Hellcat, Dove, Catherin Ellison... The simplest of names isn't always the simplest of characters to play! You'd think having your own name as a character would be easy? Not in this case... Catherin is the daughter of the King of Kings... and heavy is that crown to wear. Especially when the King's in charge of talent relations in an opposing company. Hellcat was wild and unpredictable and finally Dove... Dove was protective and calculating. It was almost like having multiple personalities in the ring but that was the fun of having complete control of your own characters now. Of her three Hellcat was always Jericho's favorite but Catherin was growing on him because she could challenge him on his level while channeling the Bitch her grandmother was known to be.
She was known as a mixed gender wrestler and each Dove and Hellcat were used equally only Catherin was saved for special times and that was against ones whom she felt confident in being able to handle her and right now she was saved for her boyfriend. Normally couples wanted to be together in the ring for support but not everyone chose to. Infact Catherin and Jericho were best on different sides, and in their own story lines but like on the ship they will hold each other in check. But her in ring appearances have been stuck to support for her friends as she wasn't cleared by the head trainers and her own management team to wrestle yet. This fact confused many that only knew her as Dove in the independent league but to others it was a system of respect for her elders, the very elders that had nurture her love of wrestling her whole life
"Hey Dove... when can we see Martha and Floyd go one on one?" was the one question she received the most since the cruise. "we'll see..." was the only answer she could give them and it was starting to wear thin on her.
"Ahh Birdy, Danhausen..."
"Sorry Donavan I'm not in the mood right now." she sighed cutting her bestie off mid question. Pulling out her cell she was about to smash it when a hand caught hers and saved it.
"I don't want to talk right now." she cautioned him in a quiet voice without even looking up from the floor.
"Tough shit, you're going to march your ass into my locker-room for a meeting, Catherin!" a pissed voice spoke in a hushed tone
"Meeting, right... Nice to see you too Jericho" she murmured pulling her hand away and hopped off the stack of boxes she had perched herself up on. "Lead the way El capitaine..." she replied sarcastically with a deep bow.
Ears perked up at this and eyes followed as Jericho led Dove off to talk in a way that normally meant but it was just play for these two but none needed to know that. So, once they were alone behind closed doors, she knew the topic and this time it was about her bitch character.
"Well?" she asked right before his lips crushed against hers. "Now that's better..." she breathed before kissing him back.
"Sorry I couldn't get here sooner, how did the meeting go with Dustin and Paul? He asked kissing his way along her jaw only to stop when he realized she was just standing there "Baby? What's wrong?" he asked now knowing that there was definitely something wrong.
"It didn't... I'm shelfed!" she choaked
"WHAT?" he roared furiously "By Who?"
"The lawyers... All because of the bullshit Vince was pulling... Momma and Poppa can't manage me anymore and I need a management outside of the WWE!" she explained to him as tears started pouring down her face.
"Like Fuck they are!" taking hold of her hand with fingers woven together Jericho walked her threw the backstage not caring who seen or what story line he had. No one fucked with his Hellcat's dreams!
It didn't take long to find Tony and before he could even explain the legal side of the problem Jericho took a pen and paper and started writing on it and signed it. "Now sign it Catherin... Tony You're witness to this. This document states that I Christopher Keath Irvine am here by Catherin Mary Ellison's management!" he stated breathing heavily watching as she and two witnesses all signed the contract. "Now when's her next match?"
Tony's eyes about popped out of his head at how fast this turned around "Dark taping has an opening tomorrow!" he replied after looking at the schedule. "Are you sure this is what you want Miss Ellison?" he asked watching how she was trying pull herself together."
She nodded "absolutely! If its mean's I can wrestle then he's my manager now!"
Smiling Tony nodded and hooked the contract to his clipboard "Chris, I will talk over the details soon!" ... "And, good luck with the in-laws after this" he noted knowing that they both were probably going to catch hell at home.'
"In-laws?" Danhausen mouthed having followed them away from the boss to see what was wrong.
"We're not married... we just act it and I had a family management team... so my parents aren't going to be too happy this had to happen in the first place." she tried to explain while Jericho walked aside to make an important call.
"Paul what happened? Don't worry I just placed myself as her management to save her career. Thanks. Heartbroken and crying, but now crying happy tears" he walked over and kissed her tenderly in front of everyone. He wasn't Chris Jericho in that call, he was Chris Irvine taking care of his girlfriend. "Alright here," he said passing the phone over to her.
"Hey Poppa. Uncle Dustin told me. Are you sure? Me? I told Tony that I was sure of the change as long as I can wrestle. Thank you so much Poppa, I love you too." she handed the cell back over to Chris before jumping up and down hugging her bestie Danhausen.
