Blondes Never Survive in Horror Movies

Title: Blondes Never Survive in Horror Movies

Summary: Cody's in love with Lindsey, so he tries to get her attention by asking Duncan for help. Lindsey keeps forgetting his name so she asks LeShawna for advice. Too bad said helpers are trying to keep their own relationship a secret. But when the next horror themed challenge starts things are bound to get interesting.

Disclaimer: I own nothing!

Pairings: Main: Cody/Lindsey, Side: Duncan/LeShawna, Noah/Bridgette and Tyler/Eva

Warnings: The usual!

Winter-Rae: This is for JoeMerl, when he said he'd like to see some Cody/Lindsey, how could I say no? I also don't mind saying that I had to re-write this bloody thing three times before I was finally happy with it. Also, this is set before, during and after Hook, Line and Screamer and it's gonna be 3 chapters long. Anyway, enjoy!

Blondes Never Survive in Horror Movies

Chapter 1: Nothing But An Urban Legend

Duncan quietly snuck out from the girl's side of the Screaming Gophers cabin. It was very early in the morning; there was still some mist over the lake and the sun had hardly started to rise. As far as Duncan knew he was the only one up at this hour, and he hated it.

The punk was hoping to make it back into the boy's side of the Killer Bass cabin before anyone noticed he was missing.

He tiptoed across the porch of the cabin, careful to avoid the sixth plank, which was loose and very loud when stepped on; he learned that after the first time sneaking in. Once he hit the stairs he leapt off of them, since they were all creaky, no amount of sneaking would keep them quiet, so he opted to jump and avoid them all. He landed on the ground with a soft thud. Then he turned on his heel and ran back to the Killer Bass cabin.

Once he was inside; he quietly shut the door, softly hurried over to his bunk and got into bed.

'I'm so flippin' tired,' he thought to himself as he pulled his sheet over top of him, 'This would be so much easier if we didn't have to sneak around.'

He drifted off soon after, only to be awoken in what felt like ten minutes. Chris, who was in his helicopter, was flying over head to wake them up for the day.

"I hate that man," Duncan growled as he slowly hauled himself out of his bunk.

Later that afternoon, Cody strutted into the mess hall and sat down at the Killer Bass table, right across from Duncan. The punk looked up at him and growled.

"Get lost," he said, "This is the Killer Bass table."

"True," Cody mused, "It must be lonely over here though right? Being that you are the last member of the Killer Bass who refuses to sit with the rest of us."

True enough, Cody had a point.

The last members of the Killer Bass team on the island were Duncan, Tyler and Bridgette. Two people Duncan was not too fond of. He also hated that they had made friends with some of the Screaming Gophers, thus hurting their chances of winning.

And by making friends he meant dating. For example, at this moment Bridgette was sitting next to Noah trying to convince him to go surfing with her. The bookworm certainly didn't look like he was interested in said activity. But when Bridgette batted her eyes at him and stuck out her bottom lip he sighed and nodded. Tyler on the other hand had an arm wrapped around Eva. The tough girl, while her arms were crossed over her chest, she appeared to be content with the jock's affections.

"Happy people make me sick," Duncan muttered.

"Oh I don't know," Cody mused, "I think it's kinda cute."

"You would."

"Doesn't it suck sitting alone?" Cody asked, watching Lindsey and LeShawna as they spoke about something. The blonde actually appeared to be very serious in what she was saying to the plus sized teen.

"What do you want Cody?"

"Well, the only reason why you can't sit with us is that you're being a pretty big jerk," Cody pointed out, "I can remedy that."

Duncan arched his eyebrow.

"Why would I give a crap about that?"

"Hello," Cody said, "It's every man for them self now! You could get voted off tonight if you're not careful!"

"And you don't want that?"

"Of course not," the tech geek replied, "I happen to think very highly of you. Especially since you helped Lindsey out in the bike challenge last time, I know Heather would have tried to get her voted off if you hadn't stepped in."

Duncan rolled his eyes.

"I say again, go away."

"I was hoping it wouldn't come to this," Cody said simply, "But I know your secret."

The punk was hardly intimidated by Cody. All he had to do was dunk his head in the communal washroom's toilet and he would never bother him again. However, Duncan was not stupid either, he knew it would be best to find out what Cody knew, or what he thought he knew.

