Post by Cali-Kate on May 20, 2017 19:12:38 GMT -5
”Seriously Lacklan? Day in, day out for what has it been, two months now.” (mocking tone) ”‘I dropped you into the Abyss. I’m such a badass because I was so dominant in that Hardcore Scramble match. I’m better than that current champion.’” (back to normal) ”If that’s the case where’s your match to get that title, shitmouth? Where’s your fiery vengeance and brimstone wrath, fucktool? Oh, that’s right, it’s all directed at little old me. Why? Because for all your bitchy, babble-mouthed, deluded rantings you can’t get over the fact that you didn’t pin me like you fucking swore up and down to. And your own flames burn you inside because you can’t stand that you were outmaneuvered, outsmarted, out-fucking-classed by none other than Cass Baumer.” (applause) ”Get real with yourself first before trying to tell me to accept reality Lacklan. This isn’t about you the ‘purebred’ versus me the ‘wannabe’. I mean, by every fucking stretch of the imagination, by any logical comparison Lacklan, I am better than you. Forget the one match that you couldn’t win and let’s look at the records elsewhere. You’ve had championship matches, opportunities, chances, all given to you for ‘X’ fucking reasons and how many have you won? None? Maybe you won some titles in that training dungeon you keep talking about. You know the one run by your father the hall of famer and the one taught by multi-time champs. Hey, wanna know something Lacklan?
“I’m a multi-time champ, bitch!
“So what is it really about Lacklan? If you’re trying to prove I don’t belong here or the places I’ve been and the opponents I’ve fought don’t matter, my own record proves how fucking wrong you are. That all you’re doing is a sad attempt at making yourself feel better. If you want to prove that my lifestyle makes me weaker, same fucking argument. You say I’m not dedicated to this business why because I’m not competing in five different companies at once? Because I don’t talk about the business day in and day out? Because I’m not, what were the words you used before, ‘born into it’? Maybe, just maybe, I’m happy enough with what I do, what I’ve done, that I can actually have a life that doesn’t fucking involve being in the ring all the time. And even if I were to take you at your damn word, didn’t you just star in some Z-rate movie? Aren’t you doing another one right this minute? Why does it have to be all or nothing for everyone else, but you get the by Lacklan? All these questions I have and the thing is I already know how you’ll respond.” (mocking tone again) ”‘You iz gonna totes respond like everyone talks on teh Twitterz becuz if you do dat you’ll be totally cool. And then peepz will buy in to teh hypez dat you totes don’t have and you’ll be even cooler!’” (regular tone again) ”You’re an embarrassment at best, Lacklan, but seeing as I got nothing else better to do…”
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Sunday, May 14, 2017
The house of Twain Cornett
5:19 PM local time
We come up on the driveway of the house where a car pulls up. Inside, driving is the world famous “Geekette Extraordinaire” Cali-Kate with a gym bag in the passenger seat. But even as she pulls into the driveway, she pauses a moment. What’s waiting for her in that house is not something she wants to go to. She wants to be with her wife, wants to comfort her best friend, wants to console her family, but everything has simply gone downhill from the moment they arrived. Is it possible that this simply is a task too big even for a Jedi? Has Kate finally met the challenge that she can’t move past? Kate simply stares at the house for a little while. Her eyes tear up and she immediately pulls out her phone. Scrolling through her contacts she finds a name and calls the number.
”Hi Kate-chan!”
”Hey Jess, are you free to hang out for an hour or two? Just get a drink and chill or something.”
”Kate, I would love to hang out and enjoy a round of drinks and video games, but Geki and I are all the way in Japan and we won't be back for a while. When we return to Queens, I'll let you know as soon as possible.”
”No, don’t feel pressured or anything, it’s fine. Just… nothing never mind.”
”That doesn’t really sound like nothing, Kate.”
”Don’t worry about it! Sorry I interrupted the honeymoon. I’ll talk to you later.”
”Okay. Bye.”
Kate hangs up the phone and chides herself. ”Good job, fuckface. Really nice work. Fuck…” She sits a moment longer banging her head against the headrest. Finally she scrolls through her contacts again and dials another number.
