Kimberly Williams vs. Sal Darius

[The Matt]

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September 16th, 2023
Boston, Massachusetts
Off Camera
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It is cloudy overhead this Saturday afternoon in Boston, Massachusetts. We see what isn’t very unusual for a day such as this; it appears to be a mother going for a walk with her son. Only this isn’t any mother and son. In fact, this isn’t even a mother and son. This is The Woman Scorned and reigning SCW Underground Champion Kimberly Williams with her nephew Sean Connor Jones. Another thing that is unusual, at least unusual for Kim that is, is the fact that The Woman Scorned appears to be dressed to the nines in black thigh high sheer stockings, a black knee length pencil skirt, black high heeled pumps, and a red silk blouse. She is wearing a black leather jacket. Her long red hair is nicely styled. Sean is wearing jeans, sneakers, and a black “Queens of Chaos” logo t-shirt. What isn’t unusual about any of this is the time Kim is spending with her nephew. The Woman Scorned has been spending quite a bit of time with Sean lately, more time than usual. Williams isn’t complaining, because she does truly love her nephew and she does enjoy spending time with him. What she finds concerning is the reason why she has been spending so much time with him lately.

The past couple of months Kimberly’s identical twin sister, Sean’s mother Marie Annabelle Jones, has been seemingly forgetting about any and all of her parental responsibilities in favor of going out at night to do who knows what. There’s nothing wrong with spending some time out to enjoy yourself, even if you are a single parent like Marie, but Kim knows that this is unusual behavior for her sister. Marie has always been the super-protective, obsessively protective mother. She has let her own wrestling career suffer in the past few years all so that she could be a better, more attentive mother to her son. Yet these past couple of months Marie has been disappearing for hours, sometimes even days on end, leaving Kimberly to pick up the slack, leaving Kimberly to take care of Sean while she is away. And what’s even more curious is the fact that Marie thus far has refused to tell Kimberly, or anyone else in the family for that matter, where she has been going. When pressed for more information, Marie just simply doges and ducks the question. In her mind, its none of their business where she goes at night.

While Kimberly is all for being wild, chaotic, and enjoying a fun night out, even she disagrees and disapproves of Marie’s behavior regarding her son. Something is not right because this behavior is not like Marie. This is so out of character that Kim is now bound and determined to find out just what is going on with Marie, one way or another. And right now, this weekend, it may be just the perfect opportunity to find out what Marie up to; Kimberly has spoken with Glory Braddock, her and Marie’s cousin and owner of a wrestling promotion, GCW, that Marie works for; Glory has agreed to schedule Marie time to spend in Charlotte, North Carolina, GCW headquarters, for several days. With Marie gone and away from Massachusetts, this will give Kimberly plenty of time to snoop around in her twin sister’s affairs as only she can. She just doesn’t want her nephew Sean caught up in this mess. This is why the demented aunt and her nephew are walking this upscale neighborhood in Massachusetts this afternoon; Kim is going to drop Sean off somewhere that she knows he will be safe while Kim handles her business.

“I don’t know why I can’t just hang out with you, Aunt Kim.” Sean whines.

“We’ve been over this already, kiddo. Your Aunt Kim is going to be very busy planning Sal Darius’s funeral arrangements. Ol’ Sal may not know it yet, but next week on Breakdown he’s gonna die.” Kim says with a vicious smirk on her face. Sean, for his part, is not convinced. He shakes his head.

“I’m not dumb, Aunt Kim. I know whatever you’re up to has to do with mom.”

“Your mom?” Kim furrows her brow out of curiosity. “You have a mom?”

“Real funny, Aunt Kim.” Sean rolls his eyes.

“Look, kiddo, trust me when I say that your mom is fine. What I’m up to tonight has nothing to do with her. But Sal Darius? That guy is a real dangerous competitor. Y’know? And me, being the greatest SCW Underground Champion of all time, I can’t afford to lose to such a dangerous competitor.”

“You said Sal was an idiot who couldn’t wrestle his way out of a wet paper bag.”

“I did?” Kim asks. Sean nods his head. “Ok, so maybe I did…but still, even a blind squirrel can get a nut! And Sal does sorta resemble a squirrel…an ugly squirrel that has been run over by a semi truck repeatedly. And I will not let that blind squirrel that has been run over by a semi truck beat me!” Kim declares.

