TITLE: Sins of Omission Chapter One?
AUTHOR: Juliet 3:16
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RATNG: R
CONTENT: VIOLENCE, ADULT LANGUAGE, anything else is to be determined.
CATEGORY: ADULT, ANGST, DRAMA
SPOILERS: Through at least SummerSlam 2002, though this takes place 16 years afterwards, I'd say specifically where in SummerSlam but that would spoil the prologue.
SUMMARY: One pivotal event in Triple H's life comes back to haunt him 16 years after the fact.
DISCLAIMER: Vince McMahon owns almost everybody in this story. Question, if he owns the wrestlers still working for him at this time, does he own the children that appear in this story too?
DISTRIBUTION: WWOMB, anybody else please ask.
NOTES1: Yes, it was HBK's music that Cam used in the prologue.
NOTES2: I started this before I learned that Michaels and his wife were having another child beyond Cam. Take that into consideration reading Chapter One. And yes, Shawn does have a sister named Sheri.
Sins of Omission
Chapter One
Making His Mark
Cameron Michaels and Daniel Benoit entered the backstage area after defeating Zack Pillman and Triple H. Both men had very different views on the win. Daniel was simply happy to get a victory under his belt. For Cameron it represented the first victory in a long war to take down the people who played a part in his father's murder and managed to get away with it.
"Hey, you wanna come with me and my friends, you know? Celebrate the win?" Daniel asked Cam.
Cameron hesitated. Daniel hung out with a group of young wrestlers, most of whom like themselves were second and in one case, third generation wrestlers. Two of whom Cam was nervous about. Their families didn't have good past with his late father, and could very well hate Cameron on the spot because of what his father did to theirs all those years ago.
A ring from the cell phone he'd picked up from where he left it with a tech backstage saved him from committing an answer to Daniel one way or another. Though looking down at the caller, Cam wasn't so sure about the call being a saving grace. He couldn't put it off however,
"Listen, I've gotta take this," Cameron told Daniel heading towards the lockerroom he had staked out for the night; wanting to keep his presence a secret for as long as possible.
"Family?" Daniel asked, figuring that Cameron's family probably wasn't happy about Cam's career choice; if they even had a clue before RAW. Certainly the circumstance of Daniel's own father's retirement had soured Daniel's family on the business.
"Yeah," Cam said softly, "I'll try to come by later."
He and Daniel went their separate ways. Daniel to join his friends; Cam to his isolated lockerroom. Pressing the talk button, he braced himself for the verbal onslaught to come.
"Hello?" he barely got out before a young irate voice sounded in his ear.
"Cameron Cade Michaels, how could you do this?" the female voice hissed in his ear.
"Hi, Sheri," Cam calmly said to his fifteen year - old sister, who was born after their Dad's death. Sheri was named after their Dad's sister.
"Don't you 'hi Sheri' me, Mom nearly had a stroke when she saw you on TV tonight. Wrestling Helmsley? What were you thinking!"
"It was a tag match and we won, if you hadn't noticed, which obviously you did, if your calling me, "Cam quipped trying not to get annoyed, "and what why were you and Mom watching wrestling in the first place?"
"That's not the point and you know it!" Sheri admonished her older brother, "the point is, Cam, your hurting Mom."
"And the fact that Hunter Hearst Helmsley killed Dad and basically got away with it doesn't hurt Mom everyday of her life?" he replied hotly, then sighed. He knew Sheri had not meant to imply that he would deliberately hurt their mother. Truth be told, he did not have many memories of his father. Cameron was two and a half when his father, Shawn, was killed. But he could remember the sadness that permeated around the time of his Dad's death and that his pretty mother aged seemingly overnight. Sheri however, didn't have any memories of their father and therefore did not know the affects the loss of a parent she never knew on those around her.
Looking up, he saw two men rushing towards him; neither with what anybody would call happy expressions on their faces.
"Look, Sheri," Cameron sighed, "I gotta go. I'll talk to you and Mom about this later. Love you, bye." With that Cameron hit end on his cell just as the two men came upon him.
"Calling your family to gloat about your little stunt tonight?" Shane McMahon started in on Cameron, "can't imagine your Mommy was thrilled to know you were here tonight."
"Oh yeah, you really know something about family don't you, Mr. McMahon?" Cameron sarcastically asked with a cold smirk plastered on his face, "I mean, weren't you the one that skipped his parents own funeral? And how long has it been since you talked to your sister? Twice in fourteen, fifteen years?"
The co - owner of the WWF's face morphed into a look of pure fury. He took a step towards the son of a man his own late father considered as a second son, rage in his dark eyes. A hand stopped him. Eric Bischoff gave Cam a smirk colder than Cameron's. The younger man turned towards the commissioner.
"Ah, so I finally meet the guy who let Helmsley murder my father. You look even shorter in person than my Uncle Kevin said you were."
There was an icy humor in Bischoff's eyes, as the commissioner spat out his own venom.
"You think you're so cocky aren't you?" he said, his voice barely betraying the ire his entire body radiated," you think you can come in on a live broadcast, unannounced and without any kind of contract, and just act like the second coming of your own man?"
"One," Cameron said, keeping the biting, even tone in his voice, "if you'd looked at your paperwork, which obviously you old geezers don't, you'd realize that I have a valid, legal contract with the WWF which went into effect tonight, and two: Not looking to be my father. Looking for revenge on everybody involved with killing him. Something you might want to keep note of, Commish," he finished giving Bischoff a pointed look.
Shane snorted, "you think you can just walk in here and just do whatever you please to anybody you don't like or have some long ago grudge with? Got news for you little punk: Things don't work that way in this company. Even if Benoit only had a minor part in tonight's stunt; you going to pay serious hell for humiliating the Game and the Champion. We'll make sure of it."
"Maybe, maybe not," Cam replied, "all I know is threats really don't impress me. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got some friends to meet up with," Cameron to the two men, shoving his way between them as he left his lockerroom. The pair made no attempt to stop him, which Cameron thought was unfortunate. He was pretty sure he could kick those two old goats asses easily.
He headed down towards the lockerroom Daniel Benoit gave him earlier in the evening, hoping the man and his friends were still there. He figured in spite of the potentially hostile reception he might receive from certain corners, it was probably a good idea to take Daniel up on his offer after the encounter with Shane McMahon and Eric Bischoff. It seemed in the span of a half hour he'd amassed a slew of enemies.
And it was only his first day.
Hopefully more to come. You'll meet Daniel and his friends in the next chapter.
Thanks for reading!
