Ignorance Is Bliss

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Ignorance Is Bliss

Off Camera

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The relationship between Angelica Jones and Lindsey Carter is a unique one to say the very least.  It began as a trick, a fraud.  Lindsey Carter is a powerful woman who owns a powerful corporation.  One of Lindsey’s arch rivals in the corporate world had an agreement with Angelica to lure Lindsey Carter into a trap, lure her into marrying Angelica with a prenuptial agreement stating that if the marriage ends for any reason, Angelica and Lindsey’s arch rival would each get half of Lindsey’s corporation.  It was all a plot to bring down Lindsey’s corporate empire.  What Lindsey’s arch rival did not count on was the power of love.

Angelica Jones has always believed in the power of love.  Even when things looked their bleakest, even when Angelica herself said otherwise, deep down inside she always believed in the power of love.  Her deep seeded belief in love is what led to her depression and suicide attempts when she was rejected by her first love, Sean Williams.  Love is what also brought her back from the brink when she met Andreas Lasiewicz and later Sean McBride.  Love helped her through a rocky relationship with Brittany Lohan.  One might have thought love just wasn’t meant for Angelica and Angelica herself even thought that but as much as she may deny it, she still believed in love.  All she needed was to find the right person.

That right person, as it turns out, was Lindsey Carter.  Angelica originally planned on just deceiving her and taking her company.  She didn’t count on actually falling in love with Lindsey.  And when Lindsey learned of the trick she expected she’d hate Angelica forever, not just for trying to take her company but for also making it impossible for her to marry again.  Lindsey didn’t count on actually falling for Angelica Jones.

As fate would have it, though, Angelica and Lindsey truly were perfect for each other.  Love, for one reason or another, hadn’t worked for either woman until now, until they happened upon one another and now they are perfect.  Now they are one.  Happy ending, right?

Not everyone is a fan of happy endings.

Angelica Jones was being managed by Samantha Hodgson at the time and Hodgson did not like the marriage.  She thought Angelica’s image as a lesbian would hurt her chances to get a world title opportunity and thus forced Angelica to keep Lindsey shut up indoors or to never be seen in public with her.  Samantha’s one rule was that Lindsey and Angelica could only be a couple in private.

For awhile Lindsey Carter put up with it, for awhile she dealt with it even though she did not like it.  She could tell Samantha Hodgson had it in for her and not just because of her sexual orientation.  There was something else there.  Jealousy, perhaps?  Jealous of her close relationship with Angelica?  Whatever it was, Lindsey did not want to deal with it any longer.  She put the pressure on Angelica to get rid of Hodgson and eventually she did.  She did get rid of Hodgson…

…in favor of Silas Mason.

Now Angelica Jones finds herself seemingly with everything she could have ever wanted.  She is a world champion again, world champion of the Global Frontier Crown.  She gets to be with Lindsey and not just in a private relationship but in a public one as well.  And all she has to do is be a loyal member of Silas World.

Lindsey Carter is ignorant, naïve to the wrestling industry.  She doesn’t know of the dirty deeds her wife does for Silas Mason.  And by dirty we mean the gang attacks, the beat downs, the blindside attacks all meant to weak enemies of Silas Mason.  Lindsey is ignorant to how mafia-like Silas World really is.

Perhaps that is for the best?  Perhaps ignorance truly is bliss?  Angelica believes so, because she has yet to tell it like it is to her wife.  Angelica has continued to let Lindsey Carter believe that Silas Mason walks on water and is a perfect saint.

It is for the best…maybe…

“It has been way too long, Linds.”

The eyes of the blonde beauty meet up with her lovely wife’s eyes as they sit at the table, each with a glass of wine in front of them with the rest of the bottle, a red wine as it is Angelica’s favorite, sitting in the center of the table.  Lindsey takes Angelica’s hands and squeezes tightly.

“You’re right about that.” She smiles. “I know you love to show me off.”

Angelica smirks. “You bet I do.”

“But I love showing you off just as much as you love showing me off, sweetie.”

Angelica looks around her, at her surroundings.  This is a fancy French restaurant, one of Angelica’s favorites.  The Dragon loves a bar simply because she loves a good bar fight and Firestar would just assume eat fast food, but this is The Golden Goddess and she loves to flaunt her beauty and wealth, her privilege, for the world to see, and most of all she loves to flaunt Lindsey Carter for the world to see and she hasn’t been able to do that during her days with Samantha Hodgson but now that she has left Hodgson and has signed with Silas Mason, things have changed, mostly for the better, and Lindsey Carter definitely approves of the new situation.  What wife wouldn’t approve of being shown more attention and love?  What partner wouldn’t approve of being taken out and shown off instead of being hidden away?  This is what Lindsey wanted out of the relationship and she is definitely pleased.

