Scene One-Going home
Off Camera
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Last Week
After a loss like that, after a super show and having time off it was always good to relax. It had been a while since she had been home. Back to Canada. Back to see her mother and father. She took Lachlan and the girls for a visit, they enjoyed time with their grandmother. Lachlan went out with Sierra's mother, taking the girls for lunch. Sierra had stayed home, her father Oscar sat in his chair, one hand on his knee, the other gripping a newspaper as his glasses sat down on the end of his nose.
Sierra seemed restless pacing back and forth, taking a few steps and sighing each time, looking about the lounge room, a few pictures sat on the wall, Sierra when she was younger, going through her teen years and then one of her in very cheap wrestling gear in a wrestling stance. She shakes her head and sighs as her father looks up over the top of the newspaper shaking his head. Sierra turns and moves across the room picking up her phone flicking through it. She sighs heavily again and this time her father calmly and slowly folds the paper and puts it to the side.
His hands clasp together and he tilts his head. ”You know, you can just tell me you have a problem you want to talk about..” He laughed under his breath as Sierra stopped and shook her head with a sigh. Her hands slipped into the front pockets of her jeans. ”You know what it’s like, you know what I’m like. I’m a competitor...like you were” She smiled at her father who slowly got to his feet, he moved across the room and picked up a picture of himself and all his from what looked to be the mid-80’s.
He handed the photo to Sierra who studied it with a smile. ”You know losses happen Si Si. No one stays undefeated if they actually want to do this as a job. As a calling” She gave a small nod and took a deep breath, she handed the title back to her father and moved to the window looking out into the street shaking her head, her stomach in knots as she wrapped her arms around herself. ”I just feel like I let Lachlan down. We were champions together, we lost and Lachlan deserves so much better.” Her voice seems to fade away, Sierra sighed deeply and her father put his hand on her shoulder.
”When you are in a relationship, you’re always a team. In the ring, out of the ring. You have each other’s backs. I get it. I don’t think Lachlan blames you. Besides, he got pinned...dumbass” ”Dad!” The old man chuckled and shook his head as Sierra narrowed her eyes.”Well you don’t blame him, why would you think he blames you?” Sierra looked down and thought about it with a small smile and nod. Oscar pushed himself off his chair to his feet and gave his daughter a hug.
She sighed and as she stood back the smile returned. She looked over at the window seeing a car pull up, Lachlan got out with the girls, all three of them smiling wide and laughing. Sierra looked at her father who stood beside her. ”He’s a good man Si, I’m happy you found him, and I’m happy he makes you smile…” After a few moments Oscar scoffed and stood in front of her. ”But you ever tell him I said that...and I’ll disown you..” Sierra laughed and hit her father playfully on the arm as the door opened.
Scene Two-You ain’t metal sister
On Camera
Pimm Nevada
Current Day
”Well, what a shame”
Sierra Williams sighs deeply and shakes her head, her long hair tied back as her hands seem restless, almost as if something is missing.
”The mixed Tag team championships have now been won by a group who is so unbelievably lame and untalented that most people forget that it’s a rotating mix mash of idiocy. Lachlan and I exploded onto the scene here in SCW, we won the titles and we then went on to be the longest reigning champs ever with the most defenses and yet Gamer INC wanted to stand there with a straight face and say we were back for the division. And what’s worse is people listened, people listened and now they are the champions and since then what have they done with those titles?...nothing, nada, zip, zilch...SWEET FUCK ALL…”
“Lachlan and I may not have been on every show, Lachlan got attacked and we still defended the titles and we still maintained a presence on Climax Control and also on social media. We were the faces of the division and yet they pissed all over them and have now made those championships mean nothing, in a month...a freakin month they have made them mean nothing. It’s impressive really. And you know, Lachlan and I have talked about it and even though the first time Gamers INC faced us we MURDERED them and even though we have has more matches than them and have more wins than they would ever wish to have...we aren’t taking our rematch…”
“Nope...we’re not...and do you know why?...because you people, you fans and also the management of SCW doesn’t deserve to have us as the champions of a dying division that only picked up steam when we lost because all those new teams are COWARDS.”
“None of them stepped to myself and Lachlan…”
“But now the gamers have those titles and suddenly there are all these new teams ready to go after them. Couldn’t step to the best so you chase the rest huh?. That’s weak. But Lachlan and I will continue our careers here, we will go on to face new people and new challenges and for Lachy that is Griffin and the Roulette title….for me?...well for me the sky is the limit...unlike Jesse Salco where the limit’s the sky….”
Sierra chuckles again and folds her arms over her chest, her lower face covered by a black bandana.
”But before I get onto the most losingest wrestler in the history of SCW let me get one thing straight here. I am a former champion, one of the best in this company finally being unleashed on the roster as a singles star and I have to face Bobbi Dahl at Into the void?. Why?. Because she’s a pervert with no boundaries who wants to hit on a taken man?. That is bullshit. Christ a match with anyone, ANYONE else would make more sense. Shit, you could put me into the ring with any of the washed up bitches like Crystal, Amy or Mercedes, you could have me face an overrated lush like Sam Marlowe or Cat Riley. I’d even face that untalented waste of space cum bucket Amanda Cortez….”
“But Bobbi Dahl?. I’ll get in the ring and give her the beating she deserves. But It won’t get me anywhere, it won’t get me closer to the Roulette or Bombshells titles will they?.”
“Fucking pathetic…”
“And speaking of pathetic...Hi Jesse…”
Sierra growls out her name and tilts her head. Her upper body covered in a red sleeveless SCW shirt and tight black jeans.
”I mean three losses to hit triple figures?. One win in 2019?. Why are you still here Jesse?. It’s obvious this career and this business has passed you by. And look, I could be a huge bitch here, lord knows I really am an arrogant cunt with a huge chip on my shoulder and superiority complex. But what I’m going to say here is from the heart. This business Jesse, is about momentum and heart. Sure you need confidence and skills and talent and drive but when it all settles down what you really need is the heart and will to keep going.”
“I have that. I have had two children, both of whom were conceived and born while I have been a wrestler. So that means twice now I have left the business, put my body through trauma and worked my ass off to come back. I could have stayed at home, I could have retired, got a job working for my father, lived that kind of life. But I didn’t want that. I wanted this, so I put in that work and have come back with fire and determination.”
“That is what the business deserves. But you, you’ve lost that fire, that drive. You turn up to work and do the bare minimum in promos and in the ring. You collect your money and go home. You don’t eat, breathe, sleep and shit wrestling like the rest of us. You don’t bleed it, Jesse.”
“There comes a time when you are standing on the shattered piece of your career, your best days behind you and your heart no longer in it where you need to end it. You need to look in the mirror, you need to look in your own eyes and see that the light is gone and just accept it. That is the point you’re at Jesse. You’re not being taken seriously anymore. Not that you really were to begin with but now, well now it’s worse. Now you’re a parody, a name put on the card to give people like me a chance to shine bright….”
“Almost as if you...enhance our aura….or talent….”
Sierra looks up and ponders for a moment before deadpanning the camera.
”I’m not going to take any pleasure in this Jesse, hell I hate whipping a dead horse...you can’t hear it scream. But if you need to be put down, if you need to have your eyes opened I guess I’ll do it. At Climax Control I am going to get in the ring, I am going to put you in the sharpshooter and I am going to make you tap out and quit, cause it’s all you’re good for….it’s all you deserve…”
