by exalted » Sun May 15, 2022 1:17 pm
"Okay... wow.. we're drinking early" Krista mumbled under her breath as the boss started handing out drinks.
She blushed as someone of them started to cheer, hiding her embarrassment in her glass as she drank. She was surprised that Lexi had cheered, and not overly sarcastically, though she guessed that was more her realizing her own rising star was linked with Krista's and would allow her a modicum of revenge. Krista was sure that Lexi had never really headlined a show before, not as a singles performer, and now here was her chance to. Conspicuously, she noticed Rhys had not cheered and busied himself with a drink to.
"Well, we were already planning for Lexi and I to wrestle, right?" Krista tried to reassure Diamond, idly playing with her note pad, "We could make it a best of three matches feud, have it swing back and forth a bit."
"See? How can you not love this kid?" The Boss shouted again, grabbing her again and giving her hair a tussle to Krista's surprise, "You'll be a great earner for us, I can see it now. Speaking of which..."
Krista's eyebrow peaked as she saw the boss take stack of envelopes from the inside pocket of his jacket and put them in front of them.
"Because our investor paid up front I thought you lot deserved an early performance bonus for bringing it home"
Quickly opening her envelope a bit, Krista's eyes went wide as she saw how much was in there, more than her than she'd made for her last five matches. Gulping hard, she closed the envelope and steeled herself, suddenly doubting her commitment to the next part of the plan.
"I think you should take this back... and hire a new girl" Krista slid the envelope back over to the table to him, letting her words linger just long enough for a flash of panic to cross the Boss's face that she might be leaving.
Krista knew the bonus was partially a bribe for everything that happened, to keep her happy and the company's meal ticket. For Rhys and Cayden it was probably to keep them happy and fed and while under medical suspension, and stop them looking at jumping ship like Roy Roone had.
"I mean, we're going to have to put the championship belt on Sphinx after last night so he'll need a manager. It can't be me if Zorro is meant to be with Ravager and it can't be Lexi either..." Krista paused again, giving side eye to Lexi, "The story between Zorro and Ravager works because it's the classic 'good girl falls for the bad boy from the wrong side of the tracks', people eat that shit up, 'can she change him? Fix his broken heart and turn him good?', it's a classic. The bad girl, good guy story arc never ends well... it would also be weird if Sanguine was just suddenly after Sphinx as well with not setup or worse feel tacked on or confusing to copy Zorro and Rav... also why would Sanguine and Zorro be feuding over Ravager if she is with Sphinx... it just doesn't add up..."
Krista paused to take another sip of her drink to size up how the others were receiving her idea.
"Nyx and Aries aren't doing anything right now and are being wasted at the bottom of the card, they've both got some heel heat so can help put her other, I could do some promos with her as well to help" She continued, ready to really stick the knife in to Rhys and divide him from Lexi, "Oh my god, we put her in a cat like costume, cause a sphinx is like a cat thing right, we could say they are long lost reincarnated lovers. We could do... a wedding... you know, like the WWE did back in the day, Boss you could lead the ceremony like McMahon did..."
Krista knew the Boss secretly had a thing for idolizing the big man, saying it was something Vince would do was always a sure bet to getting your way.
"And that would explain why Sphinx isn't defending his championship for a while, we can have Ravager interrupt the ceremony and everything to demand a rematch for the championship when they are both healed up and ready."
Downing the last of her drink, she waited a moment of silence to let it all sink in.
"So what do you all think?"