Chapter 2- watching ones back.
Lee had her interview with the Great Khali; she tried speaking abit in Indian which brought a smile to the giant's face. "Thank you" he said to her clearly.
Ranjin had an idea. "You know, you two could learn from one another. If she is willing to learn Indian… perhaps you could teach him better English?" he asked.
Khali's eyes widened as he nodded to the idea. Lee was all for it too!
As the weeks flew, Lee had not been in on many of the writer's meetings, quite frankly no one told her when one was occurring. Despite the fact she did keep herself busy, she had spoken with many of the WWE superstars on merchandise ideas, one happened to be the Under Armor concept. She gathered all those with large tattoos into a single locker room that had time on their hands, amazingly she got quite a few. Including the elusive Undertaker.
"Ok, this is just a rough idea for you gentlemen, I have been informed that Mr. McMahon has gotten a contract with Under Armor, in order to create a WWE version of it. I was thinking if those of you with large tattoos don't mind sharing your design… we create this…" She unveiled a sweater, a flesh tone color and the markings of Randy Orton.
"Interesting…" muttered Orton.
"The Under Armor people will take certain elements of your tattoos and transfer onto the different flesh tone colors of the Under Armor, so when a WWE fan is working out… they can do so, feeling as if they were one of you. What do you think?" she asked.
The wrestlers mulled over the idea, but Batista seemed to be all for it. "I like it!" he announced.
Taker too seemed to like the idea. "I doubt they will get all of my tats though" he explained.
"With yours sir, I do believe we can take come… creative licensing with it" Lee replied with a grin.
"Sir?" questioned the Deadman.
"Sorry, force of habit"
Ray Mysterio was for the idea as well. "How are we going to advertise it though?" he asked.
"If you allow me gentlemen, I do have a concept to pitch to you." Lee explained.
She began to speak of the commercial idea, which got them all laughing aloud. Especially the ending, none knew Triple H was listening in on it. He too gave out a snickering laughter to the concept. He walked in and called Lee from the room. "You have to come here" he said.
Lee went with him as they entered one of the creative writing meetings. The room was silent as Hunter walked in. "What's going on?" she asked aloud.
"Vince, she has a wicked idea for the Under Armor people!" Hunter announced.
"At the moment, we are more concerned with a WWE storyline."
"Which one?" questioned Lee.
"The concept of Kane" muttered Hayes. "We are hoping that perhaps… Kane take the heavyweight title, the problem is he wasn't that big of a draw in ECW"
"Are you kidding me?" she demanded. "Kane is one of the easiest draws there is out there. ECW may not be that widely accepted, but put a title on him for any other brands, and I assure you, there will be asses in the seats"
"There's an ass here, what's you're point?" Hayes snapped back.
"Don't speak so lowly of yourself Mr. Hayes." Lee instantly quipped back that caught the room off guard. Even Vince himself! "Kane, I strongly believe can draw the crowd if you let him. Let him have a feud with the Undertaker or something, out of brotherly respect. People enjoy when the two bout, the chemistry is there. Yet when it's against their wills, its all the more better. People are going to cheer Kane no matter what. Same with the Deadman. But I am sure either one of those two could make me eat my words."
Lee found herself taking a seat at the table. Vince looked about to see if anyone was going to counter her idea. None came. "The thing is Kane, doesn't want the title" Triple H explained gently. "I don't know if we can convince him otherwise"
"May I try to convince him?" Lee asked aloud.
There was a rather stunned look on Vince's face. "Go ahead and try" he said.
Lee got up and searched for Kane, however she found that the Undertaker was looking for her. "Miss, the under armor idea…" he called out.
Lee turned to face the Deadman. "Yes?"
"I want in on it"
"Good, would you mind assisting me for a moment?" she asked.
Taker shrugged his and followed Lee, she filled him in along the way.