“This place has everything” Despayre’s surprised voice is heard saying “Jugglers, clowns, people with cameras…. Everything!”
Gabriel is seen standing next to his tag team partner, Despayre, as they’re seen standing on the Las Vegas strip. Bright lights are shown everywhere as Gabriel looks around his surroundings, standing next to street performers of all styles.
“It gets to me Despy” Gabriel says in a low tone “How these people can stand here, act like painted up statues and people find that entertaining”
Despayre, clutching his teddy bear, Angel, in his arms looks at Gabriel though innocent eyes
“But it’s really hard to stay completely still for so long” Despayre debates “I tried it once and it never worked. I had contest with Angel about standing still, and Angel won”
Gabriel looks down at the smaller Despayre and rubs his own head, contemplating on telling Despayre how Angel won, but passes
“Look at this guy” Gabriel says, tilting his head in to the direction of a man dressed as a British Knight of the Realm. Dressed with a chain link head protector, holding a sword in front of him, standing perfectly still “People find this entertaining?”
“Yes” Despayre says “It’s because he has a sword, it’s cool”
Gabriel shuffles closer to the man, standing on a box with a union jack flag painted on his face. Gabriel looks at Despayre and pulls out a pack of cards and spreads them out in front of him.
“Pick a card Despy” Gabriel says.
Gabriel holds the cards closer to Despayre and nods down. Despayre takes a card and shows it to Angel
“Yeah” Despayre says with a smile “Angel likes this one”
Gabriel reaches in to his pocket and fishes out a pen, and hands that to Despayre
“Draw on that card Despy” Gabriel instructs
Despayre smiles
“I’m gonna draw Angel!” He says, his innocent eyes filled with excitement.
Despayre places Angel under his arm and draws on the card.
“Now put it back in the pack” Gabriel tells Despayre
Despayre does what he is instructed to do and places the card back.
“Watch closely” Gabriel says
Gabriel turns to the knight, holding the sword out in front of him out in front of him. Gabriel takes a deep breath and throws the cards at the knights sword. The knight doesn’t move an inch as the cards hit his body.
“Man!” Despayre says disappointed “If I knew you was gonna just throw cards at him, I could have done that myself”
“Look at the sword Despy” Gabriel says with a tilt of his head
Despayre looks closer to see one card stuck on the point of the knights sword to see one card stuck on the end. Gabriel takes the card off, and looks closely, seeing a little drawing of a teddy bear on front of it. Gabriel hands the card to Despayre.
“Now that’s entertainment” Gabriel says with a smirk.
“Yes” Despayre says thoughtfully “But you never made him move”
Gabriel shrugs
“Angel bets you a coke he can make him move” Despayre says confidently
Gabriel looks down on Despayre
“You got it” Gabriel says with a chuckle
Despayre moves closer to the Knight, clutching Angel in both hands. Despayre raises Angel to eye level with the knight, just holding him there eye to eye. The knights nose starts to twitch as the bear just stares at him, within seconds the knight starts to blink and back away. Despayre turns back to Gabriel, looking slightly shocked
“Beware the stare” Despayre says with a huge grin on his face “And you owe Angel a coke”
Despayre walks away holding Angel in his hands, leaving Gabriel standing confused.
A LITTLE WHILE LATER
The hotel suite in the Luxor, looking down on the Vegas strip. A bleep is heard as a key card gets accepted at the door. The door opens and Despayre runs in to the room excitedly.
“WOW!” Despayre says “You live here?!?!”
Gabriel smiles
“Yes I do” Gabriel says with a nod “I live here”
“This place is….” Despayre starts, lifting Angel up and moving him around the room, showing the little bear all the room has to offer
“Expensive?” Gabriel asks
“No” Despayre replies “Well, yeah, but I was gonna say, this place is just cool”
Gabriel smiles. He nods towards a door
“That’s your room over there” Gabriel tells Despayre
Despayre runs and bursts through the door and in to the room. Instantly leaping on to the bed and jumping up and down on the bed. Gabriel follows him in to the room and looks at Despayre.
“Ok” Gabriel starts “Plans for the night. We change clothes and we go down and I’ll show you what Vegas has to offer. I’ll be in the bathroom changing. There’s another bathroom right there on the corner of your room”
Gabriel points in the direction of a door in the corner of the room and walks out of Despayre’s room and in to a room not too far away. The room, covered in white tiles, has a luxurious shower and bath on one side of the room that can be seen in camera shot. Gabriel walks over to a sink and turns the tap on, looking in to a mirror, his thoughts start to overtake him.
Back to the ring in a few days time, back to putting myself on the top of the wrestling world again. Can’t help but feel this one will be slightly easier then expected
Gabriel puts his hands under the falling water and looks up at himself
I’d like to say I was impressed with what I’ve seen from my opponents, but right now, I can’t say that. Let’s see, what have I learned about them, what have I learned about Virgil. I learned he doesn’t focus very well at the task in hand, learned he’s hell bent on getting people back for mentioning his name. He loves the use of English swear words. Understands the importance of being the first to hold the tag titles here. Writing your name in the record books is a very big thing, it will help your career, should say it will help mine, I love gold, those belts are gonna be mine all mine…. Well ours.
