Reunion
Paris, France
It felt really good to be back in SCW. Things had been going really well for Diamond Steele since she had returned back to the active roster. She had managed to pick up a big win in her return match and now her team was in the quarter finals for the Blast from the Past tournament. If she could manage to win three more matches she would be getting everything she could have ever wanted. She would have a one way trip into receiving a World Bombshell Championship match and it just couldn’t get any better than that. Climax Control was set to take place at Vimy Ridge over the weekend so Diamond decided to have a little getaway in Paris to not only celebrate her big first win in the tournament but to also continue onward celebrate her marriage to Dawn Lohan. Kate smiled as she walked hand in hand with her wife. Dawn smiled as she looked over into the distance.
“Look at those buildings. We need to sit down and have dinner on top of one of them. Better yet how about we go to one of the Michelin star restaurants or just have some time bonding at one of the sidewalk cafes…”
Diamond smiles as she turns around to face Dawn. The two just look at one another in the eyes before Diamond slowly moves her lips to meet that of Dawn’s. Their lips gently press against one another as Diamond slowly pulls away and keeps her eyes on that of her wife.
“Honestly it doesn’t matter what we do. As long as I got you nothing else really matters. All I ever needed was you from the start and I am happy that I can finally admit that now. It was never about cheating with you. It was never about casting you aside. You are my everything… You are what I desire and I am happy that you are in my life…”
Dawn nods her head as she turns her attention and spots the Eiffel Tower in the background. She slowly looks back at diamond as a chuckle escapes her lips.
“It only took you being in one of the most romantic cities in the world to admit your love for me. If you are feeling this romantic, why don’t we go all the way to the top of the tower and take pictures of the city. Maybe we can make out with one another up there just so we could check that off of our list. There is so much to do here and as long as I get to be by your side I am happy. Being next to you is quite WONDERFUL…”
The two love birds just continue to walk next to one another and taking in the romantic views of the city. Something familiar catches their attention in the distance. They are able to see two females, and a man walking with a stroller. Diamond crosses her arms for a bit before she picks up some speed in her walk just to make sure that her eyes aren’t deceiving her. The Lohans finally reach their target and standing in front of them is none other than Kate’s ex-husband Teddy along with his new wife Michelle Chavez who is pushing the stroller for their daughter Marlene. The other female turns her attention over to Kate and hugs her as tightly as possible.
“Mommy!!!!”
Kate squeezes her daughter in return as she gazes into the eyes of the thirteen-year-old girl.
“Juliet!!!!! I love you! I thought you were going to spend some necessary time with your father especially considering this is supposed to be his week to watch you…”
The girl nods her head as she looks warmly back at Kate.
“I am… It’s just that…”
Teddy doesn’t even let his daughter finish speaking as he places his hand in front of Juliet to pull her back a bit.
“It’s just that I do believe this is a conversation that you and I should be having together. Michelle why don’t you and Juliet go check out that next sidewalk café. Go help yourselves to some croissants and gelato, and I will join you both…”
Michelle nods her head as Dawn just stands there and looks over at her wife.
“Are you sure this is going to be okay?!”
Diamonds smirks as she shakes her head in approval.
“I think I can manage. Why don’t you go check out to see how adorable Marlene is and go see if there a flavor of gelato that the two of us could share together…”
Dawn just nods her head as she joins Michelle over at the café. Teddy and Kate just lock eyes at one another as Kate folds her arms together.
“So what brings you to France?!”
Teddy is silent for a few moments before he glances over at their daughter Juliet and he replies back.
“Honestly Juliet wanted to come watch you wrestle. Yes, I know it’s my week to watch her but she was just too optimistic about you advancing in this tournament. To be honest I am really happy that you were able to make it to the next round. I know things in the past haven’t been the best. I will be the first to admit that I abused you and the reason why we aren’t married today is because I was a jerk who only saw things my way. I got Juliet involved in our issues and I was wrong for all of that…”
Kate raises her voice at her ex-husband.
“You think?! Juliet should have never been involved. She’s a kid and it was wrong to pull her in any of our drama. I know I can be a Bitch but even I have my limits. You are so much better than that, and if you want the truth I still love you. I will always love you. You were my first ever love. You saved me when I was in a dark place in my life and was contemplating ending it all. You swooped me off of my feet and saw the best in me, and for that I am grateful. What I can’t condone is the torment you put Juliet through. I know I wasn’t the best of women and I should have given birth to the child you wanted…”
Kate just looks down as some of her emotions get the best of her.
“I don’t think I was ready. I wasn’t ready to step away from wrestling for a year to do that so I know some of those frustrations you had are with me for my selfishness and I accept that. What is wrong for you though is to keep forcing the issue and to act like Juliet wasn’t ours. I know we adopted her eight years ago but that doesn’t make her any less of being our child. She is our daughter and that’s all that mattered…”
Teddy nods his head sighing in returning.
