Reading, Berkshire England
Legoland,
Homecoming… Things seemed to be going really bad within the world. This Corona Virus was causing the entire world to come to a halt and that is something that Diamond Steele didn’t want to deal with. After all she had traveled to just about everywhere on this tour and things seemed to be going so well for the English beauty. Throughout the course of this year she had been undefeated. She had taken down every single foe that had been placed in front of her and the road to her redemption had been better than ever. She had found her way to winning the Internet Championship and on top of that she was in the Semi Finals for the Blast From The Past Tournament. Life was indeed great. This upcoming Climax Control was going to be a very special one. She was in the main event of the evening and to be more precise she was going to have the pleasure of competing home. To be honest being from Berkshire was a blur to Kate. She might have been born in Berkshire, Reading but she had spent most of her time in London at her grandmother’s estate. Kate’s father on the other hand was a big time tycoon from Berkshire and he moved his family from England when Kate was only 12 years old.
That didn’t stop Kate however as this was one of the first time’s that her adopted daughter Juliet had been to Berkshire. She was going to show her a great time and it didn’t get any better than that of Legoland. The park was set to close over the weekend with the way the virus was hitting but that wouldn’t stop Kate. She wanted to show her daughter a good time and on top of that she wanted to give back to the fans with a special meet and greet. It was a special occasion indeed. Kate was clad in a Union Jack designed shirt and matching yoga pants. Her daughter wore a I Heart England shirt. Kate had the Internet Championship draped across her shoulders as she walked proudly throughout the park. She smiled as she looked down at her daughter.
“Okay pumpkin you ready to have a really great time today?! Legoland is going to be lots of fun. There are so many rides here and when I was your age I drove my sister crazy as I made her take me on every single one. Today is our lucky day the park is pretty much empty because everybody is scared of this virus…”
The 11 year old girl looks up into her mother’s eyes.
“Mommy is the virus going to get me, you, and daddy?”
Kate smiles as she bends down looking down into the eyes of her daughter.
“If I have my way it definitely won’t. I have been disinfecting everything but we can’t live life being afraid of the unknown. If it’s meant to be then we will get sick. I don’t think taking extra precautions is going to protect us one way or another. Don’t be afraid though pumpkin because mommy isn’t. This city that we came to is mommy’s home town. It’s an exciting place and I guarantee you that Lego Land is the most exciting place here so let’s just have a great time shall we…”
The little girl couldn’t help but smile with joy. Her eyes moved to her mother as she hugged her as tightly as she could.
“Mommy I want to go on a roller coaster, I want to go on the biggest one that this park has to offer…”
Kate giggled in return.
“Don’t worry we will go on every single ride. You definitely are my daughter…”
Kate smiled in return as she held the little girl’s hand as they entered into the park. It wasn’t long before they were quickly bombarded by endless fans that were circled around the duo.
“OMG it’s KATE STEELE!!!!”
“THAT’S LUCIOUS LITTLE GIRL!”
“KATH-LYN YOU ARE AN INSPIRATION TO ALL OF US FROM BERKSHIRE!”
Kate smiled in return as she found herself being surrounded by an angry mob of fans. She shook her head with a smirk as she spoke back to them.
“Cheers… The world says we need to enforce social distancing but I don’t believe in that… There’s no place like home and of course I am going to sign each and every single one of your autographs….”
Kate did everything she could as she posed with fans. She held her title proudly in the air as she offered her bright whites for everybody in attendance. Things seemed to be running smoothly except for the fact that she looked around and her daughter was missing. She quickly ran from out of the group as she searched around frantically.
“JULIET?! JULIET?! WHERE DID YOU GO JULIET?!”
Kate couldn’t help but run around but the more she ran around the more she found herself being surrounded by an endless mob of fans. I guess being from this town had its major share of downfalls the fact that nobody would leave her alone was clearly a sign that they were digging her. She broke away from the angry mob of people as she stopped to catch her breath. She slowly lifted her eyes up and there stood a familiar face. It was none other than that of Crichton which was her late grandmother’s butler. Kate raised her eyes in return as she ran up to the older man and to her surprise Crichton was standing there with the likes of Juliet.