“Then why are you dressed like mom?”

“Maybe I’m gonna take the point of this stiletto heel and use it to gouge out his eyeballs?”

“Seriously?” Sean asks, for just a moment it appears that he may believe Kim. The Underground Champion nods her head.

“Of course! If I can make a plush toy penguin into a weapon then you can be damn sure I can make shoes into a weapon.”

“But this isn’t an Underground Rules Match.”

“Let me worry about that, kiddo. Right now you need to get ready to spend some time with your favorite aunt!” Kim motions to a home, it is definitely upscale seeing as it is in an upscale neighborhood, but it is perhaps one of the more modest of the upscale homes in this area. Sean sighs with some disappointment as he lays his eyes upon the home of his aunt, Kim’s half-sister Jessica Lasiewicz.

“Aunt Jessie is boring.” Sean complains.

“Oh stop it. She can’t be more of a prudish stick in the mud than your mother.”

“But no one is more fun than you, Aunt Kim.” Sean hugs Kim tightly. “I’d rather stay with you.”

“Oh you make me feel soooo good, kiddo, but trust me, this will be great.” Kim pats him on the back. “Besides, it’ll be fun. Ask her to teach you how to cuss in Polish.”

“But my mom…”

“Your mom doesn’t understand Polish.” Kim winks. Sean grins from ear to ear.

“Ok!” With that promise of a good time, Sean turns and bolts up to the front door with Kim following closely behind. Sean rings the doorbell and Kim stands there next to him, waiting patiently. A few moments later and the door opens; Jessica Lasiewicz emerges, standing in the doorway. Jessica is wearing tight denim jeans, simple black flats, and a floral print blouse. Her long blonde hair is pulled into a ponytail in the back.

“Hi there, Sean.” Jessica ruffles his hair.

“Hi Aunt Jessie!” Sean exclaims happily. “Aunt Kim said you could teach me how to cuss in Polish!”

“She did, did she?” Jessica turns and stares judgingly at Kim, who just smiles sheepishly back at her.

“Yeah! It’s gonna be fun!” Sean rushes into the home. Jessica steps outside with Kim and shuts the doors behind her.

“Cussing in Polish?”

“I had to tell him something to make him excited about spending time with you.” Kim points out. “Seriously, you and Marie are the most boring sisters I’ve ever had.”

“We’re the only sisters you’ve ever had.”

“Doesn’t change the fact that you’re boring.”

“I’m surprised he didn’t want to spend time with you watching tape on Sal Darius.” Jessica asks with a knowing grin. “Isn’t that what you’re doing? Preparing for your match on Breakdown?”

“Hell no.” Kim shakes her head. “I have plenty of time to plan an attack against that scummy sleazebag. I have other business to attend to right now.”

“I figured.” Jessica nods her head. “I just wanted to see if you’d own up to it. You’re spying on Marie, aren’t you?”

“Me, spying? Why would I spy on my sister? You think the worst of me, Jess!”

“For starters, you are dressed to the nines, like a prude as you so rudely put it, in clothes that you would never be caught dead wearing.”

“Maybe I’m trying out a new style?”

“You also have a history of impersonating Marie. You did so for a year in UWA. You did so for a month in IWC. You…”

“Ok, ok, you got me,” Kim nods her head “I am planning to go out tonight, and the next few nights, actually, and stand in as Marie at her favorite spots in town. And yes, I am spying on Marie, but this is no game. I can assure you of that.”

“Care to fill me in on what’s going on?” Jessica asks curiously. “Marie is my sister too and if something is wrong I’d like to help.”

“You’re helping out by watching Sean and keeping him away from this.”

“Is it that dangerous?” Lasiewicz asks. Kim sighs and shrugs her shoulders.

“I honestly don’t know. All I know is that Marie has been acting very strange lately, strange enough that she has me worried.”

“Marie is acting strange, eh?” Jessica chuckles softly. “What else is new?”

“Hey now!” Kim exclaims. “This is serious! Marie never acts strange!”

