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up for ya
CRASH COURSE
Raven awoke to the smell of pancakes. This usually signalled that one of his old ECW friends has slept on the couch and was sat at the table, digging into Molly's delicious food she'd prepared for them. But pain stabbed through his heart, forcing him to sit up. His sister was lying down on the couch, talking to Molly and filling her mind with poison.
Slowly he pulled himself from the covers and walked to the bathroom for a quick refreshing shower. It felt good against his tortured skin, sifting all the pain away for the moment. After towelling himself dry, he dressed quickly in a black t-shirt and dark tight pants before securing a forest green kilt over the top. His peered into the mirror before him and carefully created white shapeless patterns beneath his eyes with his white body-paint. His hair was beginning to grow into a thick black stubble since he hadn't bothered re-shaving it after the initial shock of cutting it all off. He liked how it looked, maybe he'd grow it all back in dark waves.
He could feel Molly in the kitchen, humming under her breath as she flipped a pancake. Slowly he pulled on a pair of his worn black sneakers and made his shadowy way down the stairs, feeling like he was bleeding into the black carpet. As he reached bottom he saw Chastity sat at the small breakfast table the other side of the kitchen in a room where they ate sometimes. She wore a denim skirt that skimmed her knees with the leggings underneath and a white button up shirt she'd tied at her belly-button. Her hair was still in the plaits and her make-up still as dark. She was sprawled on her chair, in an extremely un-ladylike manner and had her head thrown back in laughter as he came into view.
"Well that's what life was like on the road" she was saying "I mean Paul sometimes paid us, sometimes he didn't but the experience was worth it all, some of the girls were bitches but most of them were ok, most of them put their heart and soul into this business, they couldn't wrestle for shit but they'd catfight or bump real well, it was a great atmosphere"
"If you call great when your best friend betrays you on a regular basis and steals your girl then yes you are correct Chastity" Raven atoned as he crossed the living room "good morning"
She gave him a mock salute as he walked into the kitchen and found Molly serving food onto three different plates. He mentally rearranged his thoughts, trying to keep his more dark ones at bay. She didn't deserve to know about his past and the whores who had wrecked it. She was different, untouchable. She wore faded dark jeans and a low cut navy blue vest, her hair cascading in wild untamed curls down her back in the limited way it could. As usual, she was beautiful in his rainy eyes
"Good morning" he said softly, touching her waist with his hands in a loving gesture
She turned with a pretty moonlit smile and kissed him in the cheek as he turned to collect a plate
"I thought the pancakes would wake you up plenty" she said quietly "you sleep ok last night?"
"Not bad" he replied "yourself?"
"Dreams always haunt me but it was ok" she said picking up the remaining plates "I can live with it"
Raven nodded and carried his plate into the room where Chastity sat. He pointedly sat at the other end of the table from and dug into the plate of beautiful steaming food in front of him. It tasted as heavenly as he expected. Molly for her part sat opposite Chastity and near him, bridging the gap. Chastity grinned at her brother's behaviour and accepted the plate Molly offered her.
"Thanks Molly, this looks real good" she commented, stabbing a piece of pancake with her fork and popping it into her mouth "mmm tastes even better"
Molly smiled and nodded. Raven fumed behind an impassive face. His sister was supposed to be gone but instead she was sat eating their food and enjoying it. Molly was supposed to have thrown her out by now. There was too much at stake, too much burning inside for her to understand. He would never allow anything to hurt her and Chastity could do that. He wanted her out now so that he could talk to Molly. The time had come for him to explain properly to her what had happened.
"Chastity what do you plan to do today?" he asked abruptly
"Spend some time with you"
"That is not going to happen"
She at least had the good grace to look hurt. Raven smirked at her; inside he knew she must be furious. Molly sat silently tucking in her food but he knew she was listening to his thoughts and picking up what she could. That comforted him some what.
"Why not? Jesus, just forget the past and move on, then we can all have a good time" said Chastity, her voice getting louder
"Forget the past? Have you conveniently forgotten what you have done to me?" Raven's own voice became more menacingly as he eyed his sister with furious eyes "how much you have cost me in victories, let alone sweat and anger? You disgust me and I cannot forget what you started"
"You have to grow up" snorted Chastity, shoving her plate aside so that she could focus on Raven "you think you're such a hard man when really, you're a spoilt little rich boy playing to be poor to just appease your stupid grunge ideals"
"You didn't think they were so stupid when you came with me to WCW"
"Anything to escape that hellhole we're forced to call home"
"The same as me Chastity but you chose a different path"
"Oh just because I got to have the Sandman in the end and stop you from destroying him?"
