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“WORLD SO COLD.”
LOCATION: MALIBU, CALIFORNIA.
DAYS UNTIL THE MATCH: 13
SCENE: i
REC
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
TIME: 10:45 PM
The blonde bombshell hadn’t been too focused on anything lately. She wished that she could say that she was focused on the match at hand and that she’d used the week off she had before to use to her advantage, but she couldn’t say that. She couldn’t shake the feeling she’d been feeling for a few weeks now that something was just missing in her life. She couldn’t shake it and it didn’t help that Kris seemed to be everywhere even if he wasn’t even around her. It only reminded her that he wanted her to be more focused on the match than what she was and she couldn’t handle that. So, she left.
She hadn’t known where she was going and didn’t know when she buckled Myles into his seat. She didn’t even know when Leighton had asked her question after question about where they were going now. Leighton had started to enjoy the California life and Mikah smiled and knew that was Leighton’s father in her. Her biological father had loved California so much that Mikah never understood why but she was starting to. So, after looking at Leighton she started to drive and she ended up in Malibu, California. She managed to book them a room at one of the hotels that were right on the beach. She wanted to be close to the beach and she knew that she could trust Leighton with Myles, she was really good with the one year old and Mikah was grateful that she had a good relationship with her daughter now.
But now she sat on the beach, the dark night sky over her head and her feet in the sand. She had beach blanket spread out so she wouldn’t get sand in her shorts. She didn’t understand why she had felt that desire to drive two and a half hours from San Diego to Malibu but yet, here she was. She lies back on the blanket and stares up at the starry night sky and smiles to herself. She knew that this was Masen Christian Othniel’s doing.
;;MIKAH “I miss you more every day.”
She says the words as if they’re going to help her voice what she was feeling. But she didn’t understand what she was feeling herself. She continues to stare up at the night sky, an odd feeling surrounding her. She closes her eyes for a moment before opening them again to see Masen Christian Othniel standing above her form. Her eyes widen and she scrambles up to her feet in a slight panicked way.
;;MIKAH “What the hell…what are you? What is this?”
The last time she had seen him, she had overdosed on a bad dose of heroin. And that had been over two years ago now. So, you can imagine how confused she was when she sees him standing over her.
::CO “Calm down….It’s okay. You’re okay…”
She gives him a look because she knows that something has to be wrong for her to be able to see him. To be able to communicate with him and to hear his voice.
;;MIKAH “No, no. Mase…this…this is never good. I shouldn’t be able to see you. I shouldn’t be able to do this…”
She reaches out, expecting her hand to go through him but she’s surprised when it lands perfectly on his cheek. The look of surprise is on her face as she looks at him and she feels the tears in her eyes and before she can stop them, they’re already slipping down her face. He smiles at her and he reaches out and brushes a tear away with the pad of his thumb of his right hand.
::CO “Don’t…just try not to think about it.”
She wanted to trust him but she couldn’t. Even if she wanted to, she couldn’t trust that this was real and there wasn’t some underlying condition.
;;Mikah “I…I…how? How am I supposed to trust this, Mase!? The last time this happened I almost died from an overdose!”
He sighs and runs a hand over his head before looking at her. He could tell that shew as fighting the urge to just hug him and he couldn’t deny that he wanted her to hug him.
::CO “Just…let it happen?”
He could see the hesitation in her eyes but he watches as it fades and soon, she has her arms wrapped around him, hugging him close to her body. He smiles before wrapping his own arms around her as well, hugging her back and holding her firmly against him.
;;Mikah “I want this to be real.”
He holds her to him, not letting go as she seemed to still hold onto him as well. He could tell that she didn’t trust that this was real. He smiles to himself before moving a hand up and running it through the back of her hair.
::CO “It’s real. Or as real as you want it to be.”
She didn’t know if she should believe it or not because this was too weird. But at the same time, she didn’t want to question it, either. She missed him every single day and didn’t want to miss out on whatever this was.
;;Mikah “Okay.”
She finally pulls back from his hug and she looks into his eyes, smiling just a little at him. She knew that she still didn’t trust this to be real and that something could prohibit this from being anything else. She didn’t want to think that she could move just so and it would be gone in a blink of an eye. She wanted him to be there, really be there.
::CO “Okay.”
She smiles at him as he mimics what she had to say to him. He smiles back at her before cupping her cheek with his hand. She leans her cheek into his hand, her eyes still locked on his. Tears fill her eyes again as she remembers the last time that she’d actually had a conversation with him. She had overdosed on a bad batch of heroin and she had told him she hated him. She lets a couple of tears slip down her cheeks as she looks at him. He reaches up and wipes her tears away with the pads of his thumbs as he looks at her. He clearly didn’t understand why she was crying again.
;;Mikah “I’m sorry, I know crying is not your favorite thing to deal with.”
She looks down at her feet but he carefully places his hand under her chin and moves her head up so he can look at her again.
::CO “Hey, it’s okay. You can tell me, you know….you can tell me anything.”
She smiles gratefully at him.
