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Scene 1
Off Camera
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Love is a
strong emotion that can make people do strange things. Love has different effects on different
people, but one thing that remains true is that love always has an impact in
some way upon everyone. Angelica Jones
thought that love would not have an impact upon her but, as it would turn out,
she was sadly mistaken.
The
disappearance of Lindsey Carter has definitely taken its toll on the mind of
Angelica Jones. Her courtship and
eventual wedding of the billionaire corporate executive Lindsey Carter was, at
first, a farce. It was a ruse
perpetrated by Angelica Jones and another woman to gain control of her company,
Carter Industries. Angelica never
expected that she and Lindsey would honestly fall for one another.
Yet it
happened. Not only did Angelica fall for
her, she began to believe that finally, after years upon years of never getting
it right, of the right person eluding her, Angelica had felt that she had
finally found happiness with Lindsey Carter.
It may have been odd, it may have been unorthodox, but she was happy
spending her life with Lindsey Carter.
All of that
came crashing down around her when Lindsey Carter confronted Angelica about
never being around. Angelica was busy
touring with Supreme Championship Wrestling or singing at a concert and never
had time to spend at home with Lindsey.
This time away got Lindsey to thinking back to how the marriage got
started in the first place, how it all began over a lie. Lindsey lost faith in her marriage to
Angelica and called it off.
She asked
for a divorce.
It was yet
another failed relationship for Angelica Jones.
And as if to pour salt in the wound, Lindsey Carter would disappear just
a few weeks later and Angelica would be the first suspect. It was a smart suspicion. It is well known that Angelica murdered a
former boyfriend. Why wouldn’t she
potentially cause another one to disappear?
Angelica, though, had nothing to do with this disappearance and,
thankfully for her, the police have cleared her of the disappearance.
Still,
Lindsey is gone. Did she leave because
of Angelica? Is Angelica at fault for
all of her failed relationships? Does
Angelica Jones even deserve happiness?
To answer that question she is going to seek out unlikely help in an
unlikely place: Florida.
Palm Beach
County, Florida is a place Angelica Jones knows all too well, and yet she
hasn’t been here in quite a long time.
It’s surprising to note that, when you consider that Angelica’s wife
Lindsey Carter also calls Palm Beach home.
Yes, as a married couple they did maintain property in Palm Beach
County, but they never stayed down in Florida.
You can do many things to Angelica Jones but one thing you will never do
is convince her to move away from Boston, Massachusetts.
Angelica’s
biggest connection to Palm Beach County isn’t actually from her wife but
instead from a rather unusual source.
Her sometimes friend, sometimes enemy, from another lifetime calls Palm
Beach her home. The woman’ s name is
Meagan Collins and Angelica would visit with Meagan many times during the days
they worked together and trained together as a part of the tag team unit known
as Fame & Fortune.
Meagan
Collins was the “Fortune” of Fame & Fortune due to her vast wealth. She didn’t earn the money herself,
though. She married into it. And throughout her wrestling career she
always managed to her manipulate her way to get whatever she wanted. Meagan wanted to eliminate her chief business
rival, a woman Angelica would come to know as Lindsey Carter.
To do this,
she and Angelica struck a deal; Meagan’s lawyers would secretly draw up a
prenuptial agreement and take the risk that Lindsey would not read it. The agreement being that if the marriage
ended, in any way shape or form, Lindsey would forfeit all 100% of her shares
of Carter Incorporated to Meagan Collins.
Thus Lindsey was forced to practically do whatever Angelica told her to
do, otherwise Angelica would end the marriage herself, thus giving Meagan
control of the company. Knowing that
Lindsey would do whatever was necessary to keep Angelica happy meant that
Lindsey was no longer a threat to Meagan’s business ventures.
Lindsey and
Angelica grew to legitimately love one another and Angelica eventually forgot
all about how the marriage came to be.
But she was reminded rather harshly by Lindsey Carter when she demanded
a divorce. Now Angelica wants to
revisit that incident by speaking with the mastermind herself.
It’s been
quite a long time since Angelica and Meagan spoke. The last time they did speak, they were not
exactly best friends, but they weren’t enemies either. Angelica knows full well who she is dealing
when she talks to Meagan Collins. If
anything, they are acquaintances.
