Post by Steve Awesome on Feb 14, 2009 23:38:08 GMT -6
Courtland Merriot in Toronto
We open rather suddenly as a little girl leaps off the side of the indoor pool and crashes into the water in cannonball formation. She makes a half way decent splash and then effortlessly floats back up to the top of the water thanks to those pink little floaties on her arms.
“Great job Chrissy! That was the best cannonball I’ve ever seen.”
A lady yells out to the little girl. This lady, obviously the mother of the little diving girl claps for her daughter. Her name is Jayde and she was sitting at one of the tables that line the perimeter of the pool. Next to her, was Steve Awesome. Dressed in a “Positively Honch” T-shirt and some jeans and a bandana that keeps his long black hair from his face. A smile is on his face.
“Looks like she is having fun in there.”
Jayde turns to look at Steve, she nods and places her hand on his shoulder.
“Oh she really is. Thanks for inviting us to do this, you really didn’t have too.”
Awesome shrugs a humble shrug.
“Hey, I wasn’t going to take the room. I figured why not do something nice for somebody else.”
“Well again.…you didn’t have too.”
“Yeah well I wanted too. Besides…nobody should be alone on Valentines Day.”
Jayde nods her head and goes back to watching her daughter swim in the pool. Gotta love that akward silence.
“What? Did I say something wrong?”
“No…it’s just…well you bring up a good point. The whole being alone on Valentines Day thing. This will be my first one since “it” happened.”
“Since what happened?……If you don't mind me asking?”
She shakes her head.
“No…it’s fine. I had a husband, Chrissy’s father, but he died.”
Awesome lowers his head. He felt like a jerk for bringing it up.
“I’m sorry to hear that.”
Jayde nods her head, you could tell it was still hard for her to talk about.
“I was too. Last summer, I was just cleaning house and all of a sudden there was a knock on the door. Some guy I hardly knew in an Army uniform. He stood there and told me that my husband had died in the war. And you know it wasn’t so much that he said it but how he said It to me. As if he gave news like that all the time. I’m sure he did, but it still bothered me. Just made losing Jeff that much more difficult.”
Jayde was visibly tearing up at this point. She took a couple deep breaths to contain herself.
“Oh man….I’m sorry. That really sucks.”
Steve was never any good at trying to console people. She wipes her eyes and shrugs.
“Yeah, but what can I do about it? No matter what he isn’t coming back. So all I can do is move on right?”
Hear comes that silence again. Only this time it’s broken rather quickly by Jayde changing the subject.
“So….I guess it’s my turn to ask you a very deep question.”
She says as he sniffles a bit.
“Tell me something, Mister Awesome, Why are you fighting the Revolution?”
“Cause there all douche bags?”
Steve jokes and Jayde laughs and playfully punches him in the arm.
“No. Why are you really fighting them? Why did you declare war on them? And don’t say because there the bad guys either.”
Awesome thinks about it for a second.
“Are they really the bad guys? God, sometimes I look at whats going on and it’s not so easy to tell. The line is so blurred these days sometimes I can’t even tell wich side is good and wich side Is bad. I mean all the Revolution want is fairness in nCw. They want to know that you can go out to that ring and wrestle and entertain the fans and not have to worry about a sneak attack or an ambush. They want to make sure that you get ahead solely based on your ability inside that wrestling ring and not because you know Brent Sampson or because you go and get coffee for Kelly Fox everyday when she gets in her office. And really, that’s not a bad thing. At all. But then all of a sudden Jack Hammond is being put in the hospital, AJ is being decked by brass knuckles and Xavier Williams is getting screwed out of the world championship. Now Kelly Fox is part of the Revolution and because of this Adam Knite is probably going to get that title shot he feels he’s owed. Suddenly the Revolution is embodying the same exact things they formed together to fight. They went from a simple cause to an ego driven stranglehold on the entire company.”
“And that’s why I declared war on them that night. The Revolution likes to call us The Empire 4.0 and we may have the same members but you know what? The Revolution has the attributes. Me and Kole, we were like a car crash to nCw. We dragged it through the mud, we crapped on what truly makes someone an nCw superstar and I refuse…absolutely REFUSE….to allow the Revolution or any other to do the same thing. So I guess I’m fighting to rectify the mistakes that I’ve made. I guess I’m fighting for redemption.”
“…..and how long do you think that will take?”
Steve shrugs.
“I’m not sure. This war is really just beginning, regardless of what Adam and his cronies say. They think that just because they have the championships and the power that we can’t do anything to stop them. It’s only a matter of time before they realize how wrong they are. They don’t know it yet, but were about to kick this war into over drive.”
Jayde smiles, she moves her hand up and moves some hair from her face. She looks like she is about to say something else when suddenly, Chrissy; her daughter, appears at her side, dripping wet from the pool.
“Mommy, I’m hungry.”
Jayde looks at her daughter, then back at Steve.
“Well looks like I have to go.”
She starts to get up from her chair.
“Nah, you guys don’t have to go. Why don’t you stay here at this hotel? Grab some lunch through room service then come see me at Cross Roads this Sunday. I’m going to need all the support I can get.”
Jayde just smiles at him.
“Seriously? Where are you going to stay?”
“I got a hotel a few towns over that I’m staying at. Come on Jayde, if you don’t this room is just going to go to waste.”
“Only if you stay too. I can’t in all good conscious stay in this amazing hotel knowing your freezing in some hooker hotel downtown.”
“I’m used to it by now, besides if I stayed I’d end up “sleep-beating the crap out of Falcon” and that will only end badly.
“Well okay, but at least stay for lunch.”