"What secret?"

Cody wiggled his eye brows.

"I saw you sneak out of the girl's side of the Gopher's cabin last night."

Duncan's eyes widened and he grabbed the collar of Cody's shirt.

"You tell anyone and I'll shave your head, make that gap in your teeth bigger by knocking out your teeth, and make you useless to a woman!"

Cody winced and held up his hands.

"Chill dude!" he said, "I just came to ask for some advice from you."

"Advice?"

Cody nodded.

"I figure, if you can get a girl like LeShawna, then you can help me get a girl like Lindsey!"

Duncan released him and laughed.

"You're kidding me right? You, and Lindsey? It'll never happen."

The tech geek looked at Duncan seriously.

"I'm totally serious, I really like her, but she's totally oblivious to the slick moves of the Codemeister."

Duncan smacked his forehead.

"First thing, stop calling yourself that, anyone who calls themselves the Whatever-meister is begging to get their butt kicked."

"Gotcha, so you'll help me?"

"I never said that."

"Hmm," Cody mused, "I wonder how everyone would feel to learn about the secret affair between you and LeShawna."

Duncan panicked and slapped his hands over Cody's mouth.

"Shut up!" he growled, "Okay, fine, I'll help you. And an affair suggests sex; we're not having sex...yet."

"Dude, you are the man!"

Duncan smirked, while he wasn't one to brag...okay he was, but hearing such a compliment was very flattering to him. Which is why he decided to agree and help Cody try and get Lindsey's attention, it was going to prove difficult however, he knew that much. Cody rubbed his hands together.

"Wonderful!"

"Whoever said that nerds and geeks were nice guys and never used blackmail, have obviously never met the ones on this island," Duncan muttered.

"This'll be fun," Cody mused, "You might even learn a thing or two from me!"

The delinquent scoffed.

"I doubt that very much, now go away and let me finish my supper in peace."

Cody was feeling pretty good that he had managed to get Duncan's help. Of course he had been hoping not to bring up Duncan and LeShawna's secret relationship but he was desperate.

Since they were down to the final eight the challenges were getting weirder and weirder and by that he meant harder and harder. He knew it was only a matter of time before he or Lindsey was voted off. He wanted to have a little bit of time with her before either of them left and he needed a help in doing that.

His first attraction for Lindsey had been purely a physical one, how could it not be? She was gorgeous. But then as he got to know her more she was turning out to be even more adorable and sweet. She was nice to everyone, no matter who you were and she had an inner strength that Cody was sure she just hadn't tapped into yet. Hanging out with Heather certainly didn't help that any but now that she was gone Lindsey had been far more social.

Right now she was playing volleyball on the beach with the others. Cody had opted to sit out while he waited for Duncan. What really surprised him was that Bridgette had even managed to get Noah to play. Of course the bookworm was complaining and trying to dodge the ball when it came at him.

"This isn't dodge ball you chicken!" LeShawna said to him as Bridgette served the ball. When Tyler returned it to their side, Noah ducked it again.

"Have you seen how fast those things are going?" Noah replied.

"Just get under it and hit it," Bridgette said as she stood next to him to bump the ball back to Tyler's team.

The jock, wanting to show off a little for Eva, jumped up and spiked the ball. Cody watched and winced as the ball hit Noah, right in the face.

"Ouch," Cody mused.

"Oh crap! Noah!" Tyler said running to him, "I'm so sorry!"

"Are you okay?" Bridgette asked him. She was kneeling next to the bookworm who was sprawled out in the sand.

"I don't want to go to school today mommy," Noah slurred. Eva and LeShawna laughed.

"Oh no!" Lindsey gasped, "He's delicious! Quick Bridgette, give him mouth to mouth!"

"Lindsey," the surfer girl said, "He's breathing just fine."

"You mean delirious don't you?" Eva asked. Lindsey nodded.

"Yeah, that too!"

Cody laughed quietly. He loved it when Lindsey mixed up words like that. To him, trying to figure out what she meant, was always fun.

Noah sat up and shook his head. He then glared at Tyler.

"You, are a health hazard of the worst kind," he said.

As Cody watched the scene unfold Duncan came up and stood next to him.

"You look tired," Cody mused to him. Duncan shrugged.