Nothing more.
But Angelica
will make this side trip to a local gym in Palm Beach County, Florida before
she makes the trip back to San Antonio, Texas for the SCW Retribution pay per
view where she will team with Kayla Jones as part of The Sisterhood to face
Honor Code Lite…
…at least,
that’s what Kayla Jones calls the team of Shaun Cruze and Lexi Von Aaron.
This gym is
a far cry from the gym Meagan used to utilize for training purposes, Angelica
can tell as she exits her rental car and gets a better look at the outside of
this gym. It looks ratty and run down,
dirty and in great disrepair in need of an upgrade. Meagan Collins may not have been born into
wealth but she quickly grew used to the lap of luxury. Knowing that Meagan is here is a surprise to
Angelica Jones.
Angelica was
preparing for luxury, thus she is dressed in great contrast to the gym she sees
before her. Jones is wearing a form
fitting sleeveless black dress with a hemline that stops just at the knee. She stands perched atop matching black high
heeled pumps and her long red hair hangs unrestrained to shoulder length.
This wasn’t
exactly what she was expecting when she contacted Meagan wanting to meet with
her and talk with her, but nevertheless she steps away from her vehicle and
heads towards the front door of the gym.
With a feeling of determination, Jones shoves the front door open and
steps inside. There she finds it full of
individuals. Most men, a few women, but
all working out and none of them are rich and wealthy.
A few men
give Angelica catcalls and whistles as she steps into the gym. She rolls her eyes. If she had known about Meagan’s apparent fall
from grace, she would’ve dressed more appropriately. She ignores the noises and focuses on trying
to find Meagan. But then…
“Angelica!”
Jones turns
her attention towards the direction of the familiar voice she just heard. She spots a female walking towards her. She looks far more rough and ragged than how
she last left her but it is, indeed, Meagan Collins. Her long dark hair is pulled into a ponytail
in the back. Meagan is wearing black
adidas workout pants, a white t-shirt, and white tennis shoes. She stops in front of Angelica and with a
scowl on her face she places her hands on her hips.
“You no good redheaded bitch!”
Angelica
tilts her head to one side, perplexed by Meagan’s rather unusual welcome.
“Something wrong?”
“Is something wrong? You have some nerve asking me that.”
Meagan
shakes her head.
“I have half a mind to…”
Meagan
suddenly smirks knowingly and embraces Angelica in a tight hug.
“…hug you and kiss you!”
Ok, as if
Angelica was not confused enough, she is definitely confused now. After breaking the embrace, Meagan kisses
Angelica on the cheek. Meagan had
sounded quite intense earlier but now she sounds very cheerful.
“How are you doing, Angel?”
“Uh…I’m doing fine…”
Meagan
chuckles.
“Oh don’t mind me, Angel. You know how we are, we’ve been friends,
we’ve been enemies, so we can’t have our reunion without a little bit of
turmoil, right?”
Jones sighs
and just shrugs her shoulders.
“I guess.”
Meagan
places an arm around her former friend’s shoulder.
“Walk with me, talk with me. You got questions, I got answers!”
Angelica
reluctantly follows Meagan as she leads her towards the exit. Jones does know Meagan all too well. She knows how manipulative she can be and she
knows Meagan has her own agenda. And yet
Meagan is one of the few people outside of her sister that knows her very
well. Angelica is seeking answers and
advice and perhaps, if Meagan really and truly is at the bottom of the barrel,
if she truly has reached the pits of her existence, then maybe she can help
this time.
The two
women exit the gym, stepping just outside the front door of the gym. Meagan turns to face Angelica and puts on
that same polite smile that Angelica even now has to question if it is genuine
or faked.
“So, you don’t come to see me in years, but
now here you are…”
Angelica
nods her head.
“Yeah, here I am.”
“…so what can I do for you? What do you need? I mean, let’s face it, I doubt you came here
to socialize; not after what we’ve done to one another.”
“You’re right, Meagan, this isn’t me being
sociable. I come here with a purpose, a
purpose you might find rather interesting especially considering
your…situation.”
“What do you…”
Meagan turns
and looks back at the run down, ratty gym and then turns and looks back at
Angelica with a look of realization on her face.
“Oh, yeah…THAT situation.”
