Post by Chelsea Armstrong on Nov 21, 2013 13:33:40 GMT -5
**Scene One**
Music sounds through the headphones placed in my ears as I can’t even tell you the song that is playing, my mind is scattered as I feel a million needles pricking my senses causing my jaw to clench as I throw a punch connecting with the punching bag now swinging in front of me. I feel the cool material hitting my hand under the tape wrapped around my hands as for a split second I begin to forget about the events leading till today…it isn’t long though until I stop that everything starts flooding back leading me to the realization that the only way to make it stop is to keep going forward. Bracing my stance I start throwing punches at the bag feeling my shoulders start to ache after I’ve lost track of time at how long I have been going. Not slowing down I feel someone grab my shoulder as I turn ready to swing as I see Stacy already holding a stance as if she already knew what was going to happen. Simply shaking my head I turn back around going back to the punching bag as I then feel my headphones being pulled from my ears causing an irritated groan to fall from my lips as my hands don’t stop hitting the bag.
Chelsea: What do you want Stacy?
Stacy: I just came down to check on you, you've been punching that thing for hours now; you need to rest before you hurt yourself...
Chelsea: Yeah, well I got a lot of prepping to do.
Stacy: Chelsea are you sure? Are you ok?
Chelsea: Ohh yeah, just peachy.
Stacy: Chels, talk to me.
Shaking my head again my hands continue to pound away against the bag before I feel her grab my shoulder forcing me to stop.
Chelsea: What’s there to talk about Stacy? Seifer got fired! Fired, just because some bitch is on a power trip!
Stacy: Chelsea, watch what you say…
Chelsea: I don’t care! What’s she going to do, fire me? Make my life hell? Yeah well it already is!
Stacy: Chels…
Chelsea: It’s true! He’s fired and now it’s just me in that company, and did you see that video during my match? Someone else is toying with me, and they brought Shelley into this!
Stacy: Chelsea there’s nothing you can do about what happened to Seifer, I get why you’re upset but…
Chelsea: No! No you don’t get it!
Stacy: Ok, maybe I don’t understand all of it but.
Chelsea: You don’t get it all Stacy! Matt still has his job! You still get to go out there every week and watch him! I can’t do that anymore!
Stacy: I know…but Chels…
Chelsea: You don’t understand Stacy; no matter how much you try you don’t understand it.
She stands there speechless as I let out a small laugh before turning back toward the punching bag, putting my headphones back in I continue my hits against the bag with hopes of letting some of my frustration out. Just as the music begins to play I feel them being moved again as I’m forced to turn around.
Chelsea: What? What else can you possibly have to say right now?
Stacy: Damnit Chels! I may not know what you're going through but for fuck's sake, you don't understand either! This is exactly the kind of reaction Sarah wants! She wants us to fall apart because she knows she can't take us all down on her own!
Chelsea: Oh she’s not going to take me down, that bitch is going to pay for what she’s done! This isn’t me breaking down and losing it, this is me letting my anger doing the talking and soon enough getting the vengeance that is on my mind. She has no clue what she has just brought upon herself!
Stacy: Well you need to learn when to stop! If you continue like this you're going to get yourself injured, then you won't be able to do anything to Sarah...or whoever was responsible for that video...the one thing I do understand about considering I've suffered similar!
I go to shake my head as I look down at my hands seeing them a bright red as I know I’m going to have bruises underneath the tape. Another frustrated sigh leaves me lips as I turn kicking the bag before sitting down on the floor before putting my knees to my chest.
Chelsea: I’m sorry Stac…it’s not right to take all of this out on you. It’s just so frustrating…I retain my title yet I sit in the back and can’t do anything to keep my own husband from being fired…I felt so helpless watching what happened to him.
Stacy kneels down beside me and wraps her arms around me squeezing me tight.
Stacy: You weren't the only one who felt helpless Chels...how do you think Matt and I feel right now? We were powerless too. You need to be strong, WE need to be strong, we need to fight off whatever this bitch throws at us! Sooner or later, things will be restored and back to normal, trust me.
I feel a tear roll down my cheek as I shake my head.
