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Off Camera
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Ever since her arrival in SCW, Jessica Lasiewicz had been
helping other people, whether it was helping longtime family friend Brittany
Lohan against Blood Grove or whether it was helping her own mother free herself
from the clutches of Silas Mason. Ever since
her debut in SCW, Jessica’s tenure has been defined by selfless acts of
heroism.
Selfless acts of heroism may earn you brownie points with
the fans and perhaps a few co-workers but it does not make much money and it
most certainly does not win championships and that is what Jessica has wanted
to do with her career: she has wanted to win gold, she wanted to be just as
successful as her famous father and mother, Andreas Lasiewicz and Angelica
Jones. She wanted her name to rank right
up with theirs in the annals of professional wrestling history.
So Jessica Lasiewicz had made a promise to herself that she
would begin focusing on herself and her own personal career within Supreme
Championship Wrestling. No longer would
she fight battles for other people. But
after a failed dive into the women’s championship division, Jessica now once
again finds herself fighting other people’s battles.
This is one battle that Jessica is hard pressed not to turn
away from. Her mother and aunt, the SCW
World Tag Team Champions Angelica and Kayla Jones, have been hounded recently
by the likes of Jake Starr, a nuisance who has been chasing them down, getting
involved in their matches, sticking his nose into their business where it
doesn’t belong.
With Angelica Jones fighting Dylan Howell, Jessica Lasiewicz
finds herself defending the honor and good name of The Sisterhood by facing off
against Jake Starr one on one.
The young Morning Star is sitting in a darkened room, alone,
at a round, dirty table. A deck of poker
cards is in the center of the table.
Jessica seems to be waiting on someone in particular…
“You're late.”
The raven-haired Polish woman can hear the footsteps
approaching. She turns around to spot
her sister, the redheaded Boston native and IWC alumnus Marie Annabelle Jones,
approaching a few feet away. The older
sibling is wearing denim jeans, black boots, a black t-shirt, and a black
leather jacket. Her long red hair hangs
unrestrained to just below the shoulders.
The nails on her hand are painted a bright red color and, we can assume,
her toenails match.
Marie Jones, the self-proclaimed crown jewel of professional
wrestling, approaches the round card table.
She pulls out a chair and sits down across from her sister Jessica.
“And you are lucky I came at all.” Marie snaps back
at her. “I haven't exactly been in the best of moods lately and I'm not up
for your judgmental attitude.”
“Is that so?” Jessica asks, arching an eyebrow. “Or
are you just grandstanding in order to look tough?”
“What do you mean?”
Jessica shakes her head. “Quit the act, Marie. You know you can't hide anything from me.”
Jones sighs and shakes her head. “Ok, ok, fine. What is it you wanted to talk to me about?”
“All in due time.” Jessica reaches out and snatches
the deck of playing cards out from the center of the table. “But first,
let's play.”
“What?” Marie asks incredulously. “Now?!”
“Yes, now.” Jessica answers back, nodding her head. “I
think it's best we ease the tension a little and I think a game of poker is the
best way to do that.”
Lasiewicz doesn't even allow her sister time to get any
further words of complaint out before she immediately begins to shuffle the
cards. Marie rolls her eyes.
“Are you serious?”
“Yes. Now shut
up.”
Marie sighs deeply. “What game?”
“5 card.”
After a few moments more of shuffling, Jessica begins to
deal out the cards, one to Marie and then one to herself. She does this until each of them has five
cards to work with. Jessica then lays
the deck of cards back on the center of the table.
“I honestly see no reason for this.” Marie says as
she studies her cards. “You say this is to relieve the tension between
us. There is no tension between us.”
“The last time we were alone together you attacked me.”
Jones shrugs her shoulders. “Fine, ok, maybe there is
some tension...”
“More than just some.”
Jessica tosses two cards down onto the table. She raven-haired beauty takes two cards off
the top of the stack in the center of the table. She stares at her new hand and smiles happily
at what she now has in her possession.
Lasiewicz then looks up from her hand of cards and up at Marie. Her smile turns into a frown of displeasure.
“I tried to help you, Marie, and you turned me away at
every turn. Now suddenly I find out that
you are turning over a new leaf?”
Jessica shakes her head. “I apologize if I find that hard
to believe.”
It is now the red-head's turn to play the game. She stares intensely at her cards but it
doesn't take her long to decide what she wants to do. She removes only one card from her hand and
puts it in the discard pile. She picks
up one card from the deck in the center and inserts it into her hand. She stares at her new hand and then stares back
at her younger sister Jessica.
“I just want to make things right, Jess. That's all.”
