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The Longest Night - Part Four

Chad

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(The two men fall silent for a while. Dinner’s been over for a while. The plates have been cleared from their table in the Angus Barn’s lounge, while the drinks remain. The waiter and bartender give them their distance, waiting to be called on if necessary. Hornet pulls a couple of pills from his pocket, popping them in his mouth and chasing them with what’s left of a beer.)

RF: So, since I’m asking, what about the heel turn?

Hornet: What about it?

RF: Why? Why then?

Hornet: A couple of reasons. The biggest one was probably a bruised ego. Well, that’s probably the only one, with a couple of reasons for it. After the accident at Fish Fund Park, they left me to sit in the hospital. I know… it’s not like I could’ve done anything else, but there were no calls, no communication. Merritt had his people contact the doctors directly. Only a handful of people came by, and Vizzack and Sunshine were the first. By that point, I had had time to stew… time to figure out what I wanted to do.

RF: And that was go heel?

Hornet: Why not… after ten years, I figured it was about time. Chad had been pushing for it for years, but thankfully I had held him off. But he didn’t know about it, even then.

RF: What do you mean? You went…

Hornet: Yup. I went into business for myself.

RF: And he didn’t fire you?

Hornet: Of course not. I was worth even more to him after the turn. He didn’t like it, of course, especially not since it was against Vizzack. He had groomed him as ‘the next Hornet.’ And he might have been too, if he had been able to hold up under the pressure.

RF: Under the pressure of you and Love and everyone else coming after him?

Hornet: You know better than that, Ryp. The champ has to be the guy everyone’s gunning for, in the ring and out. The matches are big, the money’s big, but most importantly, the politics are high stakes.

RF: So, wait a second. You said there were two reasons. One was the accident and all that… but the other?

Hornet: Ego-driven revenge.

RF: For what?

Hornet: For Merritt screwing me at the FISH FUND before.

RF: The Career Match? He screwed you?

Hornet: Indeed he did.

RF: You’ve gotta be kidding me.

Hornet: Nope. I don’t know whether GUNS knew about it or not, but Chad sent his old manager down to ringside. I was hitting the third Hornet splash… and bang, right into the post. The speech afterwards wasn’t planned… hell, nothing that whole night was planned. It was just supposed to be GUNS and I, winner take all.

RF: But why would he do that? It was obvious GUNS was on his way out at some point.

Hornet: As much as good old El Toro said he wanted out, I don’t believe it for a second. He hung on for over a year after that and has been back twice since. GUNS may hate the CSWA itself, he may even be serious about ‘tearing it down brick by brick,’ but he’ll never refuse a paycheck. On the other hand, Merritt was able to get out of my contract, and eventually restructure it. It took me until the whole ClaimStakers mess to get back to where I was, at least financially.

RF: And Merritt didn’t flip out when you jumped all over Vizzack?

Hornet: Of course he did. But then he realized that while he didn’t get what he wanted, which was to have me ‘pass the torch’ to Vizzack, which would have ended up being a huge blunder, he got me as a heel, which he had wanted for at least three years. At that point, he figured I’d be done by now anyway.

RF: Would you still do it the same way?

Hornet: Would I have gone heel? Probably at some point… that’s just part of the business. Would I have done it with a branding iron on Vizzack? Would I have done it simply for revenge and ego? Nope.

RF: And the ClaimStakers?

Hornet: I’d still do that. It was a smart move at the time. There are other things I wouldn’t have done around that whole mess, though.

RF: Like what?

Hornet: Two words: Teri Melton.

RF: I think I’ve gotcha.

Hornet: You and the rest of the world.

RF: I guess that’s what I don’t get. How do you put up with it? Everyone knows so much about you. I mean, I can relate, but not to the level, not to the length of time.

Hornet: You mean how do you live in a fish bowl? Simple… you don’t know you’re in one until you hit the glass. You can see everything else outside… it’s there, it’s just not a part of your life. And to be honest, it works the other way too. There are things that can’t get inside, some good, some bad.

RF: So where are you now?

Hornet: You mean in the ring? Face, heel, who knows… cause I sure don’t. I’ve spent months trying to help maintain the integrity of the World Title… only for Merritt to throw me in against Windham, which is sure to be a debacle one way or the other.

RF: What do you mean?

Hornet: Look at the times he and I have met, Ryp. Interference, a referee heart attack, and a huge screwjob.

RF: Point taken.

Hornet: I don’t know. If I win the title, that means I’ve actually got to step up and be a champion again… be the guy whose head is on the chopping block. If I lose, then it means I lose to a guy that I can’t stand losing to right now.

RF: What do you mean?

Hornet: I can’t say that I hate Mark. But I hate what he’s become. Well, even that’s not true… I don’t know what he’s become. Ever since the whole thing with his family started to move to some sort of conclusion, he’s been completely shut off.

RF: Not to step on any toes, but you did sleep with the man’s wife, didn’t you?

Hornet: His ex-wife, Ryp. And most of that was because we were going through the same thing, not because we had some sort of torrid love affair. Mark disappeared. He ran off and started hanging out with prostitutes, started throwing money around in the seediest places he could find. He left his child without a father, left his wife without a husband, and he left me without our friendship. He babbles on and on about “The Awakening,” announces that Troy is his brother, and disappears again. Then he decides to come back after an eternity, with Sunshine Del Payne hanging on him, no less.

RF: I wish I knew what to tell you.

Hornet: You and me both. All I know is that right now he’s the World Champion. I can’t dispute it, but there’s nothing that says I can’t take it away. Even if that wasn’t in my plans in the first place.

RF: What was in the plans?

Hornet: Who knows. To be married and planning a family. To be satisfied with being the veteran wrestler who comes back every so often to give a new guy the rub or put over somebody. To be happy.

RF: Nothing wrong with that.

Hornet: That’s what I keep telling myself. But somehow it doesn’t work out. Hell, Ryp, I better get home before this turns into any more of a “Why me?” pity party than it already is. And I didn’t even get to talk about your plans around here.

RF: Not a problem. We’ve got plenty of time, especially now that we might actually be in the same time zones at the same time for a change.

Hornet: (laughs) True enough, man. It’s good to have you around.

RF: It’s good to be around. So who do we talk to about the check around here?

Hornet: Not necessary, it’s all on account.

RF: I can’t let you do that.

Hornet: Why not? I billed it to Chad.

(Both men laugh as they stand and head for the exit. A few moments after they both leave, Hornet returns, picking up the last of another beer at the table, as his other hands throws something into his mouth. He turns the bottle upside down, emptying it and swallowing.)

Backstory:
The Longest Night - Part 3
The Longest Night - Part 2
The Longest Night - Part 1
Evening's End
When You Can't Sleep
 

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