(y/n) - your name

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"Girl, what's up with you? You've been extremely jumpy lately." I jump as I look over at Leshawna who moved to the back of the group to talk to me. I was currently idled towards the back as Chris explains the challenge for today, fitting the theme of war films.

"You've also been avoiding Duncan. Trouble in paradise?" Heather whispers when she overhears Leshawna.

"I'm not avoiding him." I look up towards the front and my breath hitches as my eyes catch Duncans. He was frowning sadly like I hurt him, arms crossed over his chest before listening to Chris.

Ok, maybe I was subconsciously avoiding him.

It's not like it was outright. Like if he walks over to me, I'm not getting up to quickly leave. Not like that. I guess I was just distant with Duncan, trying to busy myself with the last two challenges that were horror and natural disaster film themed.

The horror challenges included a screaming challenge where one member from each team had to scare their mates, get them to scream the highest. Lindsay was a girl boss during that challenge, putting her foot down and actually getting people to listen. Beth got chosen to scare us but she couldn't get me to scream. Jump sure but no scream. Didn't matter cause both teams won that challenge.

So the tiebreaker was a re-enactment of a classic couple making out scene in a horror film. Of course I was peeved about Duncan being forced to kiss Heather but I quickly had that buried with my anxiousness. The screaming Gaffers won that round and my team was forced to sleep in the craft service tent.

I figured it was another challenge when Chris told us a scary story and told us that if we left the tent, we would lose. I was so out of it during that day's challenges that I never left the tent when the others ran out screaming so I got a win for my team. The Gaffers lost and when they were about to vote someone off, DJ spoke up about his alliance with Chef and volunteered to take the leave.

Going to miss that dude.

The next challenge was chaotic to say the most. The first challenge was an obstacle course where Owen got severely injured. His jaw was wired shut and due to his injury, that got our team the win for the first challenge.

By this time, I think everyone felt that I wasn't in the mood to muck around at all when I took the note that was rewarded to us to help with the next challenge. Obviously being a lock combination in roman numerals, I easily beasted through the submarine challenge. Thankfully it was just a reward challenge and no one got booted off as the Killer Grips one for the day.

I was just so anxious and nervous about the whole pregnancy test thing. I was worried that someone would find it, like maybe one of the interns, And if they find it, what if they give it to Chris? Then he's going to know it was mine and question me about it since Duncan and I are the only couple here on the show that's actually fucked.

"It looks like you are. He hasn't come over to sleep in your bed the past few days." Beth says and I look at the girls wondering why they were being so fucking snoopy for.

"Look, can you please just drop it. We have some challenges to win." I sigh out and the girls disband. Leshawna purses her lips and nods, walking over to her group.

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"Trouble in paradise? Sure seems like it..." Duncan sighs out in front of the camera. "(y/n) has been... distant lately I guess. I don't know, she seems so winded up about something." Duncan leans back in the chair, a frown on his face.

"Is it something I did? Did I do something wrong? Is it that disgusting kiss with Heather? I really hope she's not mad at me for that." Duncan groans, running his hands down his face.

"I miss (y/n)... Neither of us are actually good at apologising, more so it's almost impossible for us to say sorry if we get into a fight. We normally give each other space to calm down and we go back to normal, being more affectionate towards each other as a way to say sorry to each other." Duncan sighs, leaning his head back.

"So that's what I'm doing. I'm giving her some space but fuck, I miss her. I need to talk to her, it's been too long. I need to fix whatever is going on between us."

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"Ok people, remove your blindfolds." I take mine off, hearing the loud chuffing of the military helicopter we were in. My eyes widen when Chris explains that the first challenge is to jump out of the plane with a parachute.

"You have got to be fucking kidding me here!" I exclaim, both at the fact that we have to jump and Chris dumping the parachutes out the damn doorway! "You didn't!"

"I certainly did!" Izzy completely disregards her safety and jumps out of the helicopter cause she's crazy. No one was volunteering to jump next so Chris baits Owen to jump out.

"Fetch boy!"

"Owen no!" I scream out as the plane suddenly tilts as he runs, everyone falling out of the plane. I close my eyes, accepting death but I feel something soft on my back when I land. I open my eyes to see that we landed on a giant mattress. "Oh thank fuck." I breathe out, freezing when I realise Duncan was hovering over me.

"(y/n)..." He gives me a sheepish smile and I was about to open my mouth to say something when Izzy suddenly pulls me out from beneath his arms. I give Duncan a sad look as he walks over to his group and I get pulled to mine, standing behind giant screens with a tower of explosives in front of us.

"Are those actual explosives!?" I panic as Izzy gets this crazy look on her face, grabbing as many as she physically could. It was a huge blur of green and orange as she runs around and putting up explosives everywhere on our target. "How...?" Izzy stands behind the launch button and I slowly take a couple of steps back.

This is not going to end well-

Everything around me suddenly turns green as a big ass explosion rings out. I was wobbling over my feet from the ringing in my head, looking down to see that I was completely covered in green goo.

"What the fuck man!?" I scream out, panicking as I feel my hair to feel goo there as well. "How am I supposed to get this out!?" Chris announces that the Gaffers were the winners for this challenge. He announced a return to the show, giving us Grips a break to be able to get clean before the next challenge.

I was annoyed and grumbled under my breath, walking off to the showers when I suddenly feel someone grab my hand. "Let's go." I look up to see Duncan quickly leading me away, holding my hand everso gently in his and I smile at how careful he was with me. 

He takes me to the indoor pool building and panic shoots through my body when he takes me to the bathroom. He locks the door, turning on the tap to fill the bath as I just stood there silently. I watch as he pours some scented oils, a couple of bath bombs and bubbles, my nerves easing from the smell of honey and lavender.

"(y/n)..." I look up at Duncan and he looked unsure, his hands hovering over my clothes. I felt guilt hit me from how he held back like he thinks he might hurt me. I grab his hands and lay them on me, him releasing a breath he was holding as he takes my green covered clothes off me. He was being so gentle with me and the guilt started eating away at me for how I treated him.

Duncan walks off to fill the sink with warm water and dunks my goo covered clothes in there as I head to the bath tub, running my hands through the water to turn the tap off when it was enough. I feel hands gently lay on my waist, touching me so softly and carefully by the fingertips like they were asking me permission. I lean back further into Duncan's touch and he slowly runs his hands up my spine, his thumb softly caressing my skin before he reach the clasp of my bra.

My heart raced from how intimate this was, how hesitant and gentle Duncan was with me like any wrong move and I would get mad at him. But there was no way I would ever get mad at him.

I let out a soft sigh, feeling Duncan lay his forehead against my back as he unclips my bra. I close my eyes, relishing in his soft touches as Duncan carefully dragged my straps down my arms till it fell to the floor. My breath hitches from the cold nipping at my breasts, them suddenly feeling so sensitive. 

My chest starts rising and falling quickly as I feel Duncan lower down my back, his hands running down my sides as his lips left soft kisses down the middle of my spine till he reached my underwear. He abruptly stops and my heart sinks to feel his hands shake and move away but I quickly grab them, using his fingers to hook into the band and slowly tug them down my legs.