Off-Camera
Friday, February 28, 2020
Zdunich Apartment
Las Vegas, Nevada
11:17 AM PST
What a difference two weeks can make! Valentine’s Day had seen Seleana Zdunich at Busch Gardens in Tampa, enjoying herself as she readied for an SCW pay-per-view match with a championship on the line. The fact that she hadn’t managed to win the match or championship, while not ideal, had also not been soul crushing.
February 18th had seen her baby sister get inadvertently kicked in the face by a wrestler called Morgan Payne on a show in Japan. Payne had been involved with an argument involving Eavan Maloney and Eavan had brought both of her wives, Adriana and Katra Zdunich, with her intending to take her leave of that company with a bit of grace to her exit.
The kick to Katra’s face had ended that pipe dream.
On the 23rd, Seleana had been working a pay-per-view show for Hybrid Wrestling’s Unleashed Brand as a manager for her wife, Christina Zdunich. During a match for the tag team championships between a friend of Seleana’s named Bethany Kenyon and Bethany’s partner Josh Goldstein, and a team called Bloody Fairytale, four other women, one of them being Morgan Payne, had attacked Goldstein and forced Bethany to defend the championships two on one. Having already decided they had animosity towards Payne and this stable because of the kick and an earlier incident wherein the leader of the group, Jasmine Matthews, attempted to force Katra to actually wrestle a match against Eavan’s professional fight ex-boyfriend, Seleana opened the back door to her sister, Zenna Zdunich, Zenna’s fiancée Linnéa Lacroix and the Zdunich Sisters’ cousin, Maja Lindström.
Zenna, Linnéa and Maja worked for the other Hybrid Wrestling show, the Ascension Brand, and were not supposed to be there on the show. There was actually a company policy against such things happening because of a now-defunct stable that had made a habit of defying company officials and showed up wherever they felt like, generally making a nuisance of themselves and creating havoc wherever they went.
The ensuing attack on Matthews and Payne’s group had resulted in Seleana, Zenna, Linnéa and Maja all being arrested and was now probably going to lead to further company discipline. The question was only how severe the discipline would end up being for them.
Christina Zdunich: So, were you going to tell me?
Seleana looks up from her laptop as she sits at the kitchen table of their apartment in Las vegas and frowns.
Seleana Zdunich: Tell you what, Chickie?
Christina frowns, crossing her arms in front of her chest.
Christina Zdunich: The stunt you pulled on Sunday, were you going to tell me?
Seleana shrugs.
Seleana Zdunich: What is to tell? It happened, it’s over. We’ll probably get suspended for it.
Christina is unmoved.
Christina Zdunich: You planned it…
Seleana nods slowly, pointedly.
Seleana Zdunich: Ja, we did.
Christina grinds her teeth in annoyance.
Christina Zdunich: I didn’t!
Seleana nods again.
Seleana Zdunich: No, you did not.
Christina stares at Seleana in stunned disbelief.
Christina Zdunich: Why not? I could have helped! I’m part of this family too!
Seleana looks to the table, her head bowed in guilt.
Seleana Zdunich: I know, but we could not tell you. You could not be part of that…
Christina’s eyes narrow, her hurt and anger still plainly visible.
Christina Zdunich: Why not?
Her arms fly down demonstrably.
Christina Zdunich: I could have helped! You know I would have!
Seleana nods.
Seleana Zdunich: That’s why we could not tell you. It came together quickly and we knew you would want in if you knew. We all knew we would get in trouble but we also knew we would not catch any extra flack for it. Kattunge is our sister…
Christina’s eyes flash her anger even as she cocks her head slightly in confusion.
Christina Zdunich: Linnéa and Maja are not her sisters!
Seleana shakes her head.
Seleana Zdunich: No, Maja is her cousin and Linnéa is to marry Zenna. They both have the connection and the proper reputation…
Christina’s eyes flash wildly.
Christina Zdunich: Reputation? You’re saying you kept this secret from me and didn’t ask me to help because of my fucking reputation? Seleana, I am your WIFE!!! There is nothing I would not do for you!
Seleana springs up and nods.
Seleana Zdunich: I know that, you know that. They know that but the outside world would not! They would look at you doing that and think to say you were only doing it because you are a notice starved attention whore who only did it because it would get you in the news cycle! That you were actually hoping to get suspended because it would somehow make you a bigger star, give you street credibility you did not have before and remind everybody that you are not to be fucked with! That maybe, just maybe, it would make every company you work for currently start giving you the respect you think you deserve that many of are currently keeping from you!
Christina just stares, obviously caught off-guard and hurt by her wife’s words.
Christina Zdunich: I…
Seleana raises her hands up to try and calm her wife.
Seleana Zdunich: I am not saying I believe that to be the truth, Estrellita. I am saying if we told you what we were going to do and you took part in it, the story would not be that four members of a non-wrestlers’ family tried to exact revenge on the villains that hurt her, it would be that Crystal Hilton had to be the center of the world and went looking for a way to give herself a shortcut to that again and we did not want that for you!
