Post by K.I.S.S. on Oct 23, 2014 21:56:37 GMT -6
Sitting on her couch with her hands folded before her, Ashley Kenyon leans forward nervously as she waits for her company to arrive. Fifteen minutes previously, she’d sent a message to her older sister and UWA World tag Team Championship Partner, Bethany Kenyon, and asked her to come over for a chat.
Ashley Kenyon: Hey, Bethy… come on in...
Bethany nods and walks into her sister’s living room.
Bethany Kenyon: Where’s Bumblebee? I didn’t see him out there with K.I.T.T.
Ashley smiles at the mention of her cars. She closes the door as she looks outside at her classic black Trans-Am.
Ashley Kenyon: Bumblebee’s in the shop, he needed a brake job and a tune-up and they were gonna need a day or two for the parts to come in.
Bethany shakes her head, laughing.
Bethany Kenyon: You know you’re never gonna get him to beat Jezzy’s 2011, right?
Ashley steps back, scandalized.
Ashley Kenyon: I’m glad he’s not here to hear you say that, poor Bumbles would be heartbroken that you think Darkie would do better.
Bethany can’t help but keep laughing at her sister’s reaction.
Bethany Kenyon: You realize you’re the only one who calls him that, right?
Ashley nods exasperatedly.
Ashley Kenyon: Yeah but Moonpie just sounds… dirty.
Bethany laughs harder.
Bethany Kenyon: Why do you think we call it that?
Defeated, Ashley starts laughing with her sister. The door is closed and Ashley walks over to her couch where bethany quickly joins her.
Bethany Kenyon: Somehow, I don’t think you called me to discuss the finer points of why Jezzy Belle’s Camaro always dusts yours off at the races…
Ashley raises a pointer finger.
Ashley Kenyon: One of these days, Bethy, I’m gonna get her…
Bethany laughs again.
Bethany Kenyon: Only if you finally breakdown and buy that new Charger you keep eyeballing or the Saleen.
Ashley frowns.
Ashley Kenyon: Eww… no way am I buying a Barricade. That would make me a traitor, Autobots forever!
Bethany smirks.
Bethany Kenyon: Maybe I will, then.
Ashley just cocks her head skeptically.
Ashley Kenyon: You’d never replace Mama’s Explorer and you know it.
Bethany nods, looking wistful, almost sad.
Bethany Kenyon: Yeah, probably not.
Ashley nods knowingly.
Ashley Kenyon: No you wouldn’t… but Jezzy would!
Both sisters just look at each other and then start laughing.
Bethany Kenyon: Yes… yes she would, and then Nikki would trick that baby out with everything whether she wanted it or knew how it worked or not.
Smiling knowingly, Ashley nods her agreement.
Ashley Kenyon: Yeah she would, same way she got Bumbles, K.I.T.T. and Mama’s Explorer.
Bethany nods excitedly.
Bethany Kenyon: Though she wouldn’t complain nearly as much about the wiring being crap in the new ones as much as she did ours.
Ashley shrugs.
Ashley Kenyon: Well, it helped that mine were both re-builds anyway.
Bethany nods in agreement.
Bethany Kenyon: Yeah and Mama’s poor Explorer basically needed a full overhaul after that one carjacking incident.
Ashley nods sadly.
Ashley Kenyon: Bullet to the steering column and the radio will do that.
Bethany just shakes her head,
Bethany Kenyon: I was so worried we’d have to junk it after that…
Ashley nods to the door.
Ashley Kenyon: And yet, there it sits out there in my driveway, still going.
Bethany smiles brightly.
Bethany Kenyon: Yeah… she’s a tough old broad, that one!
Ashley nods.
Ashley Kenyon: So, I need to talk to you…
Bethany nods, smiling.
Bethany Kenyon: Ok.
Ashley swallows hard.
Ashley Kenyon: About Brody and the Vince thing.
Bethany raises her hand to slow her sister down.
Bethany Kenyon: I know…
Ashley squints at her sister.
Ashley Kenyon: You know?
Bethany nods.
Bethany Kenyon: I know you were never his biggest fan and I know you didn’t exactly mind him…
She nods and Ashley can see her sister does, in fact, know what she was gonna say.
Ashley Kenyon: I’m sorry…
Bethany shakes her head.
