Post by K.I.S.S. on Jan 7, 2015 19:30:26 GMT -6
December 25, 2014
Gautier Residence
New Orleans, Louisiana
Christmas dinner had always been a special time to Ashley Kenyon. When she was little, her parents, Selina and Bruce Kenyon, had always gone all out for Christmas. It was the one day of the year they really tried to spoil Ashley and her older siblings, Bethany and Khary. That lasted until Selina had died at forty-five. Ashley had been sixteen then, Bethany had been seventeen and Khary was nineteen and their Christmas traditions had gone away with their mother.
Jeszika Gautier and Nikki Peltier decided to change that.
This year, they made calls, set up a few things and brought in a gathering of what the four members of Arsenal now considered their family. Jeszika, Nikki, Bethany and Ashley have no gathered at Jeszika’s house along with Carrie Winter, Richie Damian, Billy Hawkes, Brody Montgomery, Kristian Devereaux, Cal Peltier and Khary Kenyon at a table with Jeszika at the head. To the left of her sit Kristian, Ashley, Billy and Richie. To the right of Jeszika sit Carrie, Khary, Bethany and Brody with Nikki and Cal sharing the other end. As they sit and stare at the food, Brody glances around, quite obviously slightly buzzed from something he had earlier. He pours himself a glass something a bit stronger than what everyone else is drinking and looks around the table. As they all start eating, Brody shakes his head, looking down at the table.
Brody Montgomery: You realize...you hurt her. I'll kill you right?
Ashley laughs, pounding the table with glee.
Ashley Kenyon: See, I'm not the only one who thinks that!
Jeszika just shakes her head.
Jeszika Gautier: We're just friends!
Kristian just shrugs while everyone else almost laughs, smirking knowingly. As they continue on, Brody finishes his glass and starts another.
Nikki Peltier: Slow it down, Brody...
Brody just gives her a look and continues on while the others eat and nod to each other.
Kristian Devereaux: Did you say your name was Caliban?
Cal nods.
Cal Peltier: Yeah, Mom had a thing for comics... she named me after an X-Men character and Nik after one from Guardians of the Galaxy.
Khary laughs.
Khary Kenyon: Seriously?
Cal nods.
Cal Peltier: Fraid so...
Ashley takes a bite and cocks her head.
Ashley Kenyon: You’re really named after Guardians of the Galaxy?
Nikki nods.
Nikki Peltier: Yeah…
Bethany grins.
Bethany Kenyon: You didn’t know that?
Ashley shakes her head.
Ashley Kenyon: No, can’t say I did. I always thought it was just a cute name.
Cal grins.
Cal Peltier: Nicholette Gold Peltier… just has a ring to it.
Nikki looks to her brother.
Nikki Peltier: And Caliban Xavier Peltier doesn’t?
Ashley cocks her head all over again.
Ashley Kenyon: Xavier?
Cal nods.
Cal Peltier: Professor X…
Ashley nods slowly, knowingly.
Ashley Kenyon: How’s Daddy been?
Cal shrugs.
Cal Peltier: Business has been doing well lately so, he’s happy.
Ashley beams.
Ashley Kenyon: That’s good.
Richie looks up.
Richie Damian: You work with their Dad?
Cal nods.
Cal Peltier: Yeah, at his bakery.
Richie nods, quite obviously surprised.
Richie Damian: No kidding? Didn’t take you for a baker?
Cal shrugs.
Cal Peltier: That’s ok, I don’t think anyone would have bet on Nik being the one to date a musician.
Billy smirks.
Billy Hawkes: Who would you have bet on doing that?
Khary grins, answering for him.
Khary Kenyon: Ash… for sure.
Cal nods his agreement.
Cal Peltier: Totally.
Ashley chuckles coolly.
Ashley Kenyon: Glad we could surprise you then.
Cal nods just as Brody looks up across the table.
Brody Montgomery: Yo...Twinkle Veins… let's chat.
As Brody stands up, he wags a finger at Billy. Billy starts to pull back and Ashley starts up as well.
Brody Montgomery: Sit. This is man talk.
Ashley starts to retort but Billy raises a hand to calm her down.
Billy Hawkes: It'll be fine, Ash... if he wanted to kill me, he would have already.
Brody shoots him a look.
Brody Montgomery: Careful… I still might depending on your answers, junkie.
Billy shrugs.
