Post by matt on May 15, 2023 6:24:22 GMT -6
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Boston, Massachusetts
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While the experience of being part of a family has been incredible, starting a family of her own has been something The Woman Scorned has always shied away from. Kim just doesn’t think that someone as broken and twisted as herself should be a mother. Yet, when it comes to her nephew, her twin sister’s son Sean, Kim finds that there is an unexplainable closeness there. She finds herself drawn to him, as if she wants to help. She cannot help herself. She has to get involved and do what she can to teach him right from wrong the best way she knows how. Of course when she learned that Sean was in trouble at school, that he had gotten into a fight, Kim would drop everything that she was doing and go to see him, go find out what is wrong.
Kim is pulling up to the school her nephew Sean attends. She is driving her sister Marie’s crimson red Ford Fusion. The school is nearly empty except for a few kids, a few teachers, and one lonely dejected looking child on the sidewalk, looking as if he is waiting on his execution. This can only be Sean Jones, Kim’s nephew. As she gets closer she recognizes her nephew and pulls the vehicle up to the sidewalk next to him. She puts in park and unlocks the doors and waits for him to approach. Sean slowly walks over and opens the passenger side door. He nervously gets inside and looks over at Kim.
“Mom?”
“Don’t insult me like that.” Kim says with a grin. “I’m her evil clone.”
“Oh, its you Aunt Kim.” Sean suddenly and quickly cheers up upon realizing that it was Kim, not his mother, who showed up to pick him up from school. “I was worried mom had found out.”
“Sorry, but she already knows all about it, kiddo.” Kim winks. “How do you think I knew to come get ya?”
“Oh…” Sean’s smile quickly fades as he realizes that he is still in trouble. Kim puts the car into gear and begins to drive off. Sean remains silent for the next few minutes. Kim also remains in awkward silence, as she too is unsure of what to say. Eventually she breaks the ice.
“So I heard you got into a fight.”
“I don’t really wanna talk about it.”
“Was barbed wire involved? Or staple guns?”
“What?” Sean asks. He shakes his head. “No!”
“Good. Because that crap hurts.”
“Then why do you do it?”
“Hey! I’m the interrogator here, not you. I ask the questions. So tell me, kiddo, why did you get into a fight?”
“I told you, Aunt Kim, I really don’t want to talk about it.”
“Oh is that how it’s gonna be? Well maybe I need to play good cop bad cop? Maybe I should leave and go get a cup of coffee while some tough guy with a Napoleon complex comes and bullies a confession out of ya?”
“Huh?” Sean is genuinely confused about what Kim just said. Kim chuckles.
“I heard that on a movie somewhere. Look, I don’t know why you got into a fight. And maybe I shouldn’t ask? I mean, disciplining you is your mother’s job. But I will say that sometimes you do need to fight. Sometimes you need to stick up for yourself or for people you care about. My friend Datura was attacked and I defended her. Ol’ groucho Xander attacked me, I defended myself…ok, so I didn’t really defend myself that well, but still! My point is, if you’re sticking up for yourself, or if you’re sticking up for someone else who cannot fight for themselves, that’s fine. Is that what you were doing, kiddo?”
“Uh, well, not exactly.” Sean says uneasily.
“What WERE you doing”
“I was more of the instigator.”
“Oh instigator! Nice word usage, kiddo! Wait! I mean, NO! Being the instigator is NOT a good thing! Why did you start a fight?”
“I already told you that I didn’t want to talk about it.” Sean says as he slumps down in the passenger’s seat, pouting. Kim smirks knowingly. She has him right where she wants him.
“Y’know, kiddo, you shoulda stuck with the Fifth Amendment before you started running your mouth.”
“Fifth Amendment?”
“You’ll learn about Pleading the Fifth in Civis, kiddo.” Kim points out. “Now you already said too much. So you may as well tell me everything.”
“Fine.” Sean sighs out of frustration. “I made these new friends. This kid was picking on my new friends. So I was defending them just like you said.”
“That’s funny.” Kim starts laughing. Sean looks over at his aunt.
“Why are you laughing at me, Aunt Kim?”
“Because you’re such a bad liar.” Kim says. “Stick with me and I’ll teach you how to lie properly.”
“I’m not lying.”
“Sure you are.” Kim points out. “I mean, didn’t you just admit to starting the fight? You even used that fancy word ‘instigator’ that impressed me so much!”
“Well…” Sean’s voice trails off “...alright fine. My friends put me up to it. They wanted me to prove myself to them.”
“So you were fighting to impress your new pals?” Kim shakes her head. “Fighting just for the sake of fighting is not a good idea, kiddo, especially not just to impress your friends.”
“But you do it all the time, Aunt Kim!” Sean points out. “You fight to impress the fans at your wrestling shows!”
“That’s different. What I do is my job. I make a living putting my body on the line for bloodthirsty fans.” Kim laughs. “Now if you actually start bringing in a paycheck for starting fights then you have a case. Until then what you just did today and what I do are completely different things, kiddo. I can justify what I do because it is my job, my career, my passion. You cannot justify what you did today.”
“I’m sorry.” Sean says quietly.
“Don’t apologize to me, kiddo. Your mom is the one who is really disappointed with you. Your mom is the one who is gonna come down real hard on you. I mean, you were skipping school, now you’re getting into fights…” Kim sighs as tears begin to form; she fights them back in an attempt to remain strong for her nephew “...you sound like me.”