“You really should remember to thank Silas Mason.”

Angelica furrows her brow “Why?  What did he do?”

“He helped make all of this happen!” Lindsey says beaming.  “This evening, you and I, it’s because of him!”

Angelica chuckles. “I think you’re giving him too much credit, Linds.”

“Am I?  Samantha Hodgson forced you to keep me hidden away but now that you ditched her and sided with Silas Mason things have changed.  Silas doesn’t mind you showing me off.  Silas isn’t a homophobe like Hodgson.”

“Whatever.” She slides her drink glass forward. “Just pour me some wine, babe.”

“Sure thing, Angel.”

Lindsey takes the wine bottle and pours some more wine into Angelica’s glass before pouring some for herself.  The two women simultaneously take a sip of their wine before setting their glasses down.  Lindsey’s ear to ear grin tells the story of a woman who is content, happy with herself and her situation, happy with her relationship with Angelica, but perhaps not realizing the truth of the situation; a truth that Angelica now hopes to illustrate.

“Linds, this really is great.  You and I getting to go out like this is great…”

“Isn’t it, though?” Lindsey smiles dreamily. “We never did get a traditional courtship, now did we?”

Angelica laughs. “True…Meagan Collins did trick you into dating me and marrying me.”

The brunette nods her head. “That’s right and now we get to do it for real this time.”

“I know and it is great that we get to go out.  It is wonderful.  But Linds, there is something you don’t know about Silas Mason.”

“He’s not trying to run your life.  He’s not telling you who you can and cannot be seen with.” Lindsey takes another sip of her wine.  “That’s all I know and that’s all I care about.”

“Yes but if you want to know the truth, he and Samantha Hodgson are no different.”

Lindsey smiles knowingly. “Last I checked Sammy had boobs and he didn’t.”

Angelica rolls her eyes. “Quit being a smartass.”

“You love it!”

“Ok, yes I do…” Angelica chuckles “…but that’s beside the point.”

“Then what is the point, babe?”

“The point is that the only reason that he isn’t trying to run my life the same way Samantha did is because he focuses on more important matters.  Me taking care of Simon Lyman on Breakdown is important.  Me taking care of Stacy Kissinger and Chris Cannon and Rise To Greatness is important.  Me being seen kissing a girl in public is petty, it doesn’t affect the end game of Silas World and it never will.”

“And what is the end game?”

“Oh don’t you know?” Angelica smirks. “To make sure Kelcey Wallace becomes SCW World Champion.”

Lindsey frowns, taking a sip of her wine first. “So you’re telling me this is all about Kelcey?  What about Taylor?”

“It’s about Taylor becoming IWC World Champion.” Angelica sighs. “And it’s only indirectly about them, at least that’s what I gather.  What I gather this is about gaining as much power, influence, and most importantly gold for Silas Mason.”

A half smile crosses Angelica’s lips as she laughs lightly. “Why do you think he worked so damn hard to make sure I got a rematch against Chandler Scott over in Frontier for the GFC World Championship?  Chandler Scott, just like the other Godfathers of Wrestling, had the same M.O…defend the title, stay hidden from view for four months…but Silas forced his hand.  Helped me get another shot.  And I became GFC World Champion.  Now Frontier and the GFC are at odds and while the wrestling operations have been shut down, I still remain GFC World Champion.  Neither GFC nor Frontier took the belt from me.  Why?”

“Silas.”

Angelica nods her head. “Yes.  I am the world champion of GFC.  Now we’re going to make sure Kelcy is world champion of SCW.  And we’ll make sure Taylor is world champion of IWC.  That’s what this is about, Linds.  It’s about power.  It’s about who holds the most power.”

Lindsey Carter lets out a light sigh as she takes yet another sip of her wine.  Angelica cannot help but notice the disappointment written all over her face, nor can she help but notice the speed with which her wife has been drinking this wine.

“Careful, Linds, you’re going to get drunk.”

“Huh?  Oh…sorry, it’s just…”

“I popped your bubble about this business?”  Lindsey nods her head, indicating that Angelica is correct.  “Sorry, babe.  I hated to do that.  But unfortunately that is how this industry works.  This is about power and gaining more power.  I helped Silas World gain power by becoming GFC World Champion but that’s not enough, especially not with wrestling operations being shut down in Frontier.  We need more and I’ll do my best to ensure Taylor Cruze gets her title back.  Just as I’ll play my role in making sure Kelcey Wallace becomes SCW World Champion.”

Angelica takes her glass of wine, which admittedly isn’t very full, and downs it in one gulp, planting it relatively hard on the table almost as if she were at a bar slamming a glass down.