Meagan
sighs.
“I did kind of get myself into that
one. I mean, I had it all. I literally had it all, Angel. I was married to a billionaire, I was a
former world champion, I could have retired; but I was on a losing streak and
my damnable pride couldn’t let me go out as a loser. I had to prove I can do it when the chips
were down.”
She shakes her
head, chuckling.
“Now I work for Aphrodite Noel because I had
to be dumb enough to agree to that damned stipulation.”
To see
Meagan Collins go from tyrannical, egotistical wealthy billionaire heiress to
being a humble servant of another tyrant due to losing a wrestling match is
partially comforting to Angelica Jones.
It serves as a reminder that karma does exist in the world. Yet, at the same time, it is sad to see
Meagan like this.
“Well I think I have some news for you.”
“Good news?”
Angelica shrugs
her shoulders.
“Depends on who you ask. The news isn’t necessarily good for me but
for you it’s great.”
Meagan
arches a brow.
“Oh?”
“Remember Lindsey Carter?”
Meagan rolls
her eyes.
“Yeah, her…”
She
chuckles.
“…we really got her good, didn’t we?”
“Meagan, please…”
Meagan
frowns as she studies Angelica skeptically.
“Wait a minute, you don’t actually feel BAD
for her, do you?”
“Try to understand things from a different
perspective, Meagan.”
Meagan
chuckles.
“You do!
You DO feel bad for her!”
She shakes
her head as she continues to laugh.
“This is great, you feel bad for her. Why?
Did you fall in love with her?”
“Yeah, maybe I did…”
Meagan
smirks.
“Love is dumb. You know that, right?”
Angelica
shakes her head.
“No, I don’t know that. In fact, I know you’re wrong. Everyone needs love, Meagan, even people like
you who seem devoid of the emotion.”
“No, Angelica, people like me learned a long
time ago that love is a pointless endeavor.
It’s all about getting what you want.”
“Well maybe I DO want love.”
Meagan grows
a bit more serious.
“I don’t buy it, Angelica. I don’t buy it because I know you. You and me are pretty much the same
person. The only difference between you
and me is that I admit who I am. You
want to pretend that you are something you are not.”
Meagan nods
her head.
“Now I’ll give you one thing, you may not be
The Dragon any longer. But I do not buy
into this whole ‘you are a good person’ drivel you’re selling on television. No one who knows you buys it, either. Or need I remind you that YOU did help me in
screwing over Lindsey Carter?”
Angelica
sighs and shakes her head.
“No, no need to remind me…”
“Would a good person manipulate someone into
marrying them just to gain control of their business? Really?
Answer yourself that, Angelica, and please, for me, drop the damn act.”
Angelica
wanted to ask Meagan if she were a good person, but apparently she just got the
answer. Angelica sighs and then walks
over to her rental car. Meagan stares on
rather puzzled as Angelica opens the door and reaches inside. She produces paperwork which she holds out
towards Meagan.
“What’s that?”
“Lindsey is gone, Meagan.”
“Huh?”
Meagan walks
over to the car and snatches the paperwork out of Angelica’s hands. She scans it quickly and then looks over at
Angelica again.
“This is…”
“Yeah, control of Carter Industries, just as
your lawyers said you would have if there were ever a divorce and the divorce
is finalized. We’re through.”
“Ok, but…”
“Lindsey is also missing. And it’s all my fault.”
Meagan
gasps, genuinely shocked by this turn of events.
“Angelica, I…I had no idea…I’m sorry.”
Angelica
shakes her head.
“No, don’t apologize. You were right. I am a monster.”
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Scene 2
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It has been
a few days since Angelica Jones had her meeting with Meagan Collins to notify
her that Carter Incorporated was all hers.
Perhaps, with Lindsey gone and Carter Incorporated under her control,
Meagan can rebuild herself and get out from under Aphrodite Noel’s thumb. For Angelica, however, it was a failed
mission. She had hoped to find some
solace and relief. She had hoped Meagan
would tell her that she was a good person, despite her feelings otherwise. Instead Meagan told her that Angelica was
just pretending. She said Angelica was
just putting on a show and should quit the charade.