Bethany Kenyon: No, Ash… it’s ok…
Ashley shakes her head sadly.
Ashley Kenyon: No it’s not, I enjoyed it! I was just as much of a monstrous piece of shit as they were!
Bethany slides over and hugs her now tearful sister.
Bethany Kenyon: No, Honey, you weren’t…
Ashley manages to look up into her big sister’s eyes.
Ashley Kenyon: What would Jezzy say if she heard… that? She’d say I was just as bad as Aerynn, maybe worse! She’d hate me!
Bethany hugs her sister tightly again.
Bethany Kenyon: No she wouldn’t, Sweetie.
Bethany pulls back and holds her sister’s face lovingly, almost motherly.
Bethany Kenyon: She’d say you were just being human and that it’s a natural response to being hurt. It’s ok to feel however you feel, Ash. Everybody has thoughts and feelings they’re not proud of at times but the important thing is what happens later. Brody knew he’d wronged people and he’s trying to make amends for it.
Ashley nods slowly, upset and ashamed.
Ashley Kenyon: And I…
She trails off and Bethany catches her.
Bethany Kenyon: And you let him… what more could he ask from you?
Ashley tries but fails to find the right words as her sister just holds her for what seems like years.
Bethany Kenyon: Now… what’s the Vince thing?
Ashley swallows hard, sitting back from her sister.
Ashley Kenyon: You were right, I never did expect this to happen.
Bethany smiles, looking mildly amused.
Bethany Kenyon: Is that all?
Ashley nods and Bethany tussles her hair playfully.
Bethany Kenyon: We’re always gonna be a team, Ash, but it’s perfectly ok to enjoy the opportunity to show you’re not just my leader or my shadow.
Ashley nods.
Ashley Kenyon: Vince is kind of a maddening guy to try it against.
Bethany nods acknowledgingly.
Bethany Kenyon: Well yeah, the smug fronting is almost comical at times until you realize two things.
Ashley frowns.
Ashley Kenyon: That he’s a tantrum throwing attention whore?
Bethany nods acknowledgingly again.
Bethany Kenyon: That and he probably thinks he has to be like he is. remember he’s got that warped version of that word respect floating around in his head that lots of street guys do. That respect only means fear and if you don’t have it, you have nothing.
Ashley shrugs.
Ashley Kenyon: He looks like he’s just a big kid who hasn’t been told no much but I spose that kinda comes with being an athlete the way he is. He’s probably had his ass kissed for so long that…
She shakes her head.
Ashley Kenyon: God, I don’t even wanna think about it.
Bethany smiles.
Bethany Kenyon: Good, cause it’ll just piss you off if you do.
Ashley nods and Bethany hugs her again.
Bethany Kenyon: Come on, Prey’s awaiting and Jezzy’s buying tonight.
Ashley smiles, nodding.
Ashley Kenyon: Ok.
The two get up and head to their favorite place in the world, visions of friends, family and fun to be had dancing in their heads.
A few hours later...
Ashley Kenyon stands in front of her laptop, rolling through a few things when she comes upon a video from Vince Jones. She shakes her head and moves on to others by Ragnarok, the Sin City Knights, Jeszika Gautier and Brody Montgomery. Finally, after watching several others, plus a couple of puppy videos, she watches Vince Jones’ promo and sighs disappointedly. She flips on the webcam and just shakes her head as she starts broadcasting.
Ashley Kenyon: I don’t deserve to be in the ring with someone like Yo Man…
She nods, feigning fear.
Ashley Kenyon: Well FRAG, I’m shaking in my boots cause the Main Man jus tol me!
She nods almost playfully.
Ashley Kenyon: I’m just a keezy fem, right? Ka REE? Keezy fem thinks she can hang with the Main Man?
Rolling her eyes, Ashley looks away incredulously whole folding her arms in front of her chest.
Ashley Kenyon: Yeah, cause I’ve never done that before, have I? I’ve never gotten in the ring with a man who said I didn’t belong there ever…
She slaps her leg and then snaps her fingers sarcastically.
Ashley Kenyon: Oh wait…
Turning back to the camera, she nods knowingly.