“And now you realize that your wife is a sell-out…” Angelica says grimly “…I apologize.”

“No, no, no…” Lindsey snatches Angelica’s right hand, brings it up to her lips, and kisses it “don’t you apologize, Angelica!”

“Why not?”

“You shouldn’t apologize because you did nothing wrong.” Lindsey states emphatically. “What you did was for you and me.  It was for our marriage.  Besides, look at all of this.”

She looks from side to side, motioning to the elegant atmosphere of the restaurant.  She then motions with her free hand to what Angelica is wearing.

“This expensive restaurant, that elegant dress…you look priceless, girl, and you deserve it.”

Lindsey motions to herself and to Angelica. “WE deserve it!”

A short pause follows, short but it seems like an eternity as Angelica stares into her lover’s eyes.  The natural red head with blonde hair contemplates what Lindsey just told her, she thinks hard upon her words.  She also thinks about the trials and tribulations both she and Lindsey have had to put up with in recent years.  Finally the blonde beauty nods her head in agreement.

“You’re right, Linds.  We do deserve this.”

Jones stands up immediately.  She holds out her hand to Lindsey. “Come with me, Linds.”

“Where are we going?”

“We’re leaving…” she pauses, thinking again about her plans “…assuming of course the limousine is still there.”

Lindsey giggles as she accepts Angelica’s hand and stands up as well. “Of course it is!  We’re definitely not driving in this condition, are we?”

Angelica shakes her head. “Not at all.”

The two lovely women begin to walk arm in arm out of the restaurant.  All eyes are upon these beautiful creatures; they know it and they love it.  Angelica dressed in a black two-piece set featuring a lace appliqué embellished vest and sheer lace maxi skirt, Lindsey attired by contrast in a multi color silk layered flare dress with a V-neck and two thin beaded straps around the waist, soak up the attention they are getting, the stares, the occasional whistles as they make their way to the exit.  As soon as they are outside the limousine is in sight, parked right in front of the restaurant, waiting on them.

“There it is.” Lindsey points out. “Let’s go, babe.”

“Yeah, let’s…”

She is cut off by a sudden shouting…

“Money for the poor!  Money for the poor!”

“Huh?”

Lindsey and Angelica both turn to see a bearded man in an overcoat and jeans walking with a bit of a limp, holding out a tin cup.

“Money for the poor!  Money for the poor!”

“Poor guy.” Lindsey remarks sadly, but Angelica feels no emotion, none whatsoever.

“Go to the limousine, Linds.”

“What?”

She doesn’t even bother to look at Lindsey. “Just go.  I’ll be right back.”

Normally she would be concerned with her loved ones, but Lindsey knows Angelica is a trained fighter and can easily handle herself.  So she nods her head acceptingly.

“Ok…just be careful…”

Lindsey reluctantly heads over to the limousine while Angelica remains perfectly still.  Once she hears the limousine door shut, signifying that Lindsey is now in the back, Angelica marches over to the man, her high heeled shoes clicking across the pavement as she does so.  Once she gets to him he holds up his cup at her.

“Money for the poor?”

“Not hardly.”

Angelica knocks the cup out of his hand and then reaches for his beard and yanks as hard as it can.  It comes off, because in reality it was a fake beard.  Angelica then stares into the eyes of IWC’s resident jokester Levi Timothy Craig, better known as Leviticus.

“You are not poor, Levi.”

“No but for some reason people respond better to this than my usual line.”

“What is your usual line?”

He reaches into his coat pocket and produces an Alana Starr DVD. “Best of Alana Starr DVD, on sale now for only $188.92!”

He puts the dvd in her hand, reaches back into the coat pocket and produces a hat. “The BRAND NEW Alana Starr HAT!”

He places the hat on her head. “This can be yours for $89.24!”

Angelica knocks the hat off of her head and then tosses the dvd to the side.  She reaches out with her right hand, snatches Levi by his throat, and backs him up against the closest wall and begins to squeeze tightly.

“Do you value your vocal chords?”

“Uh-huh…”

“Then shut up and get to the point or else I will rip them out through your nostrils.”

She releases her grip upon Levi.  Immediately he clutches at his throat, gasping for air as he tries to recover.

“Damn, Angelica, I thought you were all Golden Goddess tonight?”

“The Dragon hates stupidity.  Now get to the point.  You’re wasting my time.”

“Mine too.” He catches a glimpse at the limousine which contains Lindsey Carter and then he whistles. “She’s foxy!”

Angelica punches him in the gut, doubling him over in pain. “Yeah, and she’s mine!”

“Ouch!  Are you this mean with Lindsey?”

