Warning

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Off Camera

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The lovely Melanie McBride is primping and preening in front of a full length mirror, readying herself for a date tonight with Peirce Manning.  Manning is a wrestler like Melanie but it is unclear what their relationship is right now.  Whatever the case may be, she definitely wants to impress him.  She is wearing an elegant, shimmery black dress with a v-neckline.  Melanie chose this number not for Pierce but because she likes the way she looks in black.  This particular number also shows off all of her luxurious curves which will no doubt excite Manning and anyone else who may get a look at her.  Due to the fact that they are attending an opera, she opted for traditional opera length gloves that extends past her elbows.  Melanie is balanced on black patent leather peep toe pumps with a three inch heel.  The sound of heels clicking across wood floor alerts the self-proclaimed “evolved” woman to the fact that someone is approaching.  She turns just as the door to her room opens and she watches as her sister Blaire McBride enters.   Along with the smug look she wears on her face, she also wears a black long sleeve sweater, a black knee length skirt, black stockings, and a pair of simple black pumps.

“Yes, Blair…” Melanie sighs with some sense of disgust “…what may I do for you?”

“Where the hell are you going dressed up like that?”

“An opera.”

“With Pierce?”

Melanie nods her head. “Of course.”

“Geez,” Blair rolls her eyes “Melanie, I don’t know what’s gotten into you, but that smug sick bastard is just using you.  He’s…”

“He is none of your concern.” Melanie states in a strong, defiant voice. “What I do with my own private time is my business, not yours.”

“Yeah, well your business dealings recently have been rather suspect and strange.” Blair cautiously approaches her younger sister, getting up close to her. “You were initially forced into an alliance with Pierce Manning but now you seem to be a willing accomplice, and that’s not to mention this Aubrianna Powers…who the hell is she anyway?”

“Oh Blair, it’s so funny to see you finally start to pretend to care.”

“Huh?” Blair arches a brow out of confusion. “What do you mean?”

“You never lifted a finger when Pierce Manning stalked me.  It was only after I became a ‘willing accomplice’ as you put it that you actually started to give a damn.”

“Karen cared.” Blair counters. “She always did.”

“Funny,” Melanie retorts “she could’ve fooled me.  You both could’ve fooled me.  I was always the forgotten McBride but now the people have forgotten about you and Karen.  Now the spotlight is solely upon me.”

“You and Aubrianna.” Blair spits out.

“Right, of course, Aubrianna.” Melanie chuckles. “That is merely a business arrangement.  Nothing more.  A rather successful one, might I add.  It garnered me the MCW World Tag Team Championship.”

“Look, Mel, please listen,” Blair places a hand upon her shoulder “I know people like Aubrianna, they only care about themselves.  At the first sign of trouble, she’ll throw you under the bus.”

“Just like you…” Melanie swats Blair’s hand away and shoves her backward “…you and Aubrianna are cut from the same cloth, then, Blair.  You cannot deny that you and my new friend and associate are one and the same.”

Before Blair can counter there is a knocking at the door.  They turn in time to see the door open and the butler standing there with Aubrianna Powers standing by his side.

“Ms. Melanie, your friend Aubrianna is here to see you.”

“Thank you, George.” Melanie says with a nod.  Aubrianna walks in and Melanie points at Blair and then at the door.

“Leave, Blair.”

“Yeah, get to stepping, bitch!” Aubrianna says with a vapid sneer on her face.

“Fine, I’ll leave.” Blair says as she turns to face Aubrianna and then back at Melanie one last time. “But remember what I said and remember I tried to warn you.”

With that Blair walks out of the room and shuts the door behind her, leaving Melanie and Aubrianna alone.  Aubrianna rolls her eyes.

“Geez, what’s up with her?”

“Just her usual garbage.  Shall we discuss business?”

“Yeah,” she sighs “God I hate having to go that dump Detroit but I guess we’d better.”

“We still have some time before Deliverance.  We can train here in New York City if you like.” Melanie smiles smugly. “Regardless of where we train, the point is that we prepare for whatever Willow and Jason throw at us, correct?”

“That’s right,” Aubrianna nods her head “we can’t let them take us by surprise.  They’re good.”

“But we’re better.” Melanie says with a confident grin. “We are The Elite.”

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On Camera

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The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes will live on in infamy in the minds of legal scholars and church goers for years to come.  It has been over ninety years since the trial and yet still it is remembered by many Americans today due to the indelible mark it has burned into the American psyche.

You may know it more famously as the Scopes Monkey Trial.

The case came to the forefront when John Scopes, a substitute high school teacher, violated Tennessee’s Butler Act which made it a crime to teach the theory of evolution.  The trial was initially set to attract publicity to the small town of Dayton, but it eventually made the debate of Creation vs. Evolution famous.

Willow Wilkes and Jason King call themselves Creation, which I find appropriate and rather ironic at the same time because I myself subscribe to evolution.  I am a being who has evolved from her former state of weakness into a state of great strength, intelligence, and prowess.

I credit my evolution as being directly responsible for my current reign as MCW World Tag Team Champion.   Like those forward thinking scientists in Tennessee who dared to challenge the status quo, I am thinking forward.  I think and plan for the future while the fundamentalists who deny the very facts in front of their face, stay right where they are while the world passes them by.

Willow, King, the entire world is passing you by and you do not even realize it.  You were in ULW, then you jumped to UWA, now you’re gone from there and you jumped to MCW as soon as you heard it reopened.  That tells me that you are not progressing.  You are stationary.  You have hit a plateau.

You have not evolved.

Now do not take my criticism as a form of disrespect.  Just as my tag team partner and friend Aubrianna said, you two are tremendous athletes and I have no doubts at all whatsoever that you will give us a real challenge at Deliverance.  I also agree with Aubrianna that our tag team championship match will be the match of the night.

However, I also agree that at the end of the night, The Elite will leave still the MCW World Tag Team Champions.

We have to all face harsh realities and right now, the reality for you in this match at Deliverance is that you have the most to prove.  To put it in the way the plebeians speak, your mouths have written checks and now your asses have to cash them.

Oh but you are Jason King and Willow Wilkes, surely you can cash those checks?

My partner may have a mouth on her, but even she has not said much in the lead up to Deliverance.  Well, outside of her most recent promo, at least.  And I only speak when I absolutely have to.  It is good to make sure the enemy has no clue what your game plan is.

Besides that, Aubrianna and I have nothing to prove.  We already won the MCW World Tag Team Championship, forever etching our name into the record books as a championship worthy tag team, worthy of notoriety.

Oh but you, you have put a great deal of pressure on your shoulders with your talk in the build up to this match.  You believe you own this division, but until you defeat The Elite, you own nothing.

So come and take your best shot, but just as it was with the Scopes Monkey Trial, history will smile proudly upon its champions and EVOLUTION will prevail over CREATION.