Ashley Kenyon: Yes I have, so many times I’ve lost count! Hell, half the guys on the Fearless card have said something like that to me! Granted, not Bob Brooks or Stalker Knight, though Bob would probably be too busy trying to get into my pants to say that and besides, Stalker’s gonna wanna kill him for what he said about Stalker’s daughter. But you look at the rest of the card, Pauly O'Connor might not say it but Mr. Sadistic would and i hope Pauly wastes your ass you cheap, misogynistic toolbag!
Looking down, she pulls the card up on her screen.
Ashley Kenyon: The rest of the card, Kyle Travis and Ragnarok have constantly said I didn’t deserve a goddamn thing and look at what happened to them every time they got near a ring with me! I’m one of the main reasons nobody takes a damn thing the “Royal Blood” says seriously because I’ve had the privilege to make them eat their words more than once now! And on the other side, the Sin City Knights have more or less said I was only fit to be their whore before and guess what…
She picks up the UWA World tag Team Championship belt sitting behind her.
Ashley Kenyon: I took this… let me repeat, I TOOK this from them! My sister and I walked into that match with everybody calling us overrated and overhyped and we walked out with the fucking gold and now the Sin City Knights seem really pissed off about both losing to us and everything that Kyle Travis has said, which, let’s be honest, everybody fucking hates Kyle Travis, just not in the way you want people to hate you because nobody wants to pay to see you get punked, they all just want you to shut up, fuck off and die!
Glancing back down, she nods at the next slot on the card.
Ashley Kenyon: The Dead Men and the Children of Nephilim have both looked down on me and now I get the satisfaction of knowing the only reason the Dead Men get to have this piece off the Children is that Aerynn, Jezzy, my sister and I took everything Joshua and his bitch squad had and came back for more until he had to go slink off to the damn woods and conjure his balls back! No doubt he has, if for no other reason, to tell Kyle Travis that he ain’t no one trick pony and make him look even more like a completely worthless piece of shit! Speaking of Joshua, his opponent, Brody, I’ve had run-ins with as well and Lord knows he’s said shit to me, I can’t wait to see that fight just to see what’s left at the end!
She glances back down at the card and nods as she checks off each match.
Ashley Kenyon: So that’s everybody right and literally everybody on there including the Main Man has called me a keezy fem and been like, ka ree?
She nods expectantly before snapping her fingers again.
Ashley Kenyon: Oh, no wait, silly me, I forgot Aerynn Donnelly has started telling me I’m not worth shit too! How silly of me to forget the fucking World Champion! Jezzy is so gonna kick your ass for what you’ve done, Aerynn!
She pauses, nodding slowly even as she tries not to chuckle mirthlessly.
Ashley Kenyon: So yeah, the Main Man, the Violence, the Career Bullshitter, damn near everyone in this company, damn near everybody else on this fucking card has told me I’m not worthy, that I don’t belong here including and especially you and guess what?
She points accusingly.
Ashley Kenyon: You told me last time that I wasn’t anything to you and that you’d just swat me away and move on and that didn’t happen so what makes YOU think it’ll be different now? What because I said something you don’t like, you’re just gonna do what you always do, throw a fucking baby tantrum, hit me and say your point has been made?
She shrugs, almost laughing in his face.
Ashley Kenyon: Didn’t work so well last time and you had nothing to lose that time if you did just decide to say fuck the keezy fem and throw down with your fists and show me how much I should just know my place and go make you a sammich…
She pauses and then nods, wagging her finger again.
Ashley Kenyon: Which I’ve been told is something you really don’t want me to do because my cooking is considered assault with a deadly weapon and possibly attempted murder in most states…
She ponders this for a moment before nodding as she’s finally admitting that as the truth to herself.
Ashley Kenyon: But what the Main Man, V. Jones, seems to be missing is that this keezy fem is a champion just like him! You’re goddamn right I’m stepping in the ring with you and no matter how much you think I be dissing you by doing that, that’s how it gonna be! I’m stepping into that ring, I’m coming for the match and no matter how hard you try, you’re not gonna get me to just hand it to you because you showed up. No more kissing the Main Man’s ass just because it’s there and because it’s what’s expected. You don’t like it, tough shit, cause you tried to knock me down before and couldn’t get the job done! Now we both have an opportunity here, one that neither of us campaigned for but that we’re both getting whether anybody else likes it or not! Either you walk out getting to say you just beat a fellow champion or I walk out getting to say I put down V.Jones the way no one else has been able to and if you can’t handle that…
She glances at her ass and nods.
