot members of his own team for Heather?
Yes, he was. The first Killer Bass member he came across was Sadie. She was hiding behind two trees and looking between them to make sure no Gophers were near. Ezekiel crept bellow a bush and spotted her. He aimed his gun upwards at her and pulled his trigger. “AAAAHHHH!” she screamed. She was shot three times on her butt, and was rubbing it better. “That hurt more then I thought it would.” When she turned to see who shot her, all she saw was the bush moving.
The next one Ezekiel found was Geoff. He was just moving around at his normal relaxed pace with his hands in his pockets, until he came upon a bush of blueberries. He started picking at them when Ezekiel found him. He used the same technique he did with Sadie: crept under a bush and shot up at him. After being shot, Geoff jumped and dropped his blueberries and checked who shot him. All he saw was the bush rustling. “Aw man, my snack!” he said “Oh, and just washed this shirt…”
Courtney was easy to find, since she was complaining to no one about how she was a deer, and didn’t want to get shot. Ezekiel barely had to sneak to get a good shot at her. When she turned around, he pulled the trigger and then went away. “How could they make me a deer? I’m a C- AHHH! Who would dare shoot me?” She turned and couldn’t find who did it.
Next on his hit-list was DJ, since he was going to save the hunters for last. He had found DJ who just got rid of Owen. He continued to creep under bushes slowly not to be caught; he knew DJ would be more alert then the others. None the less, he was still able to sneak up on him and get him a few times. “After chasing off Owen,” DJ says to himself, looking back on a rustling bush, “I still get shot…”
Lastly, Ezekiel had to find Bridgette and Harold, who did indeed stick together. They had just shot Heather, Beth and Lindsay, and were still laughing while looking for the rest of the Gophers. Ezekiel found them easily since he heard them laughing. He looked out to the two of them and knew he had to get both at once or else the other would be able to see who did it. He was about to pull his trigger, when Harold had turned sideways. “My best friend…” he thought to himself, “am I going to shoot my best friend? For… Heather…” He thought about Heather, and her words “don’t you trust me?” He closed his eyes and gulped hard. While he eyes were still closed, he shot wildly and then went away. “AHH!” Harold said, “I’ve been hit!” “Me too!” Bridgette added, “Darn Gophers! You’re not supposed to shoot the hunters!”
Ezekiel found himself in the forest alone and crying about having to shoot his friends. He couldn’t believe what he’d just done. “Alright,” he said wiping his eyes and nose, “I guess there’s just one person left to shoot?” He turned the gun around and shot himself once in the stomach. “Urf,” he said, “That hurt more then I thought it was going to. Well, I guess this is one challenge that we seriously lost…”
“Well,” Chris said, “This is one challenge the Killer Bass seriously lost! The Screaming Gophers have one person in traction, one covered in mud and two covered in paintball…” Lindsay turns around, “three covered in paintballs. BUT, that doesn’t compare to every single camper getting shot!” He looks, at the Killer Bass: Sadie, Geoff, Harold, Courtney and Bridgette turned to show their rear side shots, DJ moved his leg sideways to show where he was shot and Ezekiel just stood there since he was on the front. “There must have been one serious hunting Gopher!” Chris continued, “I want to know who it was!” One by one every single Gopher just shrugged. “Wait a minute,” Trent said, “We were shooting orange balls. All the bass are somehow covered in BLUE shots!” Everyone took a big gasp and Ezekiel started sweating. “Alright,” Chris said, “I still want to know who did it!” “Well, it wasn’t me, Sadie of Geoff,” Courtney pointed out, “We don’t have guns!” “Yeah, and it wasn’t me!” Harold said, “And I was with Bridgette the whole time, so it wasn’t her. Plus, how would we shoot ourselves in the back?” “Well that just leaves… Ezekiel…” Bridgette said. “Yeah!” Sadie added, “and he’s been shot in the front!” All the Killer Bass members surrounded Ezekiel and looked at him angrily. “Man!” DJ said, “Why did you do it?” “I… I can’t explain it…” Ezekiel said, lowering his head in shame. “Well,” Chris said, “The rules never said it was the other team that to shoot you, so you’re still heading off to the campfire ceremony. I think I can take a guess who’s going on tonight…” Everyone started to leave. Ezekiel still had his head down until Harold came right in front of him. “Harold, I… I…” Ezekiel tried to explain, but still couldn’t. Harold just shook his head and walked away. Heather then went quickly in a stall confession. “Wow, Ezekiel got caught. Huh, I didn’t see that coming. I guess I should of thought about the whole colors thing. Oh well, too bad I guess. I’m going to miss him, but it’s just a game, right?”
“Well,” Chris said, “it was a landside! Ezekiel, for shooting all of your own team-mates for no apparent reason, you’re getting voted off!” He was given the chance to stand up and explain himself, but he just stuttered again and hung his head in shame. At the Screaming Gophers’ cabin, Lindsay and Heather were on the steps. “Funny about that Ezekiel, eh Lindsay?” Heather asks. “I know,” Lindsay replies, “I can’t understand why he did that!” “Yeah, me neither…” “I mean, there must have been something really strong to make him do that” “Yeah,” Heather says, then sighs, “I’m sorry, I just don’t feel too good tonight.” She goes back to her bed and starts thinking to herself. “The other team lost, so why do I feel so bad?” She lies on her back on her bed and lays her head down. She places her hands under her pillow and hen feels something. She sits up and pulls it out and sees what it was: the wooden heart Ezekiel had given her. She stairs at it and thinks about it for a second, then a tear rolled down her cheek. She wipes it off, then angrily gets up and storms out the door. “How DARE that jerk lose!”