“What’s wrong with that?” Sean asks. “You’re so cool, Aunt Kim.”
“It’s nice to have a fan.” Kim chuckles. “But really, my life has not been the greatest. Some of the stuff that I endured was out of my control, other things that happened was a direct consequence of mistakes I made. I really want better for you, kiddo…and I think your mom does, too.”
“Mom needs to lighten up.” Sean whines. “She’s no fun and she doesn’t even care.”
“She does care.”
“No she doesn’t.” Sean points out. “She’s hardly there for me. Its almost always grandma or great aunt Kayla picking me up or dropping me off. Or you or aunt Jessie spending time with me. She’s not there that often. She’s always doing so many other things. She’s never got enough time with me.”
“She’s doing the best she can, kiddo. She’s not perfect. God knows I’m not perfect.”
“But you’re awesome. You’re fun.” Sean grins. “I would love to be like you when I grow up, Aunt Kim.”
“No, you don’t.” Kim shakes her head. “Trust me, kiddo, there are a lot better role models out there than me.”
Sean can sense the distress in his aunt’s voice and doesn’t say anything else. Kim also remains silent for the remainder of the car ride. In the awkward silence Kim thinks to herself about Sean, about how she most definitely wants better for her nephew, how she wants him to overcome and be better than her and her sister’s infamous background, the Williams family background which is fraught with death and despair. Kimberly knows that Sean is capable of so much more. She worries that he is walking down a dark path. Hopefully she and her sister can put him back on the right track.
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Boston, Massachusetts
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amily is very important, especially for the Joneses. They always stick together and help each other out. Family is even more important for Kimberly Williams. The SCW Underground Champion never had a real family growing up. She was raised separate from her real family and never had a true childhood. Even when she reunited with her biological family, the reunion with the Jones family was a difficult one at best. Therefore one can easily see that family is something that Kim does not take for granted. Another reason that this particular situation surrounding her nephew Sean is of great concern for her is the fact that she sees a lot of herself in Sean. He is wild and unpredictable, like Kim. Lately he has been getting into trouble and making mistakes, like Kim often does. It is important for Kim to make sure that Sean does not follow in her infamous footsteps. She wants to make sure he does not end up making some of the same mistakes she made. As a result, Kim has made her nephew into her own personal pet project. She has made it her priority to try and put him back on the straight and narrow. This is what brings her to Sean’s school on this Monday afternoon.
School has just let out for the day and all of the children have gone home. Even Sean has been picked up and taken home. However the principal, Principal Rogers, wanted to speak with a member of the family about Sean’s continued bad behavior. It took a great deal of convincing on her part but Kimberly managed to talk her sister Marie into letting her go and meet with the principal. Marie’s doubts are valid; the last time Sean got into trouble with the school and requested a meeting with a family member, Kim went pretending to be Marie. Kim had been told by Sean that he was only in trouble for bad grades and Kim, thinking Marie would overreact, went in Marie’s place in a misguided attempt to protect her nephew from Marie’s wrath. As it turns out, Sean had lied to Kim. Sean’s bad grades were a result of skipping classes. Kim insists that things are different this time. She insists that she will go as herself, not as Marie, and she will not try to protect her nephew.
These halls are familiar to The Woman Scorned, as she has been here before. Only this time she is dressed far more comfortably; she is wearing a purple plaid skirt, black sneakers, and a black “Queens of Chaos” t-shirt. Her long red hair is pulled into a ponytail in the back. The last time she was here she was putting on an act, pretending to be her sister. Today she is just herself, the playful chaotic Kimberly Williams. How will Principal Rogers react to this? Time will tell. Kim just hopes he doesn’t recognize that this is the same person he spoke to the last time. That would certainly be awkward.
Williams finds her way to the familiar wood door that reads “Principal Rogers” on the front. Kim starts to knock but then stops. She smiles to herself. Again a pause she finally knocks, but she knocks to the rhythm of “shave and a haircut”. After a brief wait she hears a deep male voice from inside. “Come in.” She doesn’t have to be asked twice. Kim pushes the door open and steps inside. She finds the same middle aged balding school official she remembers from her last visit. This time he is wearing a navy blue polo shirt and brown khaki pants. Roger looks up and furrows his brow curiously.
“Ms. Jones?”
“Bzzz! Wrong! And your incorrect answer cost you an opportunity at the bonus round and a chance to win a brand new Chevy Malibu!”
“Excuse me?” He asks. “I thought I was supposed to meet with a parent…or relative…of a student at my school. Are you Marie Jones?”
“Me? Don’t insult me!” Kim says playfully. “I love my sister but she has a straight up stick up her butt!”
“Sister?”
“Uh-huh,” Kim nods her head furiously “didn’t she ever tell you about her evil twin sister?”
“No…” Principal Rogers is still oh so confused.
“Well TA-DA!” She strikes a pose. “I’m the evil twin sister! Only I haven’t done any evil stuff lately. I’m going cold turkey on being bad. Do you know how tempting it is to steal candy from a baby?”
“Ms. Jones, I see you are having a good time but…”
“Williams.” Kim says, correcting him.
“Huh?”
“My name is Kimberly Williams.” She smiles politely and extends a hand. “Forgive me, I’m just full of cheer.”
“Uh-huh, of course.” The Principal gets up out of his chair and approaches Kim. He reluctantly accepts her handshake. “It’s a pleasure, my name is Principal Edward Rogers.”
