The House of Frost vs. Polly Playtime & Aisling

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OOC: Deanna's post. Promo only. Takes place day of Breakdown.

The camera opens up to the site of tonight’s episode of Breakdown. The arena is empty, seats devoid of fans as the camera moves in, taking in the sight of the empty ring that is illuminated by arctic blue and white lights, a slight, cold mist rolling around the ring. Closer, the camera draws until the shot is changed to that of a red-haired woman sitting on one of the turnbuckles. She is dressed in her wrestling attire and her arms rest over her quads and knees, contemplative.

What a mess… she whispers before looking up to the camera. How else can I put it after last week and that hell of a match?

Well, I can say a lot of things. Talk about a lot of things, I mean. But- she shrugs I better start congratulating basically everyone that walked away with a title. The new World champion, United States champion, Adrenaline, Tag- she winces at the last one she mentioned before continuing. Television- I won’t congratulate Kimberly Williams because there is nothing honourable or integrity-filled with what she did to get that title. She won it on a ‘specialty clause’ and nothing else. If she were playing by the same rules as the rest of us? She wouldn’t be the Underground champion, so I have no respect for her or what she’s done.

Still… like I said, things have changed. I am no longer the world tag-team champion with my wife. I came up short. I let… I let myself lose focus.

Maybe it was because I wanted so badly to become World or Adrenaline or United States Champion so badly. I mean… What other chance would I get for such titles? There’s rematches coming out next pay-per-view, number one contenders for those titles too that need their shots… none of that involves me where the singles titles are concerned. Hell, despite beating most of the contenders for singles titles like The One, Aisling, Cassie Wolfe, and Konrad Raab, I wasn’t even considered for the contendership matches last pay-per-view. And maybe that came with being world tag-team champion or something… I don’t know! the frustration is heavy in Deanna Frost’s voice. But I… I try to smile and I try do what is right while, at the same time, trying to find my own voice and place in this company… and to see people I beat get picked over me time and time again… yeah, it stings. It hurts. And then to lose the one thing that was making me happy here, the tag-team title that I shared with my wife… I just…

She exhales loudly before slumping forward a bit more. I don’t know, I just don’t know…

The camera stays on her for a moment before a pale hand reached over to rest on her shoulder. Gazing up, Deanna stares at the kind face smiling back at her. Go ahead, darling. Selena Frost whispers, gently caressing her wife’s face before moving back. Deanna gazes at her for a moment before taking a slow breath before gazing back at the camera.

I can’t change what’s happened. I know that. Tonight, everyone’s gonna be handed their belts. Matches will be assigned and rematches will be made. I can’t change any of that nor can I take away anything that came out of that match.

But that… that also applies to what I gained too. her emerald-gaze steels and her posture grows straighter. Like the feeling I felt when I heard that official’s hand slap the mat for the three count when I pinned Josh Hudson TWICE – the former United States Champion and new World champion. Or the feeling of making Owen Cruze – the former world champion and new United States Champion – tap out to my Consortium.

My points may have been ‘reset’ in that match but what I accomplished? What I did? You can’t take that away from me. I brought the world champion and United States champion down in one match. I went toe to toe with the best in SCW and managed to leave my mark!

So yeah, that match hurt me in a lot of ways. But in many ways, it steadied my resolve here. Because a year ago? Even a month ago? I wouldn’t have gotten close to that! Almost a year ago, I was Adam Allocco’s plaything with his ‘five moves of doom’. Now? I bring two world champions down! What does that say about me? What does that say about what I can do or how much more I can learn or how far I can go?

A smile comes to her face at the possibilities.

I don’t know but I want to find out. I need to find out! And the first step is to remind everyone that, even without a title, Deanna Frost is as dangerous and ready to go as before! And I’d be lying if there wasn’t some personal satisfaction in this for me regarding tonight’s Breakdown match. Because it was Polly that took my falls away on a technicality of ‘leaving the building’. She clicks her tongue at that memory. Yeah, that part stings and sucks at the same time – ‘stucks’? Does that word work? Maybe… Anyway, I’m not mad at you for that, Polly. Honestly? You took advantage of a situation and the rules made by someone else. So, props to you. But it did hurt to lose all those points I worked so hard for. So, I’d be lying if I wasn’t looking forward to this match tonight with you and Aisling. Because not only do I get to remind the world what I am capable of, I get to get in a few good shots on you for that little ploy last week, don’t I?