“Crichton!!!!”
The older man slowly looks at Kate as he smiles at her.
“Hello Miss Kath-Lyn… Long time no see… It’s been about 10 months since I have saw you…”
Kate nods her head as she keeps her eyes locked on her butler.
“It’s been far too long. Why are you here Crichton?! Shouldn’t you be back in London watching over the manor? I know my grandmother is deceased but I pay you great money to watch over my London home. It’s pretty important to our family and I would prefer for it to be in the best of shapes. I appreciate you looking over my daughter but I think London would be a better place for you…”
Crichton just shakes his head with a sigh as he glances back at Kate.
“Actually I was told to look over Juliet by that of Miss Laura…”
Kate’s eyes open wide up as she looks back at her butler.
“What do you mean by Laura?!”
Juliet smirks as she looks back at her mother.
“Mommy cousin is so cool and she has such a strong and funny accent. How come you have never introduced me to her? She was so fun. She promised we would be playing a lot!”
Kate takes a long deep breath as she looks at her daughter with an expression of horror on her face.
“I don’t want you going anywhere near that woman Juliet. Do you hear me?! Stay away from her. She might be family but that doesn’t make her good. Laura has done some very mean things and she wants to hurt you. I will never let that happen. Not now and certainly not ever so make sure you stay close to me at all times…”
Kate thought about it some more as she looks back at Crichton who shakes his head with a drawn out sigh.
“Miss Kate do you remember 10 months ago when you were in London for London Brawling… Remember how you found that letter outside and Laura said she had returned. It’s true she was left out of prison…”
“Let out of prison?! SHE KILLED GRANDMUM with a taser… That sick Bitch tried to kill me 5 years ago! If it wasn’t for my sister Samara she would have killed me as well. Daddy, Samara, and I put an end to her. We got her locked up… I don’t understand how she could have been set free…”
Crichton shakes his head with a sigh.
“Well she got an appeal. At first I didn’t think it was true but it seemed they deemed your grandmother’s death an accident. Even though Laura may have admitted what she did to you there was no concrete proof and she was let go…”
“That crazy chick wants to kill my daughter…Over something that wasn’t my fault…”
Crichton shakes his head as she glances back at Kate with a sigh.
“I know but she reappeared in my life. She’s been living in the manor and she threatened that if I said or did anything she would end my life like she did with Madam Victoria. Kath-Lyn listen up… You and your daughter need to get out of Berkshire as fast as you can. I don’t want anything to happen to you or Juliet for that matter…”
Kate shook her head as she glanced back at Crichton.
“Don’t worry about me I know how to handle myself. Where did Laura go can you at least tell me that much…”
Crichton nodded his head with a sigh.
“I was afraid you were going to say that.. Miss Laura said if you wish to end this to go to the basketball game and look for something out of the ordinary… Once you find what you are looking for you will get the clue to where you could find her…”
“Fine that’s all I needed to know…”
Kate goes to run off but she is suddenly grabbed by Crichton.
“Miss Kate you sure you don’t want to maybe go home with Juliet. You don’t need to put yourself through all of this…”
Kate shook her head.
“Crichton I am home… Berkshire is my home last time I checked and I can’t run away from this forever. Besides if I run away I am pretty sure I would be forced to forfeit my title and that really isn’t my style. The people of Berkshire have suffered enough and I never got a chance to properly grow up before their very eyes. I am not going to let the one of the best things from this place not even show up. They deserve much better than that from me, and I owe it to everyone to show how much of a fighter I have become. If Laura wants to end this by all means we will end this… I won’t get hurt but I want you to call Teddy and tell him to watch over Juliet…”
“Mommy please be careful…”
Kate smiles in return.
“No worries pumpkin I will be careful. You just take care of yourself and stay with Crichton until daddy gets here…Maybe later I can buy you a really nice gift or something even better… I love you pumpkin and I will see you tonight…”
With that Kate looks at her daughter as she gives her a kiss on the cheek. She wraps her arms around her for a very passionate hug and once she breaks away from it she heads off in the direction of the games. Dealing with Corona Virus was one thing but this stuff with Laura had gone on long enough. She didn’t think of anything about that letter from Laura a year ago when she was in London but now she was taking things seriously. She took a long deep breath as she took out her phone as she dialed a familiar number.