Billy Hawkes: It's cool, I deserved that...
Brody starts for the door with Billy right behind him. They step out to the front area next to Jeszika's yellow and black Camaro, Billy's hands shaking while Brody's lighting a cigarette up.
Billy Hawkes: Man, I wish they would stop doing this…
Brody reaches down into the inside of the jacket and pulls out a small silver case and pops it open. Smokes, stacked side by side inside the silver. He then holds the case out, offering.
Brody Montgomery: What's that?
Billy nods to his hands.
Billy Hawkes: The damn shaking... they haven't worked right since that crazy woman shot me up with... whatever it was she shot me up with.
Brody pulls one from the case and sparks a silver Zippo, exhaling through his nose.
Brody Montgomery: She got what was coming to her inside that cell. Speaking of that...
Brody glances to the side at him with the smoke hanging from the corner of his mouth.
Brody Montgomery: ...How you doing with that now anyway?
Billy shrugs as she tries to extract one for himself.
Billy Hawkes: My hands don’t like to cooperate all the time. Nothing else hurts anymore, which, thank God, cause that really sucked when Ash couldn’t stand up with the lights on and I couldn’t help her at all. Doctors say it’ll be six months before they know what all was in it…
Brody Montgomery: Not what I meant.
There was something leary in his voice now, something a bit… more blunt.
Brody Montgomery: When I found you Billy, you were damn near in a puddle of your own sick. How are things, in that area?
Billy nods knowingly.
Billy Hawkes: I’ve not intentionally had anything since October…
Brody Montgomery: And how is it? You starting to get the urges yet?
Taking a deep breath, Billy leans against the car.
Billy Hawkes: I had a using dream a week ago, woke up and could taste it just like I’d had some. Took a shower and rode it out, wouldn’t even look at the painkillers I know she has because she wouldn’t take them during that whole concussion thing from the gloves incident. It wasn’t the first, it won’t be the last.
Brody Montgomery: Good.
Brody shifts then and looks out over the distance smoking gently and then added.
Brody Montgomery: She needs you, you know. This whole Aerynn thing, Jones and Jeszika and all of it. Ash needs someone she can lean on.
Billy nods knowingly.
Billy Hawkes: The Jones thing scared the hell out of her... more than she's letting on. She hasn't partied much at all, I mean, she couldn't for most of it, but she's worried that he was right and her body was gonna make her the family tag along she's always been afraid she was.
Brody Montgomery: Ashley was never a tag along. She was the heart and soul. The one no one could push around. The way who always stood up, even if she did hate a bit… too much.
He offers the faintest little smirk.
Brody Montgomery: I know that one personally.
Billy Hawkes: Did always make it a bit ironic that Bethany is the one who can make gunpowder out of charcoal and bird shit and Ash is the one with the hair trigger temper.
Billy nods, chuckling.
Billy Hawkes: She doesn’t do it often but I’ve seen her do it before almost like a party trick. Grossed a bunch of drunk hobos out and then made them cheer like she’d made fireworks for them. Ashley seemed to think it was the most awesome thing she’d ever seen…
As if on a dime, Brody changes subjects and demeanors.
Brody Montgomery: I wanted to tell you, man to man. From the man you were with those two dealers… to this… I'm damn proud of you Billy. I wanted you to know that… and I damn sure wasn't gonna say it in front of the girls.
Billy nods ever so slightly.
Billy Hawkes: Spose I should thank you for that.
Brody shakes his head.
Brody Montgomery: Nah… you had it in you Billy, you just needed someone… to take a more direct approach… and what do I have to lose? Why not me?
Billy shrugs.
Billy Hawkes: Still, you helped me when you didn’t have to. You could have just convinced Ashley to cut her losses and cut me loose for being such a prick that I actually got her to try it with me…
Shaking his head, he lets out a slow, mournful whistle.
Billy Hawkes: Not exactly my greatest moment there…
Brody Montgomery: Sometimes shit happens like that. You can't begin to see the end, until you hit the bottom. until then it's all the fall.
Billy nods acknowledgingly, laughing self-deprecatingly.
Billy Hawkes: That was one painful fucking hit! You pack a wallop, Mr. Montgomery.
Brody Montgomery: Learned that from Mr. McBride. He used me as a human punch dummy for weeks.
Brody then shudders a bit and sighs. He then looks back out at the darkness as he nears the end of the smoke.