;;Mikah “I just…I can’t stop thinking about the last time that we had actually had a conversation. You know, when I overdosed…”
She clearly thinks about looking down again but she doesn’t, instead she holds his gaze with her own eyes. He doesn’t look away from her as they stand like that on the beach, their eyes connected to one another’s.
::CO “I remember…”
She takes a deep breath and slowly lets it out as she keeps his gaze with hers. There wasn’t that awkwardness there between them because she wasn’t scared to tell him about her feelings. He knew how she felt about him and she had always been open about how she felt about him; it was never something that intimidated her when it came to him.
;;Mikah “I said that I hated you. But I don’t hate you, Mase. I could never hate you.”
The guilt was written in her eyes as she looks up into his eyes. He smiles gently at her before leaning down and pressing his lips lightly against hers and then pulling away.
::CO “It’s okay. Do you remember that time where you came here to this beach about a month or so after the OD event?”
Mikah frowns for a moment before thinking, trying to recall the memory back. It came to her in waves and she looks at him. She remembered the night in question where she sat in the sand and had cried as she talked to nobody but was meaning to talk to him.
;;Mikah “I remember.”
She nods her head as she tells him she remembered the night in question. He smiles at her before pulling her into him and hugging him again.
::CO “I was there. I heard everything you said to me and I know how you feel about it. And I knew that you didn’t really hate me, Miks. But I had to make you want to go back….it wasn’t your time.”
Mikah looks at him and smiles softly. She had come to accept that it hadn’t been her time to join in him the afterlife in 2018 but it didn’t make things any easier.
;;Mikah “I know that now. But I was…just so angry with everything. I lost my championship and I felt like it wouldn’t matter to anybody if I was gone. I even though that Leighton would be happier without me….”
She knew now that that wasn’t true but at the time, she had felt as if it had been.
::CO “You know that’s not true.”
He could see it in her eyes though that she didn’t believe that to be true anymore. She places her hands on his cheeks and leans up and presses her lips lightly against his, kissing him softly.
;;Mikah “I know that now. Which is why this…is so confusing to me. But I don’t want it to go away. I need you.”
He can see the emotion pass through her eyes as she stands in front of him, his face in her hands. He smiles gently at her before he puts his hands on her cheeks and she moves her hands to cover his.
::CO “You don’t need me as much as you think you do, Miks. You have Myles and Leighton…even Kris.”
A mix of emotion passes through her eyes as he mentions Kris.
::CO “What was that look?”
Her cheeks flush a light pink color as he asks what that one look was about.
;;Mikah “I don’t know…”
It was a weak attempt to get him to drop it but she knew that he wouldn’t. It wasn’t like things were going badly for her. But they just…didn’t feel the same as what she had expected them to. She still had to deal with Drake when she tried to get him to see Myles. And she didn’t have time to be proactive on Twitter about the matches she was booked in nor did she have the time to start petty drama on the social media app to further the storyline between her and Kris’ opponents.
::CO “No, you know. It’s okay…tell me.”
She never argued with him about her emotions and telling him where she stood on things. She smiles softly.
;;Mikah “It’s not like anything is wrong, really. We’re functioning really, really well as a tag team. Better than we did when I decided to come back. We haven’t lost a match yet.”
She smiles at the thought but there was still a certain look in her eyes. And he was quick to pick up on it. He brushes his thumb over her right cheek bone gently.
::CO “But…”
He was gently coaxing it out of her, even though he didn’t have to be gently with her at all.
;;Mikah “It’s different. I don’t know what is so different. But things are just different and I don’t know how to handle it. So I don’t handle it, I ignore it. But I’m the one that gets called out for it on Twitter. I just…it’s not my job to babysit him or whatever. Or defend him when he gets into stupid Twitter drama.”
She was talking about the small little spat she’d had with Court on Twitter earlier today. She knew that it wasn’t her job but yet, some people clearly thought differently.
::CO “Is he saying you should?”
She shakes her head no.
;;Mikah “No. I don’t think he and I have said more than a few sentences toward one another in a while. But still. All his little friends I’m sure have that same thought in their head. Because let’s be honest, Mase…nobody is really a big fan of me anyways.”
She wasn’t trying to bring any attention to herself. And she didn’t care if people liked her or not, that was never anything she strived for in the first place. But it didn’t hurt to bring up, either.
::CO “It’s never bothered you before that people didn’t like you.”
She smiles at the fact that he was quick to point that out. She looks at him and nods her head, agreeing with him. She knew that he would be the one to tell her that.
;;Mikah “I know and I don’t care that people don’t like me. It’s not my job to make people like me. In fact, I like it better if people didn’t like me. But it’s frustrating that they use social media against me. Like it’s not my fault Kris chooses to argue with our opponents on the app. I shouldn’t have to jump in to save him at any point. And I wouldn’t expect him to jump in to save me either. Him and I are both adults and we can hold our own.”
It just frustrated her that people thought she needed to be more proactive on Twitter and promote the matches that they were in. She didn’t want to do that.
::CO “Have you tried talking to him?”
She makes a face at the idea of approaching the subject with Kris. It wasn’t like their communication was very good anyways. And she hated talking about uncomfortable things with him. Like her emotions. She never believed that she was allowed to have them.
