After the workout
Gabriel stares across the locker room, rubbing his hand on a bruised shoulder, and directs his eyes towards Synn. Synn puts his hand in a locker, pulling our a bottle of water and unscrewing the cap, before taking a huge gulp of the clear liquid. Gabriel picks up a towel and wipes his forehead, staring at the back of Synn.
"You know, it's rude to just stare at people Gabriel" Synn comments
Gabriel raises an eyebrow.
"You got eyes up your arse now or something?" Gabriel replies with a hint of sarcasm.
Synn turns around with a smile on his face.
"No" he starts "but it's always nice to know what's going on around you"
Gabriel nods
"Speaking of what's going on around you" Gabriel says quickly, steering the conversation "I think it's time you and I talked Synn, and I think you know what it's going to be about"
"Am I about to get told off again?" Synn asks sarcastically
"No" Gabriel replies firmly "But we need to take about this whole situation"
Synn sits down on a bench, looking up at Gabriel
"The Goth situation is well in hand" Synn says while bringing his hands together
Gabriel shakes his head
"Fuck Goth" Gabriel says "He's burned so many bridges, no one wants to team with that make up wearing weirdo. He's followed us around like a bitch dog, I'm not taking about him, he's nothing, small fry"
Synn tilts his head
"This strange teddy bear murderer then?" Synn offers next
"No" Gabriel quickly snaps back "He hasn't got the balls to show himself. Little bitch started when I had the heavyweight title and disappeared a bit when I lost it. We know he's motivations, shame he doesn't have the balls to come out and say who he is so one of us can kick the daylights out of him and get rid of him"
Synn runs his fingers across his chin
"Than Kittie joining the Sins? I feel it was a wise move" Synn says with a smirk
Gabriel rolls his eyes.
"You should be on Dancing With The Stars with all these side steps" Gabriel says with a quick shake of his head "Kittie in the sins is a genius idea, she is everything we're all about. Hell, if she wasn't married, I'd have tried ruining her by now"
"When has a gold ring ever stopped you?" Synn asks with a wicked smile
"You raise a valid point" Gabriel starts, but to business here "Will you stop dodging what you know I'm gonna ask?"
Synn sighs
"We've been over this Gabriel" Synn says firmly
"Bullshit Synn" Gabriel replies, just as firm.
Synn points his eyes up, slightly taken back by Gabriel's forwardness.
"You can sit there and moan and bitch all you want about how his mother did this, how his mother did that, but at least he knows he's got a mother out there, but what about Daddy dearest? Huh? He doesn't even know he exsists, but we do, don't we Synn?" Gabriel says with higher eyebrows. "We know he's not a million miles away"
Gabriel puts his hand on Synn's shoulder, tapping it before moving away.
"He doesn't need more confusion in his life Gabriel. She's come back on of nowhere and expects to be part of his life after she left him there surround by mental patients" Synn quickly replies
"I'm not saying what the woman did was right. Hell, anyone who leaves their kid in a place like that is a piece of shit. The woman is contemptable Synn, but you need to maybe tell Joshua a bit more about his past" Gabriel says
"Joshua?" Synn says with a hint of surprise "You never call him Joshua"
Gabriel tilts his head away from Synn
"This is not about Despayre the wrestler" Gabriel starts "This is about Joshua, a young man, being held back by his own mind. Have you ever tried to get in to his head? He's a young messed up man, who thinks the sun shines out of his mother's arse and that his father pissed off years ago and didn't wanna know him, but over a year ago, when I found that picture in your wallet, I knew Synn, I knew you was his father, you knew a lot longer then I did, and you could have gave him a bit of stability in his life. Hell, he probably doesn't know who you are or what you want, to him, you're just a guy who took him away from doctors and people in padded rooms."
Synn stands up and stands in front of Gabriel
"What?" Gabriel says "You can stand up to me but you don't have the balls to tell your own son that you're his father? Gimme a break"
Gabriel tries to walk past Synn but Synn spins him around and stands staring down at Gabriel
"I choose not to tell him, because it will confuse him" Synn says with a sigh "If I told him, he wouldn't understand it. What if I lose him completely Gabriel?"
"Yeah, and if my uncle had tits, he'd be my aunt. Big bad Synn is scared of something" Gabriel replies "You won't lose him, you see how he swoons over his mother, without even seeing her in years!"