Brody Montgomery: So… tell me something Billy. Beth and me… what's the general thought in there on that?
Billy Hawkes: Carrie saw it coming, she and Jeszika are both coming to terms with the idea. Ashley… is surprisingly ok with it. I didn’t think she was gonna be at first but then she and Khary had a talk about it on the phone, he seemed to be open to it from jump street. Richie and Nikki, and I’d assume Caliban there, seem to view you as an ok guy. It seems like you’ve got yourself the benefit of the doubt… better than I have. Most of them are still waiting for me to relapse though, in Richie and Carrie’s cases, they’ve known me longer and this is the longest they’ve ever seen me sober so…
Brody Montgomery: And you? Where do you fall on it?
Billy Hawkes: I... think you probably drink too much but that's not exactly a deal breaker in a family with a heroin addict and the girls like their coke on occasion... aside from that, you seem to give a shit about her and she you... that usually settles the matter regardless of what anyone else thinks.
Brody Montgomery: Well...you keep telling them that....and in return i will tell them you deserve your chance as well Billy. Because truth is....I did as much damage to them as you did...
Billy Hawkes: Ok.
Brody then shifts his attention back at the table and nods to head back inside. As they arrive inside, Ashley is waiting for them by the door. Brody nods to her and returns to the table while Billy stops by the door.
Ashley Kenyon: So…
Billy shrugs.
Billy Hawkes: He just wanted to talk.
Ashley frowns.
Ashley Kenyon: About what?
Billy nods to the table.
Billy Hawkes: Basically what matters the most…
Ashley nods, kissing him before they both go back to the table.
Several hours later, back at her place with Billy washing in the bathroom, Ashley sets up her laptop and turns on the webcam.
Ashley Kenyon: So…
She glances to the area on the bed next to her where the UWA North American Championship Belt and the UWA World Tag team Championship Belt and runs her hand lovingly across both of them as she takes the whole scene in.
Ashley Kenyon: Here I sit with two UWA belts and I have to admit, it feels better than anything else I have ever done chasing any other goal or high in my entire life!
She sits back, shaking her head in wonder and seeming disbelief.
Ashley Kenyon: To be the one that gets to say I took down that loud-mouthed bastard…
Staring at the camera, she can’t help but nod excitedly.
Ashley Kenyon: You know, I can’t wait to see that fight, Sentinel versus Vince Jones. The two biggest hosses we got, one who never speaks versus the one who never shuts up even if his life and everything he holds dear is on the line and they’re gonna hook it up and try to beat the living shit out of each other and I’m gonna be standing there watching because that’s the kind of fight you live for if you’re a fan!
She nods, her fists coming up in front of her chest and brings them together.
Ashley Kenyon: They gon hook ‘em up and it’s gonna be like two big romping, stomping bulls trying to prove their dominance, horns locked and loaded and good God only knows which is gonna break first!
Her left fist lowers while she points with her right hand into the camera.
Ashley Kenyon: And the best part is you know they can both do it too!
She pounds her right fist enthusiastically on her knee.
Ashley Kenyon: You know for sure Sentinel can break any sumbitch gets in there with him and you know Vince Jones can too! I know first hand what Vince Jones can do and I’ve watched from up close what Sentinel can do…
She nods slowly and then rubs her hands together in anticipation.
Ashley Kenyon: And it’s not even the main event!
Her hands snap to either side, practically shaking with excitement.
Ashley Kenyon: This is gonna be a great fucking card! You got some new blood at the bottom, then you got Lacey Roberts defending her UWA Television Championship against Pauly O’Connor, which should be a really cool mismatch of styles with Pauly’s power versus Lacey’s speed and tenacity.
She pauses before nodding acknowledgingly.
Ashley Kenyon: Probably a fair bet to say she’s more vicious in a way too but who knows with Pauly hanging out with Aerynn Donnelly and Shonn Maguire so much.
Pausing again to chuckle, Ashley shrugs.
Ashley Kenyon: Speaking of them, you get Aerynn and Shonn versus Brody and Bethy and I’d bet money that’s gonna be a nasty fight whether Bethy wants to admit it or not. She’s not gonna be happy about that match but there’s not a chance in hell she won’t go all out just because she knows what could happen if she doesn’t and I know my sister will do everything in her power to stop that!
She raises her right fist in solidarity.