"That went better than I expected! He was relieved that I took over because he couldn't find anyone in his connections that would take her on and he had been making calls all day" Jericho explained to their small group. "Looks like we get to dig into our bag of ideas after all for skits Hellz" he smirked at her making her smiled brighter than any had seen her in a long time. "Floyd/Martha, feud with the JAS, Catherin/Jericho all of it's on the table now Kitten!"
" Hellz, Kitten?" a deep voice questioned walking up behind them. "You're not talking about my Hellcat now are ya Jericho?"
"Uncle Billy..." Dove exclaimed jumping up to give her uncle a big hug "Chris fixed the management problem; he took over for Poppa!" she explained excitedly "Now I can wrestle how I want..."
Billy Gunn laughed and hugged her tight before setting her down "Good because Dustin and I decided that you were ready to go." he said giving her the good news.
Wrapping his arms around her from behind Jericho couldn't stop grinning "You're the Boss now! What you want to do I'll do whatever I can to make it happen!"
"Ugg get a room you too..." both Gunn boys replied as they rolled their eyes at the couple. They had known Dove since they all were little so it was very awkward seeing your cousin flirting.
"Yours or mine?" she asked looking up at Jericho before taking his hand and began pulling him away.
"REALLY? We didn't mean NOW... Grow up you two!" the Gunn boys called out like they wanted to get sick. Both Jericho and Dove laughed as they left that area for the training ring so he could work with her on submission moves in reality.
After leaving the arena to head off for the next location Jericho was driving and Dove was settled into the passenger seat with both Danhausen and Jake Hagar in the backseat. Her excitement and energy had worn off and she was already half asleep in her seat. Making it half way before needing to call it a night, Hagar carried the still sleeping Dove to the room she was sharing with Jericho before heading off to his room with Danhausen. Jericho was able to completely strip her down out of her jeans, hoodie and sneakers and tuck her into their bed before she started to stir. Chuckling softly to himself he settled her back down and get into bed next to her.
It wasn't long before dove woke to a horrible nightmare and narrowly avoided punching Jericho which was already for "Easy baby, its only me" he whispered when she started to roll over and cry against his chest "shhh..."rubbing her back he started to sing to her softly easing Dove back to sleep. Sadly, this was a mild reaction to one of her night terrors. The more stress she is under the worse they get but he never stops trying to calm her and singing he found was the fastest way to calm her to sleep. But by morning se would be rested and unaware.
"Morning baby..." she would whisper to him after letting him sleep in before giving him a loving kiss to start his day with only this morning. "Sorry if I had a nightmare last night. I thought I heard you singing so I think I might have had one..." she apologized.
Chuckling he kissed her back and pulled her lower half up tighter against him "Just a few whimpers" he muttered. She smirked against his lips and moved closer and rested her one leg on top of his excepting his advances. Making out in the morning was a new thing she had started taking a little further excepting his touches and dry fucking.
"Don't tease me Chris, please..." she whispered surprising him slightly but wasn't turned down as he would kiss her deeply and took care of both of their needs until they both ended up needing to rest again.
That night at the stadium the crowds were arriving and the talent were out doing meet and greet's and signings in the main lobby leaving Dove alone in Her's and Jericho's official locker-room. She was nervous about what kind of match she was going to be a part of and what outcome it should have. Most importantly which of her three personalities should she use for it.
"Knock, knock." Jericho called out cracking the Lockeroom open cover up we've got company." he added just to be safe. "Come on in" she called out from inside. Walking in with Hagar and others from the JAS, he couldn't help but laugh at seeing Dove sitting on the floor cross-legged watching an old WW match of his from 2004 munching on a bag of popcorn "Research?" he inquired as his group walked in and also chuckled at the site and laughed when all he got was a thumbs up.
Max factor watched her for a few moments "Now this explains a lot about the independent shows I seen her in."
Hagar shook his head no "This is just how she relaxes... wait till you see her in a match against Jericho" he noted with a knowing smirk.
"SHHHH, he's getting his ass kick!" Dove called out as screams of pain could be heard on the laptop.
"Now this I gotta see?" Tay Conti laughed before joining the older woman on the floor. The men just shook their heads and went about their business planning out that night's actions while anna jay joined the women watching the old wrestling match.
A ding from Jericho's cell sounded but went unanswered as he was talking. Sighing Dove closed the laptop and excused herself taking only her gear bag with her made it before anyone could stop her. The JAS wasn't 'her' team and it uncomfortable at times to be around them.
"Hey..." a familiar voice called out behind her after she was already half way down the hall towards the training room. "Hold up, please"
"I have to get a work out in to warm up before my match, of which I still have no clue as to anything about!" she explained with a heavy sigh when she li stopped but never turned around.
"I know, I know," Jericho nodded knowing how frustrated she was "I couldn't say anything in there because it's against the JAS... you're to intervene and help Danhausen in a match against jake and myself. It's a one-sided match with you two losing."