;;Mikah “And what good would that do me, Mase? It’s not like it will change anything. I don’t think he cares where my feelings lie. I think you’re the only person who has ever cared about my feelings if we’re being honest.”
He gives her a look and moves his arms and wraps them around her lower waist, holding her against him. She doesn’t push him away, instead settles into his chest, resting her head against his collarbone area.
::CO “You don’t know that, Miks. You have to talk to somebody to know how they feel about certain things. And you haven’t had any sort of conversation with him about anything lately. Give him a chance.”
She sighs as she slips her arms in between his arms and torso to wrap them around him. She knew that he wasn’t actually there but she liked the feeling it was giving her and she didn’t know if she could let go of this feeling. Or let go of him again.
;;Mikah “Why? So he can laugh at me and tell me that I’m crazy for those feelings? No thanks, I’ll save the feelings for you.”
He sighs but doesn’t say anything as they stand on the beach, their arms wrapped around one another and neither one of them seemed to want to let go of the other.
::CO “He won’t laugh at you, Mikah.”
She doesn’t move for a minute, just holds him close to her.
;;Mikah “You don’t know that, Mase!”
He doesn’t say anything for a moment or so as he tries to find the right words to say to her. But he didn’t know what he could say to her.
::CO “But Miks, you won’t know unless you try. And he’s your partner, you need to be honest with him. Not some…ghost.”
She knew that what he was saying made sense; she couldn’t argue that at all. But she didn’t want it to make sense. She wanted to just stay with him even if it was impractical.
;;Mikah “I guess you’re right…will you come with me?”
She didn’t want to have to come to Malibu every time she wanted to talk to him or to see him, even. But it looked like that was going to be her only choice. He carefully nods his head.
::CO “Yes, I’ll go with you.”
His voice and the words made her smile and she felt grateful that he was willing to stay with her, even though she hadn’t a clue what it meant. But it was something, right?
;;Mikah “Great. Let’s go get Myles and Leighton and I’ll drive back to San Diego.”
He frowns but doesn’t say anything at first.
::CO “Just stay here for a couple of days. Let Leighton get to know Malibu. Then we can go back on like Thursday…”
Mikah smiles and nods her head before leaning up and kissing him. She didn’t know what this meant or how it was even happening. Or if it was even happening but she didn’t care. All she knew was that she wanted him to be a part of her life no matter what.
;;Mikah “That works for me.”
THURSDAY
Mikah walks back into Kris’ place in San Diego and sets the one year old down and he instantly walks over to the array of toys that had been scattered about the living room. Mikah smiles absent mindedly at the fact that her son considered this to be his home and that he felt comfortable here. Leighton, however was moody and stormed immediately off to her designated bedroom and Mikah winces when the door slams shut.
;;Mikah “Teenagers.”
She mutters to herself before jumping when she sees Kris standing in the kitchen, watching her. She raises an eyebrow at him and she glances back to see Christian Othniel still there with her. She didn’t want to question why she could see him even though she knew that she should.
::KR “Where were you off to today?”
She raises an eyebrow at that. He hadn’t seemed to notice she had been missing for most of the week. Not that she was surprised.
;;Mikah “I was in Malibu since Monday. Nice of you to…never mind. We should probably talk.”
She glances over her shoulder at Christian and he gives her an encouraging nod. She knew it was a crazy idea that she could see him but she didn’t care. She just didn’t care.
“FAKE IT.”
LOCATION: SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA.
DAYS UNTIL THE MATCH: 9
SCENE: ii
REC
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
TIME: 5:45 PM
The scene opens up to what appears to be the Jet City Sports Lab that was located in San Diego, the one that Kris ran. Mikah is sitting on one of the turnbuckles and she was dressed in a pair of black spandex booty shorts and a white sports bra. Her blonde locks are tied up in a ponytail to keep her hair out of her face and she appeared to be sweaty as if she had been training or working out. Both were very well a viable option to what she had been doing in the gym.
;;Mikah “Hi…remember me?”
She waves two fingers at the camera, a smirk on her pretty face as she looks into the camera.
;;Mikah “I’m not sure if you remember me, Bella.”
She continues to hold that smirk on her face, not letting it waver.
;;Mikah “I’m one half of the Black Sheep and I believe we beat you and your husband or whatever he is a few weeks ago. I kind of like when the past tells the future. Because that’s what your future is going to look like. In nine days exactly.”
She was confident. Nobody could ever say that she wasn’t confident and she was proud to be so, too.
;;Mikah “People have always underestimated me before I became the best Bombshell in SCW history. They never thought that I had what it took to be the Bombshell Champion back then. But you know what? I don’t want to live in the past because the Black Sheep’s future? It looks fucking great.”
She didn’t care if she was putting the cart in front of the horse so to speak. She wanted to make sure that Bella and Malachi knew exactly what she was about.
