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Off Camera
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We open
backstage after the SCW Future Is Now pay per view has come to its
conclusion. Specifically we are in
someone’s dressing room. The dressing
room is actually quite roomy; wooden benches line two of the walls while blue
lockers line the other two walls. A
Future Is Now pay per view poster is hanging on one of the walls and the floor
is a plain concrete one.
Kayla Jones
is sitting hunched over in a blue steel folding chair in the center of the
room. She has already changed back into
her regular attire, consisting of She is dressed in a flowing, loose fit ankle
length floral print skirt, a red short sleeved top, and sandals on her
feet. Her long gorgeous red hair hangs
unrestrained to shoulder length.
The younger
half of The Sisterhood appears to be deep in thought, so deep that she doesn’t
even notice when the door opens and her oldest sister, Angelica Jones, joins
her in the room. Angelica is wearing a
pair of form fitting denim jeans, a black t-shirt, and her signature black leather
jacket. Her long red hair hangs unrestrained
to shoulder length.
Another pay
per view and another disappointing loss for Angelica and Kayla Jones; it has
been par for the course but something seems different this time. There is something in the air that seems to
indicate that, despite their continued run of bad luck, that perhaps maybe,
just maybe, they are turning a corner.
“Kay?
You awake?”
“No…” Kayla remarks as she looks up at
her older sister with a sly smirk on her face “…I’m just practicing dying.”
“Well it’s good that you haven’t lost your
sense of humor.”
Angelica
walks over to Kayla, grabbing a steel chair of her own as she sets it up next
to her younger sibling. Angelica sits
down in the chair next to Kayla, placing a hand on her knee, gazing into her
eyes with a look of concern.
“Are you ok, though?”
“Sure, why wouldn’t I be? I mean, it isn’t like we’ve been losing time
and time again here in this division that we used to dominate.”
“Yeah, right…” Angelica chuckles “…you’re definitely ok, your sarcasm is
showing it.”
“Losing is tough to handle, but you know
something?” Kayla pauses as she lets out a sigh. “It isn’t nearly as bad or frustrating as it once was.”
“Oh?”
“Don’t get me wrong, it still sucks to lose
like this, especially to idiots like Chad and Lexi, but I’ve had time to think
about this whole situation we find ourselves in, a situation that we, in a way,
have put ourselves in.
“What do you mean?” Angelica asks.
“We have isolated ourselves from the entire
division. No one likes us and why is
that?”
“Because we’ve been acting like a couple of
bitches.” Angelica smirks.
“True, but it goes beyond that. We’ve been acting entitled. We think we’re entitled to being in the top
spot of the tag team division, we think we’re entitled to being heaped with
praise, and yet Amy Chastaine and Kennedy Street team up for the first time
ever and we freak out, like they do not deserve it. But they went out there tonight and they
EARNED the tag titles. We should be
happy for them, not pissed off because they’re getting a shot and not us.”
Kayla points to Angelica and then at herself. “We focus on us, we focus on what we can take from tag team wrestling,
and hell, from wrestling in general, and we’re not focusing on what we can give
back to this sport. I mean, we’ve done a
lot in our careers, Angel, don’t you think it’s time we gave back?”
Angelica
tilts her head to one side and studies her younger sister carefully, trying to
figure out exactly what it is she is asking.
“What are you suggesting, Kay? Are you suggesting that we quit? Retire?”
“No, no, not at all.” Kayla shakes her
head. “You and I, we have plenty of years
left in us. We don’t have to quit or
retire anytime soon. We can keep going
on and maybe even win a third SCW World Tag Team Championship if we ever get back
on track. But sis, come on, is this
really about winning as many championships as possible or is this about
something more?”
“The championships are important, but…” Angelica’s
voice trails off for a moment as she pauses to consider her answer. Kayla interrupts, answering for her.
“But it isn’t the only thing. It isn’t even the most important thing. Our
greatness will be determined in part based on what we give back to the
sport. How do we contribute to the
enduring legacy of this sport; not just how much titles we can win?”
“Audrey.” The name is a familiar one and
is the first one that pops up as Angelica realizes where Kayla is going with
this line of thought.
“Yeah, I thought about Audrey.” Kayla
remarks with a nod of her head. “We
started training Audrey Russo, and if I recall you were hesitant at first but
even you came around.”
“I admit, I may have been a little unfair to
Russo.”
“A little?
Angel, you threatened to beat the hell out of her.”
“What can I say? I have a temper.”
“Not an excuse.” Kayla answers. “My point is, while the training sessions
are still going on, they have become less and less frequent. What if Audrey were to give up on this
sport? What if she misses out on her
dreams of becoming a wrestler and it’s all our fault? OR we could continue to mold her in our image
and she could be our contribution to this sport.”
“You make a good point,” Angelica says
with a disappointing sigh “but she isn’t
the only one we…or rather I…have been neglecting.”
“What do you mean?”
“My own children…” Angelica’s voice
trails off.
“Now, Angelica, don’t beat yourself up over
that again.”
“It’s true though.” Angelica answers
back. “Marie felt guilty over the
preferential treatment I gave her, Jessica hates the preferential treatment I
gave Marie, and then there’s poor Kim; who knows if Kim even feels like she
belongs in this family? And it’s all
because of how I’ve been neglecting them.”
Angelica
reaches out and takes Kayla’s hands. She
gazes deep into her younger sister’s eyes.
“You’re right, Kay. We’ve been focused on those tag titles, on
this business, so much that we’ve been neglecting other things, more important
thing. I think a change is necessary.”
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On Camera
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Team Desire…how
appropriate, because DESIRE is ultimately what it takes to be great in this
industry. Now Kayla and I won’t pretend
that we’ve been GREAT lately. We haven’t
been able to win when it counts. But
that doesn’t mean that our desire has lessened.
It doesn’t mean that we’ve lost the will to get the job done. We still have dreams and we still have desires
as a team in Supreme Championship Wrestling.
We still
want to be the SCW World Tag Team Champions for a third time.
Now we have
no illusions that one win, even over a stalwart team like the Stewards, would
put us right back into the title picture, but you have to start somewhere and
we’re ready to right the ship. We’re not
thinking long term, we’re not looking past you two, you can rest assured of
that. We are focused solely on you, we
are focused on getting back to our winning ways and we are going to do that at
YOUR expense.
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On Camera
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Yeah, like
Angelica said, a third tag title reign would be nice, but that’s not in our
short term plan. Hell, as bad as we’ve
been lately it may not even be in the long term plan. Right now we just want one simple thing…
…respect. We want the fans to watch us and know that
they are watching one of the greatest tag teams in professional wrestling. We want our opponents to either feel pride
knowing that they get to wrestle The Sisterhood or feel that sense of dread
knowing that The Sisterhood is about to kick their teeth down their throat.
And at the
end of the day, when all of the smoke is cleared and that final bell is rung,
Angelica and I just want to make damn sure that you two Stewards know that you’ve
been in a war and that you know that you have been in a fight with one of the
best tag teams in SCW today.
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