Post by Craven on Aug 19, 2014 18:12:35 GMT -6
Standing outside by his car, Craven waits for Skylar to be cleared to leave by the trainers. Having been asked to get the vehicle ready, Craven knows something is up. Slowly, he opens the driver’s side door and sits down, turning on his small voice recorder.
Craven: Sometimes, something happens that just…
He pauses, glancing back towards the door hoping to catch a glimpse of his goddess but finds no one yet there.
Craven: You’re not sure what it is, but you can see from her reaction that you’re probably not gonna like it.
Swallowing hard, He glances towards the door again and sighs mournfully.
Craven: Somehow, I think I’m gonna be really sorry I was where I was tonight. There’s just… something…
He shakes his head and starts singing sadly.
Craven: Something in the way she moves
Attracts me like no other lover
Something in the way she woos me
He sits back and closes his eyes, still singing.
Craven: I don't want to leave her now
You know I believe and how
A small smile starts to cross his face.
Craven: Somewhere in her smile she knows
That I don't need no other lover
Something in her style that shows me
A slamming door startles him into sitting up, the singing ends. He glances over to see Skylar making her way hurriedly to the car.
Craven: What have you done, Nathaniel? What have you done?
Skylar gets into the car and the two quickly return to their shared motel room in Scottsdale. As they arrive back to the motel, Skylar moves quickly to the room, dumps her bag down and sits on the bed, hugging herself, looking highly uncomfortable. It is not lost on Craven that she has barely spoken a word since just after her match tonight. He steps into the room himself, the show barely an hour past complete at this point, and looks at his girlfriend.
Craven: Do I need to watch the show back?
Skylar shrugs.
Skylar Hansen: Maybe... But it'll only make you mad and want to tear heads off people...
Craven nods slowly, as if he knew this was coming.
Craven: What did he do?
Skylar Hansen: I... he...
She shakes her head.
Skylar Hansen: Maybe it is better if you see it...
Craven nods.
Craven: Ok, I was on the phone with Sin at the time you were in the ring.
Already frazzled, hearing this only seems to make it worse.
Skylar Hansen: Is she ok?
Craven: She and Mercy had a disagreement about a job.
Skylar Hansen: What kind of disagreement?
Craven: Miss Mercy got a job and Sin didn't want her to go.
Skylar Hansen: A bad job?
Craven nods.
Skylar Hansen: Everything ok now?
Craven: She wants me to follow Mercy again when we get back to Vegas.
Skylar Hansen: I see...
She rubs her arms again.
Skylar Hansen: My laptop’s in my bag if you wanna see the match...
Craven nods, retrieves the laptop and fires it up. A few minutes later, he nods grimly before closing the computer back up.
Craven: He posed you...
Skylar nods.
Skylar Hansen: Yes, something I wouldn’t even let you do. And he whispered shit in my ear as he did it...
She pauses, seemingly almost frozen.
Skylar Hansen: Just like he did...
Craven swallows hard before taking her into his arms. She cuddles into him, clinging onto him as a child would its mother.
Skylar Hansen: There's no way he could have known about that... no way!
Craven: No, but he could reason how somebody would want to take things from you.
Skylar Hansen: Taken things from me?
Craven nods.
Skylar Hansen: He knew how to take things from me, but how? How would he know that would affect me like this? That that is the one thing that would get to me like this?
Craven: Like I said, if he looked up your records, he'd see a couple of things. Send somebody to the PD and ask a couple of questions, he'd probably know you were violated and be able to put together how based on what you won't do now.
Skylar closes her eyes.
Skylar Hansen: Cos there are some things even prostitutes won’t do... what he said to me too...
She shivers.
Skylar Hansen: Bastard...
Craven holds her gently, lovingly.
Craven: I'm sorry.
She shakes her head.
Skylar Hansen: It’s not your fault, you didn’t do this. My father did, that Nathaniel asstwat did, not you!
Craven: I should have stopped it.
He pauses and then shrugs.
Craven: I guess you could say that for a few things on that show.
Skylar Hansen: You can't stop things you didn’t know were happening...
She looks up at him.
Skylar Hansen: And Katarina, we couldn’t help her. They stopped us from helping her...
Craven: They got Baron at the end too.
Skylar Hansen: They did? Shit! Was that when we were in the trainer’s room?
Craven nods.
Craven: Yeah.
Skylar Hansen: What happened? Is he ok?
Craven: They got him a little before calling out the Arsenal girls.
Skylar Hansen: The Children did?
Craven nods.
Skylar Hansen: Fuck! So we really are on their radar now?
Craven: Apparently.
Skylar Hansen: How? Why? WHat did we do to get on their radar and I fail to see how attacking Katarina serves as a message to us. She's not even a member of the Sin City Knights!
Craven: Fraser and Baron got their attention verbally and Fraser tried to play protector for Aerynn Donnelly when they came for her. That was apparently enough to go after people vaguely connected to us.
Skylar Hansen: Dammit! I never wanted to get on their bad side! Between them and this Nathaniel guy...
She takes a breath.
Skylar Hansen: Fuck...
She grits her teeth.
Craven: I know...
Skylar Hansen: So what do we do now?
Craven kisses her head.
Craven: We cope and go home, see how Sin is doing.