“I know, and if I could do it all again I wouldn’t have been as selfish. I would have been more understanding and I would have not really pushed the issue. I can stand here and constantly preach about the things I wouldn’t have done against what I should have done but we both know that we really can’t change the past. What I can do however is work on having a better future and that is where we are right now… I want to focus on today. Despite everything the two of us have been through are you happy Kath-Lyn?!”
Kate slowly turns her attention and looks over to Dawn Lohan who is laughing it up with Michelle. The petite Englishwoman slowly turns her attention back over to Teddy and smiles.
“As happy as I can be. Dawn gets me. She loves me and I know she is going to be a ride or die to the very end…”
“Good… And as you can see Michelle really makes me happy. I love the family that we have built together. Juliet seems to love her as well and she also can’t stop talking about how cool Dawn is as well. It seems as we both are winners at the end of the day and that’s what matters most. Our past together may have been rough but we brought each other to where we needed to be…It has helped shaped us to who we are today.”
Teddy nods his head some more as he continues to speak.
“Just because our marriage has ended doesn’t mean I have to stop loving you. It doesn’t mean that I can’t fly all the way out to France to support you. It honestly sucks that my dream ended the moment that my team was eliminated in the first round. You however have a chance to make your dreams come true. You can accomplish everything. You just need to push a little bit more and you will have what you want. I am here to see it. If there is anybody who can do it Kate, I know for a fact that it is you…”
Diamond stands there as a smile escapes her lips as she keeps her eyes focused on Teddy.
“You sure about that, because it just seems no matter how much I work for something it doesn’t seem like I would ever get there. I have been on this journey for a long time and the more I try to keep at it is the more I find myself getting pulled away from that said dream. I want to pour everything I have into this moment. I want this more than one could even fathom…”
“I know that Kate… So what you need to do is just go out there and win. Don’t let your past get in the way of what your future wants. The only thing that can stop any of this from happening is you. Don’t be your biggest critic and your own worst enemy. Just win and let the respect finally come your way.”
“But what if I don’t win… Or what happens if I do win and the respect never comes. I would have been a letdown to Juliet, a letdown to Dawn, a letdown to Jet City…”
Teddy shakes his head as he just sighs in return.
“Don’t even think like that… You are never a letdown. Don’t even let those thoughts enter into your mind. Just take things slowly and let everything come naturally. You know exactly who you are… You are Kate Steele. Those students believe in you, Dawn believes in you, and Juliet will never give up in you…”
Diamond smirks as she looks over at her daughter in the distance. She cracks a grin at her ex as she nods her head.
“Thank you… I need to hear that…You truly are the best.”
The two begin to smile at one another and it is at this moment that Michelle and Dawn walk back over to where Teddy and Kate are standing. Dawn looks at her wife as she places her arm around her.
“So what are you two talking about?!”
Kate looks back into the eyes of her wife as she giggles.
“Honestly… We are just talking about how lucky we both are, and even though we might be divorced it doesn’t mean that we can’t be connected and have a healthy co-parent relationship. It would be great for all of us and especially Juliet. That is if you are okay with it?!”
Dawn smirks as she looks over at Juliet who runs over and hugs her mother and Dawn tightly. Dawn looks down into the eyes of the thirteen year old.
“Am I okay with it?! Of course I am okay with it… I would never want to make things difficult for this little girl. She is bubbly and deserves to always be happy. Co-parenting seems fine with me. Also gives me a chance to see that adorable Marlene…”
Michelle smiles as she stands next to Teddy as she looks down at her baby. Juliet looks at all of them as a wicked grin escapes her lips.
“GOOD!!! It’s settled… Things are going to finally be peaceful between all of us for now. No more hatred between my mom and dad. Now that we got that out of the way can we go to the Eiffel Tower now?! I know there are some romantic pictures that I am sure that both of you couples need to take. it’s not often we come to France so let’s make the most of it…”
Juliet looks down at Marlene and picks her up gently.
‘I know I want to take tons of pictures with my sister…”
Everybody is all giggles as they begin to head in the direction of the tower. Something catches their attention in the distance. They could see Ruby and Courtney walking hand in hand towards the famous monument. If there was any thought if that was truly Ruby or not we could hear her voice in the distance?
“Outrageous!!!!!!!!!!!! LOOK HOW BIG IT IS COURT… We have to take pictures by it. We also need to eat tons of macaroons, crepes, and try out escargot…”
Diamond and the gang head off in the direction of her cousin as Courtney holds her wife’s hand tightly as they continue marching towards the monument.
“Rubes… You do know what escargot is right?! You do know that you would be eating…”
Courtney whispers in her ear as Ruby makes a disgusted expression on her face as she turns a nose up.