"She has spent years poisoning his mind against me" Synn says "She leaves him in a place like that and I'M the bad guy? The woman is contemptable"
"She may be contemptable, and dispicable for what she's done, and she doesn't deserve to know him" Gabriel says before a short pause "But you have the chance, and you're just being a bitch about it"
Synn growls under his breath
"Doing a Yogi impression doesn't change the fact that you have the oppotunity to come forward and be honest with the boy" Gabriel says, raising his voice "I have given you so much time over the last year to sit him down and tell him the truth, but you've constantly pissed away oppotunity after oppotunity. wasted so much time, why?"
Synn clinches his jaw tightly as he stares at Gabriel.
"You created this little family of misfits. Shane, Fantasia, myself, Rage, Kittie..." Gabriel starts "... you put us around Despayre, because you trust us around Despayre, yet you don't trust yourself to tell him the truth. In this pissing contest with you and his mother, you're losing this one Synn, not because she appears and buys him a Christmas present"
Gabriel pauses for a second
"But because he knows who she is..."
"He doesn't know the kinda woman she is..." Synn says angrily "He doesn't know she didn't put him there for his own good, she put him there because she didn't want him"
"And right now, in his head, his own father don't want him" Gabriel says
"THAT'S NOT TRUE!" Synn yells toward Gabriel
"How's he know that?" Gabriel asks "He doesn't know who Daddy is"
Gabriel walks past Synn, throwing the towel towards the bench.
"Grow some balls Synn, before it's too late..."
Gabriel walks out of the locker room, leaving Synn to his own thoughts.
A little while later....
A white, shiny Bugatti Veyron, is seen cruising down a road, in to Carson City, Nevada. Gabriel is seen behind the wheel of the two point four million dollar supercar. The car grinds to a halt outside Carson High School and Gabriel looks around, through the car window.
"A high school?" Gabriel says disparagingly "They booked us in a high school?"
Gabriel shakes his head and lowers his sunglasses, staring around
"In a place with the population of fifty five thousand people, the best they could do is a high school" Gabriel says with a shake of his head "What's next? A railway museum?"
Gabriel stares down the camera
"Yes, I have done my research on this place" He says with a wink.
Gabriel sighs as he starts the car up, the roar of the engine attracting a crowd.
"It's Gabriel!" A voice calls out from the crowd watching.
Gabriel looks at the camera again
"Some time ago, I would have love a crowd like this but today, they've picked a dodgy day for it, ah well, game face on and sell some extra tickets, put arses in seats, yada yada ya" He says with a shrug
Gabriel cuts the engine and steps out of the car.
"Hi" he says to a gathering crowd. "You guys coming out to see Climax Control on Sunday?"
Cheers and a few yeahs are heard.
"If I can amaze you with one little trick, think you guys can bug your parents to get you tickets to come see me and the guys kick a little butt on Sunday night?" Gabriel says confidently
More cheers are heard
"Sin City Wrestling is the place to be and the place to see, so I'm here, as former heavyweight champion, to convince you. So I'll do a little trick for you, and if you like it, come see us live. For you guys, we have some smoking hot women on the show, trust me and for you ladies, lots of muscle bound superheros who just wanna make you smile" Gabriel says with a wink "So do we have a deal? I'll do something for you now, and you come see us live"
The crowd cheer, Gabriel nods, taking their response as a yes.
"Alright" Gabriel starts "When I was growing up, yes, I know, makes me sound old when I'm not, but we never used to have these smart phones and things like that. We used to have these bricks that were meant to be phones. Thankfully, those days have passed and smart phones make this trick a little easier."
Scattered laughs are heard through the crowd.
"So, I'm gonna need a cell phone. This is high school, everyone has one, right?" Gabriel says, scanning the crowd with his eyes
Immediately, hands shoot in to pockets and offered to Gabriel. Gabriel takes the nearest phone, a slim, pink phone from a young girl.
"Thanks sweetheart" Gabriel says with a smile "Ok, now you guys all have bags on your back on in your hands, so I'm gonna take a random guess, someone here, in this crowd has a bottle here in their bags."
Before Gabriel can continue, hands shoot in to bags around the crowd. Gabriel takes a bottle near to him from a young man. The bottle nearly empty...