;;Mikah “You see, I don’t like playing around on Twitter and starting shit that I don’t care about. That’s not me anymore. What I like to do is show people who I am in that wrestling ring and what I can do. And why I’m the best fucking Bombshell ever and my in ring work is the only thing that can speak for me. You two can’t deny that Kristopher and myself are talented in the ring. We’re undefeated as a team. Hell, we’ve been undefeated as a team since 2018 or whenever it was the last time we teamed before 2020.”
She shrugs her shoulders.
;;Mikah “I’m no Mercedes Vargas when it comes to dates. But as a tag team, Kristopher and I can’t lose. There’s something about us as a dynamic that other teams overlook and pass of as just sheer luck that we’ve managed to win every match we’ve been booked in so far. They don’t consider anything we’ve done as worthy of any attention because of who we are as people. But the truth of the matter is, Bella and Malachi? You have a lot to worry about in nine days.”
She smirks again, that cocky look in her eyes again.
;;Mikah “You see, a few months I decided to return to SCW to form this team with Kristopher just so that we can dominate the mixed tag team division. And we’ve done just that since I returned. Were there bumps and bruises in the road? Sure, of course but now? We’ve got nothing else to lose whereas you two? You have everything to fucking lose.”
She lets out a small laugh.
;;Mikah “You two are sitting pretty—well, not pretty—as the mixed tag team champions right now. You’re on top of the world and I’m sure that you’re loving every single minute of it. And I’ll be generous enough to let you two sit there for nine more days. I’ll let you fake it for a few more days because that’s all you have left to do. That’s all you have left in your pathetic, transitional championship reign.”
She pauses again and just looks at the camera, her gaze unwavering.
;;Mikah “I’m not a nice person. I’m not a princess, I don’t get the happy endings that people think they deserve. So I am going to take my happy ending on the twenty-seventh. And I’m not even going to be shy about it. Because I’m not going to ask if I can beat you or if we can beat you because we already know that we can. We’ve done and we’re going to do it again.”
She smirks again, another chuckle escaping her lips.
;;Mikah “You see, Kristopher and I? We’re not walking into that match not knowing what we’re going to get. Oh no, we know exactly what we’re walking into on the twenty-seventh because we’ve already been in a match against you two. And you know what else we’ve done?”
The glint is evident in her eyes as she stares straight into the lens of the camera, that cold calculated look in her pretty eyes.
;;Mikah “We beat Wolfslair on our first try going up against them. How long did it take you two to beat them?”
She gives the camera a fake confused look.
;;Mikah “Multiple times, correct? I don’t care about your history with them but I think it’s safe to say that if somebody was to walk into one of the sports book at one of those Las Vegas casinos and they were going to put money on one of our teams, they’d place it on the Black Sheep.”
She sits up a little straighter and leans back just so.
;;Mikah “Because the odds are stacked against you. And nobody should ever bet against the Black Sheep. We get shit done the first time and if we have to do it a second time? It’ll just be a show off.”
She smirks again.
;;Mikah “But I know not to take you lightly, Bella. Because I’m sure you have some sort of shady trick up your sleeve. Or perhaps you think that I have some shady trick up my sleeve but I don’t need to cheat to win.”
She smirks again and simply shrugs her shoulders at the camera.
;;Mikah “Your husband or boyfriend or whatever is he only has to worry about Kristopher. And that’s no easy feat. You never know what you’re going to get when it comes to Kristopher and that has always worked out in our advantage.”
Mikah seemed to enjoy the fact that Kris was a wild card when it came to the ring. She, however liked to keep things technical and almost always avoided the top rope. She didn’t like doing high risk moves that could possibly break her neck.
;;Mikah “You see, while Kristopher and I didn’t start off on the right foot as a team back in July, we’re doing great now. We’ve managed to put all that nonsense shit behind us and work well as a team. And I’ll be the first to admit that when I returned, I figured it would be just like it was in 2018 when he and I were dominating each of our respective divisions and that he and I could just team up and it would come naturally to us. But I was wrong. Things didn’t happen naturally between us at first because neither one of us really trusted the other but right now? I could honestly say that I trust him more than I probably trust myself. And that’s saying something.”
She smirks again.
;;Mikah “I have to because we’re going to steal those championship belts from the two of you. And we’re going to enjoy every second of it. Because there’s no possible outcome where we don’t win on the twenty-seventh.”
Another look passes through her eyes for a moment and she seems a bit lost for a second, something catching her eye off camera but she is quick to bring her attention back to where it was supposed to be.
;;Mikah “Bella, you and Malachi might be the perfect couple and you might think you’re the perfect tag team. But you both are nothing compared to Kristopher and I. Nada. Not a thing. There’s no real comparison when you look at you two as a team and you look at Kristopher and I as a team.”
She shakes her head slowly.
;;Mikah “I’m sure you wanted to be more than transitional champions. But all dreams come to an end.”
She smirks.
;;Mikah “All good things come to an end as well. Nothing can stay happy forever.”
She fake pouts her lip out as she stares into the camera again.
;;Mikah “You and Malchi? You’re not the heroes that you want to be. I’m sure you have this grand idea that you’re going to retain the championships on the twenty-seventh and save the SCW universe from a Black Sheep mixed tag championship reign because what kind of reign would Kristopher and I have?”