“Hey Mackenzie this is Kate… Listen I need a serious favour from you. Should something happen to me please look over my idiot husband and my daughter, just make a promise to make sure they are safe…”
“Hello Kate… Kate what’s wrong?!”
Kate didn’t bother answering that question as she quickly hung up the phone. She started to walk away and Mackenzie kept calling Kate’s phone but the Berkshire beauty sent it to voice mail. She was a woman on a mission and in one way or another all of this was going to come to an end…
On Camera
The scene comes into focus and as it does we are treated to the sight of Diamond Steele standing in front of a camera. She shakes her head in disgust as she slowly glances at that of her Internet Championship. She swings it across her shoulders as she slowly begins to speak.
“To everyone who might be watching this I just want to take this moment to say that I hope things are okay with you and your families. I know the world is getting rough to the point where an outbreak is happening worldwide. It’s a serious pandemic and everybody is in a panic. The stores are getting crazy as people are trying their best to stock up on toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and of course disinfectant. There are so many sick people in the world and I truly wish all of them well. The world deserves better, and we will recover from this. However there is the threat that things are going to get a lot worse before they even get better. The only thing I wish to say is for everyone to be optimistic. This is something that will past and we are all going to emerge stronger because of it. That brings me to that of this upcoming Climax Control and despite everything that’s going on I want to put on the show of a lifetime…
SCW is coming to my place of birth and it doesn’t get any better than that of being able to compete in front of my hometown crowd in Berkshire Reading. Berkshire is the place where I was born and the saddest thing about being from there is the fact that I only got to spend 12 years of my life there before my father packed us up because of his business and moved us to that of New York. England made me and with SCW on Sunday I wish that we can give people a reason to smile as we could look away from the harsh reality of the world and focus on that of wrestling. I think as a society we need SCW more than ever especially considering mostly every single sport has either been cancelled or suspended indefinitely but not SCW.
SCW is committed to bringing amazing shows to the people and I am just thrilled that I still get the chance to perform in front of my people and in my home city…”
Diamond smiles as she shakes her head with a smirk as she keeps her focus on the camera and continues to speak some more.
“Not only do I get to compete in front of my people but the spotlight is on me as I will be defending my newly won Internet Championship in the main event against the likes of Sam Marlowe. Sam Marlowe I just want to say from the bottom of my heart that it is going to feel amazing to be in the ring with you. I know all about you. You are one of the best of the best in the business today. You were a former multiple time World Champion, you were a former Mixed Tag Team Champion, and you shattered the bar I set with the Roulette Championship holding the longest reign and going on to win it four times. That is all amazing by all means and I can respect it. You are a great competitor or at least I can say you USED TO BE… What the hell has happened within your career?! You excuse my language now but I am a punk and metal rocker so I might be sustained to having the mouth of a bloody sailor but since when did you regress so much that you are a sad sorry ass pitiful form of yourself. You thought you were quite hot shit in your interviews with Pussy Willow going into My Bloody Valentine and of course in your promos as well. Do you want to know what I find to be complete asinine and doesn’t make any sort of sense?!”
Diamond just shakes her head in disgust as she continues to speak.
“You stand in front of a camera and tell the world that you actually respect me but felt sorry for me because I wouldn’t be walking out with the Internet title which of course I did… You tried to claim that I EARNED title shots but started demanding them… Yet you stated it… I EARNED my briefcase which meant I EARNED my shot… It’s right to dictate when I wanted that shot same thing when I won that Roulette contenders match and I have to wait for people like you, and Vargas, and Bobbie to get what I earned before me. How does that make any sense?! Yes I do have a right to complain because yanno I actually worked my ass off and EARNED IT! There was a tale of two different stories walking into My Bloody Valentine. There was me who has earned every single shot and chance she has ever gotten in this company and there was of course you who actually admitted that she got HANDED a World title shot by Mikah… You didn’t beat anybody to get to that moment, it’s not like you won contender matches but you were handed a title shot. I wish I could be handed something out of the blue and to be honest as we look at this match it seems like you are being handed something once again… What have you done to warrant you being in the main event with me?!
