Post by The Ace on Feb 2, 2012 15:13:43 GMT -6
The scene opens on a yellow post-it note on which is hand written the following note:
We then pan out to show the note attached to a fine blue and white porcelain vase with a single rose sat in it in the middle of a small wooden table, taking a sniff of the rose and grinning, we see The Ace.
He turns to the camera and smiles.
Thank you Nathaniel, thank you. Thank you for once again proving me absolutely right, you know it is really becoming a nasty little habit of yours. I knew you were screwed in the head, I knew you had a fragile mind and yet unlike anybody else in this company, I tried to do something about it...I tried to help you...and yet somehow you are still trying to paint me as the bad guy in all of this.
I knew Nathaniel, I knew right from our very first one on one match inside that ring that you didn't belong here, you don't belong in this company, you don't belong in my ring and you damn sure don't belong in my match, you belong in a mental institution. You need help Nathaniel, but as gifted as I am, I'm starting to think that even I cannot get you the help you need.
You know watching you flounder, watching you seek retribution because you're too stupid to swallow your pride on this one and just admit that I was right all along, really makes me wonder what Riley Griffiths was doing on the nCw administrive payroll because it sure as hell wasn't his job. See Nate, you can train all you want, do as many push ups, crunches and bicep curls as you want - spend so much time in the gym that people actually start to wonder if you aren't actually the secret lovechild of Sexy Jason and Richard Simmons, do whatever you need to to get yourself into peak physical condition for this match...
I know your nerves are shot.
As important as it is to be physically prepared for a match like this, I know that mentally you are not prepared at all, your mind is not where it needs to be to go up against me in any match this weekend, much less a match of my own design. Don't believe me? Get a second opinion, hell get a third, forth, fifth, one for however many hallucinations now plague you. Can you feel it all slipping away yet Nate? Can you feel the rubber band of your fragile mind being pulled taut? Your manifestations tell you I'm in your head, and if I am it's only because you left me no choice. I have to be there because you clearly are not. I have to save you from yourself...
I have to save you before the rubber band of your mind snaps.
What happens then Nathaniel? Did you ever stop to think what happens not if, but when your mind finally crumbles under all the stress and strain? What happens when coffee and cigarettes are not enough to relax you? What happens when the caffeine and the nicotine doesn't give you the strength to hold onto reality anymore - however tentatively that might be? Your grip on reality is slender even now my friend. Is your need to punish me really worth losing it altogether? You may be prepared to put your body through Hell on Sunday, your body might even be up to the challenge but what about your mind?
Have you even considered who will suffer when your mind breaks?
It won't be me, hell it might not even be you...but it will be Rose. Your sister Rose, you remember her right? Rose Acantha, the beautiful young woman you claim to love like a brother. It is said that just like fear, love can inspire a man to change, maybe even make him a little bit selfish in his desires, but usually those desires are only for the woman he loves, never for himself. Never for revenge...
But then again, maybe I've got this all wrong.
Maybe this isn't about revenge at all, maybe it never was. Maybe its all about the selfish desires of one Nathaniel David Webb, the desire to be one of the best, to be considered in the upper echelon of this company, and for that maybe you're willing to pay the ultimate price. Maybe you were willing to play Rose as the ultimate pawn in all this, maybe you were willing to sacrifice her in our little game of chess - all for a fleeting chance to be crowned a King at my expense. If that truly is the case, I tip my hat to you sir. Well played. You truly are a Cold Spider...
I just have to wonder what your sister thinks of your little ploy?
Go ahead Nathaniel, tell me I've got it all wrong, lie to Rose all over again, tell her that you really do care about her and let her ask you herself just why and how you allowed her to get mixed up in your little quest for vengeance. I had you committed, if you really only wanted revenge for that, you didn't have to liberate Rose from the institution, and you certainly didn't have to bring her into our world...
Did you honestly think she wouldn't suffer the consequences?
This is all your fault Nathaniel, you plucked the rose from the garden she grew up in, and you tried to be the delicate vase to protect her - or so you would have the world believe...