She laughs a little and looks at her feet for a moment, the thought idling in her head as she stares at her feet. She looks back up at the camera and smirks.
;;Mikah “A better reign than what you and Malachi have had, that’s for damned sure. Because we don’t need no hero bullshit going on. There’s a reason that most people hate the villains and that’s because they’re jealous of them. Jealous of the raw talent that they possess and it’s no different with Kristopher and I. And feel free to admit how jealous you are of us. Because together? We’re going to be unstoppable once we steal those championships from the two of you. Our reign? It’s going to be endless. But you two can go on faking it for nine more days.”
She giggles before sliding down off of the turnbuckle and onto her feet. She adjusts her short booty shorts for a second before placing her hands on her slender hips.
;;Mikah “Because it will just make winning those belts from you that much more enjoyable than what I think it is going to be. And don’t cry and ask why after it happens because it’s not personal. I don’t give two fucks about either of you but you have what I want. And I set out to be a Mixed Tag Team Champion when I gave myself a contract. And I’ve never not gotten what I wanted when it came to championships. Just ask crazy Christina or Crystal. Whatever name she’s going by now.”
She visibly shudders at the mention of her biggest rival’s name, not that she had much to do with her anymore. But it was still a thought that seemed to cross her mind.
;;Mikah “When I set my mind to do something, I do it. No questions asked. And I want those championships. So, sorry about your shitty luck. Your reign is almost over. But don’t worry, I don’t mind being called the bad guy…”
She winks at the camera and adjusts her sports bra a bit.
;;Mikah “I quite enjoy it, actually. Get ready for the twenty-seventh the best you can because your loss will be coming. Nothing personal...because...”
She pauses, mostly for dramatic effect. But she seems to linger a little longer as she spots something. She quickly pulls her attention back to the camera, a smirk settling back on her face.
;;Mikah “That’s what villains do.”
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“GIVE ME A SIGN.”
LOCATION: SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA.
DAYS UNTIL THE MATCH: 6
SCENE: i
REC
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
TIME: 10:45 AM
She fell back against the mat of the ring and just lets out a breath of air as she looks up at the ceiling. She’d been in the gym for at least three hours by now and was growing tired of being there, tired of working on her “skills” or whatever you wanted to call them. She knew that she was well prepared to take on Bella but still, she felt guilty when she didn’t spend adequate time in the ring and hated when people liked to point that out to her. She takes a deep breath and slowly lets it out before propping herself up to see Kris leaning against the ropes, smirking at her. She scowls just slightly at him before standing up and adjusting her booty short bottoms.
;;MIKAH “Stop looking at me like that.”
He raises an eyebrow at her as he watches her move over to one of the turnbuckles. She bends over to grab her water bottle and he very openly lets his eyes wander to her butt as she takes a drink and then stands up. She finishes the water in the bottle and tosses it over the top rope.
::KR “Stop looking at you like what?”
Mikah shoots him a look as she stands across from him in the ring. They were polar opposites when it came to their wrestling styles, so training together never seemed to go exactly the way either of them wanted. It sometimes was a struggle to compromise with one another to get where they wanted with the training session. It also didn’t help that Kris spent most of his time in the ring.
;;MIKAH “Well, for starters like I’m out of shape, I’m not. You just don’t compete the same way that I do. And secondly, like you’re undressing me with your eyes.”
Kris laughs a little bit, that knowing little look in his eyes as he looks down at his feet before he looks up and over at her. She is quick to fold her arms over her chest as she looks at him, her eyebrows raised a bit.
::KR “That’s just an excuse for you being out of shape. And you can’t stop me from undressing you with my eyes.”
Mikah rolls her eyes at him a little bit as she moves across the ring and leans against the ropes opposite of him. She looks over at him, that toying look on her face as she looks him over before she carefully move up and sits on the middle rope with her back against the top rope. Their relationship was not labeled or really a relationship at all, she let him do as he pleased and she was free to do as she pleased. But that didn’t mean that they didn’t sleep with one another still.
;;MIKAH “I’m not out of shape, jerk. Just because I choose not to spend every free minute in this ring doesn’t make me out of shape. I could run circles around you before you even ran half a mile. And you’re right, I can’t stop you from undressing me with your eyes.”
She just shrugs her shoulders and he smirks.
::KR “I love when you say that I’m right.”
Mikah rolls her eyes at him but doesn’t seem too bothered by it. By now, she was used to his antics and the way he reacted to the things she said or even the things she didn’t say.
;;MIKAH “It happens once a year, so there’s your quota for 2020.”
She winks at him and he just shrugs his shoulders as he looks at her before he leans more against the ropes almost as if he was going to use them to push off.
::KR “I’m sure you’ll slip up and tell me I’m right again within the next three months.”
Mikah just shrugs her shoulders before sliding off of the ropes and back onto her feet on the mat as she looks at Kris. They were a complex team with a mixture of emotions between them. Both of them were very good at masking their feelings and hiding things that were going on in their lives. She glances over at the doorway and she smiles to herself as she spots her dead best friend standing there. Or what she assumed was a hallucination. He had promised her last week that he wouldn’t disappear on her and he hadn’t and she was still trying to adjust to seeing him whenever she wanted to.
