Post by Damon Graves on Jun 10, 2018 14:44:22 GMT -5
Graves Residence
Las Vegas, Nevada
Thursday, June 7, 2018
Scene opens with a shot of Damon sitting in the living room with a sketchpad in his lap. Sitting on the couch in front of a flat screen TV, Aurora holds their infant daughter so that they both can see what's playing.
Aurora: Are you having fun watching “Rick and Morty”, sweetie?
Ysera giggles as Rick Sanchez delivers his catchphrase “Wubba Lubba Dub Dub” in 7.1 Surround sound.
Aurora looks over at Damon.
Aurora: So, have you given any thought about next Sunday?
Damon looks up from his drawing.
Damon: No, not really.
Aurora: I thought you'd be looking forward to your first Father's Day as a father….
Damon: I try not to think about it too much. Don't get me wrong, I relish every single day I have with you and our daughter. It's just that Father's Day brings up a lot of bad memories.
Aurora: Martin?
The mere mention of Damon’s father brings a scowl to his face. He stops sketching and closes the pad.
Damon: Yeah. He'd be even more obnoxious than usual. He'd bitch about Father's Day being the one day where he got treated the way he should be treated every day of the year. So you can see why I'm not exactly chomping at the bit to celebrate.
Aurora pauses the video, stands up, and comes over to where Damon is sitting. She sits down on the arm of his chair, close enough for Ysera to grab hold of Damon's hair and give it a good yank.
Aurora: You are NOT Martin Graves. You do a hell of a lot more for your family than he's ever done for his. So drop the grumpy face and let yourself be pampered for once.
Damon’s demeanor softened a bit, especially after his daughter released her death grip on his hair.
Damon: Fine… since I don't have any plans, I'm assuming that you do…
Aurora: Yeah, I do. I hope you're hungry….
Damon: Uh-oh. I recognize that look. You had this planned for awhile…..
Aurora: Guilty.
Damon: And what, pray tell, DO you have planned for me?
Aurora: Oh nothing…. Just a barbecue….
Damon looks relieved.
Aurora: ….at Dev and Alicia’s.
Both of Damon's eyebrows shoot up.
Damon: Oh boy. Enough food to feed an army, and enough booze to drown ‘em….
Aurora: You make that sound like a bad thing….
Damon: I think I just felt my liver cry out in dread…. Wait a sec… what about YOUR dad? Aren't you going to celebrate with Ian?
Aurora: Actually, I thought I'd kill two birds with one stone…
Damon: Are you sure Dev’s gonna be OK with this?
Aurora: Two steps ahead of you, Puddin…
Damon: You usually are…
Aurora looks down at the sketchpad in Damon's lap.
Aurora: So, what are you working on?
Damon: Just a sketch…
Aurora: Let me see….
Damon opens up the pad and flips to his current work-in-progress…. A sketch of Aurora cuddling their daughter.
Damon: Mind you, it's not done yet.
Aurora leans down and kisses him on the top of his head.
Aurora: Then I'll let you get back to it.
She takes Ysera back over to the couch and resumes the video as the scene fades out.
Columbus, Ohio
Saturday, June 9, 2018
Scene fades in with a shot of Damon sitting in the darkened bedroom of his hotel suite. His feet are propped up on a desk next to his Young Lions Championship, In his hand, he holds a TV remote.
Damon: Lotta interesting developments happening lately around here….
I guess the biggest one would be the giant dick-waving contest between the Guardians and the Destroyers finally coming to an end. Does this mean that we've seen the last of Shields and his motley crew of morons? Not fucking likely. Those assholes are harder to get rid of than a New York cockroach, but after that match at Victory and Honor, the Destroyers got their fangs pulled.
Aaaand, we got new tag team champions crowned….
Damon rolls his eyes.
Damon: The new and “improved” version of the Radicalliance…. yay…..
But, this kinda segues into what I'm trying to talk about….
Damon motions towards the TV. On the screen, we can see Michael Douglas in the movie “Wall Street”. He presses a button to unpause the video.
“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good…Greed is right, greed works.”
Damon's face goes completely blank as he pauses the video once more.
Damon: Not in this case…. In this case, it's pure Bullshit.
He tosses the remote on the desk with a modicum of annoyance.
Damon: Ya know, it's funny. When I first arrived in NGW, my wife and I saw an opportunity…. The tag team division was chock full of great teams and we came along and made the division ours. But when we started looking towards singles championships, the powers that be nearly blew a fucking gasket…. “Oh no, we need you to concentrate on the tag team belts…” “You should be content with what you already have”...
So neither me nor Aurora got ANY shots at singles gold while we held the tag belts. But for SOME reason, that logic didn't apply to other people. Jack Tillman wound up winning the Tag Team Championships while holding the Five Lakes Championship, and now, Kaylee Kassie is coming after MY Young Lions Championship. She and Ronnie North JUST won those belts. They haven't even had a single fucking defense of those titles, and she wants to come after me? Check the rankings, folks; Kaylee Kassie isn’t even a ranked contender to my title.
Meanwhile, my wife keeps getting put in “high profile” matches that ultimately mean jack shit, while other people get handed title shots like they're fucking party favors. Aurora has faced and BEATEN top contenders, and she has YET to see a title shot.
It's a huge double standard, but I'm in a position to do something about it. No, Kaylee, I can't make the demand that you put your title on the line as well, but I can damn well make you regret trying to bite off more than you can chew.
I hope you've had a good long talk with both your hubby and that penis with a moustache you call your partner. Both of them can tell you exactly who I am. I am Damon Fucking Graves, Kassie; a man with a big mouth, an even bigger will to win, and a chip on his shoulder the size of a goddamned mountain.
He snatches his title belt off of the desk and swivels around to fully face the camera.
Damon: More importantly, I'm the NGW Young Lions Champion…. I fought like hell to win this title and I'll fight even harder to keep it. I’ve already proven that by the fact that I’ve held this title longer than both of your Spotlight title reigns combined, PLUS the fact that, unlike you, I can successfully DEFEND a singles title. And at Dissension, it won’t be any different. You’re going to come in full of confidence about taking my title, hungry for my championship. I’m going to send you back to the locker room with a loss and a belly full of humble pie.
Damon stands up and leaves the room as the scene fades to black.