Glory Braddock vs. Katie Steward

[Braddock]

OOC: 2 of 2
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November 11th, 2021
Boston, Massachusetts
Off Camera
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Glory Braddock has a lot on her plate to deal with, and all of these problems have come up suddenly, all at the same time. As far as her in ring career is concerned, The British Bombshell is looking to bounce back after failing to advance into the Trios Tournament Finals, and being left off of the SCW Under Attack card, and to bounce back she plans on marching right through the challenge of Katie Steward on Breakdown. If this were the only challenge faced by The British Bombshell, she wouldn’t all that concerned. She already has beaten Steward once before back at Be Careful What You Wish For back on May 2nd of 2021. Glory Braddock by all means should be walking into this match as confident as a competitor could walk in.

Unfortunately not all is well with Braddock. A triple threat of problems all have risen their ugly heads all at once to threaten Glory Braddock’s personal and professional livelihood. First there is Clyde Sutter, who has been granted quite a substantial amount of money from an anonymous source so he could sue Braddock over defamation of character. She can get the lawsuit off of her back by settling but that would also mean Sutter would be free to torment her anywhere she pleased, she would no longer be able to use her influence to blackball him from wrestling organizations that she is a part of. Then she learned that her former associate, a woman with criminal connections known as Meagan Collins, has also received some financial help from the same anonymous source and is now filing an appeal to her criminal conviction. Glory fears that Meagan will target her if she manages to get out of prison. Finally there is the renewed threat of an old corporate rival named Ronald D. Kennedy, or RDK for short. RDK had always wanted to take over the modeling agency ran and operated by Glory’s cousin Kayla Jones. Glory had used her financial influence to keep Kayla’s agency afloat but RDK tried to run Glory out of the picture by ruining Braddock’s reputation. Glory thought she had thrown RDK off the trail by funding Kayla under an assumed name but now he has renewed his attack on the modeling agency and has had private investigators dig into the background of Glory Braddock.

Then there is Thomas Gage, Glory’s ex-boyfriend and the biological father of Glory’s oldest daughter Melinda Braddock. Thomas has promised to take care of all of her problems for her. He says he can get rid of any and all threats to Glory. But she doesn’t yet trust Thomas; not completely, at least. And she doesn’t want to take the easy way out by having someone bully her enemies into submission. She tried that before and it has already bitten her in the ass. This time Glory intends to do things differently, this time she intends to take care of it herself. There is little Glory can do legally about Clyde Sutter or Meagan Collins. But she can at least attempt to do something about RDK. Glory’s corporate president, Francis Taylor, has a close connection to Ronald Kennedy. So she has had Francis set up a meeting between The British Bombshell and RDK. Braddock hopes that she can find out what RDK wants and how to stop him from interfering in her life.

The setting for this meeting is Boston, Massachusetts. RDK has his own small time modeling agency set up here in Boston, conveniently in the same vicinity where Kayla’s modeling agency is set up. Once he realized Glory would not let him take over Kayla’s agency, RDK planned to start his own and run Kayla out of business. Braddock herself is sitting inside of a rental car in the parking lot of her cousin’s modeling agency. The British Bombshell is dressed in denim jeans, black boots, and a royal purple silk blouse. Her long blonde hair is pulled into a ponytail in the back. This meeting itself was already an anxious one for Braddock but the fact that RDK is late doesn’t help matters. Glory has been watching the clock and has been getting more and more irritated with each passing minute that Kennedy is late.

Just then she spots some movement off in the distance. Is this RDK? Braddock exits the vehicle to get a closer look. She spots what appear to be a human shaped shadow figure, but it easily could just be a trick of the light. Night has fallen and the street lamps are creating some rather unique shapes with the shadows. Glory considers going towards the shadows to see if this is indeed Ronald but then she stops when two large lights shine upon her. She turns towards the source of the light…two headlights from another vehicle. The vehicle slowly comes to a stop next to Glory’s car. It shuts off and the driver exits…it is Ronald D. Kennedy. Braddock immediately forgets all about the shadows she saw. This figure is real. This is her real target. Now is the time to get to business and find out what RDK wants.