“Eddie!” Kim pulls him in for a big hug. After breaking the embrace Kim smiles sheepishly at him. “Sorry, but I’m a hugger too.”
“Right, that’s fine I suppose.” Rogers tries to compose himself as he walks back towards his seat. He sits back down and motions for Kim to sit down as well. “Please, sit.” Kim considers asking if he means for her to sit on his lap, seeing as he bears a slight resemblance to Santa Claus. But she figures that might be a bad idea. She’s probably frightened the poor man enough as it is. Kim just nods her head and sits down in one of the empty chairs next to the principal’s desk.
“So who did my nephew murder?”
“Murder?” The principal seems taken aback. “No, no murders, Ms. Williams.”
“Good! I have definitely made it my goal to drill it into him that murder is wrong.”
“That’s certainly a good lesson, Ms. Williams.” He sighs. “Unfortunately your nephew has been getting into trouble lately at school.”
“Yeah. His mom told me prepped me for this meeting. I even brought notes!” She reaches into pockets built into her skirt and produces note cards. “Uh, let’s see, pound of Italian sausage, can of black beans, can of diced potatoes…” Kim tosses the note aside “...sorry, Eddie, that was my grocery list!” She looks at the next card. “Ah yes, here it is. Apparently he’s been skipping school and his grades have been suffering.”
“Yes.” Principal Rogers acknowledges by nodding his head. “The good news is that he hasn’t been skipping school anymore. But the grades haven’t exactly improved. That’s not the real problem, however.”
“Yeah, according to this next note card my nephew recently got into a fight.”
“Yes, and that is why I wanted to speak with you today.” Principal Rogers says. “Have you or his mother spoken with him since the incident on Friday?”
“Uh, yeah, totally.” Kim nods her head in confirmation. “The kiddo didn’t really want to say much about it but I did manage to get him to admit that he started the fight. He also said something about some new friends too.”
“Yes, well, I believe his new friends are a bad influence on young Mr. Jones.”
“How do you mean?” Kim’s interest has peaked now.
“Well, those kids he has begun to associate with exhibit a gang like behavior.”
“A gang?” Kim smirks. “Seriously? Aren’t kids his age too young to start a gang?”
“It may not be a gang in the traditional sense, Ms. Williams, but the behavior is certainly there. They do everything together, they hang out together…
“Just sounds like a clique to me.”
“I hope it just stays that way. But what I fear is the fact that these kids are infamous for bullying and intimidating everyone else in the school. Now young Mr. Jones has found himself wrapped up in that group. The particular student that Sean assaulted Friday has been a target of the group for a long time now. The fact that Sean, a newcomer to the group, is the one who attacked him is further evidence of my fear. I believe he was put up to it, a sort of dare if you will; do this in order to be accepted as one of us.”
“Like a gang initiation?”
“Precisely.” The principal remarks. “And this kid that your nephew got into a fight with, he has had it rough for a long time now. Depression…a bad home life…add to that the constant bullying from this group…” the principal sighs and shakes his head “...I just hate what your nephew has gotten involved with, Ms. Williams.”
“Yeah, me too…” Kim’s voice trails off. She had no idea that things were this bad for her nephew. She had worried that he was going down a dark path but this is beginning to get very serious. Kim knows that she has to do something to help her nephew get back on the right track. She will have to confront Sean about this, but first she needs to tell Marie.
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Boston, Massachusetts
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Twenty four hours have passed since Kimberly Williams met with her nephew Sean’s school principal Edward Rogers. Just like last time what she initially thought turned out to be much worse than expected. Kim knew that Sean was put up to instigating the fight by some new friends of his, but according to a theory posed by Principal Rogers, these kids are exhibiting gang like behavior, they are bullying and intimidating students throughout the school, and now they have brought Sean into their fold. This makes the matter even more personal for The Woman Scorned. Kim herself has a history in her long and tumultuous past of being taken advantage of by people who claimed to be her friends or supporters. Her own guardian, a woman she once thought of as a parent, Emma Floreschu, manipulated her during her entire childhood, twisting and corrupting her mind to use her against her own family. In the first couple of years in her wrestling career, on the independent circuit, she got caught up in groups and factions that wanted to take advantage of her unique fighting skills, never once offering to help her but only to use her to advance their own careers. Most recently Kim has even bore witness to her own twin sister Marie Jones being taken advantage of by Infamous in SCW. These new friends of Sean are just kids like him but still, if this kind of behavior continues, if he is allowed to continue to be manipulated, as Kim believes he is being, then his entire life could end up changing for the worse.
There isn’t much she can do now, however, except to tell Sean’s mother; to tell Kim’s identical twin sister Marie Jones. After all, Marie is the mother, not Kim, and Marie has final say in how he is raised and disciplined. Kim may not have had the perfect, ideal childhood but even she recognizes where she stands in the chain of command regarding the parenting of Sean Connor Jones. All Kim can do now is tell Marie about her visit with Principal Rogers and then wait for Marie to take it from there. After that is done, everything will be out of Kim’s hands. Still, Kim wishes she could do more. She doesn’t want to just give up on Sean especially as she truly believes that her experience, her own past, could serve as a warning for her nephew. If she could just get the chance to try and get through to him.
