*I am not affiliated with MTV or Bunim/Murray productions. This is a work of fiction.*
*As a reminder to the reader, dialogue where it's:
'[Challenger's name]: "_"- is them doing their daily interviews/confessionals.
Dialogue where it's
'[T.J.]: "_"- is T.J. explaining the rules to the competitors and at-home viewers.*
*Previously on The Challenge XXX: At the Squirtcast Challenge, Jenna sprayed the competition, becoming the first competitor to win two Challenges this season. Despite a passionate entry with her best friend Cara Maria, Laurel was all dried up, and finished in last place, sending the perennial finals competitor home early.*
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Svetlana: "We're four weeks into the Challenge, and the dynamic in the house is obviously very different from other shows we've all been on."
Brittany: "It is starting to wear on me a lot. There's always not much to do in the house, and this year, without deliberations for elimination and strategy talk about the game, it's making all of us go even crazier than normal. Add in the fact that we're all going to be shown having sex on the internet, and I question my sanity even more."
Jenna: "Yeah, It's been kinda boring in the house with fewer people to talk to and hang out with. I'll even go as far to say I even miss Bananas and Vince at this point."
*Challenge day*
The Challengers are led into the building where the first Challenge was held.
T.J.: "'Sup ladies, welcome to your fifth Challenge, here in St. Thomas. Now, there are six of you left, so today's Challenge is in honor of the sexual position closely associated with the number six, and six upside-down. Today's Challenge is called Sixty-Nine Minutes of Sixty-Nine."
The six women laugh.
"Nice." Cara Maria says smiling.
T.J.: "Three rooms down the hallway have been set up for today's Challenge. In addition to our normal daily Challenge crew, there are additional pornographic film crew members, including professional editors and directors of porn."
T.J.: "This Challenge is going to have two halves. In each half, you will be randomly paired up with a different challenger. In each of the three rooms, you will be shooting a 69 scene with your partner. After the two halves, the editing crews will have six scenes, each of 11 minutes and 30 seconds long, which equates to 69 minutes."
T.J.: "The editors are looking to compile a 69-minute long porn using the six scenes shot. You six have all done a great job so far at embracing the sexual aspects of this season. However, our professional crew doesn't expect to have a full 69 minutes of usable footage that would keep the viewers of the scene engaged.. That's where the Challenge comes in..."
T.J.: "During the process of editing the scenes, the amount of time that was deemed unusable or unnecessary footage spliced off of your 23 minutes will count against you. Since you will be in pairs, it doesn't matter which one of you was the reason was for the cutting of the footage, each second will count against both members of the pair equally. The two Challengers who had the most total time of cut footage, will be going into the Climax."
T.J.: "Now, even though the theme of this week's Challenge is 69, remember this is still porn, so you'll be expected and encouraged to take some time in the first heat to embrace and build-up to the sex. Just remember that too much stalling will count against you. Your directors will have further instructions."
Cara Maria: "So there are a lot of factors in this Challenge. Who you get paired with counts, how much time you spend actually having sex, and what the porn crews like and don't like."
Camila: "I'm a little worried because some the Challenge isn't really up to us, it's up to the creepy porn people, I just hope I get paired with someone who can go the whole time."
T.J: "O.K. Here are the three pairings for the first half of the shoots: Brittany & Averey, Camila & Svetlana, and Cara Maria & Jenna. When the director yells action, that's when the Challenge starts. When he yells 'cut,' the 11 minutes and 30 seconds are over."
Each of the three pairings go off into three neighboring rooms. They all shake hands with their directors and go over to the beds.
All three directors yell 'action' almost at the same time and the six women get started.
Even though this was the fifth Challenge, Brittany still had some hesitation. Something felt different about the extra set of crew members in the room. Perhaps it was being in an enclosed space instead of on the open beach may have added extra invasiveness. When she felt Averey's lips on hers, she realized that she might have hesitated too much, and started to worry about the time constraints.