Now the
redhead finds herself in her hotel room in San Antonio, Texas. Retribution is just over the horizon, the
next pay per view for Supreme Championship Wrestling. Angelica and her sister Kayla are supposed to
face Shaun Cruze and Lexi Von Aaron.
The
Sisterhood have been the number one contenders to the SCW World Tag Team Titles
for quite some time now and they were hoping to get their title shot at
Retribution but, due to AJ Helms qualifying for the Shot of Adrenaline
Semi-Finals, that title shot will have to wait.
Angelica and
Kayla are tired of the waiting. The
frustration has been growing with each time their one on one title opportunity
has fallen through. Now, once again,
they have to wait. Facing Cruze and Von
Aaron is definitely not the match they wanted.
The
frustration, combined with what Meagan Collins told Angelica, is making her
wonder if she should even bother with the notions of honor that she had been
striving for? If she really isn’t a good
person, then why not just do whatever is necessary to win?
Jones is
awake as she lies in bed in the hotel room.
She has been awake for quite sometime now and is even dressed in denim
jeans, flip flops, and a black “SCW” t-shirt.
She just doesn’t want to get out of bed and start the day yet. She just wants to lie here and disappear…
…disappear
like Lindsey Carter disappeared.
Her quiet is
interrupted with a loud banging at the door.
Jones sighs and shouts as loud as she can…
“GO AWAY!”
“Like hell I am!”
The voice on
the other side of the door belongs to Kayla Jones, her sister and tag team
partner. Angelica sighs as she swings
her legs over the edge of the bed. She
puts her feet on the floor and stand up.
Jones walks over to the door and opens it ever so slightly, getting a
peak at her sister’s face.
“Now is not the right time, sis.”
Angelica
tries to shut the door but Kayla puts her foot in the doorway to stop it from
shutting all the way.
“When the hell is the right time, Angelica?”
“Kayla, please…”
“No, listen…you haven’t been answering my
calls or my texts. That is unlike you.”
“I can take care of myself. I shouldn’t have to check in with you.”
Kayla rolls
her eyes.
“You know what I mean, smart ass. Now let me in.”
Angelica
sighs and opens the door. Kayla walks
right on in. The younger Jones is
wearing a maxi skirt, red colored, with a black sleeveless shirt. She steps to the center of the hotel room and
turns to face Angelica. Kayla places her
hands on her hips and frowns.
“What’s wrong with you?”
“Do you even have to ask, Kay? You should know by now what’s wrong with me.”
She taps
herself on the head.
“I’m fucked in the head! Lucky for you, a psycho like me tends to be
good in a wrestling ring, so I can pull my weight at Retribution, if that’s
what you’re so damned worried about.”
“Retribution? Angelica, I’m worried about YOU…Retribution
be damned. The tag team titles be
damned.”
She places a
hand on Angelica’s shoulder.
“And you’re NOT a psycho.”
Tears form
in Angelica’s eyes.
“Maybe, maybe not, but I am a bad person,
Kayla. There is no denying that.”
“Who told you that?”
Angelica
sighs.
“Meagan.”
Kayla also
knows about Meagan Collins. She knows
her all too well. Kayla was the first
one to get Meagan into wrestling. Meagan
was originally one of Kayla’s models and Kayla introduced her to
pro-wrestling. There she met
Angelica. The rest is history. Now Kayla wishes that she had never
introduced Meagan to wrestling.
“You cannot believe a damn thing that bitch
tells you!”
Kayla
embraces Angelica in a tight hug.
“You are not the bad person she makes you
out to be!”
“But I am!
I participated in Meagan’s plot to ruin Lindsey’s life and…”
Angelica
shakes her head as she sobs.
“…and it worked! Lindsey’s life is ruined! Lindsey is gone…all because of me…”
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On Camera
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I’m not going to stand here and pretend to be a good
person. I tried to break Selena Frost’s
back with the Angel’s Arch and damn near did it. Some might have considered me a hero for it,
though it still wouldn’t have made it right.
But I did it anyway. I joined
with Silas Mason hoping to get a shortcut to success in SCW. Was it the right thing to do? No, but I did it anyway.
I have made many mistakes and God knows if I could go back in
time and correct them all, I would. But
I can’t change the past. There is no
magical blue police box that will send me anywhere I want to change the
past. The past is there forever and my
legacy is forever tainted by my questionable past. All I can do now is attempt to be better
going forward.
