Post by Alicia Lukas on Feb 2, 2018 8:19:30 GMT -5
Prologue: Who Am I?
My name is Violet Alicia Maxwell. That’s the name I was given at birth. My mother thought I should have my father’s name despite that they were never married. I was a happy child, the oldest of three. My brother Josh and I shared the same father. Our baby sister Zoey was from our mother’s newest husband at the time. I grew up knowing who my father was and what he did. I romanticized it, told myself he never wanted to leave me. That it was my mother’s fault.
I went through my teenage years being taught a woman’s place in society is by a man's side. That they are the lords, masters, owners of the home and the people in it. That money made the world go ‘round and my purpose was to shut my fucking mouth and look pretty. Unfortunately I had a problem with that part. I was a button pusher and my ex, he made sure to punish me for it.
Through it all I stood strong until one night I wanted to end it. A friend of mine found me, helped me get out and then that was it. I went to Japan and I took beating after beating in there. Each time I would scrape my busted up carcass off the mat or the hard wooden floor, I’d wipe the blood from my mouth and thank them. Every damn day I would take shot after shot and smile because I knew that it was for a purpose. It was a reason.
I came back home expecting my life to somehow be a different beast. To be able to show everyone here how much I’d changed but instead I let the world and environment change me. I let someone corrupt me and make me forget everything I had learned, everything I felt. I continued on moving from relationship to relationship letting men use and abuse me. Whether it be physically like Chris or emotionally like Sean and Travis…
You know as bad as people view Kaden he’s the only one who gave me what I asked. All I ever wanted was honesty and out of all of them Kaden was the only one to look me in the eye and say “this may have been a mistake, I think we shouldn’t be together”. And people wonder why he and I are still friends and have a connection.
Through all my personal problems I have moved forward. I never let it affect me in the ring despite what everyone has said. We live our lives in the public eye and I get comments on it, but what about in the ring?. What about what I do better than anyone else?....Who am I?.....
My name is Alicia Lukas. And I am going to kill you….
This is my church of choice
Last drinks and death in last sacrifice
For the rest, I have to say to you
I will dream like a God
And suffer like all the dead children
Scene One-The Escape Of the Damned
Off Camera
Atlanta Georgia
8 Years Ago…
It was the dead of night. A warm summer’s eve filled with only the smallest of noises. The wind rustled through the leaves of the tree’s outside. Inside the main bedroom of the huge two story old style plantation house Violet breathed low and quiet, Ronnie had his arm draped over her as she looked around, her eyes darting from side to side as she slid out from under the heavy appendage. Her feet hit the floor as the old wooden boards made the slightest of creaking noises. Violet closed her eyes as a silent prayer ran through her mind.
Please god, don’t let him wake up….
Her heart raced as she heart movement in the bed, a groan and the sheets move. But then silence before the breathing, Violet let out a sigh of relief before moving further away, she winced in pain as she turned her body the wrong way. The bruises on her upper body, her ribs stretched and shot pain everywhere else. A result in dealing with Ronnie’s anger a few hours before. Before the eventual apologies he never meant, before the sweet tender kisses that signaled it wasn’t time to fight, but time for Violet to do what she was supposed to. The duty she had been promised to provide.
It made her sick, the dry heaving boiling up from her stomach and chest causing more pain to shoot through her body and down her spine. She clamped her hands over her mouth her breath heaving between her fingers. She swallowed it, all of it back down in one huge gulp of pain and anger. She turned looking over her shoulder at him. It hit her, what if he finds her. He always said he’d never let her go, he’d find wherever she was. His father was a man of means and influence. His contacts made his reach vast. Violet turned and walked towards the bed, her hands reaching out for her pillow. She held it in her hands staring down at him. It would only take a few seconds. A few moments of struggle and it would be done.;....over….
She’d be able to take her boys then. But what kind of life would they lead?. She’d be caught. They’d be taken away. No access for her mother or anyone else. No, she couldn’t. She dropped the pillow back onto the bed and slowly slipped away She turned from the bedroom into the hallway and to a spare room sliding in. Clothes she had hidden earlier laid on the bed with a bag next to it filled with a passport. Money. Directions. She had prepared well. A small smile coming across her face as she took out the small prepaid phone from the pocket reading over the message from Maria. She was outside in a car, just beyond the gate. Violet had to hurry. She got dressed fast before grabbing the bag and sliding out. She turned and stopped coming face to face with the boys room. Rory and Ryan. She swallowed hard and laid her hand on the door. She closed her eyes as the tears fell.
Violet Maxwell: I’m sorry, I hope you’ll understand. I love you both….
She took one final deep breath and made her way downstairs moving fast past the employees quarters and out the door shutting it lightly. She was outside, the warm summer breeze hitting her in the face as her hair whipped behind her. The world suddenly seemed so big. Like she was seeing it for the first time. The lights from Maria’s car flashed as Violet took off running across the large open field towards the gates, she tossed the bag over the fence climbing it landing hard outside before sliding in, Maria giving her a hug.
Maria: I knew you could do it Violet….
Violet Maxwell: Alicia….my….my name...it’s now Alicia…
Alicia pulled back, Maria tilted her head with a smile and a nod of understanding. She fastened her seatbelt and the two started their drive, She didn’t want to look back. She resisted. Now was a time for moving forward not back. But her heart wouldn’t let it happen. Alicia turned her body staring out the back window as the large house that had been her prison since she was 13 slowly disappeared into the blackened darkness…
This is where heroes and cowards part ways.
Light the fire, feast
Chase the ghost, give in.