There was a frigid cold silence. Raven glared at his sister before turning his head towards Molly
"Hak's former name was Sandman, it was how he was known in ECW and Chastity is under the strange delusion that she has somehow got something over me by managing to keep one of my enemies away from my grasp"
"I ain't under no delusion bird boy, he's mine now and you ain't ever getting him back"
"Why would I want him back? He is all your's to play with, I want nothing to do with him"
Chastity laughed and got to her feet. There was indignant fire in her eyes as she stared at her brother who stared right back. All he felt was pain and anger looking at her. It made him want to set light to her hair as he had done when they were kids.
"Pride comes before a fall Raven, I'm gonna be back this evening and if you're nice I may even bring the Sandman to see you, you've just gotta shut your hole for a bit and then you can tell Miss Molly here all you've done before you start throwing trash on my past"
She picked up the knapsack from beside her and setting her jaw, marched off out of the house. Raven stared after her. He had no wish to see Sandman or Hak or whatever he was calling himself now. He was part of his past. Just as Dreamer, Beulah, Kimona, Lori and Francine were. Pricked by pain of course whenever he thought of them but no longer part of him. They had destroyed each other, he and Sandman and he Raven was content for it to be that way. He had been through so much which had shaped him the way he was.
He drank down his black coffee and as he put the cup back down, he saw Molly eating her food mechanically as she stared straight ahead. His heart felt cold at the sight of her. She was forced to hear his jumbled thoughts as they seared through his head and know nothing of what he had been through. The sluts who had caused him to stumble and the pain he had caused. He was proud of his legacy but some things were better left never said.
"What a tangled web we weave" he muttered as he picked his plate up and walked to the kitchen
"Do you think Chastity really will bring Sandman here?" Molly asked from the other room
"Most likely not, at least I hope not since I despise him after everything"
Molly appeared at the kitchen doorway, her empty plate in hand and a frown puckering her face. Raven sighed and stood before her, reaching a hand to her face to gently smooth the wrinkles away.
"It's all too complicated for this life we have" he muttered, offering nothing more than a gloomy eyed smile
CRASH COURSE
Raven awoke to the smell of pancakes. This usually signalled that one of his old ECW friends has slept on the couch and was sat at the table, digging into Molly's delicious food she'd prepared for them. But pain stabbed through his heart, forcing him to sit up. His sister was lying down on the couch, talking to Molly and filling her mind with poison.
Slowly he pulled himself from the covers and walked to the bathroom for a quick refreshing shower. It felt good against his tortured skin, sifting all the pain away for the moment. After towelling himself dry, he dressed quickly in a black t-shirt and dark tight pants before securing a forest green kilt over the top. His peered into the mirror before him and carefully created white shapeless patterns beneath his eyes with his white body-paint. His hair was beginning to grow into a thick black stubble since he hadn't bothered re-shaving it after the initial shock of cutting it all off. He liked how it looked, maybe he'd grow it all back in dark waves.
He could feel Molly in the kitchen, humming under her breath as she flipped a pancake. Slowly he pulled on a pair of his worn black sneakers and made his shadowy way down the stairs, feeling like he was bleeding into the black carpet. As he reached bottom he saw Chastity sat at the small breakfast table the other side of the kitchen in a room where they ate sometimes. She wore a denim skirt that skimmed her knees with the leggings underneath and a white button up shirt she'd tied at her belly-button. Her hair was still in the plaits and her make-up still as dark. She was sprawled on her chair, in an extremely un-ladylike manner and had her head thrown back in laughter as he came into view.
"Well that's what life was like on the road" she was saying "I mean Paul sometimes paid us, sometimes he didn't but the experience was worth it all, some of the girls were bitches but most of them were ok, most of them put their heart and soul into this business, they couldn't wrestle for shit but they'd catfight or bump real well, it was a great atmosphere"
"If you call great when your best friend betrays you on a regular basis and steals your girl then yes you are correct Chastity" Raven atoned as he crossed the living room "good morning"
She gave him a mock salute as he walked into the kitchen and found Molly serving food onto three different plates. He mentally rearranged his thoughts, trying to keep his more dark ones at bay. She didn't deserve to know about his past and the whores who had wrecked it. She was different, untouchable. She wore faded dark jeans and a low cut navy blue vest, her hair cascading in wild untamed curls down her back in the limited way it could. As usual, she was beautiful in his rainy eyes
"Good morning" he said softly, touching her waist with his hands in a loving gesture
She turned with a pretty moonlit smile and kissed him in the cheek as he turned to collect a plate
"I thought the pancakes would wake you up plenty" she said quietly "you sleep ok last night?"