Except the voice on the other end is shaky this time. ”Hello?”
”Stacy? Stace is everything okay?”
”Oh Kate, um, yea, um everything is fine. What’s up girl?”
”Well, I just need to get away for a couple hours. Maybe just have some drinks or something.”
”Sorry, honey but I promised the kids I'd take them to Disney World. Some other time though?”
”Sure, yea. Have fun Stacy. Tell the kids Auntie Kate loves them.”
”You got it. Gotta go.”
That call abruptly ends and Kate is left puzzled by it. She lets out a breath and looks at the house again. With everything going on, it’s unlikely anyone has seen her come back from the gym. She could slip away on her own, but this was not the best time for her to be alone. She needed to be with someone, just for a little bit, maybe just for the reassurance that this was the lowest it could get and getting through this would make it better. She makes one more scroll through her contacts and dials.
”Katiekat!”
”Hey Lexikin. Are you doing anything right now? Could we go out and get a couple drinks or something?”
”Oh I really would, but I have to take the fur babies for a check-up.”
”Oh no. Are they okay?”
”Yep, and I want them to stay that way. Later, I promise.”
”Of course, Lexikin. Take care of the furbabies like a good mama.”
”Of course. Bye, Katiekat!”
”Later.”
Kate makes another heavy sigh and let’s out a ”Fuck it” before grabbing her stuff and heading inside the house finally. In the living room, Jami and the kids are watching TV. Well Remi is watching and the twins are fast asleep in Jami’s arms. Kate walks up behind Jami and starts massaging her shoulders a little.
Jami lets a sly smile cross her face. ”Sorry, but you’re still not as good as Tyler.” They both chuckle a little as Kate crosses the couch and plops herself next to Remi who is completely engrossed by the television. They enjoy the moment of peace until Kate looks around.
”Where’s Destiny?”
”Went to take a nap. Everything that’s been happening, she just needed to collapse for a little bit.”
”You made sure she was on her left side right?”
”Left side or right side you mean?” Kate rolls her eyes as Jami snickers a little. ”You know having just been there myself I do know how to handle a pregnancy. Especially since mine was a lot more difficult. Give me some credit Kate.”
”Well it’s not you I don’t trust.”
”I know Destiny’s been difficult to reach lately, but you gotta remember how she works. The hormones and emotional stuff, I mean, maybe she should have thought twice about it all, but it is what it is now Kate.”
”That’s not quite it, Jamibug. After I was just about ready to turn away, that’s when she finally came back to me. Jami, I was on that edge again.”
Jami’s jaw drops as she glares at Kate. ”Kate! For God’s sakes, what the… what the actual? You’re really gonna do that to Destiny again?”
”Jami, I’m not shi… I’m not kidding here. I was ready to open these scars once again. I was literally going to head for the knife once more.”
”That’s at least as bad, maybe even worse than cheating on her again Kate! After everything she put into this, for you, for the both of you.”
”And you just said it, she’d been so difficult to reach and it felt like it was directed almost entirely at me. Jami, I have done everything I can not to shut her out, but… after that and after trying so hard to reach her. It felt alot like before. Doing everything I can and something else is what triggers it.” Kate shakes her head and leans forward a little. ”It’s got me on edge Jami. The literal knife edge once more.”
”Kate, trust me, just keep trying. I guarantee, with Destiny’s brain, everything you have done has registered and she’s keeping track of it. You are not losing her, not even close.”
Jami puts the twins opposite her and pulls Kate into a hug which Kate reciprocates. ”Feel like leaving Mama Red in charge of the squishies and getting a couple drinks?”
Jami pulls back a little and looks at Kate. ”I wish I could, Kate, really I do, but with everything else going on right now, I'm not sure that's the best idea right now. Maybe in a few weeks, we can do something, but… well, you know better than most…”
Kate nods and sighs. ”Yea, okay.” Kate gets up and tickles Remi behind her ear a little. Remi giggles and swats Kate’s hand away but immediately goes back to the TV. ”I’m gonna go crawl into bed with Destiny then.”
