Off-Camera
Friday, December 25, 2020
Living Room
Home of Christina and Seleana Zdunich
Hollywood Hills
Los Angeles, California
9:01 PM PST
Seleana Zdunich sits on the couch in the living room of the hom she shares with her wife, Christina “Crystal Hilton” Zdunich, watching as Christina and their girlfriend, Diamond Caldwell, play video games with ten-year-old Aurora rooting them on. Seleana cannot help but smile as she looks over at the chair where her cousin, Aurora’s erstwhile nanny, twenty-three-year-old Freja Lindström, is also watching the gaming session before them with a smile on her face. This had been a relatively quiet Christmas for this house given Christina’s usual predilections for big, over the top, expensive and showy gifts. She had still managed a few but they had been smaller and less in number than her usual output. Christina’s biological mother, Mary Hilton, as well as her daughter, Brittany Williams-Annis and Brittany’s wife, Haylie Jo “Halo” Annis, had already taken their leave to make the nearly two hour drive back to their home in San Clemente. As Aurora roots Christina and Diamond on, Seleana looks over to Freja and smirks.
Seleana Zdunich: Är den redo?
Freja nods back in response.
Freja Lindström: Det finns ingen ko på isen.
Seleana nods slowly.
Seleana Zdunich: After the next game ends…
Freja nods glazing at the game clock on the screen. Thirty seconds were all that stood between the two and total victory. The game was a hot rodded mod of the old NBA Jam two-on-two game only with the ability to use updated players that a friend at Rose Productions had managed to turn out in a personalized manner just for the home. As the game ends, Seleana nods to Freja and she picks up the last small box from the spot on the table she had set it on fifteen minutes earlier and hands it to Aurora. Aurora sees it and Freja directs her to give it to Diamond. Aurora nods, visibly straightening up. She walks the box over to Diamond and holds it out to her.
Diamond Caldwell: For me?
Aurora nods.
Diamond smiles and accepts the small package. She scans it quickly and sees the names of both Seleana and Christina on the “from:” listing. An intrigued grin crosses her face as she slowly slides off the ribbon and opens it to find two small metal objects inside. Diamond reaches inside and picks up the first one, holding it up so that everyone in the room can see it as she stares at it in wonder.
Diamond Caldwell: Keys?
Aurora smiles, stepping back into Christina’s arms.
Seleana Zdunich: That one is to the house here. The other is to the apartment in Las Vegas.
Diamond’s mouth falls open as the realization of what she is holding starts to fall over her, taking her into its grip.
Diamond Caldwell: I…
Christina smiles.
Christina Zdunich: We thought you should be able to come and go as you please because… you dat girl!
Aurora Zdunich: YEAH!
Christina Zdunich: Who dat girl?
Aurora Zdunich: Diamond dat girl!
Overwhelmed, Diamond starts to smile even as tears start to fall from her eyes. Seleana moves quickly to help catch her right along with Christina and Aurora.
Seleana Zdunich: You have our daughter’s seal of approval.
Diamond bites her bottom lip as Christina nods knowingly, a suggestive look to her features. .
Christina Zdunich: And you know you have mine. I love you.
Christina kisses Diamond lovingly.
Seleana Zdunich: You have mine as well, Chickie. I love you, Diamond.
A slight gasp escapes Diamond’s lips as Seleana leans in and kisses her in the same manner as Christina. Aurora starts to clap excitedly and then hugs Diamond again. After replacing the key into the box, the black woman’s free hand falls down and caresses Aurora’s head.
Diamond Caldwell: I… don’t know what to say. I love you too.
Seleana smiles broadly.
Seleana Zdunich: Välkommen hem, Diamant.
As Diamond stares at the tall Swedish woman, Christina can’t help but smile knowing that Diamond has no idea what Seleana just said.
Christina Zdunich: She said, welcome home, Diamond, and I think we’re seconding that thought. Aurora suddenly pulls away and runs over to Freja, grabbing the young woman’s hand.
Aurora Zdunich: Come on!
Freja tilts her head in confusion but Aurora will not be deterred.
Aurora Zdunich: Come ON!
Freja stands up and allows the young girl to lead her over to the other three adults in the room.
Aurora Zdunich: There, now you hug too! You’re a part of this family too, Missy!
All four of them, Christina, Diamond, Seleana and Freja, smile, shrugging.
Freja Lindström: I have been told.
Christina nods.
Christina Zdunich: Damn right
Diamond Caldwell: Well, when the Little Queen gives a proclamation…
The five hug, all of them seemingly reveling in the feeling washing over them.
