Post by K.I.S.S. on Sept 3, 2014 11:20:07 GMT -6
Backstage in their dressing room, the members of Arsenal have just entered the room following the conclusion of Raising Hell. Nikki, Ashley and Bethany watch as Jeszika starts pacing around like a caged beast.
Nikki Peltier: Jez…
As she starts towards their friend, Bethany reaches out and slows her down.
Bethany Kenyon: Hold on, Nik… Ash, go over by the door.
Ashley frowns.
Ashley Kenyon: Why would…
Bethany cuts her off.
Bethany Kenyon: Just do it!
Ashley crosses her arms defiantly.
Ashley Kenyon: What for?
Jeszika Gautier: What for?
She scoffs.
Jeszika Gautier: Isn’t it obvious? She's conveniently getting you to block the door so I can't go give that good for nothing irish bitch what she's got coming...
She paces against for a moment, her anger growing until she lets out a battle cry and punches the locker nearby.
Nikki Peltier: We should have seen this coming…
Her arms still crossed, Ashley shrugs.
Ashley Kenyon: Which part, Aerynn leaving Jezzy to the wolves or Jezzy freaking out about it?
Jeszika Gautier: Well if you didn’t expect the latter after what Aerynn did, then you don't know me very well do you?
Bethany nods to the door.
Bethany Kenyon: Ash, please…
Ashley just stares at her sister.
Ashley Kenyon: Why do I have to be the cannon fodder again?
Bethany lets go of Nikki and walks over to the door herself.
Bethany Kenyon: Happy?
Suddenly looking guilty and ashamed, Ashley walks by the door with her.
Ashley Kenyon: Sorry.
Jeszika Gautier: How could that bitch do this to us? She could have cost us our one fucking chance we had to taking down the children, our one damn chance at getting revenge...
She pauses, seething with rage.
Jeszika Gautier: Fucking two-faced psycho bitch!
She screams in anger again.
Jeszika Gautier: If I ever see her again, God help me for what I will do to her!!
She resumes her pacing, she had half a mind to go find Aerynn now, but with her friends in front of the door, she wouldn’t, she didn’t want to hurt them. Nikki nods slowly.
Nikki Peltier: She’s cracked, that’s for sure, but...
Jeszika Gautier: There's cracking and then there's what she did... two entirely different things. Even when I cracked, sure I punched you in the face, Ash, but I would NEVER have betrayed you and done what Aerynn did!
Ashley absently touches her face.
Ashley Kenyon: Yeah… let’s… not.. do that again…
Jeszika Gautier: How could she do this to us? RIght when we needed her?
Bethany Kenyon: She’s not thinking right… at all.
Ashley shakes her head.
Ashley Kenyon: You’re just gonna let her off the hook, aren’t you?
Jeszika Gautier: Who me? Hell no... Not letting that bitch off the hook!
Ashley shakes her head.
Ashley Kenyon: Not you…
She turns back to her sister accusingly.
Ashley Kenyon: You…
Jeszika Gautier: She better not, but even if she does, I won’t. She will pay for this.
Bethany just stands there.
Bethany Kenyon: I didn’t say…
Ashley cuts her off.
Ashley Kenyon: You didn’t have to! You’ve always been the bleeding heart trying to slow us down, you and Nikki both. Jezzy and I, we tend to fly off the handle and you’re always reeling us back in.
Jeszika Gautier: I agree and this time none of you will stop me from getting revenge on her. She WILL pay for this, dearly…
Bethany raises her hands pleadingly.
Bethany Kenyon: I’m not saying don’t confront her. I’m not even saying don’t take a swing at her, I’m just saying don’t do it right now. The odds are she’s not even in the building anymore and if you go looking for trouble tonight, you’ll find it and it won’t have anything to do with her.
Jeszika Gautier: Trouble?
She scoffs.
Jeszika Gautier: Only trouble we could run into is the children and they're probably off licking their wounds right now…
Bethany shrugs.
Bethany Kenyon: You never know with them…
Ashley shrugs as well.
Ashley Kenyon: She’s probably right about Aerynn being gone though. No way she stuck around.
Jeszika Gautier: You're probably right... Sadly…
Bethany nods, lowering her hands.
Bethany Kenyon: You still coming to my place?
Jeszika shrugs.
Jeszika Gautier: Guess so... As long as I'm not getting in your way and you can handle me bitching about Aerynn and lamenting over my love life all week.
Bethany grins sympathetically.
Bethany Kenyon: Isn't commiserating what we do?
Jeszika nods.