Who have you really beaten, what have you achieved?! Yes you might have done some shit in the past but that was all in the past. You have regressed ever since you had a lucky win over Mikah. It might be impressive that you are a four time Roulette Champion but you beat the likes of Candence Carter, Jessie Salco… Evie Baang and won some bullshit over the pool match to get your titles. I would say winning against Evie Baang is always impressive we had always gone to war over the Internet Championship but you beat an Evie who didn’t even wish to be champion, an Evie who was only champion because Brittany Williams bit off more than she could chew by demanding to face her, and she pretty much sat on the belt since that win. So what have you really done besides be handed easy matches, beat opponents who I see you are better than… It’s regression… It’s okay to be a Roulette Champion, four times makes it seem more impressive but holding that AFTER you were already at top on two different occasions just makes it seem not so impressive. I thought you were better than that but obviously I must be mistaken…
But yet you wish to throw salt in my eyes because I earn the shit that I have, and after losing my Roulette title I constantly go upwards and upwards. I don’t show any signs of slowing down and by the looks of it I seem to be setting a pace where I could possibly hold both the World Bombshell Championship and Internet Championship at the same exact time… That’s right Sam I don’t need to get on my high horse about the things I can do. I think it’s safe to say that the proof is in the pudding. I am the Champion… I am in the Semi Finals of the Blast From The Past Tournament there are no hypotheticals here there is only facts and throughout everything Diamond Steele delivers…”
Diamond takes a deep breath as she continues to speak.
“I know it was as obvious as day that I was Diamond but when I was chasing after my husband the fact remained that I told everyone I loved my husband. He might have seemed to be a jerk on television but behind the scenes he is a totally different person and that’s the man I loved. This business will not break the covenant of marriage so instead of trying to talk about things you don’t know why don’t you focus on what you do know. I am on a hot streak. I beat the likes of YOU and many others to get my Internet Championship. I just beat a red hot Andrea who tried to question my ability as a competitor in a tag team match, and we know how great Andrea is considering she beat our current champion at the last Super Card. I have beaten Dani Weston who is also a former World Champion. I bring results and I keep on getting better and better. Not to mention I also beat Sierra Williams and a lot of people were considering her the end all be all. What have you done recently except become one major fuck up? Let’s be honest here Sam. You lost your Roulette Championship to Candy, you had a strong partner in the Blast From The Past and found your way quickly out of the tournament. Things don’t seem to be going that well for you but long behold you get handed a title shot…”
Diamond shakes her head.
“Handouts should be given to those who clearly need the help. Is that all you have become Sam Marlowe? Give me a reason why I should take you seriously? How can I trust that you will even bring a good fight when we are standing in the ring with one another? The reality is I can’t trust you. I doubt you will bring it considering your track record. It doesn’t matter to me though. I have something to prove inside of that ring. I will be putting on a show for my people and I am not going to lose my hard fought for title in my first defense. Red hot Diamond is going to keep her hot streak going. I plan to be most improved and woman of the year, and I know I can get to that state. This match should be all the motivation for you. This is your chance to actually prove what you did in the past isn’t a fluke. If you manage to beat me you would go down in history as being a Grand Slam Champion. There is so much riding on this for you and you really could turn things around. Will you bring it and give me the fight I desire?! Negative…”
Diamond chuckles again.