Aurora Zdunich: I love our family!
Seleana nods.
Seleana Zdunich: Ja, that’s me as well, Chickie. That’s me as well.
Off-Camera
Saturday, January 9, 2021
Chapel of Hope
Las Vegas, Nevada
9:01 PM PST
Seleana Zdunich looks around the room and nods to herself. This was a day she and many others even in their own family had thought would never come. Her younger sister, Zenna Zdunich, was finally going to marry her long-time girlfriend, Linnéa Lacroix after nearly ten years’ time together. The two had met and fallen into a whirlwind romance, almost literally considering Hurricane Irene’s presence, in August of 2011. Trials and tribulations including Zenna’s ex-boyfriend turning stalker on them, wrestling injuries along with alcohol and drug addictions had dragged them all over the palace when it concerned their relationship.
But they had persevered.
They had survived it all. The lies, the stalking, the violence, the alcohol, the drugs, two separate stints in rehab each. They had stayed true to each other and even formed a band, American Murder Log, together. They had also both managed to make successful comebacks to wrestling competition. In addition to being an undefeated tag team, they had each managed to achieve championship status. Zenna had won the Hybrid Wrestling AScension Brand tag team championships, called the Twin Star Championships with her cousin, Maja Lindström, and the Triad Championships with both Maja and Linnéa. She had also won the SRW Southern Cross Tag Team Championships with Seleana and the WWA Trios Championships with Seleana and Seleana’s wife, Crystal Hilton. In addition to the Triad Championships, Linnéa had also won the Honor Championship, the highest championship on the Ascension Brand, making herself a world champion in the process.
But now with Hybrid Wrestling’s closure, Linnéa had gone looking for another palace to compete in. Zenna was already in several other places, as was Maja, but Linnéa had been forced to consider her options. Seleana had helpfully pointed her in the direction of SCW and SCU and since Linnéa had a cousin already competing in SCU, Jenifer Lacroix, she had chosen to meet with and then negotiate with the people in charge there.
Today had been the final meeting day, when she put pen to paper to make it official and Zenna had come along as the dutiful fiancee. Seleana had noticed a special sparkle in her sister’s eye after the meeting had concluded and the two had come to see Seleana and Crystal at their Las Vegas apartment.
Seleana Zdunich: Vad händer?
Both Zenna and Linnéa had smirked playfully at the question.
Linnéa Lacroix: Who said anything was happening?
Seleana and simply crossed her arms and the two ahd come clean that the third Zdunich Sister, Katra, along with her two wives, Adriana and Eavan Zdunich, would be arriving in the next few minutes. This combined with Linnéa’s younger sister, Alissa being in town and their cousin Jenifer being present because of SCU as well, had come together to give them the idea to finally be married.
Now, an hour later, they were all assembled, Zenna, Linnéa, Alissa, Alissa’s fiancee Kelly Taylor, Jenifer, Katra, Eavan, Adriana, Crystal, Seleana and their daughter, Aurora and the Zdunich Family cousin, Freja Lindström.
Seleana Zdunich: I cannot believe this is actually happening!
Katra nods.
Katra Zdunich: Ja, det är fantastiskt!
Alissa shrugs.
Alissa Lacroix: Took them damn long enough!
Kelly can’t help but laugh because of the look on Eavan’s face.
Kelly Taylor: Don’t look now, Love, but Eavan is mere seconds away from insinuating that you still imbibe the halfling’s leaf.
Eavan starts to snicker as Alissa nods knowingly.
Alissa Lacroix: Yeah, yeah, pot and the kettle…
Everyone else starts to laugh as little Aurora nods.
AZ: But black looks good on you!
Laughter erupts, even from Alissa at the words thrown her way.
Alissa Lacroix: Damn, I just got owned by a ten-year-old, y’all!
Eavan shrugs.
Eavan Zdunich: Am I really the one to be giving you static for taking your time?
As everyone stares at her, Eavan allows herself a wide smile.
Eavan Zdunich: Ja. Ja det är jag! För fan i helvete! Jag är den jävla idioten!
Seleana smirks.
Seleana Zdunich: As long as you recognize it, Chickie!
Everyone laughs again as they make their way into the building. Twenty minutes later, they all exit the building. Hugs and kisses are given all around. Everyone but Seleana, Crystal, Aurora and Freja head off to a hotel for the night while the four of them head back to the apartment. Once there, Freja wanders off with Aurora to play while Crysta and Seleana remain outside for a moment.
