"And if you don't love me now
You will never love me again
I can still hear you sayin'
You would never break the chain"
Off-Camera
Living Room
Apartment of Crystal Hilton
Las Vegas, Nevada
Monday, September 1, 2025
5:01 AM PDT
Packing.
This was not what Seleana Zdunich thought she'd be doing right now. Packing for a quick trip to South Beach for a show was one thing. This was something else entirely.
This was catastrophic change packing, possibly forever.
Seleana was already upset that her marriage was probably over, but looking down the barrel of being homeless and having to tell the children that their stability was going away because she was moving out of the apartment Aurora had called home for the last six years or so and who knew where she was going or where the children were gonna be since Alexandra Diamond" Caldwell was probably not staying here either.
Alexandra "Diamond" Caldwell: Are you sure about this?
Seleana sighs sadly.
Seleana Zdunich: She say she want nothing to do with me and then made certain I was first out of the battle royale.
The tears start up fresh again.
Seleana Zdunich: She dump me.
Looking down, Seleana's hands come up to her face.
Seleana Zdunich: What did I do?
She looks up slightly, moving her gaze to Diamond.
Seleana Zdunich: What did I do wrong?
She starts to shake trying to hold back the torrent.
Seleana Zdunich: Why she no want me anymore, Alex?
Diamond steps up to the Swedish woman and grabs a hold of her, allowing Seleana to bury her face onto the black woman's shoulder and sob profusely.
Alexandra "Diamond" Caldwell: I don't…
Before she can finish the thought, the children, Aurora and Elijah, appear at the doorway, bags in hand.
Aurora Zdunich: We're ready, Mommy.
Seleana looks up at the children and almost starts sobbing harder, the guilt and shame washing over her. Diamond hugs her closer as the children walk up and join the embrace. Seleana allows herself to accept the family hug and returns it as well. She nods to the kids.
Seleana Zdunich: You have chosen to come with me?
Both Aurora and Elijah nod and Seleana hugs them tightly, lovingly.
Seleana Zdunich: Jag älskar er båda.
Off-Camera
Driveway Home of Chiaki Sanada and Jane Harper
San Clemente, California
Monday, September 1, 2025
5:01 PM PDT
This was going to be strange regardless. Chiaki "Chi Chi" Sanada and Jane "Hammer" Harper had invited Seleana and her kids to stay at their home the second they'd heard what happened on Friday in Cancun.
They probably would have offered faster if they'd heard about the near fistfight in Las Vegas as Seleana was leaving. Crystal has arrived and objected to both children going with Seleana. The only reason there had not been a full-on physical dust-up between the two is that Alexandra "Diamond" Caldwell had stepped in to stop Crystal when it was clear the two children were going willingly, that they had made the choice on their own.
Seleana, Aurora and Elijah walk up to the door of the domicile and ring the doorbell. A few seconds later, the door opens to find Chi Chi almost chattering in machine gun Japanese. Seleana stares at theJapanese woman, visibly taken aback by the homeowner's ferocity.
Chiaki "Chi Chi" Sanada: Sel-chan!
Chi Chi brightens up immediately.
Chiaki "Chi Chi" Sanada: You come!
Seleana nods slowly.
Seleana Zdunich: Ja, we come.
As everybody stands there, Elijah steps forward and bows respectfully to Chi Chi before speaking in perfect Japanese.
Elijah Zdunich: (I wish to convey my presence and thank you for allowing us to be here. )
All three women standing there look on in shock, their jaws dropping.
Chiaki "Chi Chi" Sanada: (You speak Japanese?)
Elijah Zdunich: (I try.)
Chiaki "Chi Chi" Sanada: (Where did you pick that up?)
Elijah Zdunich: (It was a class option. I was the only student so the class went at my speed.)
Seleana shakes her head at her son, clearly still shocked. Aurora stares at her brother in disbelief.
Aurora Zdunich: Have you always been able to do that?
Elijah shrugs.
Elijah Zdunich: I never tried with a real Japanese person before. I might not have been very good at it.
Chi Chi shakes her head.
Chiaki "Chi Chi" Sanada: (You speak very well, Young One.)
Elijah smiles for the first time and bows again, this time in gratitude.
Elijah Zdunich: (Thank you, Miss Sanada.)
Chi Chi smiles and waves them inside the house.
Off-Camera
Driveway
Home Of Chiaki Sanada And Jane Harper
San Clemente, California
Saturday, September 6, 2025
3:01 PM PDT
It had been a time of apparent change in the Zdunich House. Seleana Zdunich was facing a marriage crisis with wife, Christina "Crystal Hilton" Zdunich. Christina was allowing Crystal to take over and reassert herself and thus the family had been sacrificed, at least temporarily, on the altar of her career, which did not require such a thing. It had already reached such heights as to be unable to truly be denied. But Christina had chosen to do this anyway, driving Seleana and Alexandra away. Seleana had brought the two minor children with her to San Clemente. Alexandra had returned to Los Angeles, the city she had called home until the mansion in the Hollywood Hills had been burned down earlier this year by the wildfires.