Ashley Kenyon: Well, you know what you can do about it...
Ashley Kenyon: Hey, Bethy… come on in...
Bethany nods and walks into her sister’s living room.
Bethany Kenyon: Where’s Bumblebee? I didn’t see him out there with K.I.T.T.
Ashley smiles at the mention of her cars. She closes the door as she looks outside at her classic black Trans-Am.
Ashley Kenyon: Bumblebee’s in the shop, he needed a brake job and a tune-up and they were gonna need a day or two for the parts to come in.
Bethany shakes her head, laughing.
Bethany Kenyon: You know you’re never gonna get him to beat Jezzy’s 2011, right?
Ashley steps back, scandalized.
Ashley Kenyon: I’m glad he’s not here to hear you say that, poor Bumbles would be heartbroken that you think Darkie would do better.
Bethany can’t help but keep laughing at her sister’s reaction.
Bethany Kenyon: You realize you’re the only one who calls him that, right?
Ashley nods exasperatedly.
Ashley Kenyon: Yeah but Moonpie just sounds… dirty.
Bethany laughs harder.
Bethany Kenyon: Why do you think we call it that?
Defeated, Ashley starts laughing with her sister. The door is closed and Ashley walks over to her couch where bethany quickly joins her.
Bethany Kenyon: Somehow, I don’t think you called me to discuss the finer points of why Jezzy Belle’s Camaro always dusts yours off at the races…
Ashley raises a pointer finger.
Ashley Kenyon: One of these days, Bethy, I’m gonna get her…
Bethany laughs again.
Bethany Kenyon: Only if you finally breakdown and buy that new Charger you keep eyeballing or the Saleen.
Ashley frowns.
Ashley Kenyon: Eww… no way am I buying a Barricade. That would make me a traitor, Autobots forever!
Bethany smirks.
Bethany Kenyon: Maybe I will, then.
Ashley just cocks her head skeptically.
Ashley Kenyon: You’d never replace Mama’s Explorer and you know it.
Bethany nods, looking wistful, almost sad.
Bethany Kenyon: Yeah, probably not.
Ashley nods knowingly.
Ashley Kenyon: No you wouldn’t… but Jezzy would!
Both sisters just look at each other and then start laughing.
Bethany Kenyon: Yes… yes she would, and then Nikki would trick that baby out with everything whether she wanted it or knew how it worked or not.
Smiling knowingly, Ashley nods her agreement.
Ashley Kenyon: Yeah she would, same way she got Bumbles, K.I.T.T. and Mama’s Explorer.
Bethany nods excitedly.
Bethany Kenyon: Though she wouldn’t complain nearly as much about the wiring being crap in the new ones as much as she did ours.
Ashley shrugs.
Ashley Kenyon: Well, it helped that mine were both re-builds anyway.
Bethany nods in agreement.
Bethany Kenyon: Yeah and Mama’s poor Explorer basically needed a full overhaul after that one carjacking incident.
Ashley nods sadly.
Ashley Kenyon: Bullet to the steering column and the radio will do that.
Bethany just shakes her head,
Bethany Kenyon: I was so worried we’d have to junk it after that…
Ashley nods to the door.
Ashley Kenyon: And yet, there it sits out there in my driveway, still going.
Bethany smiles brightly.
Bethany Kenyon: Yeah… she’s a tough old broad, that one!
Ashley nods.
Ashley Kenyon: So, I need to talk to you…
Bethany nods, smiling.
Bethany Kenyon: Ok.
Ashley swallows hard.
Ashley Kenyon: About Brody and the Vince thing.
Bethany raises her hand to slow her sister down.
Bethany Kenyon: I know…
Ashley squints at her sister.
Ashley Kenyon: You know?
Bethany nods.
Bethany Kenyon: I know you were never his biggest fan and I know you didn’t exactly mind him…
She nods and Ashley can see her sister does, in fact, know what she was gonna say.
Ashley Kenyon: I’m sorry…
Bethany shakes her head.
Bethany Kenyon: No, Ash… it’s ok…
Ashley shakes her head sadly.
Ashley Kenyon: No it’s not, I enjoyed it! I was just as much of a monstrous piece of shit as they were!
