Off-Camera
Friday, June 28, 2024
Hilton/Caldwell/Zdunich
Hollywood Hills
Los Angeles, CA
8:04 AM PDT
Seleana sits on her bed and stares at her home, a smile breaking out across her face. She scrolls across message after message from her friends and family. As she goes through them all, her wife, Alexandra “Diamond” Caldwell, walks into the room with a smile on her face.
Alexandra "Diamond" Caldwell-Zdunich: Got a few?
Seleana looks up and smiles brightly.
Seleana Zdunich: Ja…
Diamond grins.
Alexandra "Diamond" Caldwell-Zdunich: How many?
Seleana frowns and then looks back at the list of them again.
Seleana Zdunich: Kattunge, Olive, Adri, Shenzi, Li, Chavy, Lis, Jenni, Emi, Violet, Iris, Stacy, Kelly, Storm, Varghona, Priest, Little Scarlett, Amber, JSP, EIP, EDP, Raevyn, Monster Scarlett, Bethy, Ash, Nik, Jezzy…
Diamond nods, interrupting her.
Alexandra "Diamond" Caldwell-Zdunich: So, a few…
Seleana nods.
Seleana Zdunich: Ja.
Diamond smiles, walks over and kisses her wife.
Alexandra "Diamond" Caldwell-Zdunich: Happy birthday, Baby. I love you.
Seleana smiles.
Seleana Zdunich: I love you, too.
She stands up and heads to the shower while Diamond retrieves what she came into the room for and takes her leave. Fifteen minutes later, Seleana comes downstairs where her daughter, thirteen-year-old Aurora, runs over to her and clasps onto the Swedish woman as if she’s never going to let go.
Aurora Zdunich: I love you, Mommy, happy birthday!
Seleana hugs her back, kissing the top of her head.
Seleana Zdunich: Jag älskar dig älskling!
Diamond and Christina both come walking over and join in the family hug.
Christina "Crystal Hilton" Zdunich-Caldwell: I love you, Babe! Happy birthday!
Alexandra "Diamond" Caldwell-Zdunich: Happy birthday again. I love you!
Seleana stands there loving the feeling of being in the familial embrace and taking in all the love.
Seleana Zdunich: Jag älskar er alla så mycket!
She pauses as the feelings wash over her.
Seleana Zdunich: I love you all!
The four of them stand there for a second before the silence is finally broken by Aurora.
Aurora Zdunich: So what are we doing for your birthday?
Seleana opens her eyes and smiles, seeing them here together making her feel so happy she really has no answer.
Seleana Zdunich: I…
Aurora giggles.
Aurora Zdunich: HayJo and Brit’ll be here soon, should we ask them?
Seleana’s smile somehow brightens even more than it already was.
Seleana Zdunich: Christina has no plans?
Diamond can’t help but smirk as Christina starts to hem and haw.
Christina "Crystal Hilton" Zdunich-Caldwell: I... I… was going to but we all decided it would be better to have you decide.
Seleana looks at Christina, touched and impressed.
Seleana Zdunich: Really?
Christina nods and Seleana stands there for a second in shock.
Seleana Zdunich: I am… surprised.
Just then, the aforementioned Haylie Jo “Halo” Annis and her wife, Brittany Williams, walk into the room.
Haylie Jo "Halo" Annis: Mama Chrys has her moments like that.
Halo leans in and hugs Seleana.
Haylie Jo "Halo" Annis: Love you, Mama Sel, happy birthday!
Seleana smiles as Brittany does the same.
Brittany Williams: Happy birthday, Mama!
Seleana beams with loving pride.
Seleana Zdunich: Tack… I love you both!
Halo grins.
Haylie Jo "Halo" Annis: Come, y’all, let's go make Mama Sel breakfast and then she can figure out what she wants to do for her day.
Brittany and Aurora nod and follow Halo into the kitchen while Seleana, Diamond and Christina sit down on the couch.
Seleana Zdunich: Everybody being here is already the best present.
Diamond and Christina both smile back and hug her again.
Alexandra "Diamond" Caldwell-Zdunich: We love you, Baby. We had to find you something special.