“OUTRAGEOUS…. THAT’S DISGUSTING….”
With that Diamond finally meets up with her cousin. Everybody begins to laugh as they all make their way towards the Eiffel tower and it’s on this image that we slowly fade out on.
One round down and would you look at that I have worked my ass off to get to the quarter finals of the Blast from the Past tournament. I know I had put everything into winning that first round match. It was even more difficult that I had to get over the hump of not only trying to win the match for my team but being stuck with an asshole of a partner who only wants to look good in the process. The whole concept of teamwork has gone out of the window. I could sit here and cry about it but truthfully I have been dealing with adversity ever since I have come to SCW. So why should I allow a jerk of a tag team partner to get the better of me?!
Honestly it’s just a case of dealing with the same shit just on a different day. I know I could cry about all of the spilled milk but this is just another day in the life of Kate Steele. Even if I was among one of the very best in this company the reality is that nobody would see things in the way that I do. People would overlook me and just tell me that I am not worth being here.
It’s time to stand my ground…
It’s time to tell the noise go fuck off because by the end of this journey I will win this tournament. I will go on to get the World Championship opportunity and I will go on to finally become a World Champion. That is what I want more than anything else and I won’t let anybody or anything get in the way of that. I don’t get if Jayden wants to hog the spotlight. I don’t give a shit if the bombshells I face are better than me.
Mark my words on every single thing that is beating inside of me. I will someone find a way to win and the rest of the story will become filled out chapters in which I get the happy ending and I get what I am looking for.
I know on paper and even in the description of the card that there are some people out there who would have expected my team to make it to the very finals of this whole thing. I know it must be awesome to be partnered with some runt who is trying to wrestle in the legacy of his family. That sounds noble. Truthfully it’s a blessing that one could build up that much infamy off of a name, but for me it isn’t about that. I am here to prove that Kate Steele can be a main event star. I have the power to be a World Champion and not one single soul in this company will tell me I don’t deserve it.
I am reminded of my previous experiences in this company. I have only been in one opportunity at a Super Card to wrestle for a World Title and main event the show. It was back in May of 2019 in my hometown of London, England. I managed to cash in my briefcase which gave me a chance at a shot at any title whenever I saw fit. I thought it would be noble to try to win the title in my home town in front of my fans. I wanted to do it at London Brawling 2.
As hard as I tried… IT JUST WASN’T GOOD ENOUGH…
Alicia Lukas had beaten me and despite us having a great match with one another she ran her mouth on social media afterwards that it was an easy defense. Sure I was an ok opponent but it wasn’t anything extraordinary. I was basically light work for her.
I would have found that to be a bunch of bullshit but that’s really the only event that I have ever been in the main event of. It’s not because Mark or Christian felt I was competent to be in a main event but I basically had to call my own fucking shot with my briefcase. Other than that I was only good enough to receive a few title opportunities at that tile on the occasional Climax Control or two.
I was good enough to be somebody’s title defense along the way to getting their big title defense against a big name opponent at the Super Card but I was never good enough to be on the Super Card competing for that said title.
It’s bullshit but it’s something I have come to accept…
If there was ever a time for this company to pull the trigger on me it’s when I had tied the record for the Internet Championship. I had gone out on my sword going against a game opponent that I had chosen. I lost facing Myra Rivers. If SCW really felt it I could have been next person up for the World Championship after that but instead they were content with just letting me get a rematch for a title that I had already did all that I could do with.
Moving me up a level wasn’t in the cards… I just don’t get it…
When Myra did all she could do with the title they didn’t hesitate to put her in a big match against Amber Ryan with everything on the line. How come that wasn’t me?!
That’s when it had finally hit me… This company will never see me as that star.
Maybe it’s because I am too small, I have always been called too small. Maybe it’s because I am too inconsistent… There is a lot to ponder but one thing that I do know is that I am going to do everything in my power to change that narrative.
PEOPLE WILL RESPECT ME AND I WILL BE THAT STAR…
This week I take a huge step forward into getting what I want and the challenge becomes as tough as it ever has been. On the other side of the ring we are facing a team that could win it all. We have to face Mark Cross and Eiley.
Let’s start with Mark Cross a man who is my fellow countryman. It could be quite easy to say don’t worry about him but I have every reason to believe he is a threat even if he will be in the ring with Jayden.
Mark Cross is a man who has been in this tournament and has managed to win it twice already. He is also a man who has been on the journey and has made it to the top of the SCW mountain before. Hell in one of those tournaments his team had beaten my team to win the entire thing.
He is a threat because he has the most experience in winning this tournament. I don’t give a damn whose kid Jayden is the truth is he may not be ready for what Mark is bringing and that is reality…
However my opponent in this Mixed Tag Team match is a woman that I know very well. I have to be across Jet City’s very own Eiley, the woman who is the protégé of the best of the very best in Mikah. The same Eiley who destroyed my cousin in a battle of the two protégés of Mikah and proved to be better.