Jami nods with a smile, picking the twins back up and cuddling them a little. Kate walks off down a hall and comes to a closed door. She opens it lightly and the dim lights reveal the sleeping form of her wife Destiny Cornett. Kate smiles and quietly kicks off her shoes and closes the door. Kate crawls into bed behind her wife and drapes an arm over her. Destiny stirs, but doesn’t wake. As if sensing Kate’s presence, she repositions slightly to push herself against her wife.
Kate smiles even wider. She whispers to herself ”I’ve got nothing else better to do.” Though Destiny’s ears don’t twitch as if she actually heard it, but the smile starting to form on her face, though hidden from Kate, says something certainly got through.
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”You probably didn’t watch TV growing up did you Lacklan? At least nothing like what I’m into. See this whole shit that you started here, gets me thinking about this Next Generation episode ‘Hide and Q’. When Q took the crew of the Enterprise to his contest grounds he asked them what kind of game it should be. I’m gonna alter that slightly here, because we both already know what this is gonna be, nothing less than a bloodbath, but the question still remains: why does Sarah Lacklan want this fight? Is it to play into your own hype? Meaningless since you have none. Is it to defend Kenzi’s honor?” (chuckles) ”Equally as meaningless!” (a good bout of laughing before composing herself) ”I mean, you do remember that all this came up because Kenzi went off on one of her tirades of shit-talking to bolster her own ego against Z and Mama Red since she couldn’t pick up a win against them. So instead of going with actual facts she resorted to her narcissistic regurgitated alternative facts. So yea, of course I’m gonna put her in her place, no less than she deserves, and then you swoop in like some fucking guardian devil to allow Kenzi to perpetrate her lies and be protected from the truth. I guess that’s why you two are so good for each other, you feed into each other’s egos and your little ‘Pssssst’ thing you think is so damn cute, but you’re missing a letter when you do that. It should be ‘Pessssst’ because that’s all the two of you are. Pests, gnats to be swatted and forgotten as everyone moves past you to better things.
“What, did you honestly think that you were somehow the top of the food chain? That a fight against you would be a dream match like going against Ash Fucking Scion?! Lacklan, you asked for this match, not the other way around. I just made sure that it was gonna be somewhere that wasn’t gonna fucking bend over and take it up the ass just to cater to your whims. You think I’m just some gamer girl, some cosplay chick, that my days are spent half nude in front of a camera streaming a game or posing for pictures. Yea, it’s called part of the job and when it’s not for promoting Hybrid, it’s because I do feel like showing off. Why? Because I can. Do I need to? Hell no. I could stop posting pictures and it wouldn’t make a difference in the world. Nothing on Twitter defines me like it does for you Lacklan. I don’t get replies or likes or retweets, I move on to something else. You don’t get the attention and it’s almost a fucking meltdown of replying to random shit just so people will acknowledge your existence. You’re more obsessed than fucking Gollum. GOLLUM! The guy who chased another guy, tried to feed him to a spider, followed him into a volcano, bit off his finger and then fell in lava for a fucking ring! And you are even worse than that with something even more pointless. At least The One Ring had actual power. Twitter is just an escape for me. To you it’s life.”
(Mocking tone) ”‘You iz just jealous cuz I haz totes more skillz than you do. You don’t like that I can haz everyone talking about me but no one wants to talk about you.’” (regular tone and a quick thumbs up) ”Cool story, sis. Thing is I don’t need everyone talking about me because everyone who matters knows me and knows what I can do. And they are all, my friends and haters alike, watching this match and they are thinking to themselves right now ‘Why is Kate doing this? What is it that she has to prove here?’ Let me answer that: NOTHING! Not a damn thing! I lose here, it doesn’t show anything because you’ve already beaten the dead fucking horse a billion times about how you had me beat anyway. I win, what do I get? Nothing. Some praise from my friends for sticking it out and pulling it off. I’m not coming back full time to LAW. There’s nothing on the line for me so conversely I also have nothing to lose. And we both know how people get once they have nothing left to lose.
