Mason, Katie Steward & Hudson Vs. Xander Valentine, Billy Heaven & Amelia Blythe

[Team Desire]

Team Desire | Katie Steward | "Trios Tournament"

Katie Steward sits at a table in the kitchen of a home. She has the script for her movie Rift in Time on the table and also the novel of the story. She reads through the story and makes up little notes on the script for what she would like to do. So that her vision can come to life and to be taken seriously as a director. Since her and Gigi had lost the tag team championship at Rise to Greatness a few weeks ago. This has been her main focus and she has been really enjoying herself. She really likes working with her lead actress, Evelyn Sinclair. The two of them get along great. Katie really admired her as an actress. Now with Katie’s movie she gets to help bring her from the theater to the big screen. It all just makes Katie focus harder on her tasks.

Unlucky for Katie though, Evelyn isn’t just the co-star of the movie. The star that the studio signed for the movie is a problematic person. Honestly, if Katie is lucky enough to finish this movie, it’ll probably be her last one ever. It’s a political minefield she is walking with Drake Lanes’ social media activity. He’s just about pissing off every group that can be named. You’d ask why the studio would cast him in this blockbuster movie. This is supposed to be the project that his agent will show he’s matured and come to reason. That rehab helped him and the last few month break from social media cleared his head from the misinformation that he was reading. So it’s Katie’s job not only to direct this movie, but also to help the studio keep its lead on the straight and narrow.

You would think Katie was crazy to accept this deal. It’s no wonder so many director’s dropped out of doing the movie. Katie though can handle it. She’s been around SCW for 19 years. She can handle herself around the boys.

Someone is heard walking through the hallway outside of the dining room. Gina Pierce turns the corner and sees Katie sitting at her table.

“Katie, why are you sitting in my dining room alone?” Gina asks, wanting an answer to why Katie is at her place.

“Because it’s quieter over here and also I’m working. I’ve got a lot of great ideas that I’m sure are going to just wow everyone. The Audience, The studio, The crew…” Katie takes a breath trying to contain her excitement. “But also I wanted to talk to you and you’re finally here.”

Gina walks over to the dining room table and joins Katie sitting down in the chair next to hers. “I’m a little surprised that you’ll come to me for advice, but I’ll see what I can do. So I read "Rift in Time" and I was thinking about what you could do…”

Katie accidentally lets a little laugh slip as she listens to Gina start to tell her about her idea for the movie. Katie quickly interrupts her before Gina says something embarrassing. “Woah, Gina I didn’t mean advice for my movie. I mean no offense, but this is sort of my thing.”

Gina sits back in her seat. Fighting the urge to strangle her best friend. “I’m not going to babysit your star.”

“Come on. You knew how to handle Chad. How bad could this be?” Katie tries to reason with Gina just trying to get her to help on the set.

“Yeah, I knew how to deal with him. I know I also have experiences dealing with brat actors. It doesn’t mean I’m interested in doing that.”

Katie looks at Gina a little confused about the latter half of what she said. Then she realizes she’s referring to Katie. “Oh haha, you’re so funny.”

“I thought so.” Gina smiles back.

“Fine, you don’t want to help me. You don’t have to. I’ll just go and hang out with my new best friend.” Katie shakes her head while she collects her script, book and papers.

“I was going to help, but you didn’t want my ideas.” Gigi scoffs toward Katie. “Tell Gigi I said I hi.”

Katie smiles and shakes her head at Gina. “She’s not Gigi.” Katie stands up and starts to leave. “But, Gigi is going to be there so I’ll tell her.” … “Bye.”

Gina smiles and lets out a laugh. She says her bye and Katie is gone.

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Katie walks across the parking lot with her gym bag over her shoulder. She walks to the gym in a fancier part of Southern California. Gigi, Maddy and Ash trail off behind her while Katie leads the way. Katie tries to hurry them along. Their yoga session is about to start at any minute. She looks back at the girls and sees Gigi on her phone. Scrolling through messages.

“G. Can you put the phone away and hurry? I don’t want to be late.” Katie is trying to urge her along.

“Seriously, you, late? Aren’t you the one that always says to make a fashionable entrance?” Gigi scoffs at Katie's requests. Katie just ignores her. “You can also go on ahead without us. I’m not going to the yoga class. If you need me to talk about your new female crush I’ll be over by the weights. Also did hear from Sasha and SCW should be announcing the TRIOS teams soon. So I’m kind of busy here.”

“It’s not a crush.” Katie gets defensive. “I just admire her. She’s had some amazing performances on stage that people rave over. My Goddess, I’m so excited.”

“Woah, TRIOS is getting announced?” Maddy leans into Gigi taking a peak at her phone trying to get a glimpse of the teams.

“Nothing has been announced yet, but it should be soon.”

The Steward girls walk into the gym. Katie looks around and sees Evelyn Sinclair in the yoga class getting ready. Keeping herself fit for the movie. Katie does a goofy wave towards her.

