Emily: ~SMACKKKKK!!~ My forehead smashes into your cheek ,, just below your eye ,, a moment after hearing your words ,, and I watch your head snap back. Arms falling off me and you drop to your back ,, but still somehow pulling me down with you ,, and I crash down ,, chest on chest ,, before I roll off you to my back. Pain and headache exploding in my head ,, just like you promised me. I moan and roll to my tummy ,, and start to drag myself towards the ring. I know the count won't start. Not until I'm up on my feet. And then ?? This tough bitch would have probably picked herself up to her feet.
~ "No count." The words tell me what I already know ,, but I have another plan. Dragging myself to the skirt of the ring ,, I reach beneath it,, fingers slapping on stuff. I'm searching ,, I'm looking ,, doing this blind~woman's shopping for what could help me ,, and I feel it ,, grabbing it's end ,, and I start pulling it out
~Clang~Clang~Clang~ The sound of metal dragging and hissing rises when I pull my right hand from below the ring ,, holding the edge of a steel link chain in my grip. One end gripped ,, I start to slowly wrap it around my right fist ,, Glaring at you ,, On both knees ,, and waiting for you to rise
Rebecca: I groan... my eyes flickering as they slowly come to once more. One of the fans in the audience asks "Do they offer them medical? Because..." "Dmitri, I don't know and I don't want to know. Shut up and watch this." I groan as the lights overhead spin clockwise, then counter clockwise, then slowly stop spinning... then 3 combine into one, as my vision focuses. I lay there... listening... no bell. No cheering, at least not enough for a win. But also no count. What... what the fuck?
I roll over onto my side, then crawl forward... reaching for the guard rail, which has been re-assembled, my fingers wrap around the bars. My arms strain as I pull myself up.. wincing as my right knee aches, but not quite as badly as it used to: either the pain is subsiding or I've got bigger problems and I'm not feeling the pain. I don't know, and at this exact moment, I don't care. I grab the bars, and haul myself up, trying to rise up enough to get to my feet, to break any count that might start, and look to see what the hell is going on... maybe I got lucky and you passed out, and I'll TRIGGER a count by standing!
oh my god that would be fantastic... please start counting please start counting... where is she? My eyes scan looking for you.
Emily: I lean against the ring side. Gazing at you. My knees slightly off the floor. But I'm not standing. They are locked at 90 degrees, almost in a squat ,, heaving. My right arm over the apron ,, resting on my elbow ,, waiting. My eyes watching you roll up ,, but instead of turning to face me with your bloodied face ,, you roll away and start to crawl towards the guard rails. So typical. But I just wait. Watching you reaching and pulling. The steel rails shaking but hold ,, while you start to crawl up
Everyone in the arena ,, except for you ,, know what is coming. Know what I am going to go. At least ,, what I intend to do. I take in a deep breath. Watch your pace ,, your timing. And just as you are about to get to your feet. Just as you are about to turn. I push off the ring ,, charging at you ,, my right arm cocked back ,, and I ~PLOW~ my chain~wrapped right fist towards your face. Not really aiming for anything in particular. Your gushing forehead wound ?? Your cheek ?? Your mouth ?? Your nose ?? ~ ~ ~ Who cares ?? they are all good. I just need to hit something above your neck. ANYTHING !!
Rebecca: As I turn to see you, I see the glint of the perfectly polished metal chain links reflecting off the light of the overhead lights... then CRACK and I fall back, tipping over the guard rail, my ass sliding over the top so that I fall to my back. My face took the brunt of the blow, your punch connecting with my lips and my nose. My legs are in the air, draped over the guard rail, and my arms are at my sides. The blow managed to give me a bloody nose and lip with the same shot, but I'm unaware of it. I lay there as the ref comes over and starts counting
ONE!
TWO!!!
THREE!!!!
Emily: Why is this sound becoming so familiar?? The sound of metal hitting bone ,, YOUR fucking skull?? I don't mind it though ,, it's music to my tears ,, and you crash down again ,, with me ,, our bodies taking the rail down. And I breathe hard. shaking my head.. Shaking my right hand and pulling it from inside the wrapped chain. Moaning in pain. My fingers hurt like sin. But it does not matter. I push hard against the fallen rail. And I rise up. Breathing hard ,, glaring down at your face ,, it's bloodied ,, and I let go of the chain over your body ,, just as the count hits three. And the ref shakes his arm ,, seriously ?? Was that a fucking interference ??