“I plan to silence the critics once and for all. This match is also between the two women with the longest reigns from the Roulette division. We really haven’t had that singles match that we should have had but we are about to on Sunday. Only one could emerge as saying they are the absolute best. One will emerge as a winner and the other will leave with their head down in shame. On everything beating inside of me I won’t allow that to be me. I am the home town favorite. People are depending on me. I felt so much regret when I was fighting for the World Championship in front of the London crowd and things didn’t go my way. It’s something that keeps haunting me every single day and I don’t want to relive that ever again. This is a chance to rewrite the wrong. On top of that whenever I hold a title in this company I always get past the first defense. I did so with the Roulette Championship and I did so with the Internet Championship. It’s time to keep that momentum rolling and not to create a new culture for me. I hope you have a serious game plan coming into this match because if you don’t I will take advantage of you in every single way…
I plan to beat you and I won’t rest until you are tapping out in front of my crowd. I wish you the best of luck because you certainly will need it. Cheers Sam but you aren’t going to get your lucky break. Can you hear the song of your demise playing in the background? That’s the Siren’s Song and if you listen to the whole thing you will eventually find yourself SHIPWRECKED… The Siren is ready to take you out one way or another… I will put a smile on the Berkshire fans… Consider this my homecoming…”
With that Diamond forms a focused expression right into the camera and we fade out on this image.
Off Camera
Lego Land
Berkshire, England
Kate Steele was on the run as she was going to end things with her cousin once and for all. She ran all the way to where the games were and she did her best to look for something out of the ordinary. She did spot something that seemed to be the likes of a boy holding a Teddy Bear with an endless amount of stuffed animals surrounding him. It looked as if the boy was exchanging words with one of the Carnies and Diamond didn’t waste any time getting involved. As she drew closer she could hear the Carnie yelling at the boy.
“That’s it you aren’t allowed to play anymore games… You have won far too many prizes and you have officially been cut off from playing…”
Diamond raises her eyes as she looks at what’s going on as the boy yells back at him.
“It’s not me though… I swear Angel is the one winning all of the time not me… You have to believe me…”
The Carnie shakes his head with an upset expression on his face.
“Can you believe this nonsense… This kid is talking to a Teddy Bear… How old is he?!”
The man holding the Teddy Bear is none other than that of Despayre. Diamond smiles as she gives him a passionate hug as she glances at the Carnie.
“And what is wrong with talking to a Teddy?! I will have you know that I talk to a Teddy every single night. He is about 5’10 and weighs 220 pounds does that make me weird…”
The Carnie doesn’t say a word as he keeps his eyes locked on Diamond Steele. He takes a long deep breath as he glares at Kate.
“Oh Kate Steele… You are a celebrity around Berkshire… Look I am so sorry for the inconvenience I just don’t want any trouble. If he keeps winning all of the prizes it just looks bad…”
Diamond nods her head as she glances back at Despy.
“Don’t worry about anyway you seem to be out of place Despy so if there is something that you wish to tell me Hun?!”
Despy can’t help but grin as he looks at Diamond.
“Oh yes… Diamond…. Kate…. Heart of Steele or whatever your name is you have to believe me that Angel is super good at basketball and…”
Kate quickly shakes her head as she smirks back at him.
“Listen I totes believe you. All I need to know right now is did a strange lady to talk to you?!”
Despy opens his eyes in amazement as he glances right at Kate.
“Oh yes… The nice lady who said she is your cousin… She said that if you ever met up with me that you were to meet her inside her in the Haunted House…”
“Thanks Despy that’s all I needed to know…”
With that being said Diamond found herself running in the direction of the Haunted House. As she was heading in that direction she could hear an announcement over the speaker system that the park would be closing soon due to the Corona Virus. That didn’t stop Kate though as she made it to the Haunted House. It looks like the attraction had been closed down due to maintenance. Kate disregarded that as she made her way to the inside of the house and she was confronted with a dimly lit atmosphere along with haunted figures made out of Legos. That still didn’t get the best of her. She kept on walking until she could see a figure standing in the darkness. It was none other than her cousin Laura Steele former wrestler and not recently released woman from prison. Laura smirked as she glared at Kate.
“Cheers my beautiful cousin. It seems like fate has finally brought the two of us together. When I left that note for you a year ago I thought you would have been a bit more frightened than what you were but I guess you forgot me…”
Diamond shakes her head glancing at her cousin.