;;MIKAH “What happens after we win the mixed tag team championships on Sunday?”
She was trying her best to act normal around Kris when she spotted Christian Othniel at the door. She didn’t want to alert Kris that something was off with her. She knew that seeing a dead person wasn’t normal and that there was an underlying condition going on but she didn’t care. She enjoyed seeing him and didn’t want to push him away.
::KR “Then we’ll be tag team champions…”
Mikah gives him a look before rolling her eyes in slight annoyance. She wasn’t trying to get irritated with him, but she thought that he’d know what she was talking about. But it appeared that his mind wasn’t exactly in the same spot as hers.
;;MIKAH “I mean….are we going to be title husband and wife again?”
She smirks as she look at him before a memory is brought up in her own mind. She lets herself slide back to 2018 to relive those days when their little thing was a scandalous secret.
FLASHBACK TO MAY 2018
Mikah taps her foot impatiently as her and Kris sit in the back of the limousine, heading back to their hotel room. She was being impatient and wanted to just be there but it appeared that everybody was leaving the arena at the same time and Alphonso was having a hard time keeping them out of the main flow of traffic.
;;MIKAH “I wish that we could just get there already.”
Patience had never been her strong suit and she has to stop herself from rolling down the middle window so she wouldn’t yell at Alphonso.
;;MIKAH “I do not understand how you are so patient.”
She gives him a look, raising her brows at him. He lets out an uneasy breath and attempts to play off that he is fine.
::KR “I am just happy to be out of the arena before they wanted to check on me this time. Anywhere other than backstage is totally fine with me.”
He gives her a light nudge with his elbow.
::KR “What are you so flustered about anyways? Your job can't be that stressful.”
She gives him a look before crossing her arms over her chest and leans back against the cushions of the limousine’s seats.
;;MIKAH “....”
She shuts her mouth, not sure what she was going to say. She moves a bit, crossing her legs and them uncrossing them.
;;MIKAH “Do you know how frustrating Crystal or Christina is? Like who the fuck does she she think she is?”
She grabs herself a bottle of water from the stocked mini fridge.
;;MIKAH “Thinking that I am the one picking on her.”
She rolls her eyes.
;;MIKAH “Bitch is delusional.”
He laughs a little, more surprised than anything.
::KR “She's annoying, don't get me wrong. The fact that you let her get to you is kind of funny though.”
Instead of grabbing a second bottle from the fridge, he takes hers and takes the cap off of it.
::KR “There are lots of people way more annoying than she is sitting right next to you. I would think you would have built up an immunity.”
She scowls at him a little as he takes her water bottle from her. Just as he goes to take a drink, she reaches over and squeezes it to give him a face full of water. She then gives him a half innocent look and a smirk at the same time.
;;MIKAH “You are not annoying. She is fake. And I do not like fake people.”
She then looks at him.
;;MIKAH “Sorry?”
He squeezes the bottle in her direction, sending some of it spraying her direction.
::KR “You don't ever have to apologize to me.”
He takes a drink from the water while using his free hand to brush some of the water away from his face.
::KR “You pretty much have a free pass.”
She looks at him, a little unsure before shrugging her shoulders before grabbing her phone to check something out. She is silent for a few minutes before she looks at him again.
;;MIKAH “I have a favor to ask of you next week….”
She gives him a sheepish look. He perks up a little at the thought.
::KR “I am a dangerous person to owe something too though. That might not be too smart.”
The signature smirk that got him his original contract from Christian comes across his face.
::KR “Not that I'm not interested.”
She gives him a look, raising one brow at him before she unbuttons another button to her turquoise button up blouse. She adjusts is a bit to give him just a peek-a-boo glance of the black lace trimmed bra underneath.
;;MIKAH “I trust you.”
She shrugs her shoulders.
;;MIKAH “We’ve already had sex. More than once, so….”
She gives him a smile before she takes the water bottle from him and takes a drink before handing it back to him.
;;MIKAH “I need you to come into the office next week….I need to be the one to pick the stipulation for my match with the nutjob. And Christian is much more likely to give me what I want if you’re there.”
She then gives him a smirk.
;;MIKAH “But...I need you to wear little a possible…”
He tries to muster up some fake offense to the suggestion, but fails to come up with anything believable.
::KR “You know I have to push it a little further each time, right? There is only a finite amount of times he will give into just looking.”
He takes another drink from the bottle without taking his eyes off of her.
::KR “That puts me in an even stranger situation…”
She pouts her bottom lip out at him.
;;MIKAH “But I have to be the one to pick the stipulation! Not that tramp!”
She gives him a puppy dog look, batting her long, dark lashes at him. She slides closer to him, putting her body right up against his. She places one hand expertly on the inside of his upper thigh.
;;MIKAH “Please….don’t you enjoy being Championship husband and wife?”
He has absolutely no chance of actually shooting her down and they both know it.
::KR “I can be convinced… I'm pretty sure I have an idea…”
His eyes trail down from hers.
::KR “Those white shorts from Summer XXXtreme could work.”