“You, on the other hand Lacklan, have so eloquently stated that there is so much on the line for you. By your own words, you apparently have a shit ton to lose in this match. And you know what? I laugh at that. If you’re so damn confident, why is it you need this match so badly? Why do you obsess over the gamer girl that apparently doesn’t even live in reality? Why is this match such a must win over a conventioneer you obviously couldn’t pin? Because if you could have, you would have. Every big match you come up short. Shorter than even shortshit me. Go ahead Lacklan, do more fiery rage. Do more brimstone wrath. Bend my words and mock everything because you, like your squeeze, can’t deal with truth slapping you like a bitch.” (mocking tone) ”‘Do more of teh Twitter talk cuz it’s still totes cool.’”
(Regular tone) ”Or, for once in your damned life, do something that actually fucking matters. Stop hiding behind your pedigrees, your gimmicks and your sarcasm and just fucking deal with it where it actually matters.
“In that ring. At Validation. Game start.”
“I’m a multi-time champ, bitch!
“So what is it really about Lacklan? If you’re trying to prove I don’t belong here or the places I’ve been and the opponents I’ve fought don’t matter, my own record proves how fucking wrong you are. That all you’re doing is a sad attempt at making yourself feel better. If you want to prove that my lifestyle makes me weaker, same fucking argument. You say I’m not dedicated to this business why because I’m not competing in five different companies at once? Because I don’t talk about the business day in and day out? Because I’m not, what were the words you used before, ‘born into it’? Maybe, just maybe, I’m happy enough with what I do, what I’ve done, that I can actually have a life that doesn’t fucking involve being in the ring all the time. And even if I were to take you at your damn word, didn’t you just star in some Z-rate movie? Aren’t you doing another one right this minute? Why does it have to be all or nothing for everyone else, but you get the by Lacklan? All these questions I have and the thing is I already know how you’ll respond.” (mocking tone again) ”‘You iz gonna totes respond like everyone talks on teh Twitterz becuz if you do dat you’ll be totally cool. And then peepz will buy in to teh hypez dat you totes don’t have and you’ll be even cooler!’” (regular tone again) ”You’re an embarrassment at best, Lacklan, but seeing as I got nothing else better to do…”
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Sunday, May 14, 2017
The house of Twain Cornett
5:19 PM local time
We come up on the driveway of the house where a car pulls up. Inside, driving is the world famous “Geekette Extraordinaire” Cali-Kate with a gym bag in the passenger seat. But even as she pulls into the driveway, she pauses a moment. What’s waiting for her in that house is not something she wants to go to. She wants to be with her wife, wants to comfort her best friend, wants to console her family, but everything has simply gone downhill from the moment they arrived. Is it possible that this simply is a task too big even for a Jedi? Has Kate finally met the challenge that she can’t move past? Kate simply stares at the house for a little while. Her eyes tear up and she immediately pulls out her phone. Scrolling through her contacts she finds a name and calls the number.
”Hi Kate-chan!”
”Hey Jess, are you free to hang out for an hour or two? Just get a drink and chill or something.”
”Kate, I would love to hang out and enjoy a round of drinks and video games, but Geki and I are all the way in Japan and we won't be back for a while. When we return to Queens, I'll let you know as soon as possible.”
”No, don’t feel pressured or anything, it’s fine. Just… nothing never mind.”
”That doesn’t really sound like nothing, Kate.”
”Don’t worry about it! Sorry I interrupted the honeymoon. I’ll talk to you later.”
”Okay. Bye.”
Kate hangs up the phone and chides herself. ”Good job, fuckface. Really nice work. Fuck…” She sits a moment longer banging her head against the headrest. Finally she scrolls through her contacts again and dials another number.
Except the voice on the other end is shaky this time. ”Hello?”
”Stacy? Stace is everything okay?”
”Oh Kate, um, yea, um everything is fine. What’s up girl?”
”Well, I just need to get away for a couple hours. Maybe just have some drinks or something.”
”Sorry, honey but I promised the kids I'd take them to Disney World. Some other time though?”
”Sure, yea. Have fun Stacy. Tell the kids Auntie Kate loves them.”
”You got it. Gotta go.”
That call abruptly ends and Kate is left puzzled by it. She lets out a breath and looks at the house again. With everything going on, it’s unlikely anyone has seen her come back from the gym. She could slip away on her own, but this was not the best time for her to be alone. She needed to be with someone, just for a little bit, maybe just for the reassurance that this was the lowest it could get and getting through this would make it better. She makes one more scroll through her contacts and dials.
