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November 7th,
2017
Off Camera
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While The
Sisterhood did recently snap their long-suffering losing streak back in late
October on an edition of Breakdown, it was just against a pair of local
talents. Angelica and Kayla Jones haven’t
had a significant win in quite awhile and they are looking to prove to the SCW
universe that this win was not a fluke, that The Sisterhood is indeed back and better
than ever. And the perfect opportunity
to do just that, to make a huge statement before the wrestling world at large,
would be to win three matches in one night and thus earn a shot at the SCW
World Tag Team Championship.
Luckily for
Angelica and Kayla, they get the opportunity to do just that on Breakdown when
SCW returns to the states in New Orleans, Louisiana. For now SCW finds itself on the European tour
where the company and its superstars, including The Sisterhood, will be
traveling all over the continent, competing for fans in Germany, Switzerland,
Austria, and wrapping it all up in Italy before heading back home.
Normally the
Jones siblings would stick together on this or any other tour with SCW, but
when it comes to Europe, Angelica is a much bigger fan of the continent than
Kayla. The younger of the two Sisterhood
members would just assume spend her day in her hotel room with her husband,
Trenton Snow. That’s where Kayla is
right this very moment.
As for Angelica,
the older sister? Well, Angelica is back
at her hotel room, primping and preening in front of a full length mirror. She is pleased with what she sees; a tight
strapless black dress that hugs every curve of her lovely figure, extending to
just below her knees. Her feet are encased
in black high heeled patent leather pumps.
Her long red hair is pulled up nicely and styled in the back. Her nails, both finger and toes, are painted
a bright red, which matches the red on her lips. This is her favorite outfit. She knows it brings out her inner-beauty. This is the perfect fashion for an outing in
Berlin, Germany the night before SCW Breakdown.
She knows
that in a little more than a week’s time, this beauty and fashion will have to
be set aside and she will have to once again become the warrior, the
fighter. Some call her a Dragon, others
a Golden Goddess, but she will have to tap into every aspect of her character
and wrestling ability if she is to work with her sister to compete three times
in one night and walk away with a tag team title shot in their future.
“What the hell are you doing, Angelica?”
That’s the
voice of Kayla, Angelica’s younger sister.
No, she isn’t here in the hotel room with her. The voice is coming from Angelica’s iPhone,
which is currently turned to speaker mode so that Angelica can hear and speak
to Kayla hands-free.
“Nothing…I’m fine…”
“You haven’t said a word in awhile, sis.”
There’s a pause. “Are you staring all
googly-eyed at yourself in that damn mirror?”
Angelica rolls
her eyes, partially out of frustration for her sister being judgmental but also
frustrated at her sister for being right on the money. She knows her all too well.
“Shut up, Kay.”
“I’m right, aren’t I?” There is a
snickering heard from the phone. “Look,
sis, we’re going to meet tonight…you, me, and Trenton. It’s just a casual thing. You don’t need to look like a million
freaking bucks.”
“You don’t understand, Kay.” Angelica
answers back. “This is Europe. The Europeans are sophisticated, they are
refined, they are classy, they are…”
“Bullshit.” Kayla snaps back,
interrupting her. “Europeans aren’t
anymore sophisticated and refined than Americans. And drop the whole classy crap; that’s Bree’s
thing, not yours.”
“Whatever.
I’m ready to go, so if you and Trenton are ready…”
“We’ve been ready.” Kayla remarks. “We’ve been waiting on you.”
“Right, then in that case…” before
Angelica can finish her statement there is a knocking heard at the door to her
hotel room. Angelica sighs and shakes
her head. “…sorry, Kay, someone is
here. I’ll call you back.”
She picks up
her cell phone, disconnects the call, and then places the phone down. The knocking is heard again, louder this
time, and Angelica sighs out of frustration.
“I’m coming!” Angelica approaches the door and opens it. She takes a step back and opens her eyes
wide, for she is stunned at who she sees standing there, a face from her past,
a face she didn’t expect to see anytime soon…
…her aunt,
Mary Ford.
“Mary, what…” Angelica regains her
composure rather quickly and glares angrily at her aunt “…what are you doing here?!”
“I’ll explain if you let me in.” She
remarks. “But please, call me Maria
Kurensky. That is my real name, after
all.”
Maria
Kurensky was the birth name of Mary.
Mary’s sister, Kelly, was Angelica and Kayla’s mother and her birth name
was Klementina Kurensky. Both women were
from Soviet Russia and daughters of an ex-KGB agent who defected from the
Soviet Union to America when he became overcome with a rush of conscience and
guilt. He changed the names and
identities of his family in order to protect them. Only recently has Mary decided to return to
the family name.