Currently Williams finds herself lying down on her ratty sofa in her own run down apartment in Boston, Massachusetts. The Woman Scorned is wearing torn denim jeans, she is barefoot, and she is wearing a plain black t-shirt. Her beloved hamster, Caligula, who she often talks to, sits on her lap, and the hamster cage is resting on the floor next to her. One thing that Kim does rather frequently in order to gather her thoughts is to talk to Caligula, and Caligula speaks back; at least, he does thanks to Kim providing the voice for the rodent.
So basically Kim just talks to herself.
“I don’t know what to do, Caligula.” Kim says in a sorrowful sigh. “Sean is still getting into trouble at school, only now he’s taken things up a notch. He’s starting fights.”
“So the brat is skipping school, turning in shitty grades, and getting in fights? Sounds kinda like me at Rodent School.”
“You never went to school, silly hamster.”
“Neither did you, you uneducated fuck. Still, if this brat’s actions are bothering you so much just give him a swift kick in the ass. That’ll straighten the bastard up.”
“My nephew is not a bastard!” Kim states angrily.
“Was your hot ass sister married to the baby daddy?”
“Noooo…”
“Then he’s technically a bastard.”
“Don’t you have any GOOD advice for me, Caligula?” Kim asks.
“There’s only one thing ya can do; tell that hot ass sister of yours. She’s on her way over, isn’t she?”
“Yes.” Kim nods her head.
“Good. When she gets her tell her…tell her I’m single and I want a piece of that action!”
“Caligula!” Kim scowls angrily at the hamster. “You are a HAMSTER! I know my sister very well, thank you very much, and I can say without a shadow of a doubt that she is NOT into beastiality!”
“Her loss.” Just then Kim hears the front door to her apartment begin to open. “Don’t you dare put me in that cage, woman!”
“Hush, Caligula.” Kim says as she gently picks the cage up, places the hamster inside, shuts the cage door back up, and then puts the cage with Caligula inside back down onto the floor. Kim swings her feet over into a sitting position just as she spots her sister, Marie Jones, entering the living room area.
“Hi Kim.”
“How’s it going, sis?” Kim says, waving playfully.
“I’ve been better.” Marie sighs as she walks over and sits down next to Kim on the ratty sofa. She looks down at the hamster and smiles warmly. “Cute hamster.”
“Don’t tell him that. He has a big ego.” Kim says winking at Marie.
“Right. Anyway, how was your visit with Sean’s principal?”
“Well for one he’s stuck up and boring. You would like him.”
“I love you too, Kim.” Marie says chuckling softly. “But more importantly, what did he have to say about Sean?”
“Yeah, that’s the other thing. See, Sean has been making some new friends at school. Ordinarily that’d be great! But Sean’s friends aren’t all that great. They’re the kind of kids who will say ‘hey! Go beat up that kid!’ And Sean apparently listened.”
“So Sean was put up to this by some new friends he made at school?”
“Yup.” Kim nods her head. “Sean told me that himself. The principal thinks its worse. He says these new friends of Sean are typical schoolyard bullies who try to terrorize the entire school.”
“Seriously? He’s getting in with a gang of bullies now?!” Marie sounds furious. Kim just nods her head.
“Yes…and that’s exactly the word the principal used. Trust me, sis, you really would get along with him great.”
“Try and be serious, Kim!” Marie exclaims. “Sean needs to get a good swift kick in the butt for this one.”
“That’s what Caligula suggested.”
“Huh?”
“My hamster.”
“What did…” Marie shakes her head, not wanting to go down that rabbit hole “...I’m just gonna go and have it out with Sean right now!” Marie starts to stand up but Kim grabs her by the arm and pulls her back down.
“No, wait a sec…I think I have a better idea.”
“Sean needs to be punished, Kim.” Marie states. “I know you want to protect him, I know you like him, but he needs to be punished. He’s gone too far.”
“I know and I agree.” Kim nods her head. “You can punish him all you want. I just want your permission to talk to him, to try and reach him, to reason with him.”
“First you wanted to impersonate me in front of his principal to help him, then you insisted that you go see the principal about this…” Marie shakes her head in confusion “...why is this so important to you?”
“I know this is gonna sound crazy but…” Kim sighs “...I really do care about that kid. And it isn’t just because he’s my nephew. I’m sure I’ve said it before but I see a lot of myself in that kid. And that scares me. It really does.”
“But Kim, you’re a good person.”
“I’m not a good person.” Kim shrugs her shoulders. “Maybe I’m better now than I used to be but I really am not a good person. And honestly, it wasn’t that long ago that I was a total wreck. My life was hopeless. I ended up as property of the state which pretty much considered me a lost cause. But you took the chance on me, you reached out to help me. Without you, I don’t know if I would be alive today.”
“But Sean is still young and he has the support system that you never had.” Marie shakes her head. “I really think you’re overreacting here.”
“I hope I am.” Kim sighs deeply. “But that’s why I’m so protective of him. I don’t want to see his life turn out like mine did. So please, let me talk to him.”
“Oh Kim…” Marie leans over and embraces her sister in a tight hug “...he’s your nephew. You never have to ask my permission to talk to him. But yes, you can talk to him about this if you want.”
“Thanks, Marie.” Kim says, smiling warmly. Marie may not understand it but this special to Kim. Marie did reach out in Kim’s time of need to help her several years ago when she was at her darkest point, when she had descended into madness and was locked up. Marie got her the help she needed and even lobbied for Kim to be given another chance. Kim believes she owes her very life to her twin sister. She feels that through Sean she can pay her back. She owes it to Marie to do whatever she can to help.