Chelsea: I don’t know Stacy, this is so tough…when I woke up this morning it hurt so bad to look at Seifer. To know he’s hurting and I can’t do anything about it…I had to get out of the room, which is why I’ve been down here all morning. I just don’t know what to say to him…nothing is going to help.
Stacy: That's where you're wrong Chels; do you really think that Seifer would want to be alone during this time? Or do you think that he'd prefer to have his amazingly beautiful, amazingly strong wife to hold in his arms?
Looking ahead I start thinking as I know she’s right.
Chelsea: I know…just, I guess I thought it wouldn’t do him any good for both of us to be all upset up there together. I didn’t really think how he’d feel if I left him like that.
Stacy: Talking about things that are really upsetting you helps, plus you need to go and do this because I need to repay the favor after you helped Matt and I...and that was through talking to one another...
Chelsea: Again you’re right…I’m glad you guys worked things out by the way. I couldn’t dare see you two break away like this…which now that I think of it sounds like the path I’m trying to push Seifer and I down. I feel so selfish…I didn’t want to see him like that so I left him alone…what kind of wife does that?
Stacy: A wife who didn't know what else to do. Trust me Chels, I've been in similar situations where I've felt like I've done the wrong thing, nobody’s perfect, we're human and humans make mistakes. Seifer loves you with all his heart, and now he needs you more than ever.
Chelsea: I guess that’s why I’m struggling…I mean we’ve been through a lot but I don’t think I’ve ever felt this helpless. I’ve always known what to say or what to do…it’s like when Shelley is crying at night and I can’t figure out what she wants. I hate feeling like that…but I know I need to go back up there.
Glancing down I look at my hands as I carefully start pulling back the tape seeing a slight hint of purple already kissing my knuckles as I laugh.
Chelsea: I guess I did overdo it huh…I didn’t even realize how long I’d been down here.
Stacy: Everything will be okay Chels, trust me, now let's get you to the trainer’s room and get some ice on those knuckles and then you're going to go home to your husband...
Nodding we both stand up as I give her a hug as we start walking toward the door.
Chelsea: You know sometimes I hate it when you’re always right.
Stacy: Hey, now you know how I feel when I'm the one down in the dumps...
Laughing I smile pulling her in for another hug as we walk out of the door heading for the trainer’s room.
Chelsea: And that is why we will always be sisters.
**Scene Two**
Slowly opening the door to our hotel room I glance in before stepping in and closing the door behind me, the silence is deafening sending chills up my spine forcing me to take a deep breath before continuing inside.
Chelsea: Seifer?
Carefully kicking my shoes off I place them by the door, my hands throb with a dull ache making me readjust the bag of ice over one of them as I start walking into the bedroom where I know I’m most likely to find him.
Chelsea: Seifer? Are you in here?
I get warm feeling as I see him walk into the hallway.
Seifer: Yeah I’m here, I couldn’t shout because I just got Shelley down for a nap.
Smiling I don’t say a word as I walk over wrapping my arms around him causing a soft sigh to leave my lips.
Chelsea: Sorry for leaving so early this morning, I wasn’t sure what to say after everything that’s happened and thought I’d be doing you a favor…wasn’t until Stac tracked me down that she made me realize I needed to be up here with you.
Seifer: I will be alright, I know I had the champ beat and the ass had to cheat to be able to beat me.
Chelsea: You have a good point there, he knew if he lost his reputation would go down the drain…not that it already hasn’t but that’s beside the point.
Seifer: I know, but the best thing that came from it is that Matt still has his job; I feel better knowing I am the one the punishment is falling on.
Chelsea: That’s true…yeah I think I have to apologize to Stacy. She knew I was upset but I was a little harsh earlier when that came up. I swear looking at you now I feel I’m taking all of this harder than you are.
Seifer: Believe me I hide it well... I just think of the bright side of things like how I got too spend time with my little girl today.
Nodding I smile before stepping back and letting out a gentle laugh.
Chelsea: I wish I had your restraint…I kind of let my emotions out another way.
Glancing down I move the small bag of now ice water away showing my bruised knuckles as I can’t help but laugh at my own stupidity.
Seifer: Now how did you do that?
Chelsea: I went down to the gym when I left this morning and apparently spent the whole time with the punching bag…I hadn’t even noticed the time until Stacy made me stop.