She smiles at him before leaning in and kissing his cheek as she leaves her hand where it was on his thigh.
;;MIKAH “He would be putty and give me whatever I wanted. I’m sure you could get what you want as well…”
She looks at him before cross her leg over her other as her hand rubs his leg softly.
;;MIKAH “Unless there is nothing that you want.”
He leans into her a little and places a light kiss on her cheek. His voice lowers like he does not want to be heard through the barrier.
::KR “Well you know that’s not true.”
He trails a second kiss a little closer to her lips.
::KR “There is at least one person in this car that I always want.”
She smirks a little bit as she tilts her head to the side a bit before leaning into him and kissing him quickly on the lips.
;;MIKAH “I did not know that you wanted Alphonso so badly. You could have just said something.”
She places a quick kiss on his cheek again. He moves the bottle to a cup holder along the door and then brings his index finger up to her cheek to push her lips back towards him.
::KR “I mean maybe if he needed a favor… he;s a big dude. Owing me one could come in handy.”
She smiles at him before raising an eyebrow at him.
;;MIKAH “What kind of favor would he need?”
END OF FLASHBACK
He chuckles at her and she gives him a look.
;;MIKAH “Well, I’m going to say that it does then. Since you’re clearly no help.”
She walks over to the ropes and carefully gets out of the ring and hops down off the mat and onto the floor. She turns back to look at Kris, smirking at him.
::KR “I mean…”
He just shrugs his shoulders, clearly making no commitment to what she was saying. She just shakes her head to herself as she glances at the door, her eyes moving over her dead best friend’s body. She flashes him a smile before turning her attention back to Kris for a second.
;;MIKAH “It’s fine. I get it, you have commitment issues. I’m going to go shower, have fun in here.”
She doesn’t give him a chance to answer as she walks over to Christian and gives him a smile as they walk out of the gym, the doors closing behind them. Mikah glances around, slightly nervously to make sure there was nobody around so that they wouldn’t see her hugging an invisible person. Once she was sure that she was in the clear, she wraps her arms around him and hugs him. He smiles to himself before he too hugs her back. She couldn’t believe that even the hug felt real.
::CO “Is he okay?”
Mikah glances back the direction of the gym and where she had left Kris before she looks at Christian. She nods her head before kissing his cheek.
;;MIKAH “Yeah, he’s fine. I’m sure of it. Or he’ll be fine if he’s not. It’s Kristopher, he’s always fine.”
She was quick to brush it off as she walks back to the living area of the building to find the bathroom to take a shower. Christian follows her, opting not to push her to see anything she didn’t want to see.
::CO “As long as you’re sure, Miks.”
Mikah smiles as they walk into the room that was considered “hers” and she sits on the edge of the bed and looks at him. He raises an eyebrow at her before sitting next to her. She seemed to be a little nervous.
;;MIKAH “Is…there something wrong with me? And don’t get me wrong, I love that you’re here but…Mase, you’re dead.”
He places a hand on hers, taking it in his as he looks into her eyes. She looks up into his eyes, that raw, vulnerable look in her eyes. She didn’t want him to disappear but she didn’t completely understand why he was here.
::CO “You’re fine, I promise. There’s nothing wrong with you.”
It didn’t make her feel any better but she wasn’t going to question it. She leans into him, slightly.
;;MIKAH “Okay…just don’t leave, okay?”
“DANCE WITH THE DEVIL.”
LOCATION: LAS VEGAS, NEVADA.
DAYS UNTIL THE MATCH: 2
SCENE: ii
REC
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
TIME: 5:45 PM
The scene opens up to show the Bellagio and its fountains in the view of the screen. A platform had been set up in the fountains’ pool but away from where the jets would shoot off. And in the middle of the platform, stood the blonde Bombshell, Mikah. She was wearing a turquoise bikini because she was sure that she’d get wet due to the fountains. And on her feet are silver stiletto pumps. She glances around her before the fountains begin going off behind her to her theme song that was a mixed up version of Dirty Little Girl by Burn Halo, Shakin’ Hands by Nickelback, and Bad Bitch by Bebe Rexha.
;;MIKAH “Vegas, where you go big or you go home.”
A smirk plays on her face as she looks at the camera, which had switched to the one that was on the platform so that her voice could be heard.
;;MIKAH “And just like that saying, Kristopher and I are going to go big on Sunday night and take the gold home with us.”
She was confident in her own skills and she believed that Kris was just as good as she was. She didn’t believe that she had to pretend any differently.
;;MIKAH “Let’s not waste any time with the semantics. Because it doesn’t matter if I say that I am a million times better in the ring than Bella, because I’ve already proven. But first. . .”
She reaches up and tucks her hair behind her right ear.
;;MIKAH “Let’s start with the things that you had to say about me, Mally.”
She scrunches her nose up and chuckles before shaking her head as she walks around the small platform.
;;MIKAH “Let me guess, you didn’t do your homework very well, did you?”
She looks at the camera with a faux pouty look on her face.