It didn’t help matters when Kayla and I whined and complained
with the crazy and crappy #FreeBotswana campaign. We whined and complained like children and
what did it get us?
Nothing.
Ever since then we swore to do things the right way. We would go on to defeat then reigning SCW
World Tag Team Champions Gable Winchester and Autumn Valentine in not just one
but TWO non-title matches. We would go
on to fight anyone else SCW put in our way.
Tainted Justice, one of which is the current World Champion
by the way…BEAT THEM.
Team Desire…BEAT THEM.
Kayla and I have tried so hard, oh so very hard to do things
the right way and I thought that, perhaps, we had earned a title shot. But instead of giving us a one on one title
shot against Winchester and Valentine, SCW put us in a clusterfuck called Tag
Team Turmoil.
Then it appeared as if we would finally get our tag team
title shot after Shaun Cruze and AJ Helms did the honorable thing and agreed to
defend the titles against The Sisterhood.
HONORABLE thing…see what I did there?
But now once again The Sisterhood is being told that the
match is changing. Not only are we not
getting a tag title shot, but we’re not even facing Honor Code. We’re facing Shaun Cruze and Lexi Von
Helmsaaron, but what do you call them, Kayla?
I call them Honor Code Lite. They are Honor Code because that is what they
are. One may believe in Honor, that
being you Shaun Cruze. I get that you
can’t control what happens with AJ. I
get it that he qualified for the Shot of Adrenaline Semi-Finals and he can’t
necessarily be asked to compete multiple times.
Granted it never stopped SCW from
making Blake Mason compete multiple times in one event, but being that as it may, I’d rather face Honor Code when you two are fresh and at
100%. I don’t want there to be any
excuses when we defeat you for the SCW World Tag Team Championship, just as it
is with Angelica and I. We make no
excuses when we fail. We don’t want
there to be any room for excuses once a winner is determined in our tag team
title match.
So to you, Shaun, I’m willing to
wish you good luck. I’m willing to say
‘may the best team win’. With you, being
a former world champion, I look forward to the challenge, a challenge that The
Sisterhood has been met with before.
Only this time we hope to end it with a different result.
I hate it, that you got saddled
with Lexi Von Helmsaaron, not only because I do respect you and I hate to see
you in this situation, but also for mine and Angelica’s sake. We want the best competition. We want to face the best tag team. The best tag team right now is Honor Code.
This is Honor Code Lite and Lexi
Von Helmsaaron is the LITE of Honor Code Lite.
Instead of preparing for a pay per
view tag team match of epic proportions, instead of trying to help out the best
friend of your supposed boy toy, you’re busy pretending to be a princess on
social media.
Here’s a piece of advice,
Lexi. The royal shtick is overdone.
“Snow Queen”
“Suicide Queen”
Give it a rest, please! And the constant bickering on social media
with your fellow SCW wrestlers, demanding that they call you a Princess or call
you Lexi Helms? It’s pathetic and it
shows that you don’t give a damn about the match or helping your tag team
partner Shaun Cruze.
I tried to be nice. I tried to give you advice but clearly you’re
unwilling to listen to my veteran advice.
I tried telling you that you needed to forget about AJ Helms and focus
on wrestling. Maybe then you could
impress someone like him.
Maybe.
But you didn’t listen, and that’s
fine.
So the gloves are off, sweetheart.
You’re handicapping your tag team
partner, that’s all you’re doing. You
clearly don’t care. That’s fine with me
and Angelica because we DO care. We are
competitors who are passionate about what we do and, more than that, we are
tired of waiting.
SCW tells us we have to face Honor
Code Lite? That’s fine. We’ll do it.
We’ll DEFEAT Honor Code Lite at Retribution. We’ll beat you and Shaun Cruze. And then there will be no questioning that
we’re deserving of a tag team title shot against the REAL best tag team in SCW.
And when we do finally get it,
we’ll beat the REAL Honor Code, not the fake substitution, and become the SCW
World Tag Team Champions, but not before we kick your teeth right down your
throat!
BANK ON IT! Right,
Kayla?
Don’t say that, Lexi Von
Helmsaaron’s buddies say that.
“Oh…”