Jeszika Gautier: It is.
Bethany Kenyon: Then it's no problem, Jezzy.
Jeszika nods, not quite happily.
Jeszika Gautier: Done deal then.
Fifteen minutes later, the four of them start to get in the rental car to drive to the airport when Ashley pulls her sister aside.
Ashley Kenyon: Are you sure this is a good idea?
Bethany frowns.
Bethany Kenyon: Is what a good idea?
Ashley nods to Jeszika.
Ashley Kenyon: Trying to slow down the inevitable…
Bethany looks to Jeszika and stares for a second before shrugging.
Bethany Kenyon: Would it be me if I didn’t try?
Ashley almost laughs.
Ashley Kenyon: No, I guess not.
Ashley turns and walks to get into the car while Bethany pulls her phone out for a second. She quickly dials a message and sends the text off, hoping it’s not too late. Having sent this off, she turns off her phone and walks around to her door, getting into the car as Nikki revs the engine.
A day later, Ashley Kenyon is walking to the coffee shop when she sees a familiar face walking an English bulldog. Ashley smiles as the brunette woman bends over to pat her dog on the head before standing up to show her Asia Argento looks to the world.
Ashley Kenyon: LIS!
The woman, Alissa Lacroix, turns to the sound of the voice and smiles.
Alissa Lacroix: ASH!!!
Ashley walks up and hugs her friend before leaning down to greet the dog.
Ashley Kenyon: Hey, Lucy…
Ashley rubs the dog who happily receives the attention.
Ashley Kenyon: Such a pretty baby, yes you are… how are you doing, Lis?
Alissa shrugs.
Alissa Lacroix: Bout as well as can be, I spose. Me and Li are tryin’ to make a new band together. She thinks it’ll help Kelly if she has something to focus on besides…
Ashley nods, standing up to look her friend in the eye.
Ashley Kenyon: Are you guys still?
Alissa manages a small smile.
Alissa Lacroix: Together? Yes. Using…
Alissa trails off, looking down ashamed of the answer. Ashley nods, unconsciously touching her own wrist.
Ashley Kenyon: Billy came home sober the other night.
Alissa looks up, suddenly happy to change the subject from her own trials and tribulations.
Alissa Lacroix: Did he really? Wow… he was even worse than we were…
Ashley nods happily.
Ashley Kenyon: You know he shared with me a couple of times?
Alissa’s eyes go wide.
Alissa Lacroix: Oh God, Ash, don’t…
Ashley shrugs sheepishly.
Ashley Kenyon: I did… didn’t even bother snorting it first, went right to needles.
Alissa glances to Ashley’s arms.
Alissa Lacroix: You... did?
Ashley nods.
Ashley Kenyon: It scared me…
Alissa exhales in relief.
Alissa Lacroix: Good…
She pauses, glancing down at Lucy as the dog sits panting happily.
Alissa Lacroix: I should have been but I couldn’t let Kelly go there alone…
Ashley nods and hugs her friend.
Ashley Kenyon: You look like you’re doing better, Lis.
Alissa smiles sadly.
Alissa Lacroix: Li and Z have helped. Lex and Robbie too.
Ashley nods.
Ashley Kenyon: A new band, huh?
Alissa smiles.
Alissa Lacroix: Yeah, we’re trying to teach Kels how to play drums. Li was already learning guitar and Z started doing that with her too.
Ashley grins.
Ashley Kenyon: A family band, eh?
Alissa returns the bright smile.
Alissa Lacroix: Yeah, and if you’d told Li and me a couple of years ago that would happen, we’d have both called you a liar. No way we’d be in a band together, much less both having girlfriends also in the band…
Ashley shrugs.
Ashley Kenyon: I always thought it was kinda stupid that you weren’t playing bass behind your sister anyway. Her voice, your basslines, it was always a match made in heaven.
Alissa blushes.
Alissa Lacroix: Thanks…
Ashley glances down to Lucy and then nods.
Ashley Kenyon: So Li and Z aren’t wrestling anymore at all?
Alissa shakes her head.
Alissa Lacroix: No, they’ve worked out some but I think all the Kerryn stuff in NEW sort of ended that idea, especially for Z.
She pauses.
Alissa Lacroix: Why, do you guys need help in UWA?
Ashley shrugs.
Ashley Kenyon: Was just asking cause we’re about to meet one of Kerryn’s other victims.
Alissa frowns.
Alissa Lacroix: You are?
Ashley nods.
Ashley Kenyon: Kyle Travis.
Alissa’s mouth falls open.