“You may be her twin sister but you haven’t spent the time with her that I have.” Jessica points out. “It isn’t your fault. You spent your childhood and formative teenage years away from the family, away from society, and you never really got to know her. But I have spent time with her. Trust me, Kim, Marie having bouts of strange behavior from time to time isn’t unusual. Hell, I’m surprised it took this long before she finally snapped and started acting out again.”

“Finally snapped?” Kim scoffs. “You don’t know what you’re talking about, Jess. She’s never snapped. She’s never acted strange or unusual…” she sighs “...at least, not like this.”

“You give her too much credit.” Jessica sighs and shakes her head. “But by all means, humor me; what has she been doing lately that has you so concerned?”

“Well the main thing that has me concerned just ran in through your front door anxiously waiting on you to teach him how to swear in Polish.”

“Sean?” Jessica furrows her brow in confusion. “What’s wrong with Sean?”

“It’s his relationship with his mother that bothers me.” Kim points out. “You know how overprotective Marie can be, you know how obsessed Marie is about being a good mother to that kid. She has taken her responsibility as a mother to Sean to an extreme. Yet here lately she has been completely ignoring her responsibilities as a parent.”

“How do you mean?” Jessica asks curiously.

“She will ask me to come over and watch Sean while she goes out. She tells me she’ll be home by ten or eleven at night, but then she doesn’t come home until two or three in the morning, and you can smell the alcohol all over her. Sometimes she’ll have me watch him for a few days because she’s going out of town on business. She may leave Friday and promise to be back to pick him up on Sunday but she doesn’t return until Tuesday.”

“Ok, I hear you,” Jessica sighs and nods her head “I admit, it does sound suspicious and is out of character for Marie. But you have to admit that all of that is explainable.”

“Yeah, it is explainable, and that’s all I want to hear from her, is a perfectly reasonable explanation as to why it seems like she is ignoring her son. But anytime I ask she dodges the question.” Kim is frustrated by now and shakes her head. “Look, I can’t prove anything, but I know something is wrong. I know something isn’t right. I just need time by myself at Marie’s home to snoop around and look for clues, I need time to stand in as Marie at her favorite spots; hopefully I’ll hear something.”

“You really are worried, aren’t you?”

“Of course I am.” Kim states. Jessica smiles warmly.

“You are a good sister, Kim. I do think that you are worrying yourself over nothing. But if you feel like you must snoop then by all means, snoop away, but be quick about it. Marie won’t be gone for long. She’ll be back. You don’t want her to catch you spying on her like this.”

“Thanks, Jess. I’ll be careful.” Kim turns and starts to walk away.

“Wait, where are you going?”

“Me?” Kim smirks. “I’m going out…”

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September 16th, 2023
Boston, Massachusetts
Off Camera
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Dropping her nephew Sean off to be with his aunt Jessica for the rest of the day, perhaps even all weekend, was just part one of Kimberly’s plan. Now that Sean is safely out of the way, and more importantly in no danger, she can focus on the next step of her plan, which is to infiltrate her identical twin sister’s life in hopes of trying to find out what exactly is causing Marie’s strange behavior. Jessica may think that everything is explainable, she may think that this is just innocent, but Kimberly isn’t convinced. She smells a rat and is determined to smoke it out. Once she dropped Sean off with Jessica, Kim went back to Marie’s home and looked for clues. After finding nothing, Kim decided to go out and spend some time at one of her sister’s favorite places, namely a fancy restaurant in Massachusetts. The Woman Scorned finds herself gliding as elegantly as she can into The Capital Grille, one of the finer, nicer places in town, one of Marie’s favorite places to eat. Even though she feels out of place in an upscale restaurant like this, Kim definitely looks that part, wearing some of her twin sister’s nicest of clothes. Ordinarily The Woman Scorned wouldn’t want to be in this place but she is hoping that tonight, by infiltrating her sister’s life, she will learn something about Marie, she hopes to learn some secrets about Marie. Kimberly can feel all eyes upon her as she approaches the front of the room where she is greeted by the hostess, a young woman in a restaurant uniform with long brown hair.

“Good evening, Marie!” The hostess says with a warm, friendly grin.

“Oh, yeah, hello…” Kim quickly reads the woman’s nametag “...Jennifer.”

“Oh come off it, Marie.” Jennifer says, giggling slightly. “Call me Jenny.”