"NO!" she replied "You can go to hell I won't do it!" she stated ready to leave the AEW in that second
"Good, because I just pulled that idea out of my ass because even, I have no idea who you're up against right now!" he replied catching her and held onto both of cheeks and holding her in place. "Breath Baby, I'm not dropping the ball on you. I promise I'm not" Jericho reassured her before pulling her into a hug and kissed the top of her head.
"You're a dickwad you know that!" she mumbled beneath her breath wrapping her arms around his waist. "Look I have to warm up. I'll talk with you later Chris." she sighed not wanting to let go but had to force herself to.
Sighing heavily to himself he knew he had to figure something out, she can't keep going on like this and he feared her running off again... or worse yet quitting wrestling all together with the shit her adopted family is going through right now. "I'll be around to join you after I'm done here, we can get to work on submission holds." letting her go he smiled softly at her before heading back to his Lockeroom to finish the JAS meeting.
"Birdy, wait up" Danhausen called out in his own voice, having not yet gotten into character yet, no matter what id she uses now still his birdy! "Where are you off to?" he asked curiously.
Smiling over at her best friend he nudged her head "to work out, he's having a jearkoff meeting with the JAS in OUR locker-room..." she explained sounding a little put off by it."
"Change in mine." he offered up easily enough "I was watching Vikings last night and I had the best idea for Catherin... make her some Viking inspired warrior like from the show and maybe find some music to go with it. She would be even more frightening in my opinion." He recommended knowing that she had yet to give the character an identity. "Kitty has her black and orange skull; Dove is all HU hoodie and jeans with simple black pads so why not give her, her own outfit that will be similar to HHH's king of Kings but just different enough."
Dove looked at him stunned, "Donovan, you my man are a fucking genius... and Martha's her battle weapon!" this was just the idea she had been searching for. "Her father's the King of Kings... just not the King, everyone thinks it is." she laughed loving the idea. "Maybe some deep throaty Viking song as an intro, but that leaves Hellcat without an into so I'll have to make one up a new one."
"What about Vikings and Hellcat?" Jericho asked walking in on their conversation already in his warm up gear "I thought you were headed to workout Babe?" he asked with how she was relatively still in the same place he left her.
"Donovon had the idea of making Catherin a Viking warrior and give her a king of kings vibe but without going too far into Poppa's king of kings identity." she explained filling him in as the three started walking towards the warm up ring. "It also reminded me I have to still make a new intro for Hellcat too."
Taking her ring bag from her, Jericho nodded his head at the ideas "I like it! Painmaker facing off against a Viking warrior bitch. Good way to direct her visually away from Moolah and Hunter but still keeping that core to her character" he said proudly "Now, it's back to school young padawan..." he laughed as the three entered the training ring together to help hone her skills in submission holds.
Three holds in and Danhausen had to call it quits and sat breathing hard in the corner while Jericho and Dove continued on with others now gathering around the ring like it was back with no fans. Many were now seeing Dove in a new light with how hardcore her training really was. There was no talking between the two in the ring only a near full on match with their cheers fueling both wrestlers on. Nia Jax was one who was right in Dove's corner cheering her on the loudest. Even their boss Tony Khan was right there cheering, he now could see exactly why Jericho reacted the way he did and placed himself as Manager but coach and trainer as well in the talk they had earlier that day to hammer out the finer points of Doves new contract.
"I can see now I was underestimating you when I was told you're an intergender wrestler. You'll have the details of your match by the third one tonight. Be ready to bring your all. Do you have an intro?" Khan asked having climbed up into the ring to issue a former apology to her.
Breathing hard she looked to Jericho who was also breathing equally as hard "I have three characters as Chris informed you so it all depends. I'm sure I can find something have played but a real intro will take time to create. I stunt drove Hellcat's old intro myself but I have to completely re do hers, um Dove's is simple Hollywood Undead that's already been approved."
"Catherin's intro is in the works too, Tony. My creative team here just submitted their final ideas." Jericho noted motioning to Donavan Danhausen with his new title in her management team.
"Alright since Dove's ready to go we stick with her until the others are ready." Tony Khan replied shaking each of the three's hands before leaving the ring.
"Dove," Nia Jax asked waving her to the side of the ring to ask her a question "That was an impressive t session you had with Jericho. Where did you train to wrestle like this?"
Squatting down Dove smiled "All over, I'm a backstage brat! I grew up in the business just like the Gunn club, Hook... My grandmother is one of the most hated in all Professional Women Wrestling and I was adopted by a top tier Pro when I lost my birth family when I was little. Then after high school I went to the Heart family school in Canada. Chris trained in The Dungeon so he's the closest person here who I can turn to for clinics in submissions … just like what you seen." she explained. Behind her Jax could see a look of pride on Chris Jericho's eyes as his girlfriend spoke of him and her training origins.
"Well, Welcome to the family Dove!" Jax smiled reaching out and clasping Dove firmly on the shoulder.