Alissa Lacroix: The delusional King Arthur Canadian guy?
Ashley nods.
Ashley Kenyon: He’s got friends now called Sang Réal. Me and B are fighting the two guys with the french tag team name.
Alissa Lacroix: And they’re with Travis?
Ashley nods, trying not to laugh at the tone in Alissa’s voice.
Ashley Kenyon: Yup.
Alissa shakes her head.
Alissa Lacroix: Is he still… like that?
Ashley shrugs.
Ashley Kenyon: They’ve got a bug up their asses about people other than them being featured and targeted. It’s like they think Joshua McBride was being nice to us! The guy was trying to destroy us, not help our careers. the fact that he forgot about Sang Réal and left Kyle Travis more or less alone aside from the one match…
Ashley pauses, shaking her head.
Ashley Kenyon: Sometimes I think that’s what Travis is really pissed at. That he didn’t get to defeat Joshua on his own. The other guys, just seem pissed that what they said would happen to the Cornbread Mafia happened to them instead. Boo fucking hoo, I didn’t hear Craven complaining that he’s been left off the card a lot or inventing a bunch of fake reasons for why others aren’t here anymore.
Alissa laughs.
Alissa Lacroix: Sounds like Travis. In NEW he spent months condemning everyone for revering Randy Altzer despite the fact that everybody thought Randy was a pig that deserved anything bad he ever had happened to him. His own stable didn’t even respect him but if you listened to Travis, Raw Randy Altzer was held up as a god there.
Ashley chuckles.
Ashley Kenyon: Let me guess, what he was really angry at was that he sold out to Randy for a quick road to the top, fucked it up himself and then bitched that he wasn’t the center of the universe?
Alissa nods.
Alissa Lacroix: He paid so little attention, he thought Kerryn Kali was a woman until he got teabagged in a world title match. Then he promptly gave his notice and walked saying he’d never gotten a chance even though he’d just main evented for the world title.
Ashley nods knowingly.
Ashley Kenyon: He’s doing roughly the same here, the delusion is just different and now he has followers.
Alissa nods.
Alissa Lacroix: You wanna come over and see how we’re doing with the band?
Ashley nods.
Ashley Kenyon: You cooking too?
Alissa nods, smiling broadly.
Alissa Lacroix: Of course.
Ashley Kenyon: I’m hungry already…
Alissa nods and the two friends walk Lucy back home where they spend the rest of the day catching up.
Nikki Peltier: Jez…
As she starts towards their friend, Bethany reaches out and slows her down.
Bethany Kenyon: Hold on, Nik… Ash, go over by the door.
Ashley frowns.
Ashley Kenyon: Why would…
Bethany cuts her off.
Bethany Kenyon: Just do it!
Ashley crosses her arms defiantly.
Ashley Kenyon: What for?
Jeszika Gautier: What for?
She scoffs.
Jeszika Gautier: Isn’t it obvious? She's conveniently getting you to block the door so I can't go give that good for nothing irish bitch what she's got coming...
She paces against for a moment, her anger growing until she lets out a battle cry and punches the locker nearby.
Nikki Peltier: We should have seen this coming…
Her arms still crossed, Ashley shrugs.
Ashley Kenyon: Which part, Aerynn leaving Jezzy to the wolves or Jezzy freaking out about it?
Jeszika Gautier: Well if you didn’t expect the latter after what Aerynn did, then you don't know me very well do you?
Bethany nods to the door.
Bethany Kenyon: Ash, please…
Ashley just stares at her sister.
Ashley Kenyon: Why do I have to be the cannon fodder again?
Bethany lets go of Nikki and walks over to the door herself.
Bethany Kenyon: Happy?
Suddenly looking guilty and ashamed, Ashley walks by the door with her.
Ashley Kenyon: Sorry.
Jeszika Gautier: How could that bitch do this to us? She could have cost us our one fucking chance we had to taking down the children, our one damn chance at getting revenge...
She pauses, seething with rage.
Jeszika Gautier: Fucking two-faced psycho bitch!
She screams in anger again.
Jeszika Gautier: If I ever see her again, God help me for what I will do to her!!
She resumes her pacing, she had half a mind to go find Aerynn now, but with her friends in front of the door, she wouldn’t, she didn’t want to hurt them. Nikki nods slowly.
Nikki Peltier: She’s cracked, that’s for sure, but...
Jeszika Gautier: There's cracking and then there's what she did... two entirely different things. Even when I cracked, sure I punched you in the face, Ash, but I would NEVER have betrayed you and done what Aerynn did!
