Post by Ibuki Ito on Mar 6, 2020 15:53:35 GMT -6
The camera opens outside the legendary Viper Room on the Sunset BLVD, Tommy looks at his watch, the club won’t be open for hours but the door is open as the band playing there tonight is taking their equipment into the club. Tommy looks around and walks over and grabs the mic stand and follows a roadie into the club. He walks in and stops, he looks around and the memories all flood back, all the great times in the 80’s and early 90’s he had inside this club when the wrestling business brought him to LA. It had been years since he stepped foot in this club but wow...did he have good times here…
Another roadie runs into him and looks at him closely, knowing he’s not a member of the crew and is about to say something when Tommy sees a bald guy standing behind the bar doing inventory, he points to that guys and hands the roadie the mic stand and walks towards the bar, the bald man has his back to Tommy as Tommy reaches the bar and takes a seat…
“What’s it take to get some Tennessee Whiskey around here?”
The man stops writing, he doesn’t turn around to greet Tommy yet…
“Nobodies shot you yet?”
“Not yet, I’m sure a few have thought about it but I’m still kicking, I see you are still here, glad to see that, I hate to have to break in a new guy with how I like my drinks…”
“It’s not that hard Tommy, glass, ice, Jack Daniels and spit, I left notes just in case I wasn’t here…”
The bald man turns around with a smile on his face, he reaches his hand out and shakes Tommy’s hand. He grabs a glass, tosses in some ice and starts to pour the Jack Daniels…
“Minus the spit this time…”
“This time…”
The man slides the glass to Tommy…
“This one is on me old friend, I’ll be right back, I have something for you…”
Tommy picks up the glass and holds it up to him as to say ‘thanks’ as the bald man walks away from the bar and into a side office. Tommy looks around and remembers the last time he was in here, it was 1995, shortly after the birth of his daughter, her mother Satan’s Mistress had tracked him down here while he was ‘recruiting’ a local girl who was trying to break into the business. He was there with Bobby Rose and Jimmy Lane, The Southern Express and he had just gotten the girl drunk enough to head back to his hotel room to ‘seal the deal’ when his 3rd wife stormed in and made a scene, she ended up breaking a bottle over the head of the young girl killing any chances of Tommy ‘signing’ her that night and turned the broken bottle on Tommy, he still had the scar on his side where she stabbed him with it before Bobby and Jimmy jumped in, a little late, but were able to calm her down until the cops showed up. They put her in handcuffs and we both ended up being taken outside and questioned…
They asked me if he wanted to press charges and he looked at her, all hot and sweaty in those handcuffs and he just couldn’t, something inside...was turned on and when he looked in her eyes and he could tell she was also, about 15 mins later he had her bent over in the ally and they were ‘making up’, for a second he felt happy, remembering the good times and then he remembered that fact the bitch stabbed him again two weeks later with a fork, missing his left testicle by a ½ an inch...whore had to go but before he could relive leaving her the bald man came walking back with a smile on his face, he slammed down a piece of paper and folded his arms…
“What’s this?”
“Your God Damn bar bill Tommy!!!”
“Oh, well money’s tight at the moment but just put it on my tab…”
He smiles as he lifts the drink to his mouth but the bald man reaches out and takes the drink from him.
“Hey, that one was free…”
“I’m sorry...things are a little tight right now…what the fuck are you doing with your money Tommy? I see you on tv each week, you have a girl on Brawl and a kid in FSW…”
“Yeah and three ex-wives and five kids…”
“All those kids are grown ass adults, please tell me you aren’t still paying for them…”
“It’s complicated...their mothers fucked them all up…”
“Yeah I’m sure it was ALL the mother’s fault and you NEVER being around or ALWAYS cheating on their mothers had NOTHING to do with them all being fucking waste of spaces…”
“Listen, the first two are fine, Julie hated me and forced me to spend the money so they could attend the best private schools back east but April didn’t trust me…”
“Wow you don’t say, YOU WERE STILL MARRIED TO JULIE WHEN YOU MET HER, you had her bouncing from town to town for almost a year when Julie busted the two of you…”
“Yeah, well a man had needs and Julie hated the business, she would never come on the road with me so it was bound to happen and besides...I left Julie for April, made an honest woman out of her but the bitch was crazy, when Buddy came around she wouldn’t leave my side, when it came time for Buddy to go to school she filled out some forms and became his teacher...the boy had no chance with that dim-wit as a teacher, I tried with the boy but once she went back to Philly she barely let me see him…”
“Can you blame her with Maria around?”