Christina "Crystal Hilton" Zdunich-Caldwell: You know us.
Seleana nods happily.
Seleana Zdunich: Ja, I do.
She sits back with her wives, excited for what the day will bring.
On-Camera
Friday, June 28, 2024
Hilton/Caldwell/Zdunich
Hollywood Hills
Los Angeles, CA
6:04 PM PDT
The camera opens upon Seleana Zdunich sitting on a wooden folding chair in the garage near an open space away from the vehicles.
Seleana Zdunich: It is my birthday and I am getting ready to go out for dinner with my family before we have to go to our respective work commitments.
She nods.
Seleana Zdunich: Halo has to go to the South somewhere. Diamond is required in Chicago. Christina is required in Chicago and then Colorado Springs…
She pauses, looking down at her feet.
Seleana Zdunich: It is funny, ja? Colorado Springs means I will face somebody I have faced several times before.
She nods to herself.
Seleana Zdunich: Someone that I have gone to war against for the biggest prize in SCW multiple times. Someone I had earned the respect of…
She sighs heavily.
Seleana Zdunich: Then this match was announced and…
Pausing again, seleana
Seleana Zdunich: Alicia Lukas is a woman who has earned her place in the conversation for greatest female competitor in SCW history. When she first arrived here, she was unstoppable. She was the lioness who could rightfully call herself the Queen of the Kill. No one stood her equal for a very long time…
She looks up into the camera.
Seleana Zdunich: And I defeated her for the SCW Bombshells World Championship.
Looking back down for a moment, Seleana nods to herself in acknowledgement before looking back into the camera.
Seleana Zdunich: When I lost it back to her, I came back again…
She nod more forcefully again.
Seleana Zdunich: And again.
She nods and points to herself in the chest.
Seleana Zdunich: She beat me and the whole world hoped that would be the end of me and yet, it was not my one and only moment of note, ja?
She shakes her head.
Seleana Zdunich: I kept coming back until I got another opportunity and I cash that in as well.
Glaring harshly into the camera, Seleana cocks her head to the left ever so slightly,
Seleana Zdunich: Now, some still think I should be done and I am nothing and easily dismissed.
She shrugs.
Seleana Zdunich: I will just have to show you all again…
She nods and looks back to the floor.
Seleana Zdunich: But Alicia Lukas lost the championship and then took some time off.
Seleana nods to herself.
Seleana Zdunich: When this match was announced she called me a shell of my former self…
She shrugs and looks up into the camera once again.
Seleana Zdunich: I am still here, taking my lumps and moving forward.
She nods and then points accusingly.
Seleana Zdunich: You, on the other hand, took some lumps and instead of using it for your tea, took your ball and went home because you were the shell of your former self.
Seleana stares into the camera disappointment, sadness and a hint of disgust in her eyes.
Seleana Zdunich: You were the unstoppable force that no one could hang with. You were the top of the food chain, the Lioness that ruled whatever place you chose to call home. When I won our match, you came back in the next one and took it back.
She cocks her head again.
Seleana Zdunich: Then you lose and…
She shakes her head.
Seleana Zdunich: You were shook as over it. You take ball and go home and now you call ME the shell of former self?
She grits her teeth in a seething anger.
Seleana Zdunich: I have taken lumps that would make you quit, retire and be ashamed to show your face but I am still here. Today is my birthday and I am now at an age where others will tell me I should go home. I had a better run that I had any right to expat, ja?
She shakes her head.
Seleana Zdunich: I am not going anywhere. I will celebrate my birthday weekend with a match with you and I will keep coming back after no matter what. I will come back again… and again… and again…
She stands up.
Seleana Zdunich: I will keep coming back until I make you all sick of me and then I will come back again!
She nods angrily into the camera.
Seleana Zdunich: And I ask you, Alicia, if I am a shell, what does that make you if you lose to me?
She shrugs almost nonchalantly.
Seleana Zdunich: Win, great, you beat nothing and you won nothing. You prove nothing. Lose…
Seleana almost laughs.
Seleana Zdunich: Then we compare our shells together, ja?