“It’s about time you showed up, wanker.” Braddock says with a sneer. Ronald just chuckles, scoffing at her frustration over the wait.

“Was I really that late, Gloria?”

“You were an hour late!” Braddock exclaims angrily. “I almost left!”

“You’re lying.” He says with a knowing smirk. “You need me.”

“I don’t need you.”

“Then why, pray tell, would you have our mutual friend and the president of your company Francis Taylor arrange this meeting between the two of us?” He shrugs his shoulders. “It is my charm? Is it my boyish good looks?”

“You wish.” Braddock rolls her eyes.

“Then tell me, why are we here? What does the great Glory Braddock want from me?”

“I think the question should be turned around on you, mate.” She points an accusatory finger at Kennedy. “What the hell do you want from me?”

“Whatever do you mean?” He says, feigning innocence, but Braddock isn’t buying it. “I’m just an average guy going about my own business.”

“Bullshit, RDK. My cousin has informed me about how you’ve been trying to steal her models. She’s told me about how you’re trying to ruin her agency’s reputation.”

“So what if I did?” He sneers. “I thought you weren’t involved in the modeling agency?”

Glory spots her mistake and backtracks. “I’m not involved with it, but I do care about my cousin.”

“Who cares?” He asks again. “I’m not harassing you. Let your cousin deal with me. She’s a big girl. Yes, I am harassing your cousin and her agency, but I haven’t done anything to you.”

“Again, I cry bullshit on that. Let’s be completely honest here, RDK…well, that may be hard for you since you don’t have an honest bone in your body. But let’s try to be honest. You have been harassing me. I know that you’ve had private investigators stalk me, look into my background.”

There is a silent, thick tension in the air as RDK stares coldly at Braddock. Then he chuckles and nods his head. “Clever girl.”

“So now that we have finally been honest with one another, let’s get back to the real question; what the hell do you want, Kennedy?”

The smirk, the confident grin, all of it fades away into an angry scowl. “I want the same thing I have wanted since day one.” He motions to the building before them, the small building that plays host to the headquarters for Kayla’s modeling agency. “I want this! I want this modeling agency!”

He points a finger at Glory Braddock. “And yes, I have hired some private investigators to look into your background. They dug into your past and they found out some very juicy information about you. For instance, I found out that the Glorious Golden Enterprises Board of Directors removed your decision making authority due to your questionable mental stability.”

“What?” Glory’s face grows white as a sheet as she sees where this is going. RDK nods his head.

“Yes, and I learned that you had your decision making authority returned to you after you assured the Board that you were seeing a psychiatrist. But what you failed to mention to the Board was that you quit seeing the psychiatrist rather abruptly. I’d be willing to bet that the Board of Directors still believe that you are seeing the psychiatrist and you are still lying to them. Am I right?” RDK waits for an answer but Glory doesn’t respond. He chuckles. “That’s what I thought.”

“Kennedy…”

“I’m NOT finished!” He snaps angrily. “See, what I didn’t know was why you needed to see a psychiatrist? Why would the Board make you do that? But then my private investigators found out something else. They found out that the person funneling money to Kayla Jones and her modeling agency was none other than Lindsey Noel. Now I knew this already, but what I did not know, what the investigators told me, was that Lindsey Noel and Glory Braddock were the same damn person.”

He cackles nastily. “It makes sense now. Your sister publicly embraces her identity as a daughter of Aphrodite Noel. And that’s fine. There’s nothing wrong with that. But you distanced yourself from it, you have been denying it for well over a year now, because the Board of Directors told you to; they even went as far as to force you to go to a psychiatrist hoping the quack would screw with your mind enough to make you drop it. But you dropped it publicly, just to appease the Board of Directors. What my private investigators have found is that in private you still view yourself as a daughter of Aphrodite Noel. You are just as caught up in that fantasy act as your sister. And again, that’s fine. But it isn’t fine with your Board of Directors, and if they ever found out you would be out of power yet again.”

“You have no proof.” Glory says, shaking her head vehemently.

