I couldn't believe that I was now heading toward Vince McMahon's office to sign a contract to become a part of the WWE. I had always enjoyed watching wrestling and often wondered what it would be like wrestle for a living. Here I was about to find out. Now I wasn't going to kid myself. I knew that this was a short lived thing and I was probably only getting this shot because I was Kevin's sister, but I was determined to enjoy this to it's fullest. I reached my destination and knocked on the door.
"Come in." I heard Vince say.
I opened the door and walked into the office. Vince was setting behind his desk as usual. Jim Ross and Shane McMahon were setting in chairs across from him.
'Ok. As if this wasn't intimidating enough, there was going to be an audience.' I thought to myself as I looked around the room.
Vince stood up and motioned me over to the only empty chair in the room. "Victoria. Right on time I see. Good. If you'll just have a seat, we'll get started. I asked Jim and Shane to join us today so we could get the ball rolling."
I smiled at Jim and Shane as I took the seat that Vince had indicated. "Thank you Mr. McMahon." I then looked over at Shane and Jim and nodded my head; "It's nice to meet you both."
"Ok. Lets get things on the move shall we." Vince said as he headed back around his desk to take a seat.
"Victoria, as I told you last night, a contract has been drawn up for you. It's the standard contract that would be offered to a family member who is being featured in one of our story lines, but I'm confident that you will find the terms quite satisfactory. The duration of the contract is for one month. That does not guarantee how long you will be involved with the WWE. Your story line could be longer or shorter than the contract length. If you are involved for a longer period of time, we will just continue to lengthen the contract period as needed."
I nodded my head and reached for the document that Vince handed me. "Thank you Mr. McMahon. I am very excited to work for your company for however long that may be." I said as I began to scan the document in my hand. I quickly hit the high points and had to force myself to remain emotionless when I saw how much money they were going to pay me for this little stint on WWE TV.
'Hot damn. Not a bad chunk of change for a temporary job.' I thought to myself. Needless to say I was pleasantly surprised by the size of my paycheck. I looked up at Vince "I hope you don't need me to sign this right now sir. I would like a chance to read over it thoroughly before I sign it." I smiled hoping that he would understand my hesitation.
"Of course. I understand. Take the afternoon and look it over. Let Jim or myself know if you have any concerns. Just have the signed copy back in my office before 8pm tonight." I swear I saw a glimmer of admiration in his eye as he said this. Maybe I scored a few points with businessman Vince by wanting to take my time.
"Victoria, have you thought of what stage name you want to use?" Jim Ross asked as he turned to look at me.
"Well, I have given it some thought and have narrowed it down to two." I said looking at the group, "My favorite is Trinity, but if that won't work, I thought about using Savannah."
"I like Trinity. It has a kind of 21st century edginess to it." Shane says speaking up for the first time. "Trinity.... I like it. Let's go with that." Vince concluded. "Now let's discuss the story line."
"Vince, before we move on to that, I do have two things I would like to discuss." I said taking a deep breath. "First, I know that I'm in no way going to be a huge name in the WWE, but I would like to own the rights to the name that I will be using."
"I don't know about that Victoria. WWE usually owns the rights to the name." Vince says shaking his head.
"I understand that sir, but I would like to have some say in what happens to the name once I do step aside." I state.
Vince looked at me and luckily decided that I looked like I would not back down. "Ok. Let me think about this and we'll discuss it before you sign the contract. What is the second thing?"
"I'm very open to the ideas that you may have but, I just want to state; I refuse to be a helpless female. I don't want to be just like the guys, but I will not be a helpless 'oh I can't do anything for myself' woman." I am determined not to budge on this one.
Vince, Shane and Jim all look at me and shake their heads. It's Vince's office and Vince speaks up. "Understood. If there is something in the script that you feel uncomfortable about. Let us know and we will talk about it."
Not a promise, but I guess that it will have to do. The rest of the meeting is spent talking about how I will be introduced as Kev's long lost sister and how I would be worked into the story line.
"How'd it go?" Kev asked as I walked up.
"Ok, I got a copy of my contract but I don't have to have the signed copy back to Vince until tonight."
"So you haven't signed with the company yet?" Trish looked worried. Looking around the table I could tell I had an anxious audience on my hands.