“Yeah you got me there…”
“Maria was young, beautiful, talented...everything April wasn’t…”
“And couldn’t spell no, she would let me do anything man...and I mean anything…”
“Including making your life a living hell in that divorce…”
“Which is why I can’t pay this…”
Tommy slides the bill back to the bald man…
“At the moment, I’m still paying on that divorce man, in fact I’m trying to lay low while I’m in town, that bitch seems to have low jack on me, anytime I step foot in this state it’s like something goes off in her brain like a damn bloodhound and she tracks me down and makes my life a living…”
“HELL!!!!!”
Tommy stops and almost goes ghost while by the voice he hears behind him...he looks at the bald man who is smiling ear to ear…
“You didn’t?”
“I did, she pays her tab…”
“And I tossed in a handy if he called me the next time YOU can in…”
“I thought we were friends…”
“Friends let their friend’s ex-wives jerk them off for favors…”
“I fucking hate the music business…Satan’s Mistress…”
Tommy turns around to look at his ex-wife Maria Love
“What have I possibly done to deserve his unpleasant surprise?”
“You broke our divorce agreement you asshole!!!”
“I did not, those checks have cleared each and every time, it’s not my fault you can’t read the post date on them…”
“I’m not talking about the damn money I’m entitled to it shit for brains, I’m talking about the agreement my daughter gets the same treatment that each and every one of your OTHER kids get…”
“I have given Bunny EVERYTHING…”
“Wait, you named your daughter Bunny...Bunny Love?”
“I didn’t, I wanted to name her Sarah but this one took the forms and filled them out while she was high as FUCK…”
“You would have been in the Goddamn room had you not tried to bribe the plastic surgeon a few extra bucks to ‘add a few stitches to make it TIGHT again…”
Tommy laughs as he turns to the bald man
“Bunny’s head was HUGE, tore this one a new one south of the border, there was so much tearing and blood, it was going to be like pushing a hotdog down a hallway, had to try…”
"God you really are an asshole..."
“I was on so many pain killers that Bunny sounded pretty but that’s beside the point…”
“Well let’s get to the point then, she has been given everything…”
“You gave Buddy Killjoy Ito!!!!”
Maria puts her hands on her hips and looks at Tommy who looks confused
“You want me to give our daughter a Japanese man?”
“No asshole, you have that idiot son of yours a blue chip and a job in the EWC, where is Bunny’s blue chip wrestler and her job in the EWC?”
“Are you fucking kidding me right now? Buddy was in the business, he was already a manager in the indies…”
“Who hadn’t won shit…”
“HE WAS IN THE BUSINESS...Bunny is here in LA being an actress…”
“Get your head out of your ass, she’s not an actress, she’s never been on one show or in one movie…”
“Not true, she was in the background on WestWorld…”
“The back of her head was, she needs a job asshole and you got one for Buddy in the EWC…”
“The EWC isn’t hiring announcers, ring girls or backstage personnel…”
“I don’t want her to be like me, asshole, I want more for her, I want YOU to give her her own Killjoy Ito to manage…”
“You’ve lost your damn mind, she’s never managed a day in her life…”
“She’s an actress, she can fake it…I did for years…”
“You think I care, I got mine each and every time so the jokes on you but that’s not how the business works, the talent has to trust his manager…”
“Please, you can’t tell me Killjoy trusted Buddy, he’s a idiot, you talked Killjoy into this move so you could chase that young little…”
“Easy...don’t go there with Gabrielle, you have NO idea…”
“Whatever, I don’t care who you chase these days Tommy but YOU WILL get Bunny a job in the EWC or you will be hearing from my lawyers, see ya Steve…”
“It’s Mark but sure…”
Tommy watches his ex wife walk out of the bar and he shakes his head and rubs his face
“Well it looks like this isn’t going to be paid anytime soon…”
The bald guy grabs Tommy’s tab and walks away from Tommy who reaches into his pocket and pulls out his phone, he flips through his contacts and then holds the phone to his ear
“Hey, it’s Tommy...I need a favor, a BIG one...that’s right, I’m cashing in on the Atlanta Incident...yeah I’m that desperate…”
Tommy shakes his head as the camera fades out...