And it’s sort of apropos, isn’t it? Is that the right word, Selena?

The voice comes from off camera. It is, hunny.

Right, apropos. Because it was your group, the Playgirls Three that launched The House of Frost into the tag-team contendership and we’ve never looked back since. We’ve risen to the occasion and met every challenge. Hell, let’s be honest, were it not for this match and the crap stipulations, we’d both STILL be the tag-team champions. But if The House of Frost needs to re-establish itself as THE team in SCW? If we need to start from scratch to get back the complete pair of the world tag-team champions, then what a better way to start than by not only beating the team that got us there in the first place as we begin to clean the slate, as it were, from Kimberly Williams pitiful games to get back the Underground title? Selena?

She looks ahead of her as the camera shifts over to the center of the ring, where the Snow Queen, Selena Frost, stands.

Couldn’t have said it better myself. she smiles at the camera, adjusting her iconic braid that contrasts with the dark colors of her own wrestling attire. I won’t waste anyone’s time with the situation I find myself in with Ace Marshall. That’s not something I think will last for long without a ‘correction’ as it were. Instead, I am focusing on the tag-team partner I wish to team with in my wife and tonight’s match. Because The House of Frost still represents integrity and passion in SCW and the tag-team division and wherever else we wish to go.

She sighs for a moment. Which is why neither Deanna or I have any regret of refusing your ‘help’, Polly. Yes, I don’t like Glory Braddock. I don’t trust Glory Braddock. I did before and she abused my beliefs, mocked my goals for the company, all while touting around a warped version of the United States title, a title I fell off scaffolding for. No, I don’t like Glory Braddock or trust her…

She takes a steady breath through her nose. But no one – NO ONE! – deserves what you two were doing to her…

Selena’s hands seem to tighten into fists at the memory: the idea of an individual locked in a small space – Selena’s known case of claustrophobia playing to her for a moment before it is Deanna’s turn to take her wife’s hand into her own, regaining the Snow Queen’s attention and focus as she gazes at the Queen’s Guard.

It’s okay… she whispers, earning a nod from Selena, the platinum-blonde returning her attention to the camera.

No one deserves what you two did. Maybe Glory isn’t going for the belts for the right reasons – for the integrity of the championships – but for that Supreme Champion status. But we settle that in the ring! We settle that in wrestling by showing our passion for the titles and all they represent! We use that passion to overcome the challenges – outwrestling and outperforming those that don’t care as much. We don’t win by suffocating our opponents in crates!

I’ve fought Glory Braddock with the world title on the line before and, when she wants to be, there are few people as hard-working or honorable in their methods as her! Even if I don’t like her, I won’t deny that! Selena breathes.

That remains the difference between The House of Frost and The Playgirls Three. You don’t care about the ‘how’. In your minds, the ends always justify the means. But that’s where The House of Frost differs. We don’t want to ‘win by any means’. We want to win by being the best. By being the best wrestlers to step into the ring. We want to win through heart, passion, strategy, and integrity!

The Snow Queen crosses her arms over her chest. So, consider this a lesson from us to you, Polly and Aisling. A lesson and a reminder of who we are and what we can do. Because, while last Breakdown shook us, it did not break us. While we are no longer the tag-team champions together, Deanna and I remain the top tag-team in SCW today. And whether I knock you out again, Aisling, with the Glass Shard or Deanna brings one of you down with the Burnout or the Consortium… you are going to understand the stark difference in our levels tonight.

Because SCW does not need YOUR methods, Playgirls. The SCW Universe does not need your ‘Playtime Box’ or whatever you call it. It doesn’t need your ‘games’ or your ‘questions’. It needs to live by the words in its name. Supreme Championship Wrestling. It needs to have the bar restored to the level of integrity. It needs to be what the SCW Universe believes it can be – what they deserve it to be! And tonight, you will need more than a box and a warped perspective to take us down and stop us from showing just that!

She smiles a little as Deanna settles in front of Deanna, kneeling down on her knees to rest her back against the front of Selena’s legs.

If nothing else, I can assure you of that. Believe it!

And Checkmate, bitches!

The House of Frost smile in their positions as the camera slowly fades to black.