Gabriel raises his wet hands to his face
He seems a bit of a baby in fairness. Moaning and bitching cause some scrub mentioned his name, wanting the boss to punish him for name dropping. Aw, poor baby, he should be glad someone knows who he is, instead of getting all those excuses in early. The man seems very dependant on his tag partner, there’s another flaw right there. Take away Eddie G, and watch him falter. His dependency on Eddie is going to make this one easy, it’s going to make him fail at his attempt to be victorious on the first SCW card, everyone wants to be victorious on this card but no, not Team Viagra. It’s a shame, I like this guy I think, but sadly, he has too many flaws to really step up and worry me, way too many let downs
Gabriel smiles at himself in the mirror
Maybe the man has daddy issues, that’s why he’s so clingy to Eddie, that’s why he just seems to want attention from the guys…. Maybe he’s Synn’s sort of guy. Strange obsession with wanting to be close to someone, strange obsession with tea. Dear oh dear. They say Vegas has a lot of characters, but Virgil is… well, I don’t think they’ve invented a word for him yet. As humans, we are all flawed in one way or another but this guy takes flaws to a whole new level. It’s blatantly obvious that he does like being the bitch in his relationships…. Maybe he really is Synn’s kind of guy
Gabriel can’t help but smile to himself again with his last thought
It is nice to know Virgil has done a little more homework about us, then his partner. Nice to see ol’ Virgil spent some cash to see me in action, but calling Despayre a little odd, boy that’s an understatement if ever there was one. A little odd, my first plane ride with the guy, he nearly ate a pillow. Legit, a pillow. Calling him a little odd, boy are you in for a surprise.
Gabriel clears his throat as he looks in the mirror once more
Now Eddie G…. what have I learned about Eddie G
Gabriel splashes more water on his face
Honestly, not a lot. Tall dark and mysterious. The butch of the two clearly, the man who likes to be in control, the man who clearly wants to slap his own tag partner and tell him to stop being a whingy bitch. Eddie G, a man clearly who’s heart is not in this game, too busy wrapped up ion his own little world to realise what is gonna be waiting in the ring for him. Saying the team name has hit a sore spot for me. Ahem, I’m not a big butch muscle bound guy who associates himself with a performance enhancing pill, am I?”
Gabriel shugs
I bet that has the chicks swarming to you. “Hi, I’m Eddie G, I’m in team Viagra” opps, Not quite man enough Eddie? Honestly couldn’t come up with a better name then that for your team. I mean look at ya. Eddie has the strength clearly, Virgil is technically sound…. Power And Precision a better name then team Viagra really? Most teams try and describe who they are when they pick a team name…. wonder if those guys did the same?
Gabriel grabs a towel and dries his face, but the sound of a door slamming quickly grabs his attention.
What the…?
Gabriel turns around and opens the bathroom door.
“Despy?” Gabriel calls out, but no answer comes back
Gabriel walks out of the bathroom and in to the suite, quickly making his way to the bedroom where he left Despayre. Gabriel opens the door, but Despayre and Angel are nowhere to be seen.
Ah for fucks sake
MOMENTS LATER
A bright and busy casino is seen, people from all over the world place wagers at various tables, trying to win their fortunes. Gabriel is seen standing looking around the casino floor. He take a step in to the crowd, his eyes darting around in all directions.
Synn is probably gonna kill me
A scream is heard across the casino, Gabriel smiles
“Ah” Gabriel says “My money is on Despy being over there somewhere”
Gabriel makes his way through the crowds, quickly shuffling (Shuffling… get it? Casino? Cards? Nevermind) through the people and various gaming tables. He stops at and looks at a waitress, her face soaked
“What happened?” Gabriel enquires
“A funny looking guy took a drink off the tray” She says exhaling “Then spat it out, saying it wasn’t cherry coke”
Gabriel tries hard not to smile. He clears his throat
“What direction did that guy go in?” He asks
The waitress points with a free hand and Gabriel moves in that direction, his eyes moving around the people at speed.
Where is he? This is like playing where’s Waldo or something
“JACKPOT!!!!” A voice is heard yelling out
Gabriel spins his head quickly to see Despayre standing at a penny slot machine. Gabriel quickly moves over to Despayre and stands behind him. Despayre turns around his hands raised in a karate pose
“Hello” He says casually
“What are you doing down here?” Gabriel asks
“Angel went for a walk and I came to find him, then I put some cash in this machine and got the jackpot!” Despayre explains “We’re rich!”
Gabriel chuckles
“Dude….” He starts “It’s only a penny slot, you’ve won about two dollars”
“I know!” Despayre says excitedly “We’re rich!!”
Gabriel rolls his eyes at Despayre
“Yeah” Gabriel says sarcastically “Rich”
“We need to find Angel and tell him” Despayre says running off
Gabriel follows Despayre as quickly as his can, as Despayre dodges in and out of the crowd.
“There he is!” Despayre calls back
Gabriel catches up with Despayre and looks at him
“Where?” Gabriel asks
“There” Despayre says pointing.
Gabriel looks across at a roulette table, seeing Angel perched up on it, dressed in a little tuxedo. Gabriel moves closer to see a huge pile of chips in front of him, piled up almost as high as the bear itself.
“Looks like someone’s had a good night at the tables” Despayre says casually
Gabriel looks shocked as he stares at the bear in front of the chips
What the… how the… never mind
The scene fades out with Despayre whispering something in Angel’s ear