"Thanks bud" Gabriel says "I'm gonna pour this out till its empty"
Gabriel reaches in to this pocket and fishes out a five dollar bill and hands it to the boy who has given him the bottle
"This should cover it" Gabriel says unscrewing the cap and pouring out the clear liquid to the floor.
Gabriel replaces the cap and screws it on tight and looks back at the crowd.
"Now, the bottle lid is screwed on tight, you wanna check that out?" Gabriel says handing the bottle back to the young man, who gave him the bottle in the first place.
The young man checks the cap and hands the bottle back to Gabriel. Gabriel holds it in his left hand and the slim pink phone in the other hand.
"Ok guys, what I want you to do is look at both objects, phone in my right hand, bottle in my left" He says holding them up "Look closely"
Gabriel moves the objects closer together.
"Ready?" He asks
"Yeah!" The crowd responds
Gabriel smiles
"Ok...one... two....THREE!" He says loudly
As Gabriel says three, he forces the phone towards the bottle and holds up the bottle, revealing the slim pink phone, inside the bottle. The crowd oooo and ahhh as Gabriel hands the bottle to the girl who gave him the phone. A ripple of applause runs through the crowd
"Thank you" Gabriel says with a bow of his head "Now it's your turn to keep your end of the deal, get to that ticket office and come see me again on Sunday. You won't regret it"
Gabriel waves to the crowd and turns away, moving back towards his car and opens the door. He turns back and raises a hand to the crowd one more time before sliding in the drivers seat. Gabriel looks at the camera.
"That should boost sales" He says with a grin "You're welcome SCW"
Gabriel starts the engine and speeds off
40 minutes later...
Gabriel is seen sitting on a rock of Secret Beach in Lake Tahoe.... I could try and describe the beauty of it, but think this does a better job....
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The water gently kisses the rocks as Gabriel sits bare footed, looking out at the waves touching and brushing along his feet.
"This is a damn shane really" Gabriel says "A damn shame I have to start talking about such serious things right now in a place like this, almost heaven but needs must like I must so let's talk about it. Lately, things have been getting a little heavy, losing the main title, holding secrets inside, having some crazy guy who gets his kicks cutting up teddy bears and that make up artists dream following us around, I kind of lost focus on what I wanted from Sin City Wrestling. I lost my edge slightly, and I lost my way, but it's time to focus again. When Despayre and I was signed to Sin City Wrestling, we came here with the intention, every intention of taking tag gold. I got a little side tracked, what with whooping all those opponents to become the heavyweight champion but it was destiny to have my name up there in lights, but that was never the overall goal. You see, I don't think there's a team in the wrestling world that can honestly beat Sinful Obsession, and we've proved that by having the perfect record in every single tag match we've ever had. We've gone up against people who the wrestling world thought should have taken us apart, one limb at a time, but we got past them. Now maybe it was my fault for being so good and going on to take the heavyweight title, as the reason why Despayre and I never became the first ever tag team champions here, but it's all good. The gold did come to a sin after all. Rage was pretty happy to give us a shot at greatness, but alas, robbed by Synn's bitch and a Cowboy."
Gabriel continues to stare down at the bubbling water before him
"Now I know that Despayre and I are a little tied up at Blaze Of Glory, I know we have a different kind of challenge but on Climax Control, we have a chance to prove that we deserve the titles, that we're good enough to take the titles whenever we want to." Gabriel says with a quick nod of his head "I don't dislike non title matches, it gives a chance to showcase who really deserves the accolades of this industry, I can live with that, it gives a pyschological edge when the challengers defeat champions in non title affairs because you put the seed of doubt in to the minds of the men apparently at the top of their respective and respected divisions. Doubt on if they are good enough or not, if they deserve what they have, did they get lucky to win the titles? So many questions burn through the mind of champions, it tends to break them down, burn them out, mess with the fragile mild every second, of every minute, of every hour. It gets to them, it burns a hole through every single inch of the brain"
Gabriel pauses
"Trust me, I've been there" He says with a shrug.
Gabriel stands up and looks around
"This does not only hold advantage for the sins, oh no, because our worthy... and I use the term worthy very lightly, champions, have more then us to contend with. The Aristocrats have been on a roll and will be going in to Blaze Of Glory with a point to prove, but we've proved our point against them. They're ours for the taking, but on Sunday, we will be doing them a huge favour" Gabriel says seriously "We will plant the seed in the mind of Sean Williams and Wyatt Peterson."