;;MIKAH “Since you so very clearly want to talk about my marriage to Drake Green, you should have looked up the facts before you ran your mouth. Yes, Drake Green has money but I also came from money. I didn’t have use Drake’s money for anything. And no, it was not a marriage of convenience and if you want the truth, he chased me and had to convince me to marry him. I have never been keen on marriage but when you love somebody, you compromise, so I married him. Did I love him? Yes, I did. But life happens and there are things that one just…can’t get over. But my former marriage? It has no place in this match. You’re not facing Drake, you’re facing Kristopher.”
She smirks at the camera.
;;MIKAH “And before I touch on that, Drake is only two years older than I am. In way shape or form is he in the grave. So maybe instead of looking like an ignorant asshole, you should do your research. Drake is also a SCW Hall of Famer. And me? I’m also a SCW Hall of Famer. You and your whore-y little wife or wife to be, will probably never even come close to making it into the hall of fame.”
She flicks her hair over her shoulder with her hand before she turns to look at the fountains as they go off to her music.
;;MIKAH “And I bring up yours and Bella’s relationship because it is a factor in this match. You are her tag team partner, Mally. So, I bring up the fact that you two are together because it does matter in this little war. The things that I’m going to do to her in the ring aren’t going to be pretty. And it might piss you the fuck off. But you’ll get used to it, it’s what I do.”
She winks at the camera.
;;MIKAH “Now Bella….”
She shakes her head slowly as she looks at the camera.
;;MIKAH “Bella, Bella, Bella…you are as dumb as you look. And as dumb as you sound on Twitter.”
She winks at the camera again before she moves around the platform again, careful not to trip in her stiletto heels.
;;MIKAH “You talk this big game and you state you’re not scared of me or intimidated by me. But you should be because you’ve already lost to me. You’re not better than me and a month ago, Kristopher and I already proved that.”
She smirks again before shrugging her shoulders.
;;MIKAH “You don’t have to admit that you’re scared of me, Bella. I understand, I get it. You want to look as if you’re a credible champion, it’s what any champion would say. But everybody knows that it isn’t true. And go ahead, say that you’re okay with losing because you’ll have your husband-to-be and that’s all you need. But that’s not going to get you anywhere in wrestling, honey.”
She just gives the camera look.
;;MIKAH “And yes, I am the best there is. I don’t need the Bombshell Championship to be there. I’ve already done that, three times to be exact. I’ve already sat at the top of the Bombshell’s division and reigned supreme. I’m already in the Hall of Fame and I’ve been voted the best Bombshell ever by Tommy Knocks. I really have nothing else to achieve in SCW so I’m here because I want to be here. And I want to be a mixed tag team championship with Kristopher. I’m not here to make friends because the ones I have are fine. I don’t need to socialize with little scrubs like you and your soon-to-be husband.”
She gives the camera a disgusted look before rolling her eyes.
;;MIKAH “You’ve beein SCW a year, Bella? Well, a little over a year to be exact if the statistics are correct. Do you know that it didn’t take me a year to obtain the Bombshell Championship? I signed my contract in November of 2014 and by May of 2015, I had the Bombshell Championship and I sat at the top of the division for nine long months. What have you done in your career here in SCW that’s been anything short of amazing?”
She tilts her head to the side as she looks directly into the camera.
;;MIKAH “You should be more than just Malachi’s future wife. You should want more than that for yourself. My career was never dependent on whether I had a husband or a boyfriend. Hell, I had a husband my Bombshell Championship reign in 2015 and I left him at home. He wasn’t in SCW at the time and I didn’t need him to be successful. And I didn’t need Drake Green to be successful either.”
She smirks as she looks around, noticing people watching her. But she didn’t seem to care and even seemed to encourage them to watch her as she stands on the platform.
;;MIKAH “Right now, all I need is Kristopher to be successful and that’s because he’s my tag team partner. And you can bet that he’s ten times better than your fiancé, Malachi is in the ring. He wasn’t the SCW Heavyweight Champion for no reason.”
She smiles as she looks at the Vegas scenery.
;;MIKAH “He and I as a team? There’s just something about it that feels so right. And once we take those championship belts away from you? We’ll be unstoppable. We’ll be the ones that everybody is going to strive to beat and eventually?”
A devious sort of look slips into her eyes as she stares into the camera lens.
;;MIKAH “We’re going to be the measuring stick for what a mixed tag team should be and should want to be.”
She jumps just slightly as the fountains start to go off again, using her theme song again.
;;MIKAH “And that’s just what’s going to happen. We’re not the heroes of the story or in the company. But we are the villains. And let’s face it…”
She smirks again, pausing momentarily as she looks around her again. Her skin was damp and had water droplets on her skin from the fountains behind her.
;;MIKAH “Everybody loves a good villain.”
She giggles and winks at the camera.
;;MIKAH “And everybody has a small soft spot for the villain of the story. Just ask Loki.”
She giggles again before looking at the camera again.
;;MIKAH “Remember this isn’t personal, Bella and Malachi….”
She scrunches up her nose and turns to face the fountains as the water shoots up behind her. She spreads her arms out and lets her head fall back and lets the water hit her soft skin.
;;MIKAH “It’s just what villains do.”