Ashley Kenyon: Knock ‘em dead, Bethy!
She nods lovingly.
Ashley Kenyon: Then there’s the rather intriguing main event. My friend, co-worker, business partner and stablemate, Jeszika Gautier defending her UWA World Heavyweight Championship against the Silver Baron. Now I know, some people are looking at Silver Baron and going, “Wait, wait, the pimp who just lost to the Children that was only barely a tag champion is gonna get a world title shot?”
She nods defiantly.
Ashley Kenyon: You’re damn right he is! Silver Baron has only lost five times here in UWA, only twice as a singles competitor! His only real loss as a singles competitor was to Sentinel around the Thanksgiving. His only other singles loss was that bullshit first blood match with his second partner and honestly, does first blood really count as a loss for a guy that was desperate to go hardcore at the time?
She pauses and shakes her head.
Ashley Kenyon: Yeah, I didn’t think so either. This isn’t like Oliver dropped trow and bent over in front of Kyle Travis, who’s only won five matches in UWA period, Silver Baron is getting his just do and he and Jeszika are gonna lay it all on the line! this is her first match since winning the Championship, her first defense and Baron’s first real shot at much of anything here and I can’t wait to see who really wants it more!
Turning to look at her belts, Ashley reaches over and picks up the North American Championship.
Ashley Kenyon: So that brings me to my match and I have to admit, this one excited the hell out of me and not just because I get to look forward to a match without the worry of having my head caved in by some loud-mouthed jackass taking a shortcut with loaded gloves because he couldn’t stand the thought of losing to a fucking crazy ass bitch!
She moves the belt up to her chest.
Ashley Kenyon: That’s right, Vince, I got you! Me, the stupid little barbie bitch that didn’t deserve to be in the same ring with Jonesy done took V’s belt and sent him home with nothing! I took everything you had, took the beatings, the cheating, came back for more and proved V is good, he’s damn good, but he ain’t as good as he thinks he is! I get it, Jonesy is a self-made man and he worships his creator… but he ain’t God and here’s the proof… right here!
She holds the belt over her head, standing up as she does so, almost pushing the belt clean out of frame.
Ashley Kenyon: So here I am, on this show, Jonesy got to get his ass in the ring with the Silent Destroyer and I get to go out there and try to steal this show lean out from under all y’all with the help of The Hong Kong Sensation, the Simply Amazing Amy by God Zing! And i know there are some of those same people trying to say Amy don’t deserve this but those people are talking out their asses! That woman has come in here, had all kinds of shit talked and thrown at her and she’s still damn near broken even on winning and losing! She got an opportunity to prove everybody wrong with that Television Championship match and she pulled it off…
Lowering the North American Championship, Ashley glares into the camera.
Ashley Kenyon: And yet STILL, there are those that look down on her because she had precious few title defenses even though that’s not her call and there’s not much she can do about that! She can ask for more all she wants but it’s up to Oliver to hand them out for sure and if he wants to hold it for later, that’s his prerogative. Amy Zing has gone out to that ring and done things, I mean, who besides her would even think about trying a Van Terminator in their first match? Sure it backfired on her but, fuck me, she tried that anyway and if she’d hit it, every damn one of you would have sat up and gone, “Holy shit, who is this crazy chick and where can we get more?”
She holds the belt up close to the camera obscuring herself completely in the process.
Ashley Kenyon: Amy, you deserve whatever comes your way like this and I’m not just excited, I’m fucking honored I get to give you this chance! You and I are gonna do things to each other that would carry jail time if we did them on the street but we’re also gonna make those people stand up and take notice that when two women walk that aisle like us, this ain’t no freak show and this ain’t no bullshit! This is two competitors that are gonna come down there, give it everything we got and we’re gonna knock your socks off in the process!
Lowering the belt, Ashley grins into the camera.
Ashley Kenyon: I don’t know exactly what you’re gonna do in this match, I don’t know what I’m gonna do but I know, whatever it is, that crowd is gonna see something they’ve never seen before and when the night is over we’re gonna stand alone as a shining example to people like Vince Jones and Kyle Travis that we can do this and they had better pull their heads out of their asses…
She glances down to the belt and nods, almost laughing.
Ashley Kenyon: Or they’re gonna get kicked the fuck off! And then they can just kiss this…
She smacks the belt.