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While the experience of being part of a family has been incredible, starting a family of her own has been something The Woman Scorned has always shied away from. Kim just doesn’t think that someone as broken and twisted as herself should be a mother. Yet, when it comes to her nephew, her twin sister’s son Sean, Kim finds that there is an unexplainable closeness there. She finds herself drawn to him, as if she wants to help. She cannot help herself. She has to get involved and do what she can to teach him right from wrong the best way she knows how. Of course when she learned that Sean was in trouble at school, that he had gotten into a fight, Kim would drop everything that she was doing and go to see him, go find out what is wrong.
Kim is pulling up to the school her nephew Sean attends. She is driving her sister Marie’s crimson red Ford Fusion. The school is nearly empty except for a few kids, a few teachers, and one lonely dejected looking child on the sidewalk, looking as if he is waiting on his execution. This can only be Sean Jones, Kim’s nephew. As she gets closer she recognizes her nephew and pulls the vehicle up to the sidewalk next to him. She puts in park and unlocks the doors and waits for him to approach. Sean slowly walks over and opens the passenger side door. He nervously gets inside and looks over at Kim.
“Mom?”
“Don’t insult me like that.” Kim says with a grin. “I’m her evil clone.”
“Oh, its you Aunt Kim.” Sean suddenly and quickly cheers up upon realizing that it was Kim, not his mother, who showed up to pick him up from school. “I was worried mom had found out.”
“Sorry, but she already knows all about it, kiddo.” Kim winks. “How do you think I knew to come get ya?”
“Oh…” Sean’s smile quickly fades as he realizes that he is still in trouble. Kim puts the car into gear and begins to drive off. Sean remains silent for the next few minutes. Kim also remains in awkward silence, as she too is unsure of what to say. Eventually she breaks the ice.
“So I heard you got into a fight.”
“I don’t really wanna talk about it.”
“Was barbed wire involved? Or staple guns?”
“What?” Sean asks. He shakes his head. “No!”
“Good. Because that crap hurts.”
“Then why do you do it?”
“Hey! I’m the interrogator here, not you. I ask the questions. So tell me, kiddo, why did you get into a fight?”
“I told you, Aunt Kim, I really don’t want to talk about it.”
“Oh is that how it’s gonna be? Well maybe I need to play good cop bad cop? Maybe I should leave and go get a cup of coffee while some tough guy with a Napoleon complex comes and bullies a confession out of ya?”
“Huh?” Sean is genuinely confused about what Kim just said. Kim chuckles.
“I heard that on a movie somewhere. Look, I don’t know why you got into a fight. And maybe I shouldn’t ask? I mean, disciplining you is your mother’s job. But I will say that sometimes you do need to fight. Sometimes you need to stick up for yourself or for people you care about. My friend Datura was attacked and I defended her. Ol’ groucho Xander attacked me, I defended myself…ok, so I didn’t really defend myself that well, but still! My point is, if you’re sticking up for yourself, or if you’re sticking up for someone else who cannot fight for themselves, that’s fine. Is that what you were doing, kiddo?”
“Uh, well, not exactly.” Sean says uneasily.
“What WERE you doing”
“I was more of the instigator.”
“Oh instigator! Nice word usage, kiddo! Wait! I mean, NO! Being the instigator is NOT a good thing! Why did you start a fight?”
“I already told you that I didn’t want to talk about it.” Sean says as he slumps down in the passenger’s seat, pouting. Kim smirks knowingly. She has him right where she wants him.
“Y’know, kiddo, you shoulda stuck with the Fifth Amendment before you started running your mouth.”
“Fifth Amendment?”
“You’ll learn about Pleading the Fifth in Civis, kiddo.” Kim points out. “Now you already said too much. So you may as well tell me everything.”
“Fine.” Sean sighs out of frustration. “I made these new friends. This kid was picking on my new friends. So I was defending them just like you said.”
“That’s funny.” Kim starts laughing. Sean looks over at his aunt.
“Why are you laughing at me, Aunt Kim?”
“Because you’re such a bad liar.” Kim says. “Stick with me and I’ll teach you how to lie properly.”
“I’m not lying.”
“Sure you are.” Kim points out. “I mean, didn’t you just admit to starting the fight? You even used that fancy word ‘instigator’ that impressed me so much!”
“Well…” Sean’s voice trails off “...alright fine. My friends put me up to it. They wanted me to prove myself to them.”
“So you were fighting to impress your new pals?” Kim shakes her head. “Fighting just for the sake of fighting is not a good idea, kiddo, especially not just to impress your friends.”
“But you do it all the time, Aunt Kim!” Sean points out. “You fight to impress the fans at your wrestling shows!”
“That’s different. What I do is my job. I make a living putting my body on the line for bloodthirsty fans.” Kim laughs. “Now if you actually start bringing in a paycheck for starting fights then you have a case. Until then what you just did today and what I do are completely different things, kiddo. I can justify what I do because it is my job, my career, my passion. You cannot justify what you did today.”
“I’m sorry.” Sean says quietly.
“Don’t apologize to me, kiddo. Your mom is the one who is really disappointed with you. Your mom is the one who is gonna come down real hard on you. I mean, you were skipping school, now you’re getting into fights…” Kim sighs as tears begin to form; she fights them back in an attempt to remain strong for her nephew “...you sound like me.”