“I don’t have hard evidence but I have tons of circumstantial evidence. But you have to ask yourself are you confident that your Board will believe you over me? Because I will release every bit of evidence I have to the Board members…many of whom are friends of mine, by the way.”

“What do you want?” Glory growls angrily.

“Quit the modeling business. Quit funneling money to your cousin. That’s the only way you get me to back off.”

Braddock is trying to assess the situation. She has few options. If she agrees to quit funneling money to her cousin’s modeling agency then she knows that RDK will quickly swallow up the modeling agency. Kayla cannot match RDK dollar for dollar without Glory’s help. But if she keeps helping she could be humiliated and once again lose control of her company, possibly for good. Just as Glory is about to respond another voice echoes out in the darkness.

“It shall be you who backs off, Ronald, and you will back off this very instant!” Glory and RDK are both taken by surprise. They turn towards the sound of the voice. This is where Glory saw the shadow figure earlier, the one she had dismissed as being nothing. The same shadow then steps out into the light and she sees that this is definitely something, or rather SOMEONE…

…it is her ex-boyfriend, Thomas Gage. Thomas has a furious look of rage etched across his face as he approaches the pair. He steps in between Glory and RDK. He gets nose to nose with RDK.

“Tommy?!” RDK says, sounding shocked. It takes Glory a moment to recall from weeks ago that RDK and Thomas Gage are acquainted with one another. It shouldn’t be a surprise that Kennedy would seem to know him so personally. “What the hell are you doing here?”

“Thomas!” He growls angrily. “My name is Thomas to you, fiend! And I am here because you are threatening my lady!” Thomas wraps his arm around Glory’s shoulders.

“Your lady?!” Kennedy repeats. He is almost as shocked by the sound of this as Glory is. Braddock is silently fuming inside about the fact that Kennedy is claiming that she is ‘his lady’ but she knows better than to speak up right now. Gage nods his head.

“Do not threaten my woman, Kennedy. Do you understand me?”

RDK sighs and nods his head. “Fine, yeah, I get it. But you gotta understand that I didn’t know you two were a thing.”

“We have been an item since we were both teenagers, Ronald. We have a daughter together. And I will defend my daughter and my daughter’s mother to my dying breath.”

RDK shakes his head. He is frustrated about this clearly but does appear ready to back off. He turns to face Glory. “Look, I had no idea you were seeing Tom on the side. He’s definitely a step up from that lousy Kurt, that’s for sure. Tommy is good people, and if you are his girl then I’ll back off.”

With that Glory watches with an angry glare as RDK walks back over to his car. He gets inside and the cars turns on. Braddock and Thomas watch on as the car pulls out of the parking lot. Once the car is gone Braddock turns her rage towards Thomas. He may have caused RDK to back off but she didn’t appreciate the tactics he used.

“What the bloody hell was that?!”

“That was me saving you, my sweet princess.”

“Bloody hell,” Glory rolls her eyes “look, how long have you been there? Were you in the shadows the entire time? Watching me the entire time?”

“I’ve been there long enough.” Gage admits, nodding his head. “Francis Taylor thought that you may need some assistance with RDK so she told me to come help.”

“Oh so this is Francis’s idea? Remind me to fire her.”

“She only wanted to help.”

“Help?! You mean like how you helped?! You just stood there and told him that we were seeing each other! That’s a bold faced lie! I told you that I am married, Thomas! Kurt is my husband, I am committed to him!”

Gage nods his head. “I understand but as you said, I lied. None of what I said was true. I have no delusions that you and I are an item. I merely told Ronald that we were seeing one another because I knew his respect for me would cause him to back off and leave you alone. Now he is no longer a threat.”

“Maybe…” she sighs and shakes her head, unsure of what just happened and whether this was a good idea “...but I still don’t like the way you handled this.”

Thomas runs a hand through her long blonde hair. “I understand your cause for concern, my darling. But try to believe that I only want what is best for you and for our daughter. I meant it when I told Ronald that I would defend you with my dying breath. Just give me a chance. Let me help you.”

“I wanted to handle this on my own.”

“But I can help you.”