Seleana Zdunich: I can’t believe it really happened…
Crystal barely nods. Seleana frowns slightly, visibly troubled by her wife’s demeanor.
Seleana Zdunich: What is wrong?
Again, Crysta barely shakes her head in response. l
Christina Zdunich: It’s nothing…
Seleana cocks her head.
Seleana Zdunich: It does not look like nothing…
Crystal waves her hand and Seleana starts to walk towards the door. Just as she gets there, Crystal finally looks up.
Christina Zdunich: Hey Sel... I think it might be best if I don't hang around your family for a bit. I love you but everyone saying that you should be free is depressing me.
Seleana’s pauses by the door as Crystal stares almost through her.
Christina Zdunich: I know I am not perfect but for better or for worse right?
Seleana stands there, shocked into momentary silence by her wife’s words. The Free Seleana hashtag had taken on a life of its own at times, especially with WWA’s roster. There had been others who had taken it up as well but none as harshly as certain ones Seleana knew would be hurtful to Crystal in their usage of it. After a second, she sighs heavily and nods to the door.
Seleana Zdunich: It is not my family pushing that. It is yours.
Crystal’s eyes go wide in shock and near outrage.
Christina Zdunich: Excuse me?
Seleana nods to the door as if she’d known this was coming for months. She takes a step back, away from the door and slowly turns to face her wife.
Seleana Zdunich: It is not my family pushing that idea, it is yours.
Crystal’s glare grows even more savage than it had been previously.
Christina Zdunich: MY family?
Seleana nods.
Seleana Zdunich: Ja, Danielle and Mariah are your family, are they not?
She slowly takes a step, moving slightly closer to her wife.
Seleana Zdunich: Danielle is your prima, Mariah your hermana… ja?
Crystal just continues to stare at Seleana, looking like she wants to explode.
Seleana Zdunich: I know you mean Eavan. You have never gotten on with her. You trigger each other almost pathologically it seems but she did not start the hashtag. Others did and then your sister used it but my family has done no such thing. My sisters have never done anything like that. My cousins have not. One even came to work for us to help with our daughter. Another talk with me to give advice. If you do not wish to interact with Eavan, that is fine. You hardly do as it is outside of a professional necessity. If you wish to see why others are coming for you you must ask yourself difficult questions that you may not enjoy the answer to.
Crystal stares at her wife.
Christina Zdunich: What is that supposed to mean?
Seleana never stops looking directly at her wife.
Seleana Zdunich: Estrellita, I love you, but you sorely lack self awareness much of the time. When others see you talking about engaging others in a activities outside of our marriage, when you waver back and forth between being loving and sweet and being a diva that must have all eyes on her at all times, when you seem to come crawling back in a manipulative fashion, when you do things what happened in WWA with the Trios Championships…
Sighing deeply, Seleana shakes her head.
Seleana Zdunich: True or not, you open yourself up to perceptions that will be hurtful.
She points towards the Strip.
Seleana Zdunich: They never see the Estrellita that I see! They never see the Estrellita that happily mothers a ten-year-old! They never see the Estrellita that can sit down and play video games instead of making everything about sex all the time! They never see the Estrellita that is sweet and loving to me! All they see is the diva persona you think you need to maintain for some reason! They see you making a move in public for Diamond without talking to me first because they did not know we had been talking about her in private. You were so busy jumping to what Kattunge, Eavan and Addy have, that you got ahead of yourself and showed things in public that made it look much worse than it really was! They see you not showing up for a Trios Championship defense and having your daughter take your place in match Shenzi and I lose and then they see you the same night somehow able to come out and try to save Mariella from a beating she had just earned! That means they saw that as the same kind of betrayal that SCW saw two years ago when Kate Steele played that video and then you attacked me because Christian said you could have a World Championship opportunity if you did it!
Crystal stares at Seleana, seemingly in complete shock.
Seleana Zdunich: No one sees what you see in Mariella because you never showed that in public before you seemingly turned on us without turning on us. No one gets to see the part of that where you and Mariella did things to bond with each other so it makes no sense to most looking from the outside. It is like today…
Crystal frowns hard.
Christina Zdunich: What about today?
Seleana nods again to her.
Seleana Zdunich: If it were to become public knowledge that you acusd my family like this on my sister’s wedding day, it would look like she waited ten years’ time to get married and you tried to steal the attention away from her and Li because you could not stand the idea that someone other than you was getting any. Now I know you have been holding this in lately, I know you do not mean to shit where you eat or in Shenzi and Li’s direction but others would see it as just another indictment of you.
Walking over, Seleana takes Crystal into her arms.