Ashley Kenyon: Goodbye! See ya there, Amy… I can’t wait!
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Gautier Residence
New Orleans, Louisiana
Christmas dinner had always been a special time to Ashley Kenyon. When she was little, her parents, Selina and Bruce Kenyon, had always gone all out for Christmas. It was the one day of the year they really tried to spoil Ashley and her older siblings, Bethany and Khary. That lasted until Selina had died at forty-five. Ashley had been sixteen then, Bethany had been seventeen and Khary was nineteen and their Christmas traditions had gone away with their mother.
Jeszika Gautier and Nikki Peltier decided to change that.
This year, they made calls, set up a few things and brought in a gathering of what the four members of Arsenal now considered their family. Jeszika, Nikki, Bethany and Ashley have no gathered at Jeszika’s house along with Carrie Winter, Richie Damian, Billy Hawkes, Brody Montgomery, Kristian Devereaux, Cal Peltier and Khary Kenyon at a table with Jeszika at the head. To the left of her sit Kristian, Ashley, Billy and Richie. To the right of Jeszika sit Carrie, Khary, Bethany and Brody with Nikki and Cal sharing the other end. As they sit and stare at the food, Brody glances around, quite obviously slightly buzzed from something he had earlier. He pours himself a glass something a bit stronger than what everyone else is drinking and looks around the table. As they all start eating, Brody shakes his head, looking down at the table.
Brody Montgomery: You realize...you hurt her. I'll kill you right?
Ashley laughs, pounding the table with glee.
Ashley Kenyon: See, I'm not the only one who thinks that!
Jeszika just shakes her head.
Jeszika Gautier: We're just friends!
Kristian just shrugs while everyone else almost laughs, smirking knowingly. As they continue on, Brody finishes his glass and starts another.
Nikki Peltier: Slow it down, Brody...
Brody just gives her a look and continues on while the others eat and nod to each other.
Kristian Devereaux: Did you say your name was Caliban?
Cal nods.
Cal Peltier: Yeah, Mom had a thing for comics... she named me after an X-Men character and Nik after one from Guardians of the Galaxy.
Khary laughs.
Khary Kenyon: Seriously?
Cal nods.
Cal Peltier: Fraid so...
Ashley takes a bite and cocks her head.
Ashley Kenyon: You’re really named after Guardians of the Galaxy?
Nikki nods.
Nikki Peltier: Yeah…
Bethany grins.
Bethany Kenyon: You didn’t know that?
Ashley shakes her head.
Ashley Kenyon: No, can’t say I did. I always thought it was just a cute name.
Cal grins.
Cal Peltier: Nicholette Gold Peltier… just has a ring to it.
Nikki looks to her brother.
Nikki Peltier: And Caliban Xavier Peltier doesn’t?
Ashley cocks her head all over again.
Ashley Kenyon: Xavier?
Cal nods.
Cal Peltier: Professor X…
Ashley nods slowly, knowingly.
Ashley Kenyon: How’s Daddy been?
Cal shrugs.
Cal Peltier: Business has been doing well lately so, he’s happy.
Ashley beams.
Ashley Kenyon: That’s good.
Richie looks up.
Richie Damian: You work with their Dad?
Cal nods.
Cal Peltier: Yeah, at his bakery.
Richie nods, quite obviously surprised.
Richie Damian: No kidding? Didn’t take you for a baker?
Cal shrugs.
Cal Peltier: That’s ok, I don’t think anyone would have bet on Nik being the one to date a musician.
Billy smirks.
Billy Hawkes: Who would you have bet on doing that?
Khary grins, answering for him.
Khary Kenyon: Ash… for sure.
Cal nods his agreement.
Cal Peltier: Totally.
Ashley chuckles coolly.
Ashley Kenyon: Glad we could surprise you then.
Cal nods just as Brody looks up across the table.
Brody Montgomery: Yo...Twinkle Veins… let's chat.
As Brody stands up, he wags a finger at Billy. Billy starts to pull back and Ashley starts up as well.
Brody Montgomery: Sit. This is man talk.
Ashley starts to retort but Billy raises a hand to calm her down.
Billy Hawkes: It'll be fine, Ash... if he wanted to kill me, he would have already.
Brody shoots him a look.
Brody Montgomery: Careful… I still might depending on your answers, junkie.
Billy shrugs.
Billy Hawkes: It's cool, I deserved that...