Gabriel runs his fingers through his hair
"Wyatt, I have a fair amount of respect for you, your manager has shown you the way and quickly in this business." Gabriel says "He has done for you, what Synn, Shane and Fantasia has done for us, he has shown you the way to handle yourself in this game and put you on the right path. We do our homework in the sins, we look at everyone, every link to our opponents, I watched some of your managers tapes. Tom Dudely seems to have done a lot in the wrestling world, but my gift of reading people shows me so much about him. He could have been so much better, he could have had it all, but he was his own worst enemy, never wanted to push himself to be better. I hope that trait is not something that he has bestowed on you Wyatt, I do. You have a bright future without a shadow of a doubt, this tag team is a stepping stone for your career, but you need to taste the defeat, need to feel the agony of losing those titles, before you can grow. I was like you not too long ago, I was new and looking at all these guys around me, guys that have been in the business longer then I. Guys who have made their way here to Sin City Wrestling. Guys like Casey Williams, like Kain. I sat in a locker room with those guys wanting to be known like those guys and I did what you did. I tasted gold, I took a television title, I took tag titles, I had them ripped away from me by a bitch called Goth. Didn't hurt as much as losing, actually losing the Heavyweight championship in Sin City Wrestling. That hurt but it made me stronger, it made me better"
Gabriel clears his throat
"So Wyatt, I am going to help you" Gabriel says with a confident smirk on his face "I am going to help you become a stronger person, because all that doubt, will creep in to your mind, it will run riot in your head after Despayre and I defeat you. It will rip you apart, you won't be in the right mindset to be a champion anymore, and if you get past The Aristocrats at Blaze Of Glory, you will be faced with us again, and we will take that gold, take that pressure from you and turn you in to a much better, a much stronger, a much tougher man in the ring, we will help you with that, you're welcome."
Gabriel runs his hands along his chin
"Now this is the difficult part" Gabriel mutters "Now I get to talk about Synn's bitch. Now this is an awkward situation for me and I'm gonna tell you why. We're all allowed our little personal relationships here and there, but I am unsure if I like people like Sean Williams, this close to the Seven Deadly Sins. Honestly, I don't really trust the guy, he's always three minutes from a melt down. When he came rolling up here and instantly jumped in with Synn. I have to wonder what his motive really is. Would I help him out if he was getting his arse kicked? No, I wouldn't help him, he is not a sin, and as long as I have breath, he will never be a sin, he is simply Synn's bitch. There is no connection between he and I, there never will be."
Gabriel tilts his head
"Sean's head is not in this match, and crying on Synn's shoulder won't really get you anywhere." Gabriel says in a serious tone "You live a life full on drama, a life that should be kept far away from the publics view, as humanly possible. You used to hang with dealers, and no good in your life. I read people Sean, it's what I do, I can read your soul. Once a junkie, always a junkie. I've seen good people go to shit because of things like that. Part of me is disgusted that Sin City Wrestling allows you to air shit like that. It's Sin City, but allowing crackheads to glorify their junkie past, isn't exactly role model material. Imagine it Sean, imagine the poison you're putting in to America by your past. 'Hey Ma, I wanna be just like Nightmare Sean Williams, so when ya next out, bring me back a line of coke and a rolled up twenty' "
Gabriel smirks
"People look for heroes in the strangest places Sean, Sin City Wrestling is one of them, and it's about time someone stopped you from putting this shit on TV. We're wrestling in a high school on Sunday Sean, a place full of kids, a place full of kids will be turning up to see an apparent ex junkie entertain them." Gabriel shakes his head sadly "I'm pretty sure you want Synn on your side, will probably go running to him like the bitch you are and the way history has dictated you to, but I don't think his loyalties lie with you Sean, I don't think there is middle ground here. Do you really think Synn sat at home moping around, mourning for you when you went? No, he went out and got another piece of arse Sean. It's Synn, what do you expect? You know the guy, he's not one to cry over exs. The Seven Deadly Sins are family Sean, it's disfuctional, it's a little messed up, it's a bunch of individuals that on their own, would be classed as freaks but this family is strong.... you know the old saying Sean..."
Gabriel stares directly down the camera, his eyes narrowed and determination covering his face.
"Blood is thicker then water" Gabriel says with a low tone "I'll see you at Climax Control"
The camera fades out