Ashley absently touches her face.
Ashley Kenyon: Yeah… let’s… not.. do that again…
Jeszika Gautier: How could she do this to us? RIght when we needed her?
Bethany Kenyon: She’s not thinking right… at all.
Ashley shakes her head.
Ashley Kenyon: You’re just gonna let her off the hook, aren’t you?
Jeszika Gautier: Who me? Hell no... Not letting that bitch off the hook!
Ashley shakes her head.
Ashley Kenyon: Not you…
She turns back to her sister accusingly.
Ashley Kenyon: You…
Jeszika Gautier: She better not, but even if she does, I won’t. She will pay for this.
Bethany just stands there.
Bethany Kenyon: I didn’t say…
Ashley cuts her off.
Ashley Kenyon: You didn’t have to! You’ve always been the bleeding heart trying to slow us down, you and Nikki both. Jezzy and I, we tend to fly off the handle and you’re always reeling us back in.
Jeszika Gautier: I agree and this time none of you will stop me from getting revenge on her. She WILL pay for this, dearly…
Bethany raises her hands pleadingly.
Bethany Kenyon: I’m not saying don’t confront her. I’m not even saying don’t take a swing at her, I’m just saying don’t do it right now. The odds are she’s not even in the building anymore and if you go looking for trouble tonight, you’ll find it and it won’t have anything to do with her.
Jeszika Gautier: Trouble?
She scoffs.
Jeszika Gautier: Only trouble we could run into is the children and they're probably off licking their wounds right now…
Bethany shrugs.
Bethany Kenyon: You never know with them…
Ashley shrugs as well.
Ashley Kenyon: She’s probably right about Aerynn being gone though. No way she stuck around.
Jeszika Gautier: You're probably right... Sadly…
Bethany nods, lowering her hands.
Bethany Kenyon: You still coming to my place?
Jeszika shrugs.
Jeszika Gautier: Guess so... As long as I'm not getting in your way and you can handle me bitching about Aerynn and lamenting over my love life all week.
Bethany grins sympathetically.
Bethany Kenyon: Isn't commiserating what we do?
Jeszika nods.
Jeszika Gautier: It is.
Bethany Kenyon: Then it's no problem, Jezzy.
Jeszika nods, not quite happily.
Jeszika Gautier: Done deal then.
Fifteen minutes later, the four of them start to get in the rental car to drive to the airport when Ashley pulls her sister aside.
Ashley Kenyon: Are you sure this is a good idea?
Bethany frowns.
Bethany Kenyon: Is what a good idea?
Ashley nods to Jeszika.
Ashley Kenyon: Trying to slow down the inevitable…
Bethany looks to Jeszika and stares for a second before shrugging.
Bethany Kenyon: Would it be me if I didn’t try?
Ashley almost laughs.
Ashley Kenyon: No, I guess not.
Ashley turns and walks to get into the car while Bethany pulls her phone out for a second. She quickly dials a message and sends the text off, hoping it’s not too late. Having sent this off, she turns off her phone and walks around to her door, getting into the car as Nikki revs the engine.
A day later, Ashley Kenyon is walking to the coffee shop when she sees a familiar face walking an English bulldog. Ashley smiles as the brunette woman bends over to pat her dog on the head before standing up to show her Asia Argento looks to the world.
Ashley Kenyon: LIS!
The woman, Alissa Lacroix, turns to the sound of the voice and smiles.
Alissa Lacroix: ASH!!!
Ashley walks up and hugs her friend before leaning down to greet the dog.
Ashley Kenyon: Hey, Lucy…
Ashley rubs the dog who happily receives the attention.
Ashley Kenyon: Such a pretty baby, yes you are… how are you doing, Lis?
Alissa shrugs.
Alissa Lacroix: Bout as well as can be, I spose. Me and Li are tryin’ to make a new band together. She thinks it’ll help Kelly if she has something to focus on besides…
Ashley nods, standing up to look her friend in the eye.
Ashley Kenyon: Are you guys still?
Alissa manages a small smile.
Alissa Lacroix: Together? Yes. Using…
Alissa trails off, looking down ashamed of the answer. Ashley nods, unconsciously touching her own wrist.
Ashley Kenyon: Billy came home sober the other night.
Alissa looks up, suddenly happy to change the subject from her own trials and tribulations.
Alissa Lacroix: Did he really? Wow… he was even worse than we were…
Ashley nods happily.
Ashley Kenyon: You know he shared with me a couple of times?
Alissa’s eyes go wide.