The Ace extracts his steel roulette rake at this point.
...And you did it all without giving any thought about what would happen to her in the outside world on her own, what becomes of the rose...
The Ace hooks the rake around the vase and drags it off the table as it shatters on the ground.
...when one shatters the vase? You see Nathan, I don't question your fire as much as I question who it will ultimately burn? Sure, I may feel some of the heat on Sunday, but you should know by Nathaniel that I will not go down in flames by myself. I have already made young Rose the victim of your pain once, are you prepared to burn her again? Is that really what a loving brother would do? You've shown me your poker face for long enough now Nathaniel, its time to fold...show me that emotion you've tried to show the world that you keep in check...
Do it not for me, do it for Rose.
Shed a tear, show her some remorse, some regret, there's no shame in it, show Rose you care, show Rose you love her, show her you're just human...if you don't, I will show her and the world...
Just how human you really are.
Keep up the pretense of being some stone-faced tough guy Nate for much longer, and I will show her and the world what a committed liar you really are.
Either you open your eyes now, Nathaniel.
Or I open hers on Sunday.
The choice is yours.
Either way, neither of you are going to like what you see.
The Ace grins sadistically.
And boys, you might think I'm worried about our upcoming Iron Man Tag Match, but the fact is you bitches can come up with all the stipulations you want, you will not derail The Smokin' Aces because where there's smoke, there's fire, and this Sunday will be the warm up before we set your piddly asses alight...
The Ace laughs, but is stopped when he is tapped on the shoulder, he turns around to see Kathy standing there, she looks to be in a bit of a mess, but The Ace stands up and the two stand and stare at each other for a few minutes, before they both give in and lock in a passionate embrace, with tears in their eyes and an animalistic fierociousity behind their kiss, as they run their hands through each other's hair as they remain locked, inseparable...it was obvious they had missed each other but even two years apart could not dampen their love...the camera fades with Perry ordering a drink...
Perry: I'll have another pint...and a hose...
Perry shakes his head as the reunited couple is still in their embrace...
That kiss changed everything...forever.
Later that night, we hit the hotel room wrapped up in each other's arms, we hit the bed and we made love all night, and then in the early morning twilight it hit me. Stuck between the dusk and the dawn, I felt this was the moment. This was my one chance not only to seize love but hold onto it.
As she lay cuddled up in my arms, drifting on the edge of sleep. I knew it was insane, I knew it was a risk, I knew love made you do crazy things but I never really believed it until now...
Jake: Kat...Kat...
I whispered, she stirred before her eyes fluttered open like the wings of a butterfly on the edge of its metamorphosis and she smiled at me. It was now or never. Seize the moment, choose love, however crazy it was. I leapt out of bed and dropped to one knee. That got her attention, she sat bolt up right in the bed.
Kathy: What's the matter Jake?
Jake: Nothing's the matter, honey...I love you...
I took her hand in mine.
Jake: Will you marry me? I know its crazy, I know its insane, I know this is sudden and unexpected but it just feels right...doesn't it? I mean I've never felt like this before about anyone, I lost you two years ago, I will not lose you again, I love you and before you ask, no this is not just a kneejerk reaction to finding out you're Soli's mother. I couldn't be happier about that right now...
She puts a finger to my lips, mercifully ending my nervous rambling. Right now all the smooth composure I usually had around women was gone.
Kathy: Honey, you're rambling.
Kathy simply nods, the hint of tears glistening in her eyes, as the dawn light breaks through our window.
Kathy: Yes. Yes, I will.
Jake: You will?
Kathy: Yes, I will marry you...
A new day had begun.
Jake Conway lay in the bed with his wife Kathy cuddled up in his arms, he smiled at the thought of that pleasant memory, in that moment, taking that risk, love had changed everything for Jake Conway. Kathy stirred in my arms and even now, almost four years on, that same butterfly fluttered her wings at me.
Kathy: Hey sexy, what are you smiling about?
Jake: Just remembering the moment you walked back into my life and changed it forever...
Kathy smiles and we shared a passionate kiss, a kiss that changed the night...forever.
