#i love using one-sided hatred ngl. perfect material for comedy AND angst

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Hey op

Ima let you know that you've given me an idea for an au that i am! Actually trying to devellop now! Fuck!

So Alejandro gets the boot in the EX-Files instead of Tyler (mostly thanks to Owen taking Noah's warning seriously and Duncan not wanting to deal with Alejandro) and has to be with the eliminated contestants. Most of which he eliminated himself. And Izzy is also there.

Alejandro is not having a good time at first - he got eliminated before the merge, before the likes of Cody for fuck's sake - he didn't fully process his elimination until after the first night at the hotel where the peanut gallery is staying. The other eliminated contestants + Geoff threw a party to celebrate his elimination the night he arrived at the hotel. Since he was both responsible for most of their eliminations and messed with their emotions in general he's obviously not treated well. This mostly comes in the form of getting a cast wide cold shoulder (Bridgette, Lindsay, DJ), to getting passive aggressive comments sent his way when they have to interact (Leshawna, Eva, Trent probably) to outright messing with him by pulling pranks or when the nickname thing is figured out, only calling him Al (Geoff, Harold, Izzy would participate for shits and giggles)

Now, you would think Alejandro would spend the vast majority of his time in his own hotel room then to avoid the others. He can't really however because each eliminated contestant has to share their hotel room with another contestant and as a result, he's been assigned to Noah, who due to where he landed, spends most of his time in the room too. Now the issue isn't what Noah is doing while in his room - reading, talking with Izzy and Eva via text, occasionally listening to music - it's what he did before that.

Alejandro here really, really doesn't like Noah. This AU's running on the assumption that him and Noah were friends before the eel comment. He did get along with Noah and his mistake was trusting the cynic would be fine with any of his schemes; Noah had caught on however, especially to his dislike of Owen. So the warning to the rest of his team? Coupled with the insult? Noah had just attacked both his plan and his character at the same time. ((Alejandro took it really personally in this au basically)) Hell, the fact Noah doesn't seem to realise this (or if he did, he didn't care) frustrates him even more. He could handle antagonism from his roommate; it doesn't matter in the long run and at least he'll feel like the other is respecting his game. But an absence of reaction? That's a bigger insult to him.

Over the days leading up to the third aftermath, Noah starts going out of his room more, leaving Alejandro alone in their shared space more often than not to let his emotions fester even harder.

But them the third Aftermath happends. Aftermath Aftermayhem. Alejandro and Noah are sat next to eachother, because of course they are, Geoff and Blaineley both pause their beef very briefly to make a joke at his expense, because of course they would, Geoff includes a jab at Alejandro in 'Her Real Name isn't Blaineley' because of course he would. And then they reach the second chance challenge segment. Alejandro at this point is banking on him getting back on the show for any chance of redeeming himself and winning this stupid show, and get away from these teens who have done nothing but annoy him so far.

But his can is empty. Even Lindsay got one. Not him.

This is the last straw for Alejandro, who basically rage-quits the Aftermath and stomps off to the set bathroom. After a bit of internal conflict, Noah follows him there, giving Eva his can (and accidentally smacking her in the face with the surprise Chris head, thus giving her a chance to rejoin.). He stepped into the bathroom, and it's dead quiet even though he swears he could hear noise coming from it previously. He covers the one camera he can see with a wet towel and pretends to walk out. On cue, the sound - crying - starts right back up. After figuring out where he is, Noah knocks on the stall Alejandro is currently in and tries to start an actual conversation with him.

Alejandro tries to play it off but Noah knows for a fact he's not doing all right and calls him out on it. He mutters back, about why exactly he should tell him of all people how he's feeling, Noah snarks back and they get in a small argument which eventually fizzles out with Alejandro saying he thought they were friends. He doesn't realize this in the moment, but that's a bombshell to Noah who thought Alejandro had played him completely! And that surprises Alejandro, since he hadn't figured out where the London shit-talking had come from.

Now they're both feeling kind of shitty for their actions (something Noah's somewhat familiar with, but Alejandro is absolutely not used to) but are too stubborn to apologise. Not stubborn enough for Alejandro to at least unlock and open the door of the stall he's holed himself in. Right as the towel covering the camera splats down on the floor. whoops.

Noah does drag Alejandro back to the set, after he composes himself a bit (and dry his tears) right after Eva wins the comeback challenge and the Aftermath draws to a close. (The audio of the bathroom altercation was recorded and would probably be edited into the Aftermath after it was filmed, with either a limited reaction or for it to be used in an episode in the style of the Playa Des Losers episode from Island)

After that point, Alejandro's not over Noah screwing over his entire strategy, but he's not dreading hanging around him, Noah starts going out of his room more as he's healing from his eel related injuries, and since Noah's other friends are either currently competing on the show or busy doing their own thing usually (Izzy), they mostly stick by eachother. If they hang outside their room, it's usually to stay in a more quiet corner of the main room so Noah can read and Alejandro can avoid the rest of the cast.

Hence, what im naming this AU after: The Quiet Corner Club, because they're not the only ones in that corner! I'll detail this in later posts, especially since i've been developping this AU alot, and it's expanded to include both TDWT and TDAS as well as other characters, most notably Gwen.

alenoah fics where noah has like the most intense rivalry with alejandro and wants to see him rot and burn or wtver r ooc of noah because he dgaf. someone write an alenoah fic where neither of them win and they're both in the aftermath