Chapter 10 – Going to plan
"Ready mate?" Eidur asked Damien as he waited for his entrance to the ring. Damien smiled but said nothing. The music hit and Damien took his first step behind the curtain. "See you in a minute!" Eidur called.
Impatiently Eidur watched the match on the screen, close to the curtain. He watched along with many other superstars and crew wondering if Damien would stick to the script in his match against the unknown wrestler Steve Nelson.
Many of the WWE staff believed Damien should have been released after the stunt he pulled at Bad Blood, Eidur and Dale had managed to get Damien to keep his job. Now Eidur was praying he did the right thing.
To the shook of everyone, including Eidur deep down, Damien stuck to the script. He had no reason not to, his aim was the destroy Steve Nelson and he was doing a good job of it. Until Eidur had to go to the ring to stop it.
As scripted, Ryder once again had Damien disqualified. Damien didn't seem to care, he grinned evilly at Steve as Ryder dragged Damien backstage.
"That was great, you guys work this perfect!" Dale congratulated them as they came back from the ring.
"Thanks, nice script work," Eidur complimented.
"Nice to see you stick to the script sometimes," Butch said to Damien but Damien just glared at him.
"You guys got to do you're segment, the after match thing. The break is happening now so you guys got to get filming in the locker room," Dale told them. They had no time to reply and headed to the 'locker room'.
"Okay, you guys know what you're saying?" the camera guy checked.
Eidur looked at Damien, who nodded.
"Yep, all ready!" Eidur said.
The cameras rolled and Eidur and Damien said their lines:
Damien's menacing grin was still across his face, it wasn't hard for him to act as he just thought about what he had done.
"You got to stop this! You got to stop beating people like you do!" Eidur proclaimed, his acting not entirely great.
"Why? It's my job," Damien said, expressing his very own feelings.
"Yeah, but… not like this man! You'll kill someone!" Eidur said.
"Damien!" Shane McMahon stormed into the dressing room, no concern that someone could be getting ready for a match. "What was that? You trying to get me sued!"
"I was doing my job," Damien said again, sounding like an excuse though.
"Your job is to wrestle, not destroy, get your act together or you're out," Shane yelled before leaving the room. The segment ended on Damien's menacing look.
"And cut!" the camera guy said, pushing a button on the camera, "Nice work guys," he smiled. Eidur smiled then led Damien out the locker room.
"See, you can do it," Eidur said to Damien as they walked alone down the corridor.
"Yeah, you know I'm sorry about what happened before, I wish I never did it," Damien said, half lying. He hated lying to Eidur as he was his only real friend but knew that Eidur would hate him if he knew he enjoyed every second of pounding on Butch and Mary. Just as much as he enjoyed beating on Steve Nelson that night.
"Man! What was that! You were killing me!" Steve yelled as he approached them in the corridor.
"That? It was nothing!" Damien said.
"Puh! Whatever man, so long as I don't wrestle you again," he wobbled off holding his back.
"I guess I still need to get used to this," Damien answered Eidur's questioning look.
"Oh well, you're getting there," Eidur smiled, thinking he had quite possibly changed Damien for the better.