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I'd dump Nate
If I were you
Violets are blue
I'd dump Nate
If I were you
We then pan out to show the note attached to a fine blue and white porcelain vase with a single rose sat in it in the middle of a small wooden table, taking a sniff of the rose and grinning, we see The Ace.
He turns to the camera and smiles.
Thank you Nathaniel, thank you. Thank you for once again proving me absolutely right, you know it is really becoming a nasty little habit of yours. I knew you were screwed in the head, I knew you had a fragile mind and yet unlike anybody else in this company, I tried to do something about it...I tried to help you...and yet somehow you are still trying to paint me as the bad guy in all of this.
I knew Nathaniel, I knew right from our very first one on one match inside that ring that you didn't belong here, you don't belong in this company, you don't belong in my ring and you damn sure don't belong in my match, you belong in a mental institution. You need help Nathaniel, but as gifted as I am, I'm starting to think that even I cannot get you the help you need.
You know watching you flounder, watching you seek retribution because you're too stupid to swallow your pride on this one and just admit that I was right all along, really makes me wonder what Riley Griffiths was doing on the nCw administrive payroll because it sure as hell wasn't his job. See Nate, you can train all you want, do as many push ups, crunches and bicep curls as you want - spend so much time in the gym that people actually start to wonder if you aren't actually the secret lovechild of Sexy Jason and Richard Simmons, do whatever you need to to get yourself into peak physical condition for this match...
I know your nerves are shot.
As important as it is to be physically prepared for a match like this, I know that mentally you are not prepared at all, your mind is not where it needs to be to go up against me in any match this weekend, much less a match of my own design. Don't believe me? Get a second opinion, hell get a third, forth, fifth, one for however many hallucinations now plague you. Can you feel it all slipping away yet Nate? Can you feel the rubber band of your fragile mind being pulled taut? Your manifestations tell you I'm in your head, and if I am it's only because you left me no choice. I have to be there because you clearly are not. I have to save you from yourself...
I have to save you before the rubber band of your mind snaps.
What happens then Nathaniel? Did you ever stop to think what happens not if, but when your mind finally crumbles under all the stress and strain? What happens when coffee and cigarettes are not enough to relax you? What happens when the caffeine and the nicotine doesn't give you the strength to hold onto reality anymore - however tentatively that might be? Your grip on reality is slender even now my friend. Is your need to punish me really worth losing it altogether? You may be prepared to put your body through Hell on Sunday, your body might even be up to the challenge but what about your mind?
Have you even considered who will suffer when your mind breaks?
It won't be me, hell it might not even be you...but it will be Rose. Your sister Rose, you remember her right? Rose Acantha, the beautiful young woman you claim to love like a brother. It is said that just like fear, love can inspire a man to change, maybe even make him a little bit selfish in his desires, but usually those desires are only for the woman he loves, never for himself. Never for revenge...
But then again, maybe I've got this all wrong.
Maybe this isn't about revenge at all, maybe it never was. Maybe its all about the selfish desires of one Nathaniel David Webb, the desire to be one of the best, to be considered in the upper echelon of this company, and for that maybe you're willing to pay the ultimate price. Maybe you were willing to play Rose as the ultimate pawn in all this, maybe you were willing to sacrifice her in our little game of chess - all for a fleeting chance to be crowned a King at my expense. If that truly is the case, I tip my hat to you sir. Well played. You truly are a Cold Spider...
I just have to wonder what your sister thinks of your little ploy?
Go ahead Nathaniel, tell me I've got it all wrong, lie to Rose all over again, tell her that you really do care about her and let her ask you herself just why and how you allowed her to get mixed up in your little quest for vengeance. I had you committed, if you really only wanted revenge for that, you didn't have to liberate Rose from the institution, and you certainly didn't have to bring her into our world...
Did you honestly think she wouldn't suffer the consequences?
This is all your fault Nathaniel, you plucked the rose from the garden she grew up in, and you tried to be the delicate vase to protect her - or so you would have the world believe...
The Ace extracts his steel roulette rake at this point.