Take the road less traveled by,
Leave the city of fools,
Turn every poet loose.
Scene Two-A Champion rises…
On Camera
Washington D.C
Present Day
“I hate to be “that person”. You know what I mean right?. The type who sits here on camera after a big win and just smiles and says “I told you so”. But, well, I told you so. See I will admit that Kenzi Grey gave me all I could handle. That she stepped in the ring with me and took me to places only a real champion could.”
Alicia Lukas slowly looks up through a veil of golden blonde hair. No make up on her skin to hide the bruises she seems to wear with pride. On on her right eye and a large yellow discolouration on her jaw on the opposite side. A smirk on her face showing her arrogant nature she tries to contain.
“And make no mistake Kenzi Grey is a real champion. Kenzi Grey is a woman who should be respected and celebrated. She’s a woman who is one of the best I have been in the ring with and she deserves every accolade she has earned. But with that being said, as long as she goes on to be in these TV shows and have this huge career outside the wrestling world, she will always...ALWAYS be second to me. And I know that may sting a little, I know she may even hate me a little for saying it. But I am saying it for her own good. See while Sarah and Roxy and the other “cool kids” will just smile and cheer her and push her towards the hollywood lights knowing they can bask in her multimedia glow...I want her to realise her real destiny. I want Kenzi Grey to stand up and be one of the best in the ring…”
“But again. She won’t if she keeps splitting her time between that world and this one. But me?. I know what I am, I know who I am and I know what I’m ready to do in this world….in this company. See Kenzi talked about how I’m a “legend”. I started to look deeper into that word and it’s meaning. See I get what Kenzi was trying to say but I don’t want people to get confused here. I have only been back in the US for less than two years. The thing is that in that time I have been one of the most prolific female wrestlers on the planet. I have been in matches that have gone down in folklore and the truth is I want to do that for LAW.”
“I did that against Kenzi…”
Alicia smiles and nods slowly before running her hands through her long blonde hair moving it away from her bruised face, a small cut now seen on her bottom left lip.
“But again, Kenzi called me a legend. Kenzi and I have respect for one another but a “legend” is a story that is supposed to be historical but not authenticated. Meaning legendary stories have a habit of being embellished and exaggerated. But something you all need to realise is that I am all truth. See when I bring up things I’ve done in the past or things I say or see it’s all my truth. Like when I called out Sam Tolson for not being the same after our match, she took offense. But to me and everyone else it was truth. Because we see it. Sure Sam is still the type to claim friendship then go after any title in her reach because she’s a gold loving sycophant. But in the ring...she isn’t the same….”
“But me?. Hell I’ve gotten better. And I think my first two matches here have been proof of that. I have entered LAW with a huge splash and someone who tried to do the same is my opponent this week. Maki. Or is it Daniela?. I don’t know, I can never keep up with multiple personalities. I couldn’t keep up with them from Sam Tolson or Crystal Hilton either. So instead I’ll just keep it simple. Maki is a woman who I have watched since she started to make noise. See before I took notice of her I know she had a good career but in the last few months she has really stepped up and gotten herself noticed. She has people looking at her as one of the best new talents to explode on the scene….”
“She and I signed our LAW contracts and while we have been in the same company before she and I never got booked to face one another. We have teamed together, laughed backstage, laughed on twitter...I like Maki. I won’t deny it I consider her a friend.”
“But as with Kenzi and others sometimes friendship needs to be put aside when we get in the ring and go face to face. And Maki as good as you are...and I’ve watched...you are very good, the truth is that if Kenzi Grey couldn’t beat me, you don’t really have a leg to stand on. And I don’t want to come off as this super arrogant bitch cause…”
Alicia stops for a moment and smirks.
“Well I am a super arrogant bitch but, I want to make something very clear to you. I know there is a chance you could beat me. I can admit it, I can accept it, but it’s something I am not prepared to let happen without a fight. And here’s the thing, lately you haven’t been setting the ring on fire in LAW. I mean sure, other places you’ve been an unstoppable uncontrollable force but in this company where some of the best women’s wrestlers stand tall, you haven’t been living up to your potential or the ego you have been growing.”
“Hell you stepped foot in LAW talking about Kenzi, your own little girlfriend Ashley Marie Chase decided to open her mouth and put “RIP Alicia” all over for the world to see….cute…”
“And as I said I understand her willingness to support you Maki, but have a close look at what she did. You think I can let this stand?. You think I can now smile and look you in the eye and say “hey buddy let's have a great match”? You think that’s what is going to happen?. No Maki, no. And as I said you haven’t set the LAW world on fire, you came in all guns blazing against Kenzi and had a no contest and sure you can talk about Etsuko’s interference and how that cost you a chance to win and it was a no contest. But, I beat her….”
“And yeah I won by DQ against frenchie McPsycho, but after the match, after they pulled that bitch off me I planted her in the ground and marked my goddamn property. While you?. You went in the ring against Elizabeth Blackwell and choked. You had the chance to get a win and then at least start your career in LAW the way your ego wanted. Hell we both got signed and people started going insane at the thought of you being here...but I was the one that has delivered. 2 wins from 2 matches and both times I looked like the champion I am…”
“Once overcoming the cowardice of a french psychopath and the other beating one of LAW’s top talents. And this time, I roll into Florida, right into LAW 77 and I get to face one of the top talents of the wrestling world who seems to have been stalling in her career here. But this is what you wanted isn’t it Maki?. You wanted to face me one on one, you wanted this match. Well there’s the old saying...be careful what you wish for...cause sister...you got it…”