"Not bad" he replied "yourself?"
"Dreams always haunt me but it was ok" she said picking up the remaining plates "I can live with it"
Raven nodded and carried his plate into the room where Chastity sat. He pointedly sat at the other end of the table from and dug into the plate of beautiful steaming food in front of him. It tasted as heavenly as he expected. Molly for her part sat opposite Chastity and near him, bridging the gap. Chastity grinned at her brother's behaviour and accepted the plate Molly offered her.
"Thanks Molly, this looks real good" she commented, stabbing a piece of pancake with her fork and popping it into her mouth "mmm tastes even better"
Molly smiled and nodded. Raven fumed behind an impassive face. His sister was supposed to be gone but instead she was sat eating their food and enjoying it. Molly was supposed to have thrown her out by now. There was too much at stake, too much burning inside for her to understand. He would never allow anything to hurt her and Chastity could do that. He wanted her out now so that he could talk to Molly. The time had come for him to explain properly to her what had happened.
"Chastity what do you plan to do today?" he asked abruptly
"Spend some time with you"
"That is not going to happen"
She at least had the good grace to look hurt. Raven smirked at her; inside he knew she must be furious. Molly sat silently tucking in her food but he knew she was listening to his thoughts and picking up what she could. That comforted him some what.
"Why not? Jesus, just forget the past and move on, then we can all have a good time" said Chastity, her voice getting louder
"Forget the past? Have you conveniently forgotten what you have done to me?" Raven's own voice became more menacingly as he eyed his sister with furious eyes "how much you have cost me in victories, let alone sweat and anger? You disgust me and I cannot forget what you started"
"You have to grow up" snorted Chastity, shoving her plate aside so that she could focus on Raven "you think you're such a hard man when really, you're a spoilt little rich boy playing to be poor to just appease your stupid grunge ideals"
"You didn't think they were so stupid when you came with me to WCW"
"Anything to escape that hellhole we're forced to call home"
"The same as me Chastity but you chose a different path"
"Oh just because I got to have the Sandman in the end and stop you from destroying him?"
There was a frigid cold silence. Raven glared at his sister before turning his head towards Molly
"Hak's former name was Sandman, it was how he was known in ECW and Chastity is under the strange delusion that she has somehow got something over me by managing to keep one of my enemies away from my grasp"
"I ain't under no delusion bird boy, he's mine now and you ain't ever getting him back"
"Why would I want him back? He is all your's to play with, I want nothing to do with him"
Chastity laughed and got to her feet. There was indignant fire in her eyes as she stared at her brother who stared right back. All he felt was pain and anger looking at her. It made him want to set light to her hair as he had done when they were kids.
"Pride comes before a fall Raven, I'm gonna be back this evening and if you're nice I may even bring the Sandman to see you, you've just gotta shut your hole for a bit and then you can tell Miss Molly here all you've done before you start throwing trash on my past"
She picked up the knapsack from beside her and setting her jaw, marched off out of the house. Raven stared after her. He had no wish to see Sandman or Hak or whatever he was calling himself now. He was part of his past. Just as Dreamer, Beulah, Kimona, Lori and Francine were. Pricked by pain of course whenever he thought of them but no longer part of him. They had destroyed each other, he and Sandman and he Raven was content for it to be that way. He had been through so much which had shaped him the way he was.
He drank down his black coffee and as he put the cup back down, he saw Molly eating her food mechanically as she stared straight ahead. His heart felt cold at the sight of her. She was forced to hear his jumbled thoughts as they seared through his head and know nothing of what he had been through. The sluts who had caused him to stumble and the pain he had caused. He was proud of his legacy but some things were better left never said.
"What a tangled web we weave" he muttered as he picked his plate up and walked to the kitchen
"Do you think Chastity really will bring Sandman here?" Molly asked from the other room
"Most likely not, at least I hope not since I despise him after everything"
Molly appeared at the kitchen doorway, her empty plate in hand and a frown puckering her face. Raven sighed and stood before her, reaching a hand to her face to gently smooth the wrinkles away.
"It's all too complicated for this life we have" he muttered, offering nothing more than a gloomy eyed smile