Angelica
pauses to stare intensely into her aunt’s eyes.
Finally she sighs and steps aside, allowing Maria to enter. She enters the room and Angelica shuts the
door behind her. Once inside Maria turns
and looks plainly at her niece.
“Thank you for letting me speak my piece.”
“Yeah, I’ll let you speak, but I want to
know where the hell you have been?” Venom is dripping from Angelica’s
voice. “I thought we had made peace with
one another? I thought you wanted me
back in your life and I know I wanted you back in my life. But then you disappeared. I haven’t heard from you, I tried calling
you, you never stopped in for a visit…just…”
She shakes
her head “…just nothing.”
“I know and I’m sorry. I should have told you but I moved back to
London recently. I decided that, for the
sake of my own children, I’m going to try and work things out with Glenn.” Maria
sighs and shakes her head. “You have no
idea what I’ve gone through, Angelica. I
mean, at least your children do still recognize YOU as their mother. My own children refuse to recognize me as
their mother. It may be futile, it may
not work, but I want to at least try to work things out with them and my
husband Glenn.”
Angelica was
angry but this startling admission immediately disarms her. Angelica knows all too well of the pain it
causes a mother when her own children seem to hate her. Angelica has done her best to repair her
relationships with her children and maintain those relationships. She can definitely understand the pain that
her aunt Maria is going through.
“It’s ok, Aunt Mary…uh, Maria. I’m sorry…”
“Don’t worry about it,” Maria chuckles “I can imagine the name will take some
getting used to. Glenn hates it but he’s
growing accustomed.”
“I can see why…” Angelica’s voice trails
off “…but Maria, why did you come to see
me? Did you just come here to tell me
you were living in Europe now?”
“Would I have made the trip from London to
Berlin to tell you that when I could have called you and told you?”
“Point taken.” Angelica remarks. “So why are you here?”
“I think it’s best that you sit down first,
dear.”
Angelica
nods her head and walks over to her bed.
She sits down on the edge of the bed and Mary follows her. Mary stands over her and stares down at her
with concerned eyes, concerned over how her niece will take the news.
“I have been in London a year now but I didn’t
just stay there. Before I finally
settled down I traveled around Europe with Glenn in an attempt to reconnect and
spark that flame we used to have. During
my travels I learned some things, things that I knew I needed to tell you and
with you and your sister both in Europe now, I felt now was as good a time as
any to tell you…”
“Tell me what?” Angelica demands.
“Your mother…she’s alive. I’ve seen her.”
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Later That
Night
Off Camera
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Plans don’t
always work out the way we want them to.
Angelica would have loved to have gone out with her sister and her
sister’s husband tonight and enjoyed one night out before the SCW Breakdown
show in Berlin, but that just isn’t going to happen. After all, news like the one she just
received from her aunt certainly railroaded any plans Angelica had for the rest
of the night. Now instead of her going
with her sister and her sister’s husband to a nice place, she is just settling
to meet Kayla at a bar in Berlin. The
nice fancy dress has been abandoned as she sits at a table by herself alone in
the bar. Instead Angelica Jones is
wearing a floral print maxi skirt and a black long sleeved sweater. She checks her watch as it is clear that she
is impatiently waiting on the arrival of her sister…
…that wait
isn’t much longer.
“Angelica!”
Angelica
looks up and spots Kayla. Her sister
Kayla is wearing a long sleeved black dress with black leggings. Kayla walks over to the table and sits down
across from Angelica. Neither sibling
looks too pleased. But Kayla is only perturbed
because of the fact that the plans had been changed. She doesn’t like it when Angelica changes
plans on a whim like this. It usually
doesn’t mean anything good.
“I’m glad you came.” Angelica says
quietly with some trepidation in her voice.
“Why wouldn’t I have come?” Kayla asks. “We were planning on going out on the town
anyway, it was just going to be a slightly nicer establishment than this and
Trenton was going to be with us...which, by the way, he is disappointed about
missing out on this, by the way…”
“Tell him I send my apologies.”
“The cryptic shit is my ex-husband’s thing. It doesn’t suit you.” Kayla remarks while
rolling her eyes. “So cut the crap and
tell me what’s wrong? Why couldn’t
Trenton tag along?”
“This is something you need to hear for
yourself first…Trenton doesn’t need to know…”
“There’s that cryptic shit again,” Kayla
says, shaking her head “it doesn’t suit
you.”