“What’s wrong with that?” Sean asks. “You’re so cool, Aunt Kim.”
“It’s nice to have a fan.” Kim chuckles. “But really, my life has not been the greatest. Some of the stuff that I endured was out of my control, other things that happened was a direct consequence of mistakes I made. I really want better for you, kiddo…and I think your mom does, too.”
“Mom needs to lighten up.” Sean whines. “She’s no fun and she doesn’t even care.”
“She does care.”
“No she doesn’t.” Sean points out. “She’s hardly there for me. Its almost always grandma or great aunt Kayla picking me up or dropping me off. Or you or aunt Jessie spending time with me. She’s not there that often. She’s always doing so many other things. She’s never got enough time with me.”
“She’s doing the best she can, kiddo. She’s not perfect. God knows I’m not perfect.”
“But you’re awesome. You’re fun.” Sean grins. “I would love to be like you when I grow up, Aunt Kim.”
“No, you don’t.” Kim shakes her head. “Trust me, kiddo, there are a lot better role models out there than me.”
Sean can sense the distress in his aunt’s voice and doesn’t say anything else. Kim also remains silent for the remainder of the car ride. In the awkward silence Kim thinks to herself about Sean, about how she most definitely wants better for her nephew, how she wants him to overcome and be better than her and her sister’s infamous background, the Williams family background which is fraught with death and despair. Kimberly knows that Sean is capable of so much more. She worries that he is walking down a dark path. Hopefully she and her sister can put him back on the right track.
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Boston, Massachusetts
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amily is very important, especially for the Joneses. They always stick together and help each other out. Family is even more important for Kimberly Williams. The SCW Underground Champion never had a real family growing up. She was raised separate from her real family and never had a true childhood. Even when she reunited with her biological family, the reunion with the Jones family was a difficult one at best. Therefore one can easily see that family is something that Kim does not take for granted. Another reason that this particular situation surrounding her nephew Sean is of great concern for her is the fact that she sees a lot of herself in Sean. He is wild and unpredictable, like Kim. Lately he has been getting into trouble and making mistakes, like Kim often does. It is important for Kim to make sure that Sean does not follow in her infamous footsteps. She wants to make sure he does not end up making some of the same mistakes she made. As a result, Kim has made her nephew into her own personal pet project. She has made it her priority to try and put him back on the straight and narrow. This is what brings her to Sean’s school on this Monday afternoon.
School has just let out for the day and all of the children have gone home. Even Sean has been picked up and taken home. However the principal, Principal Rogers, wanted to speak with a member of the family about Sean’s continued bad behavior. It took a great deal of convincing on her part but Kimberly managed to talk her sister Marie into letting her go and meet with the principal. Marie’s doubts are valid; the last time Sean got into trouble with the school and requested a meeting with a family member, Kim went pretending to be Marie. Kim had been told by Sean that he was only in trouble for bad grades and Kim, thinking Marie would overreact, went in Marie’s place in a misguided attempt to protect her nephew from Marie’s wrath. As it turns out, Sean had lied to Kim. Sean’s bad grades were a result of skipping classes. Kim insists that things are different this time. She insists that she will go as herself, not as Marie, and she will not try to protect her nephew.
These halls are familiar to The Woman Scorned, as she has been here before. Only this time she is dressed far more comfortably; she is wearing a purple plaid skirt, black sneakers, and a black “Queens of Chaos” t-shirt. Her long red hair is pulled into a ponytail in the back. The last time she was here she was putting on an act, pretending to be her sister. Today she is just herself, the playful chaotic Kimberly Williams. How will Principal Rogers react to this? Time will tell. Kim just hopes he doesn’t recognize that this is the same person he spoke to the last time. That would certainly be awkward.
Williams finds her way to the familiar wood door that reads “Principal Rogers” on the front. Kim starts to knock but then stops. She smiles to herself. Again a pause she finally knocks, but she knocks to the rhythm of “shave and a haircut”. After a brief wait she hears a deep male voice from inside. “Come in.” She doesn’t have to be asked twice. Kim pushes the door open and steps inside. She finds the same middle aged balding school official she remembers from her last visit. This time he is wearing a navy blue polo shirt and brown khaki pants. Roger looks up and furrows his brow curiously.
“Ms. Jones?”
“Bzzz! Wrong! And your incorrect answer cost you an opportunity at the bonus round and a chance to win a brand new Chevy Malibu!”
“Excuse me?” He asks. “I thought I was supposed to meet with a parent…or relative…of a student at my school. Are you Marie Jones?”
“Me? Don’t insult me!” Kim says playfully. “I love my sister but she has a straight up stick up her butt!”
“Sister?”
“Uh-huh,” Kim nods her head furiously “didn’t she ever tell you about her evil twin sister?”
“No…” Principal Rogers is still oh so confused.
“Well TA-DA!” She strikes a pose. “I’m the evil twin sister! Only I haven’t done any evil stuff lately. I’m going cold turkey on being bad. Do you know how tempting it is to steal candy from a baby?”
“Ms. Jones, I see you are having a good time but…”
“Williams.” Kim says, correcting him.
“Huh?”
“My name is Kimberly Williams.” She smiles politely and extends a hand. “Forgive me, I’m just full of cheer.”
“Uh-huh, of course.” The Principal gets up out of his chair and approaches Kim. He reluctantly accepts her handshake. “It’s a pleasure, my name is Principal Edward Rogers.”