Seleana's middle sister, Zenna Zdunich, had also arrived from New Orleans where her wife cousins, Lovisa "Lovie" Vikström and Ingrid Vikström, help the others who dwell within Lacroix house with Zenna, Linnéa Lacroix, her sister Alissa Lacroix and Alissa's fiancée, Kelly Taylor, the cousins functioning as additional nannies to the four adopted babies of Morgana Ashley, Olive Yseult, Melissa Vivian and Stacy Guinivere. The babies had been born to their paternal cousin, Lincoln Delacroix, who had died just after the babies' birth from cancer. The doctors had said it was a miracle of sorts that she'd made it long enough to actually have the babies. Lincoln had decided the miracle was that any of the five of them were still around after their years of drug abuse. The four who lived in that house had all managed to go to rehab and buy-in to the process, finding sobriety well enough to help others. This had actually come in handy fulfilling Lincoln's naming request for the babies. She wanted them all to have an Arthurian connection and it just so happened that one of the friends they wanted to name one of the babies already had such a connection built-in. Linnéa had been the counselor and sponsor of Morgana "Morgan Payne" Cassiano so they combined her name with fellow friend Ashley Kenyon to name the first baby Morgana Ashley, Morgan Ash. The others, Livvie, Olive Yseult, was named after their sister-in-law, youngest sister Katra's wife, Olive "Krigare" Zdunich, Lissa, Melissa Vivian, was named after Melissa "Maki" Aki, and Little Sg, Stacy Guinivere was named after the woman who had originally introduced Seleana to Christina, Stacy Jones.
The rehab things had also come in handy when Christina had shown up on their doorstep looking for help with her own addiction issues. That had ended with Zenna becoming her sponsor after Zenna had hunted her down at a bar on Bourbon Street. Zenna and Christina had both been arrested after a fight because Christina was having doubts about stopping her usage of both cocaine and alcohol and had tried to push Zenna off of her. That lasted until the first shot landed and Christina had found that trying to physically fight Zenna was an exercise in futility on her part. Now Zenna had come running, hearing her elder sister was having the problem she was having.
(In Swedish)
Zenna Zdunich: (You have separated from Christina?)
Selena nods sadly.
Seleana Zdunich: (She told me she wanted nothing to do with me.)
Zenna nods, understandingly yet quite visibly annoyed.
Zenna Zdunich: (Is she sober?)
Seleana shakes her head, uncertain of the truth of the matter.
Seleana Zdunich: (I do not know. When I mentioned that, is when she became angry and said what she said to me.)
Zenna nods, contemplating the situation.
Zenna Zdunich: (So either she is not sober or was looking for an excuse to strike out because the thought had crossed her mind and this was an attempt at distraction.)
She pauses solemnly.
Zenna Zdunich: (Or she was making hens out of feathers because she'd shit in the blue locker and did not wish to admit such things.)
Seleana nods in agreement.
Seleana Zdunich: (She might have caught her beard in the letterbox.)
Zenna Zdunich: (Either way, who is this she is choosing over you, Alex and the children?)
Seleana sighs heavily.
Seleana Zdunich: Mercedes Vargas.
Zenna nods at the name.
Zenna Zdunich: (Is she the one you have used that word about?)
Seleana nods, visibly upset.
Seleana Zdunich: (Yes.)
Zenna shakes her head in disgust.
Zenna Zdunich: (And Christina picked her over you?)
Seleana nods sadly.
Seleana Zdunich: (She does not believe in me. She thinks I am ungrateful for what she did for me with the championships.)
Zenna Zdunich: (You should be grateful that she made sure everyone would be talking about her and not see you as a real champion?)
Seleana nods as the tears threaten to overwhelm her again.
Seleana Zdunich: (Yes.)
Zenna can't believe her ears.
Zenna Zdunich: (I am sorry to hear this and I wish I could say I was surprised but I am not. I saw how she could be when I had to take her off Bourbon Street.)
Seleana nods through her tears.
Seleana Zdunich: (How could she do this to the children? They see all three of us as mother. It is priceless.)
She shakes her head.
Seleana Zdunich: (I knew something was up when she missed our anniversary. I should have known after Mercedes said what she said in Stockholm and caused the problem with Cassie.)
Pausing and shaking her head through her tears, Seleana exhales, trying not to just lose it completely in front of her little sister.
Seleana Zdunich: (Christina still has not even slowed down with Mercedes.)
zenna nods like she knew this was coming.
Zenna Zdunich: (Is that why you questioned if they were fucking?)
Seleana nods sadly.
Seleana Zdunich: (Yes. I trusted her. I believe in her.)
She looks down just as much in shame as anything else.
Seleana Zdunich: (I love her. Our family is everything to me. I do not understand how it is not for her.)
Zenna takes the sobbing Seleana into her arms knowing there's nothing she can say to help and silently thanking whatever is listening that Jane and Chi Chi were here for her elder sister.