Not only that but she has actual experience being in a Mixed Tag Team situation. Granted I was a champion of those said titles but there’s a difference in that Eiley actually went out and held them for a while. It wasn’t a case of just dropping them in the first defense.
So this environment suits her. I respect that, and I can appreciate that you are in this tournament so that you could one day become a World Champion.
I am not going to deny your talent. Anybody who can be a protégé of Mikah is already a threat and I know you are being prepped for greatness. That is something that I don’t have to talk up. What I will talk up is the fact that you managed to return to this company and you managed to beat Melissa. You beat the woman who had destroyed me in my last match here when I left.
You are riding off of a win and now you think that you are going to ride off of that win to continue proving why you shouldn’t be in the shadow of your mentor Mikah. This is your chance to finally set the record straight and prove you are your own woman.
I fully get that but what you don’t understand is that I had to deal with worse! You are trying to get out of Mikah’s shadow but for me I have to prove that I am better than this Jet City South protégés or anything that is related to the very school that I teach at.
Courtney Pierce
Ruby Steele
And now you are trying to accomplish something that I hadn’t managed to do. You are trying to win this tournament and I just can’t allow that to happen. I have put way too much stock into myself just to fail now. On top of that you are still young in this business. You can afford to have a setback or two. You can afford to work your way up from the bottom and become a Roulette Champion or go on and have a lengthy Internet Championship reign.
You haven’t even touched the surface on doing either or those yet. I don’t give a damn if Kayla Richards had ruined your night and you are trying to overcome the denial of why you have been gone for a few months. I wish my journey was only a few months in the making.
Sadly people have been overlooking me for years. I am not trying to get out of the shadow of a Mikah, I am trying to get out of the shadow of how people perceive me in general. I need to overcome that people just don’t think I am good enough.
I refuse to go back to the realm of competing for a Roulette Championship or an Internet Championship knowing fully well that I had lengthy reigns with the both of those titles and I deserve so much more. I deserve to be a top tier bombshell. I deserve to be in the god damn main event and this journey is to prove that I belong with those who names are immortalized in the Hall of Fame.
This… This right here is my moment Eiley and you aren’t going to get in the way of what I am trying to do. Maybe someday you will feel what I feel and you will have learned what I have learned. Sadly I am not going to allow it to be this week and not in France because I just don’t want to win this match.
I absolutely NEED to win this match and I will win. Getting past Melissa is one thing but being able to overcome a very game Kate Steele who is at her best is going to be a different story altogether.
I want to one day go down in the Hall of Fame. I want to be in the history books and I want to carry SCW for the rest of 2024. The best way I can do that is to simply go out there and win.
Once I win I know people will be forced to respect me and that includes you as well.
I know Mikah is a great teacher. She might be considered the end all be all by so many people. I know my little cousin was so eager to get trained by her and honestly who wouldn’t want to live up with the hype of being trained by her.
You want to know a secret though?! The truth is when I had first come into this company and I was coming up through the ranks. Back in 2016 after I had shattered the record with the Roulette Championship and I showed the world that I was meant for something big and of course after she had her lengthy World Bombshell reign.
The two of us had a Super Card match had violet conduct 3 in 2016 and in that huge match I proved that I was better than her. Hell that same year I had beaten Roxi, I had beaten all of those women who will considered the cream of the crop.
It still baffles me why SCW didn’t pull the trigger with me or at least offer me more.
I could sit here and think about what could have been, I damn sure could talk about what should have been but the only thing that will be relevant is what’s happening right now. As it stands I know I have what it takes to beat you. I just need to go out there and do it. It is time to humble you Eiley and make you accept that your road starts at the very bottom.
I am in my prime and if there was ever a time to capitalize on stepping up…
NOW WOULD BE THAT TIME…
It sucks because I honestly thought that I would have beaten you and Mark in the finals to really cement myself as that star but I see that moment is going to come early. So you better come at me with everything that you got. Don’t let up and don’t let me down. I am not holding back.
This is more than just doing it for me though. This is about showing my daughter Juliet that when things get tough you come back and you finish what you started. This is about showing to my wife Dawn that she truly married somebody that’s quite WONDERFUL…
Most importantly this is to all of those who have graced the halls of Jet City South that our school has relevance. We are still the number one academy in all of wrestling and we live for moments like this.
Do you hear that sound Eiley?! It’s my beautiful Siren’s Song and it’s a tune that I enjoy playing. Once it completes it will leave you and your journey completely SHIPWRECKED…
Best of luck but rest assured nothing will ever stop me from shinning like the Diamond that I know I am…
See you soon… Cheers mate…