“Not taking things seriously doesn’t suit
you, and this is serious.”
A server
comes to the table and places a drink in front Angelica. It is clearly
alcoholic. The server places one in
front of Kayla as well before walking off.
Kayla looks at the drink and then back up at her sister with curiosity
in her eyes.
“What is this?”
“Moscow Mule.”
“Moscow Mule? You ordered both of us a Moscow Mule?”
“Trust me, you’ll need it…” Kayla says,
taking a sip of her drink “…I’m already
on my second.”
“Oh for the love of God…” Kayla’s voice
trails off as she gently shoves her own drink to the side “…one of us needs to be sober here.”
“You’ll change your mind after I tell you
what I know.”
“Oh geez,” Kayla rolls her eyes again,
sighing out of frustration, “stop with
the damned cryptic nonsense and just tell me what’s wrong?!”
“Are you really ready for this?”
“Yes, damn it! I mean, you drug me down here for this,
ruined our night out for this, so why not?!
Tell me!”
Angelica
takes another sip of her Moscow Mule and then sets it down.
“Maria stopped by for a visit today.”
“Maria?
Like your little nun friend? Why
is she in Germany?”
“Not Sister Maria,” Angelica says,
shaking her head “our Aunt Mary, she now
wants to be called Maria Kurensky, the old family name.”
“Oh, ok, well that’s strange. The question remains the same, though…why the
hell is she in Germany?”
“She lives here now. Well, not in Germany but in Europe; London
specifically. She wants to repair the
relationship between her and her ex-husband Glenn Braddock.”
“Ok, well that’s nice, but how does that
affect us?”
“I told you, Kay, that she stopped by to
visit me.”
“Right,” Kayla nods her head “so what did she tell you?”
“There’s no easy way of putting it, so I’ll
just lay it all out there. She says that…that…our
mother is still alive…”
“She said…” Kayla pauses to take it all
in “…she said what?”
“Yeah, you heard right. She claims our mother is still alive.”
Kayla
reaches over and takes the Moscow Mule that the server had brought and takes a
sip. A knowing grin forms on Angelica’s
face.
“I told you that you’d need the drink.”
“How does she know? How could she possibly know? And why would she say such a thing?!”
“She claims to have seen her and spoken to
her. But she wouldn’t say much else.”
“This is fucking ridiculous!” Kayla
exclaims loudly, not exactly bothering to care if anyone else hears her. “Why would she tell us this and not even
provide any kind of evidence or anything?”
“She doesn’t want us to pursue it any
further. She says it is too dangerous.”
“Then why the hell us to start with?!”
“She felt we had the right to know.”
Angelica says quietly. “She said she’s
kept too many secrets about our family’s past from us and she’s no longer to
keep any. She told us as soon as she
found out that she was, in fact, still alive.”
“Too dangerous…” Kayla’s voice trails
off “…so, are you going to listen to her?”
“I’ve been thinking about it the entire way
here. I thought about it as I downed
that first Moscow Mule. I’m still
thinking and the logical part of my brain says that Mary…Maria, whatever…is
right. Her and our mom’s father, our
grandfather, was an ex-KGB agent under the Soviet regime in Russia. Not to mention mom’s involvement with a
member of the Russian mafia that led to her death.”
“Faked death, according to Mary.”
“Right, well either way, whether you’re
talking the KGB or the Russian mafia, either way you’re talking some pretty
dangerous shit. But…”
“I knew there was a but coming…” Kayla
says with a smirk.
“…I was there, Kay. I was there and I was tied down and forced to
watch her get raped and murdered by that asshole!” Tears well up in
Angelica’s eyes as she remembers that painful day as a child.
“At least you think that’s what you saw.”
“I know what I saw!” Angelica growls
angrily at Kayla.
“You were a child, Angel. Just thirteen years old and that was a long
time ago. Are you sure your memory of
that event is good?”
“It has to be! You don’t forget things like that, do you?”
“I wouldn’t be so sure.” Kayla says,
shaking her head. “Stranger things have
happened.”
“Right, well point is that event shaped my
entire adult life. Everything that I am
today, everything that I became, everything that I accomplished, both good and
bad, all because of that one singular event.
I believe I have a right to know for certain if that one event that
shaped my entire life was nothing but a lie.” She shakes her head. “And there is no way I am relying solely on
the word of our Aunt.”
Kayla
reaches out and takes her by the hands. “Then
I’ll be there to help you every step of the way.”