...And you did it all without giving any thought about what would happen to her in the outside world on her own, what becomes of the rose...
The Ace hooks the rake around the vase and drags it off the table as it shatters on the ground.
...when one shatters the vase? You see Nathan, I don't question your fire as much as I question who it will ultimately burn? Sure, I may feel some of the heat on Sunday, but you should know by Nathaniel that I will not go down in flames by myself. I have already made young Rose the victim of your pain once, are you prepared to burn her again? Is that really what a loving brother would do? You've shown me your poker face for long enough now Nathaniel, its time to fold...show me that emotion you've tried to show the world that you keep in check...
Do it not for me, do it for Rose.
Shed a tear, show her some remorse, some regret, there's no shame in it, show Rose you care, show Rose you love her, show her you're just human...if you don't, I will show her and the world...
Just how human you really are.
Keep up the pretense of being some stone-faced tough guy Nate for much longer, and I will show her and the world what a committed liar you really are.
Either you open your eyes now, Nathaniel.
Or I open hers on Sunday.
The choice is yours.
Either way, neither of you are going to like what you see.
March 15th, 2008
The Ace grins sadistically.
And boys, you might think I'm worried about our upcoming Iron Man Tag Match, but the fact is you bitches can come up with all the stipulations you want, you will not derail The Smokin' Aces because where there's smoke, there's fire, and this Sunday will be the warm up before we set your piddly asses alight...
The Ace laughs, but is stopped when he is tapped on the shoulder, he turns around to see Kathy standing there, she looks to be in a bit of a mess, but The Ace stands up and the two stand and stare at each other for a few minutes, before they both give in and lock in a passionate embrace, with tears in their eyes and an animalistic fierociousity behind their kiss, as they run their hands through each other's hair as they remain locked, inseparable...it was obvious they had missed each other but even two years apart could not dampen their love...the camera fades with Perry ordering a drink...
Perry: I'll have another pint...and a hose...
Perry shakes his head as the reunited couple is still in their embrace...
That kiss changed everything...forever.
Later that night, we hit the hotel room wrapped up in each other's arms, we hit the bed and we made love all night, and then in the early morning twilight it hit me. Stuck between the dusk and the dawn, I felt this was the moment. This was my one chance not only to seize love but hold onto it.
As she lay cuddled up in my arms, drifting on the edge of sleep. I knew it was insane, I knew it was a risk, I knew love made you do crazy things but I never really believed it until now...
Jake: Kat...Kat...
I whispered, she stirred before her eyes fluttered open like the wings of a butterfly on the edge of its metamorphosis and she smiled at me. It was now or never. Seize the moment, choose love, however crazy it was. I leapt out of bed and dropped to one knee. That got her attention, she sat bolt up right in the bed.
Kathy: What's the matter Jake?
Jake: Nothing's the matter, honey...I love you...
I took her hand in mine.
Jake: Will you marry me? I know its crazy, I know its insane, I know this is sudden and unexpected but it just feels right...doesn't it? I mean I've never felt like this before about anyone, I lost you two years ago, I will not lose you again, I love you and before you ask, no this is not just a kneejerk reaction to finding out you're Soli's mother. I couldn't be happier about that right now...
She puts a finger to my lips, mercifully ending my nervous rambling. Right now all the smooth composure I usually had around women was gone.
Kathy: Honey, you're rambling.
Kathy simply nods, the hint of tears glistening in her eyes, as the dawn light breaks through our window.
Kathy: Yes. Yes, I will.
Jake: You will?
Kathy: Yes, I will marry you...
A new day had begun.
Jake Conway lay in the bed with his wife Kathy cuddled up in his arms, he smiled at the thought of that pleasant memory, in that moment, taking that risk, love had changed everything for Jake Conway. Kathy stirred in my arms and even now, almost four years on, that same butterfly fluttered her wings at me.
Kathy: Hey sexy, what are you smiling about?
Jake: Just remembering the moment you walked back into my life and changed it forever...
Kathy smiles and we shared a passionate kiss, a kiss that changed the night...forever.