Brody starts for the door with Billy right behind him. They step out to the front area next to Jeszika's yellow and black Camaro, Billy's hands shaking while Brody's lighting a cigarette up.
Billy Hawkes: Man, I wish they would stop doing this…
Brody reaches down into the inside of the jacket and pulls out a small silver case and pops it open. Smokes, stacked side by side inside the silver. He then holds the case out, offering.
Brody Montgomery: What's that?
Billy nods to his hands.
Billy Hawkes: The damn shaking... they haven't worked right since that crazy woman shot me up with... whatever it was she shot me up with.
Brody pulls one from the case and sparks a silver Zippo, exhaling through his nose.
Brody Montgomery: She got what was coming to her inside that cell. Speaking of that...
Brody glances to the side at him with the smoke hanging from the corner of his mouth.
Brody Montgomery: ...How you doing with that now anyway?
Billy shrugs as she tries to extract one for himself.
Billy Hawkes: My hands don’t like to cooperate all the time. Nothing else hurts anymore, which, thank God, cause that really sucked when Ash couldn’t stand up with the lights on and I couldn’t help her at all. Doctors say it’ll be six months before they know what all was in it…
Brody Montgomery: Not what I meant.
There was something leary in his voice now, something a bit… more blunt.
Brody Montgomery: When I found you Billy, you were damn near in a puddle of your own sick. How are things, in that area?
Billy nods knowingly.
Billy Hawkes: I’ve not intentionally had anything since October…
Brody Montgomery: And how is it? You starting to get the urges yet?
Taking a deep breath, Billy leans against the car.
Billy Hawkes: I had a using dream a week ago, woke up and could taste it just like I’d had some. Took a shower and rode it out, wouldn’t even look at the painkillers I know she has because she wouldn’t take them during that whole concussion thing from the gloves incident. It wasn’t the first, it won’t be the last.
Brody Montgomery: Good.
Brody shifts then and looks out over the distance smoking gently and then added.
Brody Montgomery: She needs you, you know. This whole Aerynn thing, Jones and Jeszika and all of it. Ash needs someone she can lean on.
Billy nods knowingly.
Billy Hawkes: The Jones thing scared the hell out of her... more than she's letting on. She hasn't partied much at all, I mean, she couldn't for most of it, but she's worried that he was right and her body was gonna make her the family tag along she's always been afraid she was.
Brody Montgomery: Ashley was never a tag along. She was the heart and soul. The one no one could push around. The way who always stood up, even if she did hate a bit… too much.
He offers the faintest little smirk.
Brody Montgomery: I know that one personally.
Billy Hawkes: Did always make it a bit ironic that Bethany is the one who can make gunpowder out of charcoal and bird shit and Ash is the one with the hair trigger temper.
Billy nods, chuckling.
Billy Hawkes: She doesn’t do it often but I’ve seen her do it before almost like a party trick. Grossed a bunch of drunk hobos out and then made them cheer like she’d made fireworks for them. Ashley seemed to think it was the most awesome thing she’d ever seen…
As if on a dime, Brody changes subjects and demeanors.
Brody Montgomery: I wanted to tell you, man to man. From the man you were with those two dealers… to this… I'm damn proud of you Billy. I wanted you to know that… and I damn sure wasn't gonna say it in front of the girls.
Billy nods ever so slightly.
Billy Hawkes: Spose I should thank you for that.
Brody shakes his head.
Brody Montgomery: Nah… you had it in you Billy, you just needed someone… to take a more direct approach… and what do I have to lose? Why not me?
Billy shrugs.
Billy Hawkes: Still, you helped me when you didn’t have to. You could have just convinced Ashley to cut her losses and cut me loose for being such a prick that I actually got her to try it with me…
Shaking his head, he lets out a slow, mournful whistle.
Billy Hawkes: Not exactly my greatest moment there…
Brody Montgomery: Sometimes shit happens like that. You can't begin to see the end, until you hit the bottom. until then it's all the fall.
Billy nods acknowledgingly, laughing self-deprecatingly.
Billy Hawkes: That was one painful fucking hit! You pack a wallop, Mr. Montgomery.
Brody Montgomery: Learned that from Mr. McBride. He used me as a human punch dummy for weeks.
Brody then shudders a bit and sighs. He then looks back out at the darkness as he nears the end of the smoke.
