The scene opens up with Markus Reeves sitting in the shittiest bar you could ever imagine in the city of Boston. Markus has a beer sitting in front of him and another one is sitting in front of an empty chair. A bald man with tattoos covering both of his arms greets Markus and then sits down and takes a drink from the beer.
Markus Reeves: It’s nice to see you again Fergus.
Fergus Callaghan: It’s nice to see you again. What have you been up to?
Markus Reeves: Believe it or not but I’m wrestling again.
Fergus Callaghan: You’re right that is pretty surprising. What made you come back?
Markus Reeves: I missed it.
Fergus Callaghan: I don't blame you, there is no bigger rush in the world than performing in front of eighteen thousand people.
Markus Reeves: Yeah but I’m not even wrestling in front of that many people at this point.
Fergus Callaghan: More of an indy federation?
Markus Reeves: Yeah, we are wrestling on a luxury yacht in New York.
Fergus Callaghan: The yacht will be in the water?
Markus Reeves: Yeah, it’s kind of exciting. I’ve wrestled in a lot of places before but a yacht is not one of them. What have you been up to?
Fergus Callaghan: Drinking a lot.
Markus Reeves: So no different than usual?
Fergus Callaghan: Yeah but over the last few years it’s been pretty shitty for me, Sarah finally filed for divorce, my wrestling school closed once Skye Sparks pulled funding from the school.
Markus Reeves: Is that because of all the fighting between you two?
Fergus Callaghan: Yeah.
Markus Reeves: In all fairness, you kind of deserved that, you were a total shithead to her.
Fergus Callaghan: Yeah, I know and that’s the same reason that Sarah left too.
Markus Reeves: Well that and you cheated on her with Skye.
Fergus Callaghan: Don’t remind me.
Markus Reeves: Have you thought about coming back to the ring?
Fergus Callaghan: Yeah but I don’t know if I have what it takes to get back in there. I mean after I haven’t really wrestled since I blew my knee out three years ago today.
Markus Reeves: Yeah and I didn’t think I could return to the ring at age forty-nine and yet here I am, I’m going out and wrestling against guys half my age and for the most part I’m hanging with them.
Fergus Callaghan: I’ll have to think about it.
Markus Reeves: Come on, we can even be a tag team.
Fergus Callaghan: A tag team you say?
Markus Reeves: Yeah, plus it’s not like you have anything going for you right now. You are pretty much unemployed.
Fergus Callaghan: That’s not true, I went back to running my construction company again.
Markus Reeves: So like I was saying, you are free to come back to wrestling. It will be great to have you back on the road with me.
Fergus Callaghan: I'll have to think about it, Markus. I don't even know if my knee can handle the rigors of wrestling anymore.
Markus hands Fergus a card.
Markus Reeves: If you want you can go see my guy, he checked me out to make sure that I could physically return also. He is the best in the business and he can take a look at your knee to make sure everything is up to snuff. How many surgeries did you end up having to have on it?
Fergus Callaghan: Over the last three years I’ve had five surgeries on it including one in January but the most recent one was just to clean some stuff up.
Markus Reeves: See, that’s the talk I like to hear.
Fergus Callaghan: Yeah, maybe I really should return. I’ll give your doctor a call tomorrow and see about getting an appointment set up to have the knee looked at.
Markus Reeves: Good, I hope it goes well and you can get back to wrestling. Maybe this is what you need to get your life turned around.
Fergus Callaghan: Honestly, it can’t make it any worse. How is your daughter doing?
Markus Reeves: Fine, don’t you talk to her anymore?
Fergus Callaghan: No, she hates me too.
Markus Reeves: Jesus, what did you do to her?
Fergus Callaghan: She became friends with my sister and told her a bunch of lies about me and now she thinks I’m the worst.
Markus Reeves: Yeah, she kind of told me about that and from what I gathered here, your sister wasn’t lying.
Fergus Callaghan: Yeah but still that should have been between me and her.
Markus Reeves: Courtney might have just been looking out for Mi.
Fergus Callaghan: I see your point. I’m going to head out. I’ll be in touch when if I get my knee cleared.
Markus Reeves: Sounds good Fergie.
Fergus Callaghan: Thanks for everything Markus, it really means a lot.