She grabs him by his throat and backs him up against the wall again. “Last chance, jokester.”

“Fine, fine, just let me go!” Angelica reluctantly releases him. “You’re no fun.”

“Fun is for wimps.  What do you want?”

“Just came to give you some tidings of good news from your daughter.”

Angelica nods her head.  She knows Jessica has been secretly working with Leviticus for quite some time now.  She’s been having him do some work for her, which is not unusual for the Lasiewicz family.  Jessica’s father, Andreas, has used people before, people like Kamijo.  Jessica’s aunt Magdalena and Jessica herself tend to use Leviticus.  Angelica isn’t quite sure of the extent of her job…or jobs…that she has Leviticus doing, but she knows that at least one of them involves Samantha Hodgson and Angelica’s other daughter, Jessica’s sister Marie Annabelle Jones.  Angelica knows the only reason Jessica even let Samantha be her manager in the first place is to get information out of her.  Perhaps she has that information?

“Go on. Talk.”

“Jessica is going to leave Samantha Hodgson’s agency real soon.”

“So she got the information she wanted?”

Leviticus nods. “Yep, and that means Jessie is done with her!  Isn’t that great?”

Almost immediately Angelica kicks Leviticus in the groin and then punches him in the face, knocking him to the ground.  Levi rolls around in pain before pushing himself up to his knees.

“I thought you…” he coughs “…I thought you’d be happy!”

“I am thrilled.”

“Then why’d you hit me?!”

“Because kicking your ass makes me even happier.”

She turns around and starts to walk away. “Goodnight, Levi.  Thank you.”

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 Promo

On Camera

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We open on a bright sunny day, a warm breeze is blowing softly.  The sound of waves rushing up against the shoreline and hitting softly can be heard.  As the camera pans over we come to see a blonde haired woman wearing a red bikini with sunglasses over her eyes lying on a beach towel.

“I’m in Miami right now.”

It’s Angelica Jones, one of the lovely bruisers in Silas World, the current GFC World Champion.

“This really is a lovely spot.  I need to remember to come here more often.  Right now the city is calm, peaceful, serene.  This city is currently going about its regular routine.  The calm before the storm, because soon this city of Miami will be playing host to Rise To Greatness.  Soon this city and all of its people will gather here to watch their heroes fight valiantly…but ultimately fail miserably.”

“Oh but you don’t have to believe me.  Do not take my word for it.  Just watch and wait, see it for yourselves because a preview of coming attractions is just on the horizon as we roll into Orlando for Breakdown.”

A beach ball suddenly rolls into the shot and comes to a stop on Angelica’s towel.  A young girl with red hair comes rushing over.

“Sorry.”

Angelica smiles sweetly as she sits up and hands the ball to the girl. “It’s ok, darling.”

The girl goes running off.  Angelica turns back to the camera.

“That child is innocent.  Young.  Naïve.  She doesn’t yet realize that heroes rarely succeed in our society.  The ones who succeed are those who are ruthless and aggressive enough to do what is necessary to win.  There are many others out there who are ignorant to the truth, ignorant to reality.  They think they can stop Silas World.”

Angelica shakes her head. “It just isn’t going to happen.”

“Simon Lyman finds himself among the ignorant and naïve because he thinks he can stop me.  He thinks he can stop this rage built up inside of me.”

A sadistic grin forms across her face. “You see, Simon, with me you just never know what you’re going to get.  I am The Golden Goddess for a reason; I am a twelve time world champion with three hall of fame rings.  I am wrestling royalty.  Hell, I AM wrestling.  I can beat you just like that!”

She snaps her fingers. “Just like that!”

“Or I may just decide winning isn’t worth it…” she shrugs her shoulders “…you know, that happens with me sometimes, right?  I get a reckless streak.  I get a violent streak.  That anger and hatred boils over and instead of wanting to pin your shoulders to the mat or make you tap out, instead I just want to beat you into a bloody pulp.”

“That’s the problem with facing Angelica Jones.  That’s the problem you get into when you fight me.  You never know which me you’re going to get, now do you?” She smirks. “You just don’t know what kind of Angelica Jones you are going to get.  You are either going to get the greatest wrestler alive today…”

“…or The Dragon.”

“But whoever or whatever you have to deal with, the fact does remain that you will have no choice, no other alternative than to face reality.  You, along with the rest of these people in the great state of Florida will have to face the reality that while you may win a few battles along the way, ultimately you will not win the war.”

“We will win the war.”

“And you, Simon Lyman, will have to face the reality that you only have one option, just one choice, one thing you can do…”

She laughs nastily. “…you can take your head, stick it between your legs, and kiss your ass goodbye.”