Skylar nods.
Skylar Hansen: Ok, but for now, just hold me.
He nods and holds her close, making damn sure not to do it the way Nathaniel had.
Craven: Sometimes, something happens that just…
He pauses, glancing back towards the door hoping to catch a glimpse of his goddess but finds no one yet there.
Craven: You’re not sure what it is, but you can see from her reaction that you’re probably not gonna like it.
Swallowing hard, He glances towards the door again and sighs mournfully.
Craven: Somehow, I think I’m gonna be really sorry I was where I was tonight. There’s just… something…
He shakes his head and starts singing sadly.
Craven: Something in the way she moves
Attracts me like no other lover
Something in the way she woos me
He sits back and closes his eyes, still singing.
Craven: I don't want to leave her now
You know I believe and how
A small smile starts to cross his face.
Craven: Somewhere in her smile she knows
That I don't need no other lover
Something in her style that shows me
A slamming door startles him into sitting up, the singing ends. He glances over to see Skylar making her way hurriedly to the car.
Craven: What have you done, Nathaniel? What have you done?
Skylar gets into the car and the two quickly return to their shared motel room in Scottsdale. As they arrive back to the motel, Skylar moves quickly to the room, dumps her bag down and sits on the bed, hugging herself, looking highly uncomfortable. It is not lost on Craven that she has barely spoken a word since just after her match tonight. He steps into the room himself, the show barely an hour past complete at this point, and looks at his girlfriend.
Craven: Do I need to watch the show back?
Skylar shrugs.
Skylar Hansen: Maybe... But it'll only make you mad and want to tear heads off people...
Craven nods slowly, as if he knew this was coming.
Craven: What did he do?
Skylar Hansen: I... he...
She shakes her head.
Skylar Hansen: Maybe it is better if you see it...
Craven nods.
Craven: Ok, I was on the phone with Sin at the time you were in the ring.
Already frazzled, hearing this only seems to make it worse.
Skylar Hansen: Is she ok?
Craven: She and Mercy had a disagreement about a job.
Skylar Hansen: What kind of disagreement?
Craven: Miss Mercy got a job and Sin didn't want her to go.
Skylar Hansen: A bad job?
Craven nods.
Skylar Hansen: Everything ok now?
Craven: She wants me to follow Mercy again when we get back to Vegas.
Skylar Hansen: I see...
She rubs her arms again.
Skylar Hansen: My laptop’s in my bag if you wanna see the match...
Craven nods, retrieves the laptop and fires it up. A few minutes later, he nods grimly before closing the computer back up.
Craven: He posed you...
Skylar nods.
Skylar Hansen: Yes, something I wouldn’t even let you do. And he whispered shit in my ear as he did it...
She pauses, seemingly almost frozen.
Skylar Hansen: Just like he did...
Craven swallows hard before taking her into his arms. She cuddles into him, clinging onto him as a child would its mother.
Skylar Hansen: There's no way he could have known about that... no way!
Craven: No, but he could reason how somebody would want to take things from you.
Skylar Hansen: Taken things from me?
Craven nods.
Skylar Hansen: He knew how to take things from me, but how? How would he know that would affect me like this? That that is the one thing that would get to me like this?
Craven: Like I said, if he looked up your records, he'd see a couple of things. Send somebody to the PD and ask a couple of questions, he'd probably know you were violated and be able to put together how based on what you won't do now.
Skylar closes her eyes.
Skylar Hansen: Cos there are some things even prostitutes won’t do... what he said to me too...
She shivers.
Skylar Hansen: Bastard...
Craven holds her gently, lovingly.
Craven: I'm sorry.
She shakes her head.
Skylar Hansen: It’s not your fault, you didn’t do this. My father did, that Nathaniel asstwat did, not you!
Craven: I should have stopped it.
He pauses and then shrugs.
Craven: I guess you could say that for a few things on that show.
Skylar Hansen: You can't stop things you didn’t know were happening...
She looks up at him.
Skylar Hansen: And Katarina, we couldn’t help her. They stopped us from helping her...
Craven: They got Baron at the end too.
Skylar Hansen: They did? Shit! Was that when we were in the trainer’s room?
Craven nods.
Craven: Yeah.
Skylar Hansen: What happened? Is he ok?
Craven: They got him a little before calling out the Arsenal girls.
Skylar Hansen: The Children did?
Craven nods.
Skylar Hansen: Fuck! So we really are on their radar now?
Craven: Apparently.
Skylar Hansen: How? Why? WHat did we do to get on their radar and I fail to see how attacking Katarina serves as a message to us. She's not even a member of the Sin City Knights!
Craven: Fraser and Baron got their attention verbally and Fraser tried to play protector for Aerynn Donnelly when they came for her. That was apparently enough to go after people vaguely connected to us.
Skylar Hansen: Dammit! I never wanted to get on their bad side! Between them and this Nathaniel guy...
She takes a breath.
Skylar Hansen: Fuck...
She grits her teeth.
Craven: I know...
Skylar Hansen: So what do we do now?
Craven kisses her head.
Craven: We cope and go home, see how Sin is doing.
Skylar nods.
Skylar Hansen: Ok, but for now, just hold me.
He nods and holds her close, making damn sure not to do it the way Nathaniel had.