The moment
is interrupted when loud gunshots ring out in the bar. Everyone starts screaming, including Angelica
and Kayla, as they all duck and cover on the floor underneath their
tables. The shots continue for a little
bit until the screeching of car tires is heard, indicating that the shooters
have fled. Angelica and Kayla stare at
each other from underneath the table with fear in their eyes.
“Angelica…I think Aunt Mary was right…pursuing
this would be dangerous…”
“Yeah, it will be.” Angelica steels
herself and attempts to look resolute. “But
I’m not going to let that stop me.”
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On Camera
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I’ve been in
this industry for fourteen years. My
sister Kayla has been wrestling longer than that, if you can imagine. If you want to talk experience, we have every
bit of experience necessary to accomplish anything and everything that we
desire in this sport. That experience is
important because it teaches us so many valuable lessons, and one of those
lessons that we have taken to heart is the lesson that greatness cannot be
achieved overnight in just one match.
You can’t expect to set a goal, win just one mere match, and then shout
to the world or anyone who will listen that you’ve achieved that goal. No one will take you seriously.
Kayla and I
don’t have to prove that we have the potential.
We are two time SCW World Tag Team Champions. On any given night we can beat anyone and
everyone who steps inside that ring against us.
I don’t care if you are an established team like Adrenaline Rush or Resurgence,
a team that is just beginning to gel like Kennedy and Amy or Chad and Lexi or
The Network, or if you’re a team that just threw itself together for this
tournament…
…that’s
right, I’m talking about Blake and Taylor, Bree and Sienna…
…it doesn’t
matter because on any given night we can beat them all. No, we haven’t been at the top of our game
lately, and we have even lost to some of these teams during that long and nasty
losing streak we were on. Adrenaline
Rush, Resurgence, Kennedy and Amy, if my sister and I haven’t said it already,
let me say it one other time, congratulations on beating our asses. You were the better teams when we fought.
But that was
then, this is now. We’ve turned a
corner. We have rebounded and we are ready
to bounce back to prove once again that we are one of the best tag teams in
this division. But we’ve just had one
match…and like I said, greatness isn’t proven with one match on one night…
…right,
Kayla?
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On Camera
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Breakdown from
New Orleans, Louisiana…a city that is known for making comebacks. The city of New Orleans was creamed by
Hurricane Katrina but they fought back, they rebuilt, and they persevered. They made a comeback.
Motivational
speaker Willie Jolley says that a setback is a setup for a comeback. The Sisterhood has had plenty of damn
setbacks over the past few months with loss after loss accumulating with
seemingly no end in sight. We finally
broke that ugly streak against a pair of losers and while that feeling of
victory was great, it was far from what we ultimately want; because we
understand, as the rest of the world understands, one match on one night means
nothing.
Oh but three
matches in one night? Oh that speaks
volumes. Wrestling and winning three times
in one night; that’s not a fluke, that’s damn talent right there. Doing that means you are worthy of being
named the best and if Angelica and I can just wrestle and win three times in
one night in the city of legendary comebacks, we will earn a shot at the SCW
World Tag Team Championships, a shot to once again be the best tag team in the
world.
So yes, I’ll
chime in with my older sister and congratulate Adrenaline Rush, Amy and
Kennedy, and even The Resurgence on kicking our asses awhile back. You earned it. You were better. But that was then, this is now, and we are a
different Sisterhood now than we were back then. We are not the pair of whiny bitches, griping
and moaning about everything and anything.
The complaining, pissing, and moaning is all over. We’re coming after you with one job to do,
and that job is a job we do pretty damn well…
…wrestle. Wrestle and win.
To the teams
that probably feel entitled to this, teams like Blake and Taylor, Sienna and
Bree, and Chad and Lexi, understand that you are not entitled to a damn
thing. That was mine and Angelica’s
mistake. But if you think you are
entitled to this, then you are going to learn the hard way that the very top of
the tag team mountain is a privileged spot that is earned, not inherited, and
you will have to earn it by going through some of the best teams in Supreme
Championship Wrestling…
…teams like
The Sisterhood.
Oh and as
for The Network, don’t think that ideas of revenge and payback will cloud my
mind or Angelica’s mind. We know what we
must do and yes, we will beat the hell out of you in round one, we will exact
our revenge, but we are too smart to let you get under our skin. The ultimate revenge is the knowledge that we
were the ones who made sure you wouldn’t become number one contenders to the
SCW World Tag Team Championship and we are going to do that by eliminating your
asses right out of the gate in round one!
Then, The
Sisterhood will continue to march through the other teams, all the way to the
final. We will face anyone and everyone
that we have to in order to accomplish this goal. And we will kick their teeth right down their
throat!