"LeShawna and I take turns sneaking over to see each other," he replied, "Last night was my night. Tonight it's hers."

"I see, interesting system."

Duncan shrugged.

"Not like we can be forward with everyone else here, we would have been voted off for sneaking around with someone on the other team."

"Yeah, but now seeing someone on the other team isn't a bad thing, look at Bridgette and Noah."

Duncan waved off the comment.

"What do you need my help with?" he asked the tech geek, "Why don't you just walk right up to Lindsey, grab her and kiss her full on the mouth. Works all the time."

"Maybe in the movies," Cody replied, "But I don't think she'd go for guy who is forward like that. I want to romance her."

"No time for romance anymore," Duncan mused, "Okay, I see your point. You can't do the love note thing either cause that's already been done by Harold for Gwen."

Cody sighed.

"Don't remind me."

"Flowers," Duncan suggested, "All chicks are suckers for flowers."

"There's not a single nice thing growing on this island."

"Well, cook her something then."

Cody gasped.

"Are you kidding me? Chef's got that whole place booby trapped, I happen to like my fingers and hands right where they are."

"Sounds to me like you're S.O.L then."

"How did you get LeShawna to notice you then? You hardly seem like her type."

Duncan scoffed.

"I'm every girl's type," he said, "You know how girls say that all they want is a good guy? It's all a bunch of crap. Why do you think girls stick around with loser boyfriend who hurt their feelings all the time? Why do you think the jerks are always picked instead of nice decent boys like you? Because my friend, chicks want a bad boy and in this case, nice guys do finish last."

Cody frowned.

"I don't think that's true," he said, "LeShawna is way too smart to date someone who is gonna hurt her feelings so either you're just pretending to be a bad guy or you're looking to have your ass kicked by her. I'm gonna prove to you that girls like nice guys."

"Whatever," Duncan said with a shrug, "Let's get on with it already. Don't forget, today is a challenge day and who knows what Chris has planned for us."

"Right, good point."

While Cody was having a hard time figuring out how to approach Lindsey, the pretty blonde was having a crisis all her own. They had ended their game after Noah was nearly knocked unconscious with the ball and now she and LeShawna were sitting at a picnic table outside of the cabins.

"Okay, so the other blonde is Bridgette and the girl in blue is....Ava?"

"Eva," LeShawna replied, "You're getting better through girl, now how about the guys?"

Lindsey pursed her lips and tapped hr chin as she struggled to recall all of the guy's names. LeShawna had been helping her get everyone's name right for probably a week now. While she was getting better at it she still had her occasional slip ups.

Originally she had wanted to learn all of the other contestant's names. But after failing miserably she and LeShawna decided to stick with people who were still on the island. Lindsey found that much easier, especially since someone was always leaving every few days.

"The guy in red is Tyler, and the one who helped me in the bike challenge is Duncan!"

"Good job."

"Now the last two...hmm...Nate and Colby!"

LeShawna shook her head and Lindsey sighed.

"Was I close?"

"Pretty close, its Noah and Cody."

Lindsey snapped her fingers in annoyance.

"Darn it."

"Seems to me like you have more trouble with shorter names," LeShawna mused, "Why is that?"

Lindsey shrugged.

"More possibilities what the name could be I guess."

"Let's call it quits for today girl," LeShawna said, "I see Duncan and Cody alone over there and I can only assume those two are plotting something."

"But they don't have any plants," Lindsey told her. LeShawna smacked her forehead.

"Plotting, not planting, I mean they look like they are trying to come up with a prank or something."

"Oh, not Cody," Lindsey said smiling, "He's such a nice guy; he would never do anything like that."

LeShawna watched as the blonde's face took on a dreamy expression.

"Oh, no way!"

Lindsey snapped out of her trance.

"What?"

"You like the scrawny white boy?"

"No, no!" Lindsey said, panicking slightly, "Please don't tell anyone LeShawna! It'll be our secret okay, girl to girl! Pinky swear!"

LeShawna laughed.

"Girl I haven't pinky sworn anyone since the fifth grade, but relax, I won't tell him."

Lindsey sighed.

"Oh thank you, you're my new BFF."

"I should be so lucky."

"Oh I know right!"

Choosing to ignore the comment LeShawna just shook her head.

"So, when did you start having a thing for short stuff over there?"