“You and mom are a lot alike.” Jessica responds back
nonchalantly. “You both fuck things up and expect the rest of us to just
bend over backwards to forgive you and let you off the hook. Just one more second chance you say...”
Jessica shakes her head “...one of these days there will
not be another second chance. One of
these days you will screw up so royally that no one will ever forgive you.”
Marie lowers her head in shame, realizing that her younger
sister raises a very good point.
“I know...”
“I hope you do. I
do hope you understand that you burned a great many bridges with this ego-trip
you went on this past year. Granted
these bridges can be repaired because many of them have only been burned down
just once. But if you keep this up, if
you continue down this path, you will find yourself isolated forever, you will
find yourself with no friends, no allies, and on your way to your own
destruction.”
Marie chuckles. “Now you sound like someone from Star
Wars.”
The sisters share a genuine laugh, one that does, in fact,
ease the tension Jessica had wanted to ease all along.
“Well you may not be on your path to the Dark Side but
you are on your way to being just like our mother. Granted she turned out ok, but she took the
long, difficult road towards where she is today. I doubt she would want you to take the same
road she did.”
“So, are you giving me another chance?”
Jessica nods her head. “Of course I am. We're sisters. Nothing changes that. But just remember what I said, you may not
many more chances after this. So be
careful.”
“I will...and thanks, sis.”
“Don't mention it.” Jessica smiles wryly. “Now
what do you got?”
Marie places her cards on the table: a queen, a ten, and
three kings. “Three of a kind.”
“Is that all?”
Jessica places her cards on the table: a two, three, four, five, and
six, all of hearts. “Straight Flush.”
Marie shakes her head in disappointment. “Damn...”
Jessica collects all of the cards and begins to
reshuffle. “Another game?”
“Sure.” Marie responds.
Jessica continues to shuffle for a few seconds and then
deals out the cards, five to herself and then five to Marie. She places the rest of the cards in the
center of the table. The sisters each
pick up their respective hands and stares at the hands intensely.
“What about you, Jess?”
“What about me?”
“How are things in SCW?”
Jessica shrugs her shoulders. “Eh, they could be
better. I helped free mom from Silas
Mason but that was it. I've been aiming
at trying to become SCW Women's Champion but that hasn't bore any fruit. I have also been helping mom and aunt
Kayla. That's why I'm facing Jake Starr
on Breakdown.”
“I thought you were done fighting other people's
battles. What changed?” Marie asks
with a smirk on her face.
“This is different.
This is for family.”
Marie tosses one card into the discard pile and then takes
one card from the main pile and places it into her hand. Jessica, meanwhile, looks at her own hand,
staring at it intently. She then looks
down at the discard pile.
“Do you want a card?”
Jessica shakes her head. “Not
this time.”
Marie studies her sister intensely, noticing the confident
smirk on her face, before finally placing her cards down onto the table: two
kings…and three queens.
“Full House.”
“Nice.” Jessica
places her cards one at a time on the table…first a ten of clubs…
“Ten.”
…Jack of Clubs…
“Jack.”
…Queen of Clubs…
“Queen.”
…King of Clubs…
“King.”
…Ace of Clubs…
“Ace. Royal Flush.”
“Royal Flush?!”
Marie is shocked, her mouth nearly hits the floor. “How’d you…”
“I have my secrets.”
Jessica winks.
“Your dad taught you
to play.” Marie drops her cards onto the table. “I should know better than to play you.”
“You really should.”
Jessica remarks as she places her cards on the table as well. “As so should Jake Starr. But he’ll find out very quickly what kind of
mistake he is making.”
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On Camera
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Do you want the definition of irrelevance? Look up Jake Starr in the dictionary. Jake Starr is irrelevance personified. Jake Starr is someone who doesn’t
evolve. He is the same damnable
uninteresting person he’s always been all of his SCW career.
Since you have nothing better to do and no other way to
remain relevant and interesting in SCW, you’re going to latch yourself onto The
Sisterhood. You choose to assault them
and harass them at every turn. Why?
Because you want their spotlight.
I can’t blame you.
Angelica and Kayla are clearly the hottest thing right now in the tag
team division. Who knows? There could be bigger and better things for
The Sisterhood down the road. But you
made the mistake of going after them and now you have made yourself a target.
And it all starts on Breakdown with you and me.
I’m going to show you the error of your ways and after I
take you down and take you apart maybe then you will have learned your
lesson. Maybe then you will know better
than to go after The Sisterhood. But
hey, after I’m done with you, if you still want to get your ass kicked, then by
all means, pursue this path…
…but be warned, it’s a path that leads to your destruction.
Dobranoc…