Bethany slides over and hugs her now tearful sister.
Bethany Kenyon: No, Honey, you weren’t…
Ashley manages to look up into her big sister’s eyes.
Ashley Kenyon: What would Jezzy say if she heard… that? She’d say I was just as bad as Aerynn, maybe worse! She’d hate me!
Bethany hugs her sister tightly again.
Bethany Kenyon: No she wouldn’t, Sweetie.
Bethany pulls back and holds her sister’s face lovingly, almost motherly.
Bethany Kenyon: She’d say you were just being human and that it’s a natural response to being hurt. It’s ok to feel however you feel, Ash. Everybody has thoughts and feelings they’re not proud of at times but the important thing is what happens later. Brody knew he’d wronged people and he’s trying to make amends for it.
Ashley nods slowly, upset and ashamed.
Ashley Kenyon: And I…
She trails off and Bethany catches her.
Bethany Kenyon: And you let him… what more could he ask from you?
Ashley tries but fails to find the right words as her sister just holds her for what seems like years.
Bethany Kenyon: Now… what’s the Vince thing?
Ashley swallows hard, sitting back from her sister.
Ashley Kenyon: You were right, I never did expect this to happen.
Bethany smiles, looking mildly amused.
Bethany Kenyon: Is that all?
Ashley nods and Bethany tussles her hair playfully.
Bethany Kenyon: We’re always gonna be a team, Ash, but it’s perfectly ok to enjoy the opportunity to show you’re not just my leader or my shadow.
Ashley nods.
Ashley Kenyon: Vince is kind of a maddening guy to try it against.
Bethany nods acknowledgingly.
Bethany Kenyon: Well yeah, the smug fronting is almost comical at times until you realize two things.
Ashley frowns.
Ashley Kenyon: That he’s a tantrum throwing attention whore?
Bethany nods acknowledgingly again.
Bethany Kenyon: That and he probably thinks he has to be like he is. remember he’s got that warped version of that word respect floating around in his head that lots of street guys do. That respect only means fear and if you don’t have it, you have nothing.
Ashley shrugs.
Ashley Kenyon: He looks like he’s just a big kid who hasn’t been told no much but I spose that kinda comes with being an athlete the way he is. He’s probably had his ass kissed for so long that…
She shakes her head.
Ashley Kenyon: God, I don’t even wanna think about it.
Bethany smiles.
Bethany Kenyon: Good, cause it’ll just piss you off if you do.
Ashley nods and Bethany hugs her again.
Bethany Kenyon: Come on, Prey’s awaiting and Jezzy’s buying tonight.
Ashley smiles, nodding.
Ashley Kenyon: Ok.
The two get up and head to their favorite place in the world, visions of friends, family and fun to be had dancing in their heads.
A few hours later...
Ashley Kenyon stands in front of her laptop, rolling through a few things when she comes upon a video from Vince Jones. She shakes her head and moves on to others by Ragnarok, the Sin City Knights, Jeszika Gautier and Brody Montgomery. Finally, after watching several others, plus a couple of puppy videos, she watches Vince Jones’ promo and sighs disappointedly. She flips on the webcam and just shakes her head as she starts broadcasting.
Ashley Kenyon: I don’t deserve to be in the ring with someone like Yo Man…
She nods, feigning fear.
Ashley Kenyon: Well FRAG, I’m shaking in my boots cause the Main Man jus tol me!
She nods almost playfully.
Ashley Kenyon: I’m just a keezy fem, right? Ka REE? Keezy fem thinks she can hang with the Main Man?
Rolling her eyes, Ashley looks away incredulously whole folding her arms in front of her chest.
Ashley Kenyon: Yeah, cause I’ve never done that before, have I? I’ve never gotten in the ring with a man who said I didn’t belong there ever…
She slaps her leg and then snaps her fingers sarcastically.
Ashley Kenyon: Oh wait…
Turning back to the camera, she nods knowingly.
Ashley Kenyon: Yes I have, so many times I’ve lost count! Hell, half the guys on the Fearless card have said something like that to me! Granted, not Bob Brooks or Stalker Knight, though Bob would probably be too busy trying to get into my pants to say that and besides, Stalker’s gonna wanna kill him for what he said about Stalker’s daughter. But you look at the rest of the card, Pauly O'Connor might not say it but Mr. Sadistic would and i hope Pauly wastes your ass you cheap, misogynistic toolbag!