Seleana Zdunich: They don’t see what I see in you because you do not let them. I know it is scary, but if you continue to hide yourself, it will continue.
Seleana leans in and kisses Crystal passionately.
Seleana Zdunich: Jag älskar dig, Stjärna.
She smiles, looking deeply into wife’s eyes.
Seleana Zdunich: Eso no cambiará.
Crystal nods slowly.
Christina Zdunich: You promise?
Seleana nods and Crystal kisses her back.
Christina Zdunich: Good, because I love you too!
The two kiss for another few minutes and then finally go inside their apartment for the evening.
On-Camera
Thursday, January 14, 2021
Lion Encounter Cage
Zdunich Zoological Gardens
Los Angeles, California
10:12 AM PST
The camera opens on Seleana Zdunich lovingly stroking the back of the adult lioness, Sarabi,
Seleana Zdunich: Gillar du det här, ja?
She nods and continues to stroke the purring lioness.
Seleana Zdunich: Ja, you like it, don’t you, Chickie?
Sarabi’s purr answers her and Seleana can’t help but smile.
Seleana Zdunich: Do not come any closer, she does not like too many people in her enclosure at once.
Pausing, Seleana allows herself a small snicker.
Seleana Zdunich: It is not unlike the main event match I find myself in on Sunday. Myself and my wife face Team Hero…
She nods as she continues to stroke Sarabi’s back.
Seleana Zdunich: THis would usually be sufficient reason to be excited for this match. Getting the opportunity to team with my wife as we originally intended to when I first entered competition does not happen often enough for my taste and this time we are also gifted the opportunity to face off with great friends of ours in Team Hero.
The smile only grows larger and more heartfelt as she continues to lovingly stroke the lioness’s back.
Seleana Zdunich: Dörr.
Sarabi stands up and rubs her head against Seleana as the door to the back of the enclosure is opened. Sarabi turns and heads out of the enclosure to another tunnel of fencing that leads back to her habitat. Seleana nods and stands up in the enclosure.
Seleana Zdunich: It is good, she did not need to hear me speak of who i must speak of now. Sarabi does not need to hear me speak in that manner.
Turning to face the camera through the cage wall, Selean’s smile fades to a glare.
Seleana Zdunich: Andrea Hernandez…
Her glare stiffens.
Seleana Zdunich: You will be given the power to be referee in this match but you must know your place and remain out of the way. All four of us dislike you.
She pauses, nodding dramatically.
Seleana Zdunich: You know this…
She nods as the camera zooms in slightly.
Seleana Zdunich: You revel in this as if it is a badge of honor that four women who have all worn the Bombshells World Championship would much enjoy enduring a disqualification loss if it means they are able to cause you some form of physical discomfort.
Shaking her head, Seleana takes a step back, her arm swinging about so that her hand can wave an idea away.
Seleana Zdunich: None of us wish for that to happen. All four of us want this match to be great. We want it to be a shining example of what greatness can be…
Nodding, Seleana takes a step forward, pointing accusingly into the camera.
Seleana Zdunich: But we also know you will not stand for that because it means, once again, the spotlight is not thrust upon you as you wish it to be!
She nods again, taking another step forward.
Seleana Zdunich: So we know you will do something in this match to make sure all eyes are on you, even if it means that you stand in a corner and do nothing.
She points even more angrily.
Seleana Zdunich: But I warn you, Andrea…
Seleana steps forward and grabs the enclosure’s fence wall.
Seleana Zdunich: If you do this, if you do what we are all waiting for you to do, one of us just might decide to take you up on the opportunity.
A cruel smile comes across her face.
Seleana Zdunich: And to be honest, I hope it’s me you give that opportunity to, Andrea. My wife has already had her time to play with you. Roxi and Keira would do it if they must but they would not enjoy it the way I would.
Leaning back, Seleana places her right fist against the wall.
Seleana Zdunich: Come on, Andrea, do it, give the opportunity…
She nods, tilting her head slightly to the right.
Seleana Zdunich: Ask me the question you are burning to ask that a referee should never ask!
Her tongue slides across her teeth as her head tilts to the other side.
Seleana Zdunich: Dare to look at me, see me as the weak link and ask me when you have dared to ruin our match…
Her head moves back to the parallel to the camera.
Seleana Zdunich: What are you going to do about it?
She dares her fist back from the fence.
Seleana Zdunich: And I will show you how En Kristen Rätt was named after Christian…
Both hands snatch the fence.
Seleana Zdunich: Sing me your song, Andrea, because I do so wish to dance to it!