Seifer: I will be alright love honestly, I know this is a lot to take in but I have faith that I will be back in the WCF, anyway you know better than anyone that I cannot be kept down when I don’t want to be.
Chelsea: I know, and you’re being so strong during this. I’m going to be here for me…I guess this is just different for me. It’s been awhile…if at all…since we’ve been put in a position like this since we’ve been together. I see all of this happening to you and I felt so helpless. I just don’t want to let you down in any way.
Seifer: You can never let me down, to be honest I have been the biggest failure in our family and you know what brings me through it all day after day.
Chelsea: That’s not true…but what?
Seifer: Both Shelley and you, at the end of the day the likes of Sarah can take my job but they cannot take my soul, that belongs to my family and that is my strength.
Chelsea: I really have to learn to get and keep the strength that you have. But you’re right…I don’t care what she does to either of us…we were a family before we came into this federation and we will be a family long after it’s in the corner covered in dust. I just know she’s going to try to through a curve ball though and shake us up more.
Seifer: Well I have my plans also, nothing I can talk about at the moment but me and Matt have some ideas in the works.
Chelsea: Really? Well I look forward to what you two come up with…I don’t know how long I can go backstage alone right now. I mean…I know with how you’re feeling now we’ll work through this but did you see that video that popped up during my match? Seifer I can’t help but think that chick is out of the hospital already…I don’t know if I can deal with Shelley being brought into this mess. I’m not talking about a breakdown either…I’m not going to be liable for any actions if she is made out to be a toy to my emotions…I’ve already been cleared of one charge I can do it again.
Seifer: You do not have to worry about Shelley right now, with me being fired I am with her all the time, and do you think someone like Lilith would be able to take our little girl with me being around her.
Shaking my head a sigh leaves my lips as I look into his eyes.
Chelsea: No…I didn’t think of that. Guess everything is just getting to me, kind of messing with my head. I’ve been so on edge since the show…I really don’t know what to think of everything. I’ve been misjudging everything, from where I should be and what I should do to even how fast time is passing. I really need to pull it together.
Seifer: Hey don’t worry we all get like that from time to time honestly, come here.
Moving forward he pulls me in hugging me tight as I wrap my arms around him, resting my head against his chest.
Seifer: I know how you feel, but have no doubt that no matter what happens I will always be here for you, and as long as I draw breath I will make sure my family is safe, I promise you.
I feel safe in his arms as I close my eyes allowing the first real feeling of serenity to fill my senses as I attempt to relax my body.
Chelsea: I trust you…I always have and always will. I know Shelley will be safe, just couldn’t help but be a little scared. I don’t know what I’d do without the two of you.
Seifer: I am the same, and because of that I know why you feel this way, you can’t help but get scared because you love. Remember the times when I was facing off against Dan and his group in NWA and they tried to make me think they had you and Shelley, I vowed then that my family would never be used against me again, I will let no one get to our little girl no matter what.
Chelsea: I know, I trust that with all of my heart. I’m going to try my best not to let these people get to me. It’s going to be tough I have a feeling but I’ll try…although now all I feel like doing is lying down and trying to relax. I don’t think my muscles can take anymore tension.
Seifer: Oh really, well why don’t you go lie down and I will help you relax for a while.
Looking up into his eyes I can’t help but smile as I follow his directions and walk over lying down on the bed.
Chelsea: Not going to argue with that one.
He walks over also taking off his shirt and sitting next to me.
Seifer: One thing I will say though is look at this tattoo.
He points to his tattoo of a female angel holding a baby with her wings wrapped around the both of them.
Seifer: No matter what happens my family is over my heart, you are always with me and I am always with you and Shelley, nothing will ever change that so rest assured that I will never let harm fall upon you.
He reaches up brushing his hand across my cheek and brushing it through my hair. Closing my eyes I reach up placing my hand against his own smiling as I do, another sigh leaves my lips before I glance back at him tears stinging my eyes.
Chelsea: You always know how to make me speechless…I swear my heart just melted. I don’t know what to say…other than I love you. With everything I am I will never want anyone but you.
Seifer: And I would not want to be with anyone but you, you are one of the most important things in my life and there is nothing I would not do to make sure you are safe and happy.