Lindsey tapped her bottom lip.

"Well I guess it was when he gave up pursuing Gwen caused he knew she was happy with Harold," she replied, "I thought it was so sweet of him. He was happy because she was happy, it's so romantic."

The blonde's face fell suddenly.

"But, I know he likes Gwen, so I just decided not to say anything; I guess I'm not really his type."

"Girl, you're every guy's type," LeShawna said, "Even guys who say you aren't their type; they still admit you're nice looking."

Lindsey sighed.

"I know but still, I mean whoever said that pretty girls have it easy, well...they just weren't right!" she said, "I have love problems just like everyone else! Us even more so since we sometimes have to pick between two or more guys!"

"Tragic isn't it," LeShawna muttered sarcastically.

"It is."

Lindsey looked around the beach and frowned, it was getting later on into the evening and it would be dark in a couple of hours.

"Why did Chris wake us up so early?" she asked, "He hasn't even told us anything about our challenge."

"Maybe he cancelled it," LeShawna mused.

"That would be so nice! Then I could work on my tan!"

"Bridgette, I don't wanna go swimming!" Noah whined as the surfer girl dragged him out into the water.

"Oh come on," she said, "Don't be such a wimp."

"I'm not a wimp, sports are not my forte."

"So you've told me," she mused, "Many times, yet I never seem to listen do I?"

"No," he agreed, "Look, I don't like the water, ever since I watched Jaws it really freaked me out, and since there are actual sharks in this water and since Justin isn't around to attract them, it's a bad idea to go swimming."

"This isn't a movie," Bridgette replied as she swam, "And Cody was in here not too long ago and he thinks the sharks must have followed Justin when he got voted off. We'll be perfectly safe."

"That's what people say right before they bite it in a movie," Noah muttered, "And you know that blondes never survive in horror movies right?"

"That's stupid blondes," Bridgette said, "And for someone who claims to be an intellectual I never would have thought you watch that stuff."

Noah shrugged.

"I like making fun of the idiots in them," he said, "Stupid people who always go and investigate the odd noise instead of turning around and running the other way, now that's what I would do. What about you Bridgette? Bridgette?"

He looked out over the water only to see that Bridgette was no longer above the surface. His eyes widened, as if he was expecting to hear the music from Jaws to start playing anytime now and see a shark's fin poking out of the water. Thankfully, none of that happened.

"Bridgette?" he called out, wading further into the water, "If you're trying to scare me it isn't funny!"

He spun around and just as he started to really panic, something grabbed his leg.

"AHHH!"

Noah quickly ran out of the water only to see Bridgette surfacing.

"Why did you get out?" she asked, swimming back to the shore.

"Don't ever do that again!" he shouted at her.

"Do what?" she asked.

"You pretended to drown and then you grabbed my leg!"

Bridgette's green eyes widened, as if she was surprised that Noah was accusing her of something like that.

"I did not," she replied, "You just finished telling me you were scared of the water! Why would I go and scare you like that?"

"Oh please," the bookworm scoffed as he grabbed up his towel and started to walk back to the camp. Bridgette had grabbed her own and was walking next to him.

"I was under the water yes," she said, "But I thought I had seen something, so I went to check it out. It was just an old pop bottle though. Honestly I wish Chris would get this lake cleaned up, those poor fish."

Noah observed her for a minute, waiting for her to burst out laughing at him.

"You swear you didn't try and freak me out?" he asked. Bridgette nodded.

"I swear on my first surfboard which my dad got me."

Noah arched an eyebrow.

"Okay, let's say I believe you, if you didn't grab me, who did?"

"Maybe one of the others from camp?" she suggested.

That sounded very possible to Noah so together they went back to the camp and found the others. Cody and Duncan were off to the side talking; Eva and Tyler were once again having an arm wrestle. The only two who weren't around was LeShawna and Lindsey. Noah could picture LeShawna grabbing his leg like that, the two of them didn't really get along all that well and Lindsey wasn't exactly the best for pulling off pranks.

Noah quickly took note that no one's hair was wet so none of the four here could have possibly been the one to freak him out.

"Hey Bridge, enjoy your swim with your boy?"

Noah turned as LeShawna and Lindsey approached them.

"Sure did," Bridgette replied, "Until someone tried to scare Noah by grabbing his leg under the water."