Brody Montgomery: So… tell me something Billy. Beth and me… what's the general thought in there on that?
Billy Hawkes: Carrie saw it coming, she and Jeszika are both coming to terms with the idea. Ashley… is surprisingly ok with it. I didn’t think she was gonna be at first but then she and Khary had a talk about it on the phone, he seemed to be open to it from jump street. Richie and Nikki, and I’d assume Caliban there, seem to view you as an ok guy. It seems like you’ve got yourself the benefit of the doubt… better than I have. Most of them are still waiting for me to relapse though, in Richie and Carrie’s cases, they’ve known me longer and this is the longest they’ve ever seen me sober so…
Brody Montgomery: And you? Where do you fall on it?
Billy Hawkes: I... think you probably drink too much but that's not exactly a deal breaker in a family with a heroin addict and the girls like their coke on occasion... aside from that, you seem to give a shit about her and she you... that usually settles the matter regardless of what anyone else thinks.
Brody Montgomery: Well...you keep telling them that....and in return i will tell them you deserve your chance as well Billy. Because truth is....I did as much damage to them as you did...
Billy Hawkes: Ok.
Brody then shifts his attention back at the table and nods to head back inside. As they arrive inside, Ashley is waiting for them by the door. Brody nods to her and returns to the table while Billy stops by the door.
Ashley Kenyon: So…
Billy shrugs.
Billy Hawkes: He just wanted to talk.
Ashley frowns.
Ashley Kenyon: About what?
Billy nods to the table.
Billy Hawkes: Basically what matters the most…
Ashley nods, kissing him before they both go back to the table.
Several hours later, back at her place with Billy washing in the bathroom, Ashley sets up her laptop and turns on the webcam.
Ashley Kenyon: So…
She glances to the area on the bed next to her where the UWA North American Championship Belt and the UWA World Tag team Championship Belt and runs her hand lovingly across both of them as she takes the whole scene in.
Ashley Kenyon: Here I sit with two UWA belts and I have to admit, it feels better than anything else I have ever done chasing any other goal or high in my entire life!
She sits back, shaking her head in wonder and seeming disbelief.
Ashley Kenyon: To be the one that gets to say I took down that loud-mouthed bastard…
Staring at the camera, she can’t help but nod excitedly.
Ashley Kenyon: You know, I can’t wait to see that fight, Sentinel versus Vince Jones. The two biggest hosses we got, one who never speaks versus the one who never shuts up even if his life and everything he holds dear is on the line and they’re gonna hook it up and try to beat the living shit out of each other and I’m gonna be standing there watching because that’s the kind of fight you live for if you’re a fan!
She nods, her fists coming up in front of her chest and brings them together.
Ashley Kenyon: They gon hook ‘em up and it’s gonna be like two big romping, stomping bulls trying to prove their dominance, horns locked and loaded and good God only knows which is gonna break first!
Her left fist lowers while she points with her right hand into the camera.
Ashley Kenyon: And the best part is you know they can both do it too!
She pounds her right fist enthusiastically on her knee.
Ashley Kenyon: You know for sure Sentinel can break any sumbitch gets in there with him and you know Vince Jones can too! I know first hand what Vince Jones can do and I’ve watched from up close what Sentinel can do…
She nods slowly and then rubs her hands together in anticipation.
Ashley Kenyon: And it’s not even the main event!
Her hands snap to either side, practically shaking with excitement.
Ashley Kenyon: This is gonna be a great fucking card! You got some new blood at the bottom, then you got Lacey Roberts defending her UWA Television Championship against Pauly O’Connor, which should be a really cool mismatch of styles with Pauly’s power versus Lacey’s speed and tenacity.
She pauses before nodding acknowledgingly.
Ashley Kenyon: Probably a fair bet to say she’s more vicious in a way too but who knows with Pauly hanging out with Aerynn Donnelly and Shonn Maguire so much.
Pausing again to chuckle, Ashley shrugs.
Ashley Kenyon: Speaking of them, you get Aerynn and Shonn versus Brody and Bethy and I’d bet money that’s gonna be a nasty fight whether Bethy wants to admit it or not. She’s not gonna be happy about that match but there’s not a chance in hell she won’t go all out just because she knows what could happen if she doesn’t and I know my sister will do everything in her power to stop that!
She raises her right fist in solidarity.
Ashley Kenyon: Knock ‘em dead, Bethy!