“Eddie!” Kim pulls him in for a big hug. After breaking the embrace Kim smiles sheepishly at him. “Sorry, but I’m a hugger too.”
“Right, that’s fine I suppose.” Rogers tries to compose himself as he walks back towards his seat. He sits back down and motions for Kim to sit down as well. “Please, sit.” Kim considers asking if he means for her to sit on his lap, seeing as he bears a slight resemblance to Santa Claus. But she figures that might be a bad idea. She’s probably frightened the poor man enough as it is. Kim just nods her head and sits down in one of the empty chairs next to the principal’s desk.
“So who did my nephew murder?”
“Murder?” The principal seems taken aback. “No, no murders, Ms. Williams.”
“Good! I have definitely made it my goal to drill it into him that murder is wrong.”
“That’s certainly a good lesson, Ms. Williams.” He sighs. “Unfortunately your nephew has been getting into trouble lately at school.”
“Yeah. His mom told me prepped me for this meeting. I even brought notes!” She reaches into pockets built into her skirt and produces note cards. “Uh, let’s see, pound of Italian sausage, can of black beans, can of diced potatoes…” Kim tosses the note aside “...sorry, Eddie, that was my grocery list!” She looks at the next card. “Ah yes, here it is. Apparently he’s been skipping school and his grades have been suffering.”
“Yes.” Principal Rogers acknowledges by nodding his head. “The good news is that he hasn’t been skipping school anymore. But the grades haven’t exactly improved. That’s not the real problem, however.”
“Yeah, according to this next note card my nephew recently got into a fight.”
“Yes, and that is why I wanted to speak with you today.” Principal Rogers says. “Have you or his mother spoken with him since the incident on Friday?”
“Uh, yeah, totally.” Kim nods her head in confirmation. “The kiddo didn’t really want to say much about it but I did manage to get him to admit that he started the fight. He also said something about some new friends too.”
“Yes, well, I believe his new friends are a bad influence on young Mr. Jones.”
“How do you mean?” Kim’s interest has peaked now.
“Well, those kids he has begun to associate with exhibit a gang like behavior.”
“A gang?” Kim smirks. “Seriously? Aren’t kids his age too young to start a gang?”
“It may not be a gang in the traditional sense, Ms. Williams, but the behavior is certainly there. They do everything together, they hang out together…
“Just sounds like a clique to me.”
“I hope it just stays that way. But what I fear is the fact that these kids are infamous for bullying and intimidating everyone else in the school. Now young Mr. Jones has found himself wrapped up in that group. The particular student that Sean assaulted Friday has been a target of the group for a long time now. The fact that Sean, a newcomer to the group, is the one who attacked him is further evidence of my fear. I believe he was put up to it, a sort of dare if you will; do this in order to be accepted as one of us.”
“Like a gang initiation?”
“Precisely.” The principal remarks. “And this kid that your nephew got into a fight with, he has had it rough for a long time now. Depression…a bad home life…add to that the constant bullying from this group…” the principal sighs and shakes his head “...I just hate what your nephew has gotten involved with, Ms. Williams.”
“Yeah, me too…” Kim’s voice trails off. She had no idea that things were this bad for her nephew. She had worried that he was going down a dark path but this is beginning to get very serious. Kim knows that she has to do something to help her nephew get back on the right track. She will have to confront Sean about this, but first she needs to tell Marie.
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Boston, Massachusetts
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Twenty four hours have passed since Kimberly Williams met with her nephew Sean’s school principal Edward Rogers. Just like last time what she initially thought turned out to be much worse than expected. Kim knew that Sean was put up to instigating the fight by some new friends of his, but according to a theory posed by Principal Rogers, these kids are exhibiting gang like behavior, they are bullying and intimidating students throughout the school, and now they have brought Sean into their fold. This makes the matter even more personal for The Woman Scorned. Kim herself has a history in her long and tumultuous past of being taken advantage of by people who claimed to be her friends or supporters. Her own guardian, a woman she once thought of as a parent, Emma Floreschu, manipulated her during her entire childhood, twisting and corrupting her mind to use her against her own family. In the first couple of years in her wrestling career, on the independent circuit, she got caught up in groups and factions that wanted to take advantage of her unique fighting skills, never once offering to help her but only to use her to advance their own careers. Most recently Kim has even bore witness to her own twin sister Marie Jones being taken advantage of by Infamous in SCW. These new friends of Sean are just kids like him but still, if this kind of behavior continues, if he is allowed to continue to be manipulated, as Kim believes he is being, then his entire life could end up changing for the worse.
There isn’t much she can do now, however, except to tell Sean’s mother; to tell Kim’s identical twin sister Marie Jones. After all, Marie is the mother, not Kim, and Marie has final say in how he is raised and disciplined. Kim may not have had the perfect, ideal childhood but even she recognizes where she stands in the chain of command regarding the parenting of Sean Connor Jones. All Kim can do now is tell Marie about her visit with Principal Rogers and then wait for Marie to take it from there. After that is done, everything will be out of Kim’s hands. Still, Kim wishes she could do more. She doesn’t want to just give up on Sean especially as she truly believes that her experience, her own past, could serve as a warning for her nephew. If she could just get the chance to try and get through to him.