He leans down and gives me a passionate kiss, returning it I place a hand against his neck feeling my body relax under his own as my mind becomes empty of everything except my love for him…and how nothing and no one will ever be able to change that.
**Scene Three**
A flickering candle sends light through a darkened room casting a shadow as can be seen within the room just yet. A chilling whisper sounds through showing clear signs frustration and irritation but a slight hint of calmness emanates around every word spoken.
Chelsea: This week preparation has proved to be most difficult. My mind has been pulled into so many different directions that I am simply stumped if you will on what else I am supposed to do…or I was anyway. Until early this morning I had no clue how to prepare of a match like this seeing as I have never been placed into this situation…and then I got thinking, that is exactly what they, or she, wants to happen. They want to see me running scared and paranoid…not knowing who I’m competing against when I could be facing just about anyone in this federation. Even more than that more than likely my championship will be on the line…that could sound pretty scary right? It could…if you didn’t know how to capitalize on a moment like this.
You see…my emotions toward everyone but my immediate family are shot. You know what that means? I don’t give a damn who my opponent is because whether it’s one of the big shots or one of the new guys who just came in…I will go into this match with the same mindset and goal at hand. Pain, hurt, finish...Allow me to elaborate if you will.
The soft ping of glass being dropped is heard as a dim light fills the rest of the room allowing my body to be seen for the first time. I stand in the low light wearing my ring attire as my hair hangs loosely allowing nearly every pale inch of my skin to be seen. Reaching down I tentatively pick up a piece of glass before running it softly over the top of my arm allowing small red bubbles to appear before a smirk sits on my ruby lips.
Chelsea: Pain…I realized earlier this week when I bruised my knuckles in the gym that the only moment I felt better and was able to escape everything was when that sweet sting of pain was rushing through my senses. Oh it told me to stop, but I just couldn’t do it…but now I have an even better chance at continuing the thirst for pain that my body is craving. I know how the men and women in this federation are…they go for blood and that is exactly what I want to happen, and I will do anything to ensure they do what I wish.
Simply smiling I run my fingers over the small table now showing in front of me as a small trail of red runs down my arm and hand letting a small drop hit the table. Ignoring it I go back to the table as I pick up a small knife holding it up in front of my face, the blade glimmers from the light causing me to smile.
Chelsea: Hurt…I might want to feel pain within this match but we can’t have it one sided now can we? No, as much as I want to feel pain it will make me feel just as good if I am the one inflicting it…the rules around here are no disqualification…that will continue to play into my hand as I take every frustration I have out on whoever has the most unfortunate luck of being my opponent. I don’t care who I get put against…you might think you can find a weakness with someone I won’t fight, I know that’s the plan around here right? Put us all against those in which will hurt us the most…well I hate to tell you but I really don’t care anymore on who is across from me. When that bell rings all feelings of empathy will leave my mind and I’ll be focused on one thing…hurting you.
Throwing the knife it flies through the air before becoming lodged in the wall on the other side, a soft laugh leaves my lips before I come to the last item on the table…my Television Championship belt. Picking it up I hold it firmly in my hands as I gaze into the gold coating allowing my eyes to run over my name plate before smiling once again.
Chelsea: Finish…This is always my favorite part when it comes to my matches, the big finish. After we have pushed one another as far as we can stand to go I’m going to push you just a tiny bit more and make sure you are fully aware that you do not belong in a match against me. I hold this championship with pride and intend to continue to do so for a lot longer…no one that can be put against me this week will change that plan, simply because I won’t allow it to happen. I have come pretty far in this company since I arrived, I like to think anyway…I have surprised myself as well as surprise those who didn’t know my name. Now I am being talked about in conversations I could only dream when I first joined in this company. This match will be mine…this match will be one of my best simply because I will ensure it turns out to be one that no one forgets. Whose ever name gets chosen to face me this week…your days are numbered, for when you step into that ring you can be assured that I make your life a living hell…are you ready?
My eyes flicker a bright emerald green causing a smirk to appear against my lips as the candles begin to go out, the scene starts to dim soon leaving nothing to be seen except for the glowing green of my eyes reflecting against that of my Championship.