Alissa Lacroix: Oh God, Ash, don’t…
Ashley shrugs sheepishly.
Ashley Kenyon: I did… didn’t even bother snorting it first, went right to needles.
Alissa glances to Ashley’s arms.
Alissa Lacroix: You... did?
Ashley nods.
Ashley Kenyon: It scared me…
Alissa exhales in relief.
Alissa Lacroix: Good…
She pauses, glancing down at Lucy as the dog sits panting happily.
Alissa Lacroix: I should have been but I couldn’t let Kelly go there alone…
Ashley nods and hugs her friend.
Ashley Kenyon: You look like you’re doing better, Lis.
Alissa smiles sadly.
Alissa Lacroix: Li and Z have helped. Lex and Robbie too.
Ashley nods.
Ashley Kenyon: A new band, huh?
Alissa smiles.
Alissa Lacroix: Yeah, we’re trying to teach Kels how to play drums. Li was already learning guitar and Z started doing that with her too.
Ashley grins.
Ashley Kenyon: A family band, eh?
Alissa returns the bright smile.
Alissa Lacroix: Yeah, and if you’d told Li and me a couple of years ago that would happen, we’d have both called you a liar. No way we’d be in a band together, much less both having girlfriends also in the band…
Ashley shrugs.
Ashley Kenyon: I always thought it was kinda stupid that you weren’t playing bass behind your sister anyway. Her voice, your basslines, it was always a match made in heaven.
Alissa blushes.
Alissa Lacroix: Thanks…
Ashley glances down to Lucy and then nods.
Ashley Kenyon: So Li and Z aren’t wrestling anymore at all?
Alissa shakes her head.
Alissa Lacroix: No, they’ve worked out some but I think all the Kerryn stuff in NEW sort of ended that idea, especially for Z.
She pauses.
Alissa Lacroix: Why, do you guys need help in UWA?
Ashley shrugs.
Ashley Kenyon: Was just asking cause we’re about to meet one of Kerryn’s other victims.
Alissa frowns.
Alissa Lacroix: You are?
Ashley nods.
Ashley Kenyon: Kyle Travis.
Alissa’s mouth falls open.
Alissa Lacroix: The delusional King Arthur Canadian guy?
Ashley nods.
Ashley Kenyon: He’s got friends now called Sang Réal. Me and B are fighting the two guys with the french tag team name.
Alissa Lacroix: And they’re with Travis?
Ashley nods, trying not to laugh at the tone in Alissa’s voice.
Ashley Kenyon: Yup.
Alissa shakes her head.
Alissa Lacroix: Is he still… like that?
Ashley shrugs.
Ashley Kenyon: They’ve got a bug up their asses about people other than them being featured and targeted. It’s like they think Joshua McBride was being nice to us! The guy was trying to destroy us, not help our careers. the fact that he forgot about Sang Réal and left Kyle Travis more or less alone aside from the one match…
Ashley pauses, shaking her head.
Ashley Kenyon: Sometimes I think that’s what Travis is really pissed at. That he didn’t get to defeat Joshua on his own. The other guys, just seem pissed that what they said would happen to the Cornbread Mafia happened to them instead. Boo fucking hoo, I didn’t hear Craven complaining that he’s been left off the card a lot or inventing a bunch of fake reasons for why others aren’t here anymore.
Alissa laughs.
Alissa Lacroix: Sounds like Travis. In NEW he spent months condemning everyone for revering Randy Altzer despite the fact that everybody thought Randy was a pig that deserved anything bad he ever had happened to him. His own stable didn’t even respect him but if you listened to Travis, Raw Randy Altzer was held up as a god there.
Ashley chuckles.
Ashley Kenyon: Let me guess, what he was really angry at was that he sold out to Randy for a quick road to the top, fucked it up himself and then bitched that he wasn’t the center of the universe?
Alissa nods.
Alissa Lacroix: He paid so little attention, he thought Kerryn Kali was a woman until he got teabagged in a world title match. Then he promptly gave his notice and walked saying he’d never gotten a chance even though he’d just main evented for the world title.
Ashley nods knowingly.
Ashley Kenyon: He’s doing roughly the same here, the delusion is just different and now he has followers.
Alissa nods.
Alissa Lacroix: You wanna come over and see how we’re doing with the band?
Ashley nods.
Ashley Kenyon: You cooking too?
Alissa nods, smiling broadly.
Alissa Lacroix: Of course.
Ashley Kenyon: I’m hungry already…
Alissa nods and the two friends walk Lucy back home where they spend the rest of the day catching up.
