The scene opens in Nome, Alaska, in an older log cabin home. It looks as if no one has been in it for years, but it is fully furnished. In fact even the answering machine on the kitchen wall flashes 32. Its as if who ever lived here just picked up and left. The front door opens slowly, and from it, walks in Sara Pettis, along with her estranged cousin from Japan, Kotomi. Together they bring their things in and set them down.
"This place, what is it?" Kotomi asks her younger cousin as they set down their things.
Sara doesn't respond at first. She just soaks it all in. She walks up the stairs to the right, just after walking in the door slowly, Kotomi following her. She gets to the top, to the second floor, and begins to walk down the hall, running her hand along the wall as she does. She gets to the last room on the left, and opens the door. Inside it is a small bed, obviously for a child. The walls are pink, and there is a white "vanity" style dresser up against one of the walls.
"Kotomi," Sara begins, "This is where I was born, this is home."
Indeed it is. This is the house in Nome, Alaska that was owned by Becky Thompson before marrying Will Schorg. It has been years since anyone has lived her, the last inhabitant was Sara's Grandmother, who passed away when she was 5. But for the most part, a lot of it is the same as it was years ago. Sara sits on the bed for a moment, she can hardly remember any of it. Kotomi just looks at her from the door way, seeing that Sara is emotionally effected by where she is.
"You like me too leave you alone?" She asks Sara.
"No, I'm alright, I just, I just gotta let it all sink in I think." She answers.
Sara gets up from the bed, and passed her cousin, going across the hall. She opens the door, it's the master bedroom. She walks in, a lot of her grandmother's things are still there. She looks on the nightstand, theres a picture of her mother when she was Sara's age. Sara picks it up, and looks deeply into it.
"Your mother?" Kotomi asks.
"Yea, it is." Sara answers.
"You look like her." Kotomi says to her.
"Really, everyone says I look like Amp?" Sara tells her.
"You do, but you have your mothers eyes." She tells her.
"Thanks so, do you." Sara replies.
"But....you've never seen my mother." Kotomi says puzzled.
"I...uh....just...hey lets go un-pack."
Sara sets the picture back down, and leads Kotomi out of the room....
Well, I called it. Seriously, I was saying all last week that it was probably Foley that was taging with Badger. So wheres my prize, come on, I should get something. Well anyway, any questions to how me and Sean were gonna do together I hope got put to rest. I have to say that I was really pleased with how everything came out. Now I think we need to face the fact that we're probably considered the underdogs for the rest of this tournament. All the other teams have people who have accomplished so much. But that shouldn't mean so much, Sean and I are on a roll. And the fact is, when you're hot you're hot.
So now it's Kamikaze and Nirvana. Too be honest, Nirvana has always given me the creeps a little bit. What with the whole, eating babies and all that. Makes me feel kinda weird that Mom hung out with him when I was little. Why mom hung around him, I'll never know, she had a different taste in the company kept. But the fact remains that out of the four of us, he's the most accomplished person going into this thing. One of SFT's Greatest, and one of RWA's Greatest. Theres absolutely no room for error this week, so you better believe I'm going to be focusing on this match, unlike last week when I couldn't seem to get my thoughts straight. If it wasn't for Sean helpping me get things in perspective just before the match, who knows how that could've turned out for us. Not even the fact that another Pettis like me has surfaced will distract me enough, in fact, it's the whole reason I decided to move back out here to Alaska. Mom lived out here to get away from it all, and it's the perfict spot to do so. Kamikaze, well, the wounds from the night we fought are still not healed, not that you had anything to do with them really. But you are still going down as the first person to beat me in RWA, so obviously you've proven that you can hold your own in this match too. Winning this match this week would be the great accomplishment of my career to this point I'm not going to let it pass me easily. Winning this entie tournament would be something both Sean and myself can use to build to greater things. Those belts are just out in front of us, we're going to get them. I just know it.
The scene comes back with Sara sitting at the kitchen counter with a note pad and a pen. She presses the play on the answering machine, trying to go through the trash, and the important stuff.
"Hey mom, it's Beck, just calling because you didn't call today. Give me a call back." The machine plays. It's her mother's voice. She knows what it's about too. These messages are from when they found out her grandmother had passed. She goes through them, and they all confirm it. Some of them are a little newer then them, but nothing really worth anything. Finally she gets to the 32nd and last message.
"Hello, Mrs. Thompson, this is Dr. Kingsley of the Ozone Park Hospital. I'm sorry if you haven't found out yet, but your daughter Rebecca surcumed to her cancer this morning, and we need to know if her good organs might, well, be used for transplant. Your son in law seems to distraught to answer the question for us. If we do not get a response, we will go ahead before they lose their value." Sara just erases it knowing that it had been years since that was left. Kotomi watches as she sits there and soaks in all the history of it.
"Sara-chan, I have finished unpacking." Kotomi tells her cousin.
"Oh, ok." Sara responds turning around. "And please, just call me Sara."
"Calling a woman Chan is a sign of respect in Japan." Kotomi tells her.
"I know, but we're family, you don't have to ok?" Sara says.
"Ok Sara. I understand." Kotomi smiles at her.
"So, hows the master bedroom working?" Sara asks.
"It's nice Sara. But if this is your mother's house, why don't you take it?" Kotomi asks.
"Nah, I'm happy just being back in....my room." Sara answers.
"You know, theres stuff in that dresser, in the room." Kotomi tells her.
"Really? Like what?" Sara asks.
"Jewelry." Kotomi tells her.
"Well, it's probably my grandmother's, if you'd like to wear it, go ahead." Sara tells her.
"No, I think you should go look." Kotomi tells her.
Sara looks at her, and gets up from the stool. She goes up to the master bedroom, and opens the door. She looks around the room, and it already has a Japanese feel to it with everything that Kotomi has put up. She opens the narrow middle drawer of the dresser, the one that her mother keep her jewelry in, and notices large yellow envelope, with 'Becky' write on it. She pulls it out and dumps its contents onto the dresser. She goes through it, and finds a few things of interest. The first is her mother's class ring, a white gold band with a light blue stone. She also finds gold chain, with a locket, with a picture of Sara when she was little in it. She also finds something that definately peeks her interest. It's a pewter chain, a plain looking one, obviously older. It's tarnished, and old, but what gets her is what is hanging on the chain. A star of david. Sara holds it in the palm of her hand, confused. Was her mother Jewish? Is she Jewish? She runs her fingers over it, and looks at a picture in a frame, also on the dresser. It's an old picture of her Grandmother, and Grandfather on their wedding day. She notices that her grandmother is wearing a similar chain in the picture. She then walks over to the picture of Becky when she was 18 that she was looking at earlier, and notices for the first time the chain in her hand also around her mother's neck. Her mother was never a religious person, atleast not when Sara came around. She unclasps the chain, and puts it on around her neck. She takes the rest of the jewelry and puts it back in the envelope, and carries it out of the room with her, as the scene fades.