LeShawna laughed. Noah glared at her when he noticed her hair was wet.

"It was you, wasn't it?" he demanded.

"Why would I do something like that?" LeShawna asked.

"You're hair is wet."

"I just got out of the shower," she replied shrugging, "Ask Lindsey; I was with her all afternoon."

"It's true!" Lindsey chirped.

This whole situation was really starting to annoy Noah, but rather than argue with LeShawna he decided to get her back.

He left the girls and approached Cody and Duncan, hoping to enlist them for some assistance. The former, who was in midsentence, fell silent and looked off to the side.

"No Cody," Duncan muttered sarcastically, "That's not suspicious at all."

"What are you two doing?" Noah asked. Cody observed the bookworm.

"Can I trust you to keep this between the three of us?" he asked.

"No."

"Okay, you forced it out of me, Duncan's helping me figure out a way to get some alone time with Lindsey."

"The criminal doing something decent, what, did you lose a bet or something?"

Duncan shrugged.

"He's blackmailing me."

Noah arched an eyebrow and glanced at Cody.

"Didn't think you had it in you."

"I'm not blackmailing him," Cody said, sounding insulted, "This alternative is just better than the other one."

"What's the other one?"

"None of your business," the punk warned, "What do you want anyway?"

"How are you with pranks?" Noah asked him.

"Why?"

"LeShawna tried to freak me out earlier in the lake, so I wanna get her back."

Duncan shook his head.

"It wasn't LeShawna," he said.

"How the heck would you know?"

"She was with Lindsey, like she told you."

"So maybe I don't believe her."

Duncan rolled his eyes.

"Whatever, Cody, are we done here?"

"Yep, thanks for your help man."

Duncan nodded and left the two geeks to their own devices.

"Curses," Noah muttered, "Now I'm never gonna get her back."

"What makes you think it was her to begin with?"

"She's the only one with wet hair and the person who grabbed me was under the water and Bridgette swore that it wasn't her."

"Right, and Bridgette doesn't lie?"

"Exactly."

It was Cody's turn to roll his eyes.

"Sure Noah."

Noah frowned.

"So what's the deal with you and Lindsey?"

Cody shook his head.

"No deal, yet anyways, I'm trying to find a way to get her alone so I can talk to her."

"I have an idea."

"Oh?"

"Walk up to her and say 'Lindsey, can I talk to you for a minute, alone?' See how easy it is? God, I don't know why people make such a huge deal over the whole 'admitting the feelings thing.' It's not that hard."

Cody frowned at him.

"Easy for you to say," he said, "You and Bridgette get locked in the boat house accidentally for a couple hours and when we finally got you out, the two of you were making out!"

Noah smirked.

"Ah yes, I really must thank Geoff and DJ for doing that."

"Hey guys!" Tyler called out, "Come check out what I found."

The group followed the jock to where they usually had the campfire ceremony. Set up was a film projector, a screen and a movie. Eva picked it up and turned it over in her hands.

"Bloodbath?" she read, "What kind of crap is this?"

"It's a scary movie," Cody said as he took it from her, "Oohh, I love this one."

"Let's watch it," Duncan said, "Looks like Chris doesn't have anything planned for today anyway, and it's already getting dark."

"I don't know" Tyler said nervously, "I don't like scary movies."

"Don't be such a baby;" Eva said as she set up the player and started to play the movie, "These horror movies are always so fake."

The group sat down on the stumps; Tyler insisted on sitting next to Eva and Cody smoothly took the seat next to Lindsey. She smiled at him.

"If I get scared, I might grab onto you," she warned. Cody grinned.

"It's all good Lindsey, I don't mind."

He looked over at Duncan who gave him a thumbs up as he took his place next to LeShawna. Noah sat next to Bridgette and frowned.

"This is too weird," he said to himself. But as the movie continued he shrugged and watched, thinking that it just had to be all a coincidence.

Winter-Rae: Famous last words..lol. Next chapter things get a little more interesting and yes there will be more Cody and Lindsey interaction. I just wanted to lay down the foundation of them liking each other. Also, at the end of this fic there will be a little quiz, whoever gets the answers right will get an oneshot of their favourite crack pairing, written by me of course. Thanks for reading everyone. Cheers!