She sighs and nods her head. “Fine. If you want to help, then maybe you can just make sure RDK stays out of my business. You are his friend, you are close to him, make sure he stays away. Better yet, if you can get a hold of whatever bloody information he has on me, that’d be great.”

Thomas smiles. “Your wish is my command, my love.” He kisses her on the cheek. “It shall be done.”

Thomas turns and walks away, returning back to the darkness where he had come. As Glory watches she begins to question whether she has made the right decision. Should she have really involved Thomas?

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November 17th, 2021
Buffalo, New York
On Camera
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We open in front of the impressive structure known as the KeyBank Center in Buffalo, New York. This building will play host to SCW Breakdown in twenty four hours. As the camera focuses in on the front of the building we hear footsteps approaching. Then “The British Bombshell” Glory Braddock steps into view from stage right. She is wearing black sheer tights, a gray knee length skirt, a white silk blouse, and a gray women’s suit blazer that matches the skirt. She is wearing a matching gray hat and she is standing on black patent leather high heel pumps. Her long blonde hair hangs straight and unrestrained to past the shoulders.

“I’ve been off for a couple of weeks and as a competitor I hate being off. I thrive upon the spirit of competition. I thrive upon taking on all comers. I do hate that I missed out on all of the excitement of Under Attack, I am disappointed I couldn’t three-peat the Trios Tournament, but that’s all in the past. I am looking forward and right now what is before me is yet another chance, another opportunity for me to show the world, and specifically our new management Mr. Cian, exactly what I can do.” She motions to the KeyBank Center standing behind her.

“And it all takes place right there tomorrow night. I will be facing someone else who missed out on the fun and excitement of Under Attack. And that would be you, Katie Steward.” She chuckles lightly. “But this isn’t the first time we’ve met, Katie. Hell, this isn’t even the first time this year that we have met. Let’s dial back the clock to May of 2021, Be Careful What You Wish For. The Goddess wanted a fight and The British Bombshell made the Goddess tap out like a little bitch in front the entire world.”

She shakes her head. “Some goddess…” Braddock smirks knowingly “...now Katie, for you this is a chance for redemption. This is a chance to show that Be Careful What You Wish For was just a fluke. You should be motivated. Are you motivated? We’ll see. But you should be motivated and you can believe that I will be prepared for a very motivated Katie Steward.”

Glory motions to herself. “But what about me? What does this whole rematch mean for me?” Braddock scowls. “For me, this is a chance to make a statement and that is exactly what I intend to do. See, I don’t appreciate sitting out big events like Under Attack. If I had to beat your ass, why couldn’t I beat your ass at Under Attack? Why am I being saved for Breakdown? And for that matter, why am I not in the match to decide a potential new challenger for the United States Championship? I was just challenging for the title at Rise To Greatness. Why am I being passed over?” The British Bombshell shrugs her shoulders.

“I am being passed over and I don’t like it. This isn’t meant to sound like sour grapes but the fact is that I know I am capable of so much more. I know I could beat Cid Turner for the SCW World Championship. Hell, I am a former SCW World Champion. Brassers like Syren complain about not getting their rematches. I never got mine. But I am not the type to complain. That’s not in my makeup. What I do is go out there and make an impact. I go to the right and make a statement.” She shakes her head. “Unfortunately for you, I am going to be making a statement at your expense.”

Braddock sighs. “Katie, mate, you are just in the wrong damn place, at the wrong damn time, against the worst possible opponent you could have. You are up against a highly motivated British Bombshell who wants new challenges, new opportunities, and specifically opportunities to prove just how good and how capable she really is! I don’t need throwback matches against people I have already made tap out. So tomorrow night in that building behind me, you get your chance at redemption. Make the best of it, Katie. Do your best to prove that you are still a goddess.” She shakes her head.

“The problem is, as good as you are, and despite whatever weapons you bring to the table tomorrow night, the outcome will remain the same…I am going to choke out the goddess with Shekhinah Glory.” She shuts her eyes tightly. “Sic Semper Tyrannis…”

With that, Glory Braddock walks off the scene. The camera fades to black.