”Katiekat!”
”Hey Lexikin. Are you doing anything right now? Could we go out and get a couple drinks or something?”
”Oh I really would, but I have to take the fur babies for a check-up.”
”Oh no. Are they okay?”
”Yep, and I want them to stay that way. Later, I promise.”
”Of course, Lexikin. Take care of the furbabies like a good mama.”
”Of course. Bye, Katiekat!”
”Later.”
Kate makes another heavy sigh and let’s out a ”Fuck it” before grabbing her stuff and heading inside the house finally. In the living room, Jami and the kids are watching TV. Well Remi is watching and the twins are fast asleep in Jami’s arms. Kate walks up behind Jami and starts massaging her shoulders a little.
Jami lets a sly smile cross her face. ”Sorry, but you’re still not as good as Tyler.” They both chuckle a little as Kate crosses the couch and plops herself next to Remi who is completely engrossed by the television. They enjoy the moment of peace until Kate looks around.
”Where’s Destiny?”
”Went to take a nap. Everything that’s been happening, she just needed to collapse for a little bit.”
”You made sure she was on her left side right?”
”Left side or right side you mean?” Kate rolls her eyes as Jami snickers a little. ”You know having just been there myself I do know how to handle a pregnancy. Especially since mine was a lot more difficult. Give me some credit Kate.”
”Well it’s not you I don’t trust.”
”I know Destiny’s been difficult to reach lately, but you gotta remember how she works. The hormones and emotional stuff, I mean, maybe she should have thought twice about it all, but it is what it is now Kate.”
”That’s not quite it, Jamibug. After I was just about ready to turn away, that’s when she finally came back to me. Jami, I was on that edge again.”
Jami’s jaw drops as she glares at Kate. ”Kate! For God’s sakes, what the… what the actual? You’re really gonna do that to Destiny again?”
”Jami, I’m not shi… I’m not kidding here. I was ready to open these scars once again. I was literally going to head for the knife once more.”
”That’s at least as bad, maybe even worse than cheating on her again Kate! After everything she put into this, for you, for the both of you.”
”And you just said it, she’d been so difficult to reach and it felt like it was directed almost entirely at me. Jami, I have done everything I can not to shut her out, but… after that and after trying so hard to reach her. It felt alot like before. Doing everything I can and something else is what triggers it.” Kate shakes her head and leans forward a little. ”It’s got me on edge Jami. The literal knife edge once more.”
”Kate, trust me, just keep trying. I guarantee, with Destiny’s brain, everything you have done has registered and she’s keeping track of it. You are not losing her, not even close.”
Jami puts the twins opposite her and pulls Kate into a hug which Kate reciprocates. ”Feel like leaving Mama Red in charge of the squishies and getting a couple drinks?”
Jami pulls back a little and looks at Kate. ”I wish I could, Kate, really I do, but with everything else going on right now, I'm not sure that's the best idea right now. Maybe in a few weeks, we can do something, but… well, you know better than most…”
Kate nods and sighs. ”Yea, okay.” Kate gets up and tickles Remi behind her ear a little. Remi giggles and swats Kate’s hand away but immediately goes back to the TV. ”I’m gonna go crawl into bed with Destiny then.”
Jami nods with a smile, picking the twins back up and cuddling them a little. Kate walks off down a hall and comes to a closed door. She opens it lightly and the dim lights reveal the sleeping form of her wife Destiny Cornett. Kate smiles and quietly kicks off her shoes and closes the door. Kate crawls into bed behind her wife and drapes an arm over her. Destiny stirs, but doesn’t wake. As if sensing Kate’s presence, she repositions slightly to push herself against her wife.
Kate smiles even wider. She whispers to herself ”I’ve got nothing else better to do.” Though Destiny’s ears don’t twitch as if she actually heard it, but the smile starting to form on her face, though hidden from Kate, says something certainly got through.