“I didn’t forget you Laura but life goes on. I can’t live my life being afraid of something especially not of you. Whatever you have against me you need to honestly let it go. I am not even in your life anymore and you need to keep Juliet out of it as well. I adopted her while you were in prison and whatever you have between us you don’t need to involve her. So what is this about?!”
Diamond sits there as Laura just sighs in return. She quickly reaches into her pocket and pulls out a gun and holds Kate at gunpoint. Diamond seems taken back as she backs up a bit.
“Don’t fucking move Kate! Like I said I am going to end you. I paid off the people at the front of the park so they could let me in with this. In a few moments it’s just going to be us but by the end of the night I will be the only one that will walk out of here…”
“Laura you don’t have to do this!”
“I know I don’t have to do this but the reality is I want to do this. You had it easy Kate. You got to live with your family. My mother was taken away from me at a very young age and who knows where my father is. When mom died very young I enjoyed it when you and Samara would come to London and spend time with me. It was fun and it made me feel like I wasn’t alone. Yet as much as I lived there she just made me all posh. I became quite elegant and you were far from that. Soon as you came over it was like you were the favorite and I never got treated how I rightfully should. Samara was the oldest granddaughter and you were the baby…”
Diamond nods her head.
“Of course I was the favorite I was the youngest Laura. That’s not something that is unnatural but Grandmother loved you. Even if you took her life she loved you. You can hold this grudge against me but to be honest do you think I wanted to leave England and go to New York. You were closer to me than that of my sister. We are so close together in age that we always did things together. I would never treat you any differently. We might be cousins by blood but in my eyes you are my sister. You will always be that to me and that will never change… If you feel like you want to pull that trigger go for it… I will understand but let it end with me…Teddy and I gave Juliet the best life we possibly could. We adopted her in the same way that Grandma did the same for you… I guess in our eyes we just wanted to be there for someone and that a girl didn’t have to go through what you did…”
With that Laura begins to cry as she keeps her eyes fixated on that of Kate. She slowly lowers the gun.
“You really did that and for me…”
“Yes Laura we are family… Even if you wish to hate me we are still family. Whatever happened to us in the past we can leave it in the past! We can look towards the future and have it absolutely be promising. You are out of prison and now is the time to mend those broken bridges and we can start working on making our family strong again. It will be much better and we might have a relationship as strong as it used to be…”
Laura raises her eyes in return.
“Do you really mean that?!”
“Yes I do mean that.. Our family is getting bigger and this is your chance to be a part of something special. I have a feeling you are really going to love Juliet. She’s quite the princess and soft spoken. Reminds me of how you were when you were a little girl. So my question for you Laura is do you wish to start things over and be a part of the family or do you want to throw it all away for a grudge that should have been let go a while ago?!”
Laura thinks about it as she slowly lowers the gun glancing at her cousin.
“You really mean it?!”
“Yes Laura I really mean it… I love you. Things never changed and I want you in my family…”
With that being said Laura finally lowers the gun. She moves her eyes to that of Kate as she walks towards her. She puts the gun away as she has tears in her eyes and hugs Kate as tightly as she could.
“I missed you so much… I just want my cousin back…”
“And I want mines back as well… Laura I am not saying things are going to be fine overnight but if take things slowly I am sure our relationship is going to be much stronger than it ever was. We are the Steele family. There isn’t anybody better than us right?! Let’s get going and head towards the manor. It would be a great time to apologize to the way you treated Teddy in the past and for me to properly introduce you to Juliet. We can have Crichton make us a great meal and it will be like old times…”
Laura smiles in return as she nods her head in agreement.
“That sounds like a plan… I really would like that. I seriously would love that…”
“So would I… Let’s just get through this Berkshire show and when we eventually fly back to Tampa we could maybe go for a swim and do some Florida things. It’s been a long time coming but I am so happy that you are back in my life Laura…”
“Let’s get going shall we?! And maybe let’s find a good place where I can chuck this gun into the river and to never think about it again…”
With that being said Kate and Laura just nod at each other as they head towards the exit. Despite how things might have been in the past between them it seemed as if they were set to get back on track and their bond was going to be stronger than ever. It is on this happy image that we slowly fade out on…