She nods lovingly.
Ashley Kenyon: Then there’s the rather intriguing main event. My friend, co-worker, business partner and stablemate, Jeszika Gautier defending her UWA World Heavyweight Championship against the Silver Baron. Now I know, some people are looking at Silver Baron and going, “Wait, wait, the pimp who just lost to the Children that was only barely a tag champion is gonna get a world title shot?”
She nods defiantly.
Ashley Kenyon: You’re damn right he is! Silver Baron has only lost five times here in UWA, only twice as a singles competitor! His only real loss as a singles competitor was to Sentinel around the Thanksgiving. His only other singles loss was that bullshit first blood match with his second partner and honestly, does first blood really count as a loss for a guy that was desperate to go hardcore at the time?
She pauses and shakes her head.
Ashley Kenyon: Yeah, I didn’t think so either. This isn’t like Oliver dropped trow and bent over in front of Kyle Travis, who’s only won five matches in UWA period, Silver Baron is getting his just do and he and Jeszika are gonna lay it all on the line! this is her first match since winning the Championship, her first defense and Baron’s first real shot at much of anything here and I can’t wait to see who really wants it more!
Turning to look at her belts, Ashley reaches over and picks up the North American Championship.
Ashley Kenyon: So that brings me to my match and I have to admit, this one excited the hell out of me and not just because I get to look forward to a match without the worry of having my head caved in by some loud-mouthed jackass taking a shortcut with loaded gloves because he couldn’t stand the thought of losing to a fucking crazy ass bitch!
She moves the belt up to her chest.
Ashley Kenyon: That’s right, Vince, I got you! Me, the stupid little barbie bitch that didn’t deserve to be in the same ring with Jonesy done took V’s belt and sent him home with nothing! I took everything you had, took the beatings, the cheating, came back for more and proved V is good, he’s damn good, but he ain’t as good as he thinks he is! I get it, Jonesy is a self-made man and he worships his creator… but he ain’t God and here’s the proof… right here!
She holds the belt over her head, standing up as she does so, almost pushing the belt clean out of frame.
Ashley Kenyon: So here I am, on this show, Jonesy got to get his ass in the ring with the Silent Destroyer and I get to go out there and try to steal this show lean out from under all y’all with the help of The Hong Kong Sensation, the Simply Amazing Amy by God Zing! And i know there are some of those same people trying to say Amy don’t deserve this but those people are talking out their asses! That woman has come in here, had all kinds of shit talked and thrown at her and she’s still damn near broken even on winning and losing! She got an opportunity to prove everybody wrong with that Television Championship match and she pulled it off…
Lowering the North American Championship, Ashley glares into the camera.
Ashley Kenyon: And yet STILL, there are those that look down on her because she had precious few title defenses even though that’s not her call and there’s not much she can do about that! She can ask for more all she wants but it’s up to Oliver to hand them out for sure and if he wants to hold it for later, that’s his prerogative. Amy Zing has gone out to that ring and done things, I mean, who besides her would even think about trying a Van Terminator in their first match? Sure it backfired on her but, fuck me, she tried that anyway and if she’d hit it, every damn one of you would have sat up and gone, “Holy shit, who is this crazy chick and where can we get more?”
She holds the belt up close to the camera obscuring herself completely in the process.
Ashley Kenyon: Amy, you deserve whatever comes your way like this and I’m not just excited, I’m fucking honored I get to give you this chance! You and I are gonna do things to each other that would carry jail time if we did them on the street but we’re also gonna make those people stand up and take notice that when two women walk that aisle like us, this ain’t no freak show and this ain’t no bullshit! This is two competitors that are gonna come down there, give it everything we got and we’re gonna knock your socks off in the process!
Lowering the belt, Ashley grins into the camera.
Ashley Kenyon: I don’t know exactly what you’re gonna do in this match, I don’t know what I’m gonna do but I know, whatever it is, that crowd is gonna see something they’ve never seen before and when the night is over we’re gonna stand alone as a shining example to people like Vince Jones and Kyle Travis that we can do this and they had better pull their heads out of their asses…
She glances down to the belt and nods, almost laughing.
Ashley Kenyon: Or they’re gonna get kicked the fuck off! And then they can just kiss this…
She smacks the belt.
Ashley Kenyon: Goodbye! See ya there, Amy… I can’t wait!
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