“Right, Jenny, silly me.” Kim laughs. “What can I say? I’ve been dropped on my head a few more times than usual. Piledrivers and all.”

“Of course, I almost forgot that you were a wrestler.” The hostess picks up two menus. “So will it be a table for two?”

“You tell me.” Kim says with a playful grin.

“You’re funny, Marie.” Jenny says giggling. “Seriously though, is your friend coming?”

“Which friend?” Kim decides to play dumb, although it isn’t entirely playing. She really doesn’t know which ‘friend’ this hostess is referring to. Who knows who Marie has been spending her nights out with? “You know I have sooooo many!”

“I think you know which one.” Jenny winks. “The tall blonde.”

“Which tall blonde?” Kim winks playfully. “I swing both ways, y’know?”

“Oh, Marie, I had no idea you had such a sense of humor.” Jenny says, laughing softly.

“I’m a regular laugh riot. I’m thinking of being a stand-up comedian if this whole wrestling thing doesn’t work out.”

“You’ll do great, Marie.” Jenny says. “You are a talented woman. Anyway, I’ll bring two menus anyway just in case Julianne decides to join you.”

“Julianne?” Kim arches a brow. The name Julianne is all too familiar to Kimberly. Jenny nods her head.

“Yeah, silly.” She grins. “Julianne Buchanan, I think that’s your girlfriend’s name.”

“Right…” Kim’s voice trails off as she follows the hostess through the Capital Grille and towards a table, a table for two. She sets the menus down.

“Should I tell your server to bring your regular drink?”

“Yeah…that’ll be fine…”

“Pinot Noir it is.” The hostess then walks away.

Kimberly feels at this point that perhaps a Pinot Noir isn’t strong enough. She might need some vodka. Julianne Buchanan is indeed all too familiar to Kimberly Williams. Marie and Julianne were involved in brief romantic affair when they met at a cult known as The Inner Peace Enlightenment Retreat. Marie and Julianne both were taken advantage of there by a con artist, a snake oil salesman by the name of Raul Alfaro. Kimberly thought that she had managed to convinced both Marie and Julianne to leave the cult for good. She had thought that Marie would never see Julianne again. But not only are they getting reacquainted, it seems as if their romantic fling is back on in full force. This raises many red flags for Kimberly, among them th fear of a return of Raul Alfaro’s influence. If Julianne has returned to Marie’s life, then perhaps Raul is back as well?

“Annabelle?”

The name is Marie’s middle name, a name Marie hasn’t used in forever. But the voice is immediately recognizable to Kim. She turns in time to see Julianne Buchanan approaching. She is wearing a tight form fitting pink dress and strappy heels. Kim can tell by the expression on Julianne’s face, the look of sheer love and adoration, that she has fooled Julianne. Julianne thinks that Kim is Marie. So she must keep up the act.

“Oh…hi, Julianne.” Kim watches as Julianne approaches. The tall blonde bends over for a kiss. Kim obliges, kissing her on the lips. Julianne then sits down at the table with Kim.

“I thought you were going to be in Charlotte?”

“Plans changed.” Kim grins. “Aren’t you happy?”

“Anytime I get to be with you I am happy.” Julianne kisses her again. “Have you had any change of heart?”

“About what?” Kim takes a risk by deciding to play dumb again. Julianne laughs softly.

“You know, silly.” She winks. “I am happy that we have rekindled our flame. And the nights we have spent together have been incredible. But I would like to show you…” she grins knowingly “...something else. If you’re ready.”

“Uh, not yet.” Kim answers. Clearly Marie has been refusing up to now, that is good for Kim. It gives her an excuse to leave early tonight.

“That’s fine, I don’t want to rush you.” She smiles warmly. She takes Kim’s hands and clasps them tightly. “Think about it, though. I do enjoy spending time with you, Annabelle.”

“Yeah…” Kim forces a smile onto her face “...me too.”

Something is definitely wrong and now Kimberly has a pretty good idea of what it is; Julianne Buchanan is back in Marie’s life and possibly more. What does that mean? Kim doesn’t have that answer yet. That will have to wait until later. Now she must finish this infiltration and then focus her attention back on herself. She has a match on Breakdown against Sal Darius and cannot afford to allow herself to be distracted by this. She cannot afford to get in too deep. But is she already in over her head?