Looking down, she pulls the card up on her screen.
Ashley Kenyon: The rest of the card, Kyle Travis and Ragnarok have constantly said I didn’t deserve a goddamn thing and look at what happened to them every time they got near a ring with me! I’m one of the main reasons nobody takes a damn thing the “Royal Blood” says seriously because I’ve had the privilege to make them eat their words more than once now! And on the other side, the Sin City Knights have more or less said I was only fit to be their whore before and guess what…
She picks up the UWA World tag Team Championship belt sitting behind her.
Ashley Kenyon: I took this… let me repeat, I TOOK this from them! My sister and I walked into that match with everybody calling us overrated and overhyped and we walked out with the fucking gold and now the Sin City Knights seem really pissed off about both losing to us and everything that Kyle Travis has said, which, let’s be honest, everybody fucking hates Kyle Travis, just not in the way you want people to hate you because nobody wants to pay to see you get punked, they all just want you to shut up, fuck off and die!
Glancing back down, she nods at the next slot on the card.
Ashley Kenyon: The Dead Men and the Children of Nephilim have both looked down on me and now I get the satisfaction of knowing the only reason the Dead Men get to have this piece off the Children is that Aerynn, Jezzy, my sister and I took everything Joshua and his bitch squad had and came back for more until he had to go slink off to the damn woods and conjure his balls back! No doubt he has, if for no other reason, to tell Kyle Travis that he ain’t no one trick pony and make him look even more like a completely worthless piece of shit! Speaking of Joshua, his opponent, Brody, I’ve had run-ins with as well and Lord knows he’s said shit to me, I can’t wait to see that fight just to see what’s left at the end!
She glances back down at the card and nods as she checks off each match.
Ashley Kenyon: So that’s everybody right and literally everybody on there including the Main Man has called me a keezy fem and been like, ka ree?
She nods expectantly before snapping her fingers again.
Ashley Kenyon: Oh, no wait, silly me, I forgot Aerynn Donnelly has started telling me I’m not worth shit too! How silly of me to forget the fucking World Champion! Jezzy is so gonna kick your ass for what you’ve done, Aerynn!
She pauses, nodding slowly even as she tries not to chuckle mirthlessly.
Ashley Kenyon: So yeah, the Main Man, the Violence, the Career Bullshitter, damn near everyone in this company, damn near everybody else on this fucking card has told me I’m not worthy, that I don’t belong here including and especially you and guess what?
She points accusingly.
Ashley Kenyon: You told me last time that I wasn’t anything to you and that you’d just swat me away and move on and that didn’t happen so what makes YOU think it’ll be different now? What because I said something you don’t like, you’re just gonna do what you always do, throw a fucking baby tantrum, hit me and say your point has been made?
She shrugs, almost laughing in his face.
Ashley Kenyon: Didn’t work so well last time and you had nothing to lose that time if you did just decide to say fuck the keezy fem and throw down with your fists and show me how much I should just know my place and go make you a sammich…
She pauses and then nods, wagging her finger again.
Ashley Kenyon: Which I’ve been told is something you really don’t want me to do because my cooking is considered assault with a deadly weapon and possibly attempted murder in most states…
She ponders this for a moment before nodding as she’s finally admitting that as the truth to herself.
Ashley Kenyon: But what the Main Man, V. Jones, seems to be missing is that this keezy fem is a champion just like him! You’re goddamn right I’m stepping in the ring with you and no matter how much you think I be dissing you by doing that, that’s how it gonna be! I’m stepping into that ring, I’m coming for the match and no matter how hard you try, you’re not gonna get me to just hand it to you because you showed up. No more kissing the Main Man’s ass just because it’s there and because it’s what’s expected. You don’t like it, tough shit, cause you tried to knock me down before and couldn’t get the job done! Now we both have an opportunity here, one that neither of us campaigned for but that we’re both getting whether anybody else likes it or not! Either you walk out getting to say you just beat a fellow champion or I walk out getting to say I put down V.Jones the way no one else has been able to and if you can’t handle that…
She glances at her ass and nods.
Ashley Kenyon: Well, you know what you can do about it...