Christina glares and then points accusingly.
Christina Zdunich: Maybe that wasn’t your decision to make!
Seleana’s hands spread out wide.
Seleana Zdunich: It was the decision we made. I am sorry it hurt you, but it is what happened. We did not tell you because we knew how the world would take it and we didn’t want you…
Christina nods knowingly.
Christina Zdunich: Exactly, you didn’t want me!
She turns and storms off, making her way to the door and slamming it behind her dramatically.
Seleana steps back and slumps into her chair.
Seleana Zdunich: Du har skitit i det blå skåpet nu! Din jävla idiot!
Shaking her head, Seleana looks over to the door and sighs heavily.
Seleana Zdunich: Du har skitit i det blå skåpet nu!
Shaking her head, she pounds her right fist onto the table so hard the laptop almost jumps.
Seleana Zdunich: Din jävla idiot! Varför sa du det?
Clenching her jaw tightly, Seleana looks away, exhaling heavily.
Seleana Zdunich: Din jävla idiot, Seleana, du vet bättre!
Seleana stands up and starts walking to the back of the apartment, contemplating what to do next.
Seleana Zdunich: Du har skitit i det blå skåpet nu. Frågan är...
She picks up her car keys and stares at them.
Seleana Zdunich: Vad gör du för att rengöra skiten?
Nodding to herself, Seleana turns and heads for the door, knowing she’s got a big job ahead of her now.
On-Camera
Friday, February 14, 2020
Busch Gardens
Tampa, Florida
1:36 PM EST
The camera opens on Seleana Zdunich standing on a sidewalk on the edge of the Las Vegas Strip just past the Mandalay Bay. Wearing a pair of tight blue jeans, a loose blue sleeveless top and a beat-up Nikes,
Seleana Zdunich: I…
She turns away from the camera, motioning at the ground with both hands palms down as she tries to calm herself.
Seleana Zdunich: Tagga ner… tagga ner…
She takes a deep breath and looks to the sky.
Seleana Zdunich: För fan i helvete!
Turning back to face the camera, Seleana waves a hand in front of her almost seemingly begging for a proper answer.
Seleana Zdunich: You cannot be… this…
She waves again, stunned into near silence.
Seleana Zdunich: I did not want to believe people when they spoke of you be it in private or public. I did not want to think… I…
Both of her hands curl into loose fists as she stares forward waiting for a punchline she knows is never coming.
Seleana Zdunich: I am at a loss, it is as if you only bothered to read a company bio and did not actually pay attention to much of anything else at all. Please tell me you would not have looked at Mercedes Vargas or Alicia Lukas and acted as if neither one had any kind of track record at all…
Her head kants slightly to the left in an interrogative manner.
Seleana Zdunich: You would, wouldn’t you?
She nods, her head moving to a more straight up posture.
Seleana Zdunich: You, Bea Barnhart, would honestly look at two of the more decorated champions this company has ever seen and act like they were nothing but unknown, untested rookies because you decided to sort of skim their company bios and…
A realization seemingly washes over Seleana.
Seleana Zdunich: Du skulle verkligen skitta i det blå skåpet...
Disbelief is replaced with disgust.
Seleana Zdunich: Din jävla idiot!
She glares into the camera, her right hand bouncing on her chest.
Seleana Zdunich: I know my track record is not like theirs, but I do have one and you would do well to start noticing that some of us have been here for longer than a few minutes and have actually wrestled a march or two before you. I have main evented pay-per-views and been World Bombshell Champion. I have worked to overcome devastating losses and limbed back to the top of the mountain again and again and all you can do is stand there and act like it is a foregone conclusion that you will win and I will be nothing after because you have literally nothing else to say…
Both hands ball into fists and fire down stopping just short of hitting Seleana’s own thighs.
Seleana Zdunich: You slack, jävla lata! I will teach you manners that you should have been taught long ago. I will show you that shitting in the blue cupboard gets you nothing but a kick in places you did not want to remember you have during a fight!
She takes a step forward, glaring harshly into the camera.
Seleana Zdunich: My name is Seleana Zdunich and I will make sure you remember that and you remember to pay more attention to those you will fight here and anywhere else you go! People used to say it was disrespectful of me to be in this sport because I had not trained my entire life to achieve my place but you are ten times more disrespectful than I could ever hope to be to this sport! I am going to walk to that ring and I am going to smack you until my hand starts to ache from within and then i will hit you more for causing my hand to gain its ache in the first place!
Looking down at her hand, she nods pointedly.
Seleana Zdunich: It is time to show you what happens when you do not pay the proper attention…
Her head snaps up and the glare turns hateful.
Seleana Zdunich: Välkommen till djungeln! Katten är hungrig och det är mattid!