"For all intents and purposes I have agreed, but I haven't actually signed. I told Vince that I don't sign contracts without reading them. Also, I asked Vince about retaining the rights to the name I chose. Vince wants to think about it and we'll discuss it before I sign. My new name is Trinity, by the way."
"After all of that was taken care of, Vince, Shane, Jim Ross and I discussed what's going to happen story line wise. I'm going to be introduced on next Monday's RAW. I'll be introduced as Kevin's sister at the beginning of RAW in a promo with Kev and Shawn. Later that night, I'll be wondering around backstage and bump into Orton and Silicone Barbie-I mean Rena, and that's how the seeds will be planted. Oh, Vince said I needed to start some in ring training ASAP. He wants me to be able to take a few small bumps as soon as possible."
"We've actually been setting here talking about that." Shawn spoke up for the first time. "Kev, Trish, Mark and I are all going to work with you. Since we all have different schedules most of the time we'll each work with you over the next few weeks as we have time. We've worked out a tentative schedule." Shawn says handing me a piece of paper.
"We all have time right now, and the ring is free why don't you go change clothes and we'll head down there and work for a little while." Kev says as they all get up from the table.
As the guys head down to the ring, Trish and I head to the locker room so I can change into some workout clothes.
"I'm afraid I will have found some muscles I didn't have by the end of the day today." I say as I look over at Trish.
"You probably will have." Trish says laughing. "Just think though, you can probably get Shawn to feel sorry for you and give you a full body massage."
"Ooh! That could be fun!" I laugh.
When Trish and I get down to the ring, Shawn, Kevin and Mark were all standing around the ring talking. When they see Trish and I walking up, they get in the ring and lean on the ropes.
Kev tells me, "Ok Vicks. You and Trish get in and start with some basic tie ups and back bumps and we'll go from there. Just to warn you, no one here is going to be easy on you. If you're going to do this you're going to do it the right way."
I turn around and look down at Kev and give him a dirty look, "Do you think I would want it any other way? If there is one thing you should know about me by now Kevin is that I don't do anything half -assed. I don't want to go out there and make myself look stupid much less any of you."
"Ok. Ok. Point well taken. I was just laying down the ground rules." Kevin says shaking his head and holding up his hands in surrender.
Trish and I work for about twenty minutes on tie-ups and backdrops. I learn to take basic bumps and even learn to give and take slaps. Obviously at first I don't need to know anything fancy. After about an hour, the guys are really impressed on how fast I am picking things up. As for me I love being physical and I am totally enjoying working out like this. I can tell however, that I will be stiff and in some pain tonight. I hope I can talk Shawn into a body rub.
After about an hour, we call it quits, because it's time for everyone to get ready for that night's house show. I go back to the women's locker room and shower and change. As I am leaving the locker room to head for catering to watch the night's show, I run into Rena who gives me a snotty look and says,
"So, I hear that you have worked your way into having a job here now. Just what did you do to Vince to get that honor?" She sneers.
"Unlike you Rena, I didn't do anything. Vince just offered me the job. Doing things to people to get what you want is your specialty not mine. I can't wait to mix it up with you sweetheart." With that, I step around her and head to catering. As I move down the hall, I hear Rena mutter under her breath as she is going into the locker room.
At the 8pm that night, I meet with Vince and sign the final copy of my contract. I am officially a WWE employee. Definately not something I had been expecting, but it was exciting all the same. Vince also agreed to the requests that I made earlier. I think he may have agreed partly because I was ballsy enough to ask for them.
As the night goes on I can feel my muscles starting to rebel more and more. By the end of the night I am not quite sure if I will be able to walk that night much less the next day. I'm not quite sure if it will be a blessing or a curse that I will be spending the majority of the day tomorrow in a car traveling.
That night at the hotel, Shawn takes pity on me and pampers me like a princess all the while laughing at my predicament. He draws a bath for me and as I soak, he gets in the tub with me and we talk about all the things that I will have to work on in order to prepare. He is being so supportive, and so sweet I can't help but to think how lucky I have been in the last few days.
As luck would have it I did get that massage after all. Of course it ended up that we both got more than a massage. As I drifted off to sleep in Shawn's arms that night, I could not help but wonder if I would be fortunate enough to remain as lucky or if my luck would suddenly run out.
AN: Same as before. The only thing I own is Victoria. Please read and review.