The three sit down at the table and start chatting as the scene slowly fades.
We open rather suddenly as a little girl leaps off the side of the indoor pool and crashes into the water in cannonball formation. She makes a half way decent splash and then effortlessly floats back up to the top of the water thanks to those pink little floaties on her arms.
“Great job Chrissy! That was the best cannonball I’ve ever seen.”
A lady yells out to the little girl. This lady, obviously the mother of the little diving girl claps for her daughter. Her name is Jayde and she was sitting at one of the tables that line the perimeter of the pool. Next to her, was Steve Awesome. Dressed in a “Positively Honch” T-shirt and some jeans and a bandana that keeps his long black hair from his face. A smile is on his face.
“Looks like she is having fun in there.”
Jayde turns to look at Steve, she nods and places her hand on his shoulder.
“Oh she really is. Thanks for inviting us to do this, you really didn’t have too.”
Awesome shrugs a humble shrug.
“Hey, I wasn’t going to take the room. I figured why not do something nice for somebody else.”
“Well again.…you didn’t have too.”
“Yeah well I wanted too. Besides…nobody should be alone on Valentines Day.”
Jayde nods her head and goes back to watching her daughter swim in the pool. Gotta love that akward silence.
“What? Did I say something wrong?”
“No…it’s just…well you bring up a good point. The whole being alone on Valentines Day thing. This will be my first one since “it” happened.”
“Since what happened?……If you don't mind me asking?”
She shakes her head.
“No…it’s fine. I had a husband, Chrissy’s father, but he died.”
Awesome lowers his head. He felt like a jerk for bringing it up.
“I’m sorry to hear that.”
Jayde nods her head, you could tell it was still hard for her to talk about.
“I was too. Last summer, I was just cleaning house and all of a sudden there was a knock on the door. Some guy I hardly knew in an Army uniform. He stood there and told me that my husband had died in the war. And you know it wasn’t so much that he said it but how he said It to me. As if he gave news like that all the time. I’m sure he did, but it still bothered me. Just made losing Jeff that much more difficult.”
Jayde was visibly tearing up at this point. She took a couple deep breaths to contain herself.
“Oh man….I’m sorry. That really sucks.”
Steve was never any good at trying to console people. She wipes her eyes and shrugs.
“Yeah, but what can I do about it? No matter what he isn’t coming back. So all I can do is move on right?”
Hear comes that silence again. Only this time it’s broken rather quickly by Jayde changing the subject.
“So….I guess it’s my turn to ask you a very deep question.”
She says as he sniffles a bit.
“Tell me something, Mister Awesome, Why are you fighting the Revolution?”
“Cause there all douche bags?”
Steve jokes and Jayde laughs and playfully punches him in the arm.
“No. Why are you really fighting them? Why did you declare war on them? And don’t say because there the bad guys either.”
Awesome thinks about it for a second.
“Are they really the bad guys? God, sometimes I look at whats going on and it’s not so easy to tell. The line is so blurred these days sometimes I can’t even tell wich side is good and wich side Is bad. I mean all the Revolution want is fairness in nCw. They want to know that you can go out to that ring and wrestle and entertain the fans and not have to worry about a sneak attack or an ambush. They want to make sure that you get ahead solely based on your ability inside that wrestling ring and not because you know Brent Sampson or because you go and get coffee for Kelly Fox everyday when she gets in her office. And really, that’s not a bad thing. At all. But then all of a sudden Jack Hammond is being put in the hospital, AJ is being decked by brass knuckles and Xavier Williams is getting screwed out of the world championship. Now Kelly Fox is part of the Revolution and because of this Adam Knite is probably going to get that title shot he feels he’s owed. Suddenly the Revolution is embodying the same exact things they formed together to fight. They went from a simple cause to an ego driven stranglehold on the entire company.”
“And that’s why I declared war on them that night. The Revolution likes to call us The Empire 4.0 and we may have the same members but you know what? The Revolution has the attributes. Me and Kole, we were like a car crash to nCw. We dragged it through the mud, we crapped on what truly makes someone an nCw superstar and I refuse…absolutely REFUSE….to allow the Revolution or any other to do the same thing. So I guess I’m fighting to rectify the mistakes that I’ve made. I guess I’m fighting for redemption.”
“…..and how long do you think that will take?”
Steve shrugs.
“I’m not sure. This war is really just beginning, regardless of what Adam and his cronies say. They think that just because they have the championships and the power that we can’t do anything to stop them. It’s only a matter of time before they realize how wrong they are. They don’t know it yet, but were about to kick this war into over drive.”
Jayde smiles, she moves her hand up and moves some hair from her face. She looks like she is about to say something else when suddenly, Chrissy; her daughter, appears at her side, dripping wet from the pool.
“Mommy, I’m hungry.”
Jayde looks at her daughter, then back at Steve.
“Well looks like I have to go.”
She starts to get up from her chair.
“Nah, you guys don’t have to go. Why don’t you stay here at this hotel? Grab some lunch through room service then come see me at Cross Roads this Sunday. I’m going to need all the support I can get.”
Jayde just smiles at him.
“Seriously? Where are you going to stay?”
“I got a hotel a few towns over that I’m staying at. Come on Jayde, if you don’t this room is just going to go to waste.”
“Only if you stay too. I can’t in all good conscious stay in this amazing hotel knowing your freezing in some hooker hotel downtown.”
“I’m used to it by now, besides if I stayed I’d end up “sleep-beating the crap out of Falcon” and that will only end badly.
“Well okay, but at least stay for lunch.”
The three sit down at the table and start chatting as the scene slowly fades.