Markus Reeves: No problem.
Fergus gets up and walks away from the table as the scene fades to black. The scene then opens up with Markus in his home slamming the door shut.
Markus Reeves: Miyoko, I asked you to please by nice to your sister in a law and you went out and were somehow even meaner to her.
Miyoko Oshiro: You know dad, I’m my own person, you can’t tell me what to do anymore!
Markus Reeves: Sure I can, as long as I’m financially supporting your ass, I can make you do whatever the fuck I want!
Miyoko Oshiro: If that’s the case then cut me off, I don’t need your money anymore. I can do just fine on my own.
Markus Reeves: I know how much you make wrestling for LAW. You don’t make enough to support your apartment and your car payment.
Miyoko Oshiro: Then I’ll go live with someone else. I don’t have any issues doing that. I’ll be much happier even if I have to live with someone else if it means I can be as mean to smurf head as much as I want.
Markus Reeves: I can’t believe that you are being like this Miyoko, what do you have against Kate Steele?
Miyoko Oshiro: She is a pretentious little attention seeking bitch, who doesn’t know her ass from a hole in the wall. She is so stupid that she thinks that she is God’s gift to everything when she truly sucks. Plus her stupid fucking husband is taking you away from me.
Markus Reeves: What do you mean by that?
Miyoko Oshiro: I have wanted to hang out with you when we both have time but instead you are off teaching someone who is nearly thirty years old how to ride a bicycle. You don't know how to juggle your time. Instead, you are blowing off one of your children for the newest one. She I guess I should be lucky since you have at least spent time with me. I know for a fact that you have never spent any time with Krystyna.
Markus Reeves: Now that’s not true, when she was doing that fight club like thing in.
Miyoko Oshiro: That doesn’t count.
Markus Reeves: Why not?
Miyoko Oshiro: because you were fighting against her. Had you not been randomly selected to fight her, you have spent zero time with her. I'm glad that I could get her a job with LAW otherwise, she would be still doing that shady fighting shit.
Markus Reeves: So what are you saying based on Teddy.
Miyoko Oshiro: I’m saying that you would rather spend time with Teddy than with me, you would rather try and make your newest bastard happy and neglect your other children. Now, I understand why my mom tried to hide me from you for as long as she did. You are a truly shitty person dad, and I don’t even know if I want you in my life anymore.
Markus Reeves: Don’t say that. Come here and give me a hug.
Miyoko Oshiro: No, I need to be alone for a little while.
Miyoko slings a bag full of clothes over her shoulder and starts to head for the door.
Miyoko Oshiro: By the way, if you can actually find a way to tear yourself away from your newest love child, you can come see me wrestle a week from Sunday.
Markus Reeves: Where is it at?
Miyoko Oshiro: Your hometown.
Miyoko leaves as the scene fades to black.
Well, it sure seems like everything is starting to fall apart around me. My one kid hates me because of my other kid and his wife. I started out in SCW on a streak so hot that people mistook it for my mixtape. I kid about that, I don’t have a mix tape. After that hot streak, I've gone out and laid a couple of goose eggs in the ring, including blowing a chance at the Internet Championship. Now, I thought I had fully blown my chance at winning a championship here but instead I have been blessed with another chance but this time I could become number one contender for the Roulette Championship.
Now I’m going to have to go out and make the most of my opportunity this time. This would normally be the time where I would have my crack staff try and find dirt they could on my opponents and then try and trash their character and tell them that I’ll make them tap out like the little bitches that they are. Well, I'm not going to do that this time because let's face it, doing that hasn't done shit for me lately. Instead, I'm going to wish both of my opponents luck this week but also remind them that just because I'm in a bit of a slump doesn't mean I'm to be taken lightly.
I need this victory more than anything in the world, maybe if I can win it and get another shot at a title it will make the fact that my daughter hates me hurt just a little less. Maybe it will help her see that maybe I’m not as bad of a guy as she thinks I am right now. Maybe it will just allow me to focus on other things so I don’t beat myself up over the shit that I’ve done. Maybe it will just feel good beating up two shit heads and getting this little slide turned around.
Fuck it, see you two fuck heads Sunday and you better be ready to dance with the Devil because I’m going to be looking to kick some ass on the party boat.