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”You probably didn’t watch TV growing up did you Lacklan? At least nothing like what I’m into. See this whole shit that you started here, gets me thinking about this Next Generation episode ‘Hide and Q’. When Q took the crew of the Enterprise to his contest grounds he asked them what kind of game it should be. I’m gonna alter that slightly here, because we both already know what this is gonna be, nothing less than a bloodbath, but the question still remains: why does Sarah Lacklan want this fight? Is it to play into your own hype? Meaningless since you have none. Is it to defend Kenzi’s honor?” (chuckles) ”Equally as meaningless!” (a good bout of laughing before composing herself) ”I mean, you do remember that all this came up because Kenzi went off on one of her tirades of shit-talking to bolster her own ego against Z and Mama Red since she couldn’t pick up a win against them. So instead of going with actual facts she resorted to her narcissistic regurgitated alternative facts. So yea, of course I’m gonna put her in her place, no less than she deserves, and then you swoop in like some fucking guardian devil to allow Kenzi to perpetrate her lies and be protected from the truth. I guess that’s why you two are so good for each other, you feed into each other’s egos and your little ‘Pssssst’ thing you think is so damn cute, but you’re missing a letter when you do that. It should be ‘Pessssst’ because that’s all the two of you are. Pests, gnats to be swatted and forgotten as everyone moves past you to better things.
“What, did you honestly think that you were somehow the top of the food chain? That a fight against you would be a dream match like going against Ash Fucking Scion?! Lacklan, you asked for this match, not the other way around. I just made sure that it was gonna be somewhere that wasn’t gonna fucking bend over and take it up the ass just to cater to your whims. You think I’m just some gamer girl, some cosplay chick, that my days are spent half nude in front of a camera streaming a game or posing for pictures. Yea, it’s called part of the job and when it’s not for promoting Hybrid, it’s because I do feel like showing off. Why? Because I can. Do I need to? Hell no. I could stop posting pictures and it wouldn’t make a difference in the world. Nothing on Twitter defines me like it does for you Lacklan. I don’t get replies or likes or retweets, I move on to something else. You don’t get the attention and it’s almost a fucking meltdown of replying to random shit just so people will acknowledge your existence. You’re more obsessed than fucking Gollum. GOLLUM! The guy who chased another guy, tried to feed him to a spider, followed him into a volcano, bit off his finger and then fell in lava for a fucking ring! And you are even worse than that with something even more pointless. At least The One Ring had actual power. Twitter is just an escape for me. To you it’s life.”
(Mocking tone) ”‘You iz just jealous cuz I haz totes more skillz than you do. You don’t like that I can haz everyone talking about me but no one wants to talk about you.’” (regular tone and a quick thumbs up) ”Cool story, sis. Thing is I don’t need everyone talking about me because everyone who matters knows me and knows what I can do. And they are all, my friends and haters alike, watching this match and they are thinking to themselves right now ‘Why is Kate doing this? What is it that she has to prove here?’ Let me answer that: NOTHING! Not a damn thing! I lose here, it doesn’t show anything because you’ve already beaten the dead fucking horse a billion times about how you had me beat anyway. I win, what do I get? Nothing. Some praise from my friends for sticking it out and pulling it off. I’m not coming back full time to LAW. There’s nothing on the line for me so conversely I also have nothing to lose. And we both know how people get once they have nothing left to lose.
“You, on the other hand Lacklan, have so eloquently stated that there is so much on the line for you. By your own words, you apparently have a shit ton to lose in this match. And you know what? I laugh at that. If you’re so damn confident, why is it you need this match so badly? Why do you obsess over the gamer girl that apparently doesn’t even live in reality? Why is this match such a must win over a conventioneer you obviously couldn’t pin? Because if you could have, you would have. Every big match you come up short. Shorter than even shortshit me. Go ahead Lacklan, do more fiery rage. Do more brimstone wrath. Bend my words and mock everything because you, like your squeeze, can’t deal with truth slapping you like a bitch.” (mocking tone) ”‘Do more of teh Twitter talk cuz it’s still totes cool.’”
(Regular tone) ”Or, for once in your damned life, do something that actually fucking matters. Stop hiding behind your pedigrees, your gimmicks and your sarcasm and just fucking deal with it where it actually matters.
“In that ring. At Validation. Game start.”