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survivor jr

Idk why I decided to write this, I just thought of this in a lucid dream and now I'm posting it to the internet where it will live forever 😃 

Context: survivor jr is an imaginary show based on Survivor (not explaining that part) where 20 12-17 year olds are left in Fiji for a month to live off the land and the rewards from challenges. 

Kali Tribe - Day 12

"Bailey has been out for a while, I think she's looking for the idol." Zoe says. She starts searching the island for Bailey and the idol. After a few minutes of searching, she hears a faint sobbing that she identifies as Bailey's from the first few days when Bailey would cry almost every night since this was the first time she's been away from her family. "Are you okay?" Zoe asks, turning the corner around a large tree and crouching next to the younger girl. 

-cut to interview- 

Zoe: I thought I'd find her crying because she got hurt looking for the idol or something. Or maybe crying about missing her family. She knows she's on the bottom because she's the youngest in our tribe, which is why I thought she went on the hunt for the idol. When I found her vulnerable like that, I knew I had the perfect opportunity to get her vote. It's a little low, taking advantage of a twelve year old for a chance at half a million, but this is Survivor baby, I'll go to hell if I go there rich.

-cut to scene- (girls are out of sight, camera is taking a shot of the tree.)

"I can't do this." Bailey says, "I think I'm gonna quit."

"You can't quit because of this, not when you have an opportunity to control the game." Zoe says, "Use this to create an all girls alliance, I can get Caiden and Max to flip and vote with us, and we will go to merge." 

"Survivor is hard enough without being constantly bleeding." Bailey says, "I want to go home." 

(Jeff Probst arrives on a boat)

"I hear you want to leave the game?" Jeff says. Bailey nods. "Tell me about that." 

"I've been on the bottom the whole time because I'm the youngest and one of the weaker ones." Bailey says.

"And you're giving up? You don't want to be voted out?" Jeff says.

"That's not the main reason, Survivor is hard, and it's even harder when you're in pain or bleeding."

"Does medical need to come take a look?" Jeff asks. Bailey shakes her head and moves her leg to reveal a sizable bloodstain.

"I've been spending the whole morning trying to make pads out of palm fronds. I'm pretty sure everyone thinks I have the idol now. I just can't do it anymore." Bailey says.

"So you're going?" Jeff says.

Bailey looks around at her camp. "I can't stand being like Colton though" she says, referencing the insufferable guy who appeared twice on Survivor and quit both times when he was on the bottom. 

(cue Jeff doing the most for no reason. "yK we'Ve nevEr had a SiTuATiOn like this 😩. Tell me about that 🤔" ahh stuff  that my brain fast forwarded bc the secondhand embarrassment I was feeling for this fictional girl... imagine getting your period on reality tv and having Jeff Probst narrate how periods are underrepresented in TV💀)

-cut to interview-

"I was skeptical of Zoe's plan, but it gave me an opening. When you're on the bottom, you take what you can get. I wanted to quit because I don't want to be one of the many losers of Survivor, but now the second I thought of how I'd be a quitter like Colton, I knew I had to fight through."