Ezekiel stands in front of the Boat of Losers, ready to take him away. He turns to face all the campers one last time. All of them have their arms crossed. He looks up again. “I… I’m sorry…” Ezekiel turns around and puts one leg on the boat, but then he hears his name. “EZEKIEL!” It was Heather, who was running to him. “What does SHE want?” Courtney asked. “Probably just wants to rub in the victory,” DJ answered. “EZEKIEL!” Heather screamed again. Ezekiel looked out and say her and put both feet on the dock again. She ran up to him, stopped and tried to catch her breath. “Heather?” Ezekiel said, not believing what was going on. When she finally caught her breath, she looked at him. “Are you STUPID!” she shouted at him. “Wha-What?” “I said are you STUPID! You’re being voted off and you’re not mad!” At that point the Screaming Gophers heard the shouting and rand to see what was going on. “YOU shouldn’t be getting voted off!” Heather continued, “You shouldn’t have shot all your team mates! Why would you do something like that, just because I told you to!?” Everyone gasps at finding out what happened. “YOU don’t deserve to get voted off! So why aren’t you mad? WHY didn’t you tell the others what happened? WHY would you let me boss you around like that? You knew you might get caught!” Heather paused for a second. Tears were rolling down her cheeks. “Heather, I…” Ezekiel tried to say. “SHUT UP!” she interrupted, “SHUT UP! You shouldn’t be here! You shouldn’t have been stupid enough to let someone like ME take advantage of you! You’re smart and friendly and so SWEET to have made me that wooden heart!” Everyone was shocked at what was going on the whole time. “You called me beautiful and did everything I asked you too, just for me! Why would you let me do that to you?” she grabbed Ezekiel by his collar, “YOU’RE A STUPID BOY!” She pulls him in a kisses him deeply. All the campers’, including Ezekiel’s, eyes grow big with surprise. She holds that kiss for a good five seconds, then lets him go. “You’re a stupid boy,” she repeats, “…and I don’t deserve you…” “Heather…” Ezekiel said, “I… I… L…” “No,” Heather interrupted, “Don’t say it. You’re leaving now, and it’s my fault. If you say it, I won’t be able to live with myself, not that I think I can anyways.” Ezekiel nods and gets on the boat. It starts chugging away. When it gets out of reach, Heather falls to her knees and reaches out, to try to reach once more the only guy who ever liked her.
After the boat was completely out of sight, Heather forced herself up and starts walking up the dock of shame. “You hyper-crit!” Lindsay yelled, “You yell at me for having a boyfriend on the other team, but you had one too!” Heather walks right by Lindsay with her head down in shame and crying her eyes out. Everyone just watches after Lindsay had yelled. Heather cries and walks herself to her cabin. She closes the door behind her and forces herself up to her bunk. There, once more, she finds the wooden heart. She lies down on the pillow, holds it close to her and cries out loud.

THE END!


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After this, a lot of differences happened in the TDI timeline. The next day Heather spent the whole time crying during the cooking challenge, so beyond their bad luck, they didn’t have her direction or cooking skills. They ended up losing and voting off Heather for not helping out and for being bossy.
During the trust challenges, the Screaming Gophers also had bad luck: Beth (in Heather’s place) let go of the rope holding Gwen up when she was scared by a bee, Lindsay poisoned Trent, Courtney and Sadie switched places, so Courtney got the apple on the arrow and Lindsay made Gwen fall in the Jelly fish pit. After that, since Duncan wasn’t there to find Bunny again, DJ didn’t take off his blindfold, and LeShawna and Beth went flying on their toboggan. When they landed, Beth’s tiki idol fell out, so she was voted off that night.
After the boot camp challenge, Harold still wanted to vote off one of the girls in a couple. Since Duncan and Courtney weren’t a couple, he voted off the only other couple on his team: Bridgette
During the final X-Treme challenge, LeShawna was driving for Harold instead of Heather. Harold let go of his flags when he looked up at her and was “struck by her beauty”. He got voted off that night.
The Brunch of Disgustingness and the No Pain, No Game episodes ended pretty much the same. After the treasure hunting challenge, everyone decided to vote off Courtney, since they couldn’t handle her nagging anymore.
Since Duncan wasn’t around to form the guy’s alliance during the Hide and Be Sneaking episode, there never was one. Everyone ended up voting off Cody, after he tripped and ruined some of their prizes.
Lindsay won the biking competition easily, since she only had to build her own bike and no one cheated her out of it. The camper that came in last place was voted off, which was Trent.
The horror episode turned out pretty much the same, with the only difference being that DJ saw Lindsay getting a facial instead of Heather. The hunting episode turns out the same since everyone was terrorized.
The pairs that were handcuffed had changed too. Gwen was still handcuffed to Geoff, but Owen was handcuffed to Sadie and LeShawna was stuck with Lindsay (who she likes, but found incredibly stupid). The scores still ended up tied at the end, so everyone ended up voting off Sadie (for more or less no reason).
The Flashback episode ended the same, with everyone accidentally voting off LeShawna. The episode where Chef is left in charge, the guys still lost thanks to Owen’s stomach, and Chef declared he didn’t like Geoff’s laid back attitude and kicked him off.
During the dare’s, Lindsay was to stupid to be able to figure out what was ACTUALLY meant by one of the dares, so she did something else, and was kicked off for not actually finishing the dare.
The ending turned out the same…