Currently Williams finds herself lying down on her ratty sofa in her own run down apartment in Boston, Massachusetts. The Woman Scorned is wearing torn denim jeans, she is barefoot, and she is wearing a plain black t-shirt. Her beloved hamster, Caligula, who she often talks to, sits on her lap, and the hamster cage is resting on the floor next to her. One thing that Kim does rather frequently in order to gather her thoughts is to talk to Caligula, and Caligula speaks back; at least, he does thanks to Kim providing the voice for the rodent.
So basically Kim just talks to herself.
“I don’t know what to do, Caligula.” Kim says in a sorrowful sigh. “Sean is still getting into trouble at school, only now he’s taken things up a notch. He’s starting fights.”
“So the brat is skipping school, turning in shitty grades, and getting in fights? Sounds kinda like me at Rodent School.”
“You never went to school, silly hamster.”
“Neither did you, you uneducated fuck. Still, if this brat’s actions are bothering you so much just give him a swift kick in the ass. That’ll straighten the bastard up.”
“My nephew is not a bastard!” Kim states angrily.
“Was your hot ass sister married to the baby daddy?”
“Noooo…”
“Then he’s technically a bastard.”
“Don’t you have any GOOD advice for me, Caligula?” Kim asks.
“There’s only one thing ya can do; tell that hot ass sister of yours. She’s on her way over, isn’t she?”
“Yes.” Kim nods her head.
“Good. When she gets her tell her…tell her I’m single and I want a piece of that action!”
“Caligula!” Kim scowls angrily at the hamster. “You are a HAMSTER! I know my sister very well, thank you very much, and I can say without a shadow of a doubt that she is NOT into beastiality!”
“Her loss.” Just then Kim hears the front door to her apartment begin to open. “Don’t you dare put me in that cage, woman!”
“Hush, Caligula.” Kim says as she gently picks the cage up, places the hamster inside, shuts the cage door back up, and then puts the cage with Caligula inside back down onto the floor. Kim swings her feet over into a sitting position just as she spots her sister, Marie Jones, entering the living room area.
“Hi Kim.”
“How’s it going, sis?” Kim says, waving playfully.
“I’ve been better.” Marie sighs as she walks over and sits down next to Kim on the ratty sofa. She looks down at the hamster and smiles warmly. “Cute hamster.”
“Don’t tell him that. He has a big ego.” Kim says winking at Marie.
“Right. Anyway, how was your visit with Sean’s principal?”
“Well for one he’s stuck up and boring. You would like him.”
“I love you too, Kim.” Marie says chuckling softly. “But more importantly, what did he have to say about Sean?”
“Yeah, that’s the other thing. See, Sean has been making some new friends at school. Ordinarily that’d be great! But Sean’s friends aren’t all that great. They’re the kind of kids who will say ‘hey! Go beat up that kid!’ And Sean apparently listened.”
“So Sean was put up to this by some new friends he made at school?”
“Yup.” Kim nods her head. “Sean told me that himself. The principal thinks its worse. He says these new friends of Sean are typical schoolyard bullies who try to terrorize the entire school.”
“Seriously? He’s getting in with a gang of bullies now?!” Marie sounds furious. Kim just nods her head.
“Yes…and that’s exactly the word the principal used. Trust me, sis, you really would get along with him great.”
“Try and be serious, Kim!” Marie exclaims. “Sean needs to get a good swift kick in the butt for this one.”
“That’s what Caligula suggested.”
“Huh?”
“My hamster.”
“What did…” Marie shakes her head, not wanting to go down that rabbit hole “...I’m just gonna go and have it out with Sean right now!” Marie starts to stand up but Kim grabs her by the arm and pulls her back down.
“No, wait a sec…I think I have a better idea.”
“Sean needs to be punished, Kim.” Marie states. “I know you want to protect him, I know you like him, but he needs to be punished. He’s gone too far.”
“I know and I agree.” Kim nods her head. “You can punish him all you want. I just want your permission to talk to him, to try and reach him, to reason with him.”
“First you wanted to impersonate me in front of his principal to help him, then you insisted that you go see the principal about this…” Marie shakes her head in confusion “...why is this so important to you?”
“I know this is gonna sound crazy but…” Kim sighs “...I really do care about that kid. And it isn’t just because he’s my nephew. I’m sure I’ve said it before but I see a lot of myself in that kid. And that scares me. It really does.”
“But Kim, you’re a good person.”
“I’m not a good person.” Kim shrugs her shoulders. “Maybe I’m better now than I used to be but I really am not a good person. And honestly, it wasn’t that long ago that I was a total wreck. My life was hopeless. I ended up as property of the state which pretty much considered me a lost cause. But you took the chance on me, you reached out to help me. Without you, I don’t know if I would be alive today.”
“But Sean is still young and he has the support system that you never had.” Marie shakes her head. “I really think you’re overreacting here.”
“I hope I am.” Kim sighs deeply. “But that’s why I’m so protective of him. I don’t want to see his life turn out like mine did. So please, let me talk to him.”
“Oh Kim…” Marie leans over and embraces her sister in a tight hug “...he’s your nephew. You never have to ask my permission to talk to him. But yes, you can talk to him about this if you want.”
“Thanks, Marie.” Kim says, smiling warmly. Marie may not understand it but this special to Kim. Marie did reach out in Kim’s time of need to help her several years ago when she was at her darkest point, when she had descended into madness and was locked up. Marie got her the help she needed and even lobbied for Kim to be given another chance. Kim believes she owes her very life to her twin sister. She feels that through Sean she can pay her back. She owes it to Marie to do whatever she can to help.