I just glare at him and i stumble back. Toward leaning against the ringside. I want to be as far away as I can ,, lest they say my breathing interrupted the count
"Once again !! ONE !! " ~
"TWO!!" ~
"THREEE!!"
Rebecca: I lay there, my body looking peaceful... well as peaceful as you can look with multiple cuts across your face and black and blue marks from head to toe. My chest rises and falls rhythmically as the ref keeps counting, my feet in the air as my legs lay against the guard rail, bent at the knees. The ref keeps counting.
FOUR!!
FIVE!!!
SIX!!!!
I start to stir... my head rolling from side to side. My tongue, on instinct, goes to test my teeth... no, they are all still there, good. My head feels like it got hit by a baseball bat, which knowing this is a Last Woman Standing match with no DQs, it probably did... no wait, there was metal...
SEVEN!!!!
EIGHT!!!
Oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck! I start stirring more and scrambling... trying to stand up. Where the fuck are my legs? what's going on? My eyes shift to them and I see how they are propped over the guard rail.
I scoot back, so they drop to the floor.
NINE!!!
I grab a chair and start to rise
TEN!!!!
TEN TEN TEN!!!
I let out a moan of agony and rage that can be heard by anyone nearby...
Sobs of pain wracking my body.
Emily: I stare at you. Laying down there. Your chest rising and falling ,, bringing the glint of the metal chain to the lights with each breath you take. And then. You start to move again. No. No no NO!! Fuck NO!! You move at the eight count. You make it to the chair at nine ,, and you start to pull yourself up. But then I hear it. The Ten count rising in the hall ,, and with it the bell going off ~~ DING! ~ DING! ~ DING!
And with that. My arms give and I slump down to the floor beside the ring. Moaning ,, breathing hard. And gazing upon you. Half sat up against the chair. And you start to sob. Covering your face in pain and shame ,, but I just smile. No ,, this is not the face I should be gloating to? Where is he ?? Where the fuck is he??
Emily: My eyes turn ,, hearing the voice of the announcer on the speakers ~ "Ladddiiess and Gentlemen !! We have a winner !! And ~STILL~ your Lightweight Wrestling Champion ~~ Emillyyyyyy Wishmaaakkkkeerrrrr!!"
The words booming out filling everyone's ears ,, just when my eyes find his ,, the enraged look on his smug face. Fucking Espinoza. And while my name is yelled on the speakers ,, my lips move ,, mouthing at him ~ Fuckkkk youuuuuu ~ nothing I can be caught with. He know what I said ,, but I can always say I was mouthing my own name.
Rebecca: I lean there, on my knees, groaning in pain. Tears fill my eyes. A few of the fans even go so far as to pat my back or say "amazing struggle" but I don’t give a damn about them. I don't give a damn about Espinoza and whatever fucking power plays he has in mind. I don't care about the money. I don't even, and it takes me a while to realize this, care about the belt. What I care about was that word: Champion. And the fact that it doesn't describe me, it describes the woman who put me through hell. I roll onto the seat, wanting to take pressure off my knee, which while not aching as badly as it did, is still hurting. I see you sanding there, the look of joy on your face.
The look of ecstatic joy and thrill of rubbing it in Espinoza's face. That amazing rush... I bare my teeth, hissing...and then my head starts spinning again... I slump forward, falling off the chair to my knees, arms draped over the guard rail, then falling off to the side... the violent agony of the vicious match catching up with me as I once more fall to my back, passed out.
Emily: I hear the sound of clanging metal to the side, and I turn my head ,, seeing you crashing to the floor. And Gawd do I feel like joining you. A bit of pity and respect rocking through me. More respect than pity. Every bruise on my body reminding me of the fate that you wanted to put me through ,, and how it's not so different from what you're going through now. But I just shake my head ,, and push towards you. The ref hands me my belt ,, and I pause next to him letting him raise my arm up and over my head ~ ~ ~
The Champ ,, is here ,, and still ,, the Champ !!
The end . . .