“Such a fangirl.” Gigi laughs with Maddy and Ash.

“Shut up. I was just saying hi. Nothing is wrong with how I wave. Go do your thing.” Katie brushes off the girl's snickers and walks away to join the yoga class.


Gigi, Maddy and Ash make their way over to the weights. So Gigi can get herself ready for whatever TRIOS has in store for her. She passes her phone to Maddy to keep tabs for the news to be posted and Ash wanders off to get them some water.

“So who do you think you’ll get for TRIOS? And what are you going to do? The tag title was nice, I want to see what free stuff I could get with maybe the United States Title. Actually no, we wouldn’t want to wander into a GOP rally or something. How about the World Title? This is so exciting.” Maddy claps her hands together thrilled. She sits on a nearby bench and acts as Gigi’s spotter.

Gigi nods. “You’re right. That is definitely something to be very concerned about with the US title. I wonder how Deanna handles it.”

“Or Maybe she embraces it?” Maddy being her brattiest devil’s advocate just questions it and Gigi just feels the most uncomfortable.

“Yeah, I don’t believe she does.” Gigi shaking her head distinctively.

Maddy just shrugs it off.

“Seriously Madz, I’m going to make this TRIOS work for me. I got Katie to the finish line of her quest and cemented her legacy. Now this is the universe giving me a chance to pursue my quest for gold of my own. It’s happening.” Gigi is fueled with adrenaline right now. Pushing herself through her workout.

“You’re so right, G. You’ve definitely earned this.” Maddy nods along in approval.

Ash returns with a few bottles of water for them and hands them to Maddy and joins her on the bench. “I got some flavored water from the nice guys over at the snack bar for us.”

Maddy turns and looks at the guy standing by the snack bar. Still checking out Ash with his tongue hanging out. “Uh, that’s a gym creeper. Maybe being a Goddess has some drawbacks.”

“But he was so nice. We got flavored water.” Ash twists the cap on her bottle and goes to take a drink.

Gigi’s phone buzzes with an alert in Maddy’s hand. Maddy sits up and looks at the lock screen of a picture of Gigi, Maddy and Ash together.

“What’s that?” Ash asks curiously, trying to peek at the phone.

“TRIOS teams were just announced and Gigi is going to find out who her partners are.” Maddy puts in Gigi’s passcode to check the teams for Gigi.

“That sounds pretty cool. Who’s on Katie and Gigi’s team?”

“Yeah that’ll be pretty cool, but the teams are random. So they might not be on the same team. I’m pretty sure also SCW uses balls. A lot of balls. In a big tumbler to draw the names. So we should probably pray that the balls are kind.” Maddy bows her head a little and has Ash do the same. She pulls the teams up and scrolls through them then lets out a troubling “Oh.”

“What? What happened? Did Gigi get put on a bad team?” Ash grabs Maddy’s hand and turns the phone to her and looks like the team. Ash’s face lights up seeing Katie’s name there. “Hey Katie made a team.” Ash’s smile doesn’t last long as she notices the same thing Maddy did. Gigi’s name isn’t shown. She too lets out a troubling, “Oh.”

Gigi walks over to the girls and grabs a towel from her bag to wipe the sweat off her. She looks at them noticing them suspiciously quiet.

“Why do you have my phone?”

“G, I was just going to tell you the news when it broke.” Maddy tries to explain handing the phone to Gigi, but she doesn’t let go.

“I’m sorry, Gigi.” Ash adds. Gigi looks at both of them. The wheels turned in her head. Suddenly it became clear why they’re so quiet. She pulls on the phone hard enough to break Maddy’s grip. Scrolling through the announced teams and Gigi just lets out a quiet sigh. She puts her phone back in her bag with her towel.

“G, we can fix this. Maybe call Sasha?” Maddy stands up trying to talk to her.

“Maddy, it’s ok. I’m not in TRIOS. I’m not in a lot of TRIOS. I’m used to it. I just have to work harder.”

“We tried Gigi. We were praying for the balls to be in your favor.” Ash adds trying to be helpful.

“What is she talking about?” Gigi questions Maddy.

“I don’t know. She has a gym creeper watching her. If you want you could probably take care of him. Let some of that rage out. You know.” Maddy nudges Gigi along hoping that she’ll bite.

“Thanks, but I think I’ll pass. Well, unless he gets too close, but I’ll still pass.” Of course Gigi would take a high road. As much as it stings, she still needs some time to contemplate over some things.


The yoga class ends and Katie walks out with Evelyn Sinclair and the two laugh, seemingly having a good time together.

“Wow, that was really fun. I’m glad you could join us for yoga today.” Evelyn says to Katie. A smile on her face.

“Thank you. I love yoga. It’s really good and helps clear my head. I have so much in there. So much creativity. It’s probably why they chose me for the director job.” Katie can’t help giggling with such glee being around Evelyn.

“I thought you weren’t the first pick for the movie.” Evelyn replies.

“It doesn’t matter if I wasn’t first, second or twentieth choice. I’m going to prove myself to the world and we’re going to make a great movie.” Katie takes a breath. Not letting the studio get to her.

“I look forward to it. See you next time we’re shooting.” Evelyn smiles at Katie before she turns and heads out of the gym.

Katie again does a goofy wave to Evelyn as she says bye to her. Evelyn disappears out of the door and Katie turns to her hand and notices what her hand is doing. She closes her hand making a fist and brings it down back to her side.

“What are you doing? Oh Goddess, Gigi was right about me.”


Katie reunites with Gigi, Maddy and Ash in the gym. They’re all ready to leave.

“Did everyone have a good workout?” Katie asked.

“Yeah. I got a lot of shit out this run.” Gigi nods, walking past Katie and heading out of the gym. She seems to be in a huffy puffy mood that throws Katie off.

“She just needs a little time. Don’t worry, I'll talk to her.” Maddy runs up to Katie, but her explanation doesn’t help make Katie understand.

Ash follows behind them and turns to Katie. “Good luck on the TRIOS thing Katie. I hope the balls are in your favor.”

What?

Katie is left standing alone in the gym. The girls have headed out and back to the car. What even happened while she was in the yoga class? Wait, Katie is in the TRIOS tournament?

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Katie shows up to an apartment in Los Angeles. She carries a plastic bag of take out food and orange soda. She takes an elevator to the top floor. The elevator doors open leading Katie to an apartment. She knocks on the door for TJ Johnson to open it.

“Hey, we have a lot to talk about. So I brought some dinner… and some orange soda.” Katie holds the plastic bag up showing it off to TJ.

“Well in that case I guess I have to let you in.” TJ smiles holding the door open for her.

Katie walks inside of TJ’s man cave. It is actually what you’d expect it to look like.

“So I heard you got the director's gig. Congrats.”

“Yes. It's a very exciting experience and I can’t wait to put the whole thing together. While also solving problems behind the scenes. You wouldn’t be interested in taking a job as a personal security guard, would you?” Katie flashes an innocent smile trying to butter TJ up to say he’d do it.

“I don’t think so. I’ve seen Drake Lane’s social media posts. The boy is crazy.” TJ doesn’t fall for Katie’s trap.

Immediately just shaking his head.

“Well it didn’t hurt to try. Anyways, I got the director’s job. My Church burned. Gigi and I lost the tag team titles. Now I’m in TRIOS. So I’ve got everything going all at once right now.” Katie rubs her head trying to feel if it’s about to explode.

Katie and TJ spent the next hour talking about what they’ve been doing the last month. Katie on her movie and church. TJ on whatever dorky thing just came out on a streaming service.Then TJ changes the subject to something else.

“So, The TRIOS tournament…”


“Oh yes, TRIOS.” Katie giggles. “What could I say about it? I mean what do you get for the girl who has done it all? Do I let Light in the Darkness off the hook for taking the title away from Gigi and I? Or could I become a two time SCW World Champion and this time have a more epic reign than the last after being cut down so, so short. Even just doing it immediately after we win the tournament. Hudson wouldn’t even see it coming. Oh that is just a brilliant idea. I’m just so filled with creativity. It’s screaming to come out.”

“The TRIOS contract is for any kind of match I want. It’s been me sitting in the director’s chair and calling the shot to whatever I want. It’s my creative freedom that I get to show the world just how amazing I really am. Oh I won’t be anyone’s last pick to direct anything again. I will be able to choose anything I want. Oh what, Disney needs Star Wars saving? Phrase 6? What about Warner Bros… ok, maybe that one is beyond saving. You know what I mean. Katie Steward is going to really take the business to the next level.”

“Oh my Goddess, TJ. I’m amazing. You know what, Josh Hudson and Blake Mason are very lucky to have me. There is no one else they could’ve ended up with that has my vision”

“You’re definitely one of a kind.” TJ adds. He nods his head agreeing with her.

“I know. It looks so easy too. I’m on a team with the SCW Champion and returning Blake Mason. The three of us are one of the heavy favorites to go all the way. Could it truly be that easy?” Katie laughs. “For me a TRIOS win could mean endless possibilities of causing just mass amounts of chaos. Chaos that are so much fun and miserable to everyone else. You know, kind of like my last TRIOS win. That though is not the story we’re going to tell. This is a story of second chances. A second to redo past mistakes. I’m different now. Smarter. Experienced. Grown. I know it’s not going to be an easy win. My partners might be good. The lure of the TRIOS contract is a powerful aphrodisiac. So of course the boys are going to want it. Knowing them it’ll fuel whatever personal vendetta they have. So feeble minded. Which again is why they are just so very lucky to have me and not someone else on their team. Cause without me, they’ll never see the bigger picture